Hey there, I'm Drew, and you are listening to or watching The Anxious Truth, the podcast that covers all things anxiety, anxiety disorders, and anxiety recovery. So if you're struggling with problems like panic disorder, agoraphobia, OCD, or health anxiety, well, you've come to the right place, and I'm glad you're here. Today I'm joined by two special guests, two OCD specialists from the state of California, my friends Lauren Rosen and Kelly Franke are here. We're gonna talk about the wide spectrum of exposure work that you can do from completely on your own to working with a qualified therapist and everything in between. So let's get started on that right now. Hello everybody, welcome back to The Anxious Truth. This is podcast episode number 245, recorded in February of 2023. I am Drew Lincellata, creator and host of The Anxious Truth. If this is your first time listening to the podcast or stumbling into the YouTube channel, I'm glad you're here. I hope you find it helpful. And if you're a returning viewer or a returning listener, welcome back. Of course, I'm glad you're here. So today we are joined by OCD therapists, Lauren Rosen and Kelly Franke, both practicing in California, both people I am proud to call my friends. And we got together to have a discussion about the wide range of options that people have when doing exposure and especially ERP work for OCD, whether you're working completely on your own because you have no access to a qualified professional for whatever reason, or you're sort of combining things, you maybe you're using books, maybe you're using social media content all the way to the other side of the spectrum where you are working with a trained OCD specialist, a licensed professional. And we wanted to look at the pros and cons of all of those things and how they sort of fit together. And more than anything else, we wanted to make sure that you know that even if you're having a hard time finding qualified professional help, you are not doomed. There are things that you can do when you're not doomed to be stuck there forever, I promise. So before we get to the interview with Lauren and Kelly, just a quick reminder that The Anxious Truth is more than just this podcast episode. There are 244 other podcast episodes that came before this one. There are books that I've written on anxiety and anxiety recovery. There are courses and workshops and webinars that I'm doing to help people with their recovery and educate people about these particular topics, take the mystery out of them. There's all my social media content. There's ways to support my work if you're digging it. It's all on my website at the anxioustruth.com. So I would ask you to pop on over there and avail yourself of all the resources. They're there, take advantage of them. And if you decide to support this work financially by buying a course or a webinar or a book or something out of my Etsy shop or whatever it is, I appreciate that. Thank you so much. But that sort of support is appreciated but never required. Even if you're here to just listen to the podcast or like a YouTube video or write a podcast review, I appreciate that support too. It's all good and I'm happy that you're here no matter how you're involved with the work. And I hope that you find it helpful. So let's get on to the interview with Lauren and Kelly. I think it was pretty good. We went for about 25 or 30 minutes. So not too long. I think there's a lot of good information in there, especially again, if you're struggling to find a therapist, you're having a hard time accessing that either in your state in the US or the country that you're in or maybe it's a financial thing. A lot of reasons why it can be hard to find professional help. We tried to go through this as much as we can to give you as much good information about that situation and different options and how people handle it. So let's get to it and I will come back at the end to wrap it up and give you all the links and ways to find their podcast and all this stuff. So enjoy the interview and I'll be back afterwards to wrap it up. Okay, as promised, here we are with the fabulous Lauren Rosen and Kelly Franke from the Purely OCD podcast, both practicing therapists in the state of California and beyond, at least in the case of Lauren, and beyond and specializing in OCD and Purely OCD is a great podcast that you guys should check out. So I'm gonna put that up on the screen and we're gonna put in the show notes we'll talk about it at the end. But here we are to talk about this whole idea of the pros and cons of like how to do exposure in ERP work, like that scale of like, I'm doing it all on my own because I can't find a therapist to like, I have a team of therapists that are awesome and they're helping and everything in between. So you guys have encountered this, I'm guessing in your practices. Absolutely, actually, Kelly was just mentioning something to that, you know, end. Right, so what I was talking about is that lots of times people can't afford treatment, right? Like it's expensive, it's really privileged to be able to go to therapy and also to have the access and to have a specialist in your states because there's a lot of laws that restrict MFCs to treat outside of your state. And so when people reach out to me and we've run down all the avenues and none of those are viable options, I will give them referral books, self-help OCD books that I rely on and I trust. And I will say you can start here because they show you how to build hierarchies. They give you sample exposures, sample, imaginal exposures, response prevention, all the basics. But at the end of the day, this treatment can be very nuanced, right? Like it's, there's a lot of nuance in OCD and it's not to be missed and it can easily be missed with some of it if you're not a trained professional. And like I was asking Lauren, if she'd ever experienced this and turns out she has as well where people have done a lot of work on their own and then come to us for the last stretch. Yeah, which is, it's way cool. And as, because Kelly was saying that it, it's amazing what people are capable of and learn so much learning can be done outside of the therapeutic relationship. That being said, there are lots of different approaches too. And so I love, I do the same thing and not just states, but different countries. There are places all over the world where there is no access to specialized care. And there are laws that prohibit us from working there, you know, because it's regulated in the country for instance and we don't have all of the credentialing behind us to offer support. But I think one of the things, so yes, there's lots of different ways to go about treating. And obviously there are lots of people out there who are selling things that you don't wanna be buying like the guy on Instagram who, I don't even remember, was that a year ago where he was like, celery cures OCD. It's like, oh my God. He's my favorite. Yeah, really though. It's just, it's so upsetting because it is so many people are looking for something to hold on to.  So first, I think, obviously there are a lot of resources online you can get to know different clinicians and their style and if you relate to it, oftentimes we'll have resources linked on our websites and stuff like that. I know Kelly and I both do. So there's that. But also what tends to happen is Kelly said, and I'd love to get both of your thoughts on this, that the nuance in treatment is something that sometimes gets lost. And so what we'll see is I'll see on my Instagram account people saying, well, but what about this? And I can't respond to your personal queries on Instagram because it's not therapy. And I don't know the whole context of your story. And so that's where I think therapy becomes really important as you have these sort of followup questions that aren't necessarily going to be answered by a book. Yeah, I would agree with that. I think what I see most often in the community I'm fortunate to have around this podcast is exactly that. So things like Instagram and the content we all produce can provide general guidelines, and but everybody gets very focused on their specific fear or their specific thought or their specific compulsion or whatever it happens to be. And then they want specific instruction on that, which is where this falls down and where a book probably falls down. But what I always try to tell people like, well, just think of the principles at play here. And I know that you think your specific thing is different and special and needs its own instruction, but you can try to go back to the guiding principles that are in that book that you read and how can you apply them? But I think that's where it becomes really tricky to do some of this work without professional help. There's that and then there's the interpretation of how they feel when they do it without that person to sort of coach them through that. No, no, no, you're supposed to really feel uncomfortable right now. Often I find that this isn't gonna work for me because it may be worse, which I'm sure you guys come to every day. Absolutely. We even find I don't feel anything. Is that a problem? Like when there's many exposures, right? So it can go either way. And so that's why it's really helpful if somebody who has OCD and is worried about harming their child and they're doing an exposure that's out of a book and they don't feel scared. Oh, backfire. We're gonna call. Yeah, does this mean I wanna do it? Right. So it can happen that quickly where things can go kind of sideways. But I think the bigger picture to take away is like compulsions are the problem. You know, if focusing on removing compulsions usually doesn't require a ton of like nuance per se. Well, it can but cause we can scale it therapist can scale it better and just verbally going through it and emotionally. But yeah, I mean, I think if you can say remove the compulsions work on exposures through a therapist, I don't know. It's hard, it's hard. Yeah. Actually, I appreciate and Kelly knows there's a quote that recently that came out from John Hirschfield. He wrote this wonderful article and this is why I wanted to bring it up. Of course, now I can't find it but it was something to the effect of like an update on the poetry of OCD therapy. He said like cut to the chase, right? At the end of it, he said something like cut to the chase like compulsions bad. Like if there's your ear, yes. An update on the poetry of evidence-based psychotherapy I'll send through the link. But yeah, at the very end of the article, he's like, that's your, there's your, yeah. Let's cut to the chase compulsions bad. That's your OCD treatment protocol. It's just so perfect. But I love that somebody with his stature too can combine a silly line like here's cut to the chase compulsions bad with also the words poetry and recognizing how complicated and nuanced this could be because it is, it's flat-out. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. So yeah, actually great resource too if you're interested in understanding more about the different treatment modalities used so that you can be an informed consumer when you're looking for, if you happen to be on the lookout for a therapist. And the other thing I wanted to say is one of the areas that I often see people get stuck in independent of being in therapy is the obsessions related to doing treatment, right? Yeah. And so the tendency to bring this worldview that really, I don't know, exemplifies OCD where everything is black and white and I have to do it correctly or else it sort of gets moved on to treatment if you don't have somebody there going, aha, you're trying to do treatment perfectly. Okay, well, we're not gonna do that and here's why and here are the, look, see you have thoughts about that and you have feelings about that too and there are the compulsions that you might be doing in order to make sure and that's not gonna help you. Yeah, that makes sense. There's also the other thing that comes up and so it's funny cause we have the spectrum here like you can be completely on your own cause you have no access to anybody. You can use books, then there's a social media thing then there's actually working with a therapist. So there's multiple, you know, the steps you can take in the middle of that is the big old social media pond where there are not just people like you guys but there are also the people who are consuming the content who then interact with each other. Oh yeah. Yeah. I'm always curious what that is. Yeah. I'm always curious like, are my clients talking to other people in this world? Well, I will tell you here I can answer that question for you, not you specifically cause no one's ever said my therapist Kelly said, no, I mean, maybe they are your client but I don't know. Sure, drill, sure. But I will at least a few times a week in a very large Facebook discussion group I will get people who will come in because their therapist said a thing and instead of asking the therapist or asking for clarification or texting or setting it up for the next session they come to me and want me to confirm or deny that what the therapist said is correct. Oh, Drew, they asked us, I guarantee it. Now they're getting caught second. Well, I didn't wanna go there but I'm pretty sure, but I get that. Like, Kelly didn't give me the answer I want so let me ask Drew now or someone else on social media because I'm really hoping for a different answer. I get that, that's probably part of it but it is fascinating to see how like this thing that didn't exist 15 years ago is probably changing that dynamic a lot as well. Yeah. In a good way and a tricky way. Yes, I agree. Without it, we wouldn't have as much community. We also wouldn't be able to get access to resources and it's kind of also, it's a Kelly's heel because then you have people who are just like compulsively consuming stuff. They're using language that's tweaked just a little enough that it sounds different than what a therapist is saying and then they get stuck on that and is like, well, isn't asking for reassurance all bad? Like I should never ask for reassurance is a common one. It's like, well, it's only if it's compulsive that's the only time it ever is. Right, well, meaning reassurance again and again and again. Like I've had to address that. You're right, that gets convoluted sometimes. But I could be like, hey Drew, do you think that guy thinks I'm an asshole? And you could be like, probably and I'll be like, all right, cool. And then we drop it.  Like this is the problem. Kelly, this is an intervention. It's an intervention. This is not a podcast. We're actually, it's an intervention. We didn't wanna tell you. You knew it. No, I get that. And I think the other thing that comes into it if you're looking at the spectrum of how you do your exposures, whether on your own and all the way up to working with professionals, then there's this support. And I'm gonna use that lovingly because I love that people can support each other. But there's also pitfalls to air quotes support. And I get all of that. Like, well, I want an accountability partner. Well, that's a great idea, except if the other person isn't prepared to shrug their shoulders at your fear sometimes and not try to be kind and sooty, then they're not gonna really help you. So people get that. But then also it's like, I don't understand, we should have a support group. And then the support group devolves quickly into, don't you hate it? It's gonna be fine. It's gonna be fine. This feels so real. I know I hate it. No one understands it. Quickly it's not useful anymore. It's co-rumination on steroids. So it's so hard. Yeah. We actually just did a podcast episode on this last week about how to seek support without seeking reassurance because it's super important and support is, but again, the nuance there. And so much nuance gets lost in social media anyway. And then you have a treatment, or on any sort of written platform, but then you have a treatment that, there are so many paradoxes or seeming paradoxes and dialectics that are involved, where we're, to anyone who's listening, who doesn't know about dialectics, you're holding two things that seem opposite to one another, but in fact or not. So you could post something and then somebody says, well, but my therapist said this and they're not mutually exclusive. But again, that sort of narrow viewpoint on, I'm trying to do it right interferes with the ability to understand and implement. Yeah. Doing it right. Kelly, what are your thoughts on, I'm gonna put you on the spot in a big way here, because I think human nature, if two people are going to try to support each other or 10 people or 10,000 people, human nature is, I see you in distress, my friend, and I want to ease your pain right now and I wanna make you feel better and fix it. That's generally human nature. Whereas in the training you have gone, undergone, you are almost taking a vow to not do that when you know it's counterproductive and that looks so wrong unless you are willing to go down that road. How do you address that? Because that's a tough one too. I've been abandoned, I'm not getting support. Yeah. Yeah. I have so much to say on it, so. Bring it. And I'm sure Lauren will too. But honestly, just to pull apart some of the first things you were saying is, when somebody early on comes into treatment and they're really stuck, like you better believe I am giving them reassurance, right? Like I'm explaining to them, this is OCD. This sounds like OCD. These are the reasons why.  Like do they know that there's something about, like they reached out to me, right? Or if you have a client who's so fused with the thoughts that they're not willing to do anything, sometimes there's a little bit of coaching of reassurance giving, it's a sliver, but it's more of like, hey, I know this is hard, reframing it, you're restructuring it and going from there. So it's kind of like, you're building this tolerance of it, if you will. Some clients are ready to go. They're like, I already know when I met with you, like I already know it's uncertainty. I know you can't get rid of my anxiety. I'm like, obviously they've been on social media or they've read a hundred books. So, okay, great start. But yeah, I mean, like Lauren and I are good friends and we have OCD. And when I'm stuck or she's stuck, we are very careful, because we're both obviously professionals too, in, hey, how can I support you right now? Can I help you reframe this? Like, do you need just to talk about it and just get it out and I listen? Like, can I offer you a reframe, right? One of my favorite lines you guys have ever said. Yeah. Can I offer you? It is the OCD equivalent to, can I get you something to drink? Yeah, just, I mean, right?  And then the person just like owns it and you're just witnessing it, right? Like I might come to my phone an hour later or she comes to her phone an hour later and it's like, oh wow, that person just worked through it without, they just needed a witness. Yeah. But I think one of the things that's so important in that is that we're both in a place where we recognize that certainty is a total illusion. So we're not actually seeking certainty from either, each other, we're just saying, wow, it's really hard to be with this uncertainty sometimes and it's scary. And right now I'm feeling a lot of things and I'm gonna pivot toward what's important to me in my life. I love you, right? I just want to be held in this experience and know that there are other human beings on this planet who understand that it's very, very challenging to live with this disorder. Which is, that is one of the powerful things about if you have to do it on your own or partially on your own, you get to access a community like that, tremendous power in that. I think one of the things that would be interesting, not that we're gonna subpoena your text messages, we might if things get out of hand, but I would guess that in those exchanges as friends but also trained professionals, you probably have that time when it's like, man, this really sucks, says Lauren and Kelly says, I hear you, this sucks on ice in a big way, no lie there. But I'm guessing that that conversation does not continue that way for eight hours that day. That's the pitfall of when you're on your own and you're trying to rely on the internet to support you. That's one of the things that can go wrong. Right, and honestly, we're so busy that half the time we don't get to our, like we don't see it right away, right? So people going into like a support group, they're like, I need an answer, I need to know it now. And I'm gonna throw it out to 1,000 people so I can get somebody to say something right now. And also when people are like in their recovery well in or and they feel like they're really like confident and they trust everything that their therapist has said, I've seen this a few times and like they know how to do ERP, they know how to do exposures. And then they go in and kind of try to be an expert to somebody else, not realizing like, they saw it through their lens of OCD and that can be really getting in somebody's way of progress. That's where I see the, that's reassurance seeking and people get shut down instantly. And like, well, wait a minute, this might be the person's very first day. You don't know that, but I know people have the best of intentions. So I think the million dollar question here that everybody's gonna ask when they listen to this podcast because I know they're gonna ask it even without the podcast. Have you seen people recover without, I'm not saying that you're suggesting they do it alone or without a therapist, but is it possible? And you might say, I don't know. I've never seen it because I'm a therapist. So people are like, it's all the point right there. Reporting bias for the win. Unfortunately, you're talking to a very biased sample. Good point. I could see where, like I was saying earlier though and Lauren as well is like, we've seen people do a lot of, and honestly these were people that were pretty straightforward OCD and they've come back, they've done a bulk of the work and now they're like stuck on a few bits and pieces and we're gonna work through it and maybe clarify some other things, but I've seen that. I've seen it a few times. Yeah. Or where they just latch onto treatment really quickly even if they haven't done a bunch of research in advance and it just, it goes quickly. They know what's up, they do it. It's, you know, but I will say too that once you've been through treatment you can support yourself. And I think any good, hopefully OCD therapist or anxiety therapist is gonna say like, it's okay, like try your skills out on this. I'm here, you know, you can reach out to me. I'm here as a support, but you have so much more capacity than you sometimes give yourself credit for. I like it. Yeah, and we'll start to say like near the end of treatment is like, okay, so what do you, what would you do in this situation? Right, as we're preparing them to launch is like, let's have you do this hierarchy. Let's have you do the exposures and assign it to yourself. And what do you think, right? So we're trying to empower them and move them into being responsible for their own treatment and recovery longterm instead of relying on us.  I'm never gonna get used to that. I heard you saying, no, don't hear me saying. Yeah, don't. So sorry, I live in your head now. Yeah. I live in Bahrain and it's not always pretty. I'm just kidding. No, I get that. But it's good news though. The good news in that statement is like, you know, well, I can't find a therapist or can't afford a therapist, is it impossible? Well, not necessarily but difficult, but you also see people respond so well. Post-treatment and like, it's not hopeless. I think. No. People feel like I can't find a therapist, especially in other countries where there's access is so limited. I'm done, I'm never gonna get better. I don't think it means you have to stay where you are. So there might be disadvantage there but you're not stuck where you are. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Big old debtor. Job drew. No, I was just gonna say even when you're in therapy, there's so much that most of what you're doing is outside of therapy. So yes, the therapist guidance is gonna help you to navigate, it's going, it's like going to, oh my gosh, why can't I think the name of the tallest mountain in the world? Everest. Thank you. Oh my gosh, that is, wow. So you're going to Everest. I don't think you can do this but you could in theory like actually do it alone. You could bring your oxygen tanks and carry what you need. I'm sure it's, somebody did it at some point. You probably lived there for a while and you acclimated to the weather first but I'm not the weather altitude but I swear this is going somewhere. So if that said, it's a lot easier to do it with a guide and there's a lot less risk involved if you, well, I mean, I'm sure that there's plenty of risk anyway because it's Everest and yeah, but yeah, it's less risk than it would be otherwise. And so, and it's gonna go probably a lot smoother. I think that's the way to look at it because we've climbed this mountain a lot of times with a lot of people and if this is your first time climbing it, you might get stuck places and not be aware of how to walk through it and all of that. Let me put up your stuff on the screen here. First of all, in terms of getting at these two lovely human beings in general, if you're watching on YouTube, here are their Instagram handles that I'm putting up on the screen, Kelly and Lauren. And then your podcast, you've been doing it for a while now it's an outgrowth of your Instagram lives, right? It's called purely OCD. Mm-hmm, yeah, it's been a couple years now that we've been recording maybe a year since we officially took it to podcast platforms. Somewhere around like 60 something episodes, which is wild. That's more than I thought you had. I'm clearly not listening enough. Well, in fairness, some of the very early episodes, the audio is just, it's atrocious. Yeah, and we don't know. We're just having fun. We didn't think it would be a podcast. And then we just ripped the audio from it and said, screw it. The best way to start a podcast is just have something to say, I guess. It's lost, that's all. Anyway, if you guys want to find, you can just search purely OCD podcast in any podcast platform or on Google, or if you go to the anxioustruth.com slash 246 because this is episode 246, I will put all the links on the page so you can get to everything and good conversation. Thank you guys, I appreciate you coming by to hang out. So thanks for having us. We will do it again sometime. We can do it again every month anyway because if you guys have not seen our YouTube videos that we do every month, we're gonna be back next month to do another one of these. So, I feel like you're never gonna see it again. Come hang with us, we all entertain ourselves at least on Friday mornings as we watch this. That is true. If nothing else, we think we're hilarious, if nothing else. And there are lots of Lebowski quotes that you won't understand if you haven't watched it in, I don't know, the last decade. I blame Kelly for rolling in with that and pushing my buttons and she gets me going. Anyway, all right guys, I'll come back in two minutes to wrap this up as you usually do, so hang in there. Okay, we are back. That was great. I enjoyed having the conversation. I hope you guys enjoyed listening to it. Hope there was something useful in there for you. Hey listen, trying to find professional help when you really want it can be really challenging. Clearly, there is issues in mental health. Here in the States and other countries that we have to address, it's really important. It can be very difficult to find the kind of help that you need, especially if you're dealing with OCD, which is kind of its own thing even within the anxiety disorder community. So hopefully you've gotten some useful information out of that and if nothing else, the message that you're not completely screwed if you're having a hard time finding a therapist. You can stitch together a bunch of other resources and if you want to find several of the resources that Lauren and Kelly mentioned, they mentioned books, they mentioned things like that, I will put them in the show notes of this podcast episode. So just go to theanxiustruth.com slash 246 and I will have links to Kelly Lauren's podcast, purely OCD, I will have links to their individual Instagram accounts and I will have links to some of the resources that came up in this episode so that you can find them. So that is it, that is episode 246 of the Anxious Truth in the books. You know it is over because the music is playing. That music is Afterglow by my friend Ben Drake. You hear it at the end of every podcast episode. He wrote the song at least in part inspired by this podcast several years ago and I've been fortunate enough to be able to use it in the podcast ever since with his permission. Thank you, Ben. You can find more about Ben and his music on his website at bendrakemusic.com so go check him out. Tell him I said hi if you do that. I'm going to ask you the same favors that I always do if you are listening to this podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts or some platform that lets you rate and review the podcast. Leave a five star rating if you dig it. Maybe take a minute, write a quick review because it helps other people find the podcast. Then we can help more and more people which is why I started doing this to begin with. If you're watching on YouTube, subscribe to the channel, hit the notification bell so you know when I upload more videos. Maybe leave a comment on this video because I do loop back a couple of times a week to answer my YouTube comments. I always enjoy interacting with you guys. And that is it. We are out the door. I hope you found it useful. I will be back next week. I do not know what I'm going to be talking about but I will be here. And remember, as always, this is the way. You got the feeling that you're gonna win but it's fast. No looking back but sweating on the pad.


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Sometime they may tell you you need to pay this amount six years from now and they'll give you the amount six years from now as 100,000 then they give you the present value factor and you have to find the present value. For here I just told you the present value is 65,000. Also Adam believes he can sell the land for 100,000 once the minerals are extracted. Well also I'm giving you the present value now this amount could be more into the future but the present value today based on the present value money is 100,000. An additional 400,000 of developmental cost is required before the extraction commence so simply put Adam will need to incur additional costs to get the site ready. In the first year Adam extracted 25,000 tons of which he sold 20,000 so the first question in this example is compute the per unit material cost simply put what is our cost per one ton. Before we proceed any further I have a public announcement about my company farhatlectures.com. 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Now how do we compute this first we have to figure out how much did we invest what's our cost and based on our cost we are going to divide by the number of unit we we can extract 80,000 so what is our cost what our cost is 1.2 million then we're gonna have to pay or we are responsible for 65,000 for the environmental cost then we are going to get back a hundred thousand from this land and we incurred an additional 400,000 of developmental cost so all in all our cost will be 1,565,000 this is our total cost now what are we going to do we're going to take total cost and divide it by the output of 80,000 then we know now our cost per ton per ton is $19.56 now we know every ton we extract the cost of that ton is that much now how much are we going to sell it for we might sell it for $35 we might sell it for $40 I don't know how much the mineral mineral goes for but this is what we're doing now the second question is compute the inventory well inventory is what you have left how many units that I have left how many tons I if I extracted 25 sold 20 I must have left 5,000 therefore my total inventory is 5,000 times 19.56 which is 97,000 $800 what is my cost of goods sold cost of goods sold is how many units I actually sold well how many units I sold it's 20,000 unit times 19.56 now here's what I want to tell you it's which is 391,200 in some textbook or for some natural resources what's going to happen is this natural resources are a little bit different than other assets why because they have a readily available market what does that mean let's assume you are extracting oil each barrel of oil there's a more active market price I don't know what's the barrel of oil today is it's around 90s or $100 so what what companies can do is if they extracted 25,000 barrels that day they can multiply it by $90 and consider that old cost of goods sold why because it's considered sold I'm sorry not by now if the if the price is $90 it means there is a market so let's assume it costs them you know $60 so they can take the 25,000 times the $60 in cost of goods sold everything so in other words they extracted 25,000 barrels they only sold 20 they can still expense the whole 25,000 why because the oil has an actively mark active market they can sell it immediately therefore if they want to expense it they are allowed to expense it because they can easily sell it immediately as well there's an active market for that just FYI because it's a kind of special accounting issues just in case in your textbook they expense the whole thing the 25,000 and they say there is zero inventory because we expense the whole thing that's also acceptable it's a special type of accounting you don't have to worry about this just in case you saw it I want I want to make sure you're aware of it and the only reason you can do that is because there's an active market you have oils you can sell it and there's an active market therefore whatever you produce you can consider it immediately cost of goods sold because you could consider it sold immediately based on a contract what should you do now go to farhat lectures look at additional mcqs through false that's going to help you understand the pollution expense good luck study hard and of course stay safe


This whole episode, we have to play with Alexander Ovechkin at a 78 overall. Yo, what's going on, LeafreNationSleeper back again and welcome back to the channel today. We are back with another Monopoly Hut video number nine. We're almost getting to double digits in this series, which is amazing. So like I said, we were playing a game, this whole episode with Alexander Ovechkin at a 78. Before we hop into our first game of the episode, we got to roll the dice. We were rolling the dice for the first time this episode. We last left off on audience chess. So we're hoping for something big here and we roll a three. So a three is open up four gold packs. Let's go ahead and do that. Three gold packs that is probably going to have absolutely nothing in them or four gold packs. We're obviously, I think I'm just going to skip all of these. Like in all honesty, there's probably nothing that we're going to get from these.  I did not know that. Three more of these bad boys to go again. We're just skipping all of these. I don't think there's anything in here that's going to help with the team. Maddie Barzell. Okay. That's not a bad poll actually. He might actually make the team 92 speed, 90 Excel, pretty good shot. That's a double of a pull in our second out of a four pack. So we'll take a map Barzell. That's probably an upgrade to our team. Maybe the skip pack methods the way to go with these third out of the four. We pull a Maddie Barzell. We get another gold rare. You want to score a Salo and that is it. And last but not least, the very last premium pack we rolled to get four. This is the fourth and last one. And this is probably the worst one. We get 750 coins, which is nice Caleb Jones. And that is about it. So I mean, I think Matthew Barzell is going to come in for John Tavares. We might put Tavares on the left hand side and get rid of Miles Wood. But I'm not too sure. Tavares is kind of slow. Miles Wood is probably faster. We will throw in a map Barzell real quick and all honesty, I think we're going to throw him here and have Jack Hughes, the fourth line with Ovi and Miles Wood. Barzell is going to stay on the third line with Victor Arvidson and Tapani. I might throw map Barzell on to the wing and bring back John Tavares and get rid of Victor Arvidson 78 face offs that might be the play. So maybe throw a map Barzell on the wing, throw him second line with Eichel and Schofield. That's a nice little line there. And then we'll end up keeping in Jack Hughes, who will play with Troy, Terry and Tapani. And then Tavares, Ovi and Miles Wood, the fourth line stays the exact same. So a nice little upgrade on to our second line. Not too shabby. Jumping straight into our first game, 90 LeMue, 86 Huberto, 88 Tavuz, Haravine. He's got a good team, but the team doesn't make the player. The player makes the team. Can't wait to cut to a clip of him scoring five minutes in. It's going to be beautiful. All right, let's go Leon. Lead the rush here. Nice little pass over Leon Drysettle. Oh my God, that's a beautiful save. Just throw that across. Quinn Hughes and the deflection from Leon Drysettle. It's a one-nothing game. We are playing good. We are feeling good today. Good start. Good start indeed. All right. So a good quick first shift for our first line. Bring on the second line and let's go. And Fox got to stick with McDavid here and we'll let him take that shot all day every day. And that's our goalie's fault, not ours. Good save from Walmart there. Good stick. He still gets through with that though. Good save from Walmart. He's been good early on. Oh, he just got the poke on that out. Adam Fox. Oh my God, Adam Fox. Here we go. Bring it on to the net. Take the shot. Rebound. Oh my God. How did we not have a goal from that play? Don't really know where to go. We'll go to Drysettle. Okay. Drysettle have himself a game. Timo Solani. And there it is. Timo Solani makes it a two to nothing game. We're playing well. I'm kind of, what's happening? I'm kind of surprised. I don't know what Jackie's lost that puck on. There we go. All right. Let's take advantage here. Skate Troy Terry. He skates it out. Over to Tapani. And Tapani. Dude, I'm checking her stats after this game. Someone remind me it's a three to nothing hockey game. She's been amazing for us. Let's keep it rolling here. Very good first period. We're on to the second here. I forgot to check the stat. It's okay. We're up three. Keep that in. Nice. Take it to the neck when you use. Oh, there's a goal. Leon Drysettle with a second of the game. That might be a rage quit. It's a four to nothing hockey game. And there it is. There is a rage quit. It's a four nothing, very quick four nothing win. We needed a game like that in the series. I feel like it's been a while since we've blown someone out. We take those. I mean, looking here. We played well. Drysettle, two goals in an assist. It was like a game. And quickly looking here before we roll the dice again, I wanted to check out her stats. Five games played. Four goals. So five points and five games on the third line. I'm a huge fan of her card this year. She's amazing. All right. Back to the board rolling for the last time this episode, hoping for a good roll. So here we go. We get a four. A four is by any card. So let's go ahead and do that. So looking at our trusty calculator, we have 11.6 K to spend on a card. So let's take a quick look at our team. See what exactly we need to be upgraded for wise. I think the forwards are looking good. I think we might go for a goaltender or a goaltender or a defenseman. I'm honestly leaning towards a goaltender.  Maybe it's time to upgrade our goaltender. If we can get like an 84 plus for around 11.6 K, I think we go for it. If not, we go and upgrade our defense as our forwards are looking pretty stacked. So 11.6 K to spend. What kind of goaltender can we get here? Chris Osgood. I don't think it's a good option. 5, 10, 180. I remember he was a very small goaltender. Not a lot of 84 overall goaltenders that we can go with. Like Freddie Andersen's definitely an option or Ilya Sorokin. Other than that, no one too good. Maybe a Michael Lu 6-2, 194 pounds butterfly effect, advanced goalie reflex from dropping and making low saves on the butterfly. That's not bad. Let's see what's available on defense. And on defense, it's only John Carlson, well, at an 84 to be fair. Is there anyone else that we can maybe get at an 83 that can help out this team? And at an 83, I mean, Eric Carlson, Drew Dowdy, Morgan Reilly, not many players that we can get. I think John Carlson would be a good add to this team, a big body, somewhat decently fast heat seeker. I think John Carlson is going to be the upgrade we go with. That means Tyson Berry is off of the team, which I'm fine with. I haven't been a huge fan of Tyson Berry. So that now means the second pairing is looking like John Carlson and Mikhail Sergachev in the third pairing is Neil Pionk and Bome Byrom. I think John Carlson is going to be a huge pickup. Omer's been decent for us. Not like he's been horrible. So I didn't see any one on the market that was a huge upgrade compared to him. John Carlson is a huge upgrade compared to Tyson Berry. We'll take an 84. The defensive pairings looking better and we move on. The second and final game of the episode, he's got a very good team. Solani, Makar, LaTang, again, it's not the team that makes a player. It's a player that makes the team. Let's try to go for two wins this episode. Very, very good team of where we're on a high after major making the last get a rage quit at four to nothing last game. So we're hoping we could do the same here. This team, this team's feeling good right now. Take a little hit. That's fine. Tavu over to Solani and Timo Solani finds the back of the net. It was a beautiful, beautiful passing play. Timo Solani, first shot on goal, first minute, I want to say. Well, nothing already. We're off to a great start. Good bumps there. Don't know where the puck is. He has it somehow. Good defensive play from Carlson, already a huge fan. There you go, Jack Hughes. Look for someone in front. Tappany, what a save from Mark Stroud. Oh, Tappany. Oh, my God, got to take advantage of this. Jack Hughes. Oh, my God. And we took a trip in the offensive zone. I just thought we would have had at least a goal there. We walk away with nothing. We walk away with a penalty, actually.  Another great poke from Pionk. John Carlson killing penalties, too. And he draws one as well. Beautiful. Low shot rebound. Jack Ico rushing the net. It's four on four. I'm a huge fan of John Carlson so far, guys. I'm not going to lie to you. Like, what a great pick up. It's fine. We still have the pucks. I'm how dry set on front of the net. What a save from Jacob March from Schofield.  I'm not sure how we're not up by two. Keep going, dry settle. Is it gonna stick with me? It's fine. Dry settle to the net. And dry settle scores two to nothing. We are just absolutely dominating today. I don't know who's... Is this me playing the game? John Carlson with an assist on that play as well. An amazing debut from him. Not only just offensively getting those numbers, but offensively, he's been great for us. Tappany over across. And Jack Hughes. I don't know what Jacob March from was doing. It's three to nothing right after that goal. Like, literally right after. We are just playing so well right now. I don't know what is happening.  I don't know how we didn't get that puck. But it's fine. Kutrov, oh my God, oh my God. Oh my God. All right, Linus Allmark. Not great from him. Not great from our defense to kick it out of either. And he gets a goal. Three to one hockey game. End of one, three to one. Linus Allmark, 500 save percentage. Maybe we should have upgraded him, but I don't regret it because John Carlson has had a great debut in a great first period. He's only played 20 minutes with this team, not even. Take the puck. Over to Barzal and Matthew Barzal scores. And that might be game we're gonna get two rage quits in one episode, I believe. Maybe he's just taking the time out, though. He's not taking the time out. I don't know what happened this episode. Like, we've actually played an amazing hockey. I'm gonna leave it at that. I was thinking about playing another game. I don't trust it. We're gonna get crushed next game if we play another game. And I mean, looking at the stats, like, we just, we played well. I do wanna see how our debuts did. So looking at point-wise here, John Carlson in his debut, two points in nine minutes and 23 seconds on the second pairing plus two. And then we're looking at Matt Barzal who scored his first goal of the series. His debut was last game, but he did get a goal in this episode as well in his debut episode. So good for him. The team is feeling good. I'm feeling good. We're just gonna end it there.  I just, I have a feeling. Writing it there, like I said, I'm sorry for such a short episode for this monopoly hut, but you know what, it went well. Two huge upgrades in Barzal and Carlson who played amazing in their first episode and first game. Went 2-0, two rage quits, a 4-0 win and a 4-1 win, which was amazing. I don't know what happened today. I'm not complaining though. But anyways guys, that is it for today's video. If you guys did enjoy it, be sure to drop a like on it. If you guys are new around here, make sure to subscribe button down below. We are on the road to 5,000 subscribers. We are less than 200 away. So if we can hit that before the new year, that would be absolutely amazing. But guys, like I said, that is it for today's video. 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Income tax 2022-2023, itemized deductions, casualty, and theft losses tax software example. Let's do some wealth preservation with some tax preparation. Support accounting instruction by clicking the link below giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website broken out by category, further broken out by course. Each course then organized in a logical reasonable fashion, making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files, and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. Here we are in our example Form 1040 populated with LASERT tax software. You don't need tax software to follow along, but it's a great tool to run scenarios with. You can also get access to the Form 1040 related forms and schedules at the IRS website, irs.gov, irs.gov. Starting point, as usual, single filer Mr. Anderson, no dependents, 100,000 W2 income. We've got the 12,950 standard deduction getting us down to the 80,050, 87,050. Page two, calculating the tax line 1614774 starting with the $15,000 withheld getting us to the 226. Now we're focused on page one, however, the calculation of taxable income and we're focused on the standard deductions and the itemized deductions focusing more on the itemized deductions which normally you wouldn't be taking the itemized deductions unless they add up to more Then what is on the standard deduction 12,950 for single filers 25,900 for married filing joint. However, when we're looking at federally declared losses, for example, or qualified losses, we could have a situation where the standard deduction isn't being cleared but we're using the Schedule A to still get a benefit even though we would in essence be taking the standard deduction, which you would think kind of makes sense if people had it like a disaster that would happen, but it's a little bit of a weird situation. So let's take a look at it now. If I open this up, we're going to go down to the Schedule A. So if I scroll down, now normally the thing that kicks people over to itemize are owning a home which includes the mortgage interest on the home and the taxes that kick people over the threshold possibly or the most likely thing to kick people over the threshold to be itemizing and then all this other stuff kicks in. We're focused down here on the casualty and theft losses. Now this used to be a more expanded category. If you remember a few years ago, they've limited it a lot to, as you can see here, casualty and theft losses from a federally declared disaster from a federally declared disaster other than net qualified disaster. So we have to attach form 4684. Now the thing that's funny is that if it's a federally declared disaster, my interpretation is that you can basically level it up from there to a qualified disaster in which case it would be more beneficial. There's a big difference between those two designations and if it was a qualified disaster, it'd be pushed down here in essence to the other itemized deductions and in that instance, even if you're not itemizing, you might get a benefit because it'll basically add in the standard deduction over here. So we'll still use the schedule A but you could get a benefit even if you're taking a standard deduction. So the bottom line is if you're thinking about these like a disaster that happened, you want to know the current location you're at, the disaster that possibly could have happened in that area that you might have to be dealing with, get more information on the IRS website related to it as well as FEMA website and then realize that even though it's going to be kind of pulled into the schedule A, you might be in a situation where people that are not itemizing would still get kind of a benefit from it due to the calculation. Also note that if the disaster happened, you might in like 2023 for example, you might be able to choose whether or not you can take the loss in the year it happened in that case 2023, which means you wouldn't actually file for it by until April 15th of 2024 or possibly you might be able to take the loss on the prior year. So if it happened in 2023, we might be able to take the loss in the 2022 tax return, which if you hadn't yet filed that tax return, you could file or possibly if you had already filed it, you might have the option to amend the tax return. And in that case, you might get a bigger tax benefit if you take the loss in the year that the disaster didn't actually happen because the year in which the disaster actually happened may have resulted in your income being a lot lower than it otherwise would have been. And because of the progressive tax system, you might not get as big a benefit from a deduction in the year with a lower income. Okay, so that said, the difference between the declarations, I'll just give a quick recap here, limitation on personal casualty and theft losses, personal casualty and theft losses of an individual sustained in a tax year beginning after 2017 are deductible only to the extent that the losses are attributable to a federally declared disaster. Okay, so personal casualty and theft losses attributable to a federally declared disaster.  Are subject to the $100 per casualty and 10% of your adjusted gross income limitations. That's a big limitation even though they're federally declared disaster unless they are attributable to a qualified disaster loss. So now we've got this qualified disaster loss becomes important. Personal and casualty theft losses attributable to a qualified disaster loss are not subject to the 10% of AGI limit and the $100 limit is increased to $500, an exception to the rule above, limiting the personal casualty and theft deduction and losses attributable to a federally declared disaster applies to you have a personal casualty canes for the year. Okay, so it's important to kind of get the designation correct in other words, and then we could have it then be applied to one of these two items. Let's first take the first kind of designation, which is the less tax beneficial designation. Now normally when you put this into the system, it's in the same kind of area for a lot of the tax software as though you're making a disposal. So it would be like a schedule D kind of thing because it's a capital gain kind of situation. Although you're going to have a loss in this situation because instead of having a sales price, you just disposed of the property or in other words the property was involuntarily destroyed or something like that. So I'm just going to call it personal property. Personal property, I'm going to say date acquired negative 010100, which will create a various date in my software and then the date sold. I'm going to say sometime within 2022 when the disaster happened, let's say 060602 or 22 in sometime in 2022, sales price is zero because I didn't sell it. It got destroyed. The cost let's say is 10,000 and then I'm going to find on the left hand side where it says we have a casualty loss casualty theft and loss form 4684 description. I'm going to say it was like a fire, let's say personal property disaster code. You'd have to find the proper disaster code. Most software should have the disaster codes implemented because this is how they set the whole thing up, right? You got to designate the disaster code. Now, again, there's a difference between the qualified disaster and something that's non-qualified. Non-qualified is less beneficial. Let's start with that. And then FEMA disaster declaration code. So this is for a qualified disaster. I'm not going to add it for this one and then a qualified California disaster code. Again, you could find those if they're applicable. You should be able to find them on the FEMA website and the IRS website and then drill down on the specifics of the disaster related to you. Fair market value before casualty and theft. Now, normally the fair market value will be less than the cost unless it's like real property like a house where the house might have increased in value. But if it was a car, you would expect the fair market value to be less than the cost. So that's what I'm going to put here. And then the fair market value after casualty, meaning was there any value after the problem? I'm going to say zero. It was washed into the sea. And then insurance, let's say the insurance reimbursed us but didn't fully reimburse us just to get an idea of that of 1,000. And let's see what that does for us. So if I pull over to the schedule A, notice it's still not populating anywhere. If I jump to form 4684, let's go over to the 4684. It's starting to populate the casualty and theft loss form here. And you could see the calculation of 10,000 and then minus the 1,000 and basically took the lesser of the cost or the fair market value minus the reimbursement of the insurance, which gets us to the 8,000. And then it's following the rule of taking 100%. And then it should be taking that 10% of the AGI, but in any case, it's not pulling over to the schedule A right now because in this case I'm not clearing the threshold to be able to itemize. So let's pretend we're going to clear the threshold. So I'm going to make a couple changes. I'm going to lower the AGI, the wages. So I'm going to say let's say the wages were at 50,000. So now 10% will be a lot lower and I should still get a deduction of that. And so if I go back on over, notice it still is not populating a schedule A. Let's then also add the home mortgage interest, the thing that usually kicks us over. So I'm going to say deductions and let's go to the itemized deductions, interest. And let's say the interest was at like 15,000. So now schedule A is populated and now I can say, okay, we're over the threshold of the 15,000. And then it's pulling in that 2,900. So the 2,900 is basically taking the 4,684 and we were at the 7,009 minus the 10% of the AGI, which is 50,000 times 10%, 5,000 gets us to the 2,900, which is pulling over to the schedule A and it's pulling it into the category of the casualty and theft losses. So now let's imagine that it was a qualified disaster situation. And again, I'm just giving like a general idea of how these are populated and you want to look up the actual issue that's in your particular location. But let's go back on over and say that we have a qualified. We would need the address of the place that it took place in order to populate it as well. But let's pick now, let's say it was a California wildfire disaster. Now let's say it's a federally declared qualified disaster. So a generic federally declared qualified. I'm going to say California. Let's just pick a California code. I'm just picking one here and let's say I'm not sure the code matches. But I'll pick one there and then everything else will remain the same. So now it's qualified is what I'm trying to point out as being the difference. So now it's pulling in here. It went from a casualty and theft loss to other itemized deductions. And now it says net qualified disaster loss. It's calculated a little bit differently over here on the form 4684 where it had the $500 deduction and you don't have that same 10% thing that's happened at the bottom of AGI, which was a big issue. In other words, if I go back on over and say there's the $7,500, if I bring my net income back up to $100,000, I go to my wages, my net income, is that $100,000 again, then it's still at the $7,500. I don't have that AGI kind of thing. And also now, what if I wasn't itemizing? What if I didn't own my home and I wasn't paying this $15,000 of interest? I don't get that deduction.  And so now on the scale, I still have a schedule A you can see, now it's a schedule A with the standard deduction kind of thing embedded in it. So now once again, it's not on the casualty side, it's in the other itemized deductions. So these things are kind of linked together now because this is one of the big ones that would be in either of these categories depending on the situation. But now it's a net qualified disaster and you can see it pulled in the $7,500 from the 4684 just like before, but we wouldn't have got a benefit from it because we weren't itemizing and that's not going to kick us over the threshold in and of itself of the $12,950 to itemize. So it gives us the $12,950. So now notice what it's doing. There's the itemized or the standard deduction plus the $7,500. Let's just see. Right, we're taking the $12,950 plus the $7,500 forcing us to basically get a benefit from this at the $20,450 and that's what's pulling over to the Schedule A. So it's a little bit tricky how they kind of work that Schedule A in these disasters. So it's got to be a federally declared disaster. Is it a qualified disaster that could impact where it goes on the Schedule A and then you may not have the same kind of threshold requirements if it's a qualified type of disaster. So you want to kind of dive into those qualified or those federally declared disaster areas and do more research on them to make sure you're up to date on the rules related to them. This is just a general conceptual overview of what might happen on the tax software side.


Hi guys, it's Ash, and welcome back to another video! Also, I'm wearing this new one-piece pyjami that one of our fans got me, one of our lovelies. And it's Sailor Moon, it has this hood, isn't it the cutest? Look, there's a moon here. I'm obsessed, and it's super soft. Thank you! Thank you! I'm wearing it well. I love it. Honestly, after my promotions for my solo song Here We Are has ended, I've just kind of let it go. Like, I've let myself go. So, when my solo promotions ended, it was around like the end of August, and I told myself, I was like, okay, just let me just treat myself out to the month of September since I worked hard, and yeah, so I'm gonna eat all the delicious food that I didn't get to eat for the past like three months. October, November, same thing. A lot of birthdays, a lot of celebrations, so, you know, I had a lot of gathering with friends, and I just ate whatever I wanted, basically. I didn't care about what I was putting into my body. And then came December, it's like the festive holiday season, a lot of like potlucks, gathering, drinking, I just kept comforting myself, saying like, Oh, it's fine, your body's just throwing up fat because it's so cold. Like, I would just tell myself that, and I was like, yeah, it's fine, whatever, I'll just start dieting when it's like spring again. I've been just spending the last four or five months being very lazy, not caring about what goes into my body. I am going to hit a point of no return soon, so I was like, this is the time, like now, I gotta go back to my old ways, I gotta stop this unhealthy lifestyle. And also, I just found out that I'll be going to America in February, so I'll be going back home for two weeks, and that kind of motivated me to, you know, work out and eat healthy and shed a few pounds again. So starting tomorrow, I have about 20 days till my flight to New York, and I decided that I was gonna start like a 20-day diet challenge, just to document myself and my journey. Because, you know, having you guys, you know, keeping me accountable and just filming myself, I thought that would motivate me more and encourage me to try harder, rather than if I didn't have a camera in front of me, and I know I should still work hard on my own, but I knew I needed the help. I decided, okay, why not do this 20-day challenge video? So for the next 20 days, I'm going to work out as much as I can, stay away from processed foods, stay away from sugar and sweet, savory, delicious stuff, and I'm gonna try to cook for myself more at home because I haven't been doing that, and I think I really need to start. Now I know this is about, you know, having a healthy lifestyle more than just a 20-day diet challenge and going back to my old ways.  I can't stay away from pizza and bagels while I'm in New York. And when I come back to Korea, I'll start, you know, living my healthy lifestyle again. Guys, wish me luck. I haven't done this in so long. This will be my 20-day journey towards a healthy lifestyle that will go back down in New York, but that will come back up when I come back. So I hope that you guys will enjoy this 20-day diet challenge video, and maybe it can be helpful for some of you. This is me getting back on the grind, being healthy, eating healthy, and feeling healthy. So wish me luck, guys. It is good. So I've had plans since, like, two weeks ago, so I came to eat steak, which is not that bad because it's, like, all protein, but I do think we're gonna drink a little bit of water.  I hate the feeling of throwing up, so I just, like, held it down. I drank some hot water, and I think that helped a little bit. I didn't have breakfast yet. I'm still not really hungry, but I feel like I'm gonna get hungry around, like, two. So I'm gonna make myself some lunch. I sound so down right now. I'm fine now. Anyways, I bought some duck meat, and I'm gonna cook that with some putcho. I don't know what putcho is in English. I'll find it with onions, putcho, and garlic. I love onions and garlic. When we have Korean barbecue, I eat so much. I always ask for extras. I'm gonna get to cooking. I'm gonna put a little right here. I have my duck meat that I prepared with onions, garlic, and putcho. And over here, I washed some kimchi in cold water because they said this tastes better with white kimchi. It's dinner time now, and for dinner today, I got salad to go from my favorite salad place. It's called chigo salad, and they have, like, chains everywhere. I bought this one. It has onions, and eggs, and tomatoes, and corn, and lots of greens. See? It's all green. Ooh. Minimalistic. Ooh, and it's empty. We came to eat here, and I'm gonna mask because the dust has been so bad these days, but we're gonna get some. Poke and salad. I got the salmon salad with miso soup. I just got home from the gym, and I totally forgot to update you guys last night. Well, yesterday, I started the day off with half an apple and some nuts, and then for lunch, you saw what I had with my friend. We had the poke bowl. I keep saying poke balls. Poke bowls. And then for dinner, I had Mexican. I opted for the vegetarian tacos, two pieces, but I did have some nacho chips with guacamole. I was so hungry. The salad, I don't know. It's all digested within, like, an hour, and I was starving. So I had some of the nacho chips, but I think it wasn't enough for me. So when I got home, I was so hungry, so I had two boiled eggs, and then I went to sleep. And this morning, I woke up, and it was really hard to get out of bed. I don't know why. I know I should, but it's just so hard to find motivation. What do you think the problem is? I don't know. I was thinking maybe because I don't have a workout partner and I just go to the gym by myself, so it's boring. Maybe if I did something that I enjoyed, maybe like yoga or Pilates, I would have more fun with it. I think that will really motivate me. No, stop making excuses. You can do it well by yourself. I should. I shouldn't rely on other people and I shouldn't rely on other things. Anyway, so after I got back from the gym, I was starving so I made myself some apples with cinnamon powder. I don't know. I always started off my day with apples for like the past two or three years. I always have to have apple in the morning. It just feels right.  But I'm not sure how trustworthy that is because I think apples are pretty acidic on an empty stomach. I don't know if it's the best. It's 12.35 right now. But this is like my brunch since it's my first meal. Just 18 more days to go. Yay. I'm gonna make myself some eggs. I'm gonna put this avocado oil. Tada. This is my lunch. Kind of messed up on the one of the eggs. I put everything but the bagel seasoning as always and I microwave the leftover duck I had from Monday. Sweet pumpkin, ricotta, and salad. I'm on my way to radio, so I just ordered salad. I'm gonna eat that after I finish recording in my first hour before I go into my live show. But for now, I'm gonna eat some sweet potato. I brought it from home. I'm gonna have it with my warm cup of americano. Yay. So sweet. Why are you so good? Why are you so good? Hey guys. I'll be making some omelettes with some vegetables like mushrooms and of course garlic and onions. I would put more vegetables in there but those are the only vegetables we have for now. Let's get to cooking. First, you gotta cut the vegetables of course. I actually found some spinach and mushrooms. I think I'll be making something more along the lines of scrambled eggs with veggies. I washed my spinach. I know this looks like a lot but we all know once it's cooked it's gonna become like this small. This time I cooked the garlic. My fingers smelled like garlic for like the next three days. I pulled some everything but the bagel seasoning and some flax seeds. So the scrambled egg I just made, I'm waiting for it to cool down so I could put it in a container so I could take it to practice with me. I guess that'll be my late lunch around like three or four. For now, I'm starting my day with apples. I actually have plants tonight and it involves drinking. I mean, I guess I don't have to drink but just gonna be like massive food and it's going to be hard to resist the temptation. I just got to practice having a cup of hot Americano. Time to eat my second lunch now. It looks delish. I'm listening to some phony people in the background because I'll be going to their concert this Sunday. Yesterday night, I ended up eating more than I should have. I didn't drink a lot. I had two glasses of Sangria but they ordered like fried shrimp and... What else is there? Nurungji tang, which is like a kind of like a porridge soup. And today I woke up late because I got home late yesterday. Why am I such a weakling? I don't know. I mean, I'm not giving up just yet but tonight I have another outing. This apple is so soggy. I ate soggy apples. So since I have that tonight, I'm really going to not eat a lot before dinner time.  I need some energy. I know I said I wasn't gonna eat anything besides eggs today but I got soy milk on the way to the radio. Hi guys. I just left my house. It is Saturday. Yesterday at the Korean barbecue place, I had some of the pork but I ate a lot of vegetables. So that kind of cancels it out, right? It's better than just eating a lot of meat. I think that I had like 30 garlics or something. But now I'm on my way to Hongdae. To me, Christine and Joan, we're gonna go grab vegan food. Vegan burger. Veggie burger. Veggie burger and then the lasagna. Everything's vegan. We're gonna film like a Q&A video on her channel and originally she wanted to eat like pizza and I thought it'd be a great idea because we're both from New York. I'm so mad. This is the worst timing because I just started like nine days ago. You did mess with me. Let's just eat pizza. I know that first.  What do you call bagel in Korea? I'm good bagels. But then I was like, you know what? Like I'm filming this video. Like I can't just be like, let's just eat pizza. So I was like, let's just get healthy snacks from the convenience store. Yeah, we did. Almond milk, nuts, granola, sweet potatoes, and Grace drank this cognac. Hey, I'm in Itaewon. To me, Joan, Christine and Grace are lunch at one of my favorite brunch places. You won't see much footages of the place in this vlog because I'm actually working on my top favorite brunch spots and soul video. And this place is actually going to go in that video. So you guys will have to just look forward to the brunch video. It's a little hard to guess. Getting my morning workout in. Oh my gosh. I need a break. Well, I actually came to this place with Joan before in the summer and I fell in love with it. It's an Australian style brunch restaurant. So I'm here now. Let's go inside. Joan food. I know. What's that? I got the chicken breast sandwich. Hey guys. It's Thursday. I'm at practice. I have no makeup on because I'm going to skincare later. I just came straight to practice after I woke up and I haven't eaten anything yet. But I did bring some stuff with me. I brought half an apple. I brought a pack of nuts. I brought two eggs and a sweet potato. So I'm going to eat whichever one I feel like eating out of those four. I went with apples. It's kind of soggy. Why are all the apples so soggy these days? For dinner, I got myself a salad from Paris Baguette. I'm going to share this with my manager. Probably have one or two.


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Hey guys, it's MJ the student act tree and I want to show you just something that I've been working on in the past few few weeks What essentially it is it is a poker game. So you can choose how much you want to bet. Let's bet 50 Let's bet big What we do is oh actually drew terrible cards there But what it does is generates five cards and then you can choose which cards you want to throw away Let's let's try go for the for the straight Okay, we did it get it. But anyway I might be terrible at poker, but what I've done is I've created a whole bunch of videos on How I actually made this poker game. So behind me. We actually have all the code So I've actually made five videos going through just the general logic on how I made This this code Going from how I generated the cards That was actually the first problem is how do you generate, you know, five cards from a 52 deck? That was the first problem The second problem was to You know, determine that I get a pair. Was it a straight? Was it a flush? You know, there was all those little checks that you had to go through Then the third problem was okay. Well, let's say I want to swap some cards out How do I go about swapping cards out? And then finally, I mean the whole thing is how do I save how many tokens I've got So that when I come back to the app a little bit later, you know, turn it off and I come back tomorrow I've still got the same tokens So I've made I think I've made five videos. I've made five videos on this poker thing going through Not really line by line, but more about the general logic behind how I generated random Numbers to simulate this whole poker experience So I'm not going to make these videos alert So you're not going to get like an email alert like oh, you know MJ's released a new video because I think people might find it that to be spam Um, which I did with the racing cars. Sorry about that. Um, so what I'm going to be doing is this one should come up as a video I mean an email notification alert But the other five that I'm releasing at the exact same time now are not going to be They're not going to come up as notifications. Hopefully I'm going to try to turn that off So that you guys don't feel spammed But for those of you who are interested in learning a little bit about poker or learning a little bit about programming Or learning about how you can actually use actuarial signs and statistics in the real life Um, check out these videos. I'm sure you guys are going to enjoy it What I've also done is that you can download this app Look, it's probably going to look terrible. You can see I'm not the best with UI If you do have a big phone, it is going to stay quite small like this So bear with me with that, but you can download this from the android play store And what I'm also going to try to see is if I can put this code Available on one of these code marketplaces and then you can actually download all the code as well And go through all of it. Um, if you guys want I can even maybe write a little brochure Or like a little book that I can put on amazon about, you know underlying the steps So if there is demand for that, let me know the point in me writing a book that nobody wants to read So if there's demand for that, let me know and I will I will write that out with just explaining the code in more depth Um, but otherwise, yeah, I mean look, I'm I'm very excited. I'm very chuffed with this thing It took me it took me about two weeks to do Um, I did have a little bit of a break in between that but It was yeah, it was two weeks of of solid coding. No, not solid coding It was like one week of solid coding and one week of, you know, half days But I'm very happy with this. I built it from the ground up Um, you can even there's even a thing where you can go and you can buy tokens and enter your cell number and give me money But um, don't worry about that for now. I'm still working on that side of it But for now the the actual poker is working quite nicely And you can you know swap your cards out and see how lucky you are So, yeah, go check it out download the The actual app of the play store or I'll put a link if I can figure out how to do it To the marketplace where you can download the actual code and play with it for yourself And then yeah, go check out the other five videos that explain the logic a little bit more in depth on how I did certain things Hope you guys enjoy this and enjoy Remember as an actually you need to know how to program. So I know it's not like you don't do a whole course of it in At university or stuff like that But if you want to get employed or you want to actually be a meaningful actually You do need to know how to code. We are in their computer age So, yeah, make sure you you brush up on your programming skills. Anyway, that's all I have time for today Thanks guys so much for watching and I'll see you for another video. Cheers


I'm trying to do what I do already and make it better, so not adding anything too crazy, but just continuing to improve myself.