Fizz up you guys, welcome back to another one. If you're new to the channel, I'm Gold Penia doing new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube. And today we are in the new 2022 Nissan Altima courtesy of younger Nissan in Frederick Merlin for more information on their inventory. Please refer to check out the link in the description box below. And so we are in this one today because there's actually a couple nice changes for the 2022 Altima. All wheel drive is available as well, which you can't always say for all cityans out there right now, which is definitely a good thing. Also, if you were to actually purchase a new Nissan at younger Nissan, you will actually get a double powertrain warranty as well, which is definitely a good thing. But ultimately in this video, we will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking, steering feel, ride quality, sound system, exhaust clip, all of that fun stuff. So having said all of that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. And so as you can imagine, there are several different trim levels for the 2022 Altima, first one being the S starting at $24,550 and that is a front wheel drive configuration, only SV for $25,550, SR, which is the one we are in today, starting at $26,550, SR Midnight Edition, which is a new trim level for the 2022 model year. That one goes for $28,300, SL for $29,990, SRVC Turbo for $30,900, that's front wheel drive only, and then the Platinum for $34,250. That one is all wheel drive only, but for all of those trims I didn't mention, they come standard with front wheel drive, but if you wanted to add all wheel drive, simply add $1,400 into any of those prices. But as you can imagine with all of those trim levels, there are two different engine configurations available for the Altima. First one is going to belong to all trim levels, but the VC Turbo, that is going to be a 2.5 liter direct injected inline four cylinder, putting out a 188 horsepower for the front wheel drive, 182 for the all wheel drive, 180 pound feet of torque for the front wheel drive, 278 for the all wheel drive, sent to front wheels or all wheels of course, through a CVT, zero to 60 time is going to come in at approximately 7.4 seconds. With MPG numbers coming in at 28 in the city, 39 on the highway for the front wheel drive, 25 city, 35 then on the highway for the all wheel drive. But so then there is that other power plan, of course belonging to the VC Turbo, that one is going to be a two liter turbo charged inline four cylinder, putting out 248 horsepower at 5,600 RPM, 273 pound feet of torque, coming in at 4,000 RPM, power sent to front wheels through a CVT with paddle shifters on that one. We do actually have paddle shifters on our SR trim level as well. So we will be testing those out in a little bit here, but zero to 60 time coming into approximately 5.8 seconds with MPG numbers coming into 25 in the city, 34 then on the highway. And so before we do any kind of fun acceleration test here in our Altima, I did want to mention to you guys, the drive mode singular, it is a sport driving mode and it is a horizontal line located just underneath of the shifter on the shifter, I should say. So if you press that, it is going to adjust things like the shift points and the throttle response. So having now gotten all of that out of the way, what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find a straightaway. Let's put the paddle shifters and acceleration at the same time here to the test. And let's see how quickly the paddle shifters react and let's see how quickly we can get our new Altima here up to speed. Here we go. Quick paddle shifters. All right, definitely quick, quick paddle shifters. Now keep in mind, this is a CVT so technically we're not shifting gears because again, it's a CVT but you do have a little bit of control with the paddle shifters, which is a good thing when you're pairing it up with a CVT because the CVT is kind of emotionless. So the paddle shifters being there is definitely a good thing. Having said that, it's not the quickest thing in the world, but it's definitely going to be enough to merge you onto the highway. So no issues with the acceleration there, but anyways, to go along with that acceleration as always, braking is equally important.  In the back, 11.5 inch solid rear disc. As far as that 60 year stopping distance goes, it is going to commit at 120 feet, which is plenty respectable. As far as braking feel goes, honestly, it feels perfect. Definitely no dead spots in the braking feel. It's not a soft braking feel, tends to lean a little bit on the firmer side of things, which I personally appreciate. So braking feel is 100% on point in the Altima. Then touching on suspension and handling upfront, you're going to get an independent strut type front suspension. In the back, independent multi-link rear suspension, front and rear stabilizer bars. Also a sport tune suspension for all SR trim levels. That is pretty darn cool. We got that today. So that's pretty cool. I like that. Having said that, as far as ride quality goes, sometimes the trade-off is a firmer ride as it is here in the Altima SR that we particularly have today. So definitely leads on the firmer side of things. You can feel a little bit more of the road. Perhaps if we didn't have that sport tune suspension, maybe that would be a different story. But in this one, you can feel a decent amount of the road. As far as steering feel goes, it feels good. Honestly, it leans towards the heavier side of things, at least for a sedan. So definitely no issues there. Actually, I'm a big fan of the steering feel. So I like that. As far as cabin noise goes, you hear a little bit of the engine when you get up in the higher RPMs. But other than that, it's actually doing pretty good. Not a whole lot of exterior wind noise or anything like that coming into the cabin. So well done Nissan for that. And actually part of that may be due in part because we do have an acoustic laminated front windshield for all trim levels across the board. So that is pretty nice as well. But that touching on visibility, I can see 100% perfectly fine out the back. So you definitely not gonna have any issues there either. But that pretty much rounds out the performance segment of this review, guys. Let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2022 Nissan Altima. All right, and so here she is, you guys. The new 2022 Nissan Altima finished in deep blue pearl. In case anybody was curious of our exterior color name. But let me go ahead and touch on the exterior new changes for the 2022 Altima.  Also the SV Premium package now adds heated exterior mirrors with LED integrated turn signals as well. But it's pretty much what's new at least when it comes to the exterior of the Altima. Let's go ahead and start up front now. Large V-Motion front grille and typical Nissan fashion there with active grille shutters, meaning they will open and close, dependent upon the engine cooling that is needed at any given time. Chrome accents you're gonna find up there if you go with one of the non-SR trims. Dark chrome accents for the SR trims and then black accents, obviously, for the midnight edition trim. Halogen projector headlights then to the side only if you go with the S. Still getting the automatic feature though, so that's good. Meaning when it starts to get dark in at night the headlights will turn on automatically for you there. But if you were to go with the SV trim leveling up you're gonna get LED projector headlights which is what we have today obviously with LED signature daytime running lights and the automatic feature as expected. And then LED fog lights down below if you were to go with the midnight edition trim level end up. But pretty much rounds out the front end of this one. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the side of the Altima. All right, so now since we are around to the side of this one black or chrome windows surrounds dependent upon the trim level that you go with of course. Towards the back you guys can probably see there is a floating roof line finished in black. Take a look at the side mirrors. They are body colored power adjustable side mirrors. They will be black side mirrors for the midnight edition and SR trim levels. Heated for the midnight edition trim level and up and then LED integrated turd signals for the midnight edition trim level end up yet again. Then take a look down to the wheel configuration. Of course they are gonna differ pretty substantially amongst the trims again. 16 inch steel wheels with covers AKA hubcaps for the S trim level. 17 inch aluminum alloy wheels for the SV and SL trims. And then 19 inch aluminum alloys which is currently what we have of course for the SR trims as well as the platinum. But that pretty much rounds out the side profile of this one. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the back. All right, so now since we are around to the back of this one body color shark fin antenna found on the roof there obviously. If you wanted a rear spoiler there will be a black rear spoiler for the midnight edition trim level. And of course there are aftermarket spoilers available then as well. Trim level badging found on all Ultimas as well. Body colored or charcoal rear diffuser dependent upon the trim level that you go with. We obviously have the charcoal down there. Looks pretty darn good actually. And then to the sides dual exhaust outlets with chrome tips if you were to go with the SR trim level end up. So again, what we have today. So having said that I do believe you guys know what we have to do next. As always here is that exhaust clip. All right, so now since we are around to the back of the Ultima there are a few different ways to go ahead and open that rear trunk. There is a button on the key fob. There is a button by the driver's side left knee. And there is of course a button on the trunk then as well. But once opened up cargo capacity comes in at 15.4 cubic feet. If that was not enough space and that's actually a decent amount there is a 60 40 split meaning the rear seats do fold down for quite a bit of extra space. Then if you needed it also in that cargo area we'll find some cargo lighting. And if you lift up underneath of the cargo floor you are going to find a spare tire in case you were curious about that. Then make our way to the rear legroom that is going to come in at 35.2 inches. So for reference, I am in even six feet tall this is how much space I had in those rear seats. Rear ventilation is going to come with the SL and platinum trim levels only. There are rear charging ports for the SV trim leveling up and that's going to be a USB charging port as well as this traditional phone charging port back there. Rear center armrest with couplers then is also going to be available on this one. And we do have that as well but then make your way up to the front seats manually adjustable claw seats coming with the S eight-way power driver seat coming with the SV trim level and up four-way power adjustable passenger seat for the platinum trim level heated front seats for the midnight edition trim level and up leather seating for the SL and platinum. And I do like the leather cloth combination that we have in our SR actually a big fan of that and you got some orange vertical accents running down the seats as well. It's pretty cool memory settings then coming with the platinum trim level but overall insanely comfortable seats some of the more comfortable seats I've sat in in quite a while so very well done Nissan with the seating. Then take a look at the steering wheel it is tilt and telescoping it is a flat bottom gotta love that leather wrapped for the SR trim level and up and it will be heated then for the SL and platinum and it does telescope out insanely far so if you're a taller adult this is definitely going to be a very good vehicle for you because like I said the steering wheel is very adjustable but anyways then make your way to the startup let me start by showing you guys the key essentially all of your buttons are located on one side of the key got your Nissan logo at the top as well as lock unlock the button to pop the rear hatch and then there is a remote start also coming standard on all trim levels across the board but also there is keyless entry with a push button start for all trim levels as well so all I'm going to do here simply put my foot on the brake and press that engine start button located directly in front of the shifter and so once started up the gauge cluster is going to differ amongst the trim levels for the S trim level you're going to get a five inch LCD cluster in the middle for the SV trim level and up you're going to get a seven inch LCD cluster but you still got the tachometer on the left speedometer is going to be on your right and to control everything within that digital portion of the gauges there are steering wheel mounting controls found on the left side of the steering wheel giving you things like a digital speedometer if you wanted to go that route how many miles you have left until you hit empty fuel information at any given time the list goes on pretty much everything you could possibly want on the digital portion of the gauges at least then take a look at overall interior quality if you wanted to power moonroof go with the midnight edition trim level and up interior accent lighting for the platinum homelight controls for the platinum auto dimming rear view mirror for the platinum that really gives you everything you could possibly want wood trim for the platinum and SL trims dual zone climate control coming with the SL trim level and up just in front of the shifter you're going to have a USB charging port auxiliary port and a phone charging port and a 12 volt power outlet as well little bit of rubberized storage as well which is more than likely where you're going to put yourself in so it doesn't slide around just behind that you do have dual cup holders and within the center armrest a decent amount of storage and I like that there's orange contrast stitching on the center armrest as well that was pretty nice as well but overall I'm digging the orange contrast stitching that we have everywhere in our SR trim level I like the carbon fiber look that you can find on the doors as well although it's not authentic carbon fiber but it still looks pretty darn good not a huge fan of all the black plastic surrounding the cup holders it's a lot of hard touch material there but other than that a very practical interior that will get the job done but then let's go ahead and take a look at the infotainment screen here seven inch color touch screen display coming with the S eight inch color touch screen display coming with the SB trim level and up either way you get Bluetooth and audio streaming however you do need the eight inch color touch screen display to get Android Auto Apple CarPlay so I wanted to emphasize that factory navigation system with the SL and platinum you check out a bunch of driving statistics up on that screen as well if you wanted to along with your radio information and by the way there are two different sound systems that you can get on the Ultima six speakers are going to come with the SSV SR Minite Edition of VC Turbo but there is a nine speaker Bose sound system that's gonna come with the SL and platinum but like I said we don't have that one today we actually got the six speaker sound system so let's go ahead and turn on the radio see what we got playing today now let's test out the clarity of this one quite possibly one of the best six speaker sound systems I've ever heard the bass was incredible for six speakers clarity was on point honestly Bose sound system is gonna be a little bit better but that was dang good for a six speaker sound system like I said probably one of the best that I've heard at least when it comes to six speakers but anyways last thing I wanted to mention you guys on that infotainment screen is when you do put the Ultima in reverse you will of course find a rear view camera coming standard across the board but the platinum is also gonna give you a surround view monitor which is always is going to lead us into safety and so to start the Ultima is an IIHS top safety pick plus which is the very highest rating given by IIHS that pretty much does it all right there front side side current airbags do come standard driver and passenger knee airbags as well in the back you're gonna get latch AKA lower anchors and tethers to children for the rear car seats, rear child door locks high pressure monitoring system but also coming standard for all trim levels will be a forward collision warning system autonomous emergency braking with pedestrian detection lane departure warning, driver attention monitoring system and high beam assist as well and then if you were to go with the SV trim level and up that is going to add to that intelligent trace control, active ride control rear parking sensors, reverse automatic braking and a blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert and then if you were to go with the SL or platinum you're also going to get pro pilot assistant as well so overall when it comes to my final thoughts here of the new 2022 Nissan Ultima SV trim level and up is really where it's at just simply because of the safety I'll put it that way because if I were in the market for a new Nissan Ultima I would get the all wheel drive because we're here in Frederick, Maryland we do get a good bit of snow and I would get the SV trim level and up because that is where all the safety features have been at as that's my personal opinion also double power steering warranty at younger Nissan I gotta mention that that's incredible as far as room for improvement goes I would love to have seen digital gauges I know Nissan can do it they do it in plenty of their other vehicles so I would love to see a full digital gauge cluster in the new Ultima wireless fan charger would be nice as well multicolor ambient lighting and Android Auto Apple CarPlay for Ultram levels rather than just the SV trim level and up are the eight inch screen I should say but let me know what you guys think of the new Ultima in the comments section below that is about it for this one you guys thank you so much for watching feel free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen if you wanted to see what's coming next on the channel before it actually gets to YouTube be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button if you're 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Hello friends! How are we all doing? Today we're going to be trying about the series. I'm definitely series. I'm definitely gonna finish this year. Now maybe we'll look... I never tend to look back on this list because it's more motivational and optimistic than like some of my other TBRs where I'm genuinely like trying to finish all those books. But maybe we'll look back on this list at the end of the year when I do my series stats for our pop video at the end of the year. But yeah we're gonna be talking about the series. I definitely want to finish this year. I haven't made a ton of progress. I haven't really started any series this year which is good. I've yet to start a series I'm continuing or I think that's about to change. But I've only really made progress I think in one series. So I thought it was time to do this video to really give myself some focus and to make myself make some progress in books in the next couple weeks, next couple months. Really start you know focusing in on that again. Wishful thinking. Yeah.  You dream a lot in your sleep. No no. I just want to apologize. Please ignore the ring like layer. I know it probably doesn't bother some of you. My camera battery, there's a problem with it. And so it has to be like plugged in. I need to get a new one I think. But the camera has to be plugged into a charger in order to work. And like I can't, usually I'd have the camera when I'm filming here a bit more turned that way so you don't see the ring light glare that's lighting me. But I can't move the camera any further along. So this is what we're living with. This is what we're dealing with today. But shall we just get into it? I obviously don't have all the books with me which I hate. I love just holding up all the books when I talk about them. So I'll have to have some pictures of stuff. But I have got some of the sequels that I'm aiming to read. I did bring quite a lot of sequels with me. So shall we just get into it? I have got 10 series that I really want to finish this year. And I think quite a lot of these are fairly realistic. We'll say fairly realistic. Okay, first we have got the Elements of Cadence series by Rebecca Ross. The first is A River Enchanted. A second is A Fire Endless. I read A River Enchanted last year. And the main reason I want to finish this series is A it's a duology.  And I can feel myself beginning to forget what this series is about. So obviously Rebecca Ross has become more well known for Divine Rivals which I didn't love. But I did enjoy this a bit more. This series is very unique. It's set on this island where music is the magic system and there's all these kind of like spirits, kind of elemental spirits going on. And the interpersonal relationships were very interesting in this series. The way it examined, it had kind of different pairings of relationships. And I thought the way it examined familial relationships, friendship relationships and romantic relationships was very nuanced and very different than a lot of stuff I've read. That's why it surprised me so much in my read Divine Rivals. And I was like, this is, this is TikTok trope like heaven. Do you know what I mean? This is just the most popular like, in my opinion, unnuanced ways of portraying relationships. Oh my god, T Central over here. It's a completely different side of the coin to this series. I didn't love a Riven Chanted. I think I gave it 3.5 or 4 stars. So I did enjoy it but I didn't love it. So I would like to make progress in this series so I can like tick it off because otherwise I think as a series I should let go. I don't own a Fire Endless. I do have the audiobook on Everand. Now Scribd has become Everand if you don't know that. That's the news of the day. That's the breaking news. I don't know why they did it.  So yeah, I have the audiobooks for second one but this is a series, there's other series on this list that I love and I'm really excited to continue. This is more one that I'm like, we gotta get it gone. You know, we gotta tick this series off or like give up on making progress in it. But yeah, very unique magic system and I think I should just read it and finish the geology. Otherwise, even if I give up, I'll always think about it. You know, think about what could have been. Then we have a series that I love but I keep putting it off because I'm scared. So we have got Bookshops and Bone Dust, which is the sequel or prequel I should say to Legends and Lattes, which was my second favorite book of last year. I'm so numb. I don't want to talk about it. So Bookshops and Bone Dust were following Viv when she was more in her like fighty-fighty like crusady. I don't know what the right word is to what she did. But you know, she was in her past life before she created the bakery and Legends and Lattes and I know we're kind of in this library in this one and there's like a little owl dog creature and like a little rat. There they are. And I love Legends and Lattes so dearly. I've never had a reading experience like that again. The way I felt reading that book, how comforted and cosy I felt. I have never felt like that again. Ever. Ever. I have never had that feeling again. I just want to feel safe again. I just want to feel so safe and protected. I'm just nervous what if this doesn't match up. I'm really concerned. So I don't actually have any plans to read this like ASAP. I don't have any set plans to read it. But I know I'm probably gonna love it. I'm just feeling the pressure. But either what I know, please let me know if you know anything else. But as of what I know, there's no news about there being more books in this series. I don't know if Travis Balgi's gonna keep writing in this series or maybe branch out and write a different book, sand line or different series next. So in my mind, when I read this, I have finished the series. If the ratings I've got up to date with it, which I now track differently than like currently reading, so at least I would have made progress in it. But from what I've heard, there hasn't been any other books announced. So yeah. I can't. Then we have the Hell's Library series by AJ Hackwith. The first is the Library of the Unwritten, which I read a little while ago. And for my birthday, one of you who very kindly gifted it to me, Emma, very kindly gifted me. I haven't got my sticky. Usually I stick all my wishlist notes like in the front of the book, but they're all the ones I got for my birthday are just floating loose because I don't have my tape with me, my washi tape. And it's causing me anxiety thinking about all those notes that could fall out. Emma very kindly sent me the archive I've forgotten. So I've got to read this and the God of Lost Words. There's two more. This is Trudy. I've read the first one. Most of these I've read. Actually, some of these I've made more than the first one. That's not normal. And I think, you know, you should maybe get some help or something. Why do I love starting series so much? I just really like starting series. But then, as my experience has been, I love making progress in series. There's been so many series where like the first book is the weakest book in the series to me once I've completed it. And like my love for the series and the characters grow. I'm just awful at making progress.  And we've got in it a character. Oh, it's all coming back to me. I'm remembering more than when I thought there's on the spot. You've got a character called Hero, who is like one of an unwritten hero from the story. Oh, and he wants to go find his author. And it's like a quest and you've got to stop him because like authors and the unwritten characters can't meet. That's what it is. It all came back to me. I was like put on the spot when I unhauled this. I was like, yeah, this is the second in series. I will have to read a recap for the library of Unwritten because it has been probably like a year and a half now since I read that. But I would like to, you know, make progress in it and just finish it. Megan, you should finish series. I will be doing a few more probably series Wipeout episodes late this year. I haven't got a planned up until I think I've got my vlogs planned up until April, but maybe after that I'll do a few. I'll do a few series Wipeout episodes. Oh no, I do have one planned, but I'm not sure when I've got it. No, we do have a fun one planned. I am excited to make purpose series. I really did enjoy the library of Unwritten. It was very nice writing styles, very unique premise. So we're going to try and make progress in this bad boy. Next, I am determined to finish the Sinclair's Mystery series this year. So this is the second one. I just read this in my most recent wrapped up retro episode. This is the mystery of the George Moth. These are a middle grade mystery series by Katherine Woodfine where you got this group of characters who work at kind of like the Selfridges equivalent, work at London's big department store in Edwardian period. And they're solving mysteries. It tends to be mysteries around items, like they tend to be finding items. It's not murder mysteries or anything like that. It's middle grade. Calm down. But I had such a fun time reading this and I really, whilst it's fresh, again, I want to finish the series. So I have two more in the series. I have the Painted Dragon and the Midnight Peacock that I need to read. And I'm going to read them. I'm going to read them. Guys, I'm going to read them. Promise? No, I am. Because this is one of the oldest books in my TBRs. Obviously, why I read it from wrapped up retro. So it had been almost four years since I'd read the first one. And now I've read the second one. I'm just, I'm raring to go. I really enjoyed this one so much more than the first one. I thought the characters grew. I thought the pacing of this one was really great. Like in terms of middle grade mystery, I thought it was paced really, really well. I had a lot of intriguing elements to it, a lot of new interesting characters and dynamics to it. So please make me finish this series because like I can't read them. Like I can't go another four years. If I carry on at the rate I'm going, it would take me 12 years to finish the middle grade mystery series as full books in it. Like that's just not on. Like I can do that for like Robin Hobb or something like, you know, big scary fantasy series. This is fricking middle grade mystery. Just Megan, get a grip. Finish this series. Good God, get a grip girl. Yeah, I really, really enjoyed reading the second in the series. So it's made me a lot more motivated to finish this series off this year.  So I have read Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Tales from the Cafe and Before Your Memory Fades. And the next book is Before We Say Goodbye. And I have decided this is going to be my last book in a series. I have enjoyed these, but my favorite was book one. And I feel like it's kind of depreciating for me over time with a lot of the stories being somewhat similar, a lot of the emotions being somewhat similar. Like I know in Japanese there's like loads more books already published, but for me I've decided like I'm gonna read this one and then the series is done for me. And I feel like that's nice. Like the four books in the series is not bad. This isn't a series that if I decide to stop it, I'm like truly missing out. Yes, there's some ongoing narratives, but like a lot of what makes up new stories is individual new characters and new stories that are like I said some ongoing narratives of characters we've had throughout the book. But I don't feel like I'm going to be currently, I mean I could feel differently how to finish this book and I could be like I'm continuing. But I currently don't feel like I'd be missing out if I did not progress in the series. So this is a magical realism series I'm sure most of you have heard of it. Where we've got this cafe where you can travel back in time, but you can only travel back in time to something that happened in the cafe where you know someone came to the cafe. So you can go back in time to see them.  So there is that that kind of short all these all these incidences where people travel back in time to see their loved ones is only for a short time right. So it's always emotional because there's like a lot that these people often want to get off their chest. I really love the first one. The first one made me cry a lot. And then the second third, the third one was just the weakest for me. And I just feel like we can read this last one you know it's a quick read but then I'm ready to kind of like that's the end for me personally. So that'll be finishing off another series once I read this and it's so short you know get a grip. Number six is another geology it is the song of race and ruin series by Rosetta Brown. So the first one is a song of race and ruin and the second one is a song of storms and silence. This is similar to the Rebecca Ross one where it's a geology so like I need to just finish it but it's not a series I feel super motivated to finish. They're both in the same bracket for me where I'm like just finish it it's a geology just read this other book but I don't feel they're not like ones I'm like oh my god I'm raring to read that. Do you know what I mean? Whereas some of these other series are like bookshops on bone dust or some other ones we've got coming up in the list I'm like okay I feel very excited. These ones almost feel like a little bit obligationy. I do not remember saying those things and those things were not meant to be. That was that was not meant to be serious. I just don't like doing anything serious and I liked these first books enough to want to continue. The first one a song of race and ruin this is like an African inspired fantasy where we've got these two characters who want to kill each other but like not because they hate each other but because it kind of suits ends that they want to achieve and I did really enjoy it but I've just forgotten a lot of it and I just haven't felt super motivated to pick up the sequel but I own it. I own the sequel so I need to just read it so please make me please make that one I really want to get off my list. Like I really should have finished that last year so I just want to complete it because like I said I really enjoyed the first book enough to want to continue. There's just something about it that I don't feel super excited to continue. Does that make sense? I don't know. Then the next on my list this one like you know I might be lying to you a little bit but I did tell a bit of a lie there. I'm not lying. I'm not lying. I'm not lying. I'm not lying but I will be happy if I make progress in this series. It's a trilogy. I'll be happy if I just read the second one but it would be amazing if I could finish this trilogy and that is The Farsier Trilogy by Robin Hobb. I have read Assassin's Apprentice and the next in the series is Royal Assassin. I really enjoyed Assassin's Apprentice. It got me really excited and it made me realise there are certain like types of more intimidating fantasy that I can read. I'm, I'm, listen guys I'm gonna start browning the sentence this year. I keep saying it but I am you know and this is a series I would really like to make progress in. A fantasy is I'd like to make progress in but like it's over 600 pages. It feels so intimidating that I am scared but you know the next one is Assassin's Quest. Obviously there's like Robin Hobb universe. What's it called? Is it called Realm of the Alderling? Is that this one? Because then you've got the Liveship Trojus Trilogy, then you've got the Tawny Man Trilogy. What's the Soldier Sun? I haven't even heard of that and then the Rain Wild Chronicles. So there's lots in this universe and so this is kind of like you know a trilogy with a longer series but I'm counting them as individual series. Like I'm not you know. Once I finish Assassin's Quest I finished a king's series okay. I'm feeling incredibly intimidated by this. If you don't know we're following Fitz in the first book who is a bastard son of the king and he's kind of bought into the royal court but not really like the actual family.  I really really enjoyed the first book. I thought Robin Hobb's writing was absolutely incredible. I keep trying to get my dad to read this series because he likes fantasy and I think he's maybe read it in the past and didn't he's like ah you know there's loads of fantasy I keep trying to get him to read and there's loads of fantasy he keeps trying to get me to read I don't want to read his fantasy.  I can't do it. My heart is saying no. But yeah I really loved the first one so I'd be very proud of myself if I could get over my intimidation and make progress in this this year. Then we have The Regency Fairy Tales by Olivia Attenwater. The first is Half the Soul then I do own 10,000 Stitches and then I think the last one is Long Shadow. Long Shadow came out in like 2021 so I'm pretty sure this series is finished. I'm in my brain. I'm like yes this is one I could finish you know because I hate when the series is ongoing a little bit you know and I'm like I can't finish it. These are Regency Romanticies kind of you know they're like set in Regency England, Jane Austen kind of era but they are fair fairy romances. I enjoyed Half a Soul. It's probably the most successful Romanticie that I have read for me because it's bought up by the Regency Nests because I'm like oh I can get into this. Where's Mr Darcy? You know what I mean? It's playing on a certain interest of mine but I didn't like love it. But the thing is with this series we're following different romances, different pairing so like I feel like if the trope combo in Half a Soul didn't necessarily work for me if this one does then I'm very excited. When I read Half a Soul I was like this one in particular isn't really working 100% for me like five star energy but I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that I could really enjoy a later one in the series. So oh it's got Cinderella twist. Okay I'm really excited. I'm gonna make progress and hopefully finish this series this year because they're nice and short. This one's only like 240 pages so they're not super long. Next we have The Singing Hills Cycle by Neva. I have read Empress Assault on Fortune and When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain and I Own Into the Riverlands and Mama's at the Gate and then Brides of High Hill comes out this year and the aim is to read all three. I'm actually gonna be reading these soon. I'm gonna be reading these maybe next couple weeks at some point so I am gonna make progress in the series but then I also want to read Brides of High Hill as well. I love this series and I can't believe I haven't made progress in it in a while. This is basically we're following Clarec Chi as they go around and gather stories and kind of note down stories and collect stories from people. They are such beautiful books that I keep saying I love how they honor and adore and put on a pedestal the art of storytelling and different arts of storytelling. Something I've noticed is the different books that so far the characters we met have different ways of telling their story and I just think it's so beautiful. Neva's writing is incredible so I'm super excited to make progress in the series. Into the Riverlands, Mama's at the Gate, I'm gonna be reading you. Oh it's so good guys. My goal is to read all three including Brides of High Hill that I will be able to read this year but at the very least I am gonna make progress and read the next two in the next couple weeks and then this is another one I would maybe be happy to just make progress in. This is another trilogy where if I read the second book like it's okay um but that is the Bear Town series by Frederick Backman. So I've read Bear Town, the next one is Us Against You. So in this series we are in a small hockey town in Sweden and in the first book the town is divided by something that happens and kind of put on opposing sides of this fight of this issue that happens. I don't want to spoil it because I think it is very effective to kind of wander into the book and not realize what is about to hit you. That's what happened to me. I think it's incredibly emotionally impactful but in this one we are also following the rival town head. It's about kind of the rivalries between the teams and it says by the game's end someone from Bear Town will be dead. So it's like a little bit, I don't know if it's a murder mystery if it's more of a thriller but again this is a one where I really really enjoyed the writing. I think I've enjoyed a lot of Swedish translated fiction that I've read. I've read quite a bit I feel like. Is the the elderly ladies up to know good? Swedish? Yes, oh my god it's Swedish. So I enjoy Swedish translated fiction. There's something about when, it's very interesting the art of translation. There's something about when the cadence of Swedish language is translated to English. I really enjoy that and I think it's interesting because Bear Town could be a standalone. Like I think it's a very effective book and it's the kind of narrative arc where I'm kind of like I don't know where we're gonna go from here. I don't know how these characters can like have another book together. You know what I mean? So I'm very much excited to read this. Frederick Rackman, listen he's gonna put you through it.  I'm really really excited to make progress in the series and maybe finish it this year. We shall see. Okay everyone that is the 10 series I must finish this year. We'll see actually. I think they'll be interesting to look back and see how many of these I finish because I feel like I'm gonna finish quite a few of them. But like that may be, you know, that may be optimism talking. But please let me know what you thought of any of these books. Yeah any of these books or any other continuations in the series please let me know. Also let me know what series you're hoping to finish this year and if you got to the end of the video put a snowflake emoji because it's, you know, cold in their town. But thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye!


Item number SCP-749 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-749 is to be contained in a sealed live containment vault with a minimum of three armed guards at all times. All guards posted are to be equipped with chemical dispersal units loaded with appropriate insecticides at all times. The walls of the vault are to be sloped in order to inhibit SCP-749's attempts to crawl up them. Electrified mesh capable of delivering a 5,000-volt shock is being installed over all viewing windows. To feed SCP-749, dedicated sprinklers are to be turned on and a mammal weighing no less than 70 kilograms is to be introduced into the habitat. The sprinklers are to remain on for at least an hour. Feeding is to take place every five days, and no additional personnel are permitted within the room while feeding takes place. Description SCP-749 is an apex predator superficially resembling members of the subphiala myriapida, approximately three meters long, with two to three hundred pairs of legs. Each individual SCP-749 possesses powerful forcibles, which to create a powerful acidic compound with a measured pH of 0.3. SCP-749 demonstrates a pre-election for hunting during rainstorms, and appears to be familiar with urban settings. Its preferred hunting methods consist of climbing up the walls of domiciles, using its forcibles to gain entry, usually by boring a hole through the wall or window, then feeding upon sleeping individuals within. SCP-749 shows a marked intelligence in evaluating potential prey. In all reported SCP-749 attacks, the creature fed upon the smallest unaccompanied individual, and its feeding habits and containment continue to support this conclusion of intelligence. SCP-749 appears to avoid detection prior to these attacks due to a combination of both visual and oral camouflage. When actively hunting prey, SCP-749 will alter its hue to match even complicated surfaces, such as stonework, rendering it visually almost undetectable until it strikes. The unique pattern of walking in form of legs possessed by the creature causes it to emulate and therefore blend in with the sound of raindrops impacting hard surfaces. However, due to the fidelity with which SCP-749 replicates its sound, varying the sound based on the surface, SCP-749 either is intelligent enough to vary its walking patterns based on surface, or exudes a non-vibration-based effect that causes it to be heard as raindrops by potential prey.


Give a warm welcome to Stefan Teininger as the first part of the double feature. And because this is a double feature, I get asked to please don't walk around while this talk, please watch all the two series and enjoy it. So let's start with the first part. To my right is Stefan Teininger. You all know him from the Freibrenner podcast. So give him a warm welcome and start with the show. We graduated Master Distiller from the Institute for Firmation and Biotechnology in Berlin. I am also the fifth generation distiller of our family company Distill. So please don't diss all the commercial alcohol producers per se because that's how I do my living. And we're going to talk today about alcohol production, boost production, high strength quality production that is. And Distilling is only one way of producing hard liquor. Let me show you the other three types. The first types are liqueurs that you all know. Liqueurs are basically not distilled. They use already made neutral grain spirits that come from large alcohol refineries that are usually not distilled and it's perfectly legal to make liqueurs at home. Just buy yourself some vodka and flavor this vodka with whatever you fancy. I've got a nice Matta liqueur recipe for you later on. So we have non distilled spirits. Most of them are liqueurs, some are gin, some are vodka. And we have the field of distilled spirits. Most gins are distilled, most vodka are distilled. Their basis is always neutral grain spirits. So spirits made from grain, they are flavored, they are distilled. And the distillation itself here in Germany is legal, but you have to register and license your still. And then we have the third part and the most, well, the most true to the fruit part. That is where we do not actually buy preproduced neutral grain spirits, but we make the alcohol ourselves via fermentation with yeast. So we produce the alcohol by fermentation ourselves, we distill it ourselves, but we need a license for that, otherwise it's illegal. On the other hand, of course, the right one is the most fun to do. So how do we actually produce alcohol? Alcohol is usually or always produced by taking sugar, sugar as the basis or the fuel for our biochemical reaction we want to achieve. And our little tiny helpers, the yeast cells, some kind of fungus, they break down the sugar and they transform it into alcohol via alcoholic fermentation. This you know all from your chemistry or biologic biology classes. And how do you make it? Well, we need this sugar, this sugar somehow converted to alcohol. Where do we get this sugar from? The traditional German way is making fruit spirits. And fruit spirits have the advantage that the mash, that is basically the stuff where the yeast makes the alcohol from already contains sugar. So sugar is what we need. Usually it's a fruit juice or a smoothie from apples, pears, plums, cherries. You name it. So we make fruit juice or a smoothie out of it. Why? Because the yeast works best in a liquid environment. It also has some other pros. The mash is easier to pump and easier to measure. And you have to always take into consideration that you use the best fruits available. Only the best fruits give you the best taste and scent. And there I have to add supermarket quality fruit is not necessarily the best. Best is usually baby food grade, but baby food grade fruits you can't buy in the supermarkets, sadly. So much about the quality of our food in our supermarkets.  Because yeast works best in an acidity of a pH 3 to 3.4. The other reason is that in such an acidic environment, bacteria that might consume our sugar and do not ferment into alcohol is not active anymore. Okay. If we have a higher pH, we use just citric acid, a food grade acid to lower the acidity of the mash. And then we take designated distiller's yeast that has some properties that we need for the fermentation. For example, this yeast ferments up to a very high alcoholic content, usually above 10%. Your normal baker's yeast would stop at 4% or 5% alcohol. And then we let this ferment. So we take our prepared mash out of the chooser, out of the smoothie maker, and we put it in fermentation tanks. Fermentation tanks is basically stainless steel, glass, plastics, whatever. It's just a bucket, basically. When you add yeast to this bucket of fermented spirits, you try to control the temperature. The yeast always has an optimal temperature that it works best. So usually it's 15 to 22 degrees. Sometimes in late August, when you've got your fruits just in harvest times, it's still too warm. So you need another yeast that is more active at, let's say, 25 to 27 degrees. Then you need an airlock on this fermentation, because fermentation generates CO2, and a lot of it. And this needs to get out, but oxygen should not get into the yeast. Because then we get another type of fermentation that doesn't produce alcohol. So we need an airlock. And this airlock lets the carbon dioxide get out, but no oxygen back in. So you check your airlocks. Then you double check your airlocks.  This happens all the time. And then we ferment this mesh for about two weeks. So we have the smoothie. We add yeast. The yeast does its work. And then we have a smoothie that contains around 10% alcohol after two weeks. The bubbles is the CO2 that is evaporating, and we don't have any more bubbles. So then our fermentation is complete. And then we try to distill it as soon as possible after fermentation, because a fully fermented mesh is not getting better with time. And then we come to the part for some small fermentation tank we see here. It's just 10 liters. We have this tiny airlock where the CO2 can bubble out via this water filling. But no oxygen can go back in. So this is something you basically can do everywhere at home. And if you got this fermented mesh, we come to the distillation. Distillation itself is just a physical process, a physical means of separation of liquids and solids and of concentrating alcohol in that matter or taste and scent. Because the boiling point of alcohol is lower than the boiling point of water or the solids don't boil at all. So if we heat up this mesh, the alcohol will start evaporating sooner than the water. And so we fill the mesh in the distill, we heat it up, and as soon as the distill gets to around 70 degrees centigrade, the alcohol starts to evaporate, rising with it, the molecules that make up the scent of the spirit that we want to distill. So it's basically essential oil, aldehydes, esters, some ketones. But stuff that evaporates and then we cool it down again at the condenser. So the alcoholic vapor that we just produced by heating up is going to the condenser, then cooled down. So it liquefies again and it goes down and basically we have our distilled spirit. Then we can cut off heads and tails and hearts. This is basically three parts of the distillate that we get. The heads parts are the earliest evaporating parts. These are short alcohols that are aldehydes that we do not want. For example, methanol is among them. Those are slightly toxic. I just say they're not actually that toxic, they're just bad for your health. And they taste like solvent. And the tails, they start to smell and taste like cellar, a foul flavor. So we don't want those flavors in our spirit. So we cut it into heads, hearts and tails. Those hearts, those fine tasting alcoholic parts we keep, we collect, and then we re-distill these ones to get rid of even more of the heads and the tail parts that might still be in the first heart part. So this is laboratory still, this still you could buy in an online shop, in any laboratory device shops, 500 milliliters, it is still legal. You can do this at home until the day after tomorrow. Then those get forbidden, so you can't buy them anymore. So if you do want to have one, go to the local drug or the laboratory dealer. Here you can quickly demonstrate how this works. So we've got the heater here, it's just propylene gas going up. Here we've got our mash inside. The alcohol evaporates, goes up, goes into the condenser, the condenser cools it down and the distillate comes out here again. Here just in a quick schematics, but same principle and this is just stuff that you could basically buy almost everywhere where laboratory equipment is sold. As said, until the day after tomorrow. From 2018 on, all home stills in Germany will be illegal. So you can buy one in the next three days and you can still use it in 2018 but you can't buy any more of them from 1st of January on or 2nd of January on. So we have one exception. You can buy stills of up to two liters of size if they're only used for the production of essential oils or distillation of water. But the basic physical principle stands. But don't buy this stuff online and don't buy it anywhere where someone will register your address because that's what they're legally obliged to do. Any vendor of distills has to register your name and address by the tax office, which gives us back to the hacking aspect. We're going to see later on about building stills, which is totally illegal by the way. Don't do that. But that's one exception. And this, I have to say, we're leaving now the part of the home distilling, unfortunately. We have to go semi-pro if you want to continue distilling brandies. You can go craft distilling. Craft distilling, on the other hand, is far more easy to do from 2018 on than it used to be until the day after tomorrow. A lot of things change. Your precious Brandwein Steuergesetz is basically gone out of business because of the EU. Thanks, Brussels. But we get the new alcohol Steuergesetz. And the alcohol Steuergesetz is actually quite nice for craft distillers. Because if you fulfill the requirements that this law states, you are legally obliged to get this distillation license. Until now, you can apply for one. But if you don't get one of those brandwein rechte, Brenn rechte, so the right to distill at the moment, well, you can start from 2018 on. You must get one if you apply for one and if you fulfill the requirements. This is called Abfindungsbrennen, because it's basically you compensate the state for the tax of the alcohol that you're going to produce. Until now, the Abfindungsbrennen is only in the southern parts of Germany. So Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, parts of Hessen, so not in the north, not in the east. The background is, no, now you can do it in the whole of Germany. So everywhere where you are, you can apply for Abfindungsbrennenrecht. And if you are a farmer or even a part-time farmer, the state allows you to distill this amount of alcohol. This is a usual craft still. This is ours. It's from the 70s. It's not very high-tech, but it gets the shop done. And you can buy or build something comparable to this. This is a size of about 150 litres. In the future, this size and the quantity of the steels is no longer regulated. So you can basically buy any size that you want from 2018 on. So this Abfindungsbrennerei allows you to produce 300 litres of pure alcohol per year. That doesn't sound much, but actually it is, because it's litres pure alcohol. Who of us consumes the pure alcohol? We water it down and we sell it in tiny waters. So if you divide it by 0.4 for the brandy and by 0.5 because we only have half a litre bottles, then we get 1,500 bottles per year allowance. You have to drink that or you have to sell that. And then there's even another thing, we get an allotment. So we could produce 900 litres in one year if we then don't produce any more in the two following years. There's only one small cut. You can only make fruit or grain spirit, no molasses. So no rum and no chunk, I'm sorry. But as said, you need to be a farmer or a part-time farmer. Well, that's actually not so hard. You need three hectares of regular three orchids or you need 1.5 hectares of intensively farmed fruit or charts. This is the one thing that maybe will hold back most of you guys thinking about opening a opfinums banana rye. But there's a tiny way around it, cheat code. You can rent or lease it and you can rent or lease it any time in the next 10 years and you have only to show it once to your customs. And when the custom guy then has checked your mark that you owned or rented or leased, then you're good to go forever. So there's going to be some areas of three hectares that are going to get at least for 365 days per year to 365 guys. The other exception is it has to be mixed fruit trees or intensely farmed fruit trees. Well, there's also a cheat code because there's one fruit or one bulb that you can grow, that is allowed, and that you don't see and that is no tree that you need to plant and wait for five years or so. This is the Jerusalem artichoke or topinambua, very well known in Baden-Württemberg.  Then we have another requirement. This might be a bit tricky for some of us or for some of you because I have an upvendungsbrindricht. You have to have a clean cheat in taxation. So if you cheated on your taxes once, you're not going to get the upvendungsbrindricht in the future. The next is you have to have an economic interest in producing. But this is just what we say, a paper tiger because if I have an economic interest of giving Andreas a bottle of liquor, then my economic interest is fulfilled. So this is not a requirement per se. The taxation rate, this one liter of pure alcohol that you're going to produce, you have to pay the state a tax for it. This tax is reduced, one of 10 euros, 22 cents per liter of pure alcohol. So if you have 300 liters of pure alcohol, you know how much tax you're going to pay for it. And just as an example, how much of Apple's peers or plums or so you're going to need. There's a list of these auspoity sets. So a calculated result from certain mash. And for Apple's we have 3.6 liters of pure alcohol for 100 liters of Apple mash. So we can calculate how many apples you have to buy or have to use if you want to get your 300 liters. And this is maybe not the best for your privacy aware guys out there because if you own a still and if you've got a licensed Apfenungsbennerei, then the federal customs agents are allowed to check this still every day, every night whenever they choose fit. The next is the food inspectors have the right to check your still. But they only come on business hours. So that's a bit better. And then you need to enter a professional association called Berufsgenossenschaft either for the farming industry or for the food service industry because if you blow yourself up while operating a still, then you're at least insured. Which brings us to the safety issues of operating a still because, well, accidents happen and they happen all the time. Usually once or twice a year, a person in southern Germany blows him or herself up because he or her didn't check the safety regulations. The most important thing about running a still is knowing that alcoholic vapor is by itself explosive. It's low grade, it's not dynamite, but it is dangerous. So you always have to check that you don't have a huge amount of alcoholic vapor just running around. So the legal stills will be checked by the technical control board, by the Berufsgenossenschaft and by customs agents for different reasons, but they're all going to check your still until you get your license to produce. And the first and foremost safety mechanism is build something that controls or that checks if your cooler is actually running. Here we have a cooler and this cooler, as we said before, condenses the alcoholic vapor back to liquids. If it's not working, we don't get a liquid, we get the vapor straight out of the hole.  So the most important thing that the Berufsgenossenschaft and the TÜV is going to check, do you have any reason to check if your condenser is working or not? Second of all, have a good ventilation. This is usually acquired by just having it ground floor and opening a big door and then you have natural ventilation. If there are alcoholic vapors, not rising, but existing, they're going to just diffuse outside in the air and fresh air and this danger is then compensated. And the third is, if you use electrical equipment within one meter of the still, make sure it's according to the ATEX, the anti-explosive, whatever, certification. Usually we do this by using only compressed air valves, for example, because compressed air does not ignite any sparks and so we don't have the danger of exploding. So much for safety now about the economics because, as I said, you're a part-time farmer now and this doesn't come for free. If you buy a new still by one of the established German coppersmiths, this still will cost between 25 and 45,000 euros. You need to sell a lot of those 1,500 bottles per year to get this back. The alternative is, of course, buy a used still.  So they are actually checked again by the producer and those are a really, really good alternative. You can also buy in Far East. I wouldn't recommend that, did that, got the T-shirt or you could build one myself. But please don't do these US-style moonshine stills that you see in the moonshine forums or so. Do one like this where Andrea Sanfrancisco is telling you about later on. The energy costs. If you heat up a still of a 150 liter and if you do this five or six times a day as you can, you have about 100 euros of energy consumption, 100 euros you need to get into energy consumption per 100 liter per still per day which equals around 15 euros per 100 liter mesh. Tax is around 40 euros of alcohol tax per 100 liter mesh and if you calculate all this together and divide it by 1,500 bottles and then you take it about eight years or what you say about this is your usual investment calculation time, then you will need to charge at least 20 euros per bottle for a liquor from our upfinems banana to reach the break even. So I see a lot of farmers market spirits that sell their booze for 10, 12, 14 euros. There's a saying in our distiller's circles, if you do this you could also just take a five euro note and put it on the head of the bottle because you're cutting your road throat. So if you want to start upfinems plenary, first don't panic. This is something that's done for ages and now you can do that too. Check the online resources at the customs office but I have to admit some pages at the customs office are according to the old law, some already to the new law so maybe check again in a couple of months or just call the customs agents. I mean it's their job to help you doing this.   If you call them and if you meet with them then they're going to be happy to help you. Then check the details on what still you want to build or to buy always according and in coordination with the customs agents or with the guys at the Berufsgenossenschaft, the professionals association and then you can basically apply for this. As I said if you fulfill the regulations they have to give you this license. Then as I said Berufsgenossenschaft is a way to talk and then you might check in with the local farmers club or organic farmers club or for example the University of Hohenheim has really good distillers classes because it's one thing of reading something in a book, it's something totally different to actually take part in a course.  Yeah and this is basically the end of my talk. Here's the Marte Liguris heap that I wanted to show you because if you don't want to apply for an Apfenungsplenrecht and although it can be done it is quite a hassle. It is easier just to aromatize using a neutral grain spirit. So here's the recipe.  So thanks a lot. A warm thanks for Stefan Peininger for this double feature start.


Hey, what's up you guys, welcome back to my channel. And today I have a cool video for you on what's in my volleyball bag. And I have this video highly requested. So I said, let me go ahead and show you guys what's in my volleyball bag. And let me tell you, I've been through so many volleyball bags, y'all. This is my most recent one. I do have a difference between the volleyball bag and my gym bag. They're two different bags. So if you wanna see what's in my gym bag, go have them leave that in the comments below. But let's get right in. It's Coco, and I'm a private coach in Atlanta, Georgia. So I coached volleyball. I played volleyball for a long time and now I decided to coach volleyball. So I created my channel so that I can give you guys the tips and all the things that I've learned over the years playing volleyball. So here's my volleyball bag. It is an under armor bag. Pretty cool. I think it's an under armor storm. It's an under armor storm bag. And I'm gonna open up my bag now so we can see what's in it. I have a lot of non-traditional stuff in it, but this is what you guys will see. Also, before we start, my new posting schedule is Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. So I will be posting videos on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. So make sure you come back around those times to get more episodes. Okay, so the first thing in my volleyball bag are my volleyball shoes. These are my volleyball shoes. These are ASICs. I really like these. They have cool pattern on them. And I have a volleyball shoes equipment talk video coming up soon. And in time, my volleyball shoes, I have these smeller-gitter things make my volleyball shoes smell good so they don't shrink. Okay. So my volleyball shoes. The next thing I have is some tape. I have some tape to take your fingers if you kinda jam your finger or something like that. I carry tape for other players, not just for myself, because I like to take care of other people. So I have some tape. The next thing I have is a hamstring roller. And in this hamstring roller, this helps roll out any of your tight muscles that you have because sometimes volleyball, I get really tight when I'm diving all the time. So I usually roll out before I do my match and afterwards. That way I don't get sore and I don't get overly tight. And I got this at TJ Maxx for $9.99. The next thing I have in here is I have a Lenny and Larry's cookie. And this is, oh my gosh, these are the bomb. I got these, I started eating these while back I was in GNC and I just said, hey, let me try it. So this is what I have. It is a protein cookie. And it is fresh baked vegan 16 grams of protein. No dairy, no eggs, no soy, no GMO kosher, no high fructose corn syrup, eight grams of fiber, no cholesterol, no trans fat, all of that. This is all in this cookie and they are really good. So I take these when I play for a long time because on Friday nights, I play in a tournament-like setting. So I play for like three or four hours. So I make sure I keep this in my bag so I'm not hungry. Next thing I have is a Gatorade. So I usually refrigerate these, but I put this in my bag just so you guys can see what I have in my bag at all times. I have a Gatorade and I usually have my water bottle, but my water bottle's in the dishwasher. But I have this Gatorade and I really like this new flavor, it's strawberry watermelon. So I usually keep this in my bag to keep it replenish my electrolytes. I have my whistle and this is my coaching whistle and I keep this in my bag because I coached, so I coached. So this is my coaching whistle and it says a lot of different cool sayings on it. I really like this whistle. So this is my coaching whistle. I keep icy hot in my bag. So I keep, this icy hot, I've been having this, using this icy hot for a long time, I keep icy hot because my thighs get sore and my, yeah, my thighs get sore. So that's what I use. I tell my lower back will get sore. So I use icy hot. I have this Comfort Fit Comfort Sleeve and this is for the elbow. So sometimes I get hitter's arm so I get the elbow and I snap. So this is why I have this Comfort, Copper Fit Comfort Sleeve. I have this change purse in my bag because you never know when you wanna go to the drink machine and get something to drink. So I have change purse in here so I keep some change in here. So that way I always have drink change or snack change. I have this chap stick in here because, y'all, when you listen to my volleyball story about my volleyball tryout story, when I played volleyball in high school and club and college, I always had lip gloss or chap stick on the sideline all the time. You can ask any of my teammates. Lip stick or chap stick all the time. So I keep this chap stick and I really like this one. This is chap stick total hydration. The lips because when you keep breathing I get caught now when I play volleyball a lot. So I keep that. And then I have this little pouch in here so I'm gonna open up this pouch and then all that was in the main compartment. Then I also have extra headbands. Always extra headbands, okay? And you could have extra ponytail holders but as you can see, I have a puff. So I don't really have a ponytail. So I have extra headbands, which is kind of ponytail-ish.  I have mascara. I have some mascara and this call is so big and I got this in my birch box. So this is some mascara because you girl, you'll never know who you gonna meet. So I got some mascara in here. And I have my headphones. And these are the cutest headphones ever. They're unicorns. So I have my unicorn headphones. Woo! My unicorn headphones. So I have these and I keep these when I'm running, when I'm warming up, because I like to get hype. I can put my playlist. If you guys wanna hear my warm-up playlist, it's a leddie, okay? So I have my warm-up headphones. And then I also carry some business cards with me. I gotta cover up my name. Got some business cards with me. Cause you never know when somebody wants some coaching. So that is everything that's in my volleyball bag. I really hope that you guys enjoyed this video. Please like, comment, subscribe, and I will see you guys on Friday.


This bootcamp takes you through several mathematical concepts and techniques that you need in order to do the introduction to statistics course. In this module, we'll review permutations and combinations. Permutation is a particular arrangement. For example, if I ask you how many ways can you range letters A, B, and C, well, I'm listing all the permutations or arrangements. A, B, C is different from A, C, B, different arrangements. You can also do this B, A, C, or B, C, A, B, or C, B, A. So you really have six ways to arrange the letters A, B, C. Using a calculator, you'll see it'll be three permutation, three. Okay, now we know three permutation, three is six. Well, how do we know that? Okay, first N is how many objects, in this case letters, how many we have? So three letters, A, B, and C. Then we have R, which is going to be the number of slots, the three slots. Okay, so let's look at this. We have three letters, A, B, or C. So in the first slot, we have a choice, we put an A, a B, or a C. Suppose in slot one, we used an A. Now in slot two, we have a choice of B or C. Suppose we use the B for slot two. Well, that's left to C. So there's your first arrangement, A, B, C. If you start it with an A and then a slot two, you put a C. There's nothing left, except for a B, which goes to slot three, A, C, B. Suppose you start it with a B in slot one. Well, in slot two, you can put an A or a C. Let's see it started with an A in slot two, B, A. Now all that's left to C, you got B, A, C. If in slot two, you put the C after the B, so you have B, C. You must have an A that's all left. You got B, C, A. This is called a tree diagram, actually, if you do it, you'll see. So that's how we know that three permutation three ends up being three factorial. Three times two times one. So three permutation three is three factorial. If you look at your scientific calculator, you'll see an NPR key. P stands for permutations. N is the number of distinct objects before we had A, B, and C. So these are the objects you want to arrange, and R is the number of slots or spaces. So the previous example, we had three objects, A, B, C, to range in three slots, and that becomes three permutation three, which is three factorial, which is three times two times one, which is six. The general formula for permutation is NPR is N factorial divided by N minus R factorial. Thus, when N equals R, then NPN is just N factorial. And the way you read a factorial is showed to you, but just let's do with numbers. Ten factorial is ten times nine times eight times seven times six times five times four times three times two times one, which is more than three million, it's three million six hundred twenty eight eight hundred. So it's a large number. Six factorial is six times five times four times three times two times one or seven twenty. It's actually surprising how large these numbers become. You try 50 factorial, it's going to mean a credibly large number. Let's look at some problems. How many ways can you assign five workers to five different tasks? Well, that's five P five, which is five factorial, five times four times three times two times one, which is one twenty. Again, you have a factorial key, so you just get it directly. One twenty. How many ways, example two, how many ways can you arrange ten different books in your bookcase? And suppose it only has room for five books, that's like the slots, spaces. So we have ten permutation five, remember the second number is the slots. So it's ten permutation five and that turns out to be ten times nine times eight times seven times six. The five four three two one is cancelled out by the denominator. But if you just put in your calculator, you get thirty thousand two forty. Example three, how many ways can eight cars line up single file in front of a toll booth? You can resume this space for eight. So it's eight permutation eight because there are eight spaces and there are eight cars, which is eight factorial, which is forty thousand three hundred and twenty. The fourth example, how many ways can you arrange twelve guests around the table as twelve chairs? Well the chairs are not like the slots, so the spaces. So n is twelve, the twelve guests, you want to put them around the table as twelve chairs? That's twelve permutation twelve, which is twelve factorial. And look at the incredible number that is, four seventy nine, a million six hundred. And now you can see why so many family feuds occur when it comes to seating family members at weddings or bar mitzvahs or whatever family event you have. So many ways to arrange them and if your family is like my family, somebody is always going to say, why did you seat me next to Jane? You know I haven't talked to her in seven years, or why did you seat my daughter next to Ellen? You know they don't get along. Things like that. But look how hard it is, twelve permutation twelve is more than four hundred seventy nine million. Well now we're going to talk about permutations and combinations. Permutations, the arrangement of the items is important. Each unique sequence is another permutation, thus ABC is not the same as BCA, which is not the same as CBA, you just change around the arrangement the way it's ordered and it's a different permutation, so you get generally a larger number than you're looking at combinations. Combinations, ABC, BCA, CBA are not counted as three separate arrangements, it's the same combination. You still got ABC, the same three letters are in ABC, BCA, and CBA. So let's see how this works. So for example, if I ask you how many different groups of three can be selected from seven people? Let's call the people A, B, C, D, E, F, G, they're seven people. And now once you select B, D, and E, the fact that they can be arranged six different ways, B, D, E, E, D, B, E, D, it doesn't matter, it's only relevant, it's the same three. So obviously you can get a smaller number. So that's the difference between a permutation and a combination. Note you have both keys on your, you can do an NPR or NCR on your calculator. This is the formula for combination. N, C, not P, now it's a C, NCR is N factorial over R factorial times N minus R factorial. Notice it's almost the same as the permutation formula, except now you're dividing, you're shrinking it in fact by dividing it by R factorial. So that's why we see that NCR is NPR over R factorial. Anyway, you don't have to worry about all this, you have an NCR key on your calculator to solve any combination problem. Make sure you have a calculator that has that key. Okay, you shouldn't even buy a calculator that doesn't have NPR and NCR on it. They're very cheap now. So for example, how many different groups of three can be selected from seven people? Okay, that's really, sampling in general is a combination problem. So if you want to get groups of three from seven, again you don't care how they're ordered, once you get to three that's it. Okay, so seven, combination three, which is seven factorial divided by three factorial times four factorial, and if you put this into your calculator, you should get 35. How many different hands can one draw from a deck of 52 cards in a game of seven card rumbling? Again, you don't care about how it's ordered, you just want to see how many different decks, from a deck of 52, how many hands of seven can you get? Okay, that's 52, that's N, combination seven, that's like your slots, 52, combination seven, that's 52 factorial over seven factorial times 45 factorial. If you do it in your calculator, you'll find there's 133,784,560 different hands you can get in seven card rummy. Let's try the next example. How many samples of size six can be drawn from a population of size N equals 50? Well, this is simply 50 combination six, which is 50 factorial over six factorial times 44 factorial. Using your calculator, you'll get the answer 15,890,700, and that's, it's very simple once you learn how to use your calculator, you have no problem. The biggest problem you'll have is deciding, is it a permutation or a combination? And that's easy to figure out, do we care about the arrangement or not? If you don't care about arrangement and once you have ABC, it's the same as BCAC, then you're basically looking at a combination. To find more boot camp modules, visit the stat course at the URL you see there and go to the navigation bar on the left, click boot camp and you'll see all kinds of things that are good to do prior to the statistics course. Many of you have already done this before and maybe only need a refresher.


joined by Joe Harris.  It's amazing you know this is what it's all about right here you know we experienced most of last season without fans so anytime you come back even in LA the other day I mean this is like this is what basketball is all about right here. What can you say about these young fellas led by Cam Thomas making a run and pulling this I love Cam just the fact that you know you miss a few there but stay with it I mean he's cold blooded man he's gonna stay aggressive regardless that's exactly how we want to play he's got a bright future ahead of him really really talented young player. You started real sharp in this game a couple of preseason games remaining before we get the regular season on what is the team trying to tighten up before the start of the season. I know just collectively trying to iron out both sides of the ball you know we're trying to be in unison defensively the same thing offensively. A lot of times our best offense is when we're solid on the defensive end so you know a lot of stuff we've got to clean up but you know take a look at it tonight get a good practice in tomorrow and build on it from there. Appreciate your time as always Joe. All right great thank you.


Can you accept that some people, no matter how good a case you make for the cleanliness and the environmental impact, will just never consider your product? Yeah, I'm cool with that. Good luck with this, I guess. Mickey Agarwal, founder and chief creative officer of Tushy.  I am. Have you ever been embarrassed to say what you do? No, I've never been embarrassed. Who did your branding and what was the brief? I gave my creative team the brief. Okay, so it has to be aspirational, artful, irreverent and accessible. And what brands were on your mood board? No brands, per se, just art and different sort of nature images, forces of nature, colors, human poses, body, language, facial expressions, things like that. It's a really good logo. Tell me about the logo.  It's a precise shower for your butt. It just tells you what it is. What part of the Tushy brand still needs work? We are still just getting the overall brand aesthetic. People are going to look at that. Oh, that's Tushy, that's Tushy, that's Tushy. And so that's what I've been working on for a while with my amazing creative team. Our new campaign is like very Honey I Shrunk the Kids where we're taking old people, young people, you know, different shapes and sizes, colors, like everything, mobility, all these, everyone. And then we're kind of cutting all the people out and then shrinking them and putting them all on the toilet. You know, and just doing different things. So I think scale is going to be something I'm really excited about for this next campaign and for the next look and feel of Tushy. And so you'll go on the record saying this one's going to stick? I think this is the thing that people will copy. Everyone copied things after we launched the campaign in a lot of ways and I think that this will be something that people will use as an inspiration, I think. I hope. What part of the brand are you most proud of? I am most proud of our voice because I think it's a reverend, it's funny, takes your guard down. Yes, you keep to those brand tenets but you make a lot of different brand content of different lengths all over the place. Why? Because otherwise it's boring and it's, you know, you expect something and then when you expect something it's just not interesting anymore. So for you as long as the voice is a reverend and unexpected that's true to the brand? Yeah, if the voice is true to the brand then the visuals as long as they're artful, aspirational, interesting, we can shift, switch it up. How'd you raise money? People are still like, I don't know, is America ready to wash their butts? So raising money was really hard. We had a couple of early investors, got lucky, had a couple of meetings and they just threw in 400k and that was it. So your 400 is what you used to start? Yep, it was straight equity. Does PR sell products? PR does sell products, sadly. I think it's- Why sad? Just because brands are dependent on it and it's often scary because brands could, you know, it can make or break a company. It can be a blessing or a curse. What's been your best PR blessing in regards to Tushy? The MTA banned the Subway campaign saying that that Tushy is a sex product. Because of that we got a write-up in, you know, a New York magazine and then SNL picked up the story and then ran the most epic three-minute ode to Tushy. It was like an infomercial for the company on SNL by Michael Che himself. I think these Subway ads are great. People need to know about Bidets. I just got one and it's changed my life. It's glorious. What did that do for sales? From a daily sales perspective it tripled, tripled, you know, one time then it ran a rerun quadrupled. I mean it's just unbelievable. You had success with getting rejected from the MTA before with Things, correct? Yes.  I mean we didn't necessarily want to be banned but I think for us it's like there was a playbook there that worked. Why not try it again? Worked again. And so we're like maybe, I don't know, could keep working but at some point I'm sure Press will be like, old story. If you had one dollar to spend in marketing where would you spend it? An influencer right now. A really good one. How do you determine a good influencer? Mid-sized influencers so like someone in the 100 to you know 150k range has a good and then they have a strong you know at least 10% if not more of engagement. What's been the biggest individual media investment you've made? Howard Stern radio. How much was that? Not that much like 30k. We would have spent more on MTA but sorry. What have you done in sales to date? I could say over 10 million but our goal for this year is to actually do that amount well more than that 12 million. You've shot a lot of video commercials or videos for Tushy which one's your favorite? It's a booty washing magic and it's by this amazing director named Ty Calner and I just love it. It's basically going around a home and then like seeing things that are dirty and then spring them with the Tushy nozzle and then they all go ding ding ding clean clean clean. They're just beautiful. It's like artfully shot. My favorite ad the one I just talked about did not perform that well. I want to stay on this because I really wanted to talk about that because that Ty Calner ad is a fantastic ad. Do you know why it didn't perform? Once Tushy is a lot more mainstream and people know it that will be our best ad.  That's it and that's our TV 100% that's a TV ad right there. Why do you do so much long form video now? Because it's a product that needs explanation. So we're having to do these real sort of narrative showcases of why you need it. Do you know how many trees are cut down to make toilet paper 15 million? You know do you know how much water is required to make a single roll of toilet paper 37 gallons? All those things really important. But why did you break that convention when today it's all it feels like Instagram, Instagram 15 seconds, we'll flight 10 different videos, we'll call them Tushy DigiNose or whatever and run them like that. Long form sometimes converts better, short form we're testing more now. We're just we're again we're in testing phase for us it's like may the best ad that performs the best win. Can you accept that some people no matter how good a case you make for the cleanliness and the environmental impact will just never consider your product? Yeah I'm cool with that good luck with this I guess. How important are reviews? Reviews, reviews, reviews and actually we just have a video of like a cute blonde friend just sitting on a toilet reading the reviews in a really cute voice and that cost us almost nothing to do just doing great. Do you know what your cost per acquisition is and at lifetime value? Customer acquisition cost is around $20 our AOV is around 80. Why don't you just keep spending and spending and spending and spending and spending and spending? We're doing that we're doing that we're just we're but we're doing it profitably.  What you earn must exceed what you spend and that's just math. Hardest thing you had to learn on the job. It's really important to have really strong management in place pretty early on. Who was your first hire? My first hire ops person now every time after my restaurants bringing an ops person literally after I spent seven years trying to make it work myself within one week of my ops person taking over the restaurant operations our numbers doubled within one month our numbers tripled so I said from that moment moment on never again will I build a business that doesn't have an ops person by my side because it's it's just not my strength. Is any part of you still pissed or not running things? Not at all it's actually in the right hands. If you had one superpower what would it be? Time travel. What's the exit strategy? If there's a great company that can really spread the mission and build it with us with the right with the same ethos then come one come all minimum 100 million so good luck. You seem quite unstoppable what's the ultimate goal for you? To keep elevating humanity while supporting the planet. Is there a bigger plot for you? Yeah I mean I think it's really about just breaking societal preconceptions I mean the fact that we are listening to society that was created by people who are no different than either of us and the fact that that's controlling so much of what so much of what people do to me feels arbitrary and old and irrelevant and we can literally create our own reality and I think if we can show that through business through brand through aesthetic through language then we can shift everything for anyone.  No definitely no elected office never ever ever I think there needs to be a level of skin in the game for real shifts to happen so for me I think business conscious businesses creating disruptive innovations creating social enterprises is really what's going to move move the world. Who's the one person you'd love to have coffee with? I mean I guess I'd have to say Oprah. Now to the outside world you're doing a million things realistically how many hours a day are you dedicating to Tushy at the moment? It's my my my priority you can only focus on one thing at a time I'm the chief creative officer of the brand and I want to see this through to 100 million. So Mickey Aguil, thank you so much for being here with us and answering some questions. I'm Ian Wichengrad and we'll see you next time on I'm with the brand.


Staff Sergeant Kelly T. Stratton and I'm an Aviation Ordnance Systems Technician and Quality Assurance Safety Observer here at MALC-13 Ordnance. Today we built high explosive GBU-12s which is a guided bomb unit and we built them in support of the MFA-122's unit level training and we also decanned and inspected an air to ground missile which is an AGM-65 Maverick. This exercise is important because it allows the pilots here in MCS-Yuma to train for austere environments and become more proficient in their aircraft and their weapons systems. So when they deploy they're able to engage and destroy the enemy.