Hi, my name is Greg Prescott and welcome to the Metaphysical Show where today we're going to be asking people at Randall, what is the meaning of life? You're doomed into the Metaphysical Show with the cosmic wisdom flows, jaman. And here is your host, Greg Prescott. Aw, yay, y'all. Mind if I ask you a couple questions? Sure. Yeah, just asking people what is the meaning of life in your opinion? Oh gosh. Yeah, good one. That's above my pay grade. Okay, last question is what advice would you give people? The best advice that you've ever gotten? What advice would you give others? Live outside the country and learn another culture. Okay, that's great. I did it when I was young. It's the best thing I ever did. It gives you a totally different outlook. Good. Have a great day, buddy. What's the meaning of life? Well, you know, the meaning of life comes from the universe. And there's magic in the universe. And, you know, if we can experience what the universe is supposed to provide to us, then we have magic in our lives. That's perfect. Yeah. Question number two. Yeah. What's the most important life lesson that you've learned? Love. Your love is magic. Perfect. What advice would you want to give anyone right now? Love one another. Perfect. Yeah. Have a great day. Thanks, bro. All right, man. Should I put my sunglasses on? I don't know. In your opinion, what is the meaning of life? Love and happiness. I love it. Perfect. And what's the best advice you've ever gotten from someone? Or given someone? The best advice I ever got was somebody said, don't hold on things too tight because it's like sand in your hands and I'm going to just sip through it. What a perfect analogy for the beach. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you so much. All right, thank you. Have a great day. You too. Would you ladies mind if I ask you a couple questions? Yeah. In regards to? One is what is the meaning of life? I know. Well, we're getting answers from people of all various ages. It's really interesting to find out what people's interpretations are of that. Pure happiness. Pure happiness. Okay. That's a great answer. Love and happiness. Okay. And what's the best advice? Let me go like this. What's the best advice that you ladies could give someone? The blight to the fullest. I love that. I have to agree with that. Okay. Perfect. Small stuff. Love it. Yes. Have a wonderful day. You too. Take care. It's not an easy question, is it? Apparently, I can't count. I ask them three questions. Siastiki Beach Access 12 where we're asking people what is the meaning of life and what's the best advice you've ever gotten from someone? Would you mind if I asked you two questions? Yeah. Okay. What is the meaning of life in your opinion? The meaning of life is to be here and make it a place better. I love that. What's the best advice you could give someone? Best advice. Yeah. Be true to yourself. Love it. That's the best advice I've ever gotten. Great answers. Have a great day, man. Have a great day, man. Thank you, man. Awesome answers. In your opinion, what is the meaning of life? Just happiness, I guess. I love that. And what's the best advice you could give someone or that you've received from someone? Just keep on living. Keep on living. Right on. Appreciate it. Thank you. What's the meaning of life? The meaning of life. Trust in God. Okay. And what's the best advice you've ever gotten or given to someone? I don't know. I think it goes back to trusting in God and he will be there for me. There you go. I got it. Thank you so much. Thank you. Our first question is what is the meaning of life? That's the best answer I've ever received yet. And question number two, what's the best advice that you've ever gotten or have given? The best advice I can give is definitely read the four agreements. I love that book. And that's probably one of the best advice I've ever gotten. Read Love In, Exhale. Yeah. And as well, just like, don't let things bother you. Just do your best. And I mean, look. That's awesome. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Have a great day. You too. In your opinion, what is the meaning of life? Oh, the meaning of life. Yeah. To find your sole purpose and to help others and to be blessed with the happiness and to give others also and to do that forever happiness thing where you give others peace. And I personally do believe in making others happy but also being happy myself. That was equally as good of an answer. And question number two, what's the best advice you've ever received or given? The best advice I've ever received was to just enjoy what there is to enjoy and just have fun. I love it. That's all. Have an awesome day. Thank you so much, ladies. You too. Thank you. All right. Okay. I'm in the UK right now and once again, we'll ask the same question. What is the meaning of life? Finding the truth and the meaning of why we're here, what's all about, why we're going to return better in yourself and becoming the best you can be. To you, what is the meaning of life? Enjoying yourself. Enjoying yourself doing the best you can. Trying to stay positive as much as you can. That's about it, really, for me. Okay. So what is the best advice you've ever given or received and what is the meaning of life to you? If you're not sure, I don't know is a perfect answer for someone trying to figure out these questions. As we just saw, it's not an easy question to answer. And while there's generally no right or wrong answer, everybody has their own personal points of view. Existentialists would say that life has no inherent meaning and it's up to each person to create their own. Besides God, Creator, Source, Universe, it's probably laughing at half the silly things we do. What at him?  The philosophy of stoicism emphasizes living virtuously regardless of what's going on around you. It's basically finding that inner peace while chaos surrounds you. It's making lemonade when life gives you lemons or making a hat out of an old newspaper and jumping in mud puddles when it's raining. And utilitarianism encourages us to consider the wider impact of our choices, transcending our own immediate desires or interests. It's more of a group mind or hive mentality. So it's not me, myself, and I. It's more like we, ourselves, and everyone. It's basically finding your purpose and the collective good. Ultimately, the meaning of life is a personal question that you got to find out for yourself. It may involve a combination of different perspectives or something entirely unique to you. The journey of finding meaning in life is just as important as where you end up. Embrace the process of exploration. Be open to new experiences and perspectives. 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Mimi you welcome to vlog Thursday episode 60 not 69 nine more to go in nine weeks We'll be excited to announce that yes, we will yes, so I'm Marv. He's Tom I'm Tom and he's we're introducing ourselves now We are following this procedure since we got that called out on it. Okay. Well, that's important to me What it is my cup is far away from we just assume that everybody knows us We do that way too much. We really do and so if you just starting now there are 59 other episodes you could watch 59 hours of Tom and Marv Well, well not ours. They're all half hour. So you could yeah, still that's you can binge watch us That's almost 30 hours. Yeah, just so we started out with a couple of Things that are cool very important very important things free stuff.  We will do a review soon. I just I was kind of it'll get done soon Yeah, um hell fire trip we're excited about this though and this arrived, which is awesome By the way, you see good idea what the magic is in here if you're interested hot sauces you can just be I've had it I already know how good it is. We're gonna do a review They do these roasted pepper hot sauces, so just yeah, I'm really I'm excited to try the poblano one all the poblano ones really good Yeah, yeah, so anyways, we're gonna do review these but you can buy these they are great They look up hell fire to try because the only thing better than hot sauce is free hot sauce now the Yeah, they sent to us for free mystery the mystery is we waited a couple days We figured we'd say it here someone and I we looked I don't see it They if they were supposed to include your name, thank you for sending it But they did not include your name. So we don't know who sent it is volcano peppers. It's called volcano dust and We've already tried some of it. I'll do a review of it. I like it out of the container. We tried it just yeah We just put on there and this is a chocolate habanero. So they took like Yeah, and we've been putting it on things. We like it We actually have been putting it in food and spicing things up a bit So that's exciting that people we like when people send us stuff. That's awesome I got to be the owner of hell fire to try a really awesome guy local I love local hot sauce people and so we're gonna do a review of that Right, we got that out of the way Well, yeah, I was supposed to just slide the effort was there. This is why we are working tech and not in sports What do you mean? I can sport things. Okay. Yeah. All right. I Can get a on two other things for anyone who has a really good ear that ticking noise is our ribs Because they run sale We love ribs. I don't so there's there's the errata for there So if you hear a ding that We'll just end immediately. We're just cutting it short because the ribs are ready. Yes. So the the effort we've been putting into the last several weeks of Process procedure and streamlining things It's an ever-changing evolution because the worst thing you see in many businesses is it was like that when we Got here. So we keep doing it that way or the other term is we've always done it this way Why would we ever do it different? It was one of the presidents I think it was said at the like the best reason to change things or something about like if the reason we're doing it Is because we've always done it this way. That's the best reason to change it. Yeah If that's the only reason you're doing it that way and that's unfortunately sometimes that happens I try to always think about and I'm just an efficiency nut and I was like this when I worked in corporate Which is what helped bring the company. I'm really good at that on the back end That's kind of my skill set is looking at processes making them more efficient and often using technology to do that and streamline things So I'm always looking at ways we can streamline information because the reality is once you streamline internally you service the customer better It shows on the outside indirectly having a streamline process by having technicians I can quickly answer questions quickly solve problems quickly get to the desired result But invoicing has always been our system was very optimized But very kind of weird because it was all custom in-house written It was just a mess of code as well So I everyone had seen it and say hey, that's really cool I'm like, yeah, but there's a lot of things going on in the back end the code is a giant pile of mess But that being said we were always searching for another invoicing system And I love open source, but I couldn't find any of them I liked it. I don't know why I didn't find invoice ninja sooner, but I did an a whole hour long Video on it. I'm going to do another couple videos as they relate to how we use invoice ninja and a more specific So I gave a general one that could apply to really any business of all the features and fun things you can do with it I have a sign-up link in the description if you want to sign up for it Also free trial right you go like a hundred free you get a hundred free clients It's an unlimited free trial play around with it. Yeah, or use it if you have less than a hundred clients Yeah, if you have less than a hundred clients, you can just use it and their pro features or this now This is right where someone I don't know why and I just anger not angrily I just replied and copied pasta the reply. There's four questions on there from the same person I forget his name, but you can see the video. It's all public comments. He keeps saying it's not open source It's cripple wear because they let me add a hundred clients I'm like, no you can download the source code you pay for hosting and he loved three more he I'm assuming I think it seems Charlie Three more comments that are the same but worded slightly different. Well, if I can't send emails out of it It's not open source. It's cripple wear I'm like, no emails cost money to send a hosting cost money You can download the source code set up your own mail server send away. Yeah, you can do all that yourself But when you use it on your platform, that's that's their monetization on this is very common for open source I really enjoy this as a I think it's a wonderful business model that here's your free tools. Yes, you can have it Yes, you can examine all the source code, which is amazing that they let you do all that But the hosting part costs money whether you host it yourself it costs money Indirectly however, you whatever it costs you to have the server my server wasn't free no one gave it to me So in electricity runs that server isn't free the bandwidth and internet for that isn't free So that's the options now. So does this guy just think that because it says opens this is the open source equates to free everything Yeah, that's why that is such a misconception It's like look we're giving you open source simply means are giving you the source code That's it matter of fact there I've seen some open source projects that don't give you the binaries because they will have you compile it So they don't necessarily give you the fully compile version In certain circumstances, but it doesn't change the fact that it's open source And of course then you have to look at how the license works and things like that Their licensing is very clear. I really love the project project is very advanced. I've talked to developers. Wow They are responsive and this is something that you don't always know. So, okay, there's plenty of Online platforms out there for invoicing. How responsive are they they can you have to deal with their marketing and tell you that What I love about the way they run their project is you want to know how responsive they are go to the github and Literally look at the Q&A replies. Look at the dwell timer replies. Look at the public support forums and see the replies I've done a video on github. I need to that's what I was going to suggest Yeah, everybody understands so yeah github is a code management repository and an amazing system But you can actually see there and now I have now interacted with the developers myself added things to their roadmap They're even very clear They have a troll aboard set up so you can see when the next version is coming out and What features are getting added to it and as I even I had a feature suggestion? And I'm actually gonna I have some other coding ideas because all the knowledge I have from our running our previous system In tweaking it even though I don't want to use the code base the logic of how we did it is going to end up in some Of the invoice ninja this is where open source comes in is one or two ways this will happen We're gonna suggest to developers if the developers want money I don't mind giving them money to it, but I will give the entire code base back I don't want anything for it so I'm willing to throw money at the development of it That's not a problem or I know third-party developers that will develop the code And if they don't want to submit it to the master branch, that's fine We'll keep a secondary branch where we pull from the main branch, but then we have our enhancements It's all little things, but it goes to the efficiency of our workflow And one of the things we're gonna suggest for example And when I get into the workflow videos that I'm gonna do is when we mark something paid We also can have the option of archiving that invoice at the same time because part of our workflow is getting the invoices out of the Current status because they're paid, but some of this is where workflow comes in We have Workflow of invoices that are in draft status because we're so cumulatively billing the client for trouble that they're still having like an Ongoing problem. There are they paid us up front Invoices and we need to schedule the job There's partial payment ones that we have are in the midst of a job and we were taking payments on it Based on where we're at with the job and then there's they paid the job has been delivered and complete There's nothing more to the client other than thank you for doing business with us and thank you for you For paying off this invoice those are the ones to get archived and that actually happens a lot because of the way of B2B billing works. We have a lot of clients like the car dealerships We take the car dealership and we whatever work they want us to do they call us they scheduled Hey, go do these things over here at IT work When we're done with the IT work that same day now. Oh, hopefully within at least a couple days Pretty close to it close to it now We have that billing done we send it to the client and they're on net 30 terms So within 30 days we expect payment from them and then there's a different process For the past two over 30 days where we start contacting them So in which it even has which I don't we're not using just yet because we want to test it and make sure that's gonna work Exactly how we want it to but it even has automated Like email reminders that you can set up and send out so you say, you know 10 days after it's past due send them this email that you know says hey, don't forget to pay us 30 days after that one went out send them another one and 30 days after that one went out send them another one And this was really impressive with the system that they have Really put the time into it along with very customizable email templates to send these that you can use all the field identifiers Like client ID so you build the template not just for that client You can build a template at email and say client ID invoice number And it's got like little the variables that you put in there really easy to do You don't have to be a programmer to do this You just you can pull in the total that it's owed the balance that's left on it. Yeah I was really impressed with everything you could pull in. Yeah, and so we're looking at ways to automate and streamline some of those processes Like I said at the same time we're also looking at ways that I think it ideas we had from our system and running it for 10 years and We it's not in trouble. We had I mean it depends the size of your business, but we have 21,000 invoices in that system so There's 21,000 invoices is some experience in doing invoicing And thinking about how it's done when you do it on your own platform The other thing I love is being having the ability to even if you choose to have them host it They have very easy import-export systems So you go, you know, I don't have you guys host it But I want to download an entire copy of it on the off chance that something goes awry with the hosting I trust that they're doing everything, right? But this is goes for any cloud hosting company Oopses can happen Amazon one of the biggest companies out there for cloud solutions Was it was it 20 early 2017 in March? They shut down part of the Eastern seaboard because someone typed the wrong command I mean, do we think that exact scenario will happen again in Amazon? No, they fixed that scenario could something happen Yeah, but it did mean people's data was unavailable for about eight hours and eight hours If you're even at our size of a company eight hours and not being able to know where we're at with invoices and clients Yeah, I mean that's a that's a workday. It's a workday of just I can't invoice Yeah, and then someone always asked about tickets and we always have the policy of trying not to treat clients like a ticket That's where all the draft invoices come in And this is kind of the call, you know call. Hey, my outlook is broke again, blah, blah, blah We have a person who just They they shouldn't use outlook is actually what we kind of think and when people ask for suggestions They should like well the owner gets all the bills and they're like why what is she doing wrong? I'm like she really shouldn't use outlook. I don't know if she accidentally hides things She types in filters and they're not a managed client So there's a bill when they call and we remote into her system, but we started draft invoice We type we start typing in what we're doing and most of time it's like oh unhid this They just go in and start playing with all the settings deleting their own email signature. We get to put it back. I Mean they're not hard jobs at all They're actually really easy work and we start invoices for these and then we leave them in draft status And then we just send them after once we decided they're not gonna call back three more times End of the day or sometimes we wait 24 hours Then we send and then they pay him and we have other clients that I'm just baffled because of the The company with all the shenanigans that I'm not gonna name their name But the company with all the shenanigans that didn't want to call Dell and decided to try and deal with themselves end up infecting computers They pay all their bills. They don't ever question their bills. They spend a lot of money with us So thank you. So thank you and I'm Someone said are you making fun of your clients? No, not at all like we suggest ways not to spend this much money with us Which seems counterintuitive to my business. Maybe it is but I'm like very serious like they should have just had us take care of it because we know the person that they put in charge of it We'll call India and we predict this it happened and happened again And then I just connected things and I accidentally have deleted things off people's computers They just are very bad with technology. They have forgotten passwords. They give people their passwords over the phone when they call We have a solution like don't let this person be in charge of it But they do and this person's chaos creates a lot of billable hours Yeah, so if we've made the suggestion and you choose not to take it. Yeah, I'm not at all disparagement clients And if any of them, I mean we we try to be as transparent right down to talking about in the blog here And this is always my struggle with business is like some of my suggestions are so to speak counterintuitive to business because Literally, I should say put her in charge of more things Right Yeah, she but it's about helping the customer. That's yeah, so we put suggestions in there is I don't mind the remediation talks We have them with the clients all the time and some of them have worked really well because we've suggested putting the clients on managed services We switch them over to managed services and they're like, oh, wow We just pay you a monthly bill and you just take care of everything and we don't worry about it anymore Yeah, and those works. Yeah weird. Yeah, and I we've got so those clients and they actually end up with just less Trouble overall because we're managing things in a proactive nature and that's kind of the goal. That's rips case. You heard the ding So, you know, that's kind of a goal is you have it becomes a more Cohesive relationship because we're interested in keeping you very happy So you'll keep sending us checks for the managed services and we're also interested in you not having down type of problems Or you wouldn't be happy So become we come very proactive in that circumstance and we're just handling it So you don't have to think about it And they had a weird problem the other day one of our managed clients They were impressed because they called after hours emergency at your phone right away. You're like, hey, can you Put this file back and how many days back do you keep they just in Monday weren't this is late at night So they're not yeah, we told them it's 30 we keep 30 days 30 revisions of all their files They kind of sort of have something they need just I said I said tell you what just put in the email Right now what you want restored and I'll restore it because he started in the laming a long path and a couple dates and It's nice. The nice thing is the tools we use are very extensive and we Went back tonight. It's like two clicks. He's in it. I email it's done He's like I just emailed you I'm like, yeah The hardest part was exactly articulating what it is you wanted back the easiest part for us Because we these the money that you spend with us goes to tools to keep all your servers Well maintained and we restored the file that yeah, and the problem is someone had overwritten the file So the file was there was being backed up someone had deleted the data within the file and hit save last week Oops, so they needed the previous version of their So that happens that's that's a nature of a lot of what we do But I'm gonna do some of those because they and it goes back to we've redone a lot of our knowledge management I started to do a video and I just eat full of things I keep thinking about shortcomings we had and I keep going redo redo redo and The way we do it. So we kind of just had a nice meeting We get together and we really thought about how we structure the data even better and I thought it was good now It's better again and like I said, we never just go that's the way we're doing it now At some point you have to stop trying to innovate so you can't just waste your time doing it So but we're at another version again, so to speak and we've made it better We didn't know there was a enhancement for doing a couple things for like the in the wiki how we save data We found a couple tricks that helped and it was kind of a crowd think we put it together and we implemented the templating system better I gotta get better at it myself. These guys the people who actually do it know how to do it Oh, I got an idea how to do it. No. Yeah, Kyle and Steve know how to do it I know the workaround. I know how to get it all templated right because structuring your data at some point You're a lot of what you do in IT is knowledge management And that's a very big portion of it very big portion of its knowledge management That's actually what's funny when we we have a client who's got a contractor and it's almost like the eye and IT stands for information It might even stand for that the eye and IT stands for information if you don't have it and It's that's something I've been really happy about we got compliments because like we took over IT for a couple companies Like your guys come in and actually like come in and just fix things. I'm like, yeah The other guy goes, I don't know exactly what he did But it really appeared to be like he was relearning Every time he came out right and he's never and we took over IT when I kind of told him that When we asked him for documentation first it was just met with deaf ears trying to take over when I isn't asked I don't expect it if we have it great when they finally sent over a file of documentation It was absolutely wrong And I'm like this is the problem that he says oh, yeah They built that he's seen that before as they provide it from when he took over and basically what they did was never updated it Since they did their valuation they took over did an evaluation and assembled all of it and never updated the documentation I'm like really this yeah Is that an issue everywhere or just IT because like my other job too like that documenting was just it was just never done Or at least not done well. Yeah That's so this is something I learned a lot from working in the Ford supply chain You're in supply chain. So my previous job was working as an IT director We were ISO 9000 and if you've not done any of the ISO Q1 or the willy-call six sigma processes You probably one you're more familiar with who's it's popular new automotive is also popular outside the automotive We did all that and that means everything was outlines processes and procedures and details So every department had books in it of what the process was what they did and this is this was a real Challenge because we won Ford Q1 but to get that was a lot of That and I enjoy in a big picture, you know, you kind of fight it when you're trying to get your documents done in department I've told Marvin about my malicious compliance and yes Maybe we'll do the story about that sometime because I did join us at an event around here some time And I'm sure Tom will tell you the story. It is a really good story. Yeah, so it's maybe we'll do it I've like there's that I don't know but it's definitely got some profanity in it and things happen but the I end I end up documenting my department, which was IT and we created processes and procedures and Having that knowledge and I still have that with me It's kind of like you get beat into your head these regimented things. So that's always it is in reality Is a business is about process and procedure. What do I provide? I provide a structure that these people work And have a structure and a process they follow your customers follow a process by okay, they go to your website They walk in the door. They get checked in and do, you know, they bring your stuff here for service There's a process by which we follow up on emails. There's going to be a process by which We service the client and the process I talked about in the beginning here How we invoice the client or create a draft and eventually do that because in the end You're not a business unless you send out the bills You're you're just and that's a that is a challenge for a lot of small businesses And that's why we We think a lot about how we do our invoicing because it is an integral part because in the end You did the service you get a happy customer But they're not actually a customer until you actually have an invoicing process They don't mind paying the bills as long as you did the thing you're doing and as long as you have the information And they don't go Yeah, you seem to guess where to click an outlook for an hour And then it seems like you spent two minutes clicking Most of the time our phone calls and trouble tickets are solved very very fast because of they're so short Yeah, so usually within the 15 minutes and if you're a managed service client, that's free Yeah, we most of our managed service that we sell and I thought about how I want to talk about this and I got some Discussion I've done with friends. We kind of instead of selling an all-in approach as much It's more about a hybrid approach where We manage the systems we're going to manage the antivirus to manage all that stuff in the backups But we still bill it for projects that the clients have other than that They have their maintenance that they pay and then they can call us and we don't build for 15 minutes So it's kind of like the 15 minutes or free type thing Which we are not sandbagging here. We solve the majority of those little phone calls that we get for those clients Are my printer doesn't work. I unsorted something in outlook Yeah, they're all little I deleted my signature I deleted my signature. Well, and another one is we have a couple HIPAA compliant clients That have to follow procedures the way they send their quotes It's an insurance agency, but because they're actually sending quotes for medical insurance They have some compliance. They have to do they can't just attach it So that little plug-in they use I don't know. It just goes it goes the hell away. We don't know why And it does it falls off the front It just I can't really even plug in at all but occasionally we have to put it back It's not real often it happens once a month out of an an entire staff of people So it's not like it's occupied too much of our time But we're we've got a work instruction how we put it back and we just follow the steps It's really easy once you have the work instruction. Go here. Go here. Go here. Click here done It adds it back in you just re-enable it as a plug-in and outlook and it just goes I don't know what makes it stop. Yeah, but it works So that's back to that knowledge management like you said the eye must stand for information. It has to it has to I think it does So if we can only figure out what the T stands for Yeah, well speaking of technology Yeah, we've segway segway from technology technology that is Something kind of just unusual. I've always explained to people here in the Detroit area when they're like, what do you mean? There's all these big businesses. So you must be servicing on something like no No, you got to remember lots of these big companies still don't have technology. They're still Very very archaic. So we're hoping to bring more technology to it people like and this is the problem We just did a client that required dot matrix printers Yes, because they still like doing all stuff on three-point invoices. We took them nice laser ones and they said no, no, no No, no, we need that dot matrix. So we got that dot matrix one. Yes I didn't even know they still made dot matrix. And here's the problem Would technology make them more efficient? Yes, but this is the but and this is why they're a hard sell And this is what people don't always understand and I hate excuses for not being able to sell something or you know You're not trying to ride very much anti excuse But they have they have a very good argument and we've seen this argument. We have a restaurant guy That has the same valid argument. It's why he doesn't have a website If they're making a lot of money and are highly profitable Especially when they're in a market because there's not any these young startups want to start up tech companies and things like that So they don't really have another incumbent or competitor in their market So they're going we make money without the technology and then technology means we would have to change process and learn new things And there's not a market push for it So unless there's a market push going I need to change my ways because of market push or other people who are just Focused on becoming more innovative all the time. I have competition in my market So I have my own market push There's no market push and that's how we have a restaurant. We've talked to them about getting a website They don't have one. They also don't have enough room for parking and it's a big place You can't get in there Fridays and Saturdays They're busy seven days a week and Fridays and Saturdays I have drove in and had to leave the parking lot because there's not even a place to park And there's a line off the door. So their kind of answer is do I need a website?  Do they're like, oh, it's that much money I don't know if I want one that bad And I don't need one because I'm busy and then Because I can't get in there and refine Saturday. I don't really have a good market push for the person Yeah, we can get more people that can't park in your yeah I mean, there's no there's no denying that like having a good website and stuff would would increase their business But it's hard when they can't get people in already. It's hard to Yeah, and so I mean without a market push. It's kind of a hard push Uh for a sale and uh, so that's it It's a lot of that goes on here in the Detroit area with in the manufacturing because You know name all the companies that are in the headlines right now that build things That aren't dot com attached. You know, it's all iot and other things or maybe my Excuse me, maybe my head's too much in the tech cloud. That's just what I see But I just don't see with the exception of tesla opening up a car company and tesla opened up a car company Yeah, but they automated the hell out of everything and made it really efficient But they also chose a niche if they would have taken some of that innovation they put into it They would be a real car competitor Unvolume but they didn't go for volume they went for niche car and So they're an interesting competitor market But obviously they don't make up a percentage of the market like 4gm toyota or any of the big name car companies But they have a car in space They do have a car in space so yeah Because their goal is to go to mars. So I think the car isn't gonna land there. They've kind of missed but whatever So that's what's going on um And yes, we do firewalls us a couple people called Um, I I don't know if I'm scaring people off It's fun because I don't know if they think I'll just charge like 20 dollars to do something I've been quoting more prices the prices do vary because you kind of get to give me a scope of work Uh, I'm doing firewall setups and things like that. We had another guy called here. He hasn't called back He called me left the message. I left the message back. Um Yeah, email is great. Um, no phone tag because the same question and we're working on redoing parts of the website. So On the form it'll kind of be like I'll describe more what I need because I think I maybe I haven't been as clear But as long as you give me scope of work and we've done a few jobs, uh for people setting up free nas We've done them setting up a pf sense for them and just general network We did some unify work for guy out in marasca. That was really cool Um, so we we can definitely do it and they were very clear because most of them were other it people Just give me a scope of work. Boom. I got you and I'll quote you a price right away And we can schedule it and uh make things happen. So we do remote support. We do that And that's all on our website. So if you need any of those things, no matter where you're at This is all stuff we do. Mm-hmm And we're gonna start doing uh, we've been talking about it for a while But we just we need to pull the trigger on it. We're gonna start doing some workshops and stuff here at the shop Um dealing with um, like I mean, well, I'm sure tom will do some tech ones But you know, we'll probably start off doing like some like get your business on google and some Maybe some seo workshops and and by the way a lot of these are ones if you look through my history There are a couple of long I have an entire facebook advertising hour long video I did the details out with the series of slides how we set up ads how we do all this Um, it's going to be slightly dated because I did it say probably need to do that again Yeah, right. I need to get they change the they change the add system a little bit But the majority of it's relevant. So even though these workshops so for those of you that are remote Yeah, they'll end up posted probably as a long Video as well because that's actually one of our giveaways too. So when people come here and get to interact with us We do one-on-ones. We also still offer Doing and by the way, that's something we can help you with if you have a business Under LTS creative we can do Help you out remotely because we can do shared screens and things like that through our remote support tool We do the virtual meetings and we might do some webinars as well. So yeah, yeah, and I don't know what you want to Should we throw out about uh, five o'clock fridays or yeah We might start doing uh, fridays at five is an idea we have So my friend did steak friday for a long time and they did make some changes at their company and they moved to a new location So right now they're not doing it. It was just kind of a cool hangout for uh businesses to come hang out with you So we we're looking at doing some of the same things. We don't have a start date for it So if you're local in the area, um, we're probably just going to call it fridays at five kind of like Hey, come and hang out talk, whatever talk business just It's just an environment hang out in our office. I'll try some spicy foods and things like that We're gonna put a spread out here on the table and yeah sit and chat and talk about like I said about whatever about whatever fine We should probably keep politics and religion out of it. But yeah We're gonna leave those two off the table because they're too divisive But uh, I love talking to because I'm I go to some of these networking events and I've spoke on panels I just spoke last friday at golden sacks the small business program that I've went through and it's just fun I'm just having a great conversation with a bunch of other business owners and uh about all kinds of a variety of topics Uh, I I told him about my friend Sean's idea for doing the x-interview things and so I mean he's kind of There's more coming on some of that because we have a we have a domain and well, we that was we kind of got as a joke It was kind of like, oh, wouldn't it be funny if we and then after talking with your buddy It was kind of like this may actually be viable. Yeah, and it's completely it's not related to technologically It's it's kind of another business idea. So we're like Well, um, maybe we're not gonna reveal because we're not really done with the idea yet. Um, so yeah, but it's interesting Yeah, and so yeah, we're looking at other things like that. It's uh We're looking at scalable things that we can sell So to speak as or services we can sell kind of on a global scale and this is one of them It's for sure I have to learn some languages, but yeah I think just foul language Anyways, we'll leave you with that and we'll leave you guessing because there's not one just really know what to say It's but why not do a teaser. You'll you'll know it when it comes out. I hate clickbait, but I feel like clickbaiting now That's not really it's not clickbait. It's just it's a teaser for what's coming, you know But if you haven't seen my thing on invoice ninja I'll go watch it if you want to sit down and kind of walk through the workflow of it Go sign up and play with it for free. They do not require a credit card So, um, yeah, if you want to see the invoices I was talking about for yourself and not watch my video and just go through it They have all their online documentation. They have an entire manual that walks you through things And like I said, I wanted to make those videos and talk about it because then as I get into the videos I want to do about more detailed business workflow. Um, I wanted to make sure you understood the tools reason That's always the question is oh, that's a great workflow time But I don't have this tour that tool well all the tools that I want to talk to when I workflow now Are a combination of everything's open source and everything's either open source or something you can buy So I list all the tools if you wanted to copy the same stack of tools that I'm doing It is completely like we use screen connect um for remote support. I think it's a great tool. We've tried a few others Really like it. Um, also, there's a interview I did yesterday that's going to get published today I didn't really I was waiting for them to email me. I thought uh, uh Something else to go with it, but it won't I'll finish editing it today I interviewed um the new guy over at cloudberry labs and talked about their product And I have some reviews coming up of clover. So we use some of their tools And kind of use special use cases for clients and I really like that It's a really what they've done one night first tested it and what we sold to some of our Clients who are cloud averse Wow, um, so I'm going to do some videos on it. So the interview the interview was really good I'll get that published today. 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So, good morning and welcome back to the classics in total synthesis NPTEL lecture series. In the last lecture we talked about the application of photochemical reaction in the total synthesis of trichonanes. So, we will continue our discussion on synthesis of few more trichonanes using different types of photochemical reaction and how they have successfully used this photochemical reaction in synthesis of trichonanes. So, first we will start with two total synthesis reported from Oda's group, one on Hissutane other one on Capnallene. So this is a structure of Hissutane and E again as I said E has used photochemical reaction as well as a trimethylsilate iodide mediated rearrangement of a bicyclic system as key reactions in the synthesis of Hissutane. So, let us see how he has thought about it and according to him this molecule can be easily obtained as you can see obtained from this enone, you do a reductive alkylation at this carbon and followed by Wittig reaction one can convert this into the natural product and this can be obtained from this tricyclic compound using trimethylsilate iodide mediated rearrangement of this bicyclic compound, the six-umber and four-umber it undergoes a rearrangement I will come back how this rearrangement takes place in a while and of course this can be easily obtained by 2 plus 2 cycloaddition reaction. What is the trimethylsilate iodide mediated rearrangement and how does it work? So, if you have a bicyclic system particularly a six-umber ring fused with a four-umber ring and if you treat with trimethylsilate iodide one of the carbonyl group will attack trimethylsilate group and then you form the corresponding axonium ion. Immediately the bond which is fusing the six-umber and four-umber ring so will migrate as shown here to form a bicyclic compound where both the rings are five-umber ring. Once you have this carbocation iodide will attack and you will get the corresponding iodide. This undergoes further cleavage to introduce the double bond, both iodide and OTMS will eliminate to generate the double bond and the double bond under the same condition will isomerize to get the conjugated. So, basically if you look at this reaction is done in 2 steps. First the photochemical reaction 2 plus 2 to get this compound then you treat with trimethylsilate iodide that rearranges to the bicyclic compound where both the rings are five-umber rings. Let us see how he has developed this for the synthesis of et cetera. So, he took cyclohexene dion and then did 2 plus 2 cycloaddition with the cyclopentene having a gem dimethyl group to get this tricyclic compound then treat with trimethylsilate iodide. So, which forms this intermediate followed by migration of this bond you get this tricyclic compound. And as I discussed in the previous slide this will be attacked by iodide followed by elimination you get the corresponding enone that undergoes isomerization to give that tricyclic compound. So, this tricyclic compound you could easily get in 2 steps very interesting 2 steps. Then reductive alkylation was done with lithium in liquid ammonia. So, lithium in liquid ammonia reduces and then you basically it reduces the double bond and generates manion here that can be quenched with methyl iodide and followed by nitric reaction on the ketone gives natural product. So, if you look at this synthesis in 4 steps Oda's group could successfully achieve the total synthesis of et cetera. And overall yield is also very high and 36% overall yield for a natural product total synthesis is considered as an excellent outcome and that is mainly because you could do it in 4 steps and one of them is photochemical reaction other one is rearrangement. So, that is how you could successfully do this. Then he extended the same methodology to its isomer capnally if you look at Hirsutine and capnally this I already discussed when I talked about initial introduction to tricunanes. So, there is some minor modification or adjustment of alkyl groups between Hirsutine to capnally. So, he thought he could extend the same method to the total synthesis or capnally and here he used one more key reaction that is titanium mediated ester ketone reductive coupling which later people call it as Shapiro reaction which later people call it as McMory coupling. So, how he did this let us see his retro synthesis if you look at it. This portion as you know it comes from the TMS iodine mediated rearrangement. So, once you have that this 3 carbon unit can be easily introduced by Michael reaction with ethyl acrylate and one can also cyclize this to get the corresponding ketone and then followed by VT reaction you can introduce a double bond. This as I said one can use a Michael reaction to introduce the CH2CH2CO2ET and this is obtained by TMS iodide rearrangement and which in turn can be easily made from cyclohexene dia and isobutylene. And this McMory coupling you know if you have a di ketone and if you treat with titanium 0 it can form either a ring with a double bond or it can form a diol. But if you have a ketone ester same thing if you do first it will form the diol which is almost like Penochol type coupling then this will undergo elimination to get the enol ether which upon hydrolysis will give you the corresponding ketone. So, this is what McMory has reported if you have a ketone and enester you will get the ketone. If you have 2 ketones you will get either diol or the diol will be further converted into the double bond. And the other starting material that is cyclohexene 1,4 diome. So, that was not easy to prepare but there are reports how one can make this in good quantity. So, this was done using a combination of diol salt reaction followed by reduction and pyrolysis. In 3 steps one can get or one can reduce one of the double bonds of benzoquinone. See that is what you need isn't it? You take benzoquinone and reduce one of the double bonds. So, how it was done? First you do a diol salt reaction with cyclopentadiene and you get this tricyclic adduct. Then you have to selectively reduce the double bond which is in conjugation with 2 ketones that is very easily done by treating with zinc and acetic acid. So, now if you do a pyrolysis, if you heat it, if you heat it, it will undergo a retro diol salt reaction and this also can be done and if you heat it and then distill. So, while distillation under reduced pressure also one can do the same thing that is pyrolysis that is retro 2 plus 2. Retro 2 plus 2 will give you the cyclohexene 1,4-dione plus cyclopentadiene. So, this cyclohexene 1,4-dione upon photochemical reaction with butylene will give you the bicyclic compound. This bicyclic compound upon treatment with trimethylsilal iodide as I mentioned earlier for the irsutine synthesis it undergoes rearrangement to give the corresponding bicyclic compound. This undergoes further elimination to get the bicyclic enone. Once you have this bicyclic enone then one can do the Michael addition product. For that first introduce a C-H-O that is normally done by treating with sodium iodide and quenching with ethyl formate you introduce the aldehyde. Then you do the Michael addition. So, Michael addition is done with triethylamine and ethyl acrylate and after the Michael addition this aldehyde also undergoes a sort of retrochlycine to give only the Michael addition product. Aldehyde is easily removed. Once you have that then you do the 1,4 addition with lithium dimethylcuprate. You could introduce a methyl group then you carry out the McMurray coupling reaction. You have a ketone, you have an ester then the McMurray coupling gives the five umbered ketone. It forms the enolether hydrolyzed to give the five umbered ketone. In the example where I have shown we formed six umbered ketone. Here it is five umbered ketone. Once you have a ketone next step is just to form the double bond using Wittig reaction to get the corresponding natural product that is capnoline. So, to summarize Oda group could synthesize this capnoline in 1987 and the starting material was same for capnoline as well as Hirsutin that is cyclohexene 1,4-dione which is made from parabenzoquinone by reducing the double bond. The double bond was reduced selectively but through three step sequence first dalesal reaction followed by reduction of the double bond and retro dalesal reaction. And the second key reaction was the McMurray coupling of ester and ketone to get the ketone and overall the whole synthesis was accomplished in six longest linear steps with an overall yield of 28%. So, 28% overall yield for any natural product synthesis is quite high and it was very successful. So, now we will move to another very interesting photochemical reaction which has been successfully used by Paul Wenders group and also others. So, here what he has used is a meta photocycloid reaction of an aromatic compound with a double bond as a key reaction to make many natural product belonging to triquinones. One such natural product which we will discuss is isochromine and his idea is this is a first retro synthesis you can see you introduce a double bond and the double bond if you reduce you get isochromine and this can be obtained by this particular cyclic intermediate where you can see a cyclopropane. Now, let us see how he makes this cyclopropane. He used a very clever are in meta photocycloid reaction as the key reaction. So, you can see a aromatic ring and a double bond this under photochemical condition undergoes this are in meta photocycloid reaction to give this tricyclic compound. I will come to that how this is done and this can be obtained easily in few steps starting with two bromotolivine and methyl vanyl ketone and another bromoputy. So, before going into the details I will discuss about this are in meta photocycloid reaction and before that the starting material that is aromatic compound how they made it. You take this two bromotans butane and treat with lithium. So, you will exchange the bromine with lithium then exchange with copper and that undergoes one for addition with methyl vinyl ketone to get this intermediate. This intermediate then you add to a lithioderivative of two bromotolivine and coprosiodate. So, that will give you this alcohol. This lithium if you add to this ketone you will get this compound. Now, again if you treat with lithium in liquid ammonia, so this benzylic alcohol will be clear and you get the starting material which is required for the photocycloid reaction. So, this photocycloid reaction gives you this intermediate as well as B. So, A and B they are obtained in almost equal amount and if you take A and again heat it. So, after protocol reaction you isolate that and then heat it this will undergo. So, opening of the cyclopropane to give this diet and that if you reduce selectively only this double bond you will get isochrome. And this method was extended for the total synthesis of ceratopicenol. Again same arene olefin metaspotocycloid reaction was used following what Wendrey has reported. As you can see here this can be obtained from the corresponding enone by simple reduction and this can be obtained again from this cyclopropane and which in turn can be obtained from this aromatic substituted compound. How is synthesized? So, you took this aldehyde. So, this aldehyde can be obtained in two steps from isobutronitrile. You take isobutronitrile and treat with base like LDA and quench with allyl bromide and you will get corresponding the allyl group. This upon reduction with dibol you get the corresponding aldehyde and this aldehyde on treatment with this lithium you will get the alcohol and further reduction gives you precursor for arene metaspotocycloid reaction. So, this undergoes arene metaspotocycloid reaction to give these two products where this is the major product. Take this major product and then treat with benzene thiol in liquid ammonia. So, what happens in the presence of liquid ammonia? Benzene thiol forms pH-S radical. So, that undergoes a 1,4 addition that undergoes a 1,4 addition and pushes the double bond. And followed by lithium and liquid ammonia cleaves the SPH. So, basically this cyclopropane is opened up with benzene thiol and when it opens up the double bond also migrates then the SPH is reductively cleaved with lithium ammonia to get the double bond. Now, you need a functional group here, you need a hydroxyl group there. So, that is done by treating with chromium trioxide dimethyl pyrosol to get the ketone and that was reduced to get alcohol. Before that, you know you need a methyl group here, this place you need a methyl group. So, you treat with LDA and quench with methyl iodine, you can introduce the angular methyl group and followed by reduction with sodium borohyldide you get corresponding serotonin. I will complete the whole process of photochemical reactions being used at the total synthesis of tricunins with one more total synthesis again reported by Wender and that is about total synthesis of subarchlorgic acid. So, this is an angular tricunin having a carboxylic acid. So, now if you look at this particular compound has three functional groups, one you have a ketone then you have a double bond and third one is the carboxylic acid. And Wender could use successfully the arene olefin metaphotocyclic addition reaction to get this compound. How he has device is retrosynthetic analysis. This acid if you have a CH2Cl or CH3 that methyl group attached to the double bond can be converted into carboxylic acid. It can be just simple methyl also, that can be converted into the corresponding carboxylic acid. And the ketone it is better to protect it so that no it will not interfere in other reactions and that can be obtained from this tetracyclic compound using the photocycloaddition reaction. Obviously the precursor for this is this arene substituted compound and that can be obtained from 2 bromo 1,4 dimethylbenzene. So, that is commercially available starting material. So, you take this 2 bromo 1,4 dimethylbenzene and treat with lithium. So, you exchange this with lithium and then add this aldehyde. So, this aldehyde also quite easy to make. You have to think about using glycine rearrangement. This is an exercise, think about it. If you use a glycine rearrangement you will get this aldehyde. Then you will get this menzalic alcohol. Oxidize this menzalic alcohol with PCC to get ketone. Then protect this ketone as the corresponding ketone. Then do the key meta-photocycloaddition reaction that gives a mixture of these 2. One is the linear triconin, other one is the angular triconin 1. So, separate these 2, take the angular one and again use a radical condition. You use a benzyl peroxide and acetonitrile. Benzyl peroxide and acetonitrile it forms a sort of you know benzyl peroxide generates this CH2CN radical and that undergoes a 1,4 addition like it attacks this double bond and the double bond migrates and then breaks this. It is almost like 1,4 addition concurrently breaking the cyclo propane. Now, you do not need the cyanide, okay, you need you know methyl group only there. So, you can use potassium in 18 crown 6, it will reductively cleave the cyanide and you will get the methyl group, okay. Now, what you need? You need to remove this ketone as well as oxidize the methyl group to corresponding carboxylic acid. So, if you treat with the MCPBA, there is only 1 double bond. So, the double bond will become the epoxide. You make this epoxide. Now, if you treat with base, strong base, okay, you can use LDA or you can use isopropyl cycloexyl magnesium bromide. So, that is a base that will act as a base. Basically, what you will get is corresponding allylic alcohol. So, basically, this will open up the epoxide to get corresponding allylic alcohol. So, what you need as I said, this methyl group should be converted into corresponding carboxylic acid, okay. So, it took little bit more steps than what they would have expected. Then, you have to functionalize this here. The double bond should be functionalized at the same time the double bond has to move here. So, this was easily done by treating with tionyl chloride. So, what will happen? The double bond will migrate and you will get a corresponding CH2Cl, allylic chloride. So, once you have this allylic chloride, so you do treat with silver fluoroboride and DMSO, you will get the corresponding aldehyde, okay. It is a DMSO base reagent, okay. So, that is very easy to oxidize the chloride to corresponding aldehyde. Then, vinegar oxidation gives the corresponding carboxylic acid. So, that is the natural product. But what you should remember is during the tionyl chloride reaction, not only the allylic alcohol was converted into the corresponding allylic chloride with the displacement in the form of SN2I reaction, but also the ketol was cleaved because when you use tionyl chloride, HCl also will be formed, okay. Though you use pyridine, the HCl, pyridine HCl also is sufficient to cleave the ketol to give ketol. So, to summarize, Wendell's group reported the total synthesis of subargaergic acid in 1990 using their reaction that is arine, a meta-arine photosychloridic reaction. And they started with bromoparas xylib as the starting material. And as I said, the key reaction is the arine-olefin meta-photocyclic addition. So, this reaction, this particular synthesis took little bit longer steps. So, it took about 11 steps. Still, the overall lead was 15 percent, okay. So, that is a really interesting method to make such a natural product. Thank you.


It's been a rough couple of weeks and I want to talk about a more light-hearted and just a fun story That is going to make all of you feel good So by now if you're not familiar with Ken Clippenstein, then I don't know what you're doing with your life but this is journalist Ken Clippenstein and Pictured in this photograph you can see him doing his hobby He's on Twitter and he is trolling Republicans just masterfully and easily and no matter how many times he trolls them They fall for it every single time So on Memorial Day, he decided to tweet at a couple of Republicans with a very simple request So he tweeted to Matt Gaetz congressman my grandpa is a big fan of yours and is a veteran He would be thrilled if you could retweet this photo of him for Memorial Day Here he is as a young private first class Happy Memorial Day Now this is not a photograph of Ken Clippenstein's grandfather This is a photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald the individual who assassinated president John F. Kennedy Now, of course Matt Gaetz did in fact retweet this image Uh, but more importantly once he did Ken Clippenstein then changed his twitter name to Matt Gaetz Is a pedo just brilliant But that's not all Because the american conservative union president who also is I believe the organizer of CPAC He was tweeted at by Ken Clippenstein and he decided to respond as well saying wow Ken Clippenstein It's my honor to retweet the photo of a veteran on a day. We remember his fallen friends God bless your grandfather and America. Oh, and he also got Dinesh D'Souza to retweet him as well and quickly after Lee Harvey Oswald started trending on twitter because so many conservatives Were duped and we're not just talking about ordinary conservatives He got high profile conservatives to retweet an image of Lee Harvey Oswald. It's just It's it's beautiful Like I don't know how else to describe this level of trolling like the skill here is top tier like this is legendary Now once Lee Harvey Oswald was trending When enough conservatives found out what Ken Clippenstein was doing Then came the pro clutching of course and this is the best part of the story in my opinion So Candice Owens actually took notice and she tweeted at Ken Clippenstein saying You are making a mockery of a day that is meant to memorialize men that died So that you and other anti-american leftists can laugh at their sacrifices by photoshopping a murderer Into their uniforms. You are deranged now in case you weren't aware of this Uh, Ken Clippenstein did not photoshop Lee Harvey Oswald into a uniform That was a real picture of him Second of all, I think it's really cute that she thinks that Our imperialist wars are fought so that way we can have freedom here in America Like you can just see how brainwashed she is But Ken Clippenstein responded perfectly by saying would not have guessed you cared so much about being politically correct To which she responded saying it's not about political correctness to have a soul and a modicum of decency Reminder these men died the majority of them on foreign soil so that you could be free You do not photoshop murderers into their uniforms so that you can have a laugh So in case you're not grasping the argument that she's making here when she's offended by something that's politically incorrect Then actually it's not about pc outrage. It's just about Her genuinely being offended, which is different somehow than The usual pc police that her and conservatives denounce all the time Okay, makes sense. And again, she Said that she thinks that the picture was photoshopped um But for whatever reason she decided to delete all of those tweets I don't believe this like at all. Just so you know, of course I mean, look, this isn't the first time as I mentioned earlier that ken clippenstein has duped conservatives Back in 2019 on the fourth of july he tweeted to steve king An image of jack Nicholson saying Sir, can I get a retweet for my uncle? Colonel Nathan jessup. He's in the marines and spending the fourth overseas keeping our nation safe And not only did steve king retweet this image, but he actually added a really nice little um Message saying colonel jessup and all your marines.   Ken clippenstein is a legend.   That motherfucker don't miss man. He's good In the heat of battle. He don't miss. No in the heat of controversy. He don't miss. No Brain idea Recovery mode my brain idea


Welcome to year 2 of the Broogly Summer Spectacular, which is the series where I go over back rooms levels in order with the ultimate goal of explaining every single level inside the back rooms. Last summer I went over levels 13 through 50, then in the winter I went over levels 50 through 58, and now I'll be explaining levels 59 through 70. Hope you enjoy it, and let's kick off the summer with level 59. Enjoy. Back rooms level 59, or the back way as it's been named, is classified as a class for difficulty, and is very unsafe and unsecure with a medium entity count. I'm gonna be honest, it's best that you just don't trust this level and just try to avoid it if you can. The level itself was first documented as a maze-like subway system by a small group of wanderers a few years ago, but it was first officially added to the MEG database recently. News about the dangers of this level spread very fast when four injured MEG personnel escaped the level after losing over half of their team to the monsters within. So let's see exactly what makes this level dangerous. Also my nose is stopped up, so sorry if I sound weird. The description. Level 59 takes the appearance of an infinite underground railway system. The level is very, very labyrinthine and maze-like and confusing, which of course means it's hard to map. The entire area that's been explored is split into two specific parts, the stations and the tunnels, and I'll be going over both of those parts in the video. But before I talk about those sections, I think it's important to note that there are literally no supplies in this level and no easy exits.  So first I'll explain what these stations are. The stations look like subway stations from real life, and they all take different appearances and have different characteristics. Some of them look clean and modern with white marble and metal and cleanliness, and some look gray and old and abandoned and dingy like an old New York subway system. But all of these stations always feel empty and dangerous and dark, and you just feel really isolated and alone when you get here. A weird anomaly inside of these stations is that there's always wind present in them, which is pretty weird since the level is underground. How is there wind underground? And it's not just a light wind either. There's gusts of wind that can be so fast that can almost knock you over, and these wind gusts tend to correlate with one specific thing, the sound of trains off from the distance. Now this is strange for a bunch of reasons, but the main reason is because when you feel that wind gust and you hear those train sounds, you can't actually see a train. Like there's just not anything there. There's no visible train, but you hear it, which is very weird to say the least. Are they phantom and visible trains? Or are you hearing things and hallucinating? But now back to the physical stations themselves. They're comprised of hallways and corridors and staircases and railways. There's also some electrical rooms in these weird offices that are spotted in the hallways, but pretty much everything here is just very empty and lonely. And all the places give you that vibe I was talking about, that dark scary feeling. The staircases and hallways are also very enigmatic because some of them stretch out for thousands of miles, and some of them dead end randomly. There's literally no way to map it out, it's just completely random. On the pale empty walls of these stations, you'll also see advertising posters. All the posters seem really random and really jumbled and they don't make any sense, but they all look like they could be real life posters. You just can't read them. They're in some weird language and they just look very strange. And as far as we know, they don't mean anything. But alongside these posters on the wall, a very important map might appear for you to escape the level, but I'll explain all that in a little bit. As far as the entities go in the station areas, there are the usual hounds and death rats and facelings, and all of those tend to hide in the darker areas and deeper in the staircases and hallways. But there's also another type of entity that's pretty rare to see in bathrooms levels. These entities, of course, are the clicker entities. These things take the appearance of strange typewriter creatures that roll around randomly and make a bunch of random clicky noises that seem to not make any sense. You almost never see these things in levels, so it's weird why they're here. Now with all that said, the stations are by far the safer parts of the level. In fact, they're where you should stay if you do get sent here, simply because the only danger is the rare entity that you might stumble on.  The actual danger in the level is in the next part, which is the tunnels. So the tunnels are accessed by the rail system that runs through the level. Most of the tunnels are dark and dank and empty, but some of them are dimly lit with weird soft lights. When you're inside the tunnels, you'll notice that there's a never-ending smell of corroding, rusting metal and a sort of wet, stinky odor. You also hear the distant sounds of moving trains and maybe even the weird footsteps of unknown creatures. The deeper you go into the tunnels and the further away from the nearest station you get, or the further away from lights, the darker and more isolated you will be. And the chance of encountering an entity increases exponentially. And that's because these tunnels are pretty much infested with creatures, specifically ones like skin stealers and smilers and hounds and even crawlers, the most common one being smilers. But there's also been reports of strange, unknown creatures lurking deeper into the darkness. Creatures that don't make sounds when they approach you and you don't know they're there until it's too late. Wanders have reported seeing weird hands and fleshy faces staring back at them when they pan their flashlights in front and weird giant creatures at the end of tunnels. We don't know what these creatures could be, just watch out. The actual train tracks that run through the tunnels also make things more difficult because they're a tripping hazard. And if you trip while you're trying to escape, there's also a really weird phenomenon where wanderers have reported seeing people deep inside the tunnels. But they aren't actually people, they look and walk like us, but they give off really bad vibes and they seem dangerous and they're obviously just not all there in the head. The main thought is that these people might be a crawler in the first infection stages or a skin stealer that hasn't fully grown out yet. The labyrinth of tunnels often connect with other tunnels and they also randomly turn and segment and dead end, which makes it a crapshoot if you're trying to explore them. You'll just have no idea where it's taking you. The best case scenario if you're in a tunnel or if you get stuck in a tunnel is if you somehow run into another station or a staircase that leads out of a tunnel. Because if you don't do that, you'll be stuck in a maze of infested tunnels forever. Which obviously would not be fun, especially since there's weird creatures there. But to enter level 59, you can go into the subways of level 11 until you find an empty station that looks like the one's here, or you can no clip from level 77 to get here as well. And to exit, you have to find a specific tunnel that leads to the train station on level 158. And most people find this tunnel by complete accident and it's just luck, but some claim to follow something called the map that they found on the wall in a station. And they say that the map leads them here. According to wanderers, this map manifests itself as a large subway map on the wall of a station and they can look at it and they can see where the exit is. Apparently it's really rare and doesn't just appear to people. And sometimes it's also wrong and it doesn't actually map out the level. So yeah, not much is known about it, as you can see. My advice is to just try to find the tunnel that says level 158 on it and that'll lead you out to the level. And hopefully you get out before something eats you from the darkness. Obviously. But yeah, that was level 59. Hope you enjoyed. That's it for the video. Thank you for watching. I love and appreciate all of you for your support, everything you do. If you want to support the channel even more, you can subscribe or like a video. 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Thank you and thanks to everybody who allowed us to be here and welcomed us here particularly to myself and my partner we're super delighted to be here so thank you you know many of our stories if we go back far enough are about migration and it's about when you arrive in a new land making sure that you stay as a welcome guest and that you are a steward of that land and my story of migration started about a hundred and fifty years ago some folks in Norway decided to leave there they packed up their family boat put in some salted herring some potatoes and got their eleven sons on his crew and they left for a new land and that new land was Artero New Zealand and fortunately they never made it it's not that they died at sea if they had I wouldn't be here it's just that they they stopped in South Africa I guess they got tired of the salted herring and and they settled there I was born there about a hundred years later and then I got on a boat when I was growing up and I sailed to the Americas and then and then settled in the United States so for me coming here to New Zealand now is really the completion of a family journey I'm a hundred and fifty years late and I see I've only got four minutes left so let me try to get on to the point of the discussion growing up in in South Africa it was very clear that that system was completely unfair but it also seemed to most people intractable but one person in particular showed us that it could be changed and so when Nelson Mandela came along and basically just said we're going to do things differently you know everyone fell in line and what was fascinating about that and it's been fascinating about so many of these changes from inequality to equality whether it's gender equality marriage equality they the people who benefit are not just the formerly disadvantaged but it's everyone in that society that benefits and so at some point we will we'll get that and so it is with with with clean energy and so the idea that we're working on is how can we get more equitable access to clean energy for folks and the reason that's important is demand for energy is going to continue to rise we you know we see that in terms of my ancestors thought that salted herring was a pretty neat technology but most of us like refrigeration we like lights we like the internet some of us even when we camp we like electric blankets and and as we as we progress and try to make as a more sustainable lifestyle we're going to go to electric vehicles we're going to go to you know electronic currencies and all of those things are going to take electrical energy that's actually probably a good thing because we know how to make sustainable electrical energy it's one of the easiest ones to make the sustainable and particularly what we're seeing in some countries is distributed electrical energy where it's privately owned small scale and still connected to the grid and what's interesting about that is when we connected and have the right controls technology we can actually have it so that we can make the grid a lot more reliable and resilient and that's important because we're going to need more people to adopt it if we're going to get the scale in order to mitigate climate change and then if we're going to mitigate the impacts of climate change we're going to need a more resilient grid so as we see more storms more droughts more wildfires more floods and we have to deal with these things it's going to be most excellent if we have the ability for communities to be able to disconnect from the grid from time to time when they need to maintain their own power provide services to others who are in trouble and then reconnect to the grid when we when we come back on so what does that mean for New Zealand well a lot of the incentive structures that are happening outside the you know in other countries have been actually quite successful at bringing on solar and other types of renewables the challenge has been that those incentives are often structured so that the people with the biggest houses with the biggest electrical bills and therefore probably the more affluent in the society are the ones that are getting the cheaper reliable solar and the people who can't have access to that are actually subsidizing that in the beginning there's nothing wrong with that you sort of get to five percent penetration you get solar going you demonstrated but it's not a sustainable way to get to real scale so the opportunity for New Zealand here is to come up with a new model a model where more people can get access to renewable energy and then to show how that works so that the rest of the world will look at New Zealand and say okay if they can do it we can also do that and that's how we can get global scale so the benefits would be that not only would New Zealand have a cleaner grid and a more resilient grid but that the rest of the world would then be able to adopt more more renewables so just like you know New Zealand wouldn't be able to solve climate change on its own my partner and I can't solve this problem on our own either so we'd like to invite you this afternoon to our circle right after lunch to discuss how we can get equitable access to renewable energy and we'd love to hear your contribution and and your comments thank you very much


All this month at Appalachian Wireless, get the only truly water-resistant Android smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S7, for just $99.99 and get a second one, free, while supplies last. Service agreement is required. Better service? Bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. The stories of that day remain the same. The recovery, however, is different. Many lost everything they owned on July 13, 2015, including their loved ones. The memories, though, will last forever.  Four people died that day during the Johnson County flood. The Floyd County Emergency and Rescue Squad aided in rescue efforts along Route 172, even though most members live in was difficult for them. We weren't used to losing people, and there were four lives lost that evening. One of those, we were as close as 15 feet from them and was not able to catch them. When my teens returned, I had to have pastoral help here to deal with my rescuers because they were not setting too well. While four lives were lost that day, those who were saved are thankful. We pulled 26 people from the water in a very short amount of time. Now that doesn't sound like a lot of folks, but now this is people that were hanging in the trees, in their houses, top of their houses, addicts, whatever the case may be. Me and my youngest son went up to my uncles to get help, which was a higher plateau in the bottom, and by the time we got him, that building had already broke loose, and they were inside. They did make it out, and they were able to get rescued. Stewart's father owned a gun shop, which is the building that broke loose. The family lost the shop, and their home was damaged significantly. We rebuild as much as we could with the FEMA money. FEMA doesn't really quite cover the amount of money that you need to fix it back. But as far as being able to live in it, we've got it to that point. Stewart says it'll take roughly $20,000 to complete the work on her home.