Have you ever heard of the popular game minecraft? It's a game where you can build mine and most importantly survive But there was a really creepy spin-off called enderman.exe One day I was on the Xbox 360 game store Then I saw a game which is called enderman.exe It was an orange text with a bunch of enderman on it Then I downloaded it and decided to play it when it started there was no modding or 4j studios logo It was just the intro the orange text with a bunch of enderman were on the top of the screen while happy music was playing When I pressed start the text was red and the enderman have blood on it Which stayed for a second then the logo said level 1 the forest When I was in level 1 my enderman was in the middle of the forest in daytime I needed to find a way to escape I found a path which led me to the end of the forest When I walked there the song of unhealing music from bent round played the trees had no leaves And there were a lot of dead mobs including enderman when I kept walking the music got louder and creepier Finally when I get to the end of the forest the music stopped and I saw a guest I walked up to the guest when my player walked to him. They started chatting with each other This is what it sounded like what happened to the mobs in the forest They got killed by a monster Now that's a good joke the guest suddenly gets a serious face No, it's not a joke then a bloody picture of a guest appeared It stayed like that for a second then the screen cut to black when I got back on the title screen The text was still red and the enderman still had blood on them I pressed play again, and now it said level 2 the village It was nighttime at the village when I was walking around I saw a slime and it saw me the slime told me to follow him on his motorcycle I found a car I got in the car and I followed the slime while he was driving Three minutes after following slime a dust storm came and blocked my view of the slime When the dust storm covered me and my car the slime and his motorcycle were gone without a trace I kept driving through the dust storm and all of a sudden a mutant creeper was running towards me and my car on the street And when it happened static appeared for 15 seconds Afterwards, I found a magma cube. I walked up to him and another cutscene occurred They were chatting also and this is what they said Enderman magma cube What are you doing here a Monster killed my brother slime now. It's going after us What is I? Then it was silence and a picture of a black widow spider showed up for a second and it went black After the second time the screen cut to black the intro showed up once again, but this time it was different It was an enderman standing on a floating island Seriously, why would they change the title screen to that but who cares? I pressed play once again and the level logo said level 3 and it was in opposite colors The background and text was black instead of white and the rectangle was on was red instead of blue Then I showed up in a creepy swap desert forest hybrid place The sky was static and there were no clouds no sun no moon and the water was replaced with blood And there were more leafless trees and dead mobs than in the first level I started running as fast as I could and at the end I saw a gory body and this time it wasn't a mob It was Steve the player from minecraft the sky turned black with red clouds Somehow my enderman was looking depressed and somehow I couldn't control my enderman Then all of a sudden behind my enderman's back was a monster The monster looked like a red mutant enderman with blood shine eyes mutant creeper legs arms crossed with guns A butcher knife attached to its back and dead bodies of baby pigs creepers and most of all enderman guests slimes and magma cubes My enderman now had a scared face and was hurrying But the monster was too fast and then the monster caught my enderman and killed him Then it walked up to the camera and broke it and static appeared Before the game completely ended there was a snapshot of the monster eating the enderman and there was Japanese text I translated it and it meant game over for you I was so scared in my life since I played that game all of a sudden I heard a voice coming from behind the window saying ready to play again I looked behind me and I saw the statue of the same monster from enderman.exe And I asked my dad if he could delete it for good when he deleted it the statue was gone I put a gameplay video on YouTube there were only 200 views and two comments The first comment was OMG, I am not going to play enderman.exe and I never will the second comment said I am gonna get nightmares now because of this then the next day I went on the computer and somehow the video was deleted from YouTube So if you ever noticed the game that looks like this do not play it You will never know what it really has on it By the way, Notch, Jeb, and other mojang employees would never plan to add blood, mobs chatting, scary pictures, cars, motorcycles, dust storms, static skies That's monster I saw or enderman.exe


Raise your hand in the back if you can hear me, please. Super. Thank you back. All right. Hopefully in the back you can also see this. Who in here sees a bunny rabbit? Okay. All right. Who in here sees a duck? Does anyone see both a duck and a rabbit? Yeah. All right. Cool. So this is an illustration made by a Polish American psychologist named Józef Jastrof and it was published in 1899. And when you look at it, some people perceive a duck. And if you look at it just a little bit differently, if you look at the duck's bill and make that into the ears of a rabbit, you can see a rabbit. This talk is about perspective. Perspective doesn't change your reality, but it changes how you might interact with it. My name is Jennifer, too. I am one of three co-founders of Cohere, where a small software consultancy that specializes in developer education and engineering leadership training. I've been both a software developer and a manager, and now I co-own a small company. And today I want to share with you how I approach navigating, communicating with others. This isn't the only way to do things, but it's hopefully one tool out of many that you can learn to use. Other people need different ways to communicate, and that means it's always good to learn different communication techniques, because more techniques means that you can reach more people successfully and work with more people. In all of the roles I've held, I've had to make requests to my teammates. Sometimes I need to ask them to change or adapt what they're doing. And sometimes that reaction isn't what I expect. Sometimes that reaction, it looks a little bit more like this. Sometimes people have really poor reactions to my suggestions, and they just reject them outright. And it doesn't matter if that other person is your report, if they're your peer, if they're your manager. Whoever they are, unexpected responses can be a frustrating experience on all sides. You're frustrated because what you thought would be the simple request is suddenly hard. You're frustrated because you just gave them a hard request. It's tempting to think about situations like this in terms of failure. It feels like you failed to communicate. It feels like they failed to hear you. And it's easy to think that successful communication looks like getting our ideas across the first time we try, if we can't do that, we fail. That's a message that we get a lot. There's so many classes you can go out and take that will teach you how to craft your message, how to choose the right words so that your communication is clear and unmistakable. That's not really communication. That is being able to give a unilateral command or an edict and know that your intent is clear to the other person. That's not communication. When your message doesn't land the first time, that is not a failure. Is this the beginning of a dialogue? That is where your communication can begin. So was that a duck or was it a bunny rabbit? Is it failure or is it a beginning? All of that is perspective. Perspective can help you with looking at what looks like your personal shortcomings, your personal failure, and seeing it not as that but more as an opportunity to engage with the other person. Perspective can also help you get what you want. It can help you look at why the other person is responding the way they are and understand what it might take to change how they feel, how they think. I'm not up here talking today because I'm awesome at saying the right thing the first time. I'm giving this talk today because I have a lot of experience around needing to navigate beginnings. This talk is going to share one of the ways that I look at that. I only use it when I'm working with people who I think are operating in good faith. If you don't take any of what I say over the next 30 minutes for anyone who you think is operating in bad faith, these techniques won't work so well. So for the teammates who you believe are operating in good faith, when I need to begin a dialogue with them, there are three things, three variables that I think about that describe the other person's inner state. These three variables determine how successful my request might be and how I should approach the problem. They are understanding, agreement, and willingness. If the other person understands my request, that means that my message was received and it didn't get garbled or mangled. We agree on the message content. If the other person agrees with the request content, then they think the request is a good idea. And if the other person is willing to perform the request, they plan to change their behavior to match what they believe that request to be. It's important for me to know the state of these three variables because that gives me this baseline of understanding for where the other person is and what I should do to try to reach them. This is a little abstract, so we're going to go through an example, and then I'll run through variations of what that might look like. And then after all that, we will dig into a little bit more detail on what to do. So here's the first example. Let's include unit tests in every change request. All right? Sounds good. Some time passes, hey, I know that you've been including unit tests in all your change requests. Everything looks good. This is the happy path. The other person understands, agrees, and is willing to take some action, and they go off and do it. I often think about Boolean variable combinations as tables. So here's how I visualized this example interaction of the happy path. Does the other person understand the request? True. I knew that they were looking for unit tests in every change request. Do they agree that the request is a good idea? Seems true. Are they willing? Also seems true. This is a combination that doesn't require this talk, so we're not going to talk about it too much. Things get more interesting when you tweak one of these variables. So we're going to toggle the variable for understands, and we're going to switch it over to false. So we're no longer on the happy path. I'm going to replay that example and toggle it with understanding to be false. Let's include unit tests in every change request. All right? Sounds good. Hey, I noticed you haven't been including unit tests in your change request. Oh, you wanted unit tests in every change request. So this is why it's most important to understand the state of your understanding variable first out of all three of the variables. If you don't have it, you won't be able to go forward. If you have agreement and willingness, those are all meaningless. If the other person was agreeing and was willing to do something different than what you thought you were asking. So let's do one more tweak. We're going to keep understanding false, and now we're going to make agreement and willingness false as well. Let's include unit tests in every change request. What? No way. You were just preaching the gospel of unit tests over lunch today? Oh, you want unit tests in all of your change requests? Yeah, let's do that. If someone isn't thinking about the same thing you are, it's impossible for them to agree with you and your idea because they're not thinking about your idea. Whether they agree or disagree doesn't matter because they're agreeing or disagreeing to something that isn't what you're trying to talk about. If understanding is false, you can think of the other two variables as being undefined behavior. If someone has similar values to you, getting to understanding will probably flip them immediately to agrees and willing. If it doesn't, at least now you're talking about the same thing, and that by itself is valuable, you successfully communicated what you want. You cleared that understanding hurdle. So when you are making a request to someone else, start from whether they understand your request. If you don't have understanding, you don't have anything else. And if you do have understanding, remember, especially if you had to work hard for it, that is an accomplishment. You're not done yet, and at the same time, you did hit a milestone in connecting with another human. You should note that and be proud of yourself for it. Let's look at what happens next after you clear this first hurdle. The second variable you need to identify is willingness. If someone understands your request, are they willing to do it? If someone is willing and agrees, that's the happy path we talked about earlier. Every now and then you get someone who doesn't agree, thinks your request is a bad idea, and is willing to do it anyway. Let's include unit tests in every change request. I think writing unit tests in every single change request will slow me down, but I'm willing to give it a try. When you hear this, it might be tempting to categorize this interaction as happy path, because it seemed like they were willing to go on, they're going to go do the thing. In reality, this is both a warning sign and a gift. The person you're talking with has a lot of trust in you. Kind of like what Jim was saying earlier in the previous talk, this person trusts you enough to override their own judgment, and they trust you enough to share their reservations. Don't take this person for granted. Make sure you're using that trust well. You might also remember in Seron's keynote yesterday how her Code Land conference attendees trusted her enough to give her feedback. This is the same thing. When you get feedback that someone has reservations about your idea, it's the same thing. This is a gift, and it won't be repeated if you don't appreciate it. To express your appreciation, make sure you understand everything that the other person shares with you. It's possible they might see a better solution than what you requested, but they are deferring to your less good idea. They might be doing that because they want to support you, or they might be doing that because they're motivated to act always for the greater group good. Whatever the reason is, don't throw away this gift by ignoring their feelings on the matter. So for the person who's afraid of the unit test slowing them down, check in with them over the next couple of weeks a couple of times. See if they still feel that way. Is there maybe something fundamentally flawed about your code base or the code base that they're working with that makes it impossible or unreasonable to write unit tests all the time? Maybe there is. If you've had that experience where you say to your manager, hey, I've got this problem, and your manager says, yeah, thanks for bringing this to my attention. We need to focus on this other thing instead. And then nothing ever changes. You've had this experience. You've experienced this yourself. You understood your boss had different priorities. You were willing to go along with that, but eventually your disagreement on that prioritization exhausted you. So when you are on the other side of that, when you are the person making the request and you need someone to go along with your idea, try to remember how it looks and feels on the other side. You only need understanding and willingness in order to get your idea to go through. But you need agreement for the other person to continue to want to work with you.  And that other person is going to eventually get tired of you not caring about what's important to them. So if you don't see any progress in someone coming to agreement with your original request, start talking and work together to uncover why they're still unhappy. Check in with them regularly to see if their feelings change from disagree to agree. And then be prepared to do some work to get there. Let's take a look at the inverse situation where the other person agrees with you but isn't willing to go along with your idea. Let's include unit tests in every change request. I know unit tests all the time is a good idea and it will make the deploy safer, but I don't really know if we should do this. The person you're making a request to does agree that your idea is a good idea. But they're showing hesitation in being willing to go through with it. When you hear hesitation or concern like this, it's a good idea to ask yourself a few questions. Why is this important? What happens if I don't succeed? How will the other person feel if I do succeed? Why does the other person feel how they do? How will I look back on all of this in a year? Why is stopping and asking these questions important? Is getting your colleague to write unit tests all the time really the most important thing you could be accomplishing right now? Is this what you want to be proud of? What you want to be proud of in a year and five? It's easy to set your sights on a goal like improving your test coverage and then lose sight of everything else but that goal. How do you know if your goal is still the right one? If your colleague is hesitating or showing concern, maybe they know something that you don't know about the development environment or the business priorities. And what you are trying to do is going to be at cross purposes to all of that. You might want to get some more information before continuing to pursue your test coverage goal. And when you do get that new information, you might realize you're not asking for the right thing. Sometimes it can be embarrassing to feel like you're publicly changing your mind and it can feel scary to walk back a request either by explicitly or silently dropping what you had been asking for. You might feel conflicted about not standing up for something that you value. I mean, we care about code quality, right? I want to guarantee to you people are going to respect you much more for doing the right thing than for charging single-mindedly towards your goal without considering if it is the right thing. If it seems like your goal really is the right thing to do, share with the other person why that's important. If you're transparent about your reasons, you're sharing information that might help other people adopt your motivation or maybe it will reveal missing information to the other person that they can point out to you. Whatever the result, sharing your context will make everyone involved better able to make and share informed decisions. You should probably do this not just when you encounter someone who agrees but is unwilling, but share context with any of those previous Boolean combinations that we talked about so far. The only time it might not be a great idea to do that will be for the final Boolean table configuration. Here's the last combination. Let's include unit tests in every change request. Unit tests in every change request, that is a terrible idea and we shouldn't do it. So the person you're talking with understands what you want and they are unwilling and disagree with your request. Before we dive into what to do, let's do a very quick review of the whole table. If you are looking at your request through the lens of these three variables, you'll want to take different steps forward depending on the state of those variables. If you have understanding, agreement, and willingness, you can go forward. If you don't have understanding, clear up that misunderstanding first. If someone hesitates or disagrees, you might not have agreement or willingness or either. If the other person is willing to go forward, do that but be careful not to burn them out. Make sure that what you're doing is worth it and be willing to change your mind and drop your request. If the other person is unwilling to go forward and you still want to go forward, your best path to that is to stop, drop, and listen.  Now, stopping and dropping the topic might seem like the opposite of getting to your goal. So I'm going to go in a little bit deeper on how this will actually help you. So let's do the mechanics. Stop, drop, and listen means you explicitly call for a timeout and agree on a time to return to the conversation. That might be immediately, it might be the next day, it might be some unspecified time in the future. The important thing is that you're communicating a desire to reset the conversation and start when you are both ready. This is important because some people need time to react to new information. When someone is busy reacting, they're not really talking with you anymore. They're in this reactive mode and they're interacting with their feelings and reactions to the new information you're giving them.  So when you stop and give people time to finish having that big set of feelings, you're giving them time to be able to come back ready to engage with you. There's two reasons why someone might be in this reactive mode. One reason is they might have some past experience that's influencing the present. And the other reason is there's some external factors currently in the present that are influencing how they relate to your request. So sometimes when we hear something, it might remind us of random past experiences. And if they were particularly impactful experiences, it might get us thinking about the past instead of the present. And when someone is in that kind of space, the only thing they need from you is time to process those strong feelings and re-anchor themselves into the present. This might be after lunch, after sleeping on it, after many nights of sleeping on it, right now, never. Whatever it is, give them that time and space. You might be wondering how to know how much space and time to give. There's kind of an art to it, but here's a very rough guide for how to get started. If the other person isn't too upset, you can agree on a rough time together. You might say tomorrow, next week, after lunch. But if they're feeling really, really awful, just proposing talking again sometime in the nebulous future, that might make them feel even worse. So in that case, you're going to need to know what you know about them to figure out the best time to bring the topic back up. That means pay attention during your regular conversations and look for signs that they are exiting that reactive mode. Then ask if it's okay to bring the topic back up sometime. If the answer is no, leave it alone. If the answer is maybe, maybe later, maybe never. By giving them time, you're giving the other person the chance to work through that internal conversation before picking up the conversation with you again. It's giving them a chance to feel, oh, I'm thinking about that awful tech lead again. This is a different situation. It's giving them the chance to give your idea a fair hearing. This also works if the feelings aren't coming from the past, but from the present. Maybe there's stuff going on in their personal life. Some of us might want to think that home life and work life are separate, but everything does bleed through a little bit. And if someone is having a tough time in their personal life, they might not be able to make changes or make space for change in other areas of their life, including the office. This is one reason why water cooler time is really important. If you want to influence what other people do, stay in touch with them with regular conversation. That is how you're going to learn what they find important, and that is how you learn whether it's a good time to ask for a change, or if the other person is less open to change than usual. And it might not be their personal life. Maybe their work environment is making it really hard for them to get any work done right now, and they can't see how they could do even more work, like adding your unit tests, given all of that. If you can uncover anything you can do to help them with their situation, do that. Whether you are in a leader or a peer relationship with the other person, find ways to pull the pressure off. The more power you have, the more you'll be able to do.  If you're asking someone to make a change, be ready to help them make that an easier change. If you remember that phrase about refactoring, it applies both in code and in real life. When someone is being overwhelmed by external factors, it can be hard for them to accept or initiate a change to do that delicate balancing act that they have going.  It might seem small to you and it might be too much for them. So make the change easier for them. You can wait until those external pressures ease up so that the change is easier, or you can jump in and take away some of those pressures so the change can be easier. One thing you might have noticed is that whether someone is reacting to external factors or someone is reacting to their own ideas about the past, it kind of all looks the same. It looks like the other person is being obstructive and difficult. That's all perspective. If you look at it a different way, you can see that your teammate is under pressure doing the best they can with what they have. So help them out. Respond in a way that lets them be able to process their feelings on their situation and come out with their dignity intact. You don't need to know what they are thinking about or what that past trauma is to do this. Give them a little space and that's sometimes all they need. And you can do that by reminding yourself to stop, drop, and listen. Call an explicit pause, acknowledge this is a bigger request than you realized, and be prepared to listen. There's a few things you can do to be a better listener. If someone doesn't want to talk, don't push it. Allow them the agency to decide if they participate in more discussion. And if someone does want to talk, your job is to listen very closely to what the other person is communicating, which is not necessarily what they are saying. Listen for whether they sound like they're open to being persuaded. Listen for do they want to be persuaded? Could they be persuaded? Think about all of these different questions. They sound very similar, but if you ask all of them, it gives you a more complete picture of what the other person is thinking. As the conversation progresses, get consent actively. That means you pay attention to the other person, and if it looks like they're getting kind of uncomfortable with talking about whatever it is, check in with them. You might say, I know this isn't an easy topic to talk about. Do you want to keep talking about it? And sometimes it can help to give options. Maybe you suggest we could go out to lunch a little early instead. Continue to give the other person more agency in deciding to continue to participate in that conversation. And finally, signal that you care. You know what's worse than the feeling that you're being manipulated into a plan? It's the feeling that you are being manipulated into a plan while you are in a vulnerable state. People can tell when they are being manipulated, even if they're too tired to call you out on it. So don't do it. When you drop your topic and focus the conversation on the other person's problems, that shows that you care more about them and their feelings than about your goal of getting unit tests everywhere.  Keep it focused on the other person and let them drive the conversation back to the original topic when they're ready. Not returning to your topic might feel like you're running away, abandoning your principles. But not listening to your colleague, that's running away from their concerns and abandoning your teammate, your teamwork. What if you want unit tests and the other person is just exhausted, they just wanna ship it and never touch that code again and it really is low churn, you're never gonna see it again. Do you need to win this? Can you let it go? What's the worst thing that could happen? This is the question you need to ask first before you decide to make that request to the other human. If the answer is yes, yes you should make your request, here's a quick recap of what we talked about today. First, make sure we're on the same page. If you don't have a shared understanding, everything else is undefined behavior, meaningless. If someone understands and is willing to do it but they don't feel too good about it, don't let them sit on that disagreement for too long.  Check in if they have more information or context that you don't have, be willing to reverse course and then figure out if the other person is willing to make your change. If not, you can stop, drop and listen, which means maybe you come back to the topic and maybe you don't. This stuff is hard to learn and you will definitely make a lot of mistakes along the way. That's part of learning, it doesn't feel good and you'll be okay, keep trying. There's not really any good way forward other than making a bunch of mistakes. Stay honest and brave enough to admit when you mess up and use techniques like this one so that way you can learn to get to where you want to be faster. If you have more questions after today, you can reach me on Twitter as at JTU or email JTU at wecohear.com. Slides are at wecohear.com slash humans and we do integrate the harder topics like today's into all of our technical workshops and coaching services, including our pairing and mobbing services. So come talk with me more about this. I like learning about how other people think about how to communicate, how to get your ideas across. So please come talk with me after. Thank you very much for coming to this talk and I want to give a really big thank you to all of the RubyConf staff and volunteers. If you haven't yet today, find someone in a purple shirt. They're maybe an organizer, maybe a volunteer, whoever they are, thank them for making the last two and a half days the next half day possible. And thank you to the live captioner, AV staff and recording staff in the back. Thank you everyone.


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You too team keep it clean what's going on it's engraving here with another video and another episode of NFL questions from subs Well, you can ask any NFL question you want and we answered in the video just like this If you want to be a part of it send me an email to team keep it clean at gmail.com or for the patrons You can go to patreon.com and just send it right there on the DM. It's a lot easier for you and shout out to all the team Keep it clean patrons appreciate y'all and team keep it clean. Let's keep this thing moving We got some fire questions like we always do cuz y'all continue to bring it. I love you Let's get into it first question came from a guy Jamie. He said hey, hope you and the family are doing well Okay, I don't agree with the two-point conversion at any time you take the points that are there my questions are Early, do you think we will go all-in strong in the draft since Lamar got hurt or 50 50 with the D line And do you think we will have some new coaches not halves or wink and the Ravens are who we thought they were but we are not letting Them off the hook a shout out the tennis green All right, so this was a quick question, but a loaded question So do you think we'll go all-in strong in the draft since Lamar got hurt or 50 50 with defensive line It gotta be a healthy mix of both But all-in certainly has to be retooled. They and I think it'll be a mix of draft And also free agency free agency a little bit less But definitely draft. I think they should draft probably about two or three offensive linemen Definitely a couple of tackles And somebody for the interior as well. We'll see what happens with Bradley Bozeman And will we have some new coaches not halves or wink? I Don't think so. I don't think there will be any new coaches Based off right here right now December 13th at 9 13 p.m. I would say no Cuz that's no, I don't think that'll happen And he said the Ravens are who we thought they were And we ain't letting them off the hook. Yeah, we certainly not letting them off the hook at all next question came from Alonzo He said I do you think Lamar should wear a glove all year? Do you think he should wear his visor all year? I like I don't think it Really makes a difference Whatever he's more comfortable with and will allow him to perform to the best of his abilities Where would you want to wear and do you think Lamar should do what Darius Leonard? Doesn't have a one-on-one film study with a QB like a Mike Vic or RG3 or even a Cam Newton What's what would a film study with any of those guys do like I mean he got a study film period It's like that's that's that's essential to being a good player in the league You got to go that extra mile and study film So that's a requirement anyway if he decides to study it with Vic or Cam or RG3 or anybody, okay Cool study it with him the more the merrier, but I don't think it Studying it with those guys would make much of a difference and I'm sure he's studied it with those guys before especially Vic and RG3 Vic because I believe he was like a mentor to Lamar something like that and RG3 because they were teammates But I don't I don't really think that would really move the needle full of more any positives We can take next question came from my guy less He said what's up in gravy and hope all is good with you in the family with all that's happened lately for the Ravens It's been tough and I've seen a lot of people turning on our team and giving up on them like the seasons now over I know it's been frustrating for us fans as this season has really been rough for us I think with all the perceived doom and gloom we need some positive vibes from you my friend So my question to you. What are the positive things we can try and remind ourselves of in the face of this adversity? well that um That the Ravens at this point of the season They're eight and five and they are still in the first place in the AFC North They control their own seating to the playoffs if they went out Hey, boom they're in and of course there's some scenarios where if they don't win every single game They can still get in everything just depends on so much at that point, but right now they are in control of what happens to them moving forward um Another positive would be Tyler Huntley. We know of course Lamar Jackson It has been announced that he has an ankle sprain They didn't clarify if it's a low ankle sprain or a high ankle sprain But they did it did say it's not a high ankle sprain, so I'm assuming it's a low ankle sprain But whatever so Lamar Jackson going to be out even though hard boss said, oh, yeah We anticipate Lamar Jackson playing versus the Packers. He ain't playing versus the Packers And if he does oof boy, um, it just worries me. Anyway, uh, because I just I would feel like they would be rushing Lamar um with uh Oh What else other positives? I mean if we just talking the Ravens, uh, they make every single game fun to watch Every single game fun to watch and they this year They've only got like beat who a bloody pulp once and that was by the bingles and four for half for a little a little more than a Half it was a close game some more positives, but again their record eight and eight and four eight and five Man now I forgot. I think eight and five eight and five uh, so they only went inside and again With their record with their losses minus the bingles game We're actually need even including the bingles game All of the issues Are fixable Well, maybe the offensive line. That's the that's the biggest one. That's a question mark for me But besides the offensive line So many of the issues are fixable So that's a positive to take from right now He said, I know we've had injuries and obviously losing Lamar Jackson is worrying or offensive line Obviously continues to look all kinds of bad and our coaches Uh, and our coaches seem like they just do not have the answers at all Despite all of this. We are still somewhat in a decent position in afc north. Oh man See you had already answered the question. I guess I should have just kept reading He said over to my man. Give him some of the positive vibes. We sure do need some right now Keep on believing.  Appreciate your content. I love that. Uh I love that last That last part, uh, because that that was really really special and that's very very true Uh, and that goes for anybody Because you will have people that will hate on you. It's gonna happen. Um, and no matter what it is that you do for work Whether you at work school, wherever it's it's gonna happen But don't let it ruin your day straight up Because if you let something like that ruin your date and then you give them like that power over you and it's just They shouldn't have that especially negative people. Uh, so Anyway, I love y'all. This was just a such a great I I love I love the ending more than the question I love the message more than the question. I appreciated the question too now, but I really appreciated that message So so thank you very much. Uh less next question came from a guy clarence He said I watched the press with coach harb today and he read from notes on papers about the coaching staff This is why I believe Lamar is gone for the season and the ravens will press the reset button And the entire coaching staff will get fired including the head coach The next head coach hire will be left witch or be enemy. What are your thoughts on this? I just I don't see the aridakasa doing it But I really don't um, I wouldn't be necessarily opposed to it, but I don't see him doing it I just I think that would be something just that would that would be way left field for aridakasa And I know aridakasa is very results driven He's results based as he should be Um, but I just feel like he's more cutthroat when it comes to players Rather than coaches, but depending on how this season goes We'll see next question came from a guy leason. He said I ain't great. I hope you're doing well I've recently been thinking on something that might be a small part to Lamar's recent struggles During the last two seasons Lamar has had mark ingram on the sidelines constantly Motivating them and the rest of the team to win the game Is it possible that there's a lack of presence of a constant hype man on the sidelines like ingram That has taken a toll on Lamar's motivation and confidence causing him to struggle mentally and play seemingly demotivated That could play a part, but I feel like If if it was if it was a read like for Lamar struggling in this bad Because he ain't got no hype man. No, that's not no That's not a good enough Reasoning for that You shouldn't it's nice and somebody to motivate you is great. That's phenomenal But that shouldn't be a requirement for you to do well at your job And we know again Lamar got a lot of other stuff that's going on around him. That's just not in the best shape But he he does have some improvement that uh, he he can make it as well. So no, I believe that like No, I don't think that that is a Big I mean, I know you did say it's a could be a small part But I don't think like that would be a reason like somebody would just be in a slump like this It's just gotta be deeper than that. Next question came from shantae He said they ain't great even hope everything is good with you in the fan Unfortunately, I wasn't able to look at the game because I was at work But it was cool rocking with you through the string. Oh, he was in the stream Okay, appreciate that Here in the description of the game though made me kind of glad that I didn't watch it on tv On that note, I heard that Lamar Jackson got taken off the field on a cart And that he might have a high ankle sprain and be out for a while Well, that got cleared up because they said it's not a high ankle sprain still ankle sprain though But anyway, here's my question In kind of a it's kind of long so brace yourself Do you think the coaches will have no choice? But to do a bit of tweaking or a lot of tweaking per se Given to what happened to Lamar because i'm pretty sure they do not want the same thing that happened to tyler huntley I agree with you when you say that this team is arrogant And they don't want to change things that have been successful in the past or now But because of the refusal to change like offensive line Lamar paid a hefty price and he got hurt and it will probably and he'll probably miss multiple games because of it Why do they refuse to acknowledge that the offensive line and offense is bad? Uh, hope your brain is good from this email. Just wanted to vent a little Let me know your thoughts and as always have a great rest of your day All right, so the first question was do you think the coaches will have to no choice? But to do a bit of tweaking or even a lot per se given to what happened to lamar jackson So the same thing doesn't happen to tyler Well, yeah, because they are different quarterbacks They have different styles even though they do a lot of the stuff similarly and it's it's crazy I just remember so many different plays watching them and thinking like oh, man If tyler huntley put on a number eight jersey, you would think that it was lamar jackson um I think tyler has a a quicker release than lamar um and again Well tyler huntley he could just he plays more freely He plays more more loosely than lamar this year, uh, because this Again, I I think what I said with lamar. I think was throwing him off so much was just All the beating that he was taking and I do think he's been injured But I think that beating that he was been taken from the beginning of the season um, it's just just messed up his mentors with the game. He just got a Sort of reel it back in. Um, and they gotta like just get back to basics almost Uh, because he's just I feel like fundamentally.  Oh man, is he sorry now? And now he's just over there killing it So I mean that with Patrick my homes He's just throwing throwing a lot more interceptions than we were used to um, but I mean we weren't complaining on our end So Lamar here he'll be fine, man. Um, but with Tyler Hunter. Yeah, they will have to change up stuff a little bit They'll have to adjust to that situation So we'll we'll see what happens with that um said uh Will oh sorry, uh, why do this team refuse to acknowledge that the offensive line and the offense are bad well, I mean You don't want to come out and say oh man our offensive line is bad It they're bad But you just want to make sure you put in your best five out there Um, and if these are the best five, okay, cool. Let's just run with it. Uh, but that's on Uh, well Tyler Huntley now since Lamar probably gonna be out But that's on the quarterback too. It's on the offensive coordinator It's on the quarterback It's on them to work with each other Because they both know they got a bad offensive line But it's all it's on them to work with each other to counter that bad offensive line as best they can They can't hide everything, but they can hide a lot Again quick passing game quick passing game That's gonna help a lot because the offensive line won't have to block as much Um, so yeah, I didn't she said I hope your brain is still good from reading this email I think it is but it is messed up even before I read the emails, but I'm straight free bait man Next question came from my guy Javo.  Do you think Lamar can take some notes from snoop to help this offense grow? Well, yeah, for sure. Um, and yeah, that's it's something we've been talking about even before we watch Tyler Huntley play and just Lamar getting different guys involved um And a lot of times it was it's just mark andrews in hollywood and he you trust those guys so much He trusts those two so much Um, but yeah, he does have to get different guys involved because when teams start keying in on on five and 89 Then it's like, all right. You got other options. You got other weapons, too And and it's about Rashad Bateman being on the field as well Because there'll be a lot of times in in the Lamar games Where it there'll be plays with Lamar just saying saying see him something like that But there'll be other times when he just he'll be on the sideline and it'd be like, what is why? So, yeah, I agree with you hashtag free Bateman. Next question came from my guy Isaac He said ain't great even how you holding up after the loss from this past sunday. Oh, I'm good The the losses.  Whether the Ravens win whether Ravens lose when they win. It's even more fun. Um, but I'm A loss is is cool. I ain't one of them people I used to be a long time ago If If Ravens lost so I would be like won't be the whole day. I'd be like upset. I'd be sad to hold But that that's those times are like long gone long gone Um, because it's just it's not what like why why let something like that ruin your whole day Now if when they win especially if they win a super bowl, that could make you hold that could make you hold like long That could make a long time for you That could make make a whole lot of your days for you. But um Now it's to let it ruin your day and even let it ruin your week weekend. No The it's not worth it. But anyway, he said it. I wanted to talk about lemar I've seen criticism from my own fans as I'm sure you have too, but I can't deny that those critics have some valid points Huntley is getting the ball out on time and is actually spreading the wealth to our entire y receiver court Uh, he looks more comfortable in the pocket and more explosive on his runs and scrambles long story short I don't know why or how but our team looked way better out there with huntley than they did with jackson My question is why is that the case? It makes no sense in my mind much love from I appreciate you, man Uh, I think lemar's hurt I remember and j- j davian clown. He said he said man.  Anyway, um Tyler huntley, he's healthy Lamar, he's not Even before the ankle injury. I don't think he was healthy Because he just did not look like himself. He hasn't looked like himself When he runs and takes off with like it or me I'm like, whoa, like he just he don't look as fast He doesn't he like he doesn't look as swift. He just he doesn't man Something is something is wrong with him like physically. I think something is wrong with him um But oh, but why did the the offense look a lot better things because tyler huntley. He wasn't playing hero ball That's why um with lemar, uh A lot of the plays sometimes there will be these long developing plays Sometimes there'd be short plays that he just missed but with lemar. He uh, he was holding on to the ball for a while And a lot of the plays that were called that he's these deep plays um And with tyler huntley, there were some deep plays that were called to But with him there were a lot of short stuff a lot of intermediate stuff But he he just made his decisions faster He made his decisions faster and that could have been a plan once lemar went down They could have been like, all right, we need to really switch this thing up and really Had that short passing game just ready. Who knows but with tyler huntley He just I think the offense looked better because Again tyler huntley was playing more instinctively than lemar has been playing recently lemar hasn't been using his instincts He just seemed to be overthinking stuff and tyler huntley. He was like, okay. They go to my receiver. I'm hitting them I'll take these little five yards. All right. They go my receiver. Oh seven yards. All right, cool And he would just make the decision to get the ball out quick But lemar wasn't doing that. So I think that's why the offense looked Those are some of the reasons why I think the offense looked better next question came from my god Michael he said the Ravens team has been terrible this year.  Lemar has been trying to do too much. He's been throwing too many picks and he seems to run into sacks too But one of the worst parts of this team is the defense not to get me wrong The defense has played pretty good currently But the main problem with the defense is the secondary They have been getting beat toward the end of games when we really need to stop the offense Like we did against the stealers But we also need to have better coaching on the sideline and better play calling by greg roman I don't know if it's just me the ravens have been bad We might have won some games so far, but this year isn't made for us The team has had holes all over the roster and we didn't do anything to even try to fix them All that I know is that the ravens are best when healthy. I mean you could say that about any team really Uh, but so keep your heads up ravens flock. Yes. I think greg roman has just been playing heavy Since 2019 because we were doing so well at first and we were just going downhill Since 2018. All right. Oh since 2019. Excuse me. Um So this is a lot right here, uh with what the part about Uh This year wasn't made for us. The team has had holes all over the roster. We didn't even do anything to try to fix them the the ravens are very limited On what they could do and like again, y'all know me If if it's something with the ravens where I agree disagree I'll let you know You know homo, you know, oh man everything that the dude that the ravens that the ravens do is right that are No, y'all know that already but For this like they they were limited on what they could do and and How can you replace you can't replace 20 people on i are and I think it's more How you you lose your first string Your second string and your third string running back. How do you replace that? How?  How do you replace that now again with xavin howard? They could have tried that and and I wish we knew what the details of whatever the ravens and dolphins talked about were I wish we knew the details So we could know what the ravens were willing to give up and what they weren't willing to give up but anyway Um, that's hard to replace then marlin humphrey. He went down How do you like the shan elliott? You're starting safety goes down in the middle of the sea. How do you replace that? Ronnie stanley all pro left tackle. He goes down after the the first game How do you replace that? Like your your defensive end starting defensive end. Derek wolf He goes down Like nick boyle your best blocking tight one of the best blocking tight ends in the league He goes down How like I just I don't understand how they were supposed to fix that like fix all of that They I mean they they tried with the running backs davante freeman Levy on bail latavius murray They tried tight sound for like two games and then they're like oh, we're done with him, but It's it's it's it's very hard to you you can't replace everything lj fort another one You're lying back. They lost malik harrison for a while like it So that that part I just I I can't agree with that part With how they didn't even do anything to try to fix all the holes that they had Because they they came into this season They went in the training camp with a roster that was just beautiful They had depth there's so many plays like pretty much everywhere. They had depth man Everywhere everywhere. They had so much depth and it was like let's go But then all the injuries just started happening. They kept happening. They have not stopped happening Injuries haven't stopped for the Ravens all year so I just What are they supposed to do? I just don't understand what they were supposed to do Um now as far as the defense you said the main problem with the defense is the secondary They've been getting beat toward the end of the games when we really need to stop. So with the defense It hasn't been in every single game, but it's been in a lot To where the defense and early on in the game they hold it down But the offense does not so the defense is right back out there again Right back out there again right back out there again over and over and over So when they have these fourth quarter collapses overtime collapses late game collapses It's almost like what do you expect? Because they hold it down for so long early on in the game, but the offense decides Oh, we want to wake up late And they do wake up late, but then the defense is like, oh man. Y'all y'all just waking up Oh, we better go to sleep our schedules are off So it's just a really tough situation. Um for the whole team to be in an injury certainly didn't help um So, I mean it is what it is. But the the the part way is that uh That this is not Our year, uh, yeah, this year isn't made for us It ain't over to me


When you walk around the world it's easy to see people's problems. It's easy to see people with victim mentalities, people with anger issues, people who have commitment issues, people who are socially awkward, people who are not as intelligent as others, people that have emotional stability issues. It's easy to see a lot of issues in other people, but what you have to understand is that we're all in this together. Everybody has a story. Everybody is struggling in some way. No one is born perfect. There was no one that was born into this world regardless of what the outside circumstances look like. There's no one that was born in this world that lived a perfect life with no issues, no problems. Even King Solomon would have had his problems with his 12 wives or 50 wives or whatever. Even the richest man in Dubai or Bill Gates, they all have their problems. They all have their little problems that we're not aware of. So what you have to understand is everyone is facing something and you need to be open to it and start to learn to not judge as much. Because you might be seeing yourself in this path of self-actualization, self-realization, and you can start getting a sense of ego, start thinking that you're better than other people because you're working on yourself, you're reading, you're exercising, you're meditating. But this is the fool's errand. You are not better than anyone. You are just lucky.  What you have to understand is some people have never even been exposed to this way of living. Some people are not even aware that there is a way out of the matrix, that there is a way to reach your goals and to be happy and to tap your potential. They haven't been exposed to it. Luckily for you due to some pathway or some circumstances of fate, you found this path and now you're on it. So don't think that you're better than anyone because you're on it. And don't judge other people because they have their faults. Because more often than not, you have your own faults and the thing is you might not be aware enough. You might not have the mindfulness yet to be able to discern these thoughts, these faults. Other people might be able to, you might not be able to. So don't think that you're perfect. We're all in this together.


Welcome to the Anxious Morning, where each weekday morning we take a look at ideas, concepts, and lessons designed to help you understand and overcome your anxiety. For more information, visit us at theanxiousmorning.com I once purchased a Tai Chi DVD because doing things like Tai Chi are part of feeling good, right? Spoiler alert, Tai Chi is wonderful and beautiful, but did not help me with my panic disorder. Not in any appreciable way, at least. In retrospect, I think I missed an opportunity to find value in a Tai Chi practice because I was shooting at the wrong target. I was hoping that Tai Chi would make me feel good. If it did that, then I'd have seen it as a wild success that I'd probably be writing books about that now. But it didn't really make me feel good. It didn't hurt, but I was a bit disillusioned because I did not finish my sessions feeling tranquil, grounded, calm, or connected. I felt about the same at the end of a session as I did at the start, so I called it failure. So wrong. I missed the whole lesson. When I would pop in that DVD and spend 15 minutes practicing, I was learning to feel capable. I kind of felt like I couldn't do anything back then, but I did 15 minutes of Tai Chi. I was being capable. Feeling good didn't enter into it. I just wasn't ready to see that. There was no way I was going to create a feel-good state while I felt weak, helpless, and out of control, but I kept beating my head against the wall to do exactly that. Meanwhile, there was capable Drew right in front of me, but I was looking right past him and missing the whole point. Odds are that the universe is continually showing you that you are capable of handling anxiety and panic, and that you always wind up okay, even when it feels bad. Take the lesson. Pay attention to being capable and showing yourself that you are. This is far more important than feeling good, which sounds crazy, but it is true. Trying desperately to twist bad feelings into good feelings is likely not working for you in any consistent way, so first things first, shoot for feeling capable. I was failing miserably at feeling good in my recovery, but first feeling capable sure made it easier for me to feel good down the road in an organic, natural way that didn't need to be forced or manufactured. Amazing how that works. If you're enjoying The Anxious Morning and you'd like to get a copy of the podcast delivered into your email inbox every morning, visit theanxiousmorning.email and subscribe to the newsletter. If you're listening on Apple or iTunes, take a second and leave a five-star rating. Maybe write a small review. It really helps me out. And finally, if you find my work useful and you'd like to help keep it free of advertising and sponsorships, you can see all the ways to support the work at theanxioustruth.com. Thanks so much.


Hey everybody, what's going on? I am Greg Susman joined today by Game of Red Sea. We're breaking down UFC this Saturday night. What's happening, Gabe? Always a pleasure, Greg. Ready to rock and roll. Great to have the UFC back after a week off. Absolutely. We're ready to get into it with our main event. Tyron Woodley taking on Gilbert Burns here. It's Woodley, who is a bit of a favorite. Which way are you headed in this bout? You know, this is a really, really interesting fight. Gilbert Burns on a five fight win streak and he's a fighter that everybody is really hyping up right now. Woodley's an interesting case, Greg. We're talking about a former champion. Woodley should be a baseball player because nobody likes him and he always has issues with his contract, all right? But like Major League Baseball players right now, Woodley has a case. He's never been on Dana White's good side. You know, there's a saying, you know, I'll fight anyone anywhere at any time. Yeah, Woodley's not that guy, Greg. Woodley's like, yeah, you know what? That contract doesn't make sense. Why would I go there and fight him in that country? You know what? This fight doesn't make sense for me. He is like, he's a former champion and he's also a pound for pound champion of having reasons why he shouldn't fight somebody. But I'll tell you what, he's one tough SOB. And I think the perception of him and the reality of him are two different things. He's aging right now. He's 38 years old yet he hasn't really been in a lot of bloodbaths and wars. You know, when he lost the championship, it was very like anti-lethargic. He really didn't have anything. I think he was mentally fatigued. You know, even though he's 38, I think he's got a little bit of energy coming in here right now. And I don't like to fall for pre-fight hype too much, but I actually believe him. You know, Woodley does a lot of TMZ, your favorite website, Greg, right? TMZ Sports. But Woodley's like a regular actually on TMZ Sports. So he does a lot of, you know, interviews. Basically weekly almost. And he's talking about how he's gonna murder this guy. He's like, I'm dead serious. I'm not playing around.  You're gonna see who Woodley is this week. And he goes, I feel sorry for Burns. Now listen, Burns is a badass, man. All right, he's a badass. And God, I don't understand a number of this because all the hipsters on the street, Greg, are picking Burns to win this fight, but the number keeps going up. I don't know if it's the public taking Woodley, but I liked Woodley better when he was in the 160 range and he's been climbing his 184 right now, as we see at FanDuel. But I think Woodley is going to win this fight. Burns is good, Woodley's better. Woodley does everything great, Greg. He's a great wrestler. He's a great striker. He's got great fight IQ. He doesn't just fight for the entertainment aspect. He fights to win fights via points. He can mix it up. I expect an angry Woodley to be able to get it done. And I think this fight's gonna go the distance, man. Four of Woodley's last five fights have gone the distance. And we're talking about 25 minute fights, Greg. I mean, this guy was a champion or fighting for championships all the time. He's used to these long fights. I know Burns on a five fight win streak, but I'm gonna take Woodley. And I like this fight to go the distance and plus money, plus 136 to go the distance. So give me the former champ and give me the fight to go the distance. Woodley talks a lot of smack.  At least that's what he's telling all of us wherever you listen, Burns is hot. But Woodley, the fighter you wanna go with and Gabe leaves this fight is going all the way. Up next, Augusta Sakai is taking on Blagoje Ivanov. And this is another really close fight. Two good fighters here. How do you see this one breaking down? Oh, that's a tough one. I feel like I'm on the jury here, Greg. On like a very, very difficult case. You know what I mean? It's like, wow, you can make cases for both of these guys. This is far from a star-laden card here. It's essentially a UFC Dana White contender card put together in Las Vegas and we should note this actually. I wanted to get to this. We should note they're fighting in a 25-foot cage as opposed to a 30-foot cage usually. Who's this gonna help? I don't know. I mean, basically it helps both fighters really, right? You know who it helps? It helps the fans because the fans watching this it's very hard to avoid your opponent. You know, you talk about fighting in a phone booth so to speak at 25 feet. But you can argue it has an advantage for both styles. You know, different styles of fighters in a sense.  If you're a striker, there's less room for a guy to sort of use his angles and move around. You can really walk him down and get him in a phone booth. So, you know, 25-foot cage could lead to entertainment and I'm rolling the dice. I'm going against the theory so to speak because I think a lot of these fights are gonna go the distance. But you talk about Sakai and Ivanov. So even, you know, so even. Ivanov as you would expect, you know, tough dude. You know, he can wrestle a little bit. He's got some heavy hands. Not, you know, these aren't like heavyweight champions we're talking about here, okay? I think Mike Tyson might be able to beat either one of these guys right now. But without being stated, they are very evenly matched. I just like Sakai here. He is talking about a guy who's four years younger. He's gonna be four inches taller. He's got a reach advantage. You know, Ivanov is faced tougher competition, okay? Two and two in his last four. But he's faced tougher competition. He got thrown in there and he was fighting really tough guys, big name fighters. You know, Dos Santos, Derek Lewis, et cetera. So there's no shame in his record. But nevertheless, I just prefer a guy that's winning. A guy that's younger and winning. He's only lost once in his career in Sakai. You know, three fight win streak right now on a UFC med, K.O.Tabura beat Andrzej Erlowski. We saw, you know, with a nice win recently. I didn't think he would do it. And Chase Sherman as well. This fight is basically a pick-up. I'm gonna go with a slight favorite here. We'll lay the minus one 14 with the Brazilian and minus one 14 here. I think this fight goes the distance too, Greg. It's minus one 56. We should note Ivanov, he's never been K.O'd in 21, in 21 fights. And his last five fights have gone the distance. That's saying something for a heavyweight, Greg. That five fights in a row have gone the distance. This shouldn't, this won't be an exciting fight. But I think Sakai wins. And I think it does go the distance. As you said, incredibly tough to pick this one Sakai. He is hot. Just have that one lost. But Ivanov, he doesn't get knocked out. That's why you have to like this one going the distance. And hopefully Sakai picks the victory. He stays hot.  All right, up next, Tim Elliott taking on Brandon Roybal. Roybal is the underdog. You always want to go with one of these underdogs here, Gabe. How good Roybal's your guy?  A lot of people are out of work right now, including the dog walking industry, because everyone's at home, Greg. So I'm going to step up. I'm giving them some work. I'm going to walk some dogs here. Got to give you an underdog or two. We're going to go with Roy Val here in which we're, you know, listen, 27 year old fighter. This is a hipster pick, guys. This is a hipster pick. I'm going to tell you something that some people watching that wouldn't know about me, baby. Number one, I used to have hair, all right? And a lot of it. I was in a heavy metal bag. But number two is I hosted an MMA show for about eight, nine, 10 years or so. MMA meltdown, all right? We had all the fighters on it. One of my regulars on the show was actually one of these fighters here in Tim Elliott. Okay, to prove that I'm ruthless, Greg. Yeah, he might have been a friend of the program and that's why I tell you I know him. He's going to lose. And I say that out of all due respect. But as I said, he used to have this guy on when I still had hair, essentially. He's been around a long time. Two and four in his last six fights.  He's a hungry fighter, guys. And you talk about the unique situation right now of no fans and desperation and pandemic and everything that's going on in the world. I've noticed over the last couple of weeks of these UFC cards, Greg, the up and comers, the guys that are used to fighting in adverse situations. They're used to fighting in front of no feds. You know, remember I told you about the guy that chased in rabbits in Arkansas? Remember Bryce Mitchell? He won easily, Greg. I said, this guy's fine. He's training in the woods. He's a nut job. All right, he's going to be fine. Roy Val has just strikes me as the perfect combination coming in here right now. Six years younger, really hungry fighter, that a lot of hipsters have been trying to get into the UFC for a couple of years now. This kid's going to be ready for his debut, Greg. And a plus 140, I got to like it. I mean, how am I going to lay minus 165, 64? So, and I like Tim Elliott, nice guy, great guy. But you know, he's past his prime right now. He's won in three in his last four fights. He's two in four in his last six. Hard to lay a price with him. Give me the underdog here. All right, even though Tim Elliott is a friend of the program, doesn't matter how nice a guy is when you're trying to make money. That's not how you're going to make money on Saturday night. Go with the underdog. Go with Brad and Roy Val. Moving on, let's talk about Spike Carlisle. You're getting him at plus money as well. Plus 120 is Carlisle on Saturday night. What do you like about Carlisle here? Because I just wanted the opportunity to say the word Spike Carlisle. Can you get a cooler name fight with these guys? Spike Carlisle and Billy Quaranteo. It sounds like it's a little wild west, you know? Sheriff Spike, Sheriff Carlisle, he's after that quarantine, you know? And you know, there's a showdown. I'll tell you what, man, the Alpha Ginger, this guy's a piece of work. He's ripped.  His nickname, the Alpha Ginger. The guy is ripped. He probably is going to come in at about 160 or so. Suffocates, he smothers you. A lot of quick stoppages, all right, for Carlisle. But we're getting another opportunity here. Listen, the Alpha Ginger's on a five-fight win streak right now. We're getting him at plus 120. This is one of those fights where the deeper it goes, Carlisle could be in trouble. He's been very successful of getting the people early. He's got a good ground game. But at some point in time, I think that Billy is going to find himself on his back. And I think Billy the Kid is going to be a little bit of trouble. Carlisle is a great finisher at plus 120. I'm surprised about the number here.  Like, if you go to the hardcore MMA websites, hardcore MMA fans, they all love this Roy Val kid, all right? I'm not talking about betting purposes, but he's sort of one of these guys that, you know, the hardcores have been hyping up for a little while. In a similar situation, a lot of people are buzzing about Carlisle. I'm surprised about the number. But if it's a trap, I'm walking right into it. It's like bait car. Arrest me, Greg. Give me Spike Carlisle. The only thing better than saying Spike Carlisle is the Alpha Ginger Spike Carlisle. That's a name we can bank with. That's a name that's going to win. You get him at plus 120, plus money. Hopefully the fight does not go long, but he still comes up with a winner anyway. Gabe Morenze, we appreciate the time. Good luck on Saturday night. Hey, always a pleasure, guys. Made the winners be yours. Absolutely. Enjoy the fights, everybody. Get those bets in over at the Family of Sports Book. And for Gabe Morenze, I'm Greg Susman. Stay safe, everybody.


I'm a fan of the cute, cuddly and graphics show called, Happy Tree Friends, created by Wondown Media. Several months ago during Halloween, I checked the usual official site for new episodes. But I was disappointed that it was just a blurred version of Can't Stop Coffin. Several months later, at night, at the Happy Tree Friends wiki, a link to an official Happy Tree Friends site drew my attention. I clicked it, then the site appeared. It looks almost like the official site, but only filled with Happy Tree Friends stuff that never seemed to be updated. But for the sake of nostalgia, I watched several old Happy Tree Friends episodes, along with the TV episodes. After watching several episodes, I noticed something. That something is never shown on both YouTube and the official Happy Tree Friends site. It's an episode. The thumbnail showed a close-up of Toothy in a red cowboy costume, smiling while holding a leash. I have no idea why this thing's not shown on the Happy Tree Friends site, but only on the unofficial site. It's impossible that it's fan-made. The graphics are pure made by Mondo itself. Feeling curious, I watched the episode. The Mondo mini-shows logo pop-up appeared first as usual, and then, something became different. Instead of the Happy Tree Friends intro, it's the 1942 Merry Melodies opening with the Zooming Warner Brothers shield, the 1941 to 1945 version of Merrily We Roll Along, and Red Rings. I was confused since Warner Brothers doesn't produce Happy Tree Friends. Since the music finish is playing, the Merry Melodies logo gets struck by lightning, transforming it into the episode's title, Toothing on a Dog. A good and nice pun for a Happy Tree Friends episode name as usual. I'm going to see what mayhem will be caused in that episode. The episode started with a shot of Toothy's house, a normal regular house, at Halloween night, as some carved pumpkins are shown. Toothy comes out, in that similar red cowboy costume, taking whistle, the puppy is shown in Dog on Eve episode, for a good nice walk. As usual, happy times at the beginning, then the violent times will be shown. In the first minute of the episode, Toothy is on his way in the town. He stopped when he saw his friend Cuddles holding a bag full of candies. Toothy turns delighted and asks Cuddles in the usual gibberish manner if he can join him for trick or treating. Cuddles agreed, then the two walked away, leaving Whistle alone. Whistle then roams free around the town, until Lumpy's whistling caught his attention. This caused Whistle to turn insane, then quickly pounds his lumpy and tears his body to pieces, just like in the usual Happy Tree Friends manner. Giggles' petunia and mine saw his death, causing them to scream in horror, with the squeaky screams of course. Whistle, still in his insane state, heard them and quickly attacks Giggles, which is slower than the others. Giggles' arm gets torn off, causing her to lose a lot of blood, and then died. Whistle attacks and kills Petunia and mine the same way he did to Giggles. New scene begins, Whistle had calmed down. He runs freely in a park. Lumpy is shown selling some goodies at the park, with sniffles flaky and Russell in front of him, ready to buy some. Russell bought a whistle, and then he blew it, causing a nearby whistle to hear it and turns insane.  This part made me confused. He wasn't supposed to die without having him flipped out first. I thought the creators just want something different. But back into the episode. The three animals quickly turned panicked after they saw what Whistle had done to Flippy. Whistle then tears Flaky's face off, causing her to run in panic. Whistle then mauls Russell, while sniffles escaped. However, Whistle quickly appeared in front of him, as if Whistle made a quick kill on Russell. Then sniffles had no choice but getting killed by Whistle. Meanwhile, Toothy and Cuddles had gathered a lot of candies in their bags. They are just nearly out of the Mole's house. However, the Mole's boiling water in the pot created a whistling noise, drawing the insane Whistle into his house. Toothy and Cuddles then hear the sounds of mauling. They quickly rush into the Mole's house, only to see a bloodiness. The insane Whistle looks at the duo, quickly attacks Cuddles, instantly killing him. Toothy however remains untouched, as if the puppy doesn't want to harm his owner. Toothy looks at Cuddles' corpse, now in the hyperalistic way. He begins sobbing, then that turns into crying. The scene changes into the inside of Toothy's house. Everything's dark. Food messes and misplaced items are everywhere. Toothy, sitting on the couch, still feels the horror about his murderer pet. He can't stand his friends to get killed. Now this is the part where I began to feel uneasy, as in the usual Happy Tree Friends series, there's no such ending thing as this, like dark colored scenes, without a hitch is still OK. Violence is OK, but I have no idea about this. Everything's mute as the shot still showed Toothy on his couch. In front of him is a TV with static on it. It was like if he doesn't watch anything. He doesn't even make a sound or doing anything else. Just sitting. 10 seconds later, the TV shows scary faces. Those faces are so hyperalistic that I almost screamed. Toothy still seems mute though.  His face is hyperalistic, making me creep a little. The scene changed. Now Toothy was holding Whistle's leash. He goes to another room. A few seconds later, some off-screen crackling and choking noises are heard. The scene changes into the room. Toothy had hung himself in a super morbid and almost realistic manner. Meanwhile, Whistle is resting in his doghouse. When the closing iris is shown, Whistle shows his insane state again, but creepier as both his eyes are blood-red, and no longer the usual insane or pac-man eyes. During the closing credits, the song playing in the background is merrily we roll along instead of the Happy Tree Friends theme, and the credits appear on the same red merri-nullities rings as the opening. Even though I creeped out, I still wondered what will the moral be. However, after the credits ended, there is no moral. Instead, a hyperalistic and creepy, partially decomposed close-up head of Toothy, without eyes, has lots of blood smears, sharp bulk teeth, et cetera, is shown. It was almost midnight, and I screamed in horror, waking up my parents. I just felt traumatized ever since. I won't watch any lost episode that never posted on YouTube or the official Happy Tree Friends site. Luckily, the episode had been removed after the Mondal Crew noticed it. But it's still unknown who actually put the lost episode in the first place. The episode itself might be possibly meant for 2010's Halloween special. But the Mondal Crew saw it as being too morbid, and not fitting with the world of Happy Tree Friends, so they make a blurred version of Can't Stop Coffin instead.


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Let me explain This video was brought to you by digitalink academy You're number one source to learning programming fast and get to that six-figure salary you desire our third day project course Includes our JavaScript front-end projects our Python back-end projects our sequel database projects and much much more So go ahead and click the link below to our free seven-step guide so that you can start reaching your programming goals today I'll see you guys in the course All right guys, I'm gonna jump right into some of these programming languages But I'm gonna set the table first before we actually get started guys a lot of the stuff We're gonna talk here on this video is going to be about real-world projects that you can put on your resume and Make a difference to showcase your value as a actual front-end developer What you guys are traditionally thinking about projects is Training to tour your style project that you would do in a course Which nothing's wrong with those when you're actually learning and fundamentals just to get you in a general idea or learning of General concepts, but those don't necessarily move the needle for a business calculator apps Hello world great stuff when you're trying to learn and just know how to learn a syntax know how to read Program languages at the very beginning But we want to quickly get shipped to some of the real-world projects that we're gonna talk about in this video Before we get started guys what I need you to guys do list some of your projects below what you've been working on as front-end developer You don't have to get a lot of detail But what type of projects that you've been working on that you've been struggling with that you have been in Interviews with and they didn't even pay attention to because in this video we're gonna talk about projects that's gonna help put you over the top and You're gonna be surprised that a lot of these are not traditional Programming projects that a friend in developer would do but you would be able to benefit from it and stand out from the competition So go ahead and comment below about some of the projects that you've been working on that you've been struggling with So we can help take your career to the next level or at the very minimum Make your project game a whole lot better when it comes to showcasing your value guys. So at the end of the day guys Projects is where it starts and in as a developer. I don't care what you're doing where you at training Trying to get a job Trying to help troubleshoot Or take mood a company forward it starts in there with projects when you start off learning I highly recommend you guys To start doing project-based course learning project-based learning We talk about this in my seven step guide and also my 30-day developer course You want to start doing project-based learning real project-based learning because what this does for you? It gets you way ahead of the competition. You learn a cold base You're learning how to read cold you learn how to navigate cold and at the same time You will learn a lot more looking at existing code than trying to break new code from scratch I know it sound counterintuitive But trust me as a proven method once you can learn how good people are regular people of regular developers know how to write Cold you're gonna start to pick up on the trend and how to be able to write cold yourself if you're writing it from scratch And at the end of the day, you're not gonna be writing a lot of cold from scratch Our program is floating in the scratch anyway So it's best to just learn how to read code and then know how to Insert new code where existing code was that's that's gonna be one of the quickest ways to actually learn real world project development But at the end of the guy guys, that's just the learning side of the actual project-based side of it Where you will need these to actually move the business and I want to go over a few of these with you guys at first. All right So number one onboarding onboarding businesses have people coming in and out you have to give them access to this application That can be a very very hard Process to do especially over time where you got a ton of people in and you know most of the time Companies actually submit those requests to IT Hey give access to it and then you have to go through give an adcast to all these systems and things like that You'll be great if you guys can provide a module on the front end that a grant a general HR user access or users to be able to Put in the username and password or email account whatever that may be and they grant that Application or that module grants access to all of those applications on the front end Something IT don't have to manage and a lot of the way to do that is by role-based Access guys and a lot of guys don't think this way. You just think that hey I'm just gonna do a traditional login and my friend in and I'll put in once once the business put in a request for the actual users and then Don't think like that guys you want to be able to hand something over They be able to manage it themselves and the only time they come to you for exception So let's just say they got a new position or something like that They want to feel and what that new position got access to maybe you have a little red in the future But as that Front end application matures you're gonna even build in that functionality over time But just kind of put your toe in the water and kind of go from there saying what off-boarding guys Just like they onboard that actual user got access to they can actually take access away from the front end guys And that's throughout all your application or interacting together and we talk about this in my seven skip guide I can't go over all the details in the moon of the actual application But this is just one of the world to onboarding off-boarding applicant Programs you can build and if you have on your resume that you can do this as a front-end developer Guess who's gonna be the head of impact you so go ahead and jump on that guys and get started number three as a As a project security based projects. I know you are front-end developer You need to worry about security Again, this is where you are going to be on with a typical front-end development would actually do First of all, a lot of us is building web apps satch related apps cloud apps That's going to be accessed from everywhere and when you have access when you have that level of access That's not traditional Logging into a rdp or terminal service session or actually having physical access to a work related computer securities that the oath most were Importance because now people don't have to physically getting your building to get access to your application Especially on the front-end. They just need to be able to log into that computer or log to that application two things right off the bat you can do geo or Let's say geo based access you already know most most countries don't need access to application You can build that functionality and pretty good on the front-end of your application So the minute somebody try to log into that application from the web That's not an IP range that you are you white listed You need to disable those users from accessing your application the same with the brute force the minute They try to log in well most of the time with geo they wouldn't even be able to get to it But let's just say they just hey I used the VPN just to get in on that system and I had a IP or MAC address that actually I could use or spoof or whatever that may be and then they get to the actual login system And they try to boot for us you can create actual a Interface to where if somebody try to log in so many times you will automatically Blacklist or put that that particular IP or that workstation under review so that it can protect your front-end or your application This is the kind of stuff people want to start to see guys from front-end developers Yes, at the very minimum put up a shield or something on the front-end say you have no access please contact this number Companies love that stuff guys and gonna really help put you in a position to win And again, we talk about that in seven-skip guide if you haven't already clicked the link to that In the description below to actually get started there last but not least is reporting I think this is one that even you beginners can really take advantage of because let's just say you know how to build a form or Just the interactive application where you type in an order number to give you details about that order or that person Whatever the object may we're working on well Let's just say hey you doing stuff for a customer and you working with a specific customer You got to order stuff from them and all that stuff. Well There's a such thing as some pilot don't pay their bills And if we continually on provide services for a person who don't pay their bills We're gonna eventually go broke because we're basically providing services. They're not paying us It would be great if I'm over here in accounting I know that this person can't pay their bills and I know they're on the bad credit list Over over here on the operation side on the ground floor when they try to type that customer's ID They would actually see that And be able to do that on the front end that would save so much time and say the company money so that they can Really find out. Hey, you know, I can't do business with you or hey Do you have money to pay this before we conduct the business?  We got good rates for that guys some links below to that and also the saddest That guy which I'll put a link to here on the screen at the end like subscribe to Content. I'll see you guys in the next video. Take on a link. Peace


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What's up everybody, Jason here for JaspysCaseBrace.com. We just sold out a holiday baseball mixture, guys. This is actually the last one. You don't need to do any more after this, guys. So the final three spots here being given away via this 2023 Top Scrum Black One Box Break, number two random teams. And again, guys, first we'll do the break, randomize because of our names, team to distribute the hits out. Then at the end, we'll randomize only the names in the top three, get into the holiday mixture, guys. Which we were down to one left the last time I checked. So here we go, guys, dice roller, customer names, roll, snake eyes, two times. One, two, cup, done a cup. Oh, I will say I do love that, that chant, though. All right, cut, we got the same little Cardinals and all the way down to the Reds. Remember, no trading, but I'll let you guys see your teams. Well, I also hope that they bring the Pop-Tarps Bowl to be a New Year's Eve six bowls, top six. We need the Pop-Tarps Bowl every year. Reds, that's going to Cuperman. How you doing on this fine, fine Saturday? And Jeter Downs to 150. That's going to the Washington Nationals, going to Nancy. All right, guys, here we go. Last three spots being given away. To unlock the mixer, guys, the last three spots. Yes, sir, you wanna come help me? All right, here we go. Dice Roll, here's the customer names, you guys remember top three, get in. Roll it, it's a two and a four for six times, guys. Six times, one, two, three, four, five. Why is this so slow today? Really slow. Six, boom, six times. Just missing out, Martin, sorry, buddy. I don't know if you had multiple spots, but here we go, guys. Top three, Brian Crouch, you are in. Anthony R, you are in. And the name at the top, Cuperman. Boom, in as well. There you go, top three are in, guys. Thank you guys so much. Again, if there is still that one last full spot, grab it, if not, this was your chance, man. We'll do more of these promos, more of these mixers soon again. Appreciate it at jaspyscasebreaks.com.


I'm John Fellows, I'm the planning administrator with the City of Columbia and we are in the process of finishing up Columbia Compass which is the comprehensive plan for the City of Columbia. Every 10 years we do a complete update of our comprehensive plan for the city and we've been working on this particular plan for the last year and a half. We've had a number of public open houses, a number of surveys and a number of other ways for people to engage. We are currently finishing up the plan and we are hoping to involve everyone in the community one more time before we take the plan to Planning Commission and City Council. So we have a number of public meetings coming up, they are in the evening at 5.30 on the 8th and 9th of January as well as the 14th and 16th of January. They're going to be held at a variety of locations, three of the locations will be Richland County Libraries and one will be the Busby Street Community Facility that the City of Columbia operates. These meetings are going to be, the format will be, there will be a public presentation at 5.45 and 6.45 and then we are going to have some stations based on various topics that the comprehensive plan covers for people to engage. The comprehensive plan covers nine elements. They include population and housing, economic development, cultural resources as well as community facilities as well as a number of other topics and each of those go in depth into those areas and they set a number of recommendations, some fairly specific, some more general that are intended to allow the City to implement over the next five and ten years. If citizens aren't able to attend the public meetings they can certainly engage with us in other ways. We actually have a website for the project, ColumbiaCompass.org and on that website you can find all of the documents that have been put out there as drafts for the public to engage in. There's information from our previous meetings and previous outreaches, summaries of the surveys that have been conducted both in the fall and the spring of last year. If people would like to engage they can also engage on social media at Facebook and Twitter at ColaCompass.