I teach a number of different conversations in my classroom that really are under the umbrella of difficult dialogues. Now one of the things that I really want to make clear is I don't just talk about these once in my class, but it is integrated throughout every single class. One of the topics that I talk about is homelessness. We look at homelessness from a local standpoint, what is going on in our community, as well as what is going on on campus, how are students impacted by homelessness. I also talk about race. I think it's very important to address anti-racism, anti-blackness in the classroom, and other categories of individuals that are often left out. Race is something that I've really focused on, especially this year. Another topic that I focus on is grief and loss. It's very, very challenging to talk about people who you have lost in your life, or who you are observing right now that are basically dying. But it's important to talk about because one of the things that we all have in common is one life and second death. We are all going to die at some point. So why not develop a culture where we can talk about this as something that's normal instead of something that is ostracized or excluded. Another topic that I talk about in my classroom is the experiences of LGBTQ+. And I think that's important because when we look at gender, it's not just two things. It's more than that. And we need to be able to talk about how are other people basically identifying themselves and why and be able to celebrate those differences. And so I kind of talk about some of these conversations in my class as the dark side of interpersonal communication. And when I do introduce it, my students love it because the dark side looks at both the light and the dark. It looks at what we kind of hide, what we decide not to talk about in interpersonal relationships, that these, the dark and light are both very important to talk about. And so in terms of why do I talk about difficult dialogues in my classroom, I think it's essential for teaching, learning and for building a community where everyone can empathize with one another and be collaborative so that we can work as a team instead of having this us and them mentality. We have to be done with that. We have to shut the door to us and them. And let's talk about the things that matter in our everyday lives.


Well, that one, yeah, we can put it in the fridge. Thank you, James. Under over, over under. Cross Celtic.


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What's happening YouTube? Thanks for tuning back into the channel today. As you can see we got some more Duramax goodies coming right your way After doing a couple of the performance upgrades on the last Duramax video We've kind of found a couple of little shortfalls with it in the first one Obviously, we kind of knew this going into it is going to be the transmission So we're going to do it a little bit by little bit. Eventually.  I believe it is a SK Allison trans go junior shift kit It's got a couple of valves in it got a couple of springs that we're going to change out It's really not going to be that hard We're going to show that even you know the DIY we can guy can get this kit all done It's not that hard at all. So stay tuned. So what exactly is a shift kit and what does it do for this transmission? Trans go says this is supposed to fix and reduce the driving complaints such as a Couple of different codes when it goes into neutral under high boost conditions The two three shift the three to four shift under high boost is you know has issues They say that you'd also see it stuck in a gear Sets different trouble codes and it's supposed to just in general shorten up your shifts and make them nice and crisp That is so that's what I'm hoping it'll do It'll be able to hold those clutches a whole lot easier be able to keep me from you know burning this thing up too fast Like I said, I know we're eventually going to do the trans full rebuild and build on it But hopefully this will get us through to that time and give you guys an idea of what it'll do So first off we're going to have to be draining the fluid out of here now because a couple of months back I did change out the filter the fluid and everything on the trans. I'm going to be saving what I have in here So the first thing we're going to need to get to do is a 15 millimeter to Drain our fluid out of the Allison trans here They do make it nice that they do have a nice Drain plug right here to be able to drain everything out for you So you don't have to you know drop the pan get this super big old mess everywhere So that kind of makes it nice for us to be able to get started So we'll get this drained out and then there's it looks like we'll see four eight 12 or 13 of these 13 millimeter bolts to be able to drop the pan here So we're going to drop that so we can get access to our valve body There we are guys we got our pan all dropped now We've got access to our sump filter which we will also replace because I didn't replace that one when I did the fluid and filter change We're gonna get the little gasket off here. The factory gasket is a nice hard rubber gasket with Metal rings around where the bolts go so that is actually going to get cleaned and reused So let's just set that one off to the side and then we're going to get this sump filter off Doesn't look like it's gonna be too bad And then I'm gonna put a picture up onto the screen of the bolts that you're gonna want to remove to be able to Get that valve body out So now that we dropped our sump filter off now We're gonna be taking off our harness and we're actually gonna be leaving the harness in the vehicle It's kind of just gonna you know hang down back here and we're gonna be able to take all these clips off So you've got kind of one hidden up here two three four five six solenoids one solenoid is up here One of the sensor connectors is this blue one right here and then the larger Looks like six or eight pin is here on the back side So we're gonna be taking all of these off and then this whole harness will just kind of swing back out of the way Also there guys, there's these two little tabs that are right here I'll see if you can see it right here that hold that harness connector into place And it's actually held in by these little pin clips We're gonna put those back in because they also hold those solenoids into place So they're up on your screen. I've got a picture from the Allison manual and the highlighted yellow bolts there are gonna be the ones that just hold the valve body into the case The other ones we're gonna take apart later once we get the actual valve body out But right now we're kind of just taking the valve body down out So we don't want to have to take out more than we really need to and then back up here We've got the two other gold color bolts right here that hold the spring retention In for the shifter, so we're gonna take those out first and Then take our spring retainer here for the arm out now the pin there in that arm As we're lowering it there is a pin that goes into the little shift arm Make sure you get that one pulled toward the driver's or the passenger side out of place You can see kind of right here that little shift arm. That's gonna be pulling out towards the passenger side So now that we got the valve body out here on a work surface We're gonna be taking out all the rest of these eight millimeter bolts except for we don't need to take out This little gold one right here There we go guys the two halves are separated It took a little bit of prying because there is dowel pins that go on to the bottom side here I kind of like to leave all these bolts into place But those dowel pins you'll kind of just have to wiggle back and forth to get everything separated And so we've got the upper the lower and our plate So now what we're gonna do we're gonna work on our upper case half here We're gonna pull out one two three four five of these bolts out of place the one that has this tube That goes across here. We need to pull this plate and this connecting tube up out Just takes a little bit of prying So there's our crossover tube And then this plate right here will come right up out of place And that's actually what holds in these two solenoids that we're gonna be working with so then There's gonna be two springs that are right here and you'll kind of we want to be very careful also because there's two Plungers probably won't be able to see but right here. That's right underneath those springs those plungers push up on the springs So make sure we don't lose those So now what we're gonna be replacing is we have our a Shift a solenoid valve in our B shift solenoid valve Without flipping it all the way over and losing all of our screws We're gonna just gonna set it up on end here to be able to get access to these valves And they're gonna be a little bit tricky There we go actually just use the little Screwdriver here grab the end. So that's gonna be the one end to the valve on the A side There should still be a valve in there, this is just the end plunger and then there is the B One as well And then these what do you think the tolerances are that they'll just fall out? So we're gonna just gonna kind of put it down onto the end here and We'll get these to fall by prying just a little bit to get them to fall out Just like that There we go so next we're gonna be kind of drilling out some of the relief the drain holes in our Spacer plate right here the kit comes with this point one two five inch drill bit I believe that's close to like eighth inch so on the actual plate here you will then flip it over and it will be this tiny hole right here and That tiny hole right there See how close we can get here It shows it very good in the instructions, but those are the two holes. So we're gonna drill those two out Yeah, we don't want to get any fine metal in the transmission So we're gonna clean these off really good And then we're gonna get a little bit of just scotch right pad or something just to make sure we don't have any Edges or anything like that and we'll clean this thing all off with brake cleaner then as well All right, so in the kit it comes with a pair of valves It comes with a pair of larger springs a pair of smaller springs as well as a couple of check balls Now these check balls nothing came out check ball wise when we took all this apart This is all added in there. So on the B side right here. There is gonna be one with a ridge to it So we're gonna put our check ball in we're gonna put our small spring Into the end of that and then our large spring over that one We're gonna put our other one together to this one's gonna be go into the B valve The other one is gonna go into the a valve now This is the tricky part in that this spring side is what goes into there first So we're gonna kind of want to hold the valve body up with a partner And then be able to slide these up into there get a little bit of coating of Transfluid just to help them slide up in there a whole lot easier and then we're actually gonna reuse the end little Retainers that's gonna go in there as well that one will go into the B And then that one will be there for the a so let's get these put in So now that everything is set back in there nicely into place We're going to go ahead and put back in our two retainers The A side is looks like it has a spring on it and the B side does not Just like so guys All right, so now we've got all of our valves seated in there with our end plungers when you push on these if you Have everything seated correctly the a one here on the outside is going to have a harder spring press than the one On the inside make sure there's no binding no, you know little harsh grinding areas that they press in nice and easily So we're going to be reusing the same two solenoids right here We're gonna be putting them in and putting everything back together just as we just took it apart Looks like we're all seated back together now when we go to tighten these back up They all of these 8 millimeter bolts are going to be evenly tightened Usually what I like to do is start in the middle and kind of work around in a circular pattern going out All of these are going to be torqued down to 9 foot-pounds So we'll get to torquing these All right now when we go to head and put this thing back up into place like we said before that shift arm You got to make sure you get it into the correct area on this shift cable or the shift area into the notch And then align your dowels get it set back up in there and then we'll start putting some bolts back in and Then actually once you get all of these up into place These bolts are going to be the same exact foot-pounds as it was when we took the two halves of the valve body apart 9 foot-pounds to put all these back in as well So next we're going to fill up the trans back up with the fluid that we took out of it check it We'll probably have to add another quarter So right around there now trans go they also say that you need to do some kind of a trans Relearn so their version of relearning the trans I'm a read-off sheet right here for you So start by making at least six that sets of light throttle up shifts through the years next make six sets of shifts at one third throttle then half throttle then three-quarter and so on Treat down shifts the same way by starting with light throttle and working up the full throttle when the shifts are quick and smooth Hit the tow-haul button and start over with the relearn So that sounds, you know pretty simple at that during the relearn expect some clunks bumps and or short flares Especially during the three four shift bumps and flares are normal during the relearn always do the relearn So seems like it's pretty easy Relearn usually takes about two hours worth of driving to fully initialize So I guess we're gonna have to go out driving for a little while. Oh darn So we'll go do that after we get her all filled up here So now after you get the whole vehicle filled up with fluid mine took about one extra quart So after you save all that it'll only take that much that you lost You want to make sure you get it up to full operating temperature on the transmission and on these diesels It takes a little bit of time So you want to get it up to at least over a hundred hundred and fifteen degrees on the trans temp Before you start doing anything then you can either a start to do the relearn just like I said They for them to do the slow stop style relearn or if you have access to a scan tool They have what they call a quick learn function on the scan tool We'll which it'll run through a couple of the solenoids get some of the air out of that valve body and Just allows it to go through a learn process just a little bit faster So now that we've got the trans up to temp We're gonna be doing a couple of normal quarter throttle pulls on it and we're gonna see how much better this thing shifts This one's gonna be a quarter throttle pull Not too bad at all. The shifts are actually a lot nicer, especially that two to three shift It's a whole lot crisper now that I you know have been feeling this thing with the power that it has now So now we're gonna get up and try a half throttle pull very nice Compared to what this trans was doing before I had in all this power to it without having you know The proper shifting and the proper thing pressures for the trans it was struggling a lot. This is a lot nicer guys Now for our three-quarter throttle pull That one to shift had a little bit of a flair to it But when it actually engaged into gear it was very solid it held the gears really well It worked pretty nice. I think we're just gonna have to end up driving this thing a little bit more They usually say these Allison trans like to have a couple hundred miles in them before they really start You know learning and getting in back into their swing before this So we'll give it a little bit of time before we do any like real hard pulls on it After driving a little longer I'm just falling more and more in love with this truck with all the power adders that we're putting on to it We're just you know finding those little short falls here and there Which we kind of already know that the Duramax has a couple of shortcomings when it comes to adding power to it So now when we're at like full pull at full boost on the throttle and like fourth fifth gear We start cutting out check engine light comes on and we got a low fuel real pressure code So we're gonna be doing a couple of more small Upfits here and there to be able to get rid of those and like so we're not gonna go into just a massive quick build All of a sudden we're gonna go in through it step by step Just to be able to show you guys the process and what you guys are gonna find in each step along the way Well, that's about all I've got for you guys today Appreciate you guys tuning in. 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Welcome, this is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh, and I'm doing a Twilight Zone option special. For those of you that know me, you know that I love the Twilight Zone. And I got the idea to do this. One, we're coming into the Halloween time, which is always a fun time to watch the Twilight Zone. And two, their Sci-Fi channel is doing a Twilight Zone marathon this Friday, September 23rd. So I'm doing a special right now through Friday, September 23rd, in honor of the Twilight Zone. Again, I love the half an hour episodes, the black and white episodes. There's so many of them that are my favorites, actually, classics. Rod Stirling was way, way, way before his time. And we'll talk about that more later. But if you'd like more information about the options newsletter or the special, or if you wanna sign up and take advantage of it, you can email me at melissathestockswish.com. You can call me at 9 to 9, 3,200 gap. You can also follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Skype. So again, the Twilight Zone, I don't remember what I used to get into these, but they always have marathons on New Year's Eve. They used to have a July 4th marathon, and now they're having one this Friday. Again, it's really the optimal time of the year when you're thinking about Halloween, but there's so many lessons in many of these shows. And again, with everything that happened the last two years in COVID, somehow we got into a theme in the trading room where when we wanted good luck, we'd play the Twilight Zone theme song. And COVID was so strange that somehow we ended up talking about the Twilight Zone and of course I love it and then everybody in the room got into it. So if you've been in the room, you know that. If you're a room member, you know that, but the Twilight Zone brings us good luck. So we're doing a special through just Friday, just for two days of the Twilight Zone and giving people an opportunity to join and sign up to start trading options if in fact they'd like to do that. So the Twilight Zone special is if you sign up for the Gap Options newsletter, which is 12 month subscription, it's normally 69.99. You'll save $1,000. It's 12 months. You will can sign up as long as you sign up by this Friday for 59.99. It ends Friday, September 23rd. So it's a two day sale. Take advantage of it. If you've been fine and long and you wanna jump in and you wanna join, great time to do it. We've got a lot of volatility. We're gonna have some great trades tomorrow. Earning season starts in October. It's just the perfect time to jump in and get going. A lot of people are looking to make money and do the class. Well, they can sign up, they can start trading options. And once they're having success and they say, wow, I see the system works. Then they can do the class afterwards. I have many people that have done that. Personally, I think it's better for people to learn first but sometimes people just want trade ideas. And you definitely get trade ideas on this newsletter. So the trades are emailed to you. Email to you is a subscription service. And again, as I was saying earlier, Rod Stolling was really before his time. I mean, there's so many episodes that I love. And I actually DVR them.  I'm gonna be DVR-ing the marathon. So if you love the Twilight Zone 2, then know to watch it. Sci-Fi channel this Friday, September 23rd. But so many things that are happening in the world right now, my goodness. I mean, some of the episodes, if you watch them, you're like, oh my gosh, I can relate that to this thing or that thing. And again, so interesting. This is back in the time where there was only, there was no color TV, it was black and white. He was way ahead of his time with many of his ideas, very creative genius actually. So let's talk about gaps. Let's talk about momentum. Let's talk about options. This was a beautiful trade that we did. This was a put, this was a put in Adobe and we did it last week. The stock closed here, gap down, dropped, fell. Or actually, yeah, it was last week, it was Thursday. This was Wednesday night. This was Thursday. It fell here Thursday night. We did the put in it. We also did the day trade. It kept going and actually this is still going if you can even believe it. We did 300 Adobe puts. If you sign up for the newsletter, you get the trades email to you live. This came out at 9.52 AM in the morning. This was very far away from that strike when I called it. It was a great call. It was all the way up here. Boom. Great, great call. Again, options are about momentum, getting the direction right, which you have to do in every trade and timing. Very important with options. And the big momentum comes in. Cost of this was $3. Number of contracts, 25. Risk was 7,500. Shulta lent 50 profit, 21,250. Return and investment at 283%. And guess what? This is down tonight. So you could have made it even more. I didn't even look where this closed tonight, but I know this is down more tonight. It's, this is, you can still be in this.  Tomorrow is Thursday. Again, tomorrow is the 22nd. You're up this much money though. You gotta take profits to get out. People always say, well, you know, do you always hold it forever and ever? No, you chunk it, you chunk it out. This is a huge trade right here, but it's gonna be at more tomorrow, which is crazy. If you did a beginner risk for contracts, risk 1,200. So 1150 profit, 3,400. Return and investment, 283%. Again, here is the move. You will learn in the class, if you wanna sign up for the class, the method, if you just wanna sign up for the newsletter, you're gonna get the picks. They're gonna get emailed to you in a lot of time. I'm going through the process. I'm going through the reading all in the morning in the pre-market. So this close to your gap down fell. Really nice call. So again, that was what we did last week, but it's all based on the footprints of institutional money that come in the gap. We do calls, we do putts. We're trading momentum in this and we're looking for big moves, big momentum, big money to come in. In the case of Adobe, we got that. Again, a put is a short. A call is a long. This is a nice email. This is another huge call from the last month, which was FDX. I called the 195 FDX putts. That stock gap down huge. Open around 160, so it was like $35 to the strike. This was a new client, Bill, that signed up and he ended up making a huge profit. 1900% gain, 13,837. It was just a huge trade for him. Again, very nice to see someone so successful, so early on and he's going to end up doing the class, I think, in the upcoming months, but he's making money on the newsletter. So this is why joining the newsletter actually is something that can help you gain confidence, really in trading and gaps. And I think that's something that people lose over the course of a number of years once they're not making money. So this is an opportunity for you to join the newsletter, save $1,000 and get going and get in and get some good trades. And this is Bill and his lovely wife of 21 years. Nice picture here, Bill, and a very nice email from him. So thank you, Bill.  You're gonna have to set up your own options account. You're gonna have to set up your charts and you do have to know how to execute the trades. The broker can show you how to get in and how to get out or buying puts and selling them or buying calls and selling them. So it's not that hard as far as execution but you have to learn how to be a beginner.  I would suggest still doing the class first but if you wanna just join the newsletter, learn how to take the trades with the broker, that's up to you. I think understanding the charts and how to do it if you're brand, brand new is important but if this is a way in, if you wanna get started and you can open up an options and account with those little $2,000, you have to watch your risk, slow risk with that but you can build it up. So you can do this if you're a beginner, you can always email me and ask me questions and get on the right path of start making money starting to make money. And I think that a lot of people this year, I was talking about this in the webinar earlier today, they're just getting killed this year. They're getting creamed, whether they're going long or short. They're getting wrong timing, wrong direction all over the place. Stop losing if you're losing. Sign up for a good subscription service. I mean, again, $1,000 is a great savings for this. People are making the full subscription price in one trade even. So this gets you on the letter for a whole year. It's well, well worth it. It's about chunking it out, chunk it, chunk it, chunk it. We don't do trades every day but I might call five trades on one day, none the next day. It depends how many we get, gaps we get. I never know how many gaps we're gonna get. This has been a busy year though. We have had a lot of gaps this year. I will say that. And we're always looking for the good ones but that's what I do in the analysis in the morning, in the pre-market. For those of you that are out there that are looking for extra income right now because of inflation or recession, fears, whatever you wanna call the times we're in you can trade on the side and make money. You can. You have to take it upon yourself though to do something different. If you're trading now and you're not successful it's up to you to change what you're doing. Don't keep doing the same thing if it's not working. While you do have to pay money to sign up for the subscription service it's well worth it if you look at it as an investment in your future what you're gonna do to move forward in your life. If you decide you wanna learn the system, learn the checklist, learn the 26 points, how and make the cause, you would sign up for the Golden Gap course that's where you're gonna learn all the points. So the next class, I only have a few more classes left this year. The next class is in October. It's the Golden Gap course. You will learn how to find, pick and play professional bearish gaps. Again, we do longs and shorts but the class is about shorts. Class dates is October 1st and 2nd, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time. Class tuition is 69.99 US dollars. Class is online. It can be anywhere in the world and take it. You do not wanna miss out. Again, a strategy is very important to make money in the market. Do the class if you wanna learn it. 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Well, hi there, my name is Sandy Almak. I'm an artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and today I'm going to do an easy pop-up card using a whole bunch of penguins and a lot of the supplies that I'm using today are from Lawn Fawn. This is one of the new stamp sets from Lawn Fawn called Snow Cool and it has a big snow and a big cool and then lots of other little phrases that you can mix and match with it. Different pieces that you can put together to come up with different ones. You can use these for a holiday card, you can use them for winter cards, birthday cards, all different kinds of things and then there's snow at the top. I'm going to combine it with some elements from Toboggan together from last year. So we're going to have a whole bunch of different elements that we can add onto a scene, but this is the stitched hillside's die.  You don't even really need any instructions to make this happen because once you have it in your hand, it'll become very obvious. And when I have these top pieces folded, you can see from above, if I put that against the back of the card, it's all going to hold out from that card base and pop out forward. So here it is with the card base that I have ready for it.  It's a really simple way to create this pop-up card. I've stamped all of my penguins and a couple of the accoutrements down there, the little snowballs and that sort of thing. Stamped them all on here and I am going to fussy cut mine out. The reason is because on some of them, I had to add hats to them and I added the ice cream cone and that sort of thing.  And since I didn't want to add the little tiny pieces, I had enough things that were going to be glued inside this card. I didn't want to take the chance on things falling off, so I decided to stamp them all together and that means I will just fussy cut them out.  Lawn Fawn does a really good job of that. So if you're going to fussy cut, you can even get away with making this process of coloring go even faster because you don't even have to stay in the lines. Just on the outside edges, you can just scribble all that you want and not really have to worry about tidy coloring. But I'm worrying about tidy coloring because you're sitting here watching and I know it would drive some of you absolutely bonkers if I went completely outside the lines on all of these images. So I'm using medium gray, a darker medium gray, and then a really dark gray to do the three shades on my shading and adding just a little bit of dimension to them and I'm just scribbling the color. I'm not using any flicking, no fancy techniques here, just scribbling the color in to get plenty of ink onto that little penguin area because that's how Copic markers blend. They blend within the fibers of the paper, so you want to have enough color on there and just scribble on enough color that's going to work. And this one made me glad that I decided I was going to fussy cut because I went outside the lines on Snow Penguin's hat. So for my other elements, I decided I was going to add some very simple red coloring. Each one will have little red elements to it, so that way the whole thing will be united on the card. You could do all different kinds of colors, but I decided just red and black for my coloring would be really simple and kind of nice to tie everything together in my scene. And I'm not even going to do any shading on it, I'm just going to let them be. Add a little bit of orange for all the beaks and the feet and that sort of thing. And I'm assuming my ice cream cone is a snow cone, so it's going to have a white cone to it. And then I'm going to add a little bit of blue. And there's a lot of different colors you can use to make snow, but blue tends to make them look a little bit on the frosty side. So I'm using a B00 with a B000 to blend it out a little bit softer. Quadruple zero would be even softer still. And I'm just going to take some scissors, some detail scissors, and fussy cut them all out. So I tend to move my hand rather than my scissors so that I go all the way around the edges and then I take a marker when I'm done with all of it, a black marker or a dark gray, and go around those edges so if there's any areas that I didn't cut out perfectly, that will cover them up. There won't be any white showing around the outside edge. I will not bore you with watching me do all the coloring. So next I'm going to work on that back panel. So before I add my dye in here, I wanted to do a little bit of a sky. Not a whole lot, but I'm going to do some airbrushing. So I took a piece of scratch paper and tore it. And then this is my Copic airbrush. You just take a Copic marker and point the chisel nib in and then press that little button. And then all you have to do is have it attached to your source of power, which for me is a compressor that's on the ground. And then squeeze that and it puts out a little bit of color. Now, depending on the color of marker, it will be darker or lighter. And you can use lighter pressure or heavier pressure. Lots of different techniques you can use for airbrush. There is an airbrush video available and I will link you to that in the description down below that has basically what do you need to get started with doing Copic airbrush. If you're interested in that, we'll have more education out there for you. And I'm just going to move this piece of scratch paper around and make some clouds. You could do something very similar to this using perhaps distress inks. Just tear up a piece of paper and then do some inking on the other side of the paper on that top side that would give you the look of clouds. Because you're basically coloring the negative space on the other side of the clouds as you're doing this. You're coloring the sky portion.  You can tear several different pieces of paper to make different shapes of clouds. But I really just wanted something for that back of the card so that when I create that whole scene in the front with a pop-up die that it's going to work nicely. Now, when I do any kind of elements that are going to be interactive, I tend to glue them down with this B creative tape. It comes in a lot of different widths and I have a lot of different widths with it. But it holds like you just wouldn't even believe. And with a pop-up card like this, you want it to really stick. You want those two panels to stick to the back of the card really nicely. So what I've done is put some B creative tape, some skinny stuff on the backs of those two pieces, fold it down and then close the card and then press it down. And then you can see it opens very nicely. Okie dokie. So that is the construction of that itself. And then I took all of my little penguins and I just glued them into my scene wherever I wanted to have them.  They're all attached with B creative tape again because I didn't want to take any chances on anything falling apart. But you can see how nice that scene stands up and it's going to look beautiful on somebody's mantle for Christmas time. The outside of the card, I could have stamped that image on there and colored it but the color would have gone through the paper. In general that's what coping markers do. They go through the paper and I wanted to keep that not showing through on the inside. So I glued him on and glued a little penguin beside the little igloo on the inside. This also is going to leave me with little space to write so I get to just sign my name. I don't have to write a long letter. Sometimes I like cards like that where I don't have a whole bunch of space to fill with a lot of words.  You can do a lot of different scenes with it. You can use it different times in here as well. So consider picking up that die because you're going to have a lot of fun with it. There's a couple other interactive cards I've done. Well actually two of them left and right are interactive. They all have some Copic coloring to go along with them though. And you can hit the subscribe button if you like. Hit more on the blog to go see stills of all of this. Supplies are all listed in the description and I'll see you guys next time. Bye bye.


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we are going to discuss about the situation in North Korea and to discuss the issue we are joined by Prabir, our editor in chief. So Prabir, after this entire hydrogen bomb issue, what changes are going to happen? What will be its implications? Well, hydrogen bomb is really a game changer because it has two elements to it. One is that the ability to have a much bigger explosion and therefore the ability to inflict much larger damage. Of course, when you talk of nuclear bombs, the scale of damage is not really the issue because any damage in the nuclear bomb is going to be horrific. So that is one part of it. But it does indicate that one bomb then can create much more devastation on whoever it is exploded on. The second part is that it allows also smaller bombs to be created which will have less explosive power than the big bomb but enough to cause again major devastation in any city. And if you can make it smaller, you can miniaturize it, then it is easy to put it as a warhead into the intercontinental ballistic missile or the intermediate range ballistic missiles which North Korea has been building. With the missile tests, one of which took place in July if you remember and that missile showed that it has the capability of reaching the western shores of the United States. Western shores means Los Angeles and Francisco are under the missile threat of North Korea if a war takes place. If they are able to create a warhead, then they are that much closer to be able to do what is called deterrence. Now, we will come to deterrence theory little later. But the point is that this makes it much easier for North Korea than to claim. They have the ability to inflict damage on the United States which will be unacceptable to the United States. The only thing that still people are discussing, do they have a heat shield or not? But for any country to gamble its future on a heat shield or its ability to survive a re-entry as being discussed now, I think is a long shot. I think we have come to a stage where we can argue that North Korean with their missile program and the hydrogen bomb have reached a stage of deterrence. Now, of course, deterrence theory is of course, completely bogus. There have been detailed examination that why deterrence theory does not work, has not worked and is extremely dangerous for the world. Without getting into it, we will only point to a recent article by one of the people who Kennedy had put in his core team to look at the Cuban missile crisis. And he has written a detailed two-part article recently which he also shows that any war game that they had done showed that deterrence does not work. Any attack by one bomb would be a blanket attack by the other side. So, any country which feels threatened, particularly with annihilation, is going to retaliate full-hawk. So, I think that part of it has to be taken into account that the military options that the United States had, if it had any, is really closing out. And the only possibility for them is to annihilate North Korea, take out half of South Korea as a consequence, take out parts of China, Russia and Japan who are all close to North Korea. So, that is the kind of scenario that the United States is in today. So, when you talk about these neighboring countries, China and Russia had been playing a role in negotiations, but now Putin has come out with a statement that solution is impossible. So, it is a change in the strategy in the plans. What has led to this change and what are these changes? You see, both Russia and China have been saying that North Korea needs to stop what it is doing because these are acts of provocation. Nuclear bombs, hydrogen bombs are not weapons of peace irrespective of what the world might talk about or the American, Western analysts might claim to their deterrence theory. They have been the major propounders of deterrence theories that these are not weapons of peace. So, North Korea also needs to exercise constraint, restraint, which it has not done. It is also looking at the United States reaction and the United States reactions or pro-actions whichever you call them have been a will continue to do military exercises which North Korea regards as serious possibility of innovation. We will do it as many times as you like. We will overfly their territories. We will have strategic bombers placed in Guam. We will have strategic bombers placed elsewhere. All of this is ratcheting up the pressure of North Korea along with it. They keep on threatening them with extinction that they will annihilate you completely. We will do this, we will do that and all the American demands are that you should step down. You should surrender your missile and nuclear bomb program. In return, we will not do anything. Now, that is what China and Russia are looking at. They have said repeatedly that there is a way forward for negotiations but both sides have to do something and both sides at the moment are not doing anything. It could be argued that North Korea has given signals that please if you negotiate then there are possibilities. We will halt our program provided you agree to negotiate and there is a possibility of surrendering our nuclear program which we had done earlier provided you also can give us durable peace. Now, this is couched in very different language but we have covered as you remember in news click. We have covered this that North Korea is not saying that we will never surrender our missile and nuclear option. They are saying it only under certain conditions and those certain conditions are really long-term peace in the Koreas. So, I think that is the reason that China and Russia are both started to feel that they this way forward of engagement, negotiations, resumption of what was the sixth party agreement on North Korea's program. All of this seems to be at the moment futile because neither North Korea is observing restraint nor is United States given any signal. They are willing to consider anything else except total surrender by North Korea. So, as you pointed out that both of the countries are not able not giving any signals. Do you think the danger of war looms over the two nuclear power countries and if no then what is the way ahead? Well, let us put it this way North Korea is now a fully fledged nuclear power. We have to recognize that the hydrogen bomb establishes their technological capability to make this bomb. Let us also accept that missile and bomb making capabilities are no longer what used to be. It is something which now with reasonably middle level country can actually do. So, one part of it it has also brought out that this whole issue of continuation of nuclear bombs by few countries is actually a destabilizing scenario for the world as a whole. So, that is one thing which is we need to put on the agenda which nobody is talking about that we need to register that this is dangerous for the world and it is not North Korea alone. We are seeing a continuous rap you know stepping up of nuclear powers. We have already have added India, Pakistan, Israel was a nuclear power before. We have now added North Korea to the mix. This is the destabilizing scenario that the world faces. Now, I think therefore we need to think about the nuclear bomb in a completely different context as well. Coming to the narrow issue of North Korea and America it is a very clear issue that North Korea still remembers that 1 in 3 or 1 in 5 people died during the Korean war and what they have till from carrying on from 1953 is a temporary truce called an armistice. There is no peace agreement that has ever been signed. So, effectively the two countries are still in the stage of war. So, I think that is something the United States will have to put on the table if it wants to any resolution of the North Korean problem as they call it. So, I think that is something that they have to take into account. I do not think a nuclear war is possible. I do believe that irrespective of all the madness and all the tweets that Trump has been putting forward annihilation, fire, fury everything that we do. I think it still means that they will have to then incinerate a good part of Korea, not just North Korea and also inflict enormous damage on the Asian economy, on the Asian people including of course Japan. I think this is a price even they know the world cannot pay. So, I am skeptical of a war breaking out as far as intentions go. But here is the writer that the first world war didn't start from anybody wanting a world war. It started by accident, by as people bluff each other and as the bluffs grow, a stage comes where a small mistake or a small accident somewhere in the case of the first world war, one lonely assassin shooting down R. Tew Ferdinand led to a world-wide conflagration. So, I think this is the risk we carry that when you stand eyeball to eyeball with nuclear weapons with other weapons, the trigger necessarily does not have to be intentional one. It could be an accidental one and therefore, we are standing though the intent may not be there. We are standing close to a possible exchange and this is certainly not a happy situation for all of us. Therefore, the world needs to be much more proactive. All the other countries effectively are now becoming bystanders. It's a future of the world that's at stake and it's time to speak up. Thanks a lot probably for giving us your time and I'm sure these things are going to proceed and as they approach it will be coming back to you on such issues. Thanks a lot.


Okay, you can call it God, you can call it God. Can we talk about that real quick? Yeah.


All right, we are back. Sasha Degame, James Marshall. And we got into some cool stuff. You guys were talking about ayahuasca. I think that if we do not talk about that, we will get a shitload of YouTube comments and emails and stuff. But yeah, I mean, what happened? What happened for you guys? Well, for me, I've been doing it. We did it 10 days in the jungle in Peru. And your first time doing it was with Sasha, right? Yeah, yeah, it was. And then I also went and did another month last year, so I did a much more extended period.  It's not something that I would recommend to beginners of spiritual pursuits. It's not something I would think you should ever do recreationally or that you should do without very deep research of the person that's doing it really dangerous. And let me actually ask you, what prompted you to do it? I mean, everybody's curious about it, I get it, but would you say that it's a necessity? No, I don't think it's a necessity. But for me, I mean, I've been meditating, I've been doing a lot of different types of, yeah, spiritual pursuits since I was 17 years old. And I guess I reached a point where I kind of stagnated in my spirituality, so I'd gotten just more into a hedonistic lifestyle and probably too much into business and just into too much worldly stuff. And I felt like I needed a reset and a recheck on that. Because of our networks, we know a lot of weird people. All around the world of every type of weirdness from aristocracy to weird shamans to bondage masters to whatever. And so we have access to these kind of people that recommended the right people to go to. So for me, it really was like kind of an exam that tested me on all the things that I'd ever learned in meditation and mantra and posture and all of this kind of stuff. And for me, it was a thing that really resolved the very heavy-duty breakup that I had with my ex-wife. It was a thing that really allowed me to let go of any anger and sadness and actually just step through that, which was an amazing process. And also to be able to be fearless and to be in a state of really amazing flow for the last year and a half. Before I get into you, Sasha, yeah, I think what's interesting, a lot of people I know who do a heavy hallucinogenic like ayahuasca or iboga, which are very, very different, they don't carry it with them. And I think that's an important thing. What I hear from you, because we've talked about it too, is, and actually what I can see from you and we'll get into it, but that's like a point of change. It's the turning of the corner, but you've got to walk. Yes. And so I think that you've, what adaptations have you made to your life since having some of those breakthroughs? It's been about moving through life with joy. That's been, that was the big message that came out of it, because for me, my core value was never happiness. That was never something that I was actually striving for. My core value was always mastery, which was simply to become a master of a function. I didn't really care whether or not I was happy, because to me that seemed like an earthly desire and a transitory thing, and it wasn't really relevant. But I think the really big thing that I came out of that was that joy in everyday living is vital, because yes, I am still on paths of mastery.  And as you get older, you start to get more understanding of your mortality. And so that was a big thing. And so going through, because my life has become much, much busier, I used to be a musician bum, and now I'm running a very complicated international business. And I'm responsible for the growth of hundreds of guys that come to me, and that's like a heavy responsibility. But the last year, I've been twice as busy as I ever was, five times busier, and but it's had a much more joyful flow to it. I don't feel stressed out about it. I just go day by day and I'm like, all right, here I am on this workshop, or here I am with this lover, or here I am sitting on a mountain playing music, or whatever it is, and that's been really important. Cool. And then Sasha, you know. I shot my pants.   Oh, okay. And I did watch him do that. Yes, and yeah, I watched him curl up in a ball, puking on himself, shitting on himself all night, and then he got up and just howled in this inhuman scream for half an hour, the most terrifying thing I've ever seen or heard a human being do.  He's like, what?  It's like, yes, he doesn't remember. Yeah, I had a really tough trial for those. I felt some of the joy in a different one we did, but for the four ones we did over 10 days, I just went through absolute hell. There's no way to explain it other than being in absolute torment and suffering and just fucking, just the brutality of it. And getting to a point where I was like, okay, death would be great. Like just being like, yep, bring death on, because that would just be awesome for this to end. And I think there are lessons in that, but different lessons. But so for me it was really a real trial, but I learned later that it's actually a shamanic sort of initiation that you go through sometimes. It's like an ego death and it really is, there's a point to it, but it takes a long time to actually come to grips with it and sort of piece it together. But I would warn everybody who wants to get into that stuff just be careful. Yeah, and I would think that like, what's important, because I know a lot of people who've done it who haven't gone on to change. I mean that will say it was the most amazing thing and I killed my ego and then their life goes back to normal. And so I think what's interesting is that, seeing in both of you guys actually hearing you talk about it is that afterwards was like it set you on a path and the real discipline was being on that path. Cause that's the same as when a guy comes into a boot camp, it's like, especially if it's a long-term boot camp or a very intense one or a lot of personal attention, in a way they just get grabbed by the collar and lifted up to heights because they have the support of the coaches and they're in that environment and they're out doing stuff because they're being kicked in the arse to do it and suddenly they're meeting all these girls and doing all this amazing stuff and maybe they suddenly get laid or all this incredible stuff happens. Two weeks after the course. So have you been talking to Chick? Right, yeah, life happens. Why not? Well, yeah, okay. So yeah, I mean you come to a mentor for inspiration and for tutelage and that will definitely help you cut many years off the trial and error path. But at the end of the day, when you step out from the master or from the tutor, then you have to just take those daily steps and that's the same with these kind of spiritual experiences.  But really that's just a taste of them, of what they get to experience and that won't stay with you. And so a lot of people just bounce around from guru to guru looking for that hit and that's why people, you'll see sometimes in these kind of conferences guys come year after year after year and you're like, well, that's not good that you're coming back year after year unless it is because you're wanting to hit the next level. I remember this was a funny moment but I was at a convention and Eric Hypnotica said like, why the hell are you guys still here? Like this is like the fourth time I've seen you. What are you moving in man? He just, but he put it a really good way. But hey, that being said, what's happening for you guys? You guys are doing a movie. You know, what's coming up in the future for you? Like what's happening there? Yeah, we, at some point, because we just had these crazy adventures that you know, to us are becoming normal again. That are already kind of being documented. Yeah, we already going around.  Little bit of promotion but little bit of crazy fun times. And so we did it. We just had my video guy just follow us around for one of the courses. And yeah, we had some inspirational moments. We had some emotion.  So that's kind of cool. He's just following you around kind of like a, We did a whole workshop and with a bunch of guys who agreed to be on camera and then we filmed everything. Absolutely everything that happens over a 10 day workshop. That's a great style of filmmaking. Cinema Verite, John Cassavetes. Most American, both of you guys not American filmmakers. So that's coming out when? I think it'll be ready in early next year. I think it'll be ready. Wow. Coming to a YouTube channel near you. That's right. And maybe, just maybe, an actual movie cinema. For me, next year is gonna be my biggest coaching year ever. Really? Yes, that's what it's gonna be. And it's probably gonna be the last big coaching year that I do at that intensity. So I, I mean, both of us are pretty strict about how many guys we teach. We don't teach massive groups. Sure. Yeah, I never teach more than two on one. So next year I'm teaching 65 guys and that's, that's all. But that's gonna be over a bunch of very big and intense. That's actually a lot with your, you know, the amount of guys you take on. Right. So I'm gonna be based in Europe and I'm gonna be running workshops. When I get back to Australia soon, I'm not doing nothing. So please don't contact me for the next three months. I just will ignore you. But for March next year, I'm gonna be hitting the ground running hard and doing workshops all through Europe over summer and then also coming back to the States in October and running a couple there. And also putting out my book as well for next year, which is something that's been sitting there like 90% done for the last four years. And I've been like running around the world going, I should get back to that, but right now I've gotta go to Morocco. I've been working on my book since 2008, goddammit. But yeah, similar, similar for me really. Just, yeah, it'll be a busy year doing coaching, but I just wanna move away from it. I've got my coaches in place and I think I can help more people because I learned from my videos that I can help so many people buy videos that are free. So now it's like, well, I can make some products and help more people in more in depth and make money at it. So why wouldn't I do that? So same thing, getting my book out, got a couple of products lined up and yeah, just gonna continue on my spiritual path and help as many people as I can and that's it. Cool, man. Awesome stuff. We're pretty much out of time. Yeah, I will say this. You too, as soon as we were saying that we were gonna do podcasts and stuff like this, Sasha James Marshall, Sasha James Marshall. So we got it, but we'll have to come back, most definitely, and do this sort of thing. All right, thanks for watching guys. Peace. Man, thank you guys so much for watching and being a part of this channel, this experience and this dialogue that we are building with all of you. Please leave a comment. Please share us on social media and of course, subscribe to us on the red button down below and get plugged into all the cool stuff that we're doing. I'm Steve Mayeda, signing off. Thanks for watching.