This is stock number 21T71. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used RAM and light-duty truck headquarters. Today we are checking out this brand new 2021 RAM 1500 crew cab 5 foot 7 inch short box. This is a Laramie level 2. It has the 5.7 liter V8 Hemi motor with MDS. Granite crystal is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the looks, styling, and check out the options and color of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you'd like to check out all the photos of this RAM in the upper right-hand part of your screen is a link to our website. Click that and check us out there. This one's going to come with the 20 inch painted and polished aluminum rims. Really good looking rims on here. They're probably my favorite rims on the Rams. It has Bridgestone Duler 275 55R 20 tires or maybe they're 60s 55s nope 275 55s and they're kind of a highway tread pattern to them. Get the chrome Hemi logo, the chrome grill, the chrome trimmed mirrors. This one does have LED lights, headlights, running lights, and fog lights. Front bumper is in excellent shape. I didn't see any major, well it's brand new, but it has the front parking sensors. It's early. It's first video of the day. We'll take a look at the original window sticker here. Feel free to pause this at any point. I'm not going to go through everything but just check out the main things. So you can see that it is a 2021 Ram 1500 Laramie 578 speed automatic transmission. Everything on your left is your standard features and then your optional equipment is on the right here. Granite crystals 200 bucks. The leather trimmed bucket seats with the full length upgraded floor console is $895. Laramie level 2 group is a $39.95 option. It gives you the most importantly the Harman Kardon premium sound system with the 19 speakers, automatic high beam headlamp control, blind spot, cross path detection, heated second row seats, the front and rear parking sensors, rain sensitive wipers, power tailgate release, the Sirius XM Guardian for a year, Sirius XM Traffic Plus for five years, and Sirius Travel Wing for five years as well. You get the all other floor mats from Mopar. The Hemi is a $17.95 option. This one does have the dual pane panoramic sunroof, rear wheel house liners, a 33 gallon fuel tank, four corner air suspension, UConnect 12, which is a really nice radio for $13.95 and you do get those nice rims for $13.95. Total MSRP is $62,975. If you want to get your summit price in the upper right hand part of the screen is a link to our website, click that and check us out there. Three-year 36 bumper to bumper, five-year 60,000 power train. They're your miles per gallon, 21 Highway 15 City, 17 combined average. Your crash test rains on the ramps are fantastic. Five and four stars up and down the board and there's that 12-inch screen. We're going to finish the walk around here. Notice you do get the fender flares. Those plastic wheel well liners are these guys right here. Keeps your frame and underbody looking good for a longer period of time. Full towing package, which includes a receiver hitch, four pin, and seven pin wiring. You do get the dual tipped chrome exhaust. Has the power drop down tailgate. It's also a shock down assist, so it's never going to slam down on you. LED tail lamps as well. And the other thing I like on the ramps is the capless fuel fill. Has the enter and go system, so you just have to have the key fob in your pocket. Put your hand in there. It'll automatically unlock. You get the power mirrors with heated element, blind spot monitoring, blind spot mirrors, and directional signals on there. They also power fold in. Inside the Lyrami package gives you the black leather seats with the suede inserts, the gray piping. Both these front seats are heated and cooled. Driver's side lumbar, you get those Mopar all-weather floor mats throughout, auto headlamps, power pedals, and you do get tilt telescopic steering wheel. You actually do get the wood grain trim, the actual brown wood grain trim on the bighorns.  And then this is a suede insert on the door here. Memory driver seat, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, and those mirrors do power fold in. As we hop inside the vehicle, you can see you get the seven inch LCD display. We'll turn accessories on here. You can see you get a digital speedometer, outside temp, compass display, range to empty. You can select all your options there. Battery life, oil temperature, all that good stuff. And you can change all those corners to read pretty much whatever you'd like. You get the heated leather-wrapped steering wheel, bluetooth and information center controls on the left, cruise controls on the right, and you do get a gear selector for manual shifting right there. This one does have the push button start, push button four-wheel drive, and the eight speed automatic transmission. Here is the Uconnect 12-inch radio, very sweet radio, AM, FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities on this radio. You also have the factory navigation system there.  You can check out your backup camera. What I like that they did on the ramps is that they made these cameras like HD so you can really see what you're hooking up to. And it's also dynamic grid lines, so as I turn that steering wheel, they turn just a little bit, but they do turn as you turn it when the truck's on. Then you get this plus button right here, so that'll zoom in right over the receiver hitch, so you can get hooked up to your boat camper or trailer the first time, every time without a lot of help from anybody else. You can do your climate controls here. Notice you do get the dual climate controls. You can also do your climate controls on the side of the radio as well. And then you can do all your different apps here. And this one does have projection manager where you can project from your cell phone to the screen, and you can use your some programs on your phone through the screen, such as Waze or Google Maps, if you wanted to use a different navigation system. You could do that. It's a really cool system. We actually did a demo. It's in the upper right hand part of the screen if you want to check out that demo. Anyways, this has the Harman Kardon sound system as well. You get the wood grain trim up there. Down here, your media center, you get two USBs, two USB C's, and an AUX jack. This one does come with the RAM wireless cell phone charger. And then down here, you get a 115 volt 400 watt plug-in. You get that center console, which goes in and out like that. You get coin holders, two cup holders, keyless entry with remote start right there. Your power drop down tailgate, and then you can lower the truck with that four-corner air suspension for easy entry. Dual glove boxes, passenger seat has all the same trim as the drivers, and you do get that panoramic sunroof, which is pretty sweet. It really opens it up inside, brightens it up, gives it an airy feel. Assist and SOS buttons, they're all your sunroof controls and your power sliding rear window controls. And you do get map lights, auto dimming mirror, and home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems. We'll take a quick look at the back seats, and then we'll do one more final walk around here on the truck. Back seats have the latch child safety system. When you get the crew cab, you get the center row or the center seat latch system. Power slide rear window with the built-in rear defrost. These headrests do fold down for better visibility. And then that Laramie Level 2 group gives you these back seats heated. You get two more USBs and two more USB-C's, and then another 115 volt 400 watt plug-in. These seats do fold up for extra storage.  Then it locks into place with that. And you do get in-floor storage underneath these floor mats. They come out for easy cleaning. These bins do. So you put ice and drinks in there. It's like you have too many coolers wherever you go, which is pretty sweet. Then these seats do kind of recline and a little bit stuff to do with one hand. But back doors have the same trim as the front doors, and you do get the child safety locks there as well. And we'll do one more final walk around now that I got all the lights on here. You have the LED license plate lights, the LED tail lamps, and I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. And hopefully from this HD video, you will have been able to tell just how good looking this RAM is. All the options on it. Checked out the 12-inch radio. Look how nice and bright those LED headlamps and fog lamps are. And to see more pictures of this truck are one of rather 450 new and used cars, trucks, SCVs, minivans, wranglers, halftons, three-quarter tons, one tons. You name it. We got it. Go to our website right there www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations, all at summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos, you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto. Remember to like, subscribe, and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. In fact, in a second, you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left. 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Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel. Today I'm going to be talking about ST, the simple terminal. Now, those of you who know me or have been following along with the channel, you know that I'm a big fan of termite. And it hurt to leave termite behind for a little while, but I wanted to try something a little different. And I really have enjoyed my time over the last six months or so with DWM. It's really been a good experience because it feels like I've built something from the ground up. You know, my version of ST is different than pretty much everyone else's version of ST, or at least it feels that way. I'm sure somebody else uses the exact combination of patches that I use and whatever. But it feels like my version of ST is something that I built and I can be proud of. I think that's the reason why I really like DWM. It's the reason why I like window managers to begin with, but DWM has the extra mile instead of just doing the racing, you also have to go through and add in the features that you want. And that's kind of cool. And I thought with ST, I'd have the same experience because, you know, you'd start with just a plain old terminal emulator, you got to go through and add in certain features that are pretty standard in every other terminal emulator. And you build it up from the ground up.  And it's just kind of cool. That's the way I thought I would feel. But that's not the way I feel. Honestly, I feel the opposite. I feel that patching and going through and having to recompile your configuration file every time you make a change to your terminal is really annoying. And it's not a feeling that I had with DWM because DWM I was feeling like it was just putting all those patches in was just part of the racing process. It was part of customizing my desktop, which is something that, you know, I do every three or four months. If I wait that long, you know, I always go through and, you know, I move to a different window manager and there's a process of after you've, you've hopped to a new window manager of going through and setting it up, whether if it's brand new, you go through and do everything for the first time, or maybe you download your stuff from GitHub and put in your dot files. And it's always a process. And it's kind of something that's rewarding because you're going from, you know, stock all the way to, you know, whatever your configuration looks like and feels like with ST, it was just not that experience. It was, it felt like a burden. It felt like a hassle. And it wasn't a good feeling. It wasn't that there's anything wrong with ST. I mean, even out of the box, ST is usable. It's not like DWM is fairly unusable when you're not using something, a few patches at least with ST, you get out of the box. It's, you know, you can go through and change the colors and you can zoom in and zoom out and stuff that stuff all comes out of the box, which is good. I mean, it's just once you move past the out of the box experience and want to add something like as simple as scroll back, you know, something that is standard on every terminal emulator, even X term, I think has scroll back. I mean, I may be wrong. I don't use X term, but it's when you get to that point of having to patch stuff, it's like, I have to do this. Like, why isn't this here? I just want to do my work. I want to open up NC spot or something. I want to go through and do all these commands and I have to patch something in order to actually do the thing I want to do. It was, it was, it felt icky, you know, and maybe it's because I don't spend as much time ricing my terminal as I do my desktop environment because racing my terminal is simple. It's going change the colors from whatever terminal that sexy tells me to change it to and, you know, it comes out the right way. I spend some time with the prompt, but that's done through ZSA. It's not done through the terminal. All the my prompts that are pretty much the same no matter what terminal I'm in. So maybe that's the reason why it felt like a burden or a hassle. I don't know. I think that in the long run, I probably could get used to ST because I've gone through and made my changes now. I've gone through. I've got the scroll back patch. I've got a couple other patches that I've, you know, I needed to copy and paste and do these other things. I think if I'd use, continue to use it, it would be fine because like I said, I'm there. I've got it to the point where it's basically the way I want it. I probably would go through and change some of the key bindings because some of the key bindings are weird. So if you want to zoom in, it's control, shift, page up, page down. That's no bueno. It's just too many key presses in order to do it. Scrolling up with the scroll, scroll patch is also very weird. It's a two handed to come two handed operation. You have to hit shift and then your scroll wheel or shift and page up and page down. It's not, I don't want to use both hands. Okay. It's, it's maybe it's a weird hang up a half. But if I want to scroll up, I just want to scroll up because chances are my other hand is going to be doing a key combination of some other sort, you know, or whatever. Maybe I'm grabbing for a snack or something. I don't know. It's just, it was a death by a thousand cuts with ST was all these little things that just were really annoying. And like I said, if I were to use it for longer and change even more stuff to kind of suit it to my needs, it'd be fine. But I don't want to is the thing where is I wanted to go. I felt like I wanted to continue to improve DWM with ST. I dread having to change something every single time I go in there because it's just, it's it's not as if it's hard.  I mean, it's just, I don't know. It's just really, I think most of it is because every other terminal emulator is basically the same. I mean, terminal emulator just all do the same thing. What varies is the speed and some of the features and how they're configured and what they're written in. Right? So you use other terminal emulators and all your features are there. They're just baked in. Now you can change things to alter them to how you want them in most terminals. But everything just works out of the box and there's no hassle. Even when changing colors, like if you change colors in ST, you have to go in and change your colors. Well, excuse me. First you have to delete your config.h file. Then you have to change your colors. Then you have to compile it and then you have to close it and then you have to restart it. That's way too many steps. I just want to go through and change the colors and close it. I mean, that's the way it should be. I mean, I understand that compiling doesn't take that long. It really doesn't. It took, it took like, I don't know, five seconds.  I mean, it's a five second step, but it's the principle of the matter, right? It's the dammit. I don't want to spend those five seconds compiling it when I could just close it and restart it. I change colors often enough that it's a pain. It's also, they've buried the appearance settings in the configuration file until it's like halfway down the configuration file and you have to scroll down every single time you want to go to the colors. I mean, it's not a big deal because you can always just search for it or whatever in rim, but when you're coming from termite, which has the smallest configuration file you've ever seen, you know, it's a big thing to ask. I'm making myself sound like a lazy person, but I mean, it's true. I just want my terminal emulator to work. I don't want to have to go through and scroll down every time I change colors because I change colors in my terminal emulator all the time. Anyways, so that is my brief thoughts on my two months with the simple terminal, the ST. I'm leaving ST to go to some other terminal. I'm either going to go back to termite where I'll be happy, happy, happy, or I'll be going to alacrity. Now I'm probably going to give alacrity a try. I think I'm going to have some of the same problems with alacrity because the configuration file is huge mungus and I don't really care for that. I don't want to have to sift through 5,000 lines of comments in order to do my configuration because another thing that you may know about me, I don't read instructions. Instructions are for other people, not me. I just want to get in there and be able to know what I'm doing without having to read instructions and if you have 5,000 lines of instructions, you're doing it wrong because I don't want to have to have a college education or a higher college education, I guess in this case, in order to configure my terminal. So that is it for this video. Make sure you follow us on Twitter at TheLinuxCast. We're also on Facebook, facebook.com slash linuxcast. You can support us on patreon at patreon.com slash linuxcast and with that in mind, I would like to shout out, I guess, our current patrons Devon Marcus, Merrick Camp 514. Thanks for your support. Thanks everybody for watching. I'll see you next time.


Nicholas wake up Wake up Nicholas Italy is just delivered an ultimatum Stop shouting. It's three in the morning. What did you say? The Italian government has just delivered an ultimatum to Greece What for don't ask me they gave us three hours to answer wait a minute. I'm coming right now. Bring your gun Nicholas Greece is already answered Italy the answer is no Listener four years ago war came to the people of Greece This is how it came you may believe me for I know My name is Katina Paxinou to some of you. I'm known as an actress, but I speak to you now as a citizen of Greece Listener before that night of four years ago you if you had come to my house in Athens I would have given you a cake of sesame and honey and fetch you a cup of wine On my table there would have been for you a dish of the sweet olives of Patras or the pointed olives of Kalamata and Perhaps outside that would have been the cry of a boy selling jasmine a cry. I knew well and liked very well This was before the war and now it is all gone In Patras now the olive tree lies in the grove splintered by the bomb The boy selling jasmine is dead Much that was listener is gone and much that remains is Starved and bitter and pale with hate Now you shall hear a story a story of one called Andreas While I did not know him doubtless. He lived before his story lives and it is a story of Greece The NBC University of the Air presents through the courtesy of the Hollywood Victory Committee Brian Don Levy starring in the title role of the story of Andreas with Dana Andrews as Tomatis and Skippy Homier as Petros This is chapter four of the current historical series We came this way and as a special public service presentation of the national broadcasting company and its affiliated independent stations cooperating with the Greek war relief association We bring you now from Hollywood the story of Andreas My name is Andreas Dritzes Before the war I was a teacher and then when the war came to us. I became a soldier It made people smile for I was the kind of a man born to die from stepping on a rusty nail. I Tell you this so that you will not expect me to be a hero over there Where the coast rises up in the broken hilltops and the mountains sit like a saddle between the plains is my village I think it's the finest village in all of Greece If you should look now you will see a man lighting a wood fire or tethering his mule His name is Tomatis He is a very good fellow Always ready to share his loaf of bread with you and his cheese of goat's milk and to give you a drink of the sweet Water that flows from his spring Perhaps I am wrong for saying this because Tomatis is dead and the water in his spring now tastes of metal I shall begin with Tomatis one day. He came to my school house and he brought with him a boy Teacher this is my boy Petrus. I have brought him to the school for you to teach Hello Petrus Answer the teacher Petrus. He is much skinnier than you said father I see you have taught him to speak Tomatis. What else have you taught him? To read the sky for weather. Ah good thing to play a read pipe Attend the mountain sheep both good things Tomatis and to swear a little and to pray a little good things also Why have you brought him to me? I want him to have learning what kind of learning Tomatis lawyer learning Teacher learning doctor too much too much just a little Well, how much is a little Tomatis? Well, I don't know. Well, shall I teach him history? Of course our history goes back 3,000 years Boy must have a long memory for that Petrus. Yes, try to understand me Petrus Everywhere you set down your foot in Greece You stand in another man's footprints scratch away the cover of the earth and you find some other man's bones some other man's music Some other man's art Those men Petrus are your ancestors It's proper that you should learn about them because they weren't ordinary men. Now that's just what I wanted to say Do you want to learn about what I've told you Petrus? Oh, I've never been to a real school before all right He answers well, I'll take him That is how Stomatis brought him and how Petrus and I became teacher and pupil reading in the ancients Do you see anything wrong in that and yet it was wrong? We were studying gentleness in the 20th century of the Christian era. We should have known better shouldn't we We looked into the Attica sky and saw it clear blue and we did not look for bombers and so we were fools At Siva we saw the almond trees and blossom and we were fools again For we did not dig a trench or measure the ground for landmines still in the months that past Petrus learned his lessons well We're done again Petrus. Do you know what that means? Yes, it was inscribed on the temple of Apollo at Delphi It means nothing in excess Petrus what according to Thales is the most difficult of all things to know thyself And what is the easiest to give advice What is an orderly state Petrus give me solons answer Petrus It is a well constituted state when the people obey the rulers and the rulers obey the laws So before the dead heroes of Athens and said and when the moment came they were reminded to resist and suffer Rather than to fly and save their lives They ran away from the world of dishonor, but on the battlefield their feet stood fast Petrus never forget that Petrus learned his lessons well in the days when the enemy was making plans to point his cannon and to let fall his bombs but Petrus learned and that was my happiness and then one day wet with rain and cold Stomatis opened the radio Since 5 30 this morning fascist Italian military forces have been attacking our advanced units on the Greco-Albanian frontier Our forces are defending the national soil planes have bombed Patras and the airdrome of Athens Plains have also been reported over the bridge of the Corinth Canal a general mobilization of all able-bodied men has Been ordered by the Greek general staff the action of the fascist Italian government has come to a shock as all who Think there is nothing more to say Yes, I Think I will go upstairs and take down. I'm not this wait wait They are a nation of 45 million and how many are we only seven million Then to best them will be more credit to us. No Come Petro. I will show you how to clean a rifle From this time the boy Petrus no longer spoke of Thales And Solon Instead he learned to clean a rifle It was a tragedy a greater tragedy than you think We wanted only to be left alone and to live peacefully in our own small corner of the world And this they wouldn't let us do and so we fought back I think it is not wrong to say that we fought like men Defending our soil our homes our freedom We fought like the Greeks of old At Thermopylae first we stopped the enemy and then we threw him back and then Enemy was pushed beyond our boundaries and then it was we who attacked What are you doing here teacher I can also wear a uniform of tomatoes. It's a bad fit Perhaps of your shoulders once or now Well there wide enough for the work. I have to do stomatis.  They'll have to bury the medical core Yeah, thanks. The matis. Oh The matis I have news of Petros. Yes, he's in uniform. He told them he was 17 may he live But it's a terrible lie. Oh You're really pleased aren't you? Yes I'd like to spank him, but I'm pleased See that he stays out of trouble teacher. He's still a little boy Promise me. Yes. Thanks teacher On the appearer sector bordering Albania. There are mountains Mountain six thousand feet in the sky We fought there Winter set in but we fought there The hail came stinging like shot in the sides of the mountain which had been seemed and leathery like the face of an old man We're now icy and marked with debt And it was here in this fantastic place that our Greek soldiers in their one thin blanket and their ragged shoes sent the enemy whimpering to the plains and Then when we were proudest and gloried most in our triumph, there was more news What's up Vasas is our hero Castro taken. Yes, but that's not the news and it's remedy Remedy is fallen, but it's also but that's not the news The Germans are moving into Bulgaria Tourists have arrived tourists in field gray boots Vasos you're a liar.  We've won our war not against the Germans. So what is not if they attack us father in heaven We can't do it alone We're tired. We're frostbitten. We're hungry. Someone must help us easy Stomatis the British are with us not many but more will come and some have already died What's the use of it all? What is the good Vasas if the Germans are in Bulgaria? They soon will be in Greece And what have we done to deserve it? That's our reward stomatis. We've beaten Italy 7 million against 45 million and because we've won we lose The order is to retreat stomatis Retreat from the fushish Italians whom we have defeated That was our humiliation To triumph over an enemy and then to retreat before the vanquished to retreat To meet new danger from the north and I marched back with the soldiers of Greece Soldiers frost bitten and swollen with cold and half naked and hungry and I saw men weep With utility and I heard men curse who had never cursed before Then for a while we hoped It was told us that the Germans were massing in Romania and in Bulgaria But there was still time to hope for the Germans had not marched and the British lorries and the British gun carriers Covered with Greek flowers We're rolling up from the south And then it fell Germany must invade Greece in order to drive out the English It was a monstrous lie and we knew it and someone had to answer the lie on March 8th 1941 George Vlahos answered in a letter to Ed Eddolf Hitler Who made the British come to Greece your excellency? It was not us. It was the Italian fascists Now you wish us to say farewell to those whom the same Italians brought here alright Let us say it but to whom to the living But how can we throw out the dead? Those who died on our mountains Who at a time when their own country was in flames came to Greece and fought there? Died there and found their graves there Listen your excellency There are these which cannot be done in Greece and that is one of them We cannot throw out either the living or the dead We will throw out no one your excellency will stand where we are by their side There is an infamy in that sound It is not the bomb that falls which breeds the agony but the bloody naked fist Which is powerless to answer There is a degradation in empty hands a degradation great enough to crush a soul And our hands were so empty Mark it down then the fatal month of april 1941 The month of the beginning of our agony and our hate Desperate fighting has begun in the struma valley the frontier forts of Thrace is surrounded by german troops no surrender fighting is still going on German divisions have marched through the Vardal Valley to occupy Salonica Greek troops in eastern Macedonia are cut off The enemy has broken through the monastery gap Greek and British imperial troops are expected to make a stand at historic Palmapele The general staff announced today that further british reinforcements may not be expected because of the grave turn of events in Egypt Citizens of Greece prime minister Corisius has taken his own life The king and the new prime minister Tzudoros have abandoned Athens for the island of Crete We appeal to all greek citizens to facilitate the withdrawal of the british and imperial forces The british had fought magnificently And now we fought a rearguard action so that they could withdraw to fight again Athens which had greeted them with flowers now said goodbye with flowers And from the beaches of rafina and rafte from the harbor of naft leon from echara and the Soronic gulf the troops of our allies left the soil of Greece and Greece stood grim and pale And spent and turned slowly to see the nazi come into Athens and hoist the swastika Over the acropolis. They're coming andraeus the Germans know how to cry tomatoes. All right Petrus stay close to me.   They'll shoot you for less Tell them what you told me Petrus The fascist Italians are to occupy Greece for them They promise not to let the Italians in the Germans promise softly stomates. Please softly There will be worse than promises broken. Tell him the rest Petrus The Bulgarians are to take place in eastern Macedonia They're coming He means you Petrus. Do you hear me boy? Answering Petrus his father He's my teacher. So you talking Can you shine shoes boy? My shoes are dirty Shine them for me all the polish in Athens couldn't take the dirt from your shoes. So I could have you whipped for that But I forget I heard it Yeah Shine my shoes.  I don't like your tone. Oh, I meant no offense, but I suddenly remembered what an Italian named Cicero said to another Italian named Quintius Where? I think the boy here knows it too. He was once a good scholar for his age say Say it for him Petrus. Remember Quintius that it is the Greeks to whom you're giving orders That's enough. He hasn't finished. Uh, just a moment go on Petrus The Greeks have civilized all people by teaching them gentleness and humanity And to whom Rome is indebted for those lights which he possesses now, sir If you will excuse us, we must go besides Petrus doesn't seem to own a shoe brush To an Italian this could be said For an Italian still remembers to be ashamed But then the Germans took over Perhaps they wanted all the plunder for themselves I cannot say but the SS troops and the tank men with the insignia of skull and crossbones proclaiming their deliberate pride of horror They came and settled like a plague of locusts and drove the Italians out They ate our meager stores of grain and we starved We stood in hunger outside the restaurants of Athens and we saw our enemy within Feasting on lamb and your horde and halva they sat and ate and joked as if they were men And outside famine stared in through the windows of the restaurant Will you help an old man? I have nothing for myself How can I help you? Only a bit of bread please the crumb of a crust old man When I was a soldier they paid me two drachma a day Do you know how much a pound of bread is now? Eight hundred drachma then give me an olive I haven't any to give the stone of an olive then if I had it I would give it Yeah, I know I only ask because I have nothing better to do You know, that's worse for you than for me. No, no old man. It isn't yeah, believe me. I know The old and the very young are weak. They die easily We faint in the street and where we faint we die Perhaps tomorrow the cart will pick me up No, it's worse for you than for me But thank you for not scolding And please sir, will you help an old man? We took an oath to remember this And even in our hunger We began to make the Germans pay They occupied the land, but we were undefeated The workers came to the factories and folded their arms The peasants refused to till their fields and there was more They walked in twos and then in threes and then in squads, but they no longer dared to go alone And if we were in a prison They were also in a prison for a jailer must always watch and is not free to come and go And then They lost their patience These people have only one aim to undermine the foundation of the new order in Greece And the harbor appears there is already a swedish ship loaded with food and medicine from america Under our very noses. They flaunt us at the aid received from these sentimental interfering fools The question must now be raised. Is it worthwhile to go on being ceremonious with the greek people?  Perhaps this is what we became to you in the outer world A gloomy statistic I hope not There is nothing more for me to say except this My friend stomatis was a good man and generous It happened one day in the winter of starving that he came upon a woman Named elenye I've stolen some milk for you elenye Thank you stomatis It's not altogether too late. What do you mean? Last week I had four children All four need milk But there was scarcely food for one Yes elenye I had to choose stomatis They were three little girls And a boy all right elenye. I know what you mean. Oh, I don't mind telling him I don't mind anything anymore I put the three little girls to bed I covered them as best I could and Then I saw them die They felt no pain Only weakness You gave the boy the food didn't you? Yes Yes, I gave the boy the food If he lives stomatis He will grow up to be a soldier My friends stomatis told this to me There were no tears in his eyes for there are times when there should be no tears Just as there are times when one must fight to die Stomatis who was a good man and my friend Went out of the city with a band of gorillas Then one day A railway bridge on the Athens Thessalonica line was dynamited and on another day my friend stomatis was shot by the Germans They brought his body to us And there was no weeping And with his body there was the body of Asos and others that I once knew Then the boy Petros whom I had taught and loved like my own son Uncovered his little head Stood over them and spoke So simply They determined that the hazard of their lives to be honorably avenged and to leave the rest They resigned to hope their unknown chance of happiness But in the face of death they resolved to rely upon themselves alone And when the moment came they were reminded to resist and suffer rather than to fly and save their lives They ran away from the world of dishonor But on the battlefield their feet stood fast And in an instant they passed away from the scene Not of their fear But of their glory We just heard Brian Don Levy on the title role of the story of Andreas With Dana Andrews as stomatis and Skippy Homaris Petros Madam Katina Paxanal was heard from New York in the story of Andreas On the NBC university of the air historical series we came this way These stars were presented through the courtesy of the Hollywood victory committee We return you to New York and to Katina Paxanal Four years ago we came war came to the people of Greece Now at this later hour Greece is almost free of Nati Athens is free The Greek flag flies over the Acropolis once more I speak to you now simply humbly Prayfully Let Greece's allies come not to unoccupied land But to a land whose people were the first in the world to show that steadfastness and courage Would halt the aggressor Let them not come as liberators for Greece has liberated herself The people of Greece ask for little that little is yours to grant They ask to be allowed to mold their own destiny without constraint or patronage They ask for justice In a time long ago Greece taught all other nations how to live And four years ago Greece taught those nations how to die And tonight I repeat the words of president Roosevelt It is more than fitting It is inevitable that as hopeless darkness is engulfing the ideas of Nazi barbarism The clear Greek air will once more be breathed by free men without fear of oppression And that the acropolis for 25 centuries a symbol of man's accomplishment in an environment of human liberty Will again be a beacon of faith for the future And these words of president Roosevelt translated for every freedom-loving person mean Greece is destined to live and will live Tonight's program was presented by the nbc university of the air in cooperation with the greek war relief association A member agency of the national war fund Not only for the listeners in this country But also for our servicemen and women overseas to be transmitted to them wherever they're stationed Through the armed forces radio service The story of andreas was written by martin wishengrad The music composed and directed by thomas paloso production was directed by richard tate and ira avary This is the national broadcasting company


Good evening, everybody. So excited to be here with my friend, Dr. Schaeffner. I just have such great respect for all the work she's doing. And if you've followed her or seen any of the things she's doing, she's been prolific lately too with podcasting and sharing the world of lymph. Today that's gonna be our topic. So super excited to have her. I think we did some other interview for a program she did. And I just really resonated with what she's doing. And I think we have the same kind of purpose in the world to help people with healing and continue to bring the information out. So just a little housekeeping. You can find all my blogs, resources, anything you need, send it for the newsletter at jillcarnahan.com. Any products we have at drjilhealth.com. And you can find this recording wherever you listen to your podcast, iTunes or Stitcher. And also on my YouTube channel, where we have now like over 80 interviews. All the videos are there and you can watch them if you just search Jill Carnahan on YouTube. Be sure and subscribe there so you don't miss any episodes. But today I wanna introduce Dr. Christine Schaeffner. She's a board certified naturopath who has helped thousands of people recover from chronic and complex illness. I think that's one of the things I realized when we first talked is a lot of us in this deal deal with these most complex chronic patients. And I love it. I know she does as well, but it tends to be the ones who've tried other things and been in other places and really not always had the best luck, especially with our conventional system, which serves its purpose. But when it comes to complex chronic mold and lime and some of these things, I don't think it does us a great service many times. So I'm super excited to pick her brain on lymph drainage and some of the remedies and things that we can do around that. She's done online summits, her Spectrum of Health podcast. If you haven't caught that, please be sure and tune in on her podcast as well. And I think we're gonna do a recording so that I'll be on your podcast in a few months as well, which is exciting. She goes beyond biological medicine, pulling from all systems of medicine and healing modalities, helping patients reclaim their wellness and reveal their brightest light. I love that, because it's really about that. She's got a lot of credentials. I won't belabor the point, but you can find her at DrChristineChefner.com and you can find her bio, you can find her resources, but welcome Christine. It is so glad to have you here today. Thank you so much for the warm welcome and I just have a lot of gratitude and admiration for your work. And I'm so excited that we get to do this interview today. Me too. So I love to start kind of with story and I would love to hear just a little bit about how did you get into medicine and naturopathic medicine? How did you get your start? What was your, what's your start? Yeah, absolutely. So I grew up in Virginia and I was really raised in a family of medicine. My dad's an oncologist and hematologist and my mother has a nursing background and she went through the education route. So she did a lot of teaching and she was a director at a hospital. And so I was really exposed to the world of medicine and I always like loved science and loved biology and I was really good at it and I can never rise everything. And so I just had that affinity and I started especially in my high school year is really trying, when we used to go to bookstories, go to the Barnes and Noble section of the spiritual wellness type section. Can you hear me Jill? I'm like, of course of right now when I'm doing this, there's like this leaf blower out the thing. So that was just, just making sure that it's not recorded too much but can you hear me okay? I can hear you okay. Yeah, there's a little sound in the background.  But anyway, back to the... Yeah, so I know this is live, right? This is real... Exactly, it's totally... Yeah, so anyway, so I had this really curiosity for what we would call the mind, body, spirit, right? And so that led me to an exploration and meeting different people. And I found out about naturopathic medicine through a family friend. And when I found out about it, it just really clicked. It felt like this is the medicine I've been searching for. And I had to go through a little bit of my own process and journey. I graduated from University of Virginia in about 2003 and I went right out to best year, 22 years old. And they thought I knew things about health and it was just like complete culture shock and so much new information. And I did something very not like myself. I actually decided I would take a year off because I just was trying to, you know, my ego, my East Coast ego was still like, should there be a medical doctor, should I be naturopath? Like I couldn't really quite settle in. And it was really interesting during that time that I took off, I was actually spent time in Colorado and I lived in Aspen for a little bit. And in that time, I met like, it was almost like foreshadowing. Like I, you know, when I was in my 20s and working like four jobs to be able to live there, right? So I connected with the Aspen Center for Integral Health at the time. And they bring in all these wonderful people and it's like a very thing to take that community.  And so it was just all this foreshadowing. And so I found my way from, you know, going from naturopathic school, taking a little break and coming full circle and really coming back in 2007 to best year and kind of everything, it was timing for me. And everything clicked and I felt very passionate that I really wanted to find a path to really help the true cause of why people are sick. And when I was at Bastier, one of the first weeks we had this brown bag lunch and Dr. Louisa Williams. She was there and she had just come out with her book, Radical Medicine.  And that's what I want my practice to be. And so her book, it was before Kindles was like that big and I would just cart it around. And you know, it's really the, you know, the textbook of how I practice a lot. And, you know, she talks about biological medicine and the parents fields and, you know, all of these, you know, things. And so that just sparked me on my journey. And, you know, at a school, I got a great opportunity. I've learned a lot about complex chronic illness. And as I'm sure you're very well in touch with our patients, teaches every day, you know? And, you know, I think this is, you know, really important time to bring this medicine to the forefront. So people don't have to suffer so much and people don't have to spend decades trying to figure out what's wrong and going to, you know, dozens of doctors and spending tens of thousands of dollars. Like I really admire your passion as well to just like, how do we just get this information out to more people? So they really understand like there's, it's not a random event that's happening in their body. There's many reasons of why we end up with imbalances and just make that more of a mainstream conversation. I love that. And I love how you can, I love hearing people's stories because we all talk about it like there's this sole healer piece, right? And clearly out of family history, I had no medicine in my family at all. I come from farmers and nurses. The nurses, I guess my mother was a nurse but not no medical doctors at all. But they're still like, now I look back. I'm like, oh, I was a healer. I intuitively and same with you. And what's new is we come to this path and now my training, very different conventional medicine, which is great for foundational for trauma or heart attack, but then it fails us a lot in most every other area. And again, like I said, I have such respect for my naturopathic physician friends because you guys teach me so much about lymph and about bowels and about colonics and we'll talk about all that today.  It's science-based, but there's a lot of energetic fields that affect our health too. So I'd love to talk a little bit about that. So first of all, what kind of patients do you mostly see? I'm sure the complex chronic, but give us a little framework and then let's go into kind of how you would address that. And of course we're going to get to the lymph system. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. So I see like my average patient who's seen a dozen doctors, they've tried a lot of things and they really have these multi-systemic illnesses, right? So they are unfortunately plagued with a list of symptoms of insomnia, anxiety, depression, brain fog, chronic sinus issues, a lot of digestive issues, a lot of circulatory issues. So like cold hands and feet are kind of stagnation in that area. There's just feeling of being unwell, and you and I, and I know that you have your health journey and I'm so in awe of where you are today with that journey.  And the thing that breaks my heart about a lot of my patients is these amazing souls, but they really, their bodies are so sick that they really can't do much other than survive each day. And so that is really what keeps me going is really holding them in the space of our medicine and really having that vision for them to not only recover, but also to live a purposeful, meaningful life that I think we all are on the planet to do. And so I think that really is kind of the why, again, it's very rewarding to treat people and get their suffering alleviated. But I think it's like we need to think about like the more people who go through this journey and this understanding of how we're really wired to heal and how we're so connected to the natural rhythms and nature and the planet that just has such a ripple effect, right? And those are the people I see. So I see those people again, and they're not one label, one pill, and they're better, that's not what we do. I love that. And two things that you mentioned, I think so key. Number one, it's not just healing, which we can do, but it's getting them to thrive and find their purpose and meaning. And there's such a difference in, I know I've been doing functional medicine for about 20 years, but in the last maybe five years, I've done my own personal healing in trauma work and somatic work and some of that. And that's been more profound than any sort of even supplement or diet or any of those functional basics that we do, even lymph drainage, right? Like this awakening, we could call it. And you talk about, that's another way to say what you just have been saying is, how do we allow that patient not only to get well, but to awaken to their real purpose and calling in life. And that's where it gets so exciting, right? And honestly, I feel like exponential healing happens when patients start to realize, you know, why am I here? What is my purpose? What's my joy in life? How do I serve in what I've been called to do? So I love that you mentioned that because that's really like the next level of healing. And sometimes doctors just stop it, okay, the physical healing's done, it's been done there. So love that. What do you start with? Do you start with the detox? Do you start with drainage? Do you start, give us a little like map of kind of how you might start with a complex chronic patient in the clinic. Yeah, yeah, it's a great question. And I think my answer always evolves.  But we have kind of a map and a thought process. And it really depends where people are at. But, you know, I look at it from a couple of different ways. You know, we do all the lab work and all the functional medicine work. And then I do a lot of bio energetic assessment, which allows me to connect with their physical body and their energetic body to see really where to prioritize. And I find that a lot of patients, depending on where they are, we look at and identify what we call interference fields. That's a term in bio regulatory medicine to look at. Okay, they've seen all these doctors. They're really smart people. They tried a lot of things. Why aren't they recovering? Why aren't the things clicking? And often a layer that is often overlooked and underdressed is this idea of interference fields. And interference fields can be a scars. So scars can actually affect lymphatic drainage. They can affect the fascia. They can hold emotional trauma. They can affect the nervous system in the energetic body. And believe it or not, scars can really impact our ability to heal. And they can be this island of turbulence in the body. So we look at scars and we look at what we call foci or these hidden infections in the body. So these reservoir of infections that are silent and often not like the typical like hot red swollen infections. They're the silent in the background brewing reservoir pathogens that are kind of holding our patients back. So that can be in the mouth. So a lot of dental issues we address. I don't know about you, but I see in a lot of my patients what we call like a tonsil interference field. So the tonsils often become chronically inflamed, infected.  And so that can be a big... Bigly a pocket of pus sometimes. Yeah, totally. I know.  And so that can be a focal infection. The sinuses can be a focal infection too. And so these are areas that are the body of infection that the body cannot clear. And they tend to be a home base for different opportunistic pathogens that then have, you know, just the kind of they can enter the rest of the body through the lymphatics and the circulatory system and the nervous system. And so that's a big place of where I start is like, okay, have interference fields been addressed?  I also, you know, we don't necessarily start there unless it's a very unique situation. So just opening up and understanding is there a significant trauma history?  Oh, illness can be one of the biggest. And I love that you're saying that because my history was like trauma was like for those people who had been horrifically abused and were very stoic German kind of family. I grew up and so I was like, go talk about that. Now I realize we all have trauma, right? We all have and we can have wonderful childhoods and we still have trauma around just growing up and being kids and being, you know, in parents, no one's perfect and no child is perfect. And so I love opening this up because if we open it up and make it less stigmatized, we can deal with it. And we all have little bits of that that affect our health. Yeah, absolutely.  Trauma really is, you know, a toxicant or it has an effect in our physiology and not to go down that rabbit hole, but an aptitude. It's like, you know, the trauma affects all these parts of us, right? So it can make us, you know, can affect us epigenetically. It can live, I believe, you know, a lot of these memories that often are not conscious anymore can be stored in our fascia, you know, in the connective tissue. I mean, that's why somatic therapy can be very helpful. That's why neural therapy can be very helpful. And, you know, it's like the mind can be somewhere, but the body, as the both of you know, the body keeps the score. And so that's a big one, you know, I think that's a really big piece of the puzzle that as you said in your own process, and I see that in patients, it's like the supplements are important and all of it's important, right? But the real work, I believe, is that work, you know, is really to... I couldn't agree more. I think I'm really opening people up to that piece. And like for me, it was exponential healing in that realm versus all the other stuff I had done for the previous my whole life. One thing interesting, I want to hear how you assess bioenergetic fields, but I just want to mention for a personal story, we talk about these hidden things because for me it was profound. I remember when I talked to an acupuncturist and realized the meridians or the two teeth I had root canals in were related to the pancreas and the breast and the colon. And I looked at my history, I had breast cancer at 25, I had Crohn's at 26, and I had pancreatic insufficiency a couple years, maybe five years ago. So my whole health history was in these root canals as far as meridians. And when I realized that about five years ago, I thought, oh my goodness, I need to have them pulled. And while I do believe those affect most people, not everybody, if you have a strong, robust immune system, it may be a minor issue. I unfortunately don't. So it was, and I just wanted to say, because I had psoriasis prior to pulling these two, within seven days of getting the last tooth out, my psoriasis went away, never to come back. So like that for me was a big a-ha, like, oh my goodness, they were affecting me. Now the other part of the story is I had two cavitations from my wisdom teeth. These just last year I got done. And I had always struggled, especially around mold with cystic acne, like I always, my skin just was always manifesting the liver and let's talk about that too, because I wanna know the liver and detox the skin, but my skin, I could never hide. And I looked horrendous at times with the mold and the acne. As soon as I got those cavitations done, I don't know if I've had one breakout since, like I have the most clear skin I've had my whole life. And I realized that those dental things were massively affecting my system. Oh yeah, no, thank you for sharing that. And that's a really common that I see in my patients too. It's like the, you know, these infections and the toxicants and the oral microbiome have so much to do with our physical health.  Yeah, I know, that's what, that's actually what Louisa had said at the brown bag one.   And so that always just, I feel really fortunate to have that imprinted. And I had my own dental journey as well.  And, you know, when they were capped and then in high school or college, I realized that there was a little abscess and they were ruking out. And when I looked at, you know, all of these things, you know, I had some thyroid stuff. I had some, you know, the pituitary kind of hormonal access, you know, kidney stuff.  So I'm just hoping the other ward and gets more of this, yeah. Oh, I love that. So by way of energetically, how do you assess someone? Do you have biopines? Yeah, what kind of technology or ways do you assess? Cause I'm so fascinated by that. Me too. And I feel like a student, but I, you know, have learned so much. And again, we get the feedback from your patients, right? That's like, why we do this is cause it works. And so I use a couple of different tools. So I use autonomic response testing. So that's something I've been using for 11 years. And then I also use a tool in the office called the AO scan. I've only honestly been using that for about two years, but I feel that it is really clinically relevant. I've been exposed to a lot of Russian bioressonance technology in the past. And so when a friend brought this to me, I was like, okay, I'll just look. Yeah, let me see. Yeah, let's just see.  And then I have all my patients scanned just in the beginning, just to see like, okay, like what, what is, what's the pattern there? And it was, it was really wild. I mean, I really saw, you know, a lot of significant markers that were in balance from the AO scan that I could see in the lab work too. You know, so they, they correlate. Yeah, so I've learned to trust that tool. So I have all my patients scanned, which is really nice because you can do that remotely. So in the realm of telemedicine, it's just a Russian bioressonance technology. And it basically sends resonant frequencies to the body. And then the body says, okay, what's in balance with out of balance. And then they give healing resonant frequencies. And then says, okay, what is still in like, what's been balanced and what's out of balance. And then you kind of see what the key issues are. It also has this really cool thing, Joe. It has a program called inner voice where you talk into the machine. And essentially it's this program, it's an algorithm that finds high and low tones in your vocal cord and your sound. And they've matched that with different subconscious themes and patterns that people tend to have when those vocal tones are out of balance. And then it gives you music to essentially balance and create more healing where those deficits are. And so it's wild. And again, I know that sounds moving. I love, no, I really like my mouth. You can tell my mouth is a game. I was in about five years ago, right from my divorce, I called the awakening when I really had to deal with my own stuff and really went deep. And I worked with the neurolinguistic programming coach. And one of the things she did was she treated me somatically. And I saw changes in my voice. Like I have recordings in my facial expression and in my voice. And even now, if I look at old recordings or if anybody who's a voice expert looks at that, I am dramatically different in tone and musicality and still changing. But I realized then, oh my gosh, these trauma patterns affect our voice. So what you're saying makes perfect sense to me. I'm personally like even speaking voice, I'm like, this is crazy that that NLP could change my voice. But if you look at my old old stuff, you can see it's very different. Yeah, no, I love that. And Erin, our voice is sending out this beautiful sound and frequency of our inner essence. So of course, that's going to change as we get on and become a whole, no, I love that. I love that. And so I use AO Scan. And it really goes down even deeper. And I really feel that's the future, Jill, just to, the future is if we can have more of this in conjunction with all that we do. The thing that I love about the AO Scan is people can have it at home too. And so when you're dealing with a chronic illness, it's the confusion and uncertainty of the day in and day out of like, what to do, why am I reacting to this, how do I do, you know, that kind of takes some of the mystery out of it. So I've had a handful of patients who start, who've started to use it at home. And I'm really, really excited. They have a little thing that you can put supplements in. And then you can send the supplements you need. So it's just, yeah. So that's, I'm just in this passion. Oh, loving this.  I do individual, with an individual that I think this should work, this should work, this should work. But there's this million of variables with the genetics, with the environment, with their energetics and things that should work don't always work.  So I love this system and what you're describing. And I'm sure the autonomic training that's part of it, like before. Yeah, yeah.  If they're in the office, I have a bio-weld camera as well, Dr. Beverly Rubick. I'm introducing to that. And it's a bio-field camera. It's a gas discharge visualization camera. And so it uses curling photography and this technology to map the bio-field and see kind of where there's imbalances and you know, the field of energy that we emit. And so that can look at patterns, not only physically, but also emotionally. So we have all those tools. I also, I kind of consider it a bio-energetic tool even though it's more kind of in the realm of biological medicine, but I have the regulation thermography as well. And so that's looking at the autonomic nervous system. So you know, I don't always do all of those with everybody, we have all of that access. And then I take all that information in and of course the clinical history. And then I do autonomic response testing. And that's a way for me to hone in with that individual and to find out where the priorities, where the plan is. Cause you know, and ART and any other type of either applied kinesiology or some type of biofeedback exam, there's of course you can perceive what stress and how to unbalance, but it's only as good as like the information we have to, right? Like we have to be the computer to digest it. And so all of that information helps me to really, yeah, try to hone in cause as you know, there's like 30 things to treat the biodex. Like, okay, well, you know, let's see which one is going to be the best. Exactly. So I love that cause this is a really personalized approach. Now what about, this is maybe, I don't think it'll be a hard question for you at all. I 100% understand what you're saying. I believe in it. I think it's the future. Like I am all in and I love that you're doing this cause in my practice, I don't have as much access to those tools. So love it. But what I've run into even in my realm of understanding this, trying to explain to people, skeptics, right? The engineers, the scientists, and there's nothing wrong with that. I'm an engineer by trade, but how would you explain to a person who's just like, this doesn't make sense.  So I'm all in, but I want to hear, how would you, cause I'm sure you've come across a vision like, what is this? How does it work? We know it works. And how would you describe that in layman's terms of how the energetic feels and how you can actually test this, like the autonomic response stuff tell, like, what would you say to a skeptic? Cause I know that I've had patients that are like that. And I want to, you know, better know how to explain it. Totally. And there's like the short version, the long version, I think maybe just to kind of like, out for a minute. I hear you. And even I was, you know, as I shared, I was like, open the energy medicine or all this. And then you kind of get delving to practice and be this way, like, does this work? Does that work? Yeah, yeah. You know, cause you have a healthy skepticism. You do. Yeah. You get that reinforcement of seeing the results, timing and time out. And, you know, I think we have a lot of understanding ideas of why and how it works, but I think we have to always be open to like, we probably know this much. And there's only going to be more and more information to understand like why, you know, why and how this is working, maybe it's more about the body. But, you know, I look at it in a few things. I always love to use this term biofilm, Joe, when we're talking about this, because, you know, you can search it in PubMed, you know, it's definitely a, you know, it's a documented phenomenon. And, you know, it kind of combines all of this, right? So we know, as you mentioned, we have the EKG and EEG. Yeah. You measure this. All these gap fields. And, you know, the heart has the strongest electromagnetic field in the body. So it's generating this, you know, field that's measurable. And the biofield is essentially this toroidal shaped field of like, it's electromagnetic, but it also, they say it's the subtle energies too. And I think those are the, that's the bio photons that is the light body, you know? And so I think that it's the summation of this electromagnetic energy. So the electrical fields and the magnetic fields and that information, and then, you know, the bio photon field. And so we know that all of our cells emit light and we can receive light. And that is also very well documented. The fun part too, show them how to skip ahead is that we also emit and respond to sound. So there's a term called bio phonons and people are studying the music that cells make and actually cells that are healthy make beautiful music. Like a really resonant kind of beautiful music. And then cells that are dying or cancer cells make this screeching music, this researching the CLA found this out. So why I share that is that there's all of this like biophysical nature to our structure. So we know we have this biochemistry and then we have these fields of information and surrounding us. And I think there's almost like this tipping point too that people can hold this information a little bit more because our cell phones work. Start to exactly see. Yeah, so it's like, okay, it's not a far stretch. I mean, how do you think your cell phone works or how you know it's fields of information, right? And so I try to set that out. And then I also not to get maybe two out there, I also what helps me to understand this is that within, okay, we have this biofield of all the things I shared and then there's this whole idea of what we call the electric universe. And the electric universe is a different viewpoint of the universe that we have this like spaces in an empty vacuum, but it's this fourth state of matter called plasma and then there's this ether and this kind of describes how you and I are connected even though we're far away. So this information travels through this unified field or however we wanna, whatever we wanna call it it's the unified field, it's quantum field but we're sitting in the sea of energy and information. It's just what I wanna say. And then we're highly interconnected, right? That's such a it's a spiritual message and it's a really a physics message too that we are all interconnected. So when I work with a patient, there's a lot of things happening. So yes, we can perceive a change of muscle strength based on a physical substance coming into the field of the patient that creates a stress response in the body that can tighten up and create muscle contractions or affect the fashion. So that's a lot of the premise of these forms of testing. But there's all these other interactions that I am curious of always exploring. It's like when I test them, when I actually use a surrogate arm and then when we think about it, we have three people. We have three bio fields. We have that connection to the unified field and there's this openness of information that we're connected with. So not only am I reading, it changes in muscle strength in this pattern that is tested and reproducible. But we're also opening ourselves up to this other way of informing us what the patient needs.  And then my assistant or my resident will be thinking the same thought at the same time, and you're just like, where is that coming from? I'm not saying you're saying that because I've realized again, I've done this a long time and I'm very analytical left brain dominant by nature. But as I've embraced it, and feminine masculine could be any, it does not male or female, but I think we can also think about it as masculine or driven analytical energies versus feminine creative and use like those kinds of things. And what I found again, which is what you're saying, it sounds like with your story, you've been very in touch with both. For me, I was very, very driven analytical and I had to actually shift, but what happened was the most profound insights, understanding and basically miracles as I've embraced that. Now I still use the analytical, I love that, but that's like actually an old analog computer compared to the supercomputer of the intuitive, right? And when I open myself to that, and then I always back it up with science. So it's like beautiful, it's just like you, but the intuition, what it brings me as far as information for the patient's well-being or what they might need, I don't even know where it comes from most of the time. Like, thank you. Yeah, totally, totally. So you're like, you can talk even in this whole other thing. Exactly, and I just, and I now trust it. And then again, I use science and I make sure they're getting, you know, I mean, there's all kinds of checks that are still analytical, but what I find in that field of subconscious and intuition, and again, if we call it feminine masculine energies, that's just one way to think about it. It's so powerful, it's so powerful and things that I could never come up with in my analytical brain, the insights and the healings and things, it happens there. And I'm always just like, wow, how lucky am I to get to be part of this? It's not about me. It's just letting myself be a conduit to that wisdom from the divine, you know? Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. And I am, yeah, no, I'm so aligned with what you're saying. And I think, you know, as we sit with our patients who've been, you know, struggling for so long and we talk about these complex chronic illnesses and how it takes time to heal it, which is true, you know, it's just what it is. But why I also am really passionate in bringing more and more of this work into my clinic and into my realm is like, I want patients to get better way quicker and way faster and way easier, you know? So it's like, you know, that's where I really feel, and I've seen it, you know, and I've, it's not my everyday experience, but I see a lot of it and more of it. And I wanna invite more of this conversation and more of this awareness within, you know, the clinical setting. So, you know, we can be open to, you know, not to sound whatever, but like more of the miracles, the more of the, you know, spontaneous healing, the more of the, you know, what I know that we're capable of. Exactly, and I love what you're saying too, Resonate, so deeply.  This old mentality of the force and the struggle that it took to achieve something or to heal or all those things, when you go into this other quantum realm or this more creative energy or this intuitive, again, for me, it's a very spiritual practice. It happens with such ease that it's almost like really, it's that easy. And again, it's just amazing to me like if we could really tap into that space and teach our patients to do the same, it's so much easier, right? Yeah, totally, totally. Even if you're, because we all have our stuff that we have to go through to get here and it's like, even if you're like, I'm not sure, it's like, there's no harm in just exploring, just like try life and this awareness, just try it on and see what happens. So no, it's really, again, I feel it will evolve as I evolve and as my... It's really a trust and surrender, you're right. Because when we have to hold all the control, all the struggle, all that comes from feeling like we have to force or we're way in the future, way in the past, but if we're present this moment, you and I, and then we're trusting that whatever we need is going to happen in the right time, it's so easy and it really does happen, the things we need, the resources we need, that if we trust in our ability to when things come our way, know that we can figure it out, it's just so much easier. So let's shift to lymphatics in our last, because this is, first of all, I love this conversation. Love, love, love it and some comments rolling in, as you guys are commenting, lots of people are loving it too, so this is great. Let's talk about lymph though. First of all, give us just like a real quick, two-minute crash courses in the lymphatic system, why it's important, and then we'll talk about strategies to actually address it. Yeah, absolutely. The lymphatic system is another passion of mine. And again, my patients teach me every day the importance of this. And many patients who walk in our offices, they have congested lymphatics, that's just a really big part of recovering somebody with any chronic illness. And so the lymphatic system is just this body-wide network. So it's a network of what we call lymphatic capillaries, we have lymphatic vessels, we have nodes, we have organs. And the lymphatic system is really highly interconnected to our circulatory system. So we have our heart that pumps blood through our arteries. So the blood flows into the arteries and into our tissue spaces and what we call capillaries. So the capillaries are these like micro, that's where the micro-circulation is happening. If you all have heard like my micro-circulation is not working, it's like in the capillaries we've done. And so what happens in that capillary system is that that oxygen-rich blood is kind of basically part of the fluid in that space is leaving the capillaries and bringing nutrition and all this good stuff to the tissues. And some of it returns and goes through the venules to the veins back to the heart. But a lot of that fluid stays and a lot of that fluid stays in that tissue and it starts to bathe what we call the extracellular matrix and bring oxygen nutrition in. And then it also helps to shuttle waste out of that system. And then in the extracellular matrix are these lymphatic capillaries. So that start to drain that fluid so that interstitial fluid becomes a lymph. And then that lymph basically carries its way back through vessels and countering nodes and making its way back to the thoracic duct and the right lymphatic duct. And going back to that extracellular matrix like that is where all the action is, I believe in our patients story. So when you think about what's going on there so there's the cells, the cell membranes and encapsulating the cells there's all of these structural proteins like collagen and elastin and the fiberglass the mast cells that are hanging out there. Lime, love, Borrelia loves to hang out there. It loves to be in the grade college and viruses hang out in there, heavy metals that we get exposed to because of their charge on lock on to like the proteoglycans. Mycotoxins can get hang out there, viruses, parasites. So this space is not draining regularly. It can be highly congested and can be full of contaminants and that can affect basically cellular communication and the ability for the cells to get the trash out, right? And so why we do our lymphatic therapies is really on the microscopic level to drain that space and keep that space moving so that we can have really, really wonderful cell communication, keep those pathogens and toxicants out of there. And that's also where trauma hangs out. So there's the structured water around the collagen that through this wonderful biophysicist her name is May 1 home, she's past but she studied structured water around the collagen and the acupuncture meridian system. And that's where when we do neural therapy or craniosec roll or somatic work that's why you have a memory or something when you're working on that tissue. But yeah, so it's all in there. So that's a really important space to keep moving and keep draining and a big part of where we work. And Dr. Rob Cass who he's the creator of Physica and he's a great book. And he says, I had always six in my brain by draining the lymphatics were essentially we have the opportunity to change the train of in the cell and our epigenetic expression, right? So by doing these therapies we have a profound effect on our health. Yeah. Oh gosh, I love that. And I love that you kind of gave us an outline. I see so many patients and specifically like you said with Lyme and mold which you see a lot of them who have congestive lymphatics. How would you know? I mean, clearly everybody could use lymphatic work but what would be signs and symptoms of congestive lymphatics? Like how would you know from a clinical perspective? Yeah, it's kind of like just, again, nothing's 100% but it's pretty much 95% for a lot of our patients. But it's a lot of symptoms, right? So from headaches to migraines to nasal congestion, allergies, a lot of gut dysbiosis, bloating, pain, edema, cellulite, acne, all of these things. And then there are key areas in the body to their kind of lymphatic areas. There's a lot of the cervical lymph nodes that can get congested, especially in your patients. Underneath the clavicle, there's the on the left side, there's the thoracic duct and then the right lymphatic duct. These areas can get tender. Women breast health is lymphatic health, right? So if you're breast, if you have vibratinomas or fibrocystic breasts or even cancer, there can be lymphatic congestion, the armpits or the axilla, that can be a huge area. Any pelvic issue, any reproductive issue, ovarian cysts, fibroids, probably even endometriosis, prostate health, a lot of lymphatic congestion can happen in the pelvic floor. Gut dysbiosis, of course, can lead to lymphatic congestion. And then a lot of our patients, especially with Bartonella and other infections, their lower extremities can be full of symptoms from neuropathy to poor blood flow, to DMA, to being very cold. So a lot of these symptoms are the, let me say this, a lot of these underlying causes, the outcome is lymphatic congestion. That makes so much sense. And I love the image of Bartonella. There's many, many causes, but in my clinical experience, I'll say that, the most difficult lymphatic cases are usually related to Bartonella. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree, yeah. Yeah, so what would, tell us about your, what would you do to treat lymphatics and any, I wanna hear about your products too, for sure, but is there anything people can do at home or do you have a dramatic drainage kind of stuff that we can do? There's so much you can do, right? And it's just awareness is the first step. If you're struggling with a chronic illness, that whole idea about scars that I talked about, scars can create blockages in the lymphatic system. So if you can see somebody for neuro therapy or you can do different topicals that can talk about or even photobiomodulation to help ease some of that stagnation in the scars. So scars are really important with the people who are struggling with chronic illnesses, especially also the tonsils, as I mentioned. So making sure that lymphatic tissue is being treated. I use a lot of different topical sprays from like, I love the beekeepers, propolis and I like the megasidin and different gargles with ozonate of water.  Also the sinuses and again, if you have any dental infections, that's gonna just be that chronic, you know, assault to the lymphatics. However, there's lots you can do. Some movement is really important.  And my good friend, Jean and Bria has also talked about how, you know, not only that are we moving the lymph, but the fascia, which is the connective tissue, what we call the saran wrap around muscles. It's way more than that. It's actually this fiber optic communication system in the body that delivers exclusions on water in our tissues. So basically you're moving water and hydrating yourself by moving. So that's really important for lymphatics and movement. And then there's different ways to kind of do self-lymphatic drainage massages.  So if there's a block in one area, it's gonna affect distant areas.  There's some lymph nodes again along the neck that a lot of our patients, you know, are congested with. So, you know, opening the self and then draining. Also the breasts, you know, and so I'm using along the breasts or the armpits. And there's a lot of tools. So I love the wash-offs, the facial wash-offs. I think those are really fun to use at home. Dry skin brushing can be really great. You always wanna go in the direction of your heart and then open up upstream before going downstream.  So those are some, you know, home tools. There's also the vibration plates. There's the rebounders. There's home little vibration things. And then there's lots of topicals. So I've created two products that I really enjoyed. They work well. One is from a product line called Loom V. It's lymphogen and it's an oil infusion and it has different, some of my favorite herbs plus essential oils. So like red root and cleavers and nettles and red clover and then it has Heliocrisum draining and frankincense. So I have people put that on like their body at night, especially because our lymph is draining a lot of it. And then I just other product that I collaborated with Dr. Ruggiero, it's called lymph flow and it's just a little bit more, it's stronger. So it's really good for those who really congested areas and it helps a lot of our patients to have brain fog and all sorts of things going on the brain. So we want the lymphatic system in the brain to drain really well. So we open this up at night and then there is biopur has their detox deodorant. So you can actually also use that at night around the like axilla and the delinoponodes in the groin area, like in the pelvic floor, bikini area, also the bottoms of the feet. It can be very helpful for... Biopur also has a breast health tissue, what do they call it? Femtox maybe, I forget what they call it but for people who have a lot of breast congestion and recovering from explant surgery, that can be very helpful. And then castor and packs can be very helpful. There's so many tools and then we use internal herbs as well. There are a lot of drain and tremities and then different herbal combinations that we use. So there's a lot, a lot of things to do. Also patients who are chronically ill often you've had your lymph system congested for a while. So if you're in an area and if you can connect with a clinic, getting like a wonderfully skilled practitioner who does lymphatic drainage massage that can really help things to get things going. And then my good friend, Kelly Kennedy, introduced me to an equipment called the Flowpresso and it's this like compression suit. So it's in infrared and they call it nano vibrational technology. Wow, yeah, that's cool. Yeah, and it's so, it's so relaxing.  Yes, yeah, it's really nice. And so that's a really wonderful piece of equipment to use as well. So, so yeah, there's so many things to do Jill. One thing too, I guess to note for our patients, some people when their lymphatic system is really congested and when we get it moving, they can feel flu like for a little bit. And that's not a sign that it's bad for you. It's actually a sign we really need it. So what I do is I often treat people with binders before and after lymphatic therapies and also immune support. So whatever it, whatever you're taking just take more of like your anti-viral or, you know, Lyme support. And then you can navigate that ozone can be really nice before and after as well. But don't, you know, just moving too much. Don't like be afraid of it or, you know, be deterred from it. Just go back more gently with more support. And that does get easier. It doesn't happen for long. Yes. Oh gosh, that was just a wealth of now. Oh my gosh, so many things people asking for now. So we'll do, if you're listening, wherever you're listening, we're gonna include links to Dr. Christine's products and anything else that she mentioned, we'll make sure and get from you everything that you mentioned so that we can share that with everybody who's listening. I see some hearts going out. People are glad to hear that. I was like, wow, that was awesome. Truly that was great, great overview. And so many things like you said, there are so many things that you can start with at home and then some of these other remedies. And all, like you said, all that junk just coagulates and that's a terrible word because that's blood, but you know, issues and really this is part of the healing. Gosh, it is so fun to talk to you, Dr. Christine. And time goes so fast. Oh, I know, I can't believe it, yeah. I know, right? So it's Dr.ChristineShaffner.com is your website? Yes. And are your products actually on the website? Yeah, we have that website we'll kind of direct you to everybody. Perfect. My clinic is called Eminence and then we have our stores called iPothecary and so that we have a lot of things there as well. Awesome, I'll make sure people have the links. Thank you so much for sharing your heart and soul and spirit and all the wonderful things you do. It is just a treat to talk to you. Oh, thank you so much for having me on your podcast. It's always lovely to connect. It is.