What's good Josh your boy Ross back again with another video So we're gonna check out the last great mr. Money in the bank by none other than super kick studios You haven't already subscribed to him. Go ahead. Give super kick studios a subscribe and hit the bell notification You make some pretty quality Wrestling related content he likes to talk about, you know things that happened In the past like some of the the greater wrestling moments in WWE So definitely go check it out in this latest video It's kind of crazy because we may come full circle again with Seth Rollins potentially and it seems as if the highly favorable winner of Money in the Bank and I don't know he may end up repeating history and Potentially cashing in on Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar at this year's Summer Slam That's where people were kind of speculating. That's what kind of people are wanting. We will see if that happens Let's get right into this one. This should be a good one. And let's do the damn thing Since 2005 the Money in the Bank match has been one of the most exciting and downright legendary matches on the WWE calendar every year It's a question as to who will become mr. Money in the Bank and now miss money in the bank You can't deny that since they made it a standalone pay-per-view in 2010 It's arguably been treated so well and performed so consistently that it's worked its way up into WWE's big four a show which you can go back to in any year And you'll have standout matches that are some of the best from that year and I will say this Them making money in the bank of pay-per-view. I Can work with that's one of the few matches that they turned to to a pay-per-view that you could actually work with they built a Stage for that event which originally I wasn't a big fan of but after a while It was one of the more highlights of each year. They made it somewhat important Especially since they added a women's money in the bank that it makes sense for it to have its own pay-per-view I still think Helen so should not be its own pay-per-view. I still think elimination chamber should not be its own pay-per-view But that's me here or there But we're all here for the main concept the money in the bank ladder match an Opportunity for one male and one female competitor to win their respective world titles within a one-year time frame Since the concept began it's seen 26 winners with three men Those being Edge Miz and CM Punk holding on to the contract twice out of those 26 winners 22 cash-ins have been successful. Well for have failed two winners those being Otis and Mr Kennedy never got to cash in their contract because they lost it to another star when Edge wanted in 2005 He cemented himself as the true mr. Money in the bank the concept was still in its early stages And he was the catalyst for what came afterwards and I guess he said originally He didn't even want to be in that match Edge did not want to be in that match And they had to convince him to be a part of that match So the just think if he never was a part of this match No, and he never got you know in this match We may not have had the legendary run of edge at that we have now so Including PTSD for every John Cena fan around The bank it was kind of this traditional path If you will win the money in the bank carry it around for a while give the crowd some time to get familiar with you and your character Get into some big matches and rivalries and then in a big moment Cash in the money in the bank become world champion and by the time you lose it you're set You're one of the premier faces of WWE the money in the bank Essentially was a device to see if the person who it was given to could handle a sustained push in the main event Yeah, early on at the track record was very strong, but in recent years. It's become pretty spotty There's been some irrational winners who during their time as mr Money in the bank haven't felt like they belong and the ones who do end up winning the world title Well, their subsequent reigns just feel like flops. They don't feel like they should be at the top Sometimes it's because they don't have a defined character and most of the time it comes down to bad booking and not having someone else On the other end who can bring the best out of you same thing with Biggie. I don't Biggie's Tyler ring should have been better but they kind of dropped a ball with the booking of Who he was facing and in my opinion, I think they dropped a ball with his character I feel like if you become the champ Something has to change whether it's good or whether it's bad character wise what I mean by good It's like you're more serious. You take things a little bit more seriously. You come off more legit Or in a bad what sense character wise is like you become more paranoid because you don't want to lose the championship So you may turn healish. You'll do anything to keep the title. I didn't really sense that we're biggie I feel like it was just still biggie Goofy and you know hip thrusting. It's like you got to be serious when you become a champ You're the top guy so when people got to believe that you are the top guy for a reason and It has been pretty rough in 2021 biggie won the money in the bank briefcase when he got his moment and became WWE champion It was beautiful. Yeah, the title reign He himself called the title reign a failure in 2020 Otis won the contract and we all knew that there was no way Otis was gonna become world champion So it was given to the Miz he became WWE champion and at that he was a transitional WWE champion holding it for only Eight days before losing it to Bobby Lashley 2019 boombox Brock. He was really entertaining But he didn't really need the contract considering the others in that match hadn't really broke through yet He also held the title for a month and then he lost it to Rollins 2018 Braun Strowman won and he somehow got worse after he won the contract They turned him heel and the match ended in which are so stupid. Oh when they turned them heel I was like you didn't have to do that. Just just with the hell they ruined him once he won that they ruined him No contest 2017 Baron Corbin another Uninspiring cash in and if reports are to be believed the demotion came because of the way he was acting backstage 2016 I actually thought it was really well done because Dean Ambrose wasn't just gonna carry around money in the bank The whole thing with his character was to be reactive. Yeah moment was so perfect He cashed in on the dude who made his life hell and broke up his group All three members of the shield held the WWE title in one night 2015 Sheamus won the contract. He took a lot of losses while he held it He was in the mid card. You could also say that he didn't really need it He was a two-time WWE champion at this point and again Sheamus was basically a sacrifice for another dude He was a sacrifice to build up Roman Reigns Yep, of course you and I both know that there needs to be variety if everything is the same if everyone always gets their Cache in and if everyone always has that exact same road. It's not fun We need differentiation in the WWE and we do need those failed caches as well over the last little bit money in the Bank has just kind of been there stars having broken out to a top level and excelled beyond just a memorable moment Or a shaky title reign with the exception of one man one man who in my opinion is the last great Mr. Money in the bank from his problems matches his presentation his rivalries and of course the moment He delivered at the end a dude who made his mission to make money in the bank feel like the most important thing He made it feel like more than a prop. He simply made it his life By the time he cashed in the contract looked like it had gone through hell Yeah, the contract told the story that was way more than just a cash-in and that man 2014 the day where Rollins took a chair to the back of Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns And he changed the trajectory of his career forever and man that chair shop may have hit two grown men But it hit WWE fans right in the heart We all knew that the shield was gonna come to an end sooner or later But no one in their wildest dreams could imagine that it would be the day after they swept evolution in a three-on-three elimination map One of the greatest swerves in WWE history. I watched it live. I did not see that coming, bro I was so so shocked is one of the greatest Healtimes greatest swerves of all time That shit was great But as triple H said there's always a plan B and plan B was Seth Rollins now joining Randy Triple H in the authority. He started to wear suits He started to talk slower and everywhere he went all you would hear were chance of you sold out This was the most hated man in the company That's how you do a problem that was way bigger than the crowd and that was Dean Ambrose who just wouldn't let him go He was obsessed with him and these two throughout the summer and early fall They had a fantastic Not only made a ton of sense in storyline, but it delivered on all fronts Ambrose made it his mission that he was gonna kill Rollins.  Would he leave in one piece? Nope Outcomes Ambrose John Cena the WWE World Heavyweight Champion is out Rollins is ready to cash in the money in the bank contract. Nope Rollins is fighting. He's Slater in a beat the clock challenge. There's no way Rollins loses. Nope Look gifts for Hulk Hogan. There's no way Rollins is completely fine. Nope It took I want to say it took Seth Rollins curb stumping Dean Ambrose on to some cinder blocks for him to stop Company made it their mission to not only give Seth Rollins a premier spotlight. Oh, this is great Immediately something which is missing with money in the bank winners of today. He was fighting Cena He was fighting RVD.   He's never coming back. I killed him. I ruined him. I ruined the shield I made Ambrose the biggest what if in the business. I did this that and the other and maybe Stephanie in between too You know what they say what happens in room 605 And he was building his character slowly but surely everything was coming together his reactions We're starting to get louder his fan base was trying to get bigger And he became for younger viewers What edge was for me? Yeah the guy that you just had to hate Gun his next opponent was Roman Reigns Roman wasn't having any of it though This man attempted to kill Rollins with a cinder block Rollins started to get on everyone's nerves Sina Orton and apparently he even pissed off God because this dude almost had a spike planted right into Yeah, that was Hell and they were headed for a match at night of champions for no championship We get there Roman has to have emergency hernia surgery Rollins has no opponent He takes the forfeit win and he's like, okay, let's throw out an open challenge a car pulls up and of course It's Ambrose Dad come out there like all right get Ambrose out of here They zaps drop him out of the arena and at the end of the night It's the main event Sina and Lesnar and Rollins is just watching on like this And from behind Seth Rollins comes to cash in the money in the bank the cash in never happened But what did happen was he destroyed Sina's chance at becoming WWE champion?   So Ambrose stole it He started to play mind games with it so triple-aged sends Joey and Jamie on a secret mission to go retrieve the briefcase These two are just scouring the arena looking for Ambrose bro. Look at every case just messed up storyline But it was actually pretty funny Ambrose shows up in the ring and the cruiserweight division plus a ton of security They managed to get the contract back and throughout the night Rollins was just losing his mind He's telling us that he has very valuable possessions in there Rollins gets it back He opens it up hoping everything is still intact and then this happens Slime right to the face and then Rollins proceeds to have a meltdown Apparently one of the things he kept in the briefcase was a vibe. I mean electric razor and all over raw It's just chaos. It's all chaos because everybody wants to keep Rollins Sina and Ambrose didn't have a contract on a pole ladder match to determine Who's gonna face Rollins at how in a cell Ambrose wins it these two had such an amazing how in a cell match They brawl at the top of it.   I just love When Randy was playing like Yeah, I get it.  It was great He stomps or not on the table and then on the steel steps and he takes him out for a while on the other end We were building for survivor series 2014 team authority versus team Sena Steph and Triple H wanted Sina to join but Sina wouldn't so they told him whoever joins you We're gonna make sure that their life is hell Vince comes out And he's like alright if team authority loses, they're out of power. They'd been abusing their power. They'd been pissing people off So this was the only rational explanation and the build up to this survivor series match was so fire The main guys during this were Rollins Sina Ziggler and the authority come survivor series Rollins alongside Ziggler Had a fantastic performance in the main event the authority lost thanks to sting Rollins he wasn't done being a mastermind just yet There was a rule that only one man could bring back the authority and that was John Cena so on the last raw of 2014 Rollins is invited to the cutting-edge peep show with Edge who as WWE told us if he took one more fatal blow to the neck He'd be paralyzed and Christian who had also had his fair share of injury troubles as well So the authority they get rid of Christian and they hold down edge to the mat and I this was a good This is a really good segment too. I enjoyed this This is so so good, and I'm glad that they brought it back full circle when Edge was able to actually compete again Love this. You just he does like bro. You're just it's self was just a piece of Garbage and it's so fitting because Edge was the same way at one point didn't bring back his parents Rollins was gonna stomp out Edge so after some attempts to save a well-respected wrestler Sina brings back the authority and then Rollins is like damn you gotta know me better than that I'm gonna kill him anyways, but Sina got in the way Edge wasn't harmed But the authority was back their first order of business was to put Rollins into Sina and Lesnar's championship match at the Rumble and on the road to the rumble Rollins was hiding from everyone now He had J&J security, so he was being even bigger chicken shit heel We get to the rumble and these three put on legitimately one of the greatest very good match history There's insane spots Rollins is very good Everywhere his security guards are being thrown around barricades are broken Brock was dead But at the end of it it was Rollins who ate the pain and now this man is even more annoyed He was plotting something on Roman Reigns But that plan was halted when Randy Orton returned to the WWE and he got into the good graces Yeah, he gave him the middle finger live on television. They had to move the camera down. This was so good So so good again, he laid out Rollins and this brought us to a match between Rollins and very good at WrestleMania 31 Meanwhile Roman Reigns had came back from his hernia surgery and he was receiving a huge push on the same show He was gonna be fighting Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship And because this push was harder than Vince at the age We all thought that Roman was gonna win we get to Santa Clara Rollins and Randy was actually a really good match I didn't say it's a little overshadowed for what happened that of course being Rollins getting posterized with one of the videos ever he lost that match His nights essentially over he took his mangled briefcase and he walked off end of the night Reigns versus Lesnar They tear strips off each other They put on a fantastic match and I'd say the best match they put on ever Yep, I think a lot of us agree this match was easily the best match they've ever put on Nothing they've done after When it's just these two has even come close to the WrestleMania 31 match and like I said It's like full circle We're coming full circle their main event in SummerSlam Seth may be the only one that can save us from that main event being pretty Bland Will their last man standing match be entertaining? Possibly it can possibly most likely it'll be somewhat entertaining But I think people want to cash in because they want to see something different Some can say well having Seth do it again. How is that different? Well, he may be one of the most viable options because Seth has been carrying Monday Night Raw For the past few months. So I don't know Both these guys are absolutely spent. They're bloody. They're tired and they're both down on the mat and just then Down the ramp runs Seth Rollins Surveys the scene and like the mastermind he was cashed in the money the bank stomped out Roman Reigns and Poetically enough the same guy who he hid in the back with a chair to begin this whole thing He pinned that exact same Mania 31 now he was the new WWE World Heavyweight Champion the heist of the century was complete a new star was born and one of the biggest moments in WWE history was created and honestly I was thinking about just how big a moment this was and I want to put this question out to you guys Since Rollins cashed in and it was unexpected. It was huge It was the first of its kind in a way Could you say that the money in the bank has peaked genuine question cuz I can't think of anything else that Could be bigger than what he did. This was the pinnacle of money in the bank cash-ins It had everyone shocked the first time in company history Someone cashed in during the main event of WrestleMania who had said it before but Rollins became the first to actually do it Well followed afterwards was arguably more pivotal than his money in the bank run a fantastic Tatarain filled with great defenses the whole time. He was slimy He was evil the cool tie-in with his Tatarain was that he fought those same people that he pissed off During when he was Mr. Money in the bank. Yeah, you know Orton Kane Ambrose Brock at one point Even on raw he was putting on fantastic matches Storylines made sense. They had him slowly become more and more confident and wrap the whole thing up as he broke away from the authority And it worked really well. He did fantastic He became a huge star and then it came to an abrupt end. This was a really well done Well, that's when he messed up John Cena's me eight months as Mr. Money in the bank and slowly he won people over because he showed He was that good then when the Tatarain came they lined up credible challengers for him by the time he came back from his injury in 2016 he was one of the most loved guys on the roster What's followed for Rollins in the years after is a fantastic body of work Character reinventions of plenty and becoming one of the absolute industry leaders in all aspects This whole run is how you build a star and for a lot of money the bank winners Can't say they've had a path like this They were able to give him the contract and what he did with that contract was exceptional They slowly built him up and then when the time came they struck calling the architect the Messiah the drip god the Future but the work he put in the booking He had the moment he gave us and honestly how no one has equaled this amount of success since makes him the last great Mr. Money in the bank You know what I? May have to agree with you on that one. I think a lot of us may have to agree with you on that one, bro As I'm really thinking about it. I don't think there has been another money in the bank Cashing that monumental. I think it may be one of the greatest cash-ins It's up To be honest with you I One of my favorite cash-ins was doff Ziggler cashing in the night after WrestleMania on Alberto del Rio That was such a beautiful moment because doff deserved every ounce of that crowd love But this one may be none It may be one of the best cash-ins when it happened at WrestleMania the main event No one saw it coming Everyone assumed Roman was gonna win when you heard his music.  They're about to pull a swerve a great swerve and it was fantastic and Ever since that happened Seth Rollins was a made man He was a made man So I really don't know if I can think anyone after Seth Rollins that really was Come to that level of cashing in the level cashing cashing in is monumental and then them Being the top guy after the cash-in I Don't know. I think he may have been one of the greatest Last, you know, one of the last greatest money in the bank Winners and we may get a repeat I think a lot of people feel like he will be the favorite and to be honest with you With all these injuries and them having to pull so many eyeballs. It makes Sense in my opinion it makes sense If if Seth Rollins is to do it I'm just being dead ass Because of the automals You could have somebody else, but I think it makes sense if Seth Rollins wins I will I can agree he was the last great mr. Money in the bank in my opinion I can't think of anyone else money in the pink win and Subsequent title run afterwards being that monumental in that impactful then Seth Rollins title win war money in the bank win and Him cashing in at the rest at the rest man 31 so comment down below Let me know is Seth Rollins the last great mr. Money in the bank winner and Do you think he will recreate the heist of a century the heist of the century part 2 at this year Some of them I appreciate our love and support go to thank a precinct. I'll keep you in peace. See y'all next week. Peace


Welcome to this week's preview show. BBC Radio Salons, Chris Temple is back alongside me as we look ahead to some midweek football at Molenew. Here's what's coming up. We'll look back at Saturday's 2-0 defeat Crystal Palace before moving on to tomorrow's game at Wolves. Well, we are going to go straight into that game against Crystal Palace. Chris, it was a very tough evening, wasn't it? Surprisingly tough. I think we thought that everybody, the way Eddie has the players prepared and fit and sharp and ready to go, and it felt a bit flat, really, didn't it? I mean, yes, Palace are very, very difficult to break down and they're so well organised under Roy Hodgson that if you do concede the first goal, then you've got a mountain to climb, really. And then to concede the second one so quickly it wasn't all over, but certainly Bournemouth had to improve dramatically in the second half. And while they were, you know, it was better in the second half than the first, it still wasn't hitting the levels that Eddie would demand. I just thought the players looked, you know, they just didn't look sharp, really. You know, a couple of them can be excused because David Brook hasn't played in a long time and a couple of the other ones have had injuries coming back. Steve Cook, for example. So you'd expect those guys to maybe not quite be full speed just yet. But I think I thought they looked absolutely gassed at the end of the game as well, which is very unlike a Bournemouth team. They're normally, you know, the fittest of the lot. There was a lot of running to be done, obviously, because they had a lot of the ball and they were coming to keep it moving and trying to swing from side to side to try and unlock Palace. But I just thought it was, you know, the likes of Nathan Ackay and Jefferson Lermer and a couple of others. You don't usually see them sort of physically blowing, if you like, by the end of the game. So all in all, yeah, I mean, they didn't have any answers to Palace's defensive structure. And they're going to face a similar challenge at Wolves with that. So that's something they need to rectify pretty quickly. Those two early goals, they really did make it very difficult. As you say, you know, Palace defended very, very well. Their structure was in place. Their formation was in place. And in the end, there was just no way through. Yeah, it was too easy. I didn't see a conclusive angle of the first free kick. I thought Zaha went down probably a little bit easy. But, you know, he's clever. If he gets within 25 yards of goal, he knows they've got Mila Vojevic and others who can deliver a set piece. So he is going to try and go down. I thought he went down a bit flimsily there as he's been accused of doing so many times in the past. And he then had the temerity later in the game to accuse, I can't remember who it was, Adam Smith, maybe, or someone, Harry Wilson, of going down too easily, which I thought was a bit, a bit, a bit brassy of him. Let's put it that way. But yeah, it was, I guess, annoying to give away a cheap free kick and nothing Aaron Ramsey could do about it. I saw someone on the TV saying that if he gets a hand to it, he should save it. But I mean, he didn't have a chance with that really. The second one was poor defensively, wasn't it? I mean, it was way too easy. It was a simple little triangle. Someone lost their runner. And that's so frustrating. There were enough red and black shirts back there to be able to deal with it. The one thing I'm all saying, you know, is as much as we're talking about Bournemouth not being at it, gotta say, I thought Palace were, you know, bang on it. They were sharp. They were very good. And they're, you know, you look back at some of their games earlier in the season, some of the points they've slipped away, you know, they could quite conceivably have been chasing the Champions League spot and could even be an hour if they can manage to continue this. And the one thing this little spell will give you is a bit of positive momentum will send you sailing through these next few games on a high. So yeah, I would say the teams in the top six should watch out from what we saw against Palace. And I saw Jürgen Klopp's comments earlier in the week about he saw the Palace game and he'd noted how sharp Palace looked as well because of course Liverpool play Palace shortly after Bournemouth play Wolves. And one of the big talking points of the game, of course, was that Gary Cahill challenge on Joshua King. Now Eddie Howard said in his press conference this morning that he did actually think that Gary Cahill got to the ball first. What was your view on that? I watched it back a number of times. Willow and I were in different camps on this one because Willow thought it was a definite red card. Now he normally is on the side of players, so I was sort of surprised. He will have put a few tackles like that in himself, I'm sure, where you get the ball and then you leave one on someone as well. I've watched it numerous times. I still can't quite decide to be honest which, if I was the VAR, I'd be no good. The VAR who looked at it, Simon Hooper, decided that probably it was borderline enough to stay on the field with what was decided. And of course it wasn't even a free kick. Let's not forget that because Gary Cahill did get a big chunk of the ball, which is what the referee on the night decided. He saw and decided. It left Joshua King with a painful blow. The good news is that's not serious and that he could be available, probably not for Wolves, but maybe for the new Castle game. But yeah, I've seen a lot of people all saying it was a red card because of the follow-through and it was high and endangered the safety of Joshua King. I take all of that on board. I think it was a robust challenge where he knew he was going to get the ball, but I don't think he could do much else. His natural follow-through, he wasn't off the ground. His foot, of course, was raised when he actually made contact with Joshua King because he just played the ball and the momentum of the challenge, it's going to lift your foot slightly off the ground. It wasn't like he was coming in from a high angle challenging down on Joshua King's ankle. I think it probably was the right decision. That might not be popular. Other people watching this now go, what are you talking about? But you could have seen also, if it had been given as a red, you could have seen white. And in terms of the other Bournemouth players on the pitch, David Brooks, great to see him back. And on Outdown Gym we're coming on in the second half as well and there were bright sparks from him. I thought there were probably the two bright sparks out of everybody to be honest with you and two that the team have been shorn off for so long. No surprise to see that David Brooks started to feel it after an hour because, as the Guffra mentioned in his presser as well, that that hand injury that he was playing with a cast to protect had obviously robbed him of a little bit of training time as well. So he will improve with every game but we saw some great little moments, couple of little skillful touches. And again, you just see his vision where he's looking, his angles and where he sees teammates. And also that he's so snappy with his little passes as well which can often catch defences on the hop. I thought Dan Juma came on and he had a bright first 10 or 15 minutes. He faded out of it a little bit after that but he definitely showed with a couple of little runs and the ability to get at defenders as well. But it's one thing Bournemouth can sometimes lack with the fact that they play the inverted wingers and you often, in the former days of Ryan Fraser, a left footer on the right and a right footer on the left. What that doesn't do is sometimes it allows the wingers to get at the fallbacks on the outside which cost Bournemouth a little bit of width sometime. I think we saw Dan Juma was happy to use either foot, he's naturally stronger on his right but he's happy to go around the outside as well. So that's where the question marks about team selection in terms of whether you're better playing Rico because he gives you a natural left side and he'll go outsiders on the overlap. Like we see Jack Stacey do and I thought Jack Stacey again got up and down brilliantly, ran himself into the ground without really having too much room to work in. So yeah, Brooks and Dan Juma, two guys who great to have back and will only get better with every game they play hopefully. And one question I'm just sure that everyone is dying to know, what was it like being behind closed doors? Do you know what? It was strange of course, absolutely it was strange. Bournemouth were lucky in the sense that because it's a small stadium and everybody's pretty close. So actually in terms of the what we're picking up on our microphones in our ears, we have a little microphone that points towards the pitch to bring us the sort of sound effects if you like. And actually because we were close, we're pretty close to the benches as well, we actually did have a little bit of a soundtrack. So we had the benches shouting, we had the players shouting, we get the referees whistle. So actually for us it wasn't quite as echo-y and cavernous as I thought it would be.  In terms of the overall experience, I'm not just going to say this because I'm on the club website but I thought the club was superb in terms of the media set up, everything ran smoothly, you know, even Willow was allowed in which is incredible. But you know it was brilliantly executed from that point of view. I have to say I left feeling a little bit hollow in terms of because of the experience I'm used to in turning up to a game, chatting to my press colleagues in the press room, chatting to Eddie and the players after the game face to face, all of those things, I probably set my expectations a little bit high in terms of what I thought it was going to be like and it wasn't like that. I spoke to probably eight people, you know, a couple of guys from your media team, three or four other radio broadcasters and that was pretty much it, a couple of people on the gate because half of the press were on the other side of the ground. So yeah, it was great to be back, brilliant to be back in the stadium, great to be seeing football. I think probably the result of the performance contributed to me feeling a bit deflated after the game as well. Certainly a very strange experience indeed. Now then, next up for the cherries is tomorrow's trip to Malignou and Eddie Howe has faced the press in this morning's virtual press conference. Echo Benz and me's comment, so I thought spoke really, really well after the game. The majority of Burnley supporters that I met in my time there were absolutely fantastic people on behalf of this club and to your racism and discrimination. We feared at the start when we went down with the ankle, I'll be honest, that potentially a season could be over, but the scan showed it was a very minor brain to one of his ligaments. So we'll make a late call on Josh to see whether he's available for this match. My players knew the importance of the game, they very good professionals, they wanted to win. It just didn't quite show in the way that it needed to. Well, certainly we felt that the negative effect of not having a crowd in our home game, that was absolutely clear when we're one nil down and usually you'd get a response and a feeling from the crowd. We just didn't have that support to carry us onto new heights. So we're in a very difficult position, we're fighting to try and stay in the league, but one win, one result changes everything. It changes perceptions, it changes our position, it changes the whole outlook from everybody connected with this football club. Well, that was Eddie Howe speaking in this morning's press conference. Chris, it's a trip to Wolves tomorrow for the Cherries and it's a good opportunity to forget Saturday and hopefully turn things around. Yeah, and with the week afterwards until the Newcastle game, it's going to be important that they turn in a much better performance. I mean, it's going to be a tougher task, I think that's for sure. Palace, no one quite knew how they were going to approach it. We've seen Wolves, they played well at West Ham. They're a very, very good side. They've been difficult for Bournemouth to break down. Obviously earlier in the season, the game, the vitality stayed in. Simon Francis was sent off in the first half, of course, for two yellow cards. So Bournemouth played most of the game with 10 men, but half the game with 10 men, but obviously came back with a Steve Cook goal and possibly could have nicked something at the end. So last year, it was hammering down the rain at Wolves, lost 2-0. Obviously, there was a great day there in the championship when Matt Richie scored that goal that was pinging around everywhere. And I remember the crowd all the way along the lower tier on the far side at Mollin New from where we sit, which was a very, very enjoyable day. But yeah, this time round, Wolves chasing the Champions League, of course, superbly organised. Obviously got to the FA Cup semifinals last year as well as having a great season, still in the Europa League. And that performance the other day against West Ham was a great little sort of sharpener for them as well. Hardly can see any goals. I think it's five clean sheets in the last six games. I think only Liverpool have lost more games than Wolves this season as well. They do draw quite a few, which is, I think they've drawn 13, which nobody else has drawn more than them. So yeah, it's going to be tough, that's for sure. Another thing I will say is that going to Mollin New is normally a very hostile atmosphere. So a bit like the reverse of what we saw at the Vitality when Bournemouth really did need, would have needed a crowd in the second half to lift the performance. This time round, hopefully going to Wolves without a crowd. Well, it's certainly Bournemouth's favourite necessarily, but hopefully it makes the task, you know, not quite as onerous as if that was a passionate Wolves crowd behind them. Well, that's actually something Eddie House said this morning in his pre-match press conference, you know, he said the lack of a crowd last week didn't do Bournemouth any favour. So hopefully going away to Wolves, it'll be interesting to see what it's like in an away environment and it can actually help a side. Yeah, I saw some people after the game which sort of tweeted me and reacting to the game saying that that was an excuse from Bournemouth that they didn't have the crowd or whatever. And I know what they're saying. Of course, every time you don't play well, you then you talk about anything else, apart from the direct performance of the players, then it's going to look like an excuse. But I do think the lack of a crowd is something that players are going to have to get used to for sure and quickly, obviously, because there are only eight more games to go. But lots of talking in advance about what it would be like.  They thrive in a performance environment where they're under the spotlight. And yes, they're still under the spotlight in terms of the games being watched by millions around the world, but you can't see them and they're not playing a part in your in your atmosphere and the sort of the stage on which you're performing. So there's no doubt, I think that some players will have found it hard to raise themselves to the fact that that was a very important Premier League game rather than just a knock about preseason friendly. So I think hopefully this time, going to an away game, the fact you've got the travel, you know, traveling to the game and everything that goes with the whole away game experience will just wake everybody up a little bit and sharpen people up. Because of course, don't forget Bournemouth training their own stadium as well a lot of the time, because the training ground is at the ground. So while familiarity can do one thing for you and be good for a performance, also sometimes it maybe doesn't quite switch you on. Maybe that's an unfair accusation, I'm not sure, but we'll certainly see at Wolves where the Bournemouth are able to, I guess, switch themselves on emotionally. In terms of the Wolves squad, you know, there's players as human as Jota, Neves, Trey Oro was brilliant against West Ham, you know, the list goes on. There's a lot of players there that are very, very dangerous and it's going to be tough to stop. And a very settled side as well. They don't make too many changes. You know, the back corner Cody, I see lots of people saying they can't believe he hasn't played for England yet, the way he marshals that team. Willie Boley has come back into the team after injury and basically they've solidified and kept a raft of clean sheets since he's come back into the team.  And up top, as you mentioned, Raul Jimenez, who's already set a new record for a number of goals by a Wolves player in a Premier League season with his goal the other day at West Ham, you know, I like him a lot. I think he's a great player, big physical specimen, but plays with a smile on his face as well and can really bring other players into the game, very popular amongst the Wolves fans as well. And he, you know, he started the season in great form too. So they obviously usually play a three-five-two formation Wolves as well. They switched in the second half the other day when Adama Traore came on and I wouldn't be surprised to see him be unleashed from the start with the impact that he had coming off the bench and obviously the fact that it's a quick turnaround between matches as well. You wouldn't be wholly surprised if they tweak things and throw him in from the start because he's certainly a handful and whoever plays it left back, whether it's Adam Smith or Diego Rico or anybody else, would certainly have their hands full if he does play a big part. Well, let's talk about our team news because obviously we saw Joshua King, he had to be substituted the other day. It's not as bad as what was first feared, but the likes of Phillip Billing, he just missed out the other day and Eddie actually said this morning again, you know, he's doing really, really well and he could well be fit for tomorrow night. Yeah, and again, often you don't realise the value of players until they're not there and Phil Billing actually is, you know, he's had an up and down season. He started strongly dipped away a bit, but actually in the last few weeks before lockdown, I thought he was one of the one of the better players in the squad. So again, that shouldn't be underestimated how much possibly he was a bit of a miss in midfield as well. You know, a big, obviously big physical specimen in terms of the power side of the game, but also, you know, a good footballer as well. So hopefully he's fit. That will add an extra dimension to midfield. I just wonder whether in the home game Eddie Howe went free at the back as well and matched up with with Wolves, I think I'm right in saying, and has done in the past as well. So it's a case of does he do that again, which obviously will be a formation change and getting wing backs involved. They've got the personnel to do that. Joshua King, hopefully only one game out as we say. And the other, I guess the other question marks is Harry Wilson was dragged the other day at halftime. Where does he fit in if they play wing backs? I thought I didn't think Joshua King was on it before he got substituted to be honest anyway. I thought he, I didn't think he did anything in the first half really. And he looked like one who was struggling to get going really. I thought Jefferson Lerman was surprisingly sluggish as well actually. And again, someone you can barely criticize all season in terms of effort and execution. I thought he was off it. So yeah, there are choices to say the least. And obviously it depends how much with a clear week after the game, whether Eddie can afford to play basically the same 11 or 12 again with that big rest to come or whether he chooses to rotate it around a little bit more with the depth of the squad they've now got available. And the fact they, they weren't great the other night as well. So that's the, the big questions is rotation, how much or how little? Absolutely. Well, it's going to be a very interesting game tomorrow night at Mullenew. You can listen to Chris and Willow on BBC Radio Simon and on AFCB TV throughout the evening. Bye for now.


Hey guys, what's going on? Welcome to our trending reviews. So I have here today the S9 Plus Now I'm going to be going through some of the features around the camera But just to give you a quick update on the S9 Plus. It's not exactly a redesign from the Samsung S8 It's more of a refinement Now a couple of things to note around the design changes The fingerprint scanner is now at the back in the middle It used to be right next to the lenses on the top left hand corner I think around the size, I've noticed that it's a little bit more of a matte finish Rather than a metallic finish. If you compare the S8 to the S9, it's probably going to be around Almost identical. In terms of the specs the RAM is increased a little bit. There's not a huge amount of changes in this S9 Plus However Samsung did come out with a various set of colors that this phone can come in One of them is coral blue. One of them is a lilac purple and it'll also be selling a metallic silver But I went ahead and went just got the black one because I think the black looks a little bit nicer But one thing to note, they still have that glass finish at the back Now one thing to note is that once you get the phone straight out of the box It immediately gets fingerprints all over it. So it's not something that You'd continue using without any case or a D brand skin or so on. Now it still has a headphone jack For me personally, I think that's quite useful I don't like to carry around the dongle that you get with most phones as an adapter I've always had wired headphones. I do have some wireless headphones as well But I think it's not a major problem for phone companies to leave headphone jacks in there It allows me to also charge my phone and to listen to music at the same time when I'm at work Maybe the phone is on the desk or so. One other thing worth mentioning is that the phone now has Dolby Now I know Samsung audio has generally been quite good But having the Dolby surround sound inbuilt into the speakers I think is a really good step for Samsung when you're listening to the audio You could even feel the vibrations when watching the shows or movies on your phone Which I think is pretty awesome so that you can get that cinematic feeling towards Watching stuff on your phone, which a lot of people sometimes though tend to do They're probably watching their laptops and so on now today I'm going to be focusing more on the S9 plus camera now Samsung have gone all out They've got this dual camera on S9 plus which can automatically adjust the wide lens aperture to get a really focus And they've developed a camera lens that can automatically adjust the wide lens aperture to a really focused in aperture within an instant Now if you know anything about photography, you know, that's pretty revolutionary Especially on a smartphone the camera once you put it into pro mode You can switch between f 1.5 and f 2.4 with the lens at the back Visibly switching between those two different modes now What that means in layman terms is is that f 1.5 it will let in a lot more light So that allows you to take better pictures in in low lighting or even in dark as well And at f 2.4 it narrows in and focuses on objects allowing you to capture sharper details at close range So let's go ahead and take a look at that now Okay, so the good thing I like about the camera now is that it has more of a swipe feature to go through all of the Different modes within the camera So all you have to do is just swipe left and right and you'll see the different options come up there at the top So this is a live focus mode. It allows you to blur the background and take depth effects photos whilst looking at it exactly how it will look like before you take the photo You can even adjust the background blur And see how that looks before you take the picture If you go into pro mode This is where you can see the different options for changing the aperture the light in the wide angles and so on So there's an option here. So you press the aperture button. It brings up the f 1.5 there You select that it changes it to 2.4. You keep tapping it. It will change backwards and forwards now If you look at the back My switch in between f 1.5 and f 2.4 you can see the lens actually closing in and opening up Depending on which aperture you've selected now This is the first time this has ever been done on a smartphone and I think Samson have done a really good job here Now let's talk about the super slow mo recording here So this is the first time ever to video record at a huge 960 frames per second But just note that this is only done at 720p and in most lighting situations You'll find that it's a little bit grainy Sometimes if you do it in low lighting situations, it'll be so grainy that it's sometimes hard to watch But it continues to do 240 frames per second at 1080p as well So let's go ahead and give an example of this slow mo recording So there's two options here. You can record either in manual or auto modes In manual you'll have to set record at the exact same time that you see The action happening and it has to happen within that square box that it's giving you Now you can move the square box around depending on where you're going to record the slow motion Or you can set it to auto mode here on the bottom left so that it automatically picks up Fast motion that happens within that square box and it will set the recording to happen automatically Now just note that the recording is about 0.2 seconds So it has to be really fast and it plays it over about six seconds as well So let's go ahead and see what that looks like So just playing back footage, you can actually see it's not too bad It is a little blurry, but it also depends on the lighting as well So if I did this outdoors, I reckon it would be a little more sharper If I had the lighting indoors on me, it would probably be a little more sharper as well But a really good job and I think that a 960 frames per second is a real one for Samsung And then you have the AR emoji feature So you swipe down to AR emoji So this is Samsung's answer to Apple's an emoji This does seem a little bit like a gimmick at the moment But for those people who have a bit emoji on Snapchat, for example They may play around with this a little more than those that don't But nonetheless, it seems like it's something cool that you'll probably just end up playing for around Maybe the first week or so and then probably never go back to it But nonetheless, let's have a look you can create your own emoji It brings up a selfie camera. So if you just take a picture You select ma'am It starts to generate The emoji Let's see how close it is This Probably looks nothing like me, but Probably done Not too far off job It saves the stickers in your gallery as well if you want it to So what this allows you to do is if you want to send a message You go into messages You have the option to select your AR emoji There's various different options here Let's go and select that one And it just does a little animation for you there Now finally, Samsung got rid of the selective focus mode and replaced it with this live focus mode There's also a selfie focus mode for those who want to get a portrait picture from the front-facing camera Which I think is still far behind the portrait modes that you find on iPhone X and Google Pixel 2 So Samsung really have to update game in the portrait photography market, which to me is a little bit disappointing But let's go ahead and look at the live focus mode and see what it looks like You have to move a little bit further away from the subject like it mentions this So let me go ahead and move this a little bit further back So now it will tell you that it's ready with the yellow button there So you can go ahead And blow as much as you want less as you want So let's go ahead and take that picture Let's go less blur Now just taking a look at the pictures now You're able to choose between wide angle and close up as well It basically saves both options when you take a live focus picture so that you can choose between Both of them, whichever came out better So I think if you look closely, it's done a pretty good job blurring the background here On the little baby brute. I still think the Google Pixel 2 XL Portrait mode is a little bit better a little bit sharper It's able to capture the background a little bit nicer than this one But it's a nice attempt from Samsung I think I will continue to use this and explore this a little bit more So make sure to subscribe I'm going to do a photography test with my Google Pixel 2 against the camera on the S9 Plus And give you comparisons with portrait modes and other variants modes as well So just keep an eye out for that Overall, I think the camera is definitely a step in the right direction So far it seems to be the best camera on the market today There's probably a little bit of a debate between the camera on the S9 Plus and the Google Pixel XL Am I convinced enough to switch from my Google Pixel 2 XL back to the Samsung S9 Plus? Probably not just yet But I'll be keeping an eye out on the Samsung software updates to see if they do improve the camera Especially to utilize the S9 Plus lenses, which I'm kind of looking forward to So definitely watch this space All right guys, thanks for watching the video I hope you like the camera review on the S9 Plus If you have any questions, let me know what you think in the comments below As usual, make sure you subscribe I've got a lot more features and reviews coming up for the S9 And I'll catch you guys next time Take care


what's up this brand man Sean and this video is the first of a series I'm gonna call Motivation Mondays and I know many people have done Motivation Mondays and things like that before but I want to make it clear on why I'm doing it so you know the right people can get the results from it man I understand the purpose of everything because I talked to so many artists right I'm helping with marketing and branding over the years but what I realized is mindset truly is a limiter for many of them and it all comes from perspective of how you're viewing a set of problems a set of tools because one artist will see a set of tools and the math that they do to end up to a certain answer is completely different than the math that another answer problem I'm another artist would do right so this artist will see one plus one another artist will see one times one another artist will see one times 20 right the tools can be given to you but if you don't understand how to see the tools how to leverage the tools and and where the tools thrive the best you're not gonna really be able to get the results and a lot of it comes from a from artists having a very worker mentality versus entrepreneurial and understanding how to about value the things around them including themselves so this is why I want to do this series man hopefully throughout this series you know yes you get motivated but also even bigger than that you really start to see things from an entrepreneurial perspective so it won't just be hey like you can do it right this will be this is how you have to view certain problems if you want to get the results and this is what it looks like so you can start framing that for your career now after that long explanation here's video number one I want to go ahead and just hop right into the first thing that I see and maybe we'll snip it this up somewhere as well but one of the biggest limiters that I see so many artists have is this impoverished mentality this scarcity mentality because you work so hard and I'm not just talking about money right but you work so hard and then when your stream start to take off your followers start to take off it's like something's finally working finally I can chill and that's the opposite of what you should be doing it's not time to chill this is when you should lock in get in the zone this is when you shoot a shot and you won't miss right it just goes it just goes everything is falling when you put one dollar in and instead of getting two dollars back like you're used to or three dollars back like you're used to you put that one dollar in you get a hundred dollars back you get a thousand dollars back because you have momentum on your side and what a lot of artists don't understand is that window is not open forever you feel like I got a million streams this song is just taking off organically I can finally take a break but that's a window that's opening and can close it will close so what you have to do is squeeze every bit of that lemon right in that moment so you can get the maximum results that should come from that moment and I know it's hard but a lot of artists don't actually even feel this pain this is why I'm talking about this one first a lot of artists actually don't feel the pain of the miss opportunity because if I go from 10,000 streams right being the norm and all of a sudden I start hitting a million streams two million streams mentally I'm like I'm good right you felt such a strong leap of progress that you don't understand that you just missed 20 million streams that two million streams could have been 20 million streams but the person whose experience looking on is like I know what this moment could have been and I'm this is coming from real experience in conversations of artists I know what this moment could have been for you but you were so comfortable with where you got because you were so relieved right but you don't understand everything that could be and you don't understand how hard it is going to be to try to make this happen again this isn't a moment where you've now escaped the difficulty of making things pop this is a moment where you just need to maximize and go as many levels up as possible all right so when you start from the next floor the floor is a little bit higher than that last floor all right it's like Lil Nas X with Old Town Road that song could have just been a regular viral song did 10 million streams on the internet all right but because of the label situation everything that started to happen and continuing to double down and double down and double down it became you know record breaker all time record breaker all right and the visibility that came from that gave a lot more visibility to the rest of his music that if he just dropped the rest of the music and all of a song that maybe did 20 30 million streams it wouldn't have been the same right it wouldn't have been the same he wouldn't have garnered such a great name when that moment happened so many people are looking at them they're looking at them what are you gonna do next that gave him a platform but he could have just let it be a super viral song online and did 30 million streams but that moment wouldn't have happened for his next music right so when you find a moment that happens the momentum is going squeeze it for all you can that's all I gotta say squeeze it for all you can that's it peace Wow what's up it's Brand Man Sean and if you got value from this video we got a ton of value to offer you in brand man network.com it's completely free the link is in the description if you want to talk with us directly or some people in our community in between videos so you can ask questions specific to you or hop on one of the live sessions that you see on the channel when we're speaking with other artists brand man network.com is the place to go hop into our app it's really dope and you get access to free courses as well but it might not be free forever so hurry up and get in there 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Is it a corporate buzzword? Is it an academic term? Does it just mean you want to see more Eastern faces on the Western screen? And why do we keep getting invited to colleges to talk about it? Welcome everybody to the hot pot boys David and Andrew here and we have a list for you the six things that you need to know about Asian representation in the media that you will not hear anywhere else. A lot of Asian YouTubers, Asian actors, even Asian newscasters, they would get paid to fly around to colleges around America to speak on this issue. However, I feel like for the most part the discussion has stayed at a 101, 102 beginner level. We have to move it on to the intermediate level. So we came up with a list today. Hopefully once this comes out and gets disseminated, it will just move the whole discussion into the intermediate level. So if these are the types of things that you like to talk about or think about or share with your friends, please do that. Hit that like button and let's get into it. Point number one is that when it comes to stages of development of Asians in media, I would say that we are at the iPhone 4 out of iPhone 13. I would say we're at the iPhone 3G personally. I think we're like at that transition stage because the iPhone 4 is really when it got good. And I can see that's why Jimmy Wong said we're in the golden age. I do not think that's true. I think that's a little bit of an overstatement, but I can see why he said it. The nightclub line that we're all in that's getting like moving in one person by one is slowly moving. However, there are people in the middle of the line in the back of the line waiting two hours, two hours equals two decades in this example. So I mean, I just think that people have to understand if there's like things that they're unhappy with and flaws that you want to fix in the iPhone 3G, but you know, maybe the jumps aren't as big as they were back then, you know, in terms of the iPhone analogy. However, like we are, it's getting decent. Let's go back to the nightclub analogy real quick before we move on to the next point, David. This nightclub is very exclusive. Some Asians are getting in. Some Asians are in the back. Some Asians are in the middle. We're all waiting in line. The line is moving, but slowly how did those people get to the front? I think being rich really helps for sure to be near the front of the line, but it just also matters like what you attacked when you were young, the systems you were put into. Obviously, if you guys know how nightclubs work, especially like Studio 54, maybe they'll pick some really pretty girls out of the back of the line and move them to the front of the line. Hoppas, things like that. Things that the club wants to, they want certain people more than others to wrap up. Point number one, we are like just, we just breached the earth's crust. You know, we still got a lot of different layers to go. We just breached the guac on the seven layer burrito. You know, maybe that iPhone analogy does or does not click with you. You know, um, so there's a lot of room to go. It's looking up point number two, when it comes to Asian media representation and this exclusive nightclub analogy. There's a lot of people in the back of the line that really don't like the people who are getting into the club. They're looking at them either as they are undeserving, they cheated, or that, you know, they're just kind of jealous. I would say, I would definitely say that it's a, it's a minority of line. Like it's, it's just a fraction of people, but it doesn't mean that their criticisms are fully invalid just because it is spoken out of jealousy. I get what they're saying because for example, we know some of the Asian actors that get on and not all of them, we're part of the Asian community. Not all of them cared about their Asian heritage. And sometimes they get thrust into this position where they get this big role and they're like, oh shoot, all these Asian people are looking at me to say something. I'm proud of my Asian heritage. Yeah. Or you see sometimes, and I'm not saying for all, but like sometimes you do see hapas who are like in the back of another line for a different club get thrown to the front of the Asian representation line. And it's kind of like, bro, you picked the back of the line of like this club, but now you get moved to the VIP, you know, fast track line of the Asian line. They get, they get into it as a function of being thrust to the elevated pedestal. So what do you think about the people who are in the middle of the back of the line? Like I said earlier, I think some people care, but the truth is some people in the back of the middle of the line do not care. They're almost like playing, you know, Apple Jackson on Nintendo switch with each other linked up in the back of the line. They don't really care that the line's moving or they're just doing their own thing. I would tell them like, you know, progress is not perfect. The people who are going to get on are not going to be the perfect 100% Asian heroes that you're looking for necessarily in their heart. But some of them are too, by the way, I'm not, we know, I'm just saying it's like, it's a mixed bag. Yeah, some of them are actually, some of them are doing a really great job.  So in a way, they have to get in or leave the line in order for the line to move. Right, right, right. You take a macro approach to it and just be like, don't get caught up in like, Oh, did this person deserve it? Does this person care as much as me? Well, sometimes moving to the front of line, unfortunately, it wasn't based on how much you care. I mean, I think it's pretty clear that crazy rich Asians or Bling Empire is kind of the flashy stuff that a lot of Asians want to be depicted as and how some people, I guess that's interesting to non Asians. What I would encourage the people in the middle and the back of the line to do is like, and I don't know if the always the entertainment desire or sophistication is there.  And that's why I like watching jackfruit and even watching somebody like sub doc, who's like this like kind of like, you know, representing like, I guess like the hood via the experience and he's making material about it. And that's what tiktok and other platforms are so great for using in platform tools because you don't need a Hollywood Alexa to shoot you. You just need the phone camera just to close up this point. I mean, I don't want people to feel bad that they're getting left out. I think great stories are going to rise to the top and you see that with things like the sympathizer. And obviously, I'm sure every Vietnamese person doesn't want to only be represented by like a war story, of course. However, I'm just saying that the good stories are going to make it the interesting stories are going to make it the time is coming. And I do think that if you have any criticism about the Asians who are getting on into that exclusive nightclub right now, I think that's okay. As long as it's legit criticism, you should feel free to speak your mind. You're not just like ripping people down. You should if you want to see them alter their behaviors. I think there's way to like encourage things or point things out. I think ultimately it's all leading to everybody getting into the club eventually. It's going to be slow, but it's happening. Point number three, Asian representation only really counts when you have a big American studio record label or network behind your piece because Western entertainment is Western centric. And if you don't have the Western validation, then it doesn't count as Asian representation. No, it's true. People only count your piece as Asian media representation if it goes mainstream or it's approved by mainstream platform.  And I was kind of thinking in my head, thank you. I appreciate it. But what about the 1200 other videos I made about Asian identity? Well, those didn't really count because that's like knitting your own sweater and then calling it a clothing brand. Right. It didn't have the official, you know, publishing licensing. No, you didn't have your own label and tag. You didn't have your own production company behind it. But hey, David, I am glad to finally be part of Asian representation. Yeah. Yeah. No. And we have made 1200 DIY sweaters and we have one sweater in stores. Guys, this is the way it is being in a Western country. I'll use our friend Daniel Wu as an example. You know, he was born and raised in the Bay Area. He started his entertainment career in Hong Kong, got big in Asia all over China. When he came back to America to have that TV show into the Badlands, people don't really know about him. They're like, oh, where did this Asian guy come from? He's like a new actor. Yeah. I was like, but he was a star over there. But literally whatever he did over there to the rest of the mainstream audience, they didn't, they didn't know about.  You know, like, I think BTS only maybe one or two of them speak English, right? And they're gigantic globally shot at the BTS. Do you count them as Asian American representation? I think that the Asian representation part of BTS, not in my opinion, I'm just saying how kind of people generally to find it, is that it started when they got onto American TV. When they were getting interviewed by Jimmy Fallon or they were at the American Music Awards or they were at Billboard Awards. That's when you're like, oh, look at all these Asian dudes. Now they're not American. It was a very Asia representation. But still, yes, I think it started when they got on American TV shows. I mean, as a YouTuber, Andrew, how do we feel about sort of like people finally saying thank you for being part of Asian representation? Is it was it weird to feel like validated, I guess, in the mainstream for once? You know what? I got to give some credit to the people that we've met in the Asian community, like the more famous people, the more mainstream celebrity mainstream people. A lot of them have shown love to us and been like, Hey guys, I appreciate what you do. Not that I'm seeking their validation because I'm not always sure if they mean it 100% or 50% or whatever. Regardless, that's what they say. And they know that we are kind of like more for the internal community than we are a mainstream product. No, we're more like the almost the underground rappers, the Talib Kweli, the most deaf. But to wrap it up, yes, as Asian YouTubers, I'm not going to lie and some of our other Asian YouTuber friends also feel this way that we do feel like we got left out of being labeled Asian representation when we were representing Asians, at least to a large amount of other Asians. Yeah. But that doesn't always count. The fourth point about Asian representation that you will not hear from anybody else is that David actually a lot of actors, directors and visionaries that are involved in the pushing forwardness of Asian media representation are actually from Asia or foreign born. You know, Ali Wong is from here, Aquafina is from here, Simu is from overseas, Ronnie's from overseas, Jimmy O. Yang is from overseas. Steven Yoon, I believe Daniel Day Kim also from Korea. Anybody of the rising stars, a lot of them are not American born and bred. Now, as an Asian American guy, you might be thinking, oh man, I got to compete with Asian guys from all over the globe. But I'm born and raised here. I'm American. Shouldn't they care about me first? Shouldn't I be higher up in the queue instead of here? But I'm like, Hey guys, listen, at the end of the day, this is entertainment. These are actors. And globally, people are pulling from a way larger pool of Asian people. Yeah, I do think there's something about the experience of being raised in America or, you know, even the setup situation prior to being born with your parents assimilation or immigration that like breaks a lot of Asian Americans. Like a lot of Asian Americans, even more than Asian Canadians are like broken in their own self identity. They're like trying to get into the line of the other club and they waited like four hours in the line in the wrong line and they got rejected. And then now they're asking to get moved up ahead of this like Asia line. You know what I mean? Because they got like kicked out of line of like the other clubs or whatever like that. And I think that our people are trying to like sabotage other people online or they're just not having the right attitude. I think that's a very common statistical outcome of Asian identity being born and raised in America. Yeah, I feel you. I mean, I think at this stage of globalization in the world, we have to understand that there are global products. There's BTS that's going to come here and take up the stage at an award show that an American artist could take. That was the whole controversy about oh, these guys are not even American. Why are they performing? Rich Brian. Rich Brian had one of the only like Asian American club songs I ever heard with that stick. He is a rich elite kid from Indonesia. Like Joji is like probably part of the global elite from Asia. Like you said, those people who are from good families from overseas, you have to understand that international mindset sometimes locks them into an identity. So they're not battling with that. It also gives them confidence. More security. It also allows them to try opportunities out and a little bit more comfortable in expressing themselves through art. So you're saying 2% of America competing with the rest of the world guys, I want to bring up the NBA analogy how so many there are so many foreign players in the NBA and it's actually only increasing almost 45% of NBA players are foreign born.  Do you think that they're getting mad? No, I don't think so. I think that they know what it is because at the end of the day, they're better. Yeah, it's a talent pool thing. So what do you think? What do you want to say to like Asian Americans who feel like that jealousy of the foreign born Asians? I think it's understandable to have those feelings, but again, it's all leading up to the same thing and it's overall going to raise the image of Asians in the West because if you want to raise, if you're trying to build an army to raise the image of Asians in the West, you want your best around the world to come and fight this. To wrap up point number four, I do think that people are looking for not just an Eastern face, but they're looking for that Eastern face to come with some Eastern insight or some Eastern like toolkits. You know what I mean? But a lot of times, if you just have an Eastern face with a fully Western toolkit, unless that toolkit is like being super wild and crazy, almost like a Bobby Lee, you know, where he's like out Westernizing Western people by being more Johnny Knoxville than Johnny Knoxville, that can work. But more realistically, people from Asia, we're more like going to out Asian people than we are going to out Western people. I'm not saying, by the way, you can't pick your own path unless you can truly out Western people. Whether you are being an Eastern person acting super Eastern or an Eastern person acting super Western, you cannot be mediocre at all. Point number five, there is no amount of Asian representation in media that will really stop Asian hate. Yeah. I mean, to be honest, the reason why on the channel for the past two years, we've talked a lot more about stopping Asian hate in the streets versus how to protect yourself, security or how to understand the issues. Asian media representation is because we come from a community that is more blue collar and working class. Like whether or not that was our family, I'm not, you know, we not from prep school. I never even walked into private high school before in my life. I just seen people get picked on and attacked in the streets. And you know, there's so many stories. I don't even want to get into them. But basically, Asian media representation is more of a word that is common to hear in like, elite bougie Asian circles than it is in the streets. Like if you're walking the street and you're about to get robbed in your building or like this or that, you're not thinking about Asian media representation. Like that is not a concern. Yeah. And I don't think that those people who are thinking about attacking or robbing you or bullying you are thinking about the recent Asian character in the recent Hollywood movie, whatever, whatever movie it was, right? Yeah, they're not thinking about it. They're not thinking about bling empire. If anything, you could at first of all, I do think it's a reach. But you know, some of the Twitterati crowd, they said the bling empire getting Asians more robbed. Well, some people say crazy rich Asians. I mean, you see that tagline on the theater.  Here's how it can affect Asian hate. I actually think that Asian representation can help build empathy amongst more like, I guess, powerful political people that will then do more things for Asians, whether they're Asian politicians or not. Whether they actually care or not, or just feel like people tend to care about the the the situations that rich people are going through more. It is not a direct trickle down, by the way, guys. This is like, it has to trickle.  I feel like it's really crazy because to be honest, and I'm not trying to just like toot my own horn here. The there's very few people that work in Asian media representation where we know some of these like elites in like this industry fashion or media or whatever that still like would really are essentially in the public spaces, like in the streets, you know, like, like trying to tell people, I like, you know, whether it's Mandarin or Cantonese, the people I'm like trying to coach poor people that I see out in New York, poor immigrants on how to be safe. Like, I'll directly coach somebody on how to be safe, whether or not they take in what I'm saying or not. I know, you know, I think it's a mixed bag, but literally you're not going to see people talk about that and deeply understand more like the top end Asian media representation battle, too. And what we're talking about is a split that was discussed in Jay Caspian King's book, The Loneliest Americans, right? Right. And the split concerns are different of two different like socioeconomic subsets within the Asian community. This is my opinion, the people who got into the Asian media representation, whether they're near the front of the line or they already got into the club and they have this power, they have to do something. Like, if you gaslight like the poor Asians right now for like wanting to get a gun to protect themselves, that makes me hella mad. Yeah, I think it's wrong for people who are not in the line of fire, not people who are in potential danger to judge those who are in potentially danger on how they should live their lives and stay safe. Yeah, no, it's it's wrong and they shouldn't do it. And that means that they're disconnected from the actual reality. Closing up this point guys, like I said, listen, movie roles are great. I love it. Stories are great. Big Hollywood films are great. However, it does not trickle down directly to affecting what is happening on the streets. That is a pretty different problem. The people who care about getting films is different than the people who care about getting killed. Point number six, our last and final point about Asian media representation that you will not hear in other places and other conversations is that Asians have to control the narrative. We have to do the work to climb up that ladder so that we can dictate what type of roles are seen because we will never fully be satisfied with what the other people write for. Yeah, because it's like it is good to expend some energy, I guess, to complain about, you know, the sophistication that we're viewed with. Yeah, it's like some of the writers were like, oh my gosh, we need to represent Asians differently.  And then we're going to take this nerdy Asian guy, flip it out, just make him a hunk, make him the hottest Asian guy.  Yeah, maybe he doesn't not, he's not gonna say anything, he's bad at math. Yeah, yeah, that'll get the job done. And I think that we all like to see multifaceted characters. And I think it is getting better, but we have to control the narrative so that these characters are more than one dimension. Right, until we actually rise up the ladder to make our own pieces to control the house, to be a ladder climber.  Like you have to help somebody if you know, if you see a character or a person who has a personality that needs to be seen, put them on. That's kind of what we do on our channel. Like we meet interesting, you know, every, we meet interesting versions of all types of people, but particularly Asian people.  And I think that it is true that Asians often don't know what they want, because I think you can always point at every character and pick something apart. Jimmy O. Yang in Silicon Valley, very funny character, but a bunch of people have a lot of negative things to say about it. Oh, he's doing this. And I'm like, listen, we have to know what we want out of people, because like, are we looking for deep characters? Are we looking for hot characters?  Like, is that the only character you want? And that we're going to be satisfied with my suggestion is that I think people need to strive for deep characters that are building empathy and multifaceted. I don't necessarily think they can't be nerdy. I don't think they can't know martial arts. I don't think they have to be amazing, amazingly good looking. I just think they have to be deep and people have to be able to connect with them. You know, I just encourage people to attack more than they analyze because when you look at history, of course we could like look back about like the way this character was treated. Long duck dong in like 1989. I think if you're raised in America, can we take away some of that American mindset and be attackers in this?  But at the end of the day, literally words without actions means nothing. Bruce Lee said it guys, Bruce Lee was an attacker. So yeah, that was it guys. Those are our six points. Basically, this is a presentation that we would give out of school out of college to a corporate, you know, Asian resources group. These are things that you might not hear anywhere else. I hope that people literally watch this before their presentation and I hope the students that want to book other people, they watch this too so they can at least ask better questions in the Q&A. All right, everybody. Thank you so much for watching that video. If you found that discussion helpful, please share it with somebody, hit that like button. And again, until next time, we out. Peace.


I thought reaching 10,000 subscribers would make me happy. And it did for like an hour. Then I thought reaching 50,000 subscribers would make me happy. And it did for like a day. Then I did it. I finally hit 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. Surely this would deliver sustaining happiness. After all, I reached a goal that I thought was impossible. I was finally happy for like a week. What's going on? I thought this was it. But then I was reminded of something pivotal. The happiness the world offers is partial, temporal, incomplete, and unsatisfying. It's like a sweet treat with a bitter aftertaste. This true joy and delight that we were made to experience can only be experienced in and through God. He is like nourishing food. He is living water. He is the bread of life. We ought to desire to taste and see the goodness and joy that only comes from God. It is but a taste of the full banquet we will enjoy when He returns. Today I find my joy in Christ, even though...


Now the other major flaw, the other characteristic error that the 19th century produced in the idea of self-making, on the one hand was the Christian idea, what would be called something like the duty-based version of self-making. You have a duty to improve yourself, right? Even if you don't like it, even if it's not good, even if it isn't one of your values, you go do it, right? Andrew Carnegie even had this, right? In his so-called, he wrote a piece called The Gospel of Wealth. Andrew Carnegie said basically, wealth has no value except in as much as you can give it to other people, right? Except that you can endow libraries and schools and do things. Now he had a slightly more pro-self idea. He said, you've got to help those who can help themselves. He was opposed to just blanket charity, giving people money. He said, you give them the tools with which they can make themselves. But he still morally justified it as giving to others. Now the other error is what I would call the kind of subjectivist, the me generation, if you want to call it that. The idea of self-making, that's all just about the subjective whim, right? You don't like the world as it is. You don't like conditions as they are. So you just figure out a way to feel better about it, right? This is the opposite pole. This is self-making as a psychological indulgence, right? And this literature also becomes popular. In the early part of the 20th century, probably the three most popular self-help books, Norman Vincent Peel's Think and Grow, or no, he wrote, I wrote this down so I wouldn't forget. And I, yeah, the power of positive thinking, right, Norman Vincent Peel. And then Napoleon Hill wrote Think and Grow Rich, and then everybody's favorite, probably the most famous, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, right? And what do these individuals, this is the post-Freudian world. So, you know, Sigmund Freud, the whole cycle analysis, that it's all a matter of how you think about yourself and repress all of your edible complexes, et cetera. And it's also doing in the sense that it's not really about the self, it's about how you reflect the self in society. And this is all really focused on the self. It doesn't make the same error that the Christian self-makers do of divorcing the self from the process of self-making. But it detaches self-making from any visible external goal, right? The idea of this self-making is entirely focused around some psychological characteristic. Now, of course, these self-help manuals still promise riches on the other end. Think and Grow Rich, right? Win Friends and Influence People, positive thinking. And they had enormous number of testimonials about, oh, I read the power of positive thinking and I beat Muhammad Ali. And there was a famous, famously, there was a boxer who claimed that reading this book was what allowed him to defeat Muhammad Ali. Now, I think probably his left hook or maybe a good jab was what allowed him to defeat. But it's all the psychological sense. Now, in some context, this psychological self-making can be a part of proper self-making. The problem is that it completely detaches itself from any real values in the world. Why should you make yourself? What should you make yourself into? Well, I don't know, whatever you want, right?  So there's this divergence in the 19th century. By the 20th century, what this means is that the literature and the idea culturally of self-making has become very confused, right? We see some individuals, great athletes, for example, who pick themselves up from being cut from their basketball team, et cetera, you know, Michael Jordan kind of story. You get cut from your basketball team. What do you do?  You work even harder. You become more determined. You change yourself. You adapt to circumstances. You figure out what is necessary to your success, to your goal, right? And Michael Jordan's goal obviously was to be the best basketball player ever and many would argue he probably achieved that, at least within his generation. Arguments to current players notwithstanding, Michael Jordan was the best basketball player who ever lived when he retired and he set himself that goal and he did everything necessary to that goal. He engaged in a process of rational planning and thinking, just like Franklin had suggested. Now it's a different goal, but then look at what happens. Michael Jordan or Sam Walton or Steve Jobs gets pulled down by this. Right? On the one hand, the people who make the mistake of the psychological self say, oh, but they're unhappy. Look, he got divorced. Look, he doesn't have everything he wants. Look, he's psychologically troubled. Or they make the example, he doesn't do enough for others. He didn't really do this. It's not his responsibility. Somebody else built that, right? Michael Jordan can't play by himself, right? He needs four other guys on the court. This fallacy that just because other people are involved in mutual trade operations, which is basically what a team is. You're doing trading skills and interests in the common goal of victory. I always liked that. You guys know that quotation from Michael Jordan. Although there's no I in team, there is in win. He told a coach that once. His coach said there's no I in team and he said, well, there is in win. Which is, you know, if I want to win and I want to be a part of this team, I have to focus on myself but obviously not to the detriment of other players. We all know the characteristic player in sports who actually is not so much selfish as self-indulgent. Showy, showoff, and they don't win. They lost the I in that sense. But whether it's Michael Jordan or Sam Walton or Steve Jobs, the culture starts to corrode this away. Even though there are still examples of people doing this, we aren't like the 19th century. If you go back to the early 19th century, it's just astounding. The literature, we could fill this whole stage with books of examples of literature. McGuffey readers, what they used to give to school children, the Horatio Alger stories, the very famous series of books which were all about little kids, basically street urchins who picked themselves up and didn't necessarily earn riches but earned respectability. They made their way in the world. They got a better job than what their other little friends on the street, the little guys running around homeless and whatnot. They actually made it out of that, and he portrayed that.


Expansion or redevelopment is not really a choice. As cities grow in population and income, they both expand and densify. They grow both outwards, inwards and upwards. There's a lot of metropolitan outward expansion taking place and it is usually underestimated. The Paris Metropolis, for example, grew by 250 times between 1800 and 2015. And the rates of urban expansion are typically faster than the rate of population growth. We've heard that before. Between 1800 and 2015, the population of Paris grew by only 22 times. Its area grew by 250 times. Before I continue, I want to make a comment about what Mark said just now. And what I think is happening is that there is a race, a race between expansion and densification. We've been talking about densification for 30, 40 years and we've made very little progress.  The movement of people into cities. That project started around 1800. Before that, there were always less than 10% people living in cities and there was no urbanization. People started to urbanize in 1800. By now, there are half the people are living in cities. By the end of the century, two thirds to 70% will live in cities and the urbanization project, the movement of people from the rural areas to cities will come to an end. We have now a window of opportunity to intervene in the shape of cities. And the discussion here is whether we are going to intervene in time to make these cities more productive, more inclusive and more sustainable. The rates of urban expansion as we've studied in these sample of cities that Dr. Claus was talking about are not only in sprawling American cities, they are true of less developed countries as well. The population of less developed countries to take a more recent example doubled between 1990 and 2015, while their overall urban extent increased by three and a half times. Most mayors don't understand that. That cities increase in area three and a half times in 25 years. The reason densities are in decline. History, in other words, is not on the side of the compact city agenda. On the contrary, average densities have been in a long term declined from their peaks in many countries for a century or more. We measured densities in a sample of 200 cities described by Dr. Claus. In less developed countries, they declined at the rate of 2.1% per year. In more developed countries, they declined by one and a half percent per year. The urban extent of cities is simply a function of their population and their income. The population of cities and their income together explained 85% of the variation of urban extent among cities. Here you see an example. The Lagos on the left, Paris on the right, same population. The GDP of Paris is 10 times that of Lagos. The area of Paris is three and a half times that of Lagos. Why? Because as people become richer, they consume more of everything. In particular, they consume more housing and therefore more land. We do not expect a family that quadruples its income to move to a smaller apartment, no matter how many coffee shops there are in the neighborhood. Population and income growth drive outward urban expansion hand-in-hand with a selective redevelopment of established neighborhoods. What you see here is Shenzhen expanding sideways and upwards at the same time. The problem we now face and in many places it has now taken the dimension of a crisis described by Dr. Claus is that most policymakers, including most urban planners, are in denial about the two dimensions of urban expansion. Many of those who are in denial are those who decry urban expansion as sprawl, a bad word, and want to stop it to contain it to arrest it. They preach defensive urbanism wanting to protect and save their cities from sprawl. I worry about that. I'm a housing person. I dedicated my professional career to do something about the housing problem, especially in the housing problem in the cities of the developing countries. I've come to one important conclusion over the years. The housing problem is basically a land problem. If poor people can obtain a plot of land close enough to job opportunities, they can gradually house themselves over time. They cannot house themselves in apartments because apartments require finance and poor people don't have access to finance. This has convinced me that to make cities more inclusive, we must keep residential land in ample supply. And we can only do so on the urban fringe by preparing adequate lands for building and making these lands accessible to job markets. I'm therefore against defensive urban policies, against policies that preach containment and that want to limit urban expansion. These policies are anathema to affordable housing and therefore to inclusive cities. In all cities where containment has been successful, housing has become unaffordable to all but the very few. London and Seoul, with their famous green belt, brought it upon themselves. Chinese cities that are preaching food security and the preservation of cultivated lands in and around cities have gotten the same result. The compact city agenda, when it succeeds, compromises affordable housing. It empowers sitting residents under the guise of an environmental agenda to protect their property values by keeping newcomers out. The compact city agenda creates a different kind of damage when it fails. Our recent global survey shows that the majority of cities have now adopted one or another containment strategy, be it a green belt or an urban growth boundary. These strategies do not appear to slow down the rate of expansion but they definitely discourage municipal authorities and city planners from anticipating urban expansion correctly and preparing for it. Indeed, why make plans to accommodate something that you find unacceptable? Worse yet, won't making such plans accelerate urban expansion, making cities sprawl even more? This, I'm afraid, is a ridiculous position, especially now that we cannot prevent people from moving to cities. It is much like saying that you don't want your city to flourish because it will become more attractive and more inviting to people, failing to anticipate urban expansion and to prepare for it, especially by laying out the urban periphery before development occurs, does not prevent urban expansion. It simply produces, as Dr. Kloss has demonstrated, disorderly urban expansion that makes the city less productive, less inclusive and less sustainable. Our research shows that areas of expansion in cities the world over, areas that were developed between 1990 and 2005, are more disorderly than areas developed before 1990. Planners are simply not doing their job. Largest cities are generally more productive than smaller ones. I have to skip. I have to go faster. This is what happens when we don't have proper preparation, an area of Bangkok with eight kilometers between its arterial roads. This is Toronto, the public transport system that runs when you have arterial roads. And this is our, these are our programs to get cities in Ethiopia and in Colombia to plan for their expansion. Making room for urban expansion can make for more inclusive cities, for more productive cities and for more environmentally sustainable cities. Surely, we must encourage cities to densify. We need urgent regulatory reforms that allow for smaller apartments, higher buildings, more plot coverage, a larger share of the land in residential use and greater saturation of urban urban space. But these interventions are more costly. They take more time. And last, but not least, they are resisted by sitting residents because they change the character of neighborhoods. For now, making room for urban expansion is the only realistic strategy accommodating the growing population of developing country cities where virtually all urban population growth in the coming decades will take place. Thank you.