More streams, more views, more likes, more comments, numbers, numbers, numbers, that's all you hear people talk about in music these days but all these numbers don't necessarily matter as a matter of fact some of them can trick you completely. In this episode I'm going to talk about two very important ways of looking at the numbers to help you out starting with the fact that and A&R revealed the huge problem with signing artists solely based on numbers and artists. Keep this in mind because it's a bad thing for labels to look at it this way, which they're discovering, but some of y'all are getting caught up at looking at A&R's own numbers the same way a label would look at you. You object to find yourselves. Eww, just nasty. The problem with solely signing artists based on the numbers. So there was an article, I think it was in Billboard and it says, why is distilled the challenge facing contemporary A&R departments? The people that have been able to catch things in that well of TikTok and data and research are all the ones that have been getting promoted. He explains, now the research well has essentially run dry. Everybody's kind of looking around saying, okay, how do we go back? That's words from Mike Weiss, head of A&R for United Masters. So first we're going to stop here before we get to the rest of this commentary. That's really important. But just so y'all hear it, right? People have been watching TikTok. This is what it sounds like to me. People have been watching TikTok doing research, looking for something that's popping, right? What's happening next? We want to catch the wave because we see that it's moving. We're watching the numbers. But TikTok's not moving the same way anymore. I got to repeat for artists that TikTok is still relevant, TikTok does still work well, but it's not just a rocket shipping artist every single day, five times a day like it was. So now A&R, sir, what's your research? Because before you were just watching numbers, pretty much waiting for them to start moving. Do you even have the talent to find an artist beyond numbers that just start moving on TikTok? So when he says, that's what I think when he says, how do we go back? People are like, so how do we even find an artist based on an old system? How do we even find an artist based on something other than their TikTok views in that specific space? And maybe some started looking at reels, but pretty much we already know those short form videos. And then it goes on to say, in reality, managers in A&R say few of the data-centric signings that landed big deals in recent years have been able to make even two tracks that stream. A number of these artists have been quietly dropped from the labels. A former research focused A&R acknowledges that the data-driven process surfaced a lot of duds. I was getting frustrated because of the sheer amount of stuff coming up on research and then seeing it not really pan out a year later, he says. So keep in mind, every time they say research, they're just referring to people finding artists online. And researchers, I was scouring the internet and then or I was looking at these numbers because there are actually softwares that people use now these days to look for numbers that are moving in a certain way. Just like that going on watching stocks. Yeah, exactly like that. So, and they like really, really want you all to understand like it's really not just an analogy. They really have that these days, right? So again, what he's saying here is like, yo, we're signing people based off of the data, but we're not getting another hit from them, right? They're not even able to make two tracks that stream. Now, my question is, is he saying we signed them after they pop and then they can't make two tracks? Or is he saying we signed them off of one track that popped and now they can't even make a second track that could stream? I feel like it's that one. I feel like it's that one too. And they're not even painting out a year later. Now, I'm awake. Let's get this last slide out the way for now. Still, there is a concern, the most pronounced among veteran and ours and managers that the pendulum has swung too far towards analytics. I have a saying to the A&Rs who focus all their time on data. You would be the first people to be replaced by a computer algorithm. As Mike Karen, who built up APG, his own label and publishing company and served as a major label A&R. He councils younger employees. Don't take the easy and short term route being 100% data reliant. Mike Karen is a legend in music, done a lot, ushered a lot of artists in. So he's telling young people, yo, don't just look at the numbers. Why? You're relying on the numbers. Well, what are you doing other that a computer can't do? You're not building your own talent, your own eye, right? Your own sense and instinct, that thing that a computer can't do. And that's going to be not only the thing that allows an A&R individual to be able to find and help support an artist. On the other side, you can't, you're going to be able to find an artist that the data can't quantify. And that's the issue. Real artists, data can't quantify. Data can only show historical representation of a real artist. But it can't give you, but it can't project what a real artist is. Yeah, man, it makes me think it is LaRusselon. Or he's like, uh, data only told you what I could be, couldn't tell you what I would be or something like that. That's what it makes me think of, right? Like there are certain traits of successful artists that like you can't really see in numbers. Like you can't, you can't gauge work ethic by viral video. You can't. You can't gauge professionalism by a YouTube video. Wheel power.  Like so many things that like don't get brought up in data. And like that's what I feel like went wrong with the data driving market is that I've always felt like data was supposed to be supplementary to traditional A&R methods, right? Or just traditional methods of finding talent. But then it completely overtook it because to your point and probably the point Mike was making is that it was the easier route. Let me just scroll through TikTok. Okay, this guy got 10 million views. This one got 5 million. This one got 2 million. I'm just going to go talk to all of them. But then we talk about doing that at a time where one, these platforms were inflating data.  They didn't even know. You know what I'm saying? They got hit by that. Two, you don't completely understand what you're looking at. So you default to whatever the bigger number is and just assume that that's the most important thing. Oh, they got 2 million views on it.  You know what I'm saying? And one that likes it, you know? And so I agree with the general sentiment of like, I don't think data should be the main driving factor of A&R and discovering music. And I'm saying that as a marker. Like, our whole job is numbers and data, you know what I'm saying? So it's like, no, I feel like that should be thought about, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. But I do think it's important. It helps you see things that are important to the digital landscape. I'm in the new, the new now for artists, but it shouldn't be like the main thing that makes you go like, yeah, this person is for sure, like, gonna be it. Because man, I feel it, man. Like, I've seen viral videos from creators that I've never went back to. So I can assume that they're artists that have made viral songs that those people never went back to. Of course, man. Like, this is the thing. If data could quantify your highly limit period. All right. So artists don't concern yourself with the data. Of course, I got a stress. Like, yes, the data can reflect what you do or literally document what you do. But very, it's very unlikely for data to early on be able to project correctly, especially in a field like art. Yeah. All right. So, you know, cultural influence, like all these other intangibles that you can have that it cannot quantify.  Like, I don't need that. I have an instinct and the data usually goes where I know is going to go based off my instinct. If I'm familiar with the data, I actually know, oh, when this artist does this, the data is going to look like that over time.  I'm projecting the data off of the artist versus using art data to project the artist. Yeah. I think I'll let me make sure I said that right. I'm projecting what the data is going to look like based on the artist instead of projecting what the artist is going to look like based on the data. That's what I'm doing. Because I'm working with an artist early on and we do the same thing. We had these conversations. We were like, oh, yeah, man, when he do this or about X amount of months, it's going to look like this before an artist is showing any numbers. We had these conversations all the time. It's like, oh, yeah, man, about a couple months, man. Like, oh, yeah, we already know that's going to go up. Like, we had these conversations at the top of the every single year. And that's the same thing that that instinct is the same thing that allows me to tell artists, yo, your videos. Are dope. Keep doing exactly this because eventually it's going to pop and all the numbers are going to catch up. You're ahead of the numbers right now. Tiktok's algorithm doesn't know what to do with you right now. The Reels doesn't know who to show you to right now. But once they figure out how to show you to the right people, which I can help you with when things take off, they're going to be great.  And the content, they don't, isn't getting views so they can think, oh, I'm not doing the right thing. And that's what happens when you only allow the data to validate where it's like, nah, bro. Sometimes you're actually doing the right thing. The data has not caught up, but you need an instinct in the eye.  Yeah, man. Numbers only told you who I could be and tell you who I would be. Stop what you're doing. We've got to interrupt you to let you know you can win $20,000 by submitting your music to tulost.com slash collab for The Crown. We're looking for the best songs and we're partnering with Tulost. So if you think you got some great music, if you think you got the goods, go to that site, tulost.com slash collab for The Crown. Check out the instructions for the contest. Win up to $20,000 and make sure you put in no label when you create your profile on Tulost so you can make sure you get three months completely free. That's tulost.com slash collab for The Crown. And again, when you sign up, put in the code, no label, all one word, and you will get three months completely free.  You just got to make sure you submit. Peace. I would, you know, I give us another pat on the back and I would like to say that I feel like we were paying attention to data points that other people weren't paying attention to very early on. I can give the audience our most notable example, which is strings for listener. You know, that's been a recent data point on the Spotify dashboard for maybe a little bit over a year now. Yes. I've been playing strings for listeners since 2018. You know what I'm saying? Yes. Manually doing. Yes. Not fans. Clowns would be like, what are you talking about? Oh, we just did the math on it real quick. You're doing. So, you know, I think that was the other thing too. Like the easy data point is views, right? Just like in music, the easy data point is streams, right? And so we all assume a lot of views equals good. A lot of streams equals good. And that's not always the case. I've seen scenarios where an artist will have a lot of streams on the song outside looking there and shit looks peachy keen.  They're leaving. So this song got 100,000 plays on it in a day and only got 230 saves on it.   Crazy. Because the only thing I could deduce from looking at these numbers is that people are finding it, but they hate it. They hate it once they get to it. But outside looking in, you'd be like, man, that artist went up 100,000 streams in a day. And it's like, yeah, but the grass ain't all green over there. So, and I think that was even a point somebody made earlier in this article right was like, if we are, we either can't be as data driven as we have been. For the last three years, well, we need to find new data points to base this on because the ones that we've been basing this on haven't been working out for us. And that's, like I said, I will argue that's because the big data point has been views and streams and how quickly the views and streams have been accumulated versus like you said, certain intangibles. What's the control on culture or certain culture? What's that work ethic like? And then there are certain like, you know, hard analytics that I don't think is looked at a lot. You know what I'm saying? Like I said, the streams per listener, that just became important enough for Spotify to put on the dashboard a year ago. But like I said, we thought that was important back in 2018. And I can show you that this song is getting three streams per listener and this song only getting one per listener. We need to go with this song, bro. It's so much stuff that we got like that. I saw somebody, what they're notable, but they were talking about how first week numbers don't really matter anymore or whatever. I was like, yeah, I've been saying that for a very, very long time. They have the platform, cool kudos to them. But it just goes back to that point of if you pay attention to the right things, eventually everybody else will catch up and y'all who have followed us, y'all have seen us rise relatively quickly in a truly independent fashion, not connected to labels and other entities from ground up because we've been able to help artists consistently from watching the right things. And what I hear when I hear people just focus on the numbers in this superficial way or just looking at ads and not understanding how to do cultural marketing or just paying a couple of influencers but not understanding and thinking about paying the right influencers or not understanding where ads can come into play. And then we take it all the way to the surface or you're just talking about numbers. I think about you the same way. I think about somebody who might be arguing who's to go to basketball and all they can talk about is straight stats. It sounds like you don't understand basketball. All right. Because you can't see past the sheer numbers so you don't understand the nuances and things that go beyond. All right.  That would be a deeper step which you talked about in terms of streams per listener at that time versus just views, right? There's all these other things and everything can't be quantified. All right. It's just hard to quantify. So even if it could be, we're nowhere near that. So I just keep that in mind, man. Like, what's his name? Mike Caron said, you, if you are relying on straight data, you're pretty much a computer. All right. And we're in the creative industry. We don't really need that many more computers. Exactly. Got a lot of software for that. A lot of software. Now this other thing, this other number that I want to focus on. Shout out to Barry since the 80s. Artists and management teams, these numbers should mean more to you and your business on Spotify and Apple end of the year reps, in my opinion. The top 10, five and one artists for how many fans and how and where those fans shared your music. What is he referring to? All right. How many are your top five? What was it? The top percentage, right? Like, for instance, we had for our podcast, it was what? We are the top podcast, the number one podcast for 238 people. Shout out to y'all. All right. We are the top five podcasts for 746 people. Also shout out to y'all. And we're in the top 10 for 1,000 people. Of course. Of course shout out to y'all too. Right. The number that people should pay attention to more than just the superficial streams. That's what he's referring to. The information is right there, but most people focus on the ego of how many streams they actually got because of the digital social media posts. I can say I got 10 million streams versus how many fans you actually have. Man, you artists are not looking at the right numbers and the information on the Spotify Raps. Y'all thinking that with the party all brain that controls your ego, not your business. And then Dan Runcy said the same thing of capital. Shout out to Dan. Now, what I'll say to this is at the end of the day, when you look at your streams, you got to remember there could be a lot of people who only heard your song one time. It was on a playlist. It was passive. I was curious. Right. They were curious. So that is nice for your income. Some could shoot it at least counts. It counts. But when it comes to your career, right, the longevity, it doesn't really have too much weight over there. So pay attention to those numbers because that's going to give you a real instinct of who you are, where you are. And in many cases, it's inspirational. Like when you were talking about it earlier, it's like, oh snap. Like it feels good. It's like we're the number one podcast for some folks. Crazy. It's kind of wild to think about. Shout out to y'all for real, for real. Whoever y'all are. Jocelyn being one of y'all. One of them out there. Shout out, Jocelyn. That's what makes it crazy. It's like, dang, that means that she's definitely going to hear this. If you think about that.  Jocelyn, we need to hear this addressed. If you don't DM us about this, then you ain't real. But that's another number, right? That really matters. And like as we talked about this entire episode, maybe she only listens to half the episodes. Damn, I didn't think about that. That's crazy. I mean, it would count. It would count. It would count. But like we talked about at the beginning, right? You have numbers that you can misuse them and they can cause you to make the wrong outcome if you don't develop the right instinct to see beyond the numbers, right? The numbers are not enough. But then when you do see the numbers, you also have to be able to recognize what matters within those numbers, right? Because you can get a long list of it. But who cares if you can't take it, turn it to something actionable or you're going to waste your time focusing and building your whole plan around something that's not really going to have any impact. Yeah, I agree. The story is no artist any longer has the luxury of just looking at vanity metrics. There was a time where you could get by just looking at views and likes and comments. But we are long, long, long past that point.  So that's actually pretty game changer. I'm not going to lie. It is. But most analytics platform has data points that you probably are not as excited about. It's not as sexy to you. It's not as sexy to look at your saves as it is to look at your streams. Just like it's not as sexy to look at your shares as it is to look at your views on a social post. Certain metrics feel better or can make you feel bad for looking at them. But to your point, one data driven marketing should never be the primary way that you are identifying talent. It should just be a tool and helping you to identify it.  Like I just had a conversation with a client earlier and I was just like walking him through his Apple analytics and this was actually a great example of data almost going wrong. Looking at his ads, you know, I'm not going to give up the ad funnel, but the ad essentially is pushing the Spotify and Apple.  Man, I think we're wrong. We need to jump ship.   And I'm like, okay, so you were wrong. People ain't going to where you want them to go, but they're going. And then I'm showing him, I think I look at the numbers. I'm like, oh yeah, that's crazy. People are finding that song and then going through the rest of your catalog. You're like, how can you tell that? I'm like walking him through the different data points that I'm looking at to say that. And he's just like, damn, I would have never thought about that if you didn't say that. He's like, but I just log in and look at my plays and I log back out. And I was like, bro, like no, bro, like the plays is meant to, but when he said that, that's exactly what they want.  You know what I'm saying? For the average artist versus like, you know, marketers and you know, the professionals, the people who usually are asking the tough questions of these platforms, they're the ones doing the deep dive and doing the manual math to figure out what X, Y, and Z means. And then you start to really be able to read the context behind the numbers. Like there are times where I can look at numbers and I can visualize what the people that made those numbers were doing or you know what I'm saying? Like what their thought process was at when they did the thing that produced or didn't produce the number that I'm looking at or looking for. Like it's times where I can look at a smart link and be like, man, like, yo, you got a thousand people on this joint, you know what I'm saying? Nobody clicked over to the music.  I don't think they really came here for you, you know what I'm saying? I know that hurts to hear, but you know, you might want to go redo an ad and take her out so you can figure out if it's really the music or not. Stuff that like, if you just looked at solely the numbers and the vanity metrics of it, you would never get to some of these nuanced conclusions because data-driven marketing is, for the people that do it right, it is almost a social science, you know what I'm saying? It can't see the content. It can just tell what the content is doing. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. So I think like the initial article is like, most of the people who do data-driven marketing are doing it wrong because the people that really, really do it right very rarely want to be A&Rs. That's the weird thing about this space is like, the data guy at the labels, I think I don't want to be A&R. He liked looking at numbers all day.   A&Rs have been forced into a position to where they have to care about data in ways that I'm pretty sure the role has never had to before, but it's very rare have I ran into one day really data-driven.  They usually know about like the basics, you know what I'm saying? Like we said, the basics only gets you so far in 2023. So that's my thing. I don't think data-driven marketing is pointless.  If you get what I'm saying. I feel like you're getting what I'm saying. I do get what you're saying. Yeah, I appreciate that, man. I was worried as I thought about it in my head. I was like, man, I don't know if it's going to hit the way I kind of hear it in my head. No, no, no. I'm with you. I'm with you, man. And I mean, look, I think that's enough, man. If y'all don't get that, ask us some questions. Give us some detailed questions and we'll explain in the comment section below or figure out we need to have a deeper conversation. But hopefully y'all understand where we're coming from. Like, and this kind of goes back to something I always like to why I've been wanting to really push to artists and help them understand about us, man. Like, there's the art, there's the science and the greatest art is putting them both together. And a lot of times when artists hear us talk about the science, they don't understand that we do highly value the art. What? They don't know. They don't get it. I get mad, man. Like, that'd be, you know, that'd be some of the other markers I think in the game.   Music to me, bro.  You know what I'm saying?  We own two different playing fields.  What? Or you're just flicking strings on that guitar. Like, nah, nah, like, you know what you're doing. Excuse me? Exactly. Exactly. Just because you don't know what I'm doing doesn't mean that it's not valuable. Correct me. And we'll leave it there. This is yet another episode of No Labels Necessary Podcast. I'm Brandon Sean. And I'm Calvary. And we out. Peace.


Welcome. Welcome to Longmont Public Media's conversation with the candidates. I'm Richard Lyons and I'm here today with Jeremy Johnson, who is one of six candidates for the two at large positions on City Council. Welcome Jeremy. Thanks for having me, Dick. Thanks to Longmont Media for taking the time out to host us for this great cause. Well, good. Thank you. Jeremy, tell us a little bit about yourself so Longmont can get to know you better. Yeah. As Dick mentioned, my name is Jeremy Johnson. I'm originally from Andalusia, Alabama. I moved to Longmont almost 10 years ago. I originally lived on the west side of town of Longmont, and eight years ago I built a house on each side of town right off of Countyland. I married, my wife works in the health care facilities, and I have three healthy, amazing children. I'm an avid golfer. I love to play golf. I follow a lot of sports, coached high school basketball for a couple of years here for a local high school in Iowa at Cougars. Looking forward to getting more involved in the community. I have a real passion for people. That's why I chose to be in the insurance and financial world because I work with people every day. Very good. What brought you to Longmont? Well, my wife was working in Boulder at the time, and I traveled for my job. So financially living in Colorado was more for her to stay here than me being down south. So I kind of swallowed my pride and moved out here to Colorado, which I was afraid at first because of the big city. And ever since I've been here, I kind of just grew to call Longmont home. Very good. So tell us, what one thing do you want the Longmont voters to know about you? The most important thing is I know you hear it from everybody who's running for an elected office that they're for the people.  So please, let me have everything you have to offer and I'll give you everything I have to offer. Fair enough. What do you especially like and don't like about Longmont? I really like Longmont because it has a lot to offer. I mean, no matter where it's out of town or what part of town you go into, it's always something that you can do or get involved in. And there's a lot of opportunity here. And if you take advantage of the opportunities that's at front of us, we can make Longmont a lot better than what it is. One things I do not like about Longmont is we are easily going away from the backbone of the city. This city was founded off the hard work of many people and a lot of those people were small business owners. If we look a lot of small businesses due to COVID or whatever circumstances, are leaving this city and when they leave the city, it affects the entire city. Jobs, tax revenue, and then those places that we've grown to love that's been pillars of the community. So let's do a hypothetical. Assume you're on city council and the city has given a no-strings-attached $1 million grant to use it in any way the city council so chooses. How would you use it and why? I would use that grant in a multiple different areas. The first, I would use that grant to look at the crisis we have right now, the affordable and attainable homes, trying to find that happy median so we can benefit in both areas. Some of that money would also be used in our youth. I mean, I spoke to a couple of people and I spoke to a couple of places. We need to figure out a way to invest more money in the education of our youth because we speak about diversity. Some kids can learn in different areas than others. So we have to give them the resources to learn in different areas. The last part of that money, I would put it back into the small businesses. Give the small businesses resources to make sure they can succeed and stay a pillar to this community. Good. So, Jeremy, did you have a person that was your mentor or that was very influential in your life? And if so, how did that person help or influence you? So I didn't have just one person. I have my grandmother and grandfather who basically helped raise me. I come from a single, my mom was single, my dad never was a really part of my life growing up. So I leaned on my grandfather and my grandmother. And one thing I learned from them was no matter what you put into life, you're only going to get as much as you put into it. My grandfather, who was a truck driver, he never once complained about having to go to work. And I watched that even as his health was going in a different direction. He still never once complained about having to go to work. And my grandmother was the same way. I mean, she did whatever it took as a kid growing up to make sure we had anything and everything we wanted. As I got older, I had a lot of people in my hometown that would invest time in me to say, hey, continue to strive, continue to be better than your surrounding. I took that advice, I joined the army. And once I joined the army, that kind of changed my mindset on my outcome of life. I wanted to be bigger and better than the opportunity that I had. And I think by those choices I made has set me up to be a mentor for people that's younger than me today. Well, that leads to the next question. Are you paying it forward? Are you mentoring someone now or? Yeah, I speak with a lot of youth. And right now I have a ring of one person that I work a lot with. And it's a kid that I coach basketball with at Iowa. He's very special to my heart. Was never really given opportunity to showcase his talents. And I got on a staff at Iowa and he was on my team. And I have actually, not only was he a player of mine, I really consider him as a bonus child. We still speak even though he's graduated. He calls and tells me his success. And I give him encouragement because, I mean, he has some health issues that he was born with. But I tell him, those are not your identity. Your identity is what you're putting out for people to see. And then I have younger cousins that live back in Alabama, which I force them to make an impact in the education system. Out of my family, I am the first generation or graduate in my family to graduate high school with honors. So I want that trend to come back to life. So I'm investing a lot of time in my younger family members to force them to be better than the opportunity to have. Oh, that's great. You know, Colorado and Longmont have lots of recreational opportunities. Which ones do you take advantage of? And what do you do when you lose your time? Well, you're right. It's a lot to do here recreational. I particularly, I love golf. So I play a lot of golf at some of the city courses. A few years back, I joined Fox Hill Country Clubs. So I spent a lot of time playing golf there. I love baseball. So I spend time out at Sandstone Ranch, at the baseball fields, the bat cages at Garden Acres. I mean, anything that deals with the youth. And I feel like, as a city, we look at opportunities for the youth, there's a lot of money that parents spend on sports. And with the facilities that we have here in Longmont, I feel like we need to try to figure out a way to put some money back into those facilities so we can attract those bigger baseball, softball tournaments to Longmont. And then we can showcase some of our local talent by hosting those events. That's great. So I just read this morning, they're still revising the congressional district maps under the redistricting. And it looks as if the latest map, that Longmont will switch from being in Ken Buck's fourth congressional district to the second congressional district with Boulder and the mountains up in the Northwest. How do you think that's going to affect, if any, Longmont? I don't really see a direct effect. We basically sitting here. I mean, we can kind of control how that's going to affect us by the decisions we make here in the city of Longmont. We can't let the congressional reform or redistricting affect the way we make our decisions. We are trusting the public to give us the feedback, and then you have to trust the elected officials that's going to make those decisions to put a success plan in for the citizens. Good. So how do you stay informed about local, state, and national issues? How do you keep up? I try to stay off social media because you have to believe half of what you see and read there. So a lot of it I get from people who or have been in elected office. I spend a lot of time with those people. And then also, I get a lot of my information from the citizens. I mean, in my short time here in Longmont, I have come to have a relationship with some really true Longmont natives. And they can give me a lot of valuable feedback. Good. So I think you'd agree, I think we all agree that national politics are very divisive, especially on the federal and now the state level. Although the city of Longmont is nonpartisan, some say it's becoming a little bit more divisive, more political. What would you do to keep that divisiveness from occurring on Longmont City Council? It's funny. As you say, the federal and some of the state politics, we have the red, the blue, the left, the right. At the end of the day, we have one goal in common. And that's people. Making sure that people are being taken care of. You might have been raised Democrat, you might have been raised Republican, you might have been raised independent. But at the end of the day, we all have values. And the most important value is respect, loyalty, and love. No matter which side of defense or whatever partisan you want to go on. So to me, those decisions need to be kept. You can keep them in your mind, but you can't let that be your decision-making process. Because no matter if a person's Republican or if they're Democrat or independent, you still have to respect their mind. And I see and I hear that people are getting mistreated because of their political stance. That's not fair.  So we can't give that up. So we have to stand strong, let people voice their opinion but this don't throw stones because they force their opinion. Good. So how do you plan on involving the residents of Longmont in the city council decisions? So that can go a couple of ways. We can start looking at when I'm elected as a next city councilman at large, we can start looking at community events, outdoor events where we can host outdoor meet and greets and public forums and open spaces that we have a lot of here in Longmont. So citizens can come out and voice their opinions. Or opening up network communications with the citizens so they can send their responses or suggestions to a functional email box where those emails or concerns come in and actually see them be in receipt. Actually giving them an opportunity not just at the city council meeting to show up or a phone number to call but actually have calendar events set up either quarterly or every six months or however we feel it necessary and different parts of the community. So they feel like they're actually being part of that decision-making process and showing them that they are a part of it. Good. So you may not be totally familiar with the Longmont Municipal Code but if you could change one thing, one thing in the municipal code, what would that be? It's a long list of things. We would have to look at the codes that's dealing with the building fees and the new thing that just passed the sugar drinks for kids. Parents, grandparents, they are the most important person and our youth life, the community is the next but we need to let and give that respect back to those parents to make that decision, okay? And I think you alluded to this earlier but between affordable housing and attainable housing, which do you prioritize as being the number one issue facing Longmont? I don't really prioritize one more than the other because like I said, if you put more effort to one you're leaving somebody else in the dark. So we have to figure out a way in a system that we can split our efforts between the both because affordable, they're gonna thrive in the community. Attainable, we're gonna be able to get more younger married couples into Longmont to put them in the workforce. So if we have both of those areas thriving, Longmont thrives. If you put more energy here, the attainable side falls off. As we see now, look at the inventory. I mean, the inventory here, we're starting to fall off but if we can shift and split our efforts, we can bring both of those up to equal playing field. Good. Jeremy, that ends our conversation today. I've enjoyed it and wanna thank you for coming by today for this conversation and wish you luck in your campaign. And again, I just wanna say thanks, Dick, for having me here and thanks Longmont media for sponsoring and having us to be able to let the citizens of the Longmont know who we are and put words behind our pictures and signs and all of the media stuff you'll read and see. But any citizen of Longmont that sees this, feel free to reach out, feel free to figure out a way to contact me. I do have a social media page that's live. Post stuff on there. I'll give you feedback and I'll give you honest feedback. Good. Well, thank you. Thanks.


Level five, a connected university. It's so cool that we can borrow laptops. Let's connect to the Wi-Fi. They've uploaded reading materials to Aula Global. Okay, but this isn't the reading material. Let's see. My apps, if you need to program for one of your subjects, you can access it on the cloud at any time. That's not it either. Great, you can access your classes from wherever you are, where is the reading material? Finally, sometimes technology drives me mad. I love it, that's exactly why I came to Pompeu. There's a lot of research, what I like the most are the organs. I want to create the artificial heart of the future. I think you're starting to love Pompeu.


Hi. This is me. Well, actually, this is me from about five years ago. I'm sorry if my beardlessness frightened you. If you don't know who I am, my name is Isaac. Isaac Moguleski. I go by Isaac David online, but none of my friends call me Isaac David. They just call me Isaac. But anyway, that point five years ago was a really important point in my life. You see, in that moment, God's calling on my life became so clear. I knew I was going to dedicate my life to creating Christ-centered content online. And that's exactly what I've been doing for the last five years. My mission is very simple. I want to help you follow Jesus daily and have some fun while doing it. By God's grace, we've went from 30 views on a blog post to now reaching millions of people for the gospel. But this is just the beginning. You see, I don't want daily disciple to just be a side gig for me. I believe this is what God has called me to dedicate my life to. This is the thing that I'm most passionate about, and I want to go all in on it. Here's the dream. I want to work for daily disciple full-time creating online Christ-centered content and entertainment, branching out with other podcasts and resources, helping you follow Jesus daily and bringing more people to him. But here's the truth, and I don't like getting super vulnerable about this stuff, but I think it's time you guys know. The way I'm currently running daily disciple ministry is just financially unsustainable. But that's where you come in. Patreon is the primary way that you support daily disciple. We don't have big investors or donors. It's just everyday Christians investing into what God is doing here. Each day I pray that God is going to provide for this ministry, and through your support, you are an answered prayer. So here's where I'm at. I'm 22, and I live in my parents' basement. That's where all the content is shot. It's been shot there for years. It's not super unusual living in your parents' basement at 22 years old, but I do want to move out, and I want to be able to have a family and provide for them. And I've stepped into these kind of uncertain waters, because I truly believe that this is where God wants me. Now, I'm asking you to take that step of faith with me, to invest into what God is doing in daily disciple. I am beyond grateful to each and every one of you who decides to partner with me, and I ask you to prayerfully consider supporting what I'm doing here. Yes, there's special perks in being part of Patreon, but ultimately you are supporting Gospel work. You are supporting the furtherance of the Kingdom, so thank you.


There's so many opportunities to get out and do all the different sports I love and nature is just so accessible here. I think you gain so many experience you wouldn't be able to do somewhere else because like in a snow hole you couldn't do it. For example in Germany you're just not allowed to do it. It's just too good to miss. I mean snow, real snow and I've seen it before and real sunshine which is weird in the same country. Playing across country skiing which I'm pretty hopeless at but it was great fun. We've done some canoeing which is great to get out and paddle all the great fuels that we've got here. We've been walking, wandering around, seeing all the different parts of nature. We've been biking of course which is great fun. And then of course this week we've been out fishing and sailing, playing around on motorboats. Loads of different cool things to see. Definitely by us the snow hole trip which was near Hofton and we had to dig holes into the snow. It took us about six hours to build such a snow hole and we were living in it for the next three days. I think the best part of the course was we got to do trips on our own. So we got to plan where we wanted to go, how long. Just having that freedom to do what we wanted. It was almost it made it more fun because that was possible. You're always having fun and you're always learning something new. I think the amount of things I've learnt here you could fill four books with. There's so much that I've gathered and learnt to do which I don't think I could have learnt anywhere else.


What is up guys and welcome back to the Johnny Q channel. Thanks much for watching in today's video I am shooting a documentary with my good friend Brayden Dressel We both got really good gear and we're official. That's what people tell us. Oh, man, okay So there it is. That's a good way of using that's what he's using right there.  How is that check the first half year of sound check filming? It was good. We got some good shots It was kind of funny being on the other side of soundcheck when they're like stressing out kind of freaking out Like the sound power kept going out. We're just getting shots But before we get here there's a whole day that we have to get through before we even get here and start filming this thing and We get to see the bean. That's right The bean of Chicago, which to me was really underwhelming. It was okay But it wasn't everything I expected it to be but it was cool. It's just a big shiny bean Yep Okay, currently 2 19 in the morning just got to our hotel Gonna go Gonna go sleep Goodbye, look at that beautiful view of the parking lot How's it going man? Made it through the night. We slept in one bed. They messed the hotel reservation up And so we slept on one bed. We're supposed to have two queen beds. Sorry about that, Brayden We're prepping his brushing his little teeth I've got some my stuff going on that I just figured out and Got my gear bag ready to go Choose a brush in my teeth Thanks, man What sort of a park job is that It was three in the morning, dude What's up? I'm jq. We're doing it today out there Are we even in focus? Yeah, I just want to say I do look significantly cooler than you right now because of my sunglasses So you should put some sunglasses on Which one's gonna be equally yoked, you know, there it is Okay, now you look cooler than I do And the way of the bean, can you see the bean? So there it is. This is the first time seeing it Very underwhelming. It's just I don't really get it. Whatever The reason why we're here, Brayden's right here. He's say hi. What's up? I'm over here I'll get right here. The reason why we're here is because we're filming a documentary in Resort following this artist called Jessica Lynn and the way she does her touring and The way she performs using the specific guitar called the McPherson carbon fiber guitar So essentially we had some time to kill came down here. Everybody was like you got to go to the bean Okay, well we went to the bean. It was awesome It was awesome, right? Well, it still is awesome. This is blowing my mind. This is blowing my mind currently Anyway, uh, we woke why woke up around six six in the morning At six thirty we had some breakfast reserves. Oh my gosh, this is a line Dude, I like saw open tables when we were walking up and I thought okay This is the line something a text. No second text coming back. Thank you. Thanks When we got there it's an hour and a half line We still have not gotten a second text to come back and actually get seats So we finally we went to Dunkin Donuts Tell me tell me more. I can't wait to try this authentic new york breakfast sandwich I think that's real american cheese on there And we still have a few more hours to kill and so now we're here and our shoot starts at three goes to about I want to say eight nine o'clock We're going to just shoot and film everything and anything kind of create a really beautiful story on this artist and her time here And just kind of create a really cool Video on on promoting the guitar, but also the way she plays the guitar and kind of works with it onto it. So Someone got pooped on yeah part of the experience someone got pooped on Well, I'm going to go take more pictures of the bean because you can't have enough pictures of the bean on your phone And we're going to go shoot this documentary later on All right, let's go You know, I don't I don't want to take more pictures of the bean. Let's just go. Let's let's let's leave Brayden, let's go. Oh, we just got done with the all-day shoot for jessica It is 11 30 p.m. We started at 2 p.m sorry So there it is that was The end of our day. I would say we've got tons and tons of footage concert We got some interview stuff. We have some sound check pre we got some b-roll. We got some Cool voiceovers all of the above all that to say it's been a rough hard day Well, it really hasn't it's just been long lugging around Some camera gear and doing it brayden. How do you feel? Did you just break the chair? What you really want to do at the very end of the long day is fall over. I want to sit down I'm drawing a blank. I don't know what else to say to the camera because I'm really tired so I'm gonna Shut down for the night after I back up all my footage I'm gonna go take a shower and then I'm gonna have another adventure tomorrow See you tomorrow. Hey brayden, don't fall off the chair again


Hello, my name is Michelle Hall. Today, we will be exploring how to create a landing page using blogger and Google Slides with Bitmojis. It is an online program that can be used to present content for discussion. Before we get started, don't forget to subscribe and hit that bell to enable notifications for our channel by clicking our logo during the video. Also leave us a comment or check out our related videos by clicking the pop-up card in the upper right corner. Here's how to get started with blogger with Bitmoji. I want to have the Bitmoji app on your phone so if you do not have the Bitmoji app already on your phone, please download the app to your phone then design your avatar with features and fashion accessories. Then click on the share option within the Bitmoji app and select the email option and email the Bitmoji to yourself. Download your Bitmoji to your computer so you will have it to insert into your Google Slide deck later. Okay, let's open up Google Slides and you will need to add a blank slide by going to Slides. Click on New Slide and you will open the New Slide and you will clear off the text boxes by selecting them and hitting delete. Next, you will go to Insert and then you would click on search the web images and then search the web and then when you get to search the web over here you will type in walls and floors with transparent backgrounds PNG and then you would select the image that would appear for your classroom and you would continue the same process for your furniture and other accessories for your classroom. As you select the items for your classroom, you can change the size and the scale and place them around your slide as you wish for your classroom. Now you can download your Bitmojis that you emailed to yourself from your phone by going to Insert, Image, Upload from the computer.  Try to make sure you adjust them larger than the furniture. Also you can use the extension for Bitmoji and you can select your avatar or Bitmoji from the extension by clicking on it and then dragging it in to your slide and then dropping it. You can then adjust the size of your Bitmoji. Pxlar.com select Pxlar E and then open the image that you have just selected the background and cleared the background. You remove the background from that image. We are going to then duplicate the background by selecting the three dots and then selecting the two overlapping squares and that would duplicate your background. As you can tell I have moved my background so you can see that it does not hide the second layer I have here hide my image. Now on the second image I've used this to change the color of the background. You can come over here and select the color that you wish and click OK and then click the fill bucket and when you click the fill bucket you can click on the area you want filled with that color. You can also select the shape tool and the shapes appear up at the top. You can select which shape you want make sure if you want to fill the area you have the fill on and the color selected. You would then go and draw over the area with your shape by dragging your cursor across and it will create the shape and it will also fill in with that color and that is how I altered the images that appear in what we call the layers area that you see. In the slide deck I also created an image where I also cropped the image and you can crop the image by selecting this tool right here. You first would select that image and then select the crop tool to crop what you've needed once you've completed all that you want to do to your image. To finish out the landing page which is your first slide we're going to add images in to link to the other slides. To create these I use several options one of which I use the insert image and search from the web as we did earlier with the transparent background PNG. I also did the same thing using the ULR Google search. I went ahead and typed in what I needed and then I also typed in transparent background PNG and I saved the image as a download. You can also screenshot just around the image that you need if you have it saved on something else that you have done prior. That is how I created these images up on the screen. I also use the text and type the text into these shapes I created with the shape tool which is on your toolbar and you just select shape and you select the desired shape you need. You can also go over here and change the line thickness and the color. You created the images that you were going to use for your links within your slide deck. You can link them by selecting them, selecting the insert link and then once you select the insert link it'll appear and it will say something like from the presentation and then you would select which slide that you wish to link that item to and you would continue this with each one of these images. One of the things that you need to be aware of is if you are linking words or text you need to select all of this and either group them together or choose if you're going to select the shape which I have done here instead of the text. So if you were just going to link the shape you would click on the shape and then you would select from the presentation and of course I selected slide 3. If you were doing the text you need to select the text before you link it to another slide or it will add in the link behind the text. Your slide deck is complete. Go to the ULR and type in blogger.com. Sign in with your Gmail account. Go ahead and select new blog. Okay and here is the new blog and once you click on the new blog you will want to create a title for your blog and then when you have that complete you will go to the two arrows that are like these here and make sure you're on the HTML view. You'll go back to your slide deck and you will then click on share. Click if you haven't already click on oricannyschools.net. Click on the blue lettering and then you will go to copy link and then done. Then you will come to the white area of the blog so you need to go back to blogger and in this big open space here you will paste your link okay and it'll come up with this code. You can then click on preview to see what it would look like and then if it's okay with you you can then publish it. If you would like to add another post you would click on post and then you would give it a title as well and you would then make sure that you have your HTML selected here so then you can come to this video insert and add in your video either from the computer or from YouTube. This here will will be the video that I am creating for this presentation. Once you have uploaded your video from your computer or from YouTube and you've added it here in this open space make sure you publish it after you proof it by hitting preview. Make sure all of the pages within your blog are published so the public can view what you have created. Thanks for watching be sure to like comment or reply to one of our other videos or share the playlist below. Subscribe to our channel and enable notifications so that you don't miss out on the next episode. Don't forget to check out our other resources and see what else is going on in Ori County Schools. 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