hello everyone and welcome to my second episode of this channel today we will talk a little bit about myself and tell you who i really am so let's get started but first let's put this mustache on once upon a time there lived a dirty half filipino half swiss in the great jungle of the hunkaberg raised in the woods he learned how to hunt for his prey and be on his own okay sorry i'm just joking let's start over again shall we so a young man named benet who was born in switzerland took the journey of becoming a filmmaker at the age of 23 before that his biggest passion was breakdancing spending most of his free time training what thrived him to become a break dancer was the feeling of being special and expressing himself through dancing yes for him learning those complex moves was like learning a new superpower so he spent the next eight years training hard to show off his skills and eventually became good at it though one day he realized that this wasn't enough something was missing starting to video record his break dance moves he realized the power of filming he knew he could make an impact to the world by telling stories through film not wanting to go to film school he decided to learn its craft by himself by reading books joining communities investing in camera gears doing free work buying online courses and watching youtube tutorials for long he was searching for that missing puzzle but now in the year of 2019 filming has fulfilled him with so much joy that this has ultimately become his career path the end oh shit my mustache fell off of course this is not the full story of my life but i hope you got a small impression of who i am thank you for watching guys and if you have any questions please let me know and if you haven't subscribed to my channel please do so for more content like this see you in the next video


Hello, hello everyone. My name is Laura. This is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to today's video. It is a video that I've seen a lot of people do right now and they're posting it and I thought, you know what? That looks like a really cool concept. I think I'll hop on this trend and I will make my own version. And that is 22 books to read in 2022. I want to preface this by saying all the books on this list are going to be backlisted books. So none of them will be new releases. If you are interested in seeing any new releases of 2022, then I am excited to read this year. I have already made and posted that video and I'll have it linked up here somewhere, somewhere for you to go ahead and check out if you want to. And now let's just get right into the video. I will have this divided up by genre. And so if you are interested in just seeing a certain genre, majority of it is fantasy because I do prefer fantasy and I read a lot of it. But not all of it is. So let's start off with contemporary. So the first contemporary book that I want to read this year is Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Zutanto. And this is a hilarious contemporary. And there is a sequel to this book coming out next year, which is partially why it's on this list. But also because the concept just sounds amazing. So it follows this girl who I don't know if she works as a wedding planner or her family does something for a wedding. But then all of a sudden someone kind of turns up dead and it's kind of her fault. And so I believe she calls some of her aunties to help her cover it up and figure out how to move on. The next book that I have is The People We Need on Vacation by Emily Henry. I read Beach Read last year and I absolutely loved it and I am so excited for Emily Henry's new book this coming year called Book Lovers. So I thought, you know, I need to finish. I need to read this book so I can be up to date on all of Emily Henry's books. It's A Friends to Lovers, which is not normally my thing. I much prefer enemies to lovers, but I figure I'll give it a chance. These two friends that used to go on vacation in the summer all the time and then they had a falling out and now they're kind of kind of rekindling, I think. Hopefully we'll see with a vacation. And the next book I want to talk about is A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow. This is by Laura Taylor Nimi and this is one that caught my eye a year ago, maybe two years ago. I saw it and I was like, oh, that's such an interesting title. The cover is really pretty. And I don't remember the plot super well, but I believe it is a Cuban girl who goes to England and is coming over some grief and then maybe meets a boy. I'm not quite sure, but I know that it really, like, it intrigued me at the time, so I want to read it and this is going to be the year that I do. What I want to talk about is The Hena Wars by Adiba Jagerdar and I've read one book by this author before, I believe. Yes, and I really enjoyed it. I really liked the writing, so I'm excited to read The Hena Wars because this follows two female main characters and they have Hena businesses and they have to go to war. You know, like that, not like actual war, but it just sounds so cute and I'm not 100% sure if they do fall in love. Like, if it's an enemies to lover, I would love it if it is, but if it's not, I won't hold that against it. So that one definitely has caught my eye and I've been wanting to read it. Next, I would like to move on to historical fiction as I would like to try and make more of an effort to read historical fiction this year. I really want to read The Hena Artist by Alka Joshi and this takes place in 1950s Jaipur, I believe, and it is about this woman who is moving to Jaipur. She is kind of on her own. She doesn't come from the best past and so she starts being The Hena Artist for a lot of wealthy women and she gets to listen to all their gossip and get in on the drama and it just sounds like a really interesting book and it's a historical fiction that is not western and so I am really, really excited for that. The last historical fiction I would like to talk about is Next Year in Havana and this is by Chanel Cleaton and this author actually has two books. It's When We Left Cuba and Next Year in Havana. Both I'm interested to read but I'm only putting one on the list just so I'll get there and so that I can leave space for another book. Again, I'm sorry I don't actually exactly remember what the book is about but I know it has to do with immigration to and from Cuba. I believe this book is a dual perspective of the ancestor immigrating to the United States but then like the granddaughter or the great granddaughter or something like that learns about her family history and possibly goes back to Cuba to kind of rediscover her ancestry and her culture and that just sounds wonderful and amazing and again it's a very different historical fiction than what I've been reading and I'm really excited to try it out. And now we have Come to Fantasy so obviously there are a lot of fantasy books. This is 22 books and I've only mentioned a few so we're just going to go right down this list of fantasy. The first one is Six Crimes and Cranes by Elizabeth Lim. I've read Elizabeth Lim's duology Spin the Dawn and Unravel the Dusk and I loved them. I love her writing and I was really excited when this book came out. I was so pumped for it I was going to read it and then I just never got to it. So this year is the year but the thing is I really want to buy the British version of the cover because it is really pretty with the pastel colors so once I get around to doing that but hopefully it will be this year. Moving on to the next book I would like to talk about is Carava by Stephanie Garber. This is the first in a trilogy and I purchased this book maybe two a year and a half ago almost two years ago and I have been wanting to read it. I know a lot of people love it. The preface of it sounds amazing. It's like they go to this big event and then her sister goes missing and it's all fun and games, right? So I really want to get started on this trilogy. Also Stephanie Garber has come out with another book, Ones Upon a Broken Hearts and I really want to read that but I'm going to wait until I read this trilogy first. So I need to get started. I need to read the trilogy. So the first one is on this list. Surprisingly this next one is Cinderella is Dead by Kaylin Bayron. I kept going back and forth on whether or not I actually wanted to read this book. I've heard a lot of good reviews about it. A lot of people liked it and the story sounds like the kind of book I would enjoy. It's a twist on fairy tales where all the eligible women have to go to the ball and if they aren't matched up they die or something. Like a dystopian kind of fantasy twisted story and that just sounds right down my alley but for some reason I kept looking at it and being like eh nah probably not. I'm not sure. For some reason it just wasn't capturing my attention and then recently I saw it again. It was on someone's recommendations or something and I was like oh my goodness that sounds amazing. Come on let's go. Pick up the pace here. So it's going to be on this list because I'm going to read it. Then we have Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik and if you have been on my channel for a while you know that I loved Deadly Education by this author. It was my favorite book of last year and the preface of Spinning Silver just sounds like the perfect winter story. It's a Rumpelstiltskin retelling I believe and it's been on everybody's winter's recommendation list and I've been wanting to read more wintery books. Right now I am currently reading a book that is set in summer and it is snowing outside and my soul is just melting. Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. It's a cold story retelling and I want to read it. It's one that recently came on my radar but I'm going to read it this year hopefully sooner rather than later in these winter months rather than next winter. Beast of Prite by Ayara Gray is another book that I heard a little bit about and then it kind of disappeared for a while but I never forgot about it. It's a fantasy book but it's about like a zoo and a zookeeper and that's all I remember about it but that was enough to make me be like I want to read that and so when it came out and everybody was talking about it I was like yeah I want to read that and then nobody actually read it and I'm still sitting here like I want to read it so I'm putting it on this list so that I remember to read it this year because hopefully by the end of the year I'll re-watch this video and see if I've actually read all these books and then maybe do a vlog of all the ones I haven't read so I can complete the list or at least do a reaction whatever so similarly like I'm probably going to do my 5 star prediction video which I will also link somewhere up here somewhere for you to check out if you're interested but back to the video. I keep getting sidetracked. This next one is Crown of Coral and Pearl and this is by Mara Rutherford and I have my notebook in front of me because I'm not going to remember all this. This is one of the earliest books on my Goodreads TBR. Like I started using Goodreads and it was right when I heard about this book and it's like a mermaid fantasy and so it's been on my TBR for a long time so I'm putting it on this list to resurface it and rekindle my want to read it so hopefully it'll be a nice fantasy to read over the summer. Next up is The Keeper of the Night and this is by Kaylee Lee Baker. This one came out this past year and a lot of people have been reading it and loving it. Our main character is a cross between an English Reaper and the Japanese version of a Reaper. For some reason I am blanking on the name of it but that's also because I'm currently reading a Korean mythology book and there are reapers in it so my brain is doing the wrong thing. I think she has been living in London but then she needs to go to Japan to figure some mystical fantasy things out. It's been getting a lot of good reviews and I love that concept so I for sure want to read it this year especially because I'm trying to do a mix of these are really old on my TBR and these are recent on my TBR. Oh my goodness. This next one is White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson and again I've heard so many good things about that. It is like I don't know if it's horror fantasy or just thriller fantasy but when I heard it was a haunted house story I just yep I am here for it. I want it. The cover is beautiful. I want to read it this spooky season or even before spooky season because I have no patience. Spooky season lasts all year round and then I can talk about it during spooky season having already read it. So it's on this list. It sounds amazing. All I remember is that it's a haunted house story and that's all I care about. Moving on we have The Prison Healer and this is by Lynette Noni and this was a very similar case to I think Beast of Prey where it was like in a book subscription box and so a bunch of people got it unboxed it and then just kind of it just kind of disappeared, dropped off the radar a little bit. It's The Prison Healer. It sounds pretty interesting. I am intrigued. The cover is gorgeous. So I want to give it a chance and read it this year. Moving on we have Iron Widow and this is by Shiran J. Zhao. I'm so sorry if I said that wrong. And this one again I was kind of going back and forth on whether or not I want to read it. It's more of a sci-fi fantasy but it is female empowerment and it sounds like it could be a good book. I think everybody is excited for it but there's something about it that is not clicking with me. So I'm hoping that if I read it it'll finally click and I'll be able to understand and enjoy it. This next one is another start to a trilogy or series because we all know I need to start more series I'm being sarcastic and if you don't know I also have a series that I want to continue and finish in 2022 and that has 29 series that I'm currently in the middle of. So if you're curious what those are, again go watch that video because it's a lot. But the book is The City of Brass and this is by S.A. Shakhraborty and this is like a desert fantasy and I believe there's jinn in it. I hope there is because I have been dying for a new jinn fantasy. I read one called The Candle in the Flame and I loved it and then when I picked up We Hunt the Flame I thought that was going to be jinn and it wasn't. Which you know I still loved the book, still a great book. But I am needing, I want more desert fantasy and I would love some with some jinn in it. Now onto a book that I finally actually own and that is A Pinch of Magic and this is by Michelle Harrison. This is a middle grade fantasy and this follows three girls who have to save their home, their island and they're each given a special magical gift to do so. And it's cute. I had bought it as like a book to read during spooky seasons just to kind of like lighten things up or if I had extra time I didn't end up getting to it so I would like to get to it this year to continue my need to actually read books that are on my shelf which considering I only own four of the books that I'm talking about this giant year long TBR is not doing a great job of that. Let's move on. Gods and Monsters by Shelby Mahurran. It's the last book in the trilogy. I want to read it. I want to hurry up and finish that trilogy already. I did get the first two books in the trilogy for Christmas and I kind of want to reread them but whether I reread them or not, Gods and Monsters needs to be on this list because I need to read it this year.  I'm scared because of what happened in the second book. It was not the greatest book so I'm a little scared but I need to just suck it up Buttercup and start it, get going and hopefully finish and love it, hopefully because I love the first one so much. Now this next one is by an author who I haven't read before. I want to read Blade of Secrets by Tricia Levenseller. The anxiety representation in this book I've heard is really really good and I just feel like there is anxiety in characters but it's not specifically like, this character has anxiety. Here is representation for all of you anxious people in the world who have anxiety. Hello. Of which I am one. So I really want to see it plus it follows. So our main character who has the anxiety is a blacksmith and she creates this blade that's way too dangerous and she can't give it to the person who wants it so like her sister and some guy go on a run. That just sounds amazing. So ever since I heard this book I knew I need to read it but if I don't put it on this list it could end up going on the back burner and I just really want to read it. Almost there. 21 Witches Steeped in Gold and this is by Shannon Smart. This is a I believe it's Jamaican mythology inspired. I believe I could be wrong. At there is at one point I thought it was West African and then I was wrong so I think it's Jamaican but it follows two witches. I don't remember if they're sisters or not and if they are they don't know it but just you know me mythology, magic, fantasy. I'm there for it. I am completely here for it. So that one came out hopefully not two years ago. Oh my goodness I don't think it came out this past year. Did it come out in 2020? Oh I am behind. Book number 22, the last book that I want to read in 2022 is probably the one I am most scared to read and it's one that I actually own physically and that's The Toll by Neal Schusterman purely because of its size. I read the first book. I loved it. I read the second book. I loved it. I am scared to start the third book for two reasons. One, like I already said, its size but two because then it's gonna be over. It's the final book in the trilogy and if I read it then the story is done and I would be very sad but I also need to know what happened. So I just need to like sit down for a solid week and just work my way through this because it's short in terms of like height but it's thick. So this is the last book that I just need to read. Like I have owned the entire series. Like I think I bought them all together so there has been no reason for me putting this off so I need to read it and I need to read it this year to finally move on because I feel like everybody else has moved on. Anyway so those are all of the books that I want to read in 2022. Thank you all so much for watching if you have come to this point. I post videos every Sunday and Wednesday so make sure you are subscribed and hit the bell so that you're notified when I post. I have bookish social medias linked down below if you want to follow me there. We can be friends. We can talk about books. I can get recommendations from you. You can see more of my book reviews like on my Instagram and TikTok and whatnot. Otherwise give this video a thumbs up if you liked it. Comment down below some of the books that you need to read this year. I am very curious. Do you have a lot of back listed books? Are you gonna focus on new releases? Are you gonna focus on reading books on your shelves? I want to know it all so let's talk down in the comments. Until the next video I wish you all happy reading.


Hi, Roseanna. I've got the survey results about working conditions. My boss wants me to write a report. Can you give me some help? Sure, Donald. Let's have a look at the results and see which aspects are a problem. Thanks a lot. There were seven aspects which staff were asked about. Things like lighting, heating level, and the pantry. Well, first, only those aspects with low satisfaction are a problem. It looks like these are the equipment and furniture for junior staff, while the pantry is a problem for everyone. I understand. The aspects with low satisfaction are the areas where we have a problem. So, any idea why junior staff are unhappy with the equipment? I think it is probably because senior staff have just been given new computers and telephones, while the juniors have computers that are over five years old. Yes. You're right. And this means that the computers of junior staff often slow down when many programs are being run at the same time, so reducing working efficiency. How about furniture? Well, I know some staff are disgruntled with their chairs and desks. Before, my wooden chair gave me back problems, while the plastic desk had uneven legs. You know, my back problems led to me taking four sick days in one month. Okay, that makes sense. So, why is everyone unhappy with the pantry? Is it because it is quite dirty? Yes, I think so. The cleaner only comes in twice a week, so there are always dirty cups and plates in the sink, while the rubbish bin never gets emptied. Also, there's just one fridge and a water carboy. Maybe we need more utensils there. This way staff would be less likely to leave the office at lunchtime, so they could relax more and work better in the afternoon. You seem to have all the right ideas, Donald. Remember, use headings, subheadings and numbering to improve your organization. I'll do so. Also, I should use formal language, right? Yes, and use approximation, for example half, rather than 50%. Also, it's safer to use hedging words like probably unless you are 100% certain. Thanks, Rosanna.  Bye.


What's up guys and welcome back to the Johnny Q channel in this video I'll be unboxing and giving you the first impressions of my Glock 17 Gen 5. Here is the Glock 17 Gen 5 Beautiful as ever in the classic Glock box all the stuff on here that you need to know about you know What it is what model got the barcode serial number all that good stuff So let's get into this unboxing and there it is.  We're good to go. So obviously there's a Glock I got this little tool that goes in the barrel little cleaning tool Just put that in there screw it in and you're good to go you can clean your Glock got a manual in here as well And then some safety precaution stickers up there. So there it is. This is the Glock 17 Gen 5 it has been my go-to my go-to gun for the last I would say year or so and This is the gun that I will be issued in the police academy actually About less than a week I will be issued at this gun as I'm going to law enforcement And so they're gonna give us this Glock 17 gen 5 same model to be quite honest with you I truly love this gun for so many reasons, but I'll give you just a few So let's just start off with the overall dimensions of this firearm the overall length is about 7.95 inches the slide length is 7.32 inches the width is 1.34 and the slide width is 1 inch the height including the magazine is 5.47 inches the barrel length is 4.49 inches and the mag capacity is a standard 17 plus 1 in the chamber So you have a system safe action trigger and it holds at 9 by 19 millimeter caliber ammo the weight with an empty magazine is 24.97 ounces and the weight with a loaded magazine is 33.33 ounces that my friends is the Glock 17 gen 5 now my first impressions out of the box at first It's daunting for new users for new people getting into this field the more that you work with your weapon You go out and just put in reps at the range and the more that you use your firearm the more comfortable you become with it You become one right and it easily Easily comes out of the holster you put in the reps you know where that trigger is It almost becomes second nature to you right as someone who looking for a first weapon And I knew that I wanted to get into law enforcement The Glock 17 gen 5 was just perfect because I knew we potentially would be issued these weapons And you know we are and so because it's a Glock 17 you have a longer barrel length a longer slide Which means a very very mitigated Recoil now I know a lot of guys love the EDC right the little guns, but with those little EDC guns you get a lot of recoil because of the cut Slight and barrel length but because of the 17 being a little bit longer Your your recoil is now mitigated instead of shooting and then coming back down to having to zero and having a little bit More time you now have that recoil you can come back down and zero in just properly and very precisely And so for those reasons, I love the Glock 17 gen 5. It's a great weapon If you're just starting out into weapons I would highly consider something like this just because if you move From like a smaller weapon to like a Glock 17 You might not realize how much of a recoil how much more power that weapon might have and so I would say start off With something like the 17 get used to it shoot get precise get proficient and then kind of move on to different Size blocks or different platforms that might not be the most traditional thing, but for me. That's what worked I can now go and pick up a Glock 19 for 43x or I can go pick up a just a 19 gen 5 and Shoot very very well and precisely because I know how to handle a big weapon like the Glock 17 gen 5 I know how to mitigate that recoil. I know how to really control the Glock 17 Which makes me able to control these other weapons that Glock has to offer. Have I had any malfunctions of this gun? I probably have shot over five thousand rounds on this specific weapon And I think I've had maybe two maybe three malfunctions and basically The bullet will get stuck here and won't actually eject properly. And so honestly, it's not that bad now Three rounds three malfunctions out of five thousand rounds. Yeah, that's reliable. I'll take that any day Okay, now let's get into the trigger pull really quick Side note this Glock 17 gen 5 does not have a safety The only safety it has is this little guy right here that little that little nub right there. You see that? That is the only Safety this weapon has so if I'm if I'm pulling the trigger here, it's not going to actuate It's not gonna fire, but if I go and hit the nub and then do it. It's gonna actuate and fire, right? So here is the trigger pull. I believe it's 26 n as what Glock says. So there's the nub. I hit the safety There's my wall right there. The wall is just How long it takes to get back to that actuating point?  It's just it's perfection Glock is correct when they say Glock is perfection Glock Perfection. So there it is guys the Glock 17 gen 5. So that is my overall impressions Unboxing over the last year or so one last thing if I could a lot of people love to just just to hate on the Glock sights to be honest, I'm pretty rough with my gear and The sights have been just they've been incredible like they've been on nothing has fallen apart Nothing has broken at least not yet because that's what people would say in and out of the holster Just fine and I'm again, I'm pretty rough with my gear and They're pretty lined up and there's really nothing that I that I would think that is bad with those sights Honestly, I think that's just a lame excuse for not wanting to train Naturally with what the weapon has to offer just as a natural feel so you say the sights are bad go train some more That's what I would say so as far as my holster I typically carry when I'm on the range a level one retention holster just to practice You know and now I'll do level two level three, but this is a Safari land holster level one retention I don't know what specific model this holster is But I will leave it down in the description below of this video and this fits the Glock 17 and the 22 I also know that it fits the Glock 19x, which obviously has the 19 barrel and a 17 handle So the more you know all right guys I hope you guys enjoyed this small unboxing and first impressions almost a review video of the Glock 17 gen 5 Please let me know in the comments below what you want to see next what weapons I should review next and I'll be happy to Hopefully do them in the future. So thanks for watching. I'll catch you in the next Johnny Q video. Peace


And welcome back to another Apple's NTR's vlog. If you are new here, my name is Charlotte and I am a fourth grade science and social studies teacher in the East Valley of Arizona. So in today's video, I thought I would take you guys through the process of teaching a standard. Oh, I have a lesson plan that I've had created. Just to clarify, this lesson was created by one of the science trainers in our district. And I'm going to actually begin it today and then I'll take you guys along the whole journey with the follow through of the lesson and then show you guys the results. Good morning. She wants a snack. Yeah, what do you want, teeny? Huh? You need a bath. Okay. So let me just start by telling you guys which standard I am teaching. So it is important for you guys to, it's important for y'all to understand that Arizona has its own set of everything. Don't ask me why I don't know, but Arizona has its own Common Core ELA standards. We have our own Common Core Math standards. We have our own science standards and we have our own social studies standards. They do correlate pretty closely with the rest of the world or I guess the rest of the nation. Standards wise there's just a couple of little changes and differences in what grade level does what. So, especially with science and social studies, who does what is a little bit different than everyone else in the country. So the standard that I'm going to be covering is 4.E1, U1.5. Use models to explain seismic waves and their effect on the earth, okay? So my learning target across this lesson is going to be I can use models to explain how energy affects a system. Something that I learned through my trainings was to try not to reveal everything that you're going to be doing in your learning target. So instead of putting I can use models to explain waves and their effect on the earth, you just say I can use models to explain how energy affects a system. Because through inquiry based learning, your students or my students will discover what seismic waves are. And they're going to be using seismic waves to explain an earthquake.  I can use models to explain how energy affects a system. Day one is to engage. So today I'm going to be asking students to create a see think wonder chart, they're going to be making observations, they're going to be asking questions, they're going to be thinking about what's going on. They're going to watch two videos of an earthquake in Nepal and they're going to be just writing down the things that they're observing. What's wrong? And then we're going to create a question board using Jamboard. If you guys don't know what Jamboard is, it's this really cool like virtual like collaboration board where kids can add and delete and change questions or sticky notes. This is going to be my first time using Jamboard with this group. And so it's going to be interesting. We're going to have to do a little bit of like etiquette training with them in the sense that, you know, you don't take someone else's sticky note off of the Jamboard and change it. You don't move them. Once you add a sticky note, Ms. Valdez is the only one who can change and move them. So that's going to be kind of part of this lesson too, but I will attempt to film as much as I can from today's lesson as possible. And then as always, just check in with you guys at every different level of the lesson because it is separated into different days. Day two is going to be taking place probably on Friday this week because we do have state testing tomorrow. So this is going to be an expanded overtime video. The very first thing that I did with this lesson was I actually gave my students a pre-assessment. So a lot of times teachers in math or ELA will pretest their students to see what they already know about a specific standard or maybe a topic that they're getting ready to teach. And so the same thing applies for science. I do want to be able to measure student growth. And so what I've done is I've created a pre-assessment for this standard. And all I did was I asked my students to draw me a concept model, and they already know what those are. Concept model is a drawing or a picture or a model of how something works or how something happens. So I asked them to draw me a model of an earthquake, okay? Now this is before I even introduced the standard. They have no idea what's coming.  I did include some vocabulary words. As I said, in your model you can use words like, and I put words like wavelength, amplitude, epicenter, focus, energy, plates. And then I instruct them to use labels and symbols to explain. And when I teach my students how to make models, I'm very clear that they need to label as much as possible because when I go back to look at their picture, if things aren't labeled, I'm not going to understand what they are because in fact, fourth graders are not the best artists. I'm not either. But so when I ask them to draw a picture of an earthquake, these are some of the things that I get. Okay. So this kid's pretty spot on. We've got the plates moving in different directions. The earth is shaking and she's got an answer or a key here. So I can see the plates and moving and then the ground shaking. So this is pretty good. So what she's going to be able to learn is that seismic waves move in different directions and that they are responsible for the movement of the plates. So it'll kind of go a little bit deeper next time. This one's funny. So this is a pretty amazing. This is one of my gifted students. So you can tell that she's got some prior knowledge here. Pretty basic ones. This one involved Ross. Here's another really good one. She's got the plates passing each other. She's got some pretty good prior knowledge. Okay. I'm not sure what this is. Oh, we have a car crash. Okay. So the ground is shaking. The cars are crashing. Yeah. Come look. And then we have ones like these where it's just the earth shaking rapidly back and forth, ground breaks. So I'm wondering if this is supposed to be the center of the earth in which that's pretty amazing. We've got our focus and maybe an epicenter somewhere. So something that this kid has got some pretty good prior knowledge. So when I instruct my students to draw a model of something, I try really hard not to help them in any way because if I disrupt their creative process and their thinking, it's going to sway them in the direction that I don't want them to go yet because I want them to discover what it is that causes an earthquake. I want them to realize what seismic waves are. I want them to find out what a focus and an epicenter is. If I just give them that information, they're probably not going to remember it at all or not as long as they need to. What I will do when this whole lesson is over is I will actually give my students their drawings back and throughout this unit, I will be able to give them their drawings to see if they want to add anything or erase anything from their models. And then at the end, the final assessment will be to draw a picture of an earthquake again, including all of the different vocabulary words that they have learned throughout the lesson and they'll be able to compare and contrast their first picture to their final picture and their final picture will actually be the assessment that I use. I also have a couple of assessment questions just from like my district's assessment tool that have the kids choosing models that represent the information correctly, so it's going to be two separate assessments, but they're both going to assess them on the same learning target. Hey you guys, so it is Thursday, we are not doing state testing today. I don't know why but I had it wrong, but anyway, today is day two of my lesson and today is the research and investigate day. So this is actually supposed to take like a couple of days. I'm just going to put you guys here. So this is actually supposed to take a couple of days. Students will explore waves and make observations. They will then revisit the question board and their initial models to make revisions. So what I'm going to give them today is the opportunity to kind of think back to sound waves because we did a unit on sound waves and so they already kind of know about waves themselves and like how they move and what they do. Like high pitch ones are kind of squished together and tall and low pitch waves are like smaller and kind of more spread out. So we're going to kind of go back to that. We're going to do some making of waves with strings and ropes and honestly I'm not going to do everything on here that it says or that I had planned because they already did an investigation on waves. So I don't want to like overdo that and just make it like play time. So I might create, I might kind of push that one off to the side and maybe do like one demonstration for the whole class rather than everybody do one. And then day three is when students will do some reading and investigatory research about earthquakes. They will add notes to their notebooks for future reference. Students will revisit the question board to answer any answer or ask any questions. Students revisit their models of explanation. So what I'm going to have the kids do today after I do like one little model is begin researching and I've already preloaded like a whole ton of resources into Google Classroom. There are articles in there. There are videos in there for them to watch. There's some read to me books in there, just like a hodgepodge of pretty much anything and everything that I thought could help them, lots of different reading levels. And so I'm going to give them the opportunity to just kind of like free research today and what I'm going to do is have them take two column notes, which they already know how to do and set up. So we're going to just start by calling it earthquake research. And then we're going to just put each question in each topic area so that when the kids are researching, they know, oh, well, I'm looking for that question, looking to answer that question. And then they can write their answers here. So I'm going to quickly just show you guys the Jamboard walls that they made yesterday. OK, so this is my homerooms Jamboard. And what we did was I had the kids watch two clips of an earthquake and we did a see think wonder. So they had to write down the things that they noticed, the things that they were thinking and then any questions that they had. So they obviously came to the conclusion of, you know, they were watching an earthquake, but they didn't really know much about it. So then they were able they were able to post one question that they had on the Jamboard. And then what I did was I moved them around. They helped me a little bit. They we moved all the questions around to kind of like group them together based on the type of question. Or if we had any repeats, we deleted them. So this question, where do earthquakes start? That's a really good one. They're going to be able to look up. They're going to find like focus and epicenter through researching that question. How do earthquakes happen? They're going to be able to see that like waves are sent throughout the center of the earth in different locations in the earth, depending on pressure. How do earthquakes form? Same kind of question. That's why we grouped together. How do tectonic plates form? So this one isn't exactly related to the topic, but I'm still going to let them research that. What was the cause of the earthquake in the city in Nepal? That was where the earthquake we were watching took place. So they could research that earthquake, maybe see like how many people died, how big it was, how does the earthquake stop? That's a good one. How do earthquakes break windows and how powerful can an earthquake get? So this one has me thinking like they'll probably find the Richter scale with that one. And then my other class had quite a few more good questions, scientific questions that are researchable or investigated or can be investigated. I wonder if earthquakes normally shake from side to side or front to back or both. That's a really good question because there are different types of seismic waves and they're going to be able to figure that out through researching that one. I wonder how the road moves from side to side. I wonder what caused this movement and why do earthquakes do anything but shake, crack and make buildings fall? Very good question. And then this is my other one. I'm going to delete that one. I didn't realize that was there. I think someone added that later on. So what I did was I had to screenshot these because I really can't at this point trust that my kids aren't going to go in and like change anything. So I did screenshot them and I pasted them in my lesson slides so that I can refer back to them if needed and then compare it to the actual jam board. So I think what I'm going to do at this point is actually remove the link that I put the jam board on so that the kids can't even access it anymore. So what I do is I in my agenda slides, I link things in these tools. I could be like, OK, click on the Chromebook and that's going to link you to the jam board. Click on the notebook and that's going to take you to some research. These came from like a TPT pack. But anyway, so today we're going to just do some research. And so I have a whole material right here that is filled with places for them to go to research about earthquakes and things like that. And they're obviously going to see like seismic waves. They're going to investigate that. So once we do all of our research, we'll kind of like share out. I don't have the kids kind of like walk around and share and they can add to their list and they can add to their notes. And then we're going to refer back to our jam board and see if we answered any of those questions. If we did, we can fill in some answers to those. And then the next day is I'm actually going to do some some direct instruction, even though my new standards and my science teacher trainer says not to do. Direct instruction, I still think that it's important to do so to make sure that they're learning exactly what I need them to learn. And just to kind of drill in what they've researched and make sure that it's validated. So I do have a PowerPoint. It's a short one, but it has a lot of really cool graphics and videos and the kids are doing drawing. So like they fill in the blank. These are closed notes. They can keep them in their notebooks when we're done. They're drawing the focus in the epicenter, they're looking at parts of waves, they're drawing waves, and then they're looking at the three different types of seismic waves. And then when they're done with that, we're going to do a sorting activity where they take all of these little squares and kind of fill in this chart to show understanding seismic waves and practice with them. The reason why it's really important to do this direct instruction is because the students are still being tested on this information. And so I don't want to risk them not finding exactly what they need in the event that they don't. I need to be able to make sure that I have that information for them. So that will probably be done on Monday, depending on how it goes today if they finish research today. And then I also have this really cool aftershock earthquake lab that we'll use next week when we, after we've learned about earthquakes, we will do a couple of labs where the kids create earthquake proof structures because that's another one of my standards. So this one will be really fun. I'll probably have it in a station and we'll probably do some sort of station activity next week just so that everybody can get a chance to put their hands on this because this is really cool. All right, so the kids are starting to do some research here. Don't worry, I'm not getting your face in it. Just getting what you're looking at. So what are you searching for right now? Well, this is going to show you what type of ground moves and how it moves. Slowest waves arrive last. Ice McWaves vibrate what? Of my earthquake unit. So I wanted to share with you guys what the plan is for today. So on day three, normally day three would end up being the research day. Day two would be the investigation day. But because we already covered waves in a different lesson, I decided to forego the investigation day and kind of push it until later because the kids already know what a wave is. Based on the sound waves lesson that I taught. But today on my day three, we're going to revisit the question board. So the kids are going to be able to go back to the questions that they asked. And if any of them are able to answer them, they're going to share those answers out loud so everyone can hear them. We'll actually jot the answers down up on the board. And then we're going to do some earthquake note taking. This is going to be something that is like whole group and it's more of like a direct instruction kind of model. So I do have a PowerPoint here, but it's more of a close note. So all of the red words, they'll be filling in the blanks on their notes. And they're just really small little like composition size notes. But what I like about this is it gives them diagrams to draw because later and I'll refer back to this. Oh, I got to rewrite it at a take it down for testing later. They're going to be drawing creating a model that explains how seismic waves affect the earth, which means they're drawing an earthquake. So they're going to want to make sure that they have this because this is a key point. In their drawing, or at least it should be. And then again, these are characteristics of waves, amplitude, wavelength, focus. And then I like these because they actually give the animation of the waves. I believe I found this PowerPoint on teachers pay teachers a while ago. So if you look up like seismic waves of earthquakes, I think you'll find it. But I really like all the graphics in it, which is why I like to use it and not like skip that part. So that's what we're going to do today. And then if there's time, I do have a sorting activity, which I'll show you looks like this. This is the answer key, but basically each group would get a blank one of these. It explains what the seismic waves are up here again. So it's just another cheat sheet. And then the kids get a baggie with all of these cutouts. Obviously, this would be blank and they have to place them in the right spot. So it says like seismic waves also known as like their nickname, the speed, what they travel through and then the type of motion that they have. So then it's kind of like a quick check and I can actually use this throughout like I can use this for small group. I can use this for individual assessment. So kind of nice and I did get them laminated and I had my student aid cut them out so I can use them again and again and again. I just have to get them to flatten out. I'm thinking maybe if I like glue them on to some card stock or something, they might flatten out a little bit. So anyways, that is day three of my earthquake lesson day four is actually going to be some engineering stuff. So once they've learned about earthquakes, I might actually give them their drawings tomorrow to update so that they can kind of like add things and then actually let them use their original drawings to make their final drawings. But this one's cool. It says so this actual lesson plan that I'm reading from actually came from a woman who does all of our science trainings. This was her like example lesson. I actually had I had read it forever ago and I knew that I wasn't going to be teaching earthquakes until after spring break. So that's why I've held on to it.  So you can then move to an engineering approach and question students about buildings, which probably came up on their question board. You can have them design and create buildings to test. There are different links below to inexpensive ways to create shake tables for testing. So I'm probably going to end up using Jell-O with toothpicks and marshmallows because it's the cheapest one. But I also have a shake table that I actually ordered last year from my principal. She always asked me every year, what do you need for your classroom? So I actually ordered this. I believe this is from Amazon, but it's an aftershock earthquake lab. And I'm hoping that this can be reusable because what I'm thinking is is I'll give kids like I'll split them up into their groups and then I'll give each team like 15 minutes to build an earthquake proof structure. Hey, you guys. So it is now a few days later and I wanted to update y'all on the lesson progress. I think I showed you guys the footage of the PowerPoint presentation that I showed the kids that showed different models of different seismic waves and the directions that they move. And then the notes that the kids took. So there were some parts where they can draw some places for vocabulary and then lots of places for drawing models of different waves and different parts of earthquakes. So after we were done taking notes here, we did a couple more days of clarifying. So I had kids working on boom cards that were related to earthquakes, just kind of like making sure to clear up any misconceptions. I also pulled quite a few kids to my table to reteach information, people who still had questions, catching students up who weren't here. And then yesterday was the day that my kids actually redrew their models. So I wanted to share. I created a rubric for my students and I shared the rubric with them ahead of time and then I gave them their final drawing papers to draw from. And so I'm going to just share with you guys the rubric. So I built this on Rubistar. If you have never used Rubistar, it is a really nice resource for rubric making. And I feel like rubrics are the best way to grade things like drawing models because it's hard to look at a model and really like determine whether or not it shows something correctly. If you don't have a set like expectation of what it should look like. So I actually did make a rubric with Rubistar. It looks like this. And it goes from a category 4, 3, 2 and 1. A 4 would be a proficient, mastered rubric that shows everything that has been learned throughout the week. A 3 would be pretty close like most everything is there. Just certain things are missing. A 2 is like very minimal and then a 1 is like hardly anything at all. So it does go from like all vocabulary is listed and represented. Most vocabulary, some, not many. The model shows so there's a concept section. So the model shows that earthquakes begin at a focus and move outward towards an epicenter. The model shows that earthquakes begin underground and travel toward the surface of the earth. So the difference between that would just be like maybe in their model. It shows that here I'll show you guys my let me show you what like the model should look like. Or it would look like if it was a proficient model. So this is like a model that I might have shown my students, but I didn't actually show them this. This is just something that I created. If I was to do this assignment, this is what I would draw. So if a student draws something like this where there's like a point and then the waves are traveling up toward the center or toward the surface of the earth, I would count that as a 3 because it shows waves traveling from underground toward the surface of the earth. If the model shows an earthquake beginning underground, that would be a 2. But if nothing's traveling toward the center or toward the surface, that it wouldn't be a 3. Because it needs to show that the movement of waves travel from the center or from underground to the surface of the earth. So then the one would be the model does not show a starting point for an earthquake. It just shows like the ground shaking. Then there's a wave section. The model features three types of waves moving from the underground to the surface and are labeled. And then it moves down to like different types of waves, wiggly lines drawn, some sort of wave, and then no waves at all. And then the last one, the model is detailed, shows layers of the earth versus the model somewhat detailed and shows some of earth's features. So maybe it doesn't show like the mantle and the crust, but it does show like two plates coming together. The model shows separation of underground and the earth's surface. That's really important. If the kids do not make the connection between earthquakes occurring under the ground and coming to the surface, then they don't understand. There has to be some sort of separation and then a one would be the model does not show any separation between the surface of the earth and underground. So I did provide them with a rubric before they drew the model and they were also allowed to use their earthquake notes. These, because these notes explain different vocabulary. And with the way we're supposed to teach science today, they tell us not to front load the kids with vocabulary, but to allow them to discover the vocabulary and perhaps just define it for them. So I did give them access to their notes. And then I just put on the board. Actually, I'll put it up there slide that I showed them. So this was the slide that was showing when they drew their final models. It just says draw a concept model of an earthquake using the terms below P waves S waves L waves epicenter focus plates energy fault. Those were the words that are actually listed on the rubric that they're supposed to include that they're supposed to include in their drawing. So those are the important points that they researched and found that they were going to then transfer to their models. So then I gave them time to draw and a lot of them showed major growth. Even some of my kids who are at learning lab, my special my IEP kids, they even showed a ton of growth. So this was like a super proficient model. There's a lot going on, but you can clearly see. So the earthquake is occurring over here, the focus and what he's showing you is that the P waves are traveling through the center of the earth. The S waves are coming out the other end to the crust and then the L waves and he's also showing you the epicenter. He gives you a magnitude and then he's showing which direction the waves are moving. The crust is all separated into different plates. So this is a four out of four, like that is a proficient drawing. Then I'll show you one that isn't quite proficient. So this one, this one's okay. So this one has two plates labeled a focus. It has a P wave down occurring underground. So that was something that I was looking for P waves and S waves are underground. The L waves are the ones that are on the surface. So this one's got an epicenter seismic waves and L wave labeled. So this would be a three. I would label this as a three because she has most of the vocabulary words and she has Earth's features that are needed. And you can clearly see that there are waves moving. So I would definitely give that a three. And then we also have some that are not quite a three. They have all of the pieces, but they're not exactly represented correctly. So this would be a student that I pulled for a reteach. And I actually did pull this student for a reteach. I'm going to cover her name, but so I believe that this side of the drawing is showing without an earthquake. And this side is showing with an earthquake. So you have your focus and she labeled the parts of a wave and her epicenter. But to me, this doesn't show me underground. This is a road, or at least that's the way I interpret it. And I'm not really sure what this is supposed to be. I think maybe that's the road. I'm not really sure. So I did pull her to clear some misconceptions with this one because there wasn't really a clear separation of underground, above ground, Earth surface, anything like that. So anyway, I did pull quite a few students who were either absent or who did not score a three or four on their drawing. We cleared up some misconceptions. I showed them this model, gave them some clarifications, and then I hid this model and asked them to go back and draw another one. And they were able to, they didn't copy this exactly. A lot of them were able to create their own versions of them. And so that's exactly what we want. We want them to be able to really dump the concept that they are thinking on paper and not the one that I'm thinking because then it's just my concept and not theirs. So I'm actually going to hide this because my next class is coming in. I do have a few students I need to pull from that class and I don't want them to pre see that model. So anyway, that wraps up my earthquake unit. And it's been really, it's been really interesting. A lot of the control gets moved from me to them. And it is hard to give up control as a teacher because we want to be able to be like, okay, this is what you need to learn. This is how you do it. But giving up the control and giving it to them is, is hard. It's a lot harder than you would think it is. It's something that you have to get used to. So anyways, hopefully this video was helpful. If you are a science teacher, even if you're not a science teacher and you're looking for more of an inquiry based lesson structure, this can definitely be something that you can do not just with science, but also social studies, asking them what they want to learn about a certain topic and allowing them the time to research it and report their findings is definitely something that gives students control of what they're learning. So anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this video. 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All right, what's up everybody? There we are. Okay. Now we got some people popping out. Okay. Okay. We're getting some people in here now. That's good. Joy, how's it going? Good to see you here and everybody else. I see I've got, it looks like I've got a at least one new person right now. Am I gonna be at Six Flags over Texas Monday? No, I'm not. I'm not gonna be at any parks for a long time, so Hey, what's up everybody? It's been a it's been a hot minute since I've done one of these. It's been a while. I haven't done a live stream and it's been well over a month, I think. It's probably been close to a couple months or so since I've done one. And I just figured I was just thinking about it, you know, it's a Friday night. I don't have to get up early in the morning. Oh, good, Joy. All right. I'm glad I can finally deliver or that I am finally delivering, you know. So yeah, basically I was just thinking like I haven't done a live stream in a while and I'm like, I'm just gonna do an impromptu live stream. Why not? You know, I've got my coffee, of course. I'm drinking Starbucks Holiday Blend, which I got a few days ago. One of my favorite coffees. I love Starbucks Holiday Blend. So good. Yeah, so I just figured, you know, why not catch up a little bit? Just do a live stream, just a casual, you know, kind of conversation. Things have been really crazy for me lately. And I'm sure many of you maybe, I don't know, maybe haven't, but whatever. I'm sure some of you probably have noticed that I haven't been that attentive to my YouTube channel. And I don't feel the need to explain myself, to be honest.  And that's why I haven't. So I'll just tell you guys, you know, there's a lot of stuff going on in my life right now.  But there's a lot going on for me personally right now. So I just haven't been able to give the attention to the YouTube channel, which is fine, you know, it's fine. That's it's a hobby for me, you know. So yeah, let's see. Would not be Coaster Daddy's stream without a cup of coffee.  I don't, man, I drink coffee all times of the day. So yes, it is exciting times for me. Absolutely. It is for sure. Coaster coffee. One of the original ideas for a channel name actually was Coaster Cafe, which, of course, you know, I eventually used that name for the weekly Saturday live stream that I did for about seven months. Like I did that like 30 episodes of that. You can still get Coaster Cafe mugs, by the way, on Teespring. Let's see, JB Thrills says, but at least the content you're able to make with your spare time is amazing. Thanks, I appreciate it. Honestly, I haven't, if I'm being completely honest with you guys, I didn't put a ton of work into the last couple of videos I've done even. You know, I haven't had a lot of ideas lately. And that's actually, besides being super busy, I just haven't had any good, there's no good video ideas that I have. And I'm just not going to force content. So then, you know, I have done videos in the past where I probably maybe I was trying to force something out of it just because I felt like I had to make a video. A lot of times those aren't the best videos. A lot of times they don't perform that great. I'm just not going to force content, especially at a time right now where I'm just like bombarded by a million other things at once. Let's see, Joy said, I got my hubby, a fancy and espresso maker. He's drinking multiple espressos a day. Nice, nice. Those look really nice. I would like to try to use one of those sometime. I wouldn't buy one for myself. I don't need an espresso maker.  I have a French press. I love making French press coffee. I need to make some of that because I haven't made French press in quite a while now. I don't have any nano coasters. I'm not really into those. That's just to me, they just take up space. They're really expensive. They're they're cool. I'm glad they're doing well. And I know people love them and that's great, but it's not really my thing. I'm trying to get rid of unnecessary clutter right now. So I've never been to Six Flags over Texas. No, I've never even been to Texas that I can remember. Looks like a good park. Whatever you want to do in your spare time, no pressure ever. Yeah, absolutely. That's how I treat this channel, especially at this point because I am so busy. I can't treat it like a job. You know, it's not a job for me. So it's not treated as such. See what I do is every video idea I have, I write down basically a turn into a checklist. So I'll never run out of ideas for a vid. Yeah, I do the same thing. I think a lot of content creators do that. I do that. Excuse me, yikes. That's embarrassing. Yeah, so anyway, I do that. I write down ideas that I have. I just, I have a decent amount of ideas written down, but they're not really things. A lot of them are things that I've had sitting on that list for a long time and I just haven't done them because to be honest, I don't know if I really want to do them kind of goes back to the forcing content thing. Guess if I ever feel the need to make one of those videos, I will. I basically, right now, I just wait for some exciting news and try to talk about something if I feel I have at least some kind of point I want to make, you know, it's whatever. Someone recreated blue flash. Who recreated the blue flash? I know it was moved. Blue flash was bought because John Ivers, who built blue flash, he shut it down. He took the ride down and actually a haunted house in Columbus bought it. So blue flash was moved, maybe you're mistaken and you thought that was a rebuild of it somewhere else, but I don't know. Please enlighten me about the recreated blue flash. Let's see, they're too fancy for me. LOL, the quality is top notch though. Oh, okay, the Nespresso machine, okay. I see commercials for those a lot. Of course I get those advertisements and it always looks so good.  I should have put my glasses on. So I just seen some news earlier and I'm gonna actually, before I talk about it on here and cause any sort of uproar, I'm actually gonna check to make sure it is legit. Let me check Screamscape really quick. See if they've posted about it. Okay, let me search it and see if I can find it. News, let's see. I don't know where I would find this at. I don't know. Let's see, did you watch August Burns Red's 15 year thrill seeker live concert with Jake Unlead vocals? It was amazing. I did not. I didn't even know that was a thing. To be honest, I do recall Joy. I do recall you commented about August Burns Red in my favorite Christmas albums video I did last year cause I talked about their Christmas album, which I've been listening to. And I do love August Burns Red. I really, really like them, but I don't listen to them really regularly. I listen to them fairly, I mean fairly often I guess, but not all the time. I don't exactly keep up with them per se. So I didn't even know that was a thing they were doing, but that sounds awesome and I'll definitely check it out. So thanks for telling me about it. Hey, Mr. Roller Coasters, thank you for stopping by. Oh, first video you ever watched, am I nice? What a way to get introduced to my channel, I tell ya. What a way, that's funny. I can't believe that was the first video of mine that you saw. I'm proud of that video, even though it did absolutely terrible. It still has like less than 90 views a year later. I think it's a great video. If you guys haven't seen my Christmas Daddy video, I undergo the Christmas Daddy moniker for the holiday season. Last year I talked about my favorite Christmas albums and I also did a video talking about my favorite Christmas movies as well and I do enjoy that video too. So check those out if you guys haven't. Show them some love, they could use it. Yeah, like Joy said, take her advice, everyone should watch it. All 10 people in here. Okay, let's see. Boy, I really should have put my glasses on. I might be able to walk around my home park sometimes soon. Joy says, thoughts on iron quasi POV? Joy, I did a video, actually my last video I did about a week ago. I think it might have been a week ago actually and now on Saturday, I uploaded it. I talked about my thoughts on iron quasi's POV but if you want the short, concise version, it looks amazing.  One of the best coasters in the world for sure. Definitely top 10 in my opinion. It's all right, it's all right.  A lot of people are really hyping it up and I agree it's overhyped. That specific element is maybe overhyped but I still think it's gonna be amazing. I think it's still gonna be a great element. And it looks, it just like flies through that. So, and I love the barrel roll down drop on twisted timbers. So the fact that that's similar and you're going to be just hauling through that thing, you know, I think it'll be amazing. So, and it'll be bigger than twisted timbers drop as well.  Oh yeah, Velocicoster looks absolutely incredible. Yeah, tight competition there in Florida. Yeah, iron quasi, not a creative name. I've never been a fan of the name. I would have rather them just like called it Guasi, you know, just use the name Guasi again, honestly. Wow, that's insane to think that there are now gonna be four hybrid hypers. Let's see, iron Guasi, steel Vengeance, Zadra, and what's the fourth one? What's, wait, what's the fourth hybrid hyper? Zadra, steel Vengeance, iron Guasi, there's just three. Anyway, let's see, yeah, it's just three. Yeah, it's just three. Were you surprised to hear Predator is getting the GCI Titan track? Yeah, I was, very surprised. And we still don't really know what's going on with that exactly. Like we know it's getting the new steel track, the Titan, Titan track from GCI. But we don't know if they're gonna like keep the same layout and give all of it steel track or if they're just gonna retract certain portions with that, if they're gonna add any elements to it and sort of, you know, quote unquote, RMC it. We don't really know what's happening exactly. They just kind of like mentioned in passing that Predator at Darien Lake would be receiving the new track. So, but I think it's gonna do wonders for Predator. I've heard a lot of not very good things about it, but I've also heard a lot of people enjoy the layout and they think it would be great if it was just, if they just improve the ride experience. Well, obviously, but yeah, I think it'll be great whatever they do to it. So, yeah, like I said, we don't know what they're doing to it exactly. I mean, we know it's getting Titan track, but that's the extent of it. They could throw in, they could maybe keep the layout the same and throw in an inversion or two. They could just keep the same layout and put all new track on it. They could keep the same layout and just retract portions of the ride with it. Like it could be anything really. So, shoot, they could even, you know, keep all of the layout right now as it is and keep it wood and add more to the ride that is steel, you know?  Obviously, that's not gonna happen. That was a joke, but let's see. Yeah, right. GCI leaked that like just like so unapologetically. They're just like, oh yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna put this on our Predator Dairy and like they haven't announced it, but whatever. Great thing to come back on, huh? What world plays volcano? Hopefully something worthy, you know? Six Flags hasn't announced it yet. No, GCI revealed it. They leaked, GCI leaked it. They mentioned they were doing it. Yeah, I'm glad that, I'm assuming, Joy, I'm assuming you're talking about Lightning Rod. I am glad to hear that Lightning Rod's layout is staying the same as well. I really honestly am surprised they're not taking the opportunity to like make adjustments to the layout. I'm really surprised they're not doing that. Because honestly, I thought there would be some sort of modification to the layout. Even if very minor, I thought there would be something done, but I'm glad it's staying the same. CFR doesn't work with Intamin anymore. And Volcano is one of the many reasons that they're not going to. So there's no way Intamin's gonna rebuild it, no way. Joy says, worst part experience you've ever had. Okay, I've kind of hinted at this happening and I guess I'll tell you guys the story now. I've kind of mentioned this. I sort of mentioned it in a couple of videos, but I didn't give any details. I just mentioned that something happened at the park. But, and this doesn't have to do with the park itself. I wanna clarify, this is not, the park actually handled it very great. But I had a personally, I had a really bad experience at Kings Island. Not because of the park itself, but let me give you a little bit of backstory. Little over a year ago, the very last weekend that Kings Island was open, the end of October, 2019, me and my friend decided to go to Kings Island just kind of out of the blue. It was like Thursday. And we were like, hey, I got off work at four on Friday. Kings Island was open until one in the morning on Friday night. He was like, we should go to Kings Island tomorrow. And I'm like, okay. So I got off work at four, drove to his place. He drove to Kings Island. We got there about nine o'clock. We had like four hours that night, got like five rides in.  That night was great. But no, not last day of Vortex, second to last day of Vortex, I was there. But anyway, so yeah, Friday night was great. We were there from nine PM to one in the morning. Got five rides. You know, it was fine. It was really busy that night. Well, the next morning we were trying to decide whether or not we should hit up Kings Island for a little bit on the way home. And I know that he would have maybe decided just to go home. But honestly, I was kind of like really pushing like to go. I was like, we should, because the thing is it was raining, okay? So it's Saturday, the second to last day of Operation 2019. It was raining. Raining like crazy, actually. Like it was raining quite a bit and the forecast did not look good. It looked like it was pretty much just gonna rain all day, which it did. It did. It pretty much rained all day. So, you know, we kind of talked about it. And I was sort of pushing to just go still because even if it was raining, I really wanted it to go. So we went, we ended up going to Kings Island on Saturday. And don't worry, I will get to the point of the story. The question is worst park experience I've ever had. So I'm going to tell that. It's gonna come up here pretty soon. So yeah, got to Kings Island Saturday morning. And, you know, we were already kind of questioning whether or not we should go. And we're kind of unsure about it. So the first thing that happened right when we got there, that, yes, this is the Diamondback story. And I will get to that shortly. This is the Diamondback story. So anyway, what happened? Okay, a precedent was sort of set as soon as we got to the park. And we should have just turned around and went back home, you know? We should have been like, okay, this is a sign we shouldn't go into the park. So what happened? First, this is not the bad thing that happened, but we walk up to the gate and I had forgotten, you know, I usually take like the stuff that I need out of my wallet, like my pass, my ID, stuff like that, debit card. Well, I have a platinum, a credit card that is called platinum. And it's kind of funny it's called platinum because I just accidentally grabbed that credit card instead of my Cedar Fair platinum pass. So, you know, it's pouring down raid. We had walked to the entrance, we're soaking wet already. And then we get up there and I'm like, I didn't have the app at the time either. So I didn't have it on my phone. And I'm like, I don't think I realized I could even do that, but I was like, I was like, I don't have my pass. So I had to run back to the car in the pouring rain, get even more soaked, get the platinum pass, come back to the entrance.  But you know, the way I think I'm just like, all of these rides are open, nobody's here. Nobody was there, okay? But they had all the coasters running. So it was just completely dead. So anyway, I'm gonna stop prolonging the story. I tend to do that. But what really happened, so the first ride we go to is Diamondback, we decided to hit up Diamondback first. My favorite ride in the park, at least it was at the time. I'm not really exactly sure now, but maybe it still is. Anyway, we go to Diamondback, I'm fricking stoked. I'm a Diamondback fanboy as some of you guys probably know. And I'm just so stoked because there's nobody in the park. I'm like, dude, we're just walking right onto Diamondback and we can just ride this however many times we want to, you know? I have a hoodie on and I always check several times just out of habit. I'm always feeling my pockets as I'm going up to the rides, making sure everything is secure. I don't know if I kind of forgot to do that as well as I usually do and kind of overlook something because I was so excited as we were walking up to Diamondback, but we get on Diamondback. You know, obviously it's still pouring rain.   Getting float, you know, that great floater airtime. It was great. Started out great. Well, when I got to the second, I think we went down the drop, we went over the first Camelback hill and as we were going down the second hill to go up into the second Camelback hill after the drop, I looked down, I just happened to look down to the platform, like the floor of the train and my insulin pump, I had a wireless insulin pump at the time, my insulin pump was on the floor of the train. We're sitting in the very back seat, so keep that in mind, we're sitting in the very back seat. I look down, I see my insulin pump, this isn't good, okay? I kind of start freaking out, yeah, this is bad, it doesn't end good, just spoiler alert. I see my insulin pump on the ground. It had, I'm guessing it had, I must have had it in my hoodie pocket instead of putting it like in my other pockets, like I always do because all that stuff's always fine. So somehow this hurts, this hurts, it fell out. I see it on the floor, it's not lost yet, so I'm like, I'm kind of freaking out, like I just, I should have done more, but I'm just like, it's one of those moments where you're just like, what? But I saw the pump on the floor, the back door, little back door thing had come off, the batteries flew out of it. That wouldn't have been a big deal, I could have just put new batteries in it, you know? But it stays in the, my insulin pump stays on the floor of the train for quite a while actually, I'm surprised how long it lasted on there. We're going up and down hills, you know, we went over a camelback, it stayed on, we went around the hammerhead turn, it was still on there. And then the first camelback hill, this is the bad part, the first camelback hill after the hammerhead turn, we rise up into that and it's gone, it just flies off the back of the train. And my friend looks at me and he's like, he's like, what was that? And I was like, that was my insulin pump. And the rest of that ride was just a blur, like I barely remember the rest of that ride. It was, yeah, it was a bad experience. So of course, the first thing we do, yeah, I got a new pump eventually, yeah, but excuse me, but yeah, you know, I go to the front, you know, guest services or whatever at the front of the park and I explain their situation and you know, I was like all worried because like, you know, I'm somebody that talks about like, I'll make sure everything is secure and this and that. But of course, you know, mistakes happen and this is like the worst mistake I could have made.  So I went up there and immediately, like without hesitation, you know, the lady's like, oh no, you know, we got to take care of this. She gets in touch with, you know, the operators at the ride, they stopped the ride. They have, I'm guessing they stopped the ride. I think they have to, but they had people go out back into the woods and they were looking for it, you know? They look for it for quite some time. We were probably up in that office for about 20 minutes. Eventually we got the word. They're like, you know, we couldn't find it anywhere. Even if they would have found it, it fell from such a great height, probably about a hundred feet or so in the air. It was probably busted. It probably would have been done for. You know, I filed the lost and found thing. I never got the word back that they found it. So, but that's my story. I lost my insulin pump on Diamondback. Three and a half hours from home. Thankfully, I was not any farther away from home. Three and a half hours isn't too bad, but I ended up, we should have just went straight home, but I know myself very well. I've had diabetes pretty much my whole life since I was eight. So I know how my body is and stuff like that. And I knew that I could manage for a little bit longer, even without my insulin pump on me. Excuse me, my throat's like really dry. But before we ended up riding a few rides after that, making the best out of the day there, because like I said, it was dead. So we got a lot of stuff done within like an hour and a half. We probably stayed for about an hour and a half or so after that got quite a few rides in, including the last ride in vortex, second to last day of operation. So yeah, did some rides and then we drove back. Before we left, I went to the guest services told me, they were like, before you leave, if you need to, you can go to the nursing station and test your blood sugar and stuff. So I did do that. I test my blood sugar before I left. It was fine. I got back home and I had an old insulin pump that I was using for a little while. I kept it as a backup and I was using that. So that's my story. That's my awful story. My worst park experience right there for you. I know that was a very long-winded, you know, I was rambling on a lot, but that's my worst park experience. And you know, I felt like I could have maybe gotten it, but I just didn't know what to do in the moment. I'm just like, I could have reached my foot over probably and like held on to it. I think I honestly probably could have done that. And I don't know why I just didn't do that, but it's just one of those things where you're like frozen in that moment. Don't know what to do. So, and Joey says, thanks for sharing. My dad's cell phone fell off his pocket from close to the top of raging bull in 2002. And that plastic Nokia survived a fall of almost 200 feet. That wouldn't happen nowadays. No, it wouldn't. I actually, that's another experience I had. Excuse me. When I was younger, 2010, the first year of skyrocket at Kennywood, my parents had just got me a flip phone. I was like 13 or 14 years old, maybe 15. Well, I would have been 15. I would have been 15 years old. They had just got me a flip phone a few months back, about six months or so, whatever. But that flip phone, we went up the launch. It came out of my pocket and flew from 100 feet in the air. And they found it. We went back the next day and got it. I still used that thing. I still used it for a couple of years after that. We just had to get a new battery. That was it. It dinged up a little bit on the back. But those little flip phones, those things are sturdy. Those are really sturdy. So that would not happen with our modern smartphones, for sure. Hey there, what's up, Dindog? Yeah, see, the thing is about Indiana Beach, they absolutely do need the support, just like all small parks do. But they were operating very unsafely. I decided not to go there this year because I saw literally everybody there without a mask on. So yeah, I would have to agree with him on that for sure. So it's just the truth. I have an F'd up sleep schedule. Well, you can join us now then. So hey, yeah, I wanted to go to Indiana Beach as well. It looks like a fantastic park. I sound sick. I mean, I'm coughing because my throat's dry. I'm not sick. Yeah, all right.  Good, good for you, good for you. I am, I have allergies. There's a thing called allergies, you know. Let's see. Let's see, I wanna go there so bad, but I'm an indie. Oh wow, okay. We got people from all over here, that's awesome. Let's see.  It is what it is, I guess. I do not have asthma, fortunately, no. Zinc, garlic, and vitamin C. I do take vitamin C every day, but thank you for that advice. I'll keep that in mind. I have taken zinc in the past as well to help fight stuff off. That's because it very much is real. So if you just, you know, use science and, you know. It's a real thing. Let's see. I believe lightning rod, now a steel coaster, Goliath now has a speed record back. Okay, that's something I don't even wanna get into. Like, it's like, why does it even matter? I'm just like, whatever. I guess I'll still consider a wooden coaster, I don't know, I really don't know. Okay, Canobie Coaster says, welcome here by the way. Good to see you in here. It says, once overlining at parks without mask mandates is that when you wear a mask, you stand out so people give you more space. I guess, I mean, if you really wanna try to make it into something positive, I guess. Yeah, I mean, I get what you're saying, yeah, makes sense. Still wish all parks enforced masks and distancing though, like Canobie or Universal. Yeah, absolutely, yeah. See, I've made plenty of money doing custom bridal masks in the past couple of months, nice. That's awesome, that's awesome to hear. Glad you can, you know, turn that around and make some money out of it, that's awesome. And I really do wanna go to Canobie by the way. That looks like a great little park. Yeah, you know, I've wondered about Coaster Lover 2001. I haven't seen him at all either. I don't know what he's up to. I think he might have posted fairly recently on his channel, maybe, I'm not sure. But what's up, WNY Coasters, how you doing? Let's see, Joyce, as my personal experience was, I actually felt people thought it was funnier to get closer to me in parks, it was not enforced. Unfortunately, I think that is the case sometimes.   Unfortunately, when you were one of the only people wearing a mask, okay, yeah, okay. Raven's turnaround over the lake is getting retracted. All right, that's good. Yeah, I really feel for those California parks. Like, that's crazy that none of them could reopen. Couple other states too, I know are like that, but yeah, it really stinks, really unfortunate.  Joy, that's probably a good decision, yeah. Yeah, I saw that they released an official POV for Icebreaker, I haven't actually watched it yet. I'll check it out. Let's see, Joyce says Raven is so good, but so rough right there over the water. I was sad, my home park of Six Flags Great America didn't open at all. Oh yeah, Six Flags Great America. Yeah, that really, that's a real bummer too. And Raven, you know, I love Raven. It was five years ago I wrote it. Desperately need to get back to Holiday World. So I don't remember specifically that moment exactly, you know, I mean, I remember it, but not like how rough it was and whatnot. I remember Raven, I thought was kind of a rough ride, but I loved it. So of course, Holiday World maintains their wooden coasters really great. So yeah, you know, and that's a good decision. Rings of Earth said, I might wait until no masks and no social distancing and parks is not needed. I don't wanna wear a mask all day. Yeah, if you're not going to comply or you don't wanna wear a mask all day or whatever, which nobody really wants to of course, but if you're not gonna wanna do that really, yeah, just, you know, just stay home, you know.  You know what needs to be done. And if you're not gonna follow those, you don't wanna abide by those rules, just don't go, you know. It's really as simple as that. And that's, thanks for bringing that up.  And I mean, people should be staying home anyway, really. So, you know, if, you know, especially like if you're high risk and stuff like that. So I'm trying not to make this into a COVID show. Let's try not to talk too much about that. I guess I think a lot of people are just kind of tired of hearing about it, you know, rightfully so. Goodbye, Coaster Daddy, had fun, but I'm really tired. All right, good night. And at least California parks were open earlier this year. Yeah, for sure, yeah. Let's see. Yeah, Six-way Guru America is opening in December for Christmas lights, just lights though and outdoor shows, I guess. No rides. You have to get to Adventureland in Iowa. Oh yeah, I would, definitely. I've been wanting to go to Adventureland for a long time. Even way back when I was an enthusiast, like before they had like anything, like anything like Monster and whatnot. I've always wanted to go to that park. I really have definitely a place I wanna get to now, you know, with Monster, you know. Did my wife have the baby yet? Correction, did my wife have the babies yet? We're having twins. That's about another month. That's the beginning of the stream, I don't think, but I was talking about how there's a lot of crazy stuff going on right now in my life. Yeah, in about a month, we're gonna be having twins. We're also trying to move right now. Oh yeah, that's why everything's a mess behind me right now. I don't have the backdrop and stuff up. It's a mess. We're packing stuff, so. Six legs, New England is doing the same lights only event. Okay, yeah, I did hear that as well. That's good they can do something, you know. Yeah, I heard Alabama Adventure is teasing something. There's speculation that it could be a new coaster, so that's cool, that's cool. Yeah, I saw his video. I always watch theme park crazy's videos. One of my favorite channels. Where am I moving to? I'll still be in the sort of same general area. I'm still gonna be in the same county. Still gonna be in Northeast Ohio. Where I'm moving to, I'm gonna be about 45 or 50 minutes away from Cedar Point, rather than 35 minutes away. So it'll be a little bit further if you're wondering in terms of like amusement parks. So, yeah, it's not too far away. Not at all. Okay, yeah, absolutely. I'm having a boy and a girl, yeah. A boy and a girl. Very happy about that, so we're really excited. And I haven't talked a whole lot about that on here. And I still won't, I don't mind sharing that information, but I'm not really gonna feel comfortable posting a whole lot of really personal stuff like that on here. But I did wanna share that with you guys. And thank you for that. Thank you. Yes, I can take them to Memphis Kitty Park for their first coaster credit, for sure. Yeah, I actually have the credit at Memphis Kitty Park, by the way. So I rode that probably about 15 years ago. I don't know, I was there one time. Oh, that was your first credit, nice, nice. That's cool. Yeah, that's actually a cool kind of, cool little fact about that. That's like either, I think it's like the second old, I thought it was the oldest, but I think it's actually like the second oldest steel coaster in America, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, well, we'll each have a riding partner. Yeah, it works out perfect. Your first credit was a penfari. Let's see, beware of Memphis Kitty Park on a hot day. I arrived and they closed due to heat. It ruined my plan to make steel vengeance number 700. Oh, no, no, that's awful. See, let's see, yeah, yeah, let's hope 2021 is better.  Let's see, probably see how to stay I've ever visited a park, let me think. It was probably just like a plethora of summer days you know, going to Cedar Point, I don't know.  Yeah, and you know, same with me, I've probably been to Cedar Point on, I actually, yeah, I definitely have. I've been to Cedar Point on hot 90 plus days, probably, you know, two or three times at least. So, not very pleasant, I gotta say. 90 plus is hot for Ohio, yeah.  Yeah, 106, that is, I couldn't imagine. Right, yeah, 90 plus is not hot for India, I can imagine that, yeah.  Yeah, you're definitely used to stuff like that, so. To me, a perfect day, I just wish like every day it was like, like 65 degrees, you know, like sun out, 65 degrees, you know, to me that would be like perfect, so I would love that weather. 70 would be acceptable too, you know. 70 would be all right, 70 is sunny. Do I think Mock rides will make a blue fire clone with all spinning trains? I hope so. I mean, I don't have strong thoughts about that either way, but I hope that would happen, that would be awesome. Yeah, 80 is definitely getting too hot for sure. I can deal with the 70s, 80 is where, 80 is like the threshold for me where it's like, okay, this is a little bit too much. Especially when you're talking about like going out and going to parks and yada, yada, you know, all that kind of stuff.  Yeah, I don't like humidity, yeah. Any intention on going to Mount Olympus or Michigan's adventure? Michigan's adventure, I don't know, cause it's like almost a seven, it's like a seven hour drive for me and there's nothing else around there, so it's not really worth it. Even though I really wanna ride shivering timbers and I would like to visit the park, just to check it out, it looks pretty nice. I don't know, hopefully eventually I can get there somehow. Mount Olympus, I really wanna go to Mount Olympus cause Hades has been on my bucket list ever since 2005 when they were, or I found out about it in like 2006 I think the year after it opened. So 80 is a luxury in India, I bet.  So let me ask this. In Fahrenheit, by the way, I'm familiar with Fahrenheit. What is like the, what's an average day like in India temperature wise, like, I don't know, like 100, 110 degrees? And what is the humidity? Like I'm guessing it's not very humid, but I'm not sure, I don't know. Yeah, Mount Olympus looks very odd. I just wanna go for all those great looking wooden coasters. Yeah, that stinks, I can't ride Avalanche. That's unfortunate for sure. You're so cute. Thanks, Fahrenheit coaster at Hershey. Yep, yep, it is a coaster at Hershey. Oh yeah, that tunnel. Yeah, man, that tunnel is insane. Yeah, I love wooden coasters. Yeah, definitely. My current favorite coaster YouTube channels. One's that come to mind that are among the best for me are Airtime Thrills, Theme Park Crazy, El Tor Ryan, Coaster Hipster is really good. Amusement Insiders, I used to watch them a lot, you know, really good stuff. Yeah, those are some of my favorites. There was a lot more, but those are some of them. Zero credits remaining is really good, actually. That's a really good one that I feel I should mention. That channel needs more love. Oh wow, Avalanche Top 20 for you. That's, how many credits do you have just out of curiosity? Seems like you've ridden quite a bit. You know, seems like you've ridden quite a bit. And Avalanche your top 20, wow. I really would have liked to, you know, have had the chance to ride it because I do love wooden coasters, so. 90, okay, 90 is the average day. Okay. And India, thank you for sharing that. What is my next video about? I have no idea. Great Airtime, some of the best pacing. Okay, nice, I've never heard that about that ride. What if Hercules AK Hurt Your Knees got the RMC treatment? That would have been absolutely incredible. However, at the same time, maybe not because it would have been one of the very first RMCs, if not the first one, if they had been doing that at that time. So it might have not been that great because even though New Texas Dry and It looks like a fantastic ride and for the time is like one of the best in the world, you know, they've improved so much since then. So absolutely I hope he does, you know, all the best to him. El Toro, right? Yeah, he hasn't posted much lately. Yeah. Well, his videos take forever because they're so long and so in depth. But, you know, I think he's just busy right now too. I know he just got married. So he was on Your Favorite Coaster Sucks podcast recently. Again, he was on there again. I got less interest in coasters lately. That's something I can agree with. Okay, you've been at 195, awesome, awesome. Yeah, I've been less interested in them too just because I barely got to go to any parks this year. No new parks at all. And I know I won't be able to go to any new parks for quite a while. So I'm just like, right now it's one of those like phases for me where coasters aren't as prominent, you know? And I'll get back into it, I'm sure. You know, like I was before, but right now it's like you really can't do anything. So it's like, you know, we'll get to it when we get to it. Do a moving vlog? Maybe I'll think about that. I mean, that seems so weird to me, but you know what, maybe I should do that on a separate channel or something. Vlogs have never really been my thing. It seems weird for me to do one, but I don't know, maybe I should try it, you know? Maybe I should try it. And I can post that for you guys to watch if you guys are interested. If I even do it, I don't know. I probably won't do it, but who knows? Maybe I'll try it. Yeah, absolutely. It would be awesome to, you know, share that experience with my kids one day, riding coasters together. That would be absolutely incredible. So, oh, Evelyn just chaoses favorite wooden coaster. Okay, wow. Let's see, Joey says it was more intense, but shorter voyage with those crazy, wow, okay. Really high praise. I've never heard this. You've gone through those hobby stages, yeah. I can see you being successful with vlogs, really, really. Thank you, thank you. I guess I, maybe I should try it. I don't know. I'm not really that interested in it, but maybe I should try it and see. I don't know. I'm not that exciting, I feel like. I'd just be like, yeah, it's another day, you know?  Sharkboy and Lavagirl too. I've never really watched it, so I don't know. Well, let's see. Just from what I've seen, channels that have consistent followers really do all vlogging from parks and things. Okay. I thought about trying it at a park sometime, possibly. Maybe I will, I don't know. It was built by SNS, yeah. Designed by Ellen Schilke, actually, I believe. Yeah, see, if I did a moving vlog or something like that, I definitely would not post it on this channel. It wouldn't be on Coaster Daddy. It would definitely be a separate channel because I'm not gonna mix that together, so. All right, guys. I would love to keep doing this, but I'm getting really tired now, you know? It's almost two o'clock in the morning for me, and we've been doing this for a little over an hour. I'm getting really tired, so I'm gonna have to get going. Yeah, absolutely. I'll make whatever content makes me happy because that's the most important thing. To be successful, you gotta do something you enjoy and actually care about, so yeah. Yeah, thank you, Dindog. Thanks for all the support and thank you for the good wishes. I really appreciate it from all you guys. You guys are the best. You guys are awesome. Thanks for joining me on this really, you know, out of the blue, random live stream, you know, at the wee hour of the morning. It's late o'clock in the morning, yeah. So really appreciate it. Once again, I'll see you guys. Thanks for joining me. Stay safe out there. Stay healthy, and I'll see you next time. All right, you guys take care.