Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you've all been waiting for, something a little bit different today, but I think you'll enjoy it. I am reunited, a little reunion with the one and only Jim McD. Those guys don't know, we had a podcast for a very long time together. And then now, I got a new podcast, The Momma's Boys podcast with Omar Isoff, and we got to sit down, chat with Jim McD. So here it is for you guys, if you wanna start over. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you've all been waiting for, something a little bit different. My podcast, Omar Isoff, Momma's Boys podcast, I got the opportunity to sit down with a longtime friend, the Jim McD. If you don't know, I had a podcast with him back in the day. So it was super cool to sit down with him. I hope you guys enjoy, and if you do enjoy, do me a big favor, head over to iTunes, head over to Spotify, whatever platform you use. Be sure to subscribe, give it a rating or review. We drop new podcasts every Tuesday and Friday. 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An African country, I think. Come on, dude, come on, Nigel.  It's 2018, that joke's old. All right, you gotta do an incognito search to get the answer to this question. No, not just this.  Anything that works, I'm down. I'm gonna make you do it. Ladies and gentlemen, on that note, welcome to Mama's Boys podcast, the absolutely worst podcast in the entire world. We're here with one of my good friends, one of the kindest souls in the world. Reunite, Reunite didn't feel so good. It feels so good. Mr. Jim McD, we gotta plug away first. Lead the way, buddy. Oh, hi, let me do the endorsement. What's cracking, guys? My name is Omar. I just wanna quickly give a shout out to our sponsor, the sponsor, Kaizen Training. Who are those guys? Who are those handsome devils? I just started it with myself, Silent Mike Barquan. We offer training programs for all your fitness needs, whether your goal is to build muscle, lose fat, or get stronger, check out Kaizen Training. That's K-I-Z-O-Z-E-N training.com. Jim McD and I go years back now, probably seven, six, and training partners, content creation partners, podcast partners, soon to be life partners. It's great to have you on, Jim. Yeah, it's cool you came to call us, buddy. Thanks, it's really awesome to be here. Yeah, I see you're trying to one-up me on the checkered shirt game, and I think you may have won. Checkered shirt game's strong, you know what I'm saying? It's maybe that's you just, you know, I know you got some family now up in Canada. Yeah, what's it called? Family up in Canada, for sure, yeah. First is starting with blue, and then it's gonna go red and black. Yeah, exactly. I'm gonna know the words to O-Canada, and I'm just gonna wake up some morning, and I'm gonna be able to sing that fucker and just know where it came from. Yeah, that's how we indoctrinate you. What, this? Canadian tuxedo, am I way off? Well, Canadian tuxedo's actually wearing jeans, denim everything, so jeans, jacket, and then, if you have, I'm not sure about the shirt, I'm gonna go with yes for the shirt. I've been in Canada enough that I've seen that. Oh, it's a real thing. Hey, Jim, let me ask you something, because you do have family in Canada. Do you notice a difference when you go there to Halifax, as opposed to, you know, Sacramento, or, and if so, what are some of the big differences? One huge difference between Sacramento and a lot of the rest of the world is food. Okay. Because we have everything available. Yeah.  And then they have like, the first place I ever saw Dunkin' Donuts coffee in a grocery store, like grounds you could buy. Oh, yeah. For interesting. Was the Atlantic Superstore in Halifax. That's amazing. Jim is good at saving all my facts, and he'll know the real ones.  Yeah, just how bad I am. But I've read places who knows how serious the places are that I read, which aren't, but Sacramento's like one of the most diverse cities in whatever list. It's supposed to be one of the most diverse cities. Yeah. But it's a little different than LA. We're like, LA, you go to downtown LA, and it's like Chinese food, Indian food, Mediterranean food, whatever. Because Sacramento, we have our pockets, so you could probably put that down. Like hoods. Yeah, hoods. It's gotta be hood. What are you gonna say? I would say hoods, like neighborhoods. Oh, okay. Neighborhoods. It's a little bit all over. For sure.  Right. Oh my God, they're putting, as an aside, they're putting the best Mongolian hot pot place. Like it's a chain, but they're putting one in South Sac. Interesting. I don't know if I've ever gone to South Sac. What I wish is, I think it was around when I was a kid, but I never went there, is like we had a little Tokyo basically, right? Broadway? Yeah. But it's not anymore. I wish it was. No, it's not anymore. It's kind of like, yeah. Yeah, some of the buildings are still there, but they're just totally different businesses. Yeah, there's like one, maybe. Business has stayed there.  I would love a little Tokyo. Oh man, in LA have you been to a little Tokyo? Yeah. Very cool. It just has a unique vibe. The stores that you go in there, there's that underground, the plaza. They're a K-town. K-town in LA is cool with good food. I love the idea, like Toronto has that a lot. And you've stopped over in Toronto on your way to Halifax or?  In Toronto, yeah. Toronto, yeah.  Yeah, yeah. I love Toronto. Bro, cause I'm there. Probably. You want me to explain what's going on in your subconscious? I'll do it. We went to CN Tower. Yeah, absolutely. I got freaked out cause I don't like heights. Oh really? Yeah, well that glass floor, it's a little weird. So we're going up the elevator, you're fine Jim? Yeah. Because you know, It's looking down, that's my problem. Well the elevator, you know, so for those that don't know the CN Tower, it was previously the longest standing free structure I believe in the world and now it's been surpassed. But the elevator itself, when it goes up, you could just look outside and see completely out and you're going up pretty fast. That, that's cool, that's cool. That to me, looking down through, yeah. So you look down, Jim, and what do you see at the top? You see your feet and then you see that the Ripley's Aquarium below you, whatever happens to be there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We went to a baseball game. Yeah, we're talking about doing that. We should do that, we'll do the next time. Oh, it's so good. It's so weird that the hotel is inside the building Oh yeah, very cool. You can watch the game from your hotel room.  Yeah, I had pretty much to have to be. Yeah, I was from there. Jim's balling, okay, I want to know what the side hustle is, Jim. Well, no, we actually, we were in Airbnb. Can I tell this story? I don't know. Please, you can tell whatever you want, buddy. Maybe we edit this, maybe we don't. Who'd you stab, Jim? No, no, here's what happened. We were staying there with my son and daughter-in-law and then my grandson. And the toilet broke and it stayed broke almost the whole time that we were there. We really had to plan our bathroom trips. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the weather was not perfect while we were in there. Yeah. It was windy, it was not conducive. It was rainy some of the time. And you're like, I got to go to Starbucks and use the bathroom. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why are you in the lobby all day? Come back and just like, what's the code today? It's like 50632, okay. So you can use the bathroom at Starbucks.  We found, let's just say that the two gentlemen who lived there used an appliance that I had not seen left out before. Oh, a private time. A private, yeah. Do they use the kitchen spacer, Rogan? Well, why is it underneath the kitchen sink? No, no, no. No, I'm not talking about front door. We're talking about back door. Oh, so like the opposite of Joe Rogan's old sponsor. Like clearing the decks, let's say. Anal suppository?  Like a, is that like a colonic-type deal? Yeah, yeah. Like a homemade one though? The thing is, I don't think that they were like chronically constipated or anything.   A fountain. Oh, so like a... They needed clean anuses. Like an intrusive butt vacuum. But all the days are kind of for your butt. Yeah. But this one's like going in? Going in, yeah. Like a pipe? Yeah. Mike's all excited. Mike was like just chilling and then Jimmy, you continue to start. I was confused.  No, no, this was just to clean the decks out. Interesting. That doesn't sound so bad. Like, I've heard that's super healthy. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know that they were doing it. You've never heard that stuff? I don't know that they were doing it for health reasons. Oh, so it was a toy. So it is a toy. So my head was at the right place. I think it was getting ready. I think it was a pre-gaming activity. So it was... Pre-game for sex, Mike. Like, oh, you're not figuring this out. I like how Jim said, yeah, so two dudes are living there and you're thinking to yourself, one of your bases indicated it's a sex toy. And Mike's like, what? So it's a flesh light? Like, they both bang the same flesh light? I'm like, no, dude. I guess I ignored the two dude part and just thought like, what's weird though? Do you have to sink it? So I went dirty and then I went clean, but it's getting clean to get dirty. Yeah. I'm with it. I'm with it. Something like that. They were incredibly nice and they were so nice. The thing was they're incredibly clean. But like, we could not let my grandson, you know, know that that was there and play with it. Of course. Not that it would be badly influenced, but that wasn't up somebody's, yeah, dirt. But yeah, just don't touch it. Touch that, yeah. So two quick asides about Airbnb. The first is that a buddy of ours, Ryan, when he had to stay, I think it was in LA with Matt when he visited you guys for some work, they stayed at a place and the guy was a what, a painter? What was the mic? So he went, shout out to our boy, Ryan. So he went and I think the guy emailed or messaged ahead, say there's like artistic adult stuff on the wall and he was thinking like, whatever, right? Like naked girl, artistically. He went in there in a straight, just like cock. And like pictures everywhere. He sent me pictures and like, don't call me, don't call me. A jim, an insane amount.  The pillows have dicks on them. Like he sent his photos to our group. Everything, it's not like one picture of like a day computer lady, which would be a very nice warning. Like you have kids, your grandsons or you maybe don't want a ball picture. Right, that could be done artistically.  It was one note all throughout the one theme, dicks and balls. This isn't like Georgia O'Keefe who everything she painted looked like of like the opening of a vagina, but wasn't the opening of a vagina. Yeah, but it wasn't even painting. No, I know actually what you were referring to. There were pictures too, yeah. All of it. So this is like photorealistic. Yeah, half and half. That combination, photorealism. Oh my goodness, okay. Yeah, that's, and this is an Airbnb. It was like downtown LA, like, and I guess they warned them, I don't know. I don't like Airbnb at all. We've had weird experiences. And then the other quickest, I was gonna say about Airbnb. I was staying one time with my brother at this place and a shout out to the host, Dave, who probably had to deal with it after. Well, there's just a few things that we weren't happy with and my brother's a straight thug. And so we went to leave like just some things he did not appreciate and Dave wasn't being helpful. He just took, I forget what he did. He organized it so the toilet bowl, you know, you flip the top so it drains the water.  How old are you? Yeah, I was like 22. Don't lie. Early 20s, it was early 20s. Up for shelf, yeah. Up for deck. Up for deck. Up for decker. Up for decker. I'm gonna switch this. No, is it in the bowl? Yeah, let's make it glass. Yeah, it's called up for decker. So CN Tower is really cool. But have you been to the new world trade? No. That is probably the best like touristy tour thing I've ever done in my life. The new world trade center. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One world trade, I think it's called technically. Right next to Memorial. We have the newest tallest building. Oh, yeah, yeah, you know, I've not been in it. I've been around it. I was there with you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We went to the Memorial, but we didn't go in the building. So I went in the building and up. They set the tone so insanely. You're walking through a pretty long line. Luckily for me, there's no line, but you're walking through like cues. Cause you're silent mic. Yeah, I said, yo, it's true. No, we were actually, my newest trick in life. Do you know who I am? My newest trick in life, which is the dumbest trick ever, but I just realized that like, you can buy tickets to anything online. Why are there lines? So like you go to Disneyland and people are literally waiting an hour. I'm like, pink, pink, pink. I've waited in the line halfway. Then I clicked on my head like, ugh. It's the same thing there. There's a half an hour line to go up the tower. And I was like, well, let's buy it online. So there's no line. You're walking through and all the walls are, they're decorated. So sometimes it kind of looks, feels like a foundation, like you're in the basement. And sometimes there's screens and they have the construction workers talking about building the first world trade, like being interviewed. And then they have people talking about this one and what it meant to them and feeling it cause it's right next to the Memorial. Sure. And so then you get in the elevator and all sides of the elevator are screens also. And you start at the ground and there's nothing around you. You see nothing but water on one side. And as the elevator's going up whatever billion floors, you see time lapse, animated time lapse of history of New York being built around you. Oh, wow, that's awesome.   And then all of a sudden they disappear. The screen disappears. And then you see real New York, what it is now, right? Like a mirror or a, excuse me, window. And it's just like it literally gives you chills here in these construction workers, obviously talk about the emotion of being born and raised in New York, the towers in 2001 and everything going on. It's insane. It's insane. But that's what I recommend all you touristy people. Sian was cool. That'd be really cool. It was cool. That was cool. So my- That's all I got. We were checking it out. Bad Airbnb expenses. My worst one was actually in Halifax. We got there at really late because when you're flying from California to Halifax it takes 13, 14 hours or so. You never get there at a decent time unless you're willing to fly overnight. And I don't like to do that because I can't sleep on planes very well. Yeah, same.  So we get to this house. It was a Victorian and it was listed as entire house. And so we, my son had picked up the key and earlier in the day. And so we went, it's like 1.32 o'clock in the morning by the time we finally get there. And we go into the house and it's kind of like creepy old Victorian for one. And so we're trying to figure out where's like, where are the bedrooms and stuff? So we opened the first, what looks like bedroom downstairs and like all these eyes open up.  It was like a den of possums or something. You know what I mean? It was all people. It was people that's like stacked in there. What are you in a hostel, a hostel? I think that they were foreign students. Oh, to be honest with you, I think they were foreign students. But why would they advertise Jim that it's an entire house? This is a good question. Dude, we've had bad Airbnb, it's like all of ours. I think that, I mean, the only thing I can think is that there was maybe a language barrier. And so like, yeah, it's a house in the sense that it's not an apartment. It's a full house. It's not a duplex, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And so there was an issue with that. So then you just found one or two empty rooms. We went upstairs with a room that was supposed to be, the room that was in the ad, we thought was the only bedroom in the whole place. I would have left. There was a refrigerator in the bedroom, which is weird. And yeah, so we called Airbnb right away and said, hey, we're getting the hell out of here because this is not out, it was advertised. But then at that point, they didn't have anything else to offer. So we had to go like find a hotel. We stayed at the Lord Nelson for a couple of nights. Yeah, I think I would have left. We have a bad one in New York, which we've already told on air, so we'll save her, but everybody heard. Yeah, so we had one in Toronto also though, that wasn't as bad, but like Airbnb, one, it's not even cheaper anymore really. No, it's like New York, New York it's cheaper. I feel Jim to 100 bucks a night. Yeah, we got a sweet hotel compared to an Airbnb. So in Toronto though, Walmart books at Dope House, and the overall experience was still an eight out of 10, but there's some weirdness. So it's a Dope House right by the gym, perfect, really cool feel to it, kind of modern lofty feel, but big. There's a bunch of us in there. And I don't even know the progress of things would happen, but basically the same situation where it said whole house, yours, cool, person lives off-site kind of deal. We was a lock, a dode lock that we got in. Everything's cool, everything's cool. And then like, maybe she texts you or something. And halfway we figured out that she's staying kind of in the basement. Yeah, so there's a trap door for the main floor. Oh yeah, there's a door and it says don't open it. That's what it was. Yeah, there's a door that says, so it's a trap door on the main floor. By the kitchen, yeah. Yeah, and it just says like, don't open or whatnot. And so she has a separate entrance somewhere that we don't know about. Garage maybe, underneath, we don't know. It says entire house, we don't know. She's staying in the basement. That's what we were up late the first time. It's just all socializing, all of us like 130. And she said something like, are you guys in bed or just like something that kind of indicated she must have either seen lights or heard us or something. Yeah, same thing like, look, it's not a big deal, but that's just weird. And then you're expensive. And then like, yeah, she'd say, I'm your neighbor. I mean, we've stayed in a couple of places that it was like downstairs or the upstairs or whatever. And it's separate entrance, but it's always said. Most Airbnb's are pretty clear, like I'm in this house, we share the kitchen or something. Or even one in LA, which again was a pretty good experience, but it didn't say it was a duplex. And so the owners attached to you and it's not that big of a deal, but you just, I feel weird. It makes me feel not as comfortable. That's why even like hotels, like- Oh, hotels removed. You just come in, check out, you know. They're here to like serve you.  Where this other place I'm feeling like, oh, I better not make them mad. That's not comfortable. Yeah. So hotels for me. So yeah, so yeah, I only other really bad one was in Oregon and it was a place that was supposed to have this great view of the like bay and stuff. And it turns out that the house had a great view of the bay, but this extra part in the cottage, the cottage was on the, there was like an open patio, lanai kind of thing between it and the house. And you had to take your shoes off to walk on that. And there was no kitchen, even though it said there was supposed to be a kitchen. It was like a microwave. It was access to the kitchen, their kitchen to walk across only certain times of day. Weird. I hate that. I hate that. Yeah. You're supposed to be comfortable. We should have walked out like. Yeah. That's what we did in the New York one. Obviously. Yeah, we're actually fighting right now to get a refund. I'm still in the process. Check for you. Oh, Maurice. Free Willy. I was going to say a lot of people do weird things slightly different. I'm looking for a house. We talked about a little gym. Yeah. Because gyms basically want to rise in Sacramento, even though he's not, but he is. And so he knows Sacramento well like me and I'm talking about different places. So you'll look online and like a super, like I'm going through a good website and then some of the pictures are like, oh, oh, the view.  Right. And actually, and because I know Sacramento, I already know some things. I'm like, the river is a mile away from this house. Why is there a picture of the river on this little pamphlet?  Like humans built around water. Yeah. There are two rivers in Sacramento. Pretty much everything's close to the river in the city proper.  It's probably so, yeah.  It still makes no sense. And I'm like, why, like just why? Like it's just a little bit scammy. Yeah. I think it's, you know, they're just trying to market. Yeah. People come from Silicon Valley, try to move to Sacramento. Yeah. That's a brutal commute. I would never do that. Yeah. But the cost of living there is so bad. So bad. Particularly for housing, it's insane. People can't afford to live there and work there. What I didn't know is how the cost of housing in Sacramento is pretty much comparative to all California besides Silicon Valley and San Francisco. But like LA's not that much different. Like obviously Hollywood and this and that. But like LA, LA is the same as Sacramento. Yeah, it is actually. It's more affordable in San Francisco by a good bit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.  Then there's some parts that are sub-Ruby too. Yeah. Then again with LA, you are living in LA. So that's probably why. We both don't like LA at all. Back to Airbnb for a second. We stayed in Airbnb a couple weeks ago in the Hollywood Hills. Oh, yeah. That sounds fun. It was a separate, completely separate building. Like a very windy road. Yeah, yeah. And then so we were, they had a stream. They built a freaking stream on the walk down to this place. It was like the place we rented was the first turn off of the path. And then the house was down at the bottom of the path. So this is real Hollywood Hills. So it was real. Yeah. Yeah, real Hollywood Hills. So it was a big house, big nice house. And then they had this like in-law apartment kind of thing. But it was fully outfitted. Oh, that's real cool. It had like 14 foot ceilings. And then they had done all the acoustic treatments. So it didn't echo. Oh, dope. Yeah. Yeah, that's dope. That's a good area. I had something like that three years ago, when we first, basically right before we started Kaisen Training, you and I, like where we came down on that trip. So this would be what, 2015, but the same idea where a guy had a big house and then out back, as you said, kind of like the in-law house or whatnot. Yeah, and just fully decked out, completely independent. It was amazing. So yeah, you can definitely have good experience. But I think what you start to crush numbers like hotels, if you book in further advanced, can beat it still. They can. And or if you do hotels tonight, if you're familiar with that, sometimes you can get a good deal on that too. And for us, we're going to eat out anyways. Yeah. Like who's, I've never actually had an air baby. Whereas we, I almost never eat out at breakfast. My wife is just like, it's not worth it to feed her in a restaurant because she can't eat enough to make it worthwhile.  She's a yogurt and granola breakfast person. Fair. So it's just not worth it. But anyway, it was a pretty decent Uber down into Hollywood from there.  And that side of LA is a little different too. That side of LA. I mean, if you can live over there, Bret Wood and Mel Rose. I saw some actor at this newsstand and I never, I can't remember his name or just, I don't know. Just know the face. Yeah. But they're everywhere. Yeah, they really are. Cause there's so many actors you don't even think about. Who's the guy that you just said is narrating the West Side? Oh, Ron Perman. Yeah. And so you guys say that and I'm like, I don't know.  I know him. That's so sick.  You never think that guy, you can easily see that cool hanging out at a coffee shop. Yeah. And everything they say in LA is like 20 minutes away, but it's not. That's a big difference between like out here, even maybe Toronto's a big city, but sure some places in Canada. And then compared to like California, yeah, you're driving everywhere. Yeah. I'm trying to think where, where have I encountered the most traffic in Canada? Like dead, I mean, dead anywhere near the Bay Area is just actually literally the worst. LA is bad, but near San Francisco. Be grossest thing in the world. Mike's new thing. This one's, this is like. He's bringing, for this podcast, he's bringing the whole new sound effects, bro. He's brought back and I said this before off camera, but I feel it's funny you're here, Jim. Mike's like going retro, Mike. I feel like I'm 22 again. Yeah. With the, with the beanie, with the shirt.  What's two, bro? A two is a beanie. And I know, but like, what's the. Man, I don't know. I just know it's what we call it. I don't know.  Like a Jersey, I think is a tank top. Like we don't say Jersey unless you're playing a sport. What? What's a vest? What's a vest? Vests is a tank top. Yeah. Oh really? Yeah. You'd call it a vest? I don't know. We don't call this like the leather thing that.  Jim, I want to talk about. Australia. I want to talk about your beautiful, massive calves for a second here. Because I told you this. And now the first time. This is the battle. This is like the battle. This is the captain of calves. And this is team no calves. I'm, I'm the, I'm the Sundance kid right here. And you're a, you're Bush Cassidy, buddy. That's the, that's the captain of calves. Is a, or you could be captain fantastic. And I could be the brown or cowboy. I was going to say. Bro, it's an Elton John album. All right, all right, fair. Is a, come on now. Get learned. I was going to say when I first visited super training and I saw you're in shorts, I saw it like on camera, whatever. But I think you probably honestly have, besides like a bodybuilder that, you know, even still, I'll put it up. I'll put it up. I'll put it up again.  And that's even bigger than Jeremy Hamilton, who has never trained calves either. And he just has diamonds. So I just want to know what's going on there. And why are you not a foot dash, like knee down model? Yeah. That's a good question. I don't know the answer to that question. That the other question is like totally genetics because one of my kids has exactly my calves. The, he's the more successful one. Doing way better. I did. He has exactly my calves. My younger son has like my leg length, but he's like six one. He's got a 30 inch inseam and he's six one. So he's got short legs, long torso. And I thought he wasn't going to have the calves, but he's been working out a bunch lately. He showed me his calves the other day.  Yeah, yeah, yeah. The genes run strong and the McDonald family is what you're saying. And then my grandsons both have them. Like both of them, like as babies, you can see them. That's a blessing. So it's not a, it's not even about walking or working out, it's just they're big. They look like, at birth, they look like they have grapes under the skin there behind their, behind their shins. You would love, you would love to say the old adages of hard work, dedication to keep out of kids. Jim, you're just like genetics, bro. It is, it's genetics. It's crazy.  Yeah, yeah. Okay. So I recently had somebody who's a cousin of mine contact me on ancestry DNA and say, hey, we're cousins, but I don't know how we're cousins. Do you have a GED match number? And I can run, you know, I can run another analysis. I said, I don't even know what you're talking about. So I looked it up and I got this, this GED match analysis thing. And you get a, you get a number. It's a free website that you can take your raw genetic results from ancestry or 23andMe and load it in.  It's like a second phase to this for free.  And like the craziest thing is like, I'm like 1% Mesolithic Iranian. Very cool. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Super ancient.  Submarian style. I love it. Yeah.  And the first superhero, maybe? Yeah. The first superman, he was the one third God. There you go. Yeah. So I put a picture of this, this totally different breakout breakdown that I've ever seen before.  And Ryan messaged me is like, dude, have you done a self decode? And I was like, I don't even know what that is. So this website. You don't act so insane. You take those same results and you put them into self decode and it's like 60 bucks.  Oh yeah. See that's useful. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah. Cause I don't know if it's 23 me, what's the other one? Ancestry. Ancestry DNA, there's a third or four. Yeah, whatever. My mom did one of them. Some are just wrong. But, and they try to like give you a little health thing. Yeah. Like, but some are wrong or like, you're supposed to be blonde and like, my mom's not blonde.  There is some of that stuff. That's just like blatantly wrong. But then there's other, yeah, like Alzheimer's and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, yeah. And then so that the self decode one is, it does that stuff. That's cool. And I, yeah. So I'm worried now about Parkinson's. Oh no. I'm worried about Alzheimer's. Yeah. It's a good thing I never started smoking because apparently I'm that guy. Lung stuff? Yeah, apparently I'm like, I would be, well, no, it's actually, it's two factors. I would be likely to become addicted to smoking. Oh, interesting. But I have protective factors for against lung cancer. You see that stuff for a reason. Like, I just, I obviously don't know no shit about science but I just push back with like nature versus nurture on that. Like, I do think you're born with some addiction or non-addiction or whatever, but like, I think so much of it. It's like a plus 10% resistance. It's like, what does that even mean though? Yeah. I'm curious to like go against the theory of like humans having control of what we do, which maybe we are the matrix, maybe Elon is correcting it. Where's Mike going here with that? I was gonna say, yeah, it's a plus 10 extra resistance, but ultimately you're like free will and a lot of other components make up the largest factor. Right, right, right. The craziest one though was. Thanks, Neil. Multi-factors, multi-genetic factors for irritable bowel syndrome, which I totally have. Yeah. It's like, it's completely descriptive in that regard. And there that the GED match site had a thing that was an eye color predictor that apparently works better on 23andMe results than ancestries. So mine was wrong, because my eyes are just blue, but from a genetic standpoint, they're not. Yeah, yeah, it makes sense. Like I have what you could pass on or what they're supposed to be. Yeah, I have two or three genes for brown eyes. I don't have brown eyes. Yeah, it was something like that because I read my moms and I was like, well, that's just not true. Yeah. And apparently I'm at a greater risk for gray hair, which I don't really have. Did yours tell you about like explosiveness? There was like something on my mom's- No, that's a different one, yeah. Whatever, my mom said something about like explosive athlete and I was like, nope. And I was like, thanks mom, thanks man, 23andMe has that. There's like a dashboard that's supposed to give you like an aggregation of all these particular factors into certain characteristics.  It's awful. It's super awful. I'm like, dude, there's no good news here. Yeah, why would I, yeah, why would I do it? It's like, do you, why am I doing this?  Or both of them. You know what, it's like, you know what, I'd rather not know any of it. Whatever, just even things, because I think whatever, yeah, whatever won this one was like tells you a percentage that you might get Alzheimer's.  I don't want to know. Like, I don't almost rather just start and start freaking one day. I would probably be less painful. Like mentally painful. Yeah. So anyway, I was hoping to get some answer about the calf thing in there, but I didn't see anything. I did however find out that I am, that I'm a low responder to exercise. Yeah, stuff like that. Yeah, I'm like, well, yeah, stuff like that. Which is interesting. Shout out to our boy, Jacob Ross. Yeah. He told me that Luau, the shout out to Luau Dang as well. I was a big fan of his for one, which is cool because I love basketball, but two, he said that they did some diet stuff related to a blood or a mouth swab thing. Cause Luau, I think was pescatarian. Mostly maybe a little vegetarian. I forgot. Don't quote me on any of this world, or sorry, Jacob, sorry, Luau. But then he, yeah.  Maybe it was like, maybe it was the opposite. Maybe he was only eating chicken. And then it said like, oh, more fatty foods. Don't quote me. But something, and then he just did, and he's like, yeah, dude. I saw him about a month afterwards. And Luau was like, yeah, I lost about five pounds and he's already a lean dude. I was like, like a good five. He's like, dude, I feel great. And I'm not one to really believe in that. Like maybe, cause people say like, oh, you're from Italy. You should just eat fish and wine. And you're just from Canada. You should just eat poutine and whatever. Nobody should eat poutine. I love it, but you should. Oh, you do like it? I do like it. I still didn't try it. Cause it's mostly gravy, right? I don't even like gravy. It's gravy, cheese curds, and then fries. I don't even know what cheese curds is, dude. Cheese curd is kind of like the throwaway of the cheese. Like curds and whey? Yeah. Is that on her topic? Kind of, yeah. Mike, I feel like that hat might be too tight on your head. Little Miss Muffin, is that our muffin? You do your curds and whey. You don't have a child there. Not in that sense. No, with Little Miss Muffin? No, I do not know this woman. No, please do not associate me with her. Do you know the Muffin man? A long time. A long time. A long time. A long time. A long time. A long time. A long time. A long time. A long time. A long time. A long time. A long time. A long time. I have a question here because you've been on a podcast for quite some time. What is something, and you also listen to podcasts. And so now this is new for me being on. Approaching a launch. Yeah. Oh, no, it's already a launch, man. You're behind the time. You have two episodes. By the time this is out, yeah, you're gonna have probably, is it one a week, Jim? No, that's not a whole story. I dropped the first two. I'm gonna try to drop the next two at the same time, but it's a 10 episode season. Gotcha. Oh, wow. Okay, yeah. So by the time that I leave here, We're only gonna have seven episodes in the can. We only have three more to do for season one. Yeah, chop them up and let them go. So my question was going to be, I'm just getting started, I'm also just listening to podcasts, getting into it. You from being in the game for quite some time and running something successful, what are the factors you look for in a podcast? Like when you just, like- As a creator or as a listener? As a creator first. You know what I'm looking at, how they're constructed? Yeah. I'm listening for, most of the shows that I listen to are not talk shows. They're informational kind of programs or, yeah, for the most part, the ones I listen to the most that I enjoy the most are more informational. So they're scripted to a certain degree. So like really good writing. And then on top of that, like really, really good production that understands how people listen to podcasts. Yeah. The trick of podcasts is that most people listen to them with earbuds. So you're kind of going right in their head. So if you're well-crafted, you get maybe a stronger response than you would from being exposed to the same information in a different format. Yeah, even reading it, perhaps. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's certainly stronger than just watching it. Jimmy, you got that ASMR voice. I'm just saying, buddy. Yeah. Where it's just like, you'll listen to, I think that is part of the success, honestly, of some podcasts. Oh, yeah, yeah. And what I mean is, it's the timbre, it's the timbre of the inflections and a lot of those factors, you know? I, let's just rip the lid off this for a second here because in starting my show, it's edited and there's a set up intro and then in the course of the conversation, I will, you know, in the course of the interview, I will cut in with like... Like your thoughts? My thoughts on something about this or a deeper piece of information that was missing that would help somebody understand it better or whatever. Yeah, yeah. It's a lot of work, but that stuff has to be scripted to a certain degree and basically I like, if it's particularly long, I script it, I speak it, I re-script it, and I re-speak it. So, there's a little bit of variation most of the time unless it's information that's supposed to be, you know, if I'm providing numbers or something like that. Yeah, just for the people, I guess, that are going to head that way from this podcast, give us just a general breakdown of the idea that because it is different than the podcast you and I were on, it's a little bit different than the vibe me and Omar had where it is more talk show, we just want to sit down with people, we want to sit down with a talk, yours has much more direction and organization. Yeah, what we lack, which is called direction in life. The skill. The skill would be the second factor. Well, it's called the less than obvious podcast and it's about when people make decisions that really only make sense to them at the time, everyone's around them like going, what, like, why would you do that? That doesn't make any, that doesn't make any sense to me. Like, that might be detrimental to you. Why are you doing that thing? Kind of like the road not taken. Like what happens when you take the road not taken that whole thing. And then in the premises built in that sometimes it turns out well and sometimes it turns out poorly. Am I going to find somebody who's going to tell me about something that didn't go well? It's going to be harder. I got you. For sure. I got like five of them. I got five in my head. I got five forks in the road.  And then it's a more directed conversation because I'm asking about, I'm asking about the decision making process that led up to it. And like, were you running purely on emotion or did you actually think through all the factors? And then as you were going along, was there any point that you regretted having made that decision? Whether it turned out well or not. Yeah. You know, sometimes you make a decision and things are rough. Like sometimes you make a decision for things to be rough for a period of time. Yeah, it turns out knowing it. That's a, there's all these gurus in this world right now trying to be business guys and life coaches all these. Shout out to Gary Vaynerchuk.  Right. Like even right now, like we could probably afford a better room for the three of us. There's three dudes staying in one hotel room. Like we could probably figure it out.   Like this is awkward dude, cause I didn't tell you. Oh you were staying next door? No, you put me in charge of the budget. We are staying here for apparently three more days. We've run out of money for food. Yeah, that's what I mean. Yeah, we're not eating. Yeah, we're not eating. Things that are in nature or whatever. Things be looking grim. Yeah, but that's exactly what you're talking about. Like choosing maybe a worser path, praying for the best, or maybe even for happiness. Like a worser might be like taking less money or taking whatever, but then doing it for something bigger. Yeah, toward an ultimate goal. As far as those of you who are listening, I'm just gonna mention the fact that this room has three guys in two beds. So anyway. Yeah, yeah. I used to sleep in the same bed as Nigel, but now I'm sleeping on the floor. I just, I degraded myself. And two out of the three guys snore horribly. Oh, oh, I snore horribly. Oh, not good. Yeah, well, I probably have sleep apnea. Okay, bro, it's a very serious thing. Sorry, sorry. Okay, I'm, yeah, yeah. Sorry, touching subject. Wow, yeah, yeah. You have a big tongue. Wow, wow. Gene Simmons' asked tongue. Was that on the recording when you said that? Yeah, yeah, I said, cause I was like joking around. I said, I don't know what it is. Yeah, I think I have a big tongue.  But I said, I think it's cause I got a big tongue. They're like, what? It was with the top that we did a Tom Finn and a Tom Callas. And so they're just going off. So I'm just like. Yeah, we can't, we can't even keep up. I'm sure you couldn't. Yeah, we're pretty good. Pray for me tomorrow. Oh, you're done, you're done for. Yeah, I, yes, I agree too. Yeah, you're done for. Look, I regret this.  And I actually have to say, before I go on, I appreciate you in a way that I have never said when I was on, no, because when I was on, when I was on the power cast on the episode that was when I was in person and it was uploaded to your channel. And like, you know, I, I shouted it out on my Facebook, like check it out.  They enjoyed it. What not? But other people would say like this Omar guy is like taking over the podcast. Like it just was dominating, which is true. You know, I'm very talkative. I don't deny that. But like rather than being like, yeah, he could like be a bit much or whatnot. I forget the way you phrased it, but you said only positive things about me when you definitely could not have, because it like your hardcore base had, you know, one opinion or some of it had one opinion. You could have easily leaned into that. You know what I mean?  You did the opposite. So I appreciate that. Well, I just actually thinking back to that situation, it, let's just say that, that it wasn't, that particular interview wasn't being led very strongly. Yeah.  And it absolutely opened up for the opportunity for you to just go. Yeah.  That's you. Thank you, Jim. That's you. I appreciate that. I mean, and I'm completely down for the possibility that particularly a podcast like that, or maybe like this one, whatever, is gonna be a little bit of an experiment. Yeah, yeah. We're open to that too, right? Like obviously talking to our boys, Tom and Tom are absolutely nuts. Then we had the wonderful Ms. Jen Thompson in here. Completely different vibe. Completely different vibe. Even you from January, different vibe, a little more similar than the Tom's, obviously. But no one's like the Tom's. They really are one level kind. But yeah, you don't know what you're opening up. Like we obviously do, cause I know you so well, but when you're inviting these different guests, you might get some opinions, you might not know them well enough in person. Like it is much of an experiment. Oh, when we talked to Jené, we had no idea where that was gonna go. Yeah. Yeah, you knew her. I'd never met her. Yeah. And now that was probably, probably one of the best episodes ever. Yeah, I felt like a professional that day. Yeah, I agree with you. That was the day I stamped like, I am a broadcaster. Cause I did like some research cause a lot of the other guests we knew or you can just quick Google like, oh they squatted this or did this. Easy research like that. I want to do real research on the topic itself to be hopefully understanding to her and the whole community and not be a dickhead that I can be by just talking too soon. Which happens a lot. Yeah, I think that we tried to be, we tried to be sensitive to the situation too, because it's been, she's just been outed and all this stuff.  Even if you feel like that possibility is out there, which you have to, how do you ignore that? Right. Right. It's still sucked. Yeah. And it was like the topic of the year. It was. Right, cause there's Jenner and there's all these different things going on. Yeah. Right. Quickly and otherwise. Yeah, there's so much going on. So yeah, I'm, I'm just like you just, just in that kind of, my show is very controlled in a lot of ways. Yeah. Although it was my goal to make Michael Fahey cry today and I did manage to do that. So. Game on. I think it, if you're doing experimental things some of the time is good. Yeah. It was, it had that feeling about it. It's like, well, Omar's going nuts. It's like, well, let's see how it goes. Yeah. Let's just see how it goes. I actually thought it was good from my memory. It was what, three years ago or more. Yeah. My memory of it.  And that's how it should work.  Oh yeah. The, the vibe on that one was so completely authentic to the situation. Like that was, that was like being in the room. Probably because, because you guys, you guys, you don't, you're not really doing it here, but you guys were completely talking over each other some of the time. But it was a, but that conveyed the chaos of what you were feeling so much stronger than having a completely articulate thing. It's a different experience. It's a little bit of, because it's not calculated. It's just how, it's just how it was. Like if somebody, if you calculated it, it would be performance art. Right. Yeah. Props to Omar for that because I was not freaking out. I don't think I, even though we've talked about a lot on media and past, we've talked it on media and past of, of my anxiety issues. Yeah. I never like have a full freak out mode. Like I'm never in the corner crying, like throwing shit, but I was middle freaking out. Dude, that Omar's like, we got to record this. I was like, dude, I don't want to record this. I want to get out of this air baby. He's like, no, this is great. Sit down. Oh my God. I want to get into it. Cause I was an outsider trying to understand what your anxiety feels like. I'm like, I wanted to be there. That's really cool that it came through that way. Cause it literally, I was trying to get out by one o'clock in moments. It was 11. And I was like, let's just go dude. I don't want to be in here. I was like, let's record one. I was like, oh, great. No, it was brilliant. And then it goes back when I said it, being experimental some of the time is how things grow. You can't do the same thing the same way all the time. Sure. And expect to get anything out of it that's different than what you did before. Yeah, everyone just go back whatever 10 seconds and listen to that again because that's like the most we see everywhere.  He's got 800,000 subs. Bandana? Let me read a book.  That's literally what people do.  Like that's how we got there. It's so different. They say with the podcast, like Jim came to me, the first podcast we're on is like, hey, you want to do a podcast? Like, bro, I have no idea what a podcast is.   We started in a closet smaller than my cot and I'm on a couch lounging on with my shoes off.  I didn't, still don't think I listened to a podcast until probably two years later I mean, I knew who Joe Rogan was, but I never knew what, that he, such a big podcast and stuff like that. Even to this day, I probably listened to a podcast a month. And I think in a way, other artists talk about this all the time, not that I'm some artist, but they talk about like, oh, I don't listen to my genre of music because I don't want to be tainted. And that's how I kind of feel a green 800% with what you do or saying, because if I listen to a bunch of podcasts, maybe I'll pick up somebody's tendencies of an interview or tendencies not, I'd rather just be myself.  Yeah, I know what you're saying. That's why I also reset this one to, it's actually in self-help under health instead of the category that was in before. Because I think that being able to understand how other people make decisions will help you make decisions yourself, or at least have more confidence about the decisions that you make. And there is no but perfect formula. And I haven't done enough of them to be able to see even particularly patterns yet. Yeah, I don't think there are. And maybe there are, maybe there aren't, but I was super inspired by Malcolm Gladwell. What work? Tipping point. Oh yeah, yeah, tipping point, very cool. Huge fan of tipping point. I don't know what that is, but when you described your podcast, I was like, oh, he's talking about a tipping point. And yeah, and I'm a huge fan of his podcast. It's called Revisionist History. Okay. Huge fan of that. So in my mind, Revisionist History, a little bit of how I built this. Yeah, I've listened to a couple of those. Those are really good. And a little bit of another one called The Hilarious Worlds of Depression, which is comedians talking about depression. Interesting. There's a lot of depression in the comedy world. The thing that, the thing is weird about that show, and I can't listen to it all the time, is that it's literally, it's written, it's punched in with narrative the same way that I'm trying to do it. But it's got a very clear three act structure, which I'm not evolved enough to do yet.  And then it kind of turns back out. So it goes like intro dark light at the end, like redemption. It's an establishment of what the person does and what their life has been like up to the point that they realize that they're depressed. They have a depressive disorder. And then the middle part is always about how the depressive disorder had affected their lives. The woman who does My Drunk Kitchen did an episode recently. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's interesting. Is there any Hannah? I'm also a fan of her. We talked about her, didn't we? Yeah, Hannah Hart. Yeah, my mom's a fan of her. And then the third act is kind of like what they've done to try to improve their situation. Yeah, yeah, that's cool. And not everybody improves that much. No, they get things somewhat more under control, but maybe they don't have a particularly well-adjusted life at the end. And some of them are so dark in the second act that the third act, there's not enough light in the third act to pull it out. It's still a really, really well-produced podcast. Because it's real.  I don't know what his background was. He maybe was on one other podcast before this. Yeah. And maybe as a team or who knows what. He does at least have a team. I don't think anybody's doing it as complicated as shows like I'm doing. All by themselves. Yeah, I agree. I don't know if I'm gonna keep doing it all by myself. I need help. Yeah, that's what you're looking at. Our category, whatever, citing culture. I'm looking around like, this one's produced by NPR. This one's produced by like, okay. We're getting the big dollars. What'd you say we don't? Big dollars. But we're ready, we're ready. Yeah, we're coming. Now, Jim, let me ask you this, man. What is, so your new venture is the less than obvious podcast. For you, what are the things are you focusing on now these days? I'm doing some post-production with some other podcasts. Yep. And... Are you throwing an application email out there? And not yet. People to contact you? People can contact me and the stages that I'm at right now, if they wanna work, if they wanna have a really good podcast, they wanna have like an upper level kind of podcast.  Yeah, if you're in it, if it's not just like, oh, I need to have a podcast because I need to also have a YouTube channel and I need to have Instagram. Because I have 10,000 on Instagram. Yeah, right. You want a podcast. Yeah, then hit me up. Cool. And we can talk about it. And if you're interested, I can tell you that it's not gonna be free. And what, it's not gonna be easy either. And it's not gonna be easy either. It's hard. Like, I really wanna talk to, like it's very common for people to offer launch services and I almost kind of wish that I'd done that with somebody this time myself. Because I'm doing it so much myself. I had a friend who was gonna help me out and like got hung up. And so I'm gonna have his help it's just a little later than my launch. But with launch services, you're basically just like, you're just doing a certain program stuff with them. You help set up their feed with a host and you get them on all the platforms. Equipment list or something. You may help them with some graphic stuff and that kind of thing and initial, like if you do a trailer for your podcast or whatever that kind of stuff. And there's a set amount associated with that. But I would really rather work with somebody who has a great idea for a podcast and help them develop it and figure out how to market it. What does it look like? What does it sound like? That's what I just went through with mine. Like my podcast has music in it. I find the music that works. That's cool. And real production. Yeah, real production. I wanna do like really high quality stuff. And like, I don't know if the market is there. But I feel like we're a place with podcasting where unless you have a gifted personalities, you have to have a really high level production. I've heard, you know, it's a common thing like we talk about people just trying to emulate what they see or copy other things. And there's so many podcasts popping up right now. And I've listened to someone like, what was that? Yeah. Like not, again, like I'm some podcast guy and I'm like, what were you even thinking going in? Right. Was there any process of a thought? Like me and Omar have passed back ideas. Like, hey, I like how this guy kind of does it. I like, oh, with this guest, let's kind of talk, touch on this. Let's go this route. Just some kind of prep.  So we're okay there. And we can play around with things. But I agree with you. You have a lot of experience too. That too. I've done it a little while. Yeah. I don't know 100, whatever episodes. Yeah. I know when I'm bad and I know when I'm good, but you're right.  You're going to learn something today. You're going to listen today. Yeah, exactly. That's the thing. I think that we're past the point that that's, that that works. It doesn't know it doesn't. We did it in a closet for a little while and we hit the right moment. So we're just talking today, listening. Yeah, the moment was a thing. Yeah. Being there, being at the right place at the right time. 100%, which is everything. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's my YouTube, that's my Instagram. I'm sure you get some of your YouTube credit at the right place, right time. Absolutely. Yeah, for sure. So, yeah, if people wanted to contact me, they can do that, you know. Instagram, email. Instagram, they can email me at jim at thejimmcd.com. The Jim McD. This really is a gentleman. Jim, thanks for hanging out, buddy.  Jim, thank you so much for being on. Great to see you again, man. Check out his podcast. I highly recommend it. The less than obvious podcast. Give us a human, even though I haven't heard the podcast, because I recommend him as a human, I know the podcast would be good. We would like to you guys to check out momsboyspodcast.com. If you're interested in some merch, we got a Patreon coming, so maybe it's linked, maybe it's not. We don't know where we're staying with that. Check it out in the description. Appreciate all you guys. Make sure to leave us a rating and review on iTunes and we're out. We're out. We're out in a bit, mate. Go get your vest on, we out.


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For today's Monday makeup lesson, I'm going to show you how to create this look using a new palette. I love these mauvey tones and it's such an easy soft glam look perfect for this time of year. Now if you enjoy these type of videos, please give this video a thumbs up and let's get started. I've applied primer all over the lid. This is going to give the eyeshadow something to hold on to and also create a blend canvas for us to work on. Also, we are going to be using matte shadows and a good base is really essential. Matts can be a little tricky, particularly for beginners. So it's important that you apply a primer. This is going to give the matte eyeshadow something to grip on to. This is a palette that we're using today. It's the Emily in Paris palette. Now, I'm not really a fan of the show and I'm not usually a fan of palettes that aren't square or rectangular, but this palette just won me over and it's perfect for February because it's the heart. I love the fact that this palette is also split into three quads. So we have four eyeshadows. We have the four golden nudes. We have the mauvey nudes and the smoky shimmers. We're going to be focusing on the mauvey quad today and I'm going to be applying that using the blend chemist cosmetics one-stop eye brush set. So we have three brushes in here and we're going to apply four eyeshadows. Starting with this flat fluffy brush, I'm going to pick up the medium mauve matte eyeshadow and I'm going to be applying this all over the lid. Now, this is a matte shade and some matte shades can be very easily over or under blended. So it's important to very slowly build this up. Press as you go. And that's also why that base was really important because mattes can create an uneven texture and an even finish. So a good base and good application will go a long way when it comes to mattes. And this brush is actually perfect for applying my eyeshadows because it blends as you go because it's both flat, but also has that slight little fluffy edge. We're going to get a much better finish that's kind of soft on the edges, but nicely pressed on there. And as you can see, I've only coated one side of the brush. Now, this is to prevent the eyeshadow from being applied too high in the crease. However, as you apply this, you're going to slowly have less and less product on the brush. And then what you can do is you can flip the brush around and you can press it into the crease. And that way you end up dispersing the eyeshadow upwards, but still not applying too much. And then you should end up with something that looks like this, completely covered lid with a slightly contoured crease. Taking the deep mauve shade and a pencil brush, this is from that same set. I'm going to be focusing this on the lower outer part of the lid. So avoid bringing this up past the medium mauve shade. We want to keep this depth on this outer edge.  It's really important to keep it quite low because it will throw off the shape that we've created with the original mauve tone. So keep it nice and low and keep it to that outer third. Taking a clean brush next, I'm going to very lightly blend over the eye area. Using a clean brush, so that's free of any eyeshadow. We'll just make sure you're very lightly blurring, and that's what we want. Bear in mind, because we are using matte eyeshadows, we want to make sure that our blend is maybe like three to five seconds only and very lightly gliding over the skin. You really don't need to do too much work. Now, taking that pencil brush again, I want to add a little bit more depth. So I'm using the bronzy tone. Now, this has a hint of shimmer in it, and that adds a little bit more depth because it adds that kind of texture in there. And I love the way that you can kind of mix and match the different textures. It adds a lot more of a depth. It adds a beautiful, glossy kind of finish, but it's still really wearable at the same time. So you don't have to be worried about it being too shimmery. And you should end up with something that looks like this. To finish the look, I'm taking the lightest eyeshadow and using my fingertips to press this on the inner edge. Again, just add a little bit more of a different texture, a little bit more depth. Moving away from the eyeshadows for a moment, I want to talk about the waterline. So I want the waterline to be nice and clean. And the best way to do this is to apply a creamy tone or skin matching toned pencil. Please avoid whites unless you have very, very pale skin, because whites can look quite harsh, but a cream or skin matching tone will definitely add that fresh, clean look before I apply mascara and lashes. I'm going to sweep a mixture of the mauve tones and the bronze tone underneath the eyes. This is using the pencil brush again, totally optional. I just find it adds a little something extra to that little bit more defined look. And there you go. That is the finished look. I hope that you enjoyed it. If you did, give it a thumbs up. As always, my friends, be kind to yourself, be kind to others, and I will see you in the next one.


The best thing about working and running a start-up in the sustainability space is you don't have to question your purpose. Start-ups, they are like a crystal ball into the future. They work on problems that the larger companies don't even know are problems. The canopy is part of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and for over three decades now CISL has been working across business in the finance sector with policymakers and now through the canopy with start-ups and entrepreneurs to really push forward change towards the sustainable economy. We need to understand how seven, eight, nine billion human beings can operate and thrive on the planet that we have. I have been an entrepreneur myself so I know exactly how lonely it can be. We do not only provide support at the canopy, we also provide a community of like-minded founders. The thing we've built so far has more or less been built out of our bedrooms. We were really attracted to canopy because of their mission of sustainability is really drawing other like-minded start-ups and it really does accelerate your progress to be in that environment. When you're trying to do something quite new and innovative you are going to meet a lot of people who don't really understand what you're doing. It's quite important for your morale to be meeting regularly with other people who are going through a similar process. The knowledge of the University of CISL and all of the buzz that's going on with the different events that are happening on a very regular basis but you also have those individuals with whom you can interact and exchange and be challenged by. The canopy is housed in the Entopia building which is CISL's new, ultra-sustainable HQ in the centre of Cambridge. It is a living embodiment of the principles we're all trying to build into our work. We have to speak to clients whether that's online or in person when they come into the building and say this is it, this is how we can achieve a retrofit building and an exemplar to how so many buildings throughout the whole of the UK could be looked at. You're always hearing bits of people talking about how the building itself is sustainable as well as their own project. It's great to be somewhere that is putting those kinds of principles into practice. By joining the canopy you can gain access to a really extensive network of people that can support you on your business journey. Be that leading researchers coming out of the university to really industry specific mentors or access to VCs and funders that can support your business development. For startups I think the network offers an incredible richness and depth of resources and individuals who have been at the forefront of business sustainability for years. Innovation is a contact sport. We want to make sure that we are developing solutions thoughtfully, but we don't want to discount the tueters' encounters that can give you new ideas and make these connections that can lead in a really interesting direction. To be able to learn from those who've been in the industry for many years, the knowledge they've provided was just so invaluable and it really enabled us to think differently about our own setup and how we could accelerate that further. In my opinion we need entrepreneurs. We need entrepreneurs who see opportunities and solutions, not problems, and this is what we really believe in here at Canopy. By bringing people together with different ideas across different sectors, working with those relationships and understanding what the problems are is the ultimate way in which we're going to be solving the issues we're trying to solve. The challenges in sustainability are huge, but you don't have to solve everything all at once and realising that each part of us just has to make a small change to have a huge impact. That's a really great position to be in.


Merging a PDF can become a very difficult job if you don't know the right tools. In this video, we will demonstrate how we can merge two different PDFs by using PDF.co plugin for Blueprint. So first of all, let me drag and drop one action here and let me configure this. So we will name this as a PDF.co merge and in the business object, let us select the web services PDF.co and in the action, we will select PDF merge. So this is very easy to use API and plugin and let me show you the postman collection for this. So it is expecting basically one parameter named the URL. So it is the comma separated URL of the PDFs which we want to merge. So let us see this one by one. So here it is having the two PDFs. Here it is the first PDF named the sample one. It is containing one page named the PIDs news and here it is second PDF. It is having one table named product. Sounds like let us copy this and configure this in the URL. Now I need to provide the API key. So let me copy and paste my API key here. So I have provided the API key. Now let us define some output variables here. So the only output variable matters is the URL. Name is like the result under URL and let me create a variable for this. Now that it is configured, let us see this in action. Prior to that, I have to link this to the start and end and let us execute this. Okay execution has been completed and let us see the resulting URL. Here we go. So it is having the PDF with the two pages. The first page contains the PIDs news and the second page contains the product table. So this is how we see we can use Blueprint plugin for the PDF merge. Thank you.


This is a common question that I get all the time on this channel. What are the best careers to start without a college degree? So what are the jobs and careers that you can get into? You can get your foot in the door with an entry-level job and then work your way up without a college degree? And this is a great question because the truth is especially in the United States of America, college is incredibly expensive. And not only is it expensive but it also takes over five years on average to graduate with a bachelor's degree. And oftentimes a lot of the jobs that you would go to college to get require a master's or sometimes even more.  So in today's video I'm going to be going over the top five careers that you can get into without a college degree. And if you appreciate this type of video go ahead gently tap that like button, hit the subscribe button, share the video with somebody who needs to see it. I don't have a big marketing team so you sharing the video really helps out a lot. And let's go ahead and jump right into it. The first career we're going to talk about on this list is going to be web developer. So web development is essentially one of the easiest forms of software development. For instance one of the most lucrative ways that you can do web development right now is to work on platforms like Shopify. And there are freelancers that work on Shopify that are pulling in multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. But there are many other different options if you decide to become a web developer. Now out of all the different software development coding type options web development is by far the easiest one to break into. So even if your eventual goal is to get into something more complicated like full stack development, web development is a great place to start. And it's honestly really easy to learn web development for some of these specific platforms as well.  So we see 101,000 entry level web development jobs posted in the US, right? Not 101,000, there's way more than that. But 101,000 entry level jobs. And the typical web developer makes about $98,000 a year. So yeah, web development can be a phenomenal choice, also has a lot of room for growth. You can get into other types of software development, software engineering, et cetera. Next one on the list is going to be tech sales. And I've been recently doing a lot of interviews for people that actually went into tech sales. Because I think this is the one where you can get into it faster than any other type of career. With web development for instance, you're going to have to learn out of code. You're going to have to make some projects. It's going to take some time to get into it. With tech sales, I'm consistently seeing people with no experience, no college degree, get into it in one to two months. So there are some other names for this one. Software sales, business development representative, sales development representative. And there are some slight differences depending on whether it's like inbound and outbound and all that sort of thing. But I'm just going to put it all under the umbrella of tech sales. Incredibly valuable skill set, sales in general. And you're in an industry that's probably the best industry to work in in the entire world to consider everything all the way from the salary to the work-life balance. Now here's where it gets absolutely crazy. Look at the freaking number for entry level jobs for sales development. When you type in sales development, there's 103,000 entry level jobs. When you type in business development, there's 284,000 entry level jobs on LinkedIn. So I don't think I had to say anything there. That is absolutely insane that there's that many entry level jobs available for this. And that's why you're able to land jobs so quickly. And people are legitimately making $70,000 a year or more in their first year if they hit their numbers. And by their second or third year, they're easily cracking six figures in many cases. So that is just phenomenal. People are getting amazing results. I will say that tech sales is not for everybody. You know, not everyone has the personality for it. But I consider myself to be an introvert. And I will tell you that my sales job was probably the best and most fun job I ever had. And it caused me to kind of come out of my shell and grow a lot. So even if you think you're an introvert and you wouldn't be good at sales, I think this is probably worth a try. And there's a ton of room for growth here as well. I'm going to be interviewing somebody probably in the next few days or so. I'm not sure when it's going to go live on the channel. But he got into tech sales and he makes over $500,000 a year. If you are interested in tech sales and you want to learn more, I did interview my friend Troy. And if you want to check out his free training, I will put it down in the description below and in the pinned comment.  So it saves you a lot of time, effort and money. And that's how he's able to get people jobs in like one month. Then you can use my $50 off coupon code and that is Shane 50. I'll put that down in the description and the pinned comment as well. Next one on the list is going to be really good if you're an artistic type of person. And that is going to be UX and UI design. Now, typically you would know about both UX and UI, but UI is the more artistic one. So people kind of prefer to go down that route. Now, this one isn't going to have as many options at the entry level. But I mean, what do you expect? You're literally doing art, right? You're getting paid to do art. That is incredibly rare for there to be a job where you're getting paid to do art. Typically artists have to become entrepreneurs, go off on their own, take a lot of risks, et cetera, in order to get paid. So the fact that you can actually do a job and get paid to do art is pretty awesome. And so there is quite a bit of competition. And I should say that UI stands for user interface and UX stands for user experience. And UI is the process of building interfaces that are aesthetically pleasing. And UX is the process of making the user experience better. So when you type in UI design at the entry level, there's about 34,000 job openings, which is still really good. It's not like amazing like the past due, but it's still really good. And when you type in UX design at the entry level, there's about 16,000 job openings. And UX UI web designers make about $87,000 a year. So yeah, this can be a really good one to get into. Typically people will go to some sort of boot camp for UX UI design. There are some people who have courses out there that are really good, that can help you to self-teach or you can buy the course and have a community of other people that are going through the course. I haven't found anything good enough that I would actually recommend it at this point though. Next one on the list is going to be various different trade careers. And this one is a little bit complicated because it's going to be different depending on the city you live in, the state you live in, whether it's union or non-union and all kinds of other different factors. Sometimes you can basically just go in right away and start making money. Sometimes you have to go through kind of like an apprenticeship program where you may not be making money or a trade school where you may not be making money as well. And all of it pretty much just depends on where you live. But with that being said, one of the most consistent ones is going to be trucker. You can get certified and become a trucker relatively easily and quickly and they make really good money. Now I don't think I need to explain what a trucker is. I think everybody knows that. But you do see at the entry level there are 165,000 job postings for truck drivers in the United States. And truck drivers typically make about $68,000 a year and I can tell you they can make a lot more than that especially if they go full-time, they own their own truck, etc. Now this is one of those jobs, especially if you take like the long-haul routes. It can be kind of difficult because you're going to be away from your family. And I think a lot of the more high-paying jobs are the long-haul routes where you're going to be kind of going all the way across the country and you're going to be away for a long period of time. So it can be kind of difficult depending on your lifestyle. So that's definitely something to keep in mind. But trade careers in general, lots and lots of opportunity there. Next one on the list is going to be digital marketing. This is another one of my favorite careers, relatively easy to get into. Don't need a college degree, don't need any experience. Now there's different types of digital marketing. There's paid advertising, search engine optimization, search engine marketing. And then there's different components to the marketing strategy. A lot of the time that's going to be organic posts or maybe email marketing. But yeah, digital marketing has a ridiculous amount of demand as well. You see 92,000 jobs posted at the entry level. And you could expect to make about $76,000 a year. So yeah, this is another one. There is quite a bit to learn. It also depends on which route you go because typically people will specialize in one of those categories that I mentioned before. But it is relatively common to see people with no experience, no college degree, etc. getting jobs within three months or so. Check this video out right here. I think it's going to be great for you if you enjoyed this video and you made it all the way to the end. Go ahead, gently tap that like button, hit that subscribe button, ring the notification bell and comment down below any thoughts, comments, criticisms, etc. And I will see you next time.


I'm joined by Titans controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk to discuss her decision to make a change in the head coaching position with the ball club. Amy, you mentioned in your statement that it was as difficult a decision as you've had to make in this role. What has Mike Vrabel meant to the Titans organization? Well, you're right, Mike. It was a very difficult decision and Mike was our head coach for six seasons and he brought a lot of passion every day to work to players, to staff, to the organization and I will always appreciate what Mike brought and wish the best for Mike and his family. Can you tell us the reason or reasons that you decided to make this change? The last two seasons have been very disappointing and the fans felt it, I felt it. We made changes last year and I came to believe we needed to make a change to the coaching staff. People want to know when did you come to this decision? It wasn't a last night or a month ago or whenever. It's just kind of been all season watching and it was difficult but I thought it was time to make that change. There's been discussion in a lot of different circles about the possibility of trading the head coach. What's consideration given to trading Mike Vrabel? Well, yes there was but there's a bit of misconception about a coach's contract say versus a player's contract. A coach's contract you can't trade them unless they're a willing partner to that trade. So yes, we thought about it but at the end of the day with league rules the way they are it would have maybe put us back three weeks and you know honestly to get the right head coach I was just not willing to go to the back of the line and take a chance of missing out on someone we really wanted. Alright so I'm going to put two questions together. Will the new head coach report to Rand Carrathon or to you and who will have control of the 53 man roster? Today is about the coaching staff. I'm not quite ready to answer that question. I still have some things to work through but I will answer both those questions at the end of the process. So when it's done you'll make this clear publicly who the head coach reports to and who has control of the roster? Absolutely yes. Some specifics about specifics in the search now. A lot of people are saying that Amy Adams-Drunk is only going to consider someone with an offensive background to be the head coach. Is that true? Actually no. I believe we need to improve across the board so it's important to find someone that brings in you know a lot of diverse ideas and fresh perspective and that's the most important thing in that new head coach. Alright let me take that a step further. So then what you're saying is you're going to be very interested in the staff that a potential head coach can show you when he talks to you. Yes that's going to be very important. The head coach is the leader in the face but you know that staff is super important so we're going to we're going to want him to bring in strong candidates and we want to hear who he's going to bring in. What would you say you have learned from your previous coaching searches, general manager searches, that you will apply to this particular search in 2024? Cast a wide net. Take your time. We have a vision and we want that coach to have that vision and we're going to work to get it right. At this moment that you make this change and set a new course for the Tennessee Titans, what does Amy Adams-Strunk want Titans fans to know at this time? I have high expectations and I'll never apologize for that and these fans deserve a great team and they deserve a championship brought to this city and that's what we're going to work towards and I'm prepared to make the hard decisions to hopefully get us there sooner. This team has a bright future. We have ran, we have a promising young quarterback. I mean the sky's the limit. We've got cap space, we've got a great draft position. Things are bright for the Titans. I'm really very very optimistic and I'd like to thank the fans for hanging with us this year. Our season was it was unacceptable but we're going to get there. We're going to get there sooner rather than later.