Rather than creating an original script, Ash copied another motivational speaker nearly verbatim while giving his speech during his seminar.

On the most recent episode of90 Day Fianc: Before the 90 Days,Ash Naeck invited girlfriend Avery Warner to one of his relationship seminars. While the seminar didn't go well onscreen, offscreen evidence shows that Ash copied his entire speech from another motivational speaker.

Seattle-based Avery first met Melbourne-based Ash when he reached out to her over Instagram. The couple was in a somewhat volatile relationship for a few months when Avery decided to make the journey to Australia to meet her boyfriend in person. One big obstacle in their relationship has been Ash's job as a relationship coach. In his work, he primarily coaches single women on how they can find the man they're meant to be with. His constant contact with single women makes Avery uncomfortable and has caused a few breakups in the past. To ease her fears, Ash invited her to a relationship seminar he was putting on where she could see his work in action. Avery attended the seminar in the most recent episode, but the women attending didn't respond positively to Ash's old-fashioned view of male/female relationships.

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Interestingly, the views Ash tried so hard to communicate to the women weren't even his own. Instead, Ash copied his seminar almost word-for-word from well-known marriage and relationship speaker Mark Gungor. Gungor uses comedy to illustrate the differences between men and women and lead his seminar attendees down the path towards better relationships. Mark's seminars start with what he calls "A Tale of Two Brains," which "explores the differences between men and women."On his website, Mark explains his approach: "In this session, Mark shows couples how their problems may result from how men and women THINK about life in a different way." While Mark uses this speech often, Ash decided to commandeer "A Tale of Two Brains" for his own purposes. In the Instagram video posted below, you can see just how similar Ash's speech is to Mark Gungor's:

Although Gungor has found massive success from his relationship seminar, Ash's participants didn't react positively to his speech. In fact, many of them questioned his methods and pointed out that his ideas were rooted in sexism. Since Ash didn't write the speech, he was unable to effectively defend his ideas. After knowing that he stole the speech from another motivational speaker, his flustered attitude and difficulty explaining himself during his seminar makes perfect sense. Also, Ash tried to copy Gungor's comedic timing, but his lighthearted approach didn't translate to Ash's speech. Ash not only stole from another motivational speaker, but he didn't even do it well.

Ash's job as a relationship coach has long been called into question. Thelegitimacy of his interactions with women and how he actually makes his money is a huge topic of conversation, both for fans and for his girlfriend. The fact that he stole a speech from a popular motivational speaker doesn't lend any credence to his work. In fact, it makes it even more likely that Ash is simply a con artist posing as a social media relationship coach.

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A graduate of Loyola Marymount University, Jessica Bedewi is a freelance writer who uses her BA in Communications and Sociology to put her love of reading and writing to good use. An avid watcher of all things reality TV, Jessica employs her love for real world television to create reality TV content for Screen Rant. Fond of taking a critical approach to entertainment, Jessica enjoys poking fun at the things she loves most. From superhero movies to thriller novels, her entertainment-centric articles draw out the interesting and subtle tropes that are often ignored at first viewing. While she enjoys looking at things through an analytical lens, theres nothing she loves more than zoning out for a day and losing herself in a great TV show. You can find her articles all around the Internet, including Ranker and Sweety High. When shes not writing, you can find her binge-watching Netflix, practicing her mad crochet skills, and reading everything she can get her hands on.

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Record-breaking former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has a unique insight into staying engaged and motivated while in isolation.

In 2016Kelly became the first American to spend 12 consecutive months in space when he completed an epic 340-day stint on the International Space Station.

With remote learning replacing physical classrooms for millions of children during the coronavirus lockdown, Kelly says that kids long-term goals and aspirations are more important than ever.

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I think its important to let them know that their education is still important despite everything that is going on out there, he said, acknowledging that the lockdown has brought plenty of challenges for children and their parents. Distance learning, or homeschooling, its good for some kids, but not all.

Kelly spoke to Fox News prior to taking part in Research Quest Live, which letstudents participate in live sessions with professional educators from the Natural History Museum of Utah while schools are closed. The former astronaut will take part in an hourlong Q&A as part of Research Quest Live on Friday at 11:30 a.m. ET on Friday.

Perseverance, he told Fox News, will eventually pay off for students struggling with distance learning. I recognize that its not easy often things that are meaningful are hard and challenging, he added. Find inspiration where you can find it.

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During an interview with Fox News in 2018, he explained how he went from being a bad student to a Navy fighter pilot, test pilot, and, eventually, an astronaut. He said that he owes his storied space career to Tom Wolfes famous book The Right Stuff, about the early space program, which he read when he was an 18-year-old student at State University of New York Maritime College in the Bronx.

The Research Quest classes are offered via livestream every weekday and are available on-demand 24/7. Students from 56 countries and all 50 states have accessed the program, according to the Natural History Museum of Utah. Research Quest Live provides a classroom environment, the museums executive director, Jason Cryan,said, adding that the program teaches topics such as paleontology, ecology, biodiversity and climate.

During Fridays event, Kelly will give insight into his incredible experiences in space and, hopefully, provide motivation to students, according to Cryan. Were very excited, he told Fox News.

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Finding ways to reach a large audience and kids of different attention spans is much more important now that they are learning from home, Kelly said.

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The man of the house. After his mother Andrea Camerons sudden death, Tyler Cameron felt obligated to step up with his family.

I just lost my mom not too long ago, so now my motivation is to take care of my brothers and make sure theyre good, the Bachelorette alum, 27, told Venus Williams during her #CoachVenus Instagram Live on Monday, April 27. Im grateful to be in that position that I am to do that now.

Tyler announced via Twitter on February 27 that he had a family emergency involving his mom. Two days later, Us Weekly broke the news that Andrea died at the age of 55. Her cause of death was revealed to be a brain aneurysm.

Tyler is utterly devastated and in shock. It doesnt feel real, a source told Us at the time. His entire family is strong as hell but their world has been shattered.

Andrea, whose organs were donated after her death, shared Tyler and his younger brothers, Ryan Cameron and Austin Cameron, with her ex-husband, Jeff Cameron.

The model remembered the real estate agent as a mom to so many in her obituary in The Palm Beach Post in March, while Ryan shared some of the ways she went above and beyond for their community.

My mom didnt care who you were, where you came from, what youve done or anything at all. She saw everyone as the same, the Florida Atlantic University football player said. She just wanted to help everybody and help them out with whatever they needed help with.

Tyler also shared an anecdote about his mom being on board throughout his journey to find love on reality TV.

She was super supportive, he told the newspaper. What was so amazing she was supportive for [Bachelorette Hannah Brown] and everyone else who was a part of that show but she was also supportive to the random fans.

Austin, for his part, launched a GoFundMe page in March to develop a charitable foundation in Andreas name. The campaign has since raised more than $15,000 of its $20,000 goal.

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With the lockdown, fitness has become one of the major talking points, especially with all the gyms and fitness centers closed. During all this, one actor who is giving major fitness inspiration is Sonnalli Seygall, who was last seen in Jai Mummy Di. Sonnalli is considered one of the hottest and fittest actors in the industry today, and the tall beauty has been sharing her Yoga routine with her followers religiously, inspiring many to follow suit.

Highlighting the importance of Yoga for both body and mind, Sonnalli has been talking about why Meditation, Pranayama, and breathing exercises are equally important. Especially in such times where wellness of mind and body are equally important as fear and uncertainty have taken over our lives because of the pandemic.

Here are a few of her posts, which she hashtags #YogaWithSonnalli, will certainly motivate you to give Yoga a go right away!

Sonnallis videos and pictures have been garnering tremendous response, and many fans have reached out to her for inspiring them to follow a holistic routine for a healthy mind and body.

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Grid Worldwide has invited Richard Wright, one of South Africa's most admired speakers to talk to the business, its clients, family and friends as we head into the last week of level five lockdown.

G in Culture has become exactly that. We share one mission, one purpose, as #themakeitmeansomethingcompany.

As a three times brain cancer survivor I am no stranger to disruption, chaos, pain, suffering and adversity. My current mantra is How can I help?"

What is most needed right now is inspiration, motivation, encouragement and some help with a shift in thinking. If I can enrich lives in the smallest of ways at this time, I am making a difference and my life can mean something. That is a gift and I am grateful for every opportunity," says Wright.

Covid-19 has shifted our culture and augmented the way we operate as an organisation, we have focused our efforts on building our teams mindset, methodology and introducing new tools - to achieve tangible results, says David Cohen, also joint CEO and partner of Grid.

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When former Rangers star Sone Aluko joined the Ibrox club from Aberdeen, there wouldn't have been many people who thought he'd still be loved by fans eight years later.

The Nigerian international had spent three years at Pittodrie but had been without a club for a couple of months when he signed on the dotted line for Rangers in November 2011.

He would go on to spend just six months at Ibrox but he packed a lot in and left when his contract was up in the summer of 2012 after Rangers had entered administration and then ended up in the bottom tier of Scottish football.

The diminutive attacker got 12 goals in 23 games for Rangers before spells at Hull City, Fulham and Reading as well as a loan spell in China with Beijing Renhe.

Aluko is remembered fondly by Rangers fans - largely for a stunning solo goal against Celtic - but that wasn't always the case as he admits supporters weren't keen on his signing.

It got even worse after a disappointing start but he kicked on and used the criticism to turn his career around.

He told The Athletic: Rangers agreed a deal and I just wanted to get it over the line so I agreed for part of my bonuses to go to the Aberdeen pot. I didnt really pay to go to Rangers as it was reported. There had been interest in me before but then Steven Naismith got injured and they had to replace his goals.

At the time everyone was saying, Why are Rangers signing someone from Aberdeen who is out of contract? Hes not going to be good enough. There wasnt a red carpet rolled out for me. I played the games with a chip on my shoulder, determined to prove everyone wrong. In my first game against Kilmarnock Rangers were unbeaten (in the league) at this point I was on the post for a corner.

"We cleared it but I didnt push out quickly enough and played everyone onside for them score the winner with 10 minutes to go. The fans had a field day with me but I had played really well that day and I couldnt believe that I was still on at 80 minutes.

I was then banned for diving against Dunfermline. They banned me for two games. I was the first player ever to get banned for two games after they changed this rule so it wasnt going well but I was playing well overall. The amount of focus on you at Rangers is unlike anything.

"There were about nine days I was on the back page of a newspaper and I got booed at away grounds for months. I was thinking, What the hell is going on? This is not normal, but I did love it. Off the back of being out for so long, nothing else mattered but football.

The aforementioned Old Firm derby strike is regularly posted on social media as Rangers stopped Celtic winning the league at Ibrox in a 3-2 win.

A famous image of Aluko celebrating on the advertising boards in front of the Sandy Jardine stand with Ibrox fans responding exactly how you would expect is also shared all over the place.

And the 31-year-old admitted he was just determined to make an impact after he knew that he wouldn't last any more than 60 minutes because of his fitness.

He last 72 before being replaced by Andy Little and revealed how his Dons spell helped him score the goal.

but he added: It was just frustration. Id had a slow start to the game and had only touched the ball back or lost it. I knew I was only a 60-minute player too now, as Id had no pre-season, so I knew I had to do something explosive. I turned and instinctively thought, Lets just commit players. I just wanted to put a bit of fear into them.

I went past the first one and thought. Oh, that was smooth. I knew Charlie Mulgrew was coming towards me and I played with him at Aberdeen so there is an understanding of what certain players are like. I knew I could go past Charlie but after I beat him I didnt expect the goalkeeper to be rushing out. I scuffed the finish because that was the part I couldnt have planned for.

"I wouldnt normally have shot from there with my right foot but the keeper being out made up my mind for me. I just saw it trickle in. It all happened very, very fast.

I remember running to celebrate and then realised there was a sea of green so I was like Forget them and just curved my run to the Rangers fans. I did know that when I scored I wanted to go into the crowd but I also didnt want to get booked in an Old Firm game because I knew a second yellow could happen.

"I originally wanted to do it behind the goal but if I did that in front of the Celtic fans it would have started a riot. I have an unbelievable painting of that image in my familys house. Theres nothing like that feeling.

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Home workouts are a great way to get your body moving and feeling good without even stepping foot outside your front door. That said, I still find it difficult to convince myself to slip on a pair of leggings and get moving most days, but Storm Reid's helpful words of wisdom are exactly the push I need to get myself moving. "Set goals, push yourself, and most importantly take YOUR time HUNNY. #Bamazing," Reid captioned an Instagram video of herself on Monday.

Despite the lack of space some of us might have to move around in nowadays, Reid points out that even though getting into the right headspace is one of the hardest parts of a workout, it can be incredibly liberating. "I mean, I didn't want to work out," Reid says in the video. "But I pushed myself. I did two workouts, and I feel so good. So I say all that to say push yourself . . . Do something to move, because you'll feel so good after."

Listen to Reid's full inspirational speech here, and check out some low-impact workouts you can try from the comfort of your own home.

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If you keep an eye on the technology press, youll know that we are in the middle of a robot revolution. Advances in artificial intelligence have unleashed a wave of automation thats going to transform the way you live and work particularly if your boss is starting to look at you taking a coffee break and thinking, If only they were a little more machine. So far, so futurey. In centuries to come, however, when a cyborg historian casts his LED eye back at this inflection point in human existence, he will surely find it a source of some amusement that the reason mankind first welcomed robots into their daily lives ultimately leading to the spread of robots across the earth, self-awareness, the Great Insurrection and thermonuclear war was because they didnt fancy doing the hoovering.

In fairness, though, doing the hoovering is a drag.

Thats why for the past two weeks, GQ has been living with a hoover-bot. Its not self-aware (yet) but it is smart. The Dyson 360 Heurist is the companys next iteration of its lauded Dyson 360 Eye. Like the original, it trundles around your house on tank tracks using a top-mounted camera and sensors to navigate obstacles and avoid falling downstairs and, apart from the new colourway, it looks similar too. But it comes with a multitude of upgrades. That camera now has twice the aperture and is improved by a set of LEDs that illuminate the path ahead if required anyone who tried the first model will be aware that low-light conditions pose a challenge. It also has 20 times more memory, which is vital for its navigational strategy, SLAM, which stands for simultaneous localisation and mapping. This involves taking readings from its sensors every 20 milliseconds to make sure it hasnt missed a bit of carpet or is about to knock over a vase. Arguably the most important thing is how well it cleans. The companys gamble when it first got into this space was that there were other robot vacuums out there, but none that offered Dyson-level cleaning. This new model really sucks (in a good way). The new V2 motor spins at 78,000rpm to vacuum 20 per cent harder.

The most interesting difference, however, is implied by the new suffix: Heurist. Its a reference to its ability to learn. With a quad-core processor and 10GB of memory, its able to become an ever-more conscientious house slave. It remembers previous maps that it has made of your property and uses these to build a fuller and fuller picture of what it needs to clean. This also means that finally! you can set it to clean specific rooms or zones. So if you want it to only clean the kitchen, or even just avoid an area thats full of cables or obstacles that could cause it to get stuck, you just have to say so on the app. Thats a major advance.

Our experience with the bot left us impressed. It cleans effectively, the zoning is a welcome new feature and its ability to detect obstacles and avoid stairs is sufficiently reliable that you dont feel the need to watch over it. Its still not perfect, though. There are always bits of fluff and dirt that it doesnt quite get due to its shape, and its height means it cant get under low chairs and coffee tables. It also has a habit of getting stuck if it moves itself onto an awkward surface or chews up a mat. Sure, you could create zones to avoid this, but the fear that you have left something out that might cause it problems means that you wont want to switch it on if you arent on the premises. Our view? Overall this is a robot that will help keep your property in good shape between your main weekly hoovering sessions but it wont replace those sessions altogether.

In the future, the obvious area for improvement is a better battery. This is an industry-wide challenge, not one that is peculiar to Dyson, but it means that this robot takes a long time to give your floors a really thorough clean as it will likely have to return to its charging base halfway through the job. That said, its this very moment when it independently wheels itself out of one room, down the hallway, into another and docks with its charger that it seems most like it has a mind of its own. Theres almost something quite cute about it.

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Dispatches from Elsewhere S1E10 The Boy is nothing if not risky. Last weeks episode ended with Peter, Simone, Janice, and Fredwynn following Clown Boy to discover whether Lee/Clara had redeemed herself through the game, so one might expect the finale to pick up with that question.

Instead, the first quarter of the hour is completely about Clown Boy. There is a direct connection to the previous episode, to be sure, and I have noted the significance of this character and the questions around him for some time, but its hard not to wonder when we will get back to the story of our four friends. And the answer isnever.

Instead, after we see Clown Boys rise to fame and his exploitation at the hands of one Octavio Coleman, Esq (not that one), Dispatches from Elsewhere S1E10 jumps to Jason Segel at an AA meeting. And this is not Peter, its Jasonwe get that right away. Its Jason Segel as Jason Segel, of course, and not straightforwardly Jason Segel. Eve Lindley is still Simone, Sally Field is still Janice, and I presume that Andre Benjamin is still Fredwynn, if were talking about their names. But even they arent the same characters, and the story is no longer the same story.

This is a bold move, and I have to say that it rubbed me wrong on my first viewing. I wanted a continuation, and resolution, of the story that Dispatches from Elsewhere has offered us over the course of the season, not to exit that story and start feeling like everything had just been in a snowglobe.

But of course, Dispatches from Elsewhere has portrayed a self-awareness of itself as an entertainment from the very beginning, so this meta move here at the end perhaps should not have been as surprising to me as it was. And when I watched the episode for a second time, I started to think that it was brilliant.

Im reminded of the experience of watching Part 18 of Twin Peaks: The Return. I liked it the first time, but it was off-putting. And I certainly know people who hated it, continue to hate it, and refuse to take my advice to watch it again and take it on its own terms. Dispatches from Elsewhere S1E10 feels like that to me now. Im going to be saying the same thing to people about it: do your best to take it on its own terms.

If you can manage it, there is something beautiful here. Clown Boy is central to Dispatches of Elsewhere because he is Jason Segel, the creator of Dispatches from Elsewhere, and S1E10 gives us the story of that creation.

Segel puts himself on the line. While it is clear that the Jason in this episode is a fictional version of himself, the show makes a point of referencing actual things in his career like the Dracula musical from Forgetting Sarah Marshall (where he also plays a character named Peter, by the way). And when Clown Boy chastises him for not letting his freak flag fly after that, and as moves to leave, he says hell be back if Jason ever wants to make another Muppets movie.

The point of that conversation is that he needs to grow up and stop being the clown. He needs to stop thinking of himself as a victim and recognize how his own decisions and selfishness have brought him to where he is. Hes been a drunk. Now hes sober, but doesnt know what to do next. As he says in AA, in the past he would have tried to make people laugh to make them like him, but now he doesnt much care if they like him, as he doesnt like himself. But he doesnt know what to do with himself.

Simone approaches him after the meeting and they go to the barn where she creates things. She asks him to make a list of things he likes, and all he comes up with is spooky and suprising. So she gives him a postcard and he starts off on an adventure that starts to pull in some things that at least resonate with what we have seen in Dispatches from Elsewhere up to this point: the Jejune suite at the hotel, references to Divine Nonchalance, a sasquatch and a yeti dancing, a token, a milkman, and strange signs to lead him on his way.

This all ultimately takes him to a rooftop where there is a Dispatches from Elsewhere arcade game (this is what the token is for). Its a strange game. A monster keeps eating his character until he realizes that the right move is to just fall into the lava. Then he gets a series of questions that get to his existential despair: Did you have a view of your future?; Did you let it slip away?; Are you staring into the void?; Are you afraid?; The only thing we need to know at any given time is?

He answers Yes to the first four. The last one has two options that say the same thing (What to do next) and this causes Jason to walk away. I wonder if it would have mattered if he had chosen one option over the other, or what others have done in this same situation. It is reminiscent of Buridans Assthe paradox of whether a donkey would be able to choose between two completely equivalent stacks of hay. Of course it would, but Jason is unable to choose here. Instead he walks away from the arcade game and is confronted by Janice.

She asks him what he is best at, and then tells him to put that together with the question above. So he sets out to write Dispatches from Elsewhere, which is the entertainment we have been watching.

And it would appear that includes this last episode we have been watching, as Janice calls out the way in which she thought the show was about community but the final episode just focused on Segels character.

Thats not the end, though, as Jason Segel turns to the camera and calls out all of those who have worked on the show as they enter the frame behind our four leads. Then we cut to Octavio (Richard E. Grant) for a closing narration, which includes a number or ordinary people saying their names and that I am you.

Octavio takes some water from a fish tank into a glass, notes that the water inside the glass is the same as that in the tank, but then that so too is the substance which contains the water the same. There is no You, and there is no Me; there is only We.

Is this cheesy, or inspiring? Ive viewed it both ways now. Last night I was groaning and bemoaning how Dispatches from Elsewhere had so thoroughly left its narrative frame, left its intrigue behind, and entered into this space of schmaltz. But today when I watched it again, I was tearing up a bit.

Dispatches from Elsewhere is about community, and it has been clear from the get-go that the import of the show was supposed to extend beyond the characters within the story and out to all of us. It is perhaps appropriate, then, that those lines blur or fold in on themselves at the end of the day.

Dispatches from Elsewhere becomes not just a story about people playing the game of the Jejune Institute, but one about Jason Segel creating the story that we have been watching.

I dont know just how biographical this story is, but it does seem the Segel has struggled with alcohol, and the references to his own life that occur in The Boy make this all feel deeply personal. I may have wanted the action to pick up where it left off in S1E9, and I may have been disappointed by what this finale did to the plot, but thematically it really is sort of brilliant.

Go back to the end of The Creatorwe learned that Lee was Clara and that she had made the game in an attempt to redeem herself for how she had betrayed herself. This is Jason, betraying the younger version of himself embodied by Clown Boy. Thats why its up to him. And the project is not the game, but the very show we have been watching, which Segel has created as an attempt to rediscover the self that he had lost through years of drinking. Has he redeemed himself in the eyes of that boy through what he has done? Well, its a start.

Whether I am talking about the real Jason Segel or the fictional one there, I do not know. I suppose the lines blur, as they have about questions of reality throughout Dispatches from Elsewhere. And at the end, the show attempts to break that barrier altogether. Segel talks to the camera. We have all of these voices and faces from the real world blended in to Octavios closing monologue. It becomes clear that the point of Dispatches from Elsewhere is about empathy, and community.

Octavio tells us that he lied in saying Peter is you, Simone is you, Janice is you, Fredwynn is you, etc. because only you are you. And yet its not a lie, because we are bound together by our human condition. And perhaps even beyond that, we are bound together by being.

The idea that there is no I or You, but only We, is a radical one. It flies in the face of the kind of individualism that has defined modernity, and capitalism in particular. This message from Dispatches from Elsewhere S1E10 lands at an interesting timeone they could not have predictedas we all quarantine ourselves while certain idiots pop off about their individual freedom.

Its not about you; its about us. Its about all of us. As much as I get that feeling of constraint and that value placed on personal liberty, the point in the pandemic is precisely that were all in this together. Its not about whether you or I are willing to risk things, but about the risk we expose others to.

There are dangers, of course, to this kind of communal vision. I dont know if Dispatches from Elsewhere quite grapples with those, but it does gesture at how individuality and community can come into some tension to some degree. Regardless, this is not Hegel. The show doesnt need to resolve the deep problems of modernity.

I think it moves in the right direction by emphasizing community and empathy in a world that can seem to be more and more defined through individualism and self-interest. Its a breath of fresh air. I hope youve enjoyed it as much as I have, and if this finale rubbed you wrong I truly do encourage you to watch it again and do your best to take it on its own terms.

A recondite family awaits.

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Trying to find content for social media teams hasn't been an easy thing. The New York Islanders have done a really good job with their Isles Daily Challenges for example and other brands are starting to do similar things.

The Barclays Center official account, @barclayscenter tweeted out a Barclays Center Bing. Some of the things were "took the subway to an event", "went to a Nets game", "saw your favorite college team play", etc.

You can go up and down this board, in all 24 spaces and not a single time will you see anything Islanders related. No, I'm not making this up.

Are we surprised though? How many times has the Barclays Center hinted at them not wanting the Islanders to be there or completely botching something Islanders related.

At first, they tried to change the goal horns, only the championship banners were raised, and those awful black and white uniforms were launched to help "commemorate" the move to Brooklyn.

If you walked around the building you would think it was a neutral site facility, not an Islanders game. So now, after the Islanders played their final game in the building just a couple of months ago, they don't even get included on Barclays bingo board.

Who makes this stuff? Can't think of another team we hosted for half a decade, let's put in "ate Nathan's fries" that'll really get the people going.

You genuinely couldn't make this stuff up if you tried. The Barclays Center twitter account hasn't responded to the Islanders fans in the comments who found this lame excuse for a bingo board and I doubt they do.

At this point, all you can do is laugh at the lack of self-awareness.

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Islanders: Barclays Center Forgets Team Played There - Eyes On Isles