This is covering the spread part of the fan dual podcast network We go from watching Patrick Mahomes Heroics to end off a Sunday night football to watching Lamar Jackson with nothing around him facing off with the Saints for tonight on Monday night Football we're gonna break down that game from a vetting perspective Get you ready for the Ravens at the Saints with Ryan Williams and hopefully win you some cash close out week number nine This is covering the spread right here on the fan dual podcast network and number fire calm My name is Jim Sonness. I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire calm joined here once again by a Ryan Williams Check him out on Twitter at Ryan Alexander underscore W Ryan I feel like I don't have to ask you how you're doing because Justin Fields Looking pretty sick and as a bears fay and I feel like you got to be on cloud nine today Hey, that's that's all we can ask for I mean they were on the up and up here We got the franchise quarterback game changer and we talked about this a couple weeks ago Jim like they just needed to design runs for him and I'm happy to see that they do so you love to see that I Mean for me as a bears fan You love to see us turning in the right direction where we're able to right the wrongs, you know So many times we've been you know stuck in the stuck in the ground in our ways Whether it was you know Mark trustman or John Fox or Matt Nagy and you know, excuse me why I throw up But you know this this regime with Lou Getze, you know, I really think that they took things to heart Took some time off and really just figured out what works for this kid And you see it out there and this dude's a gamer like we saw that at Ohio State But you know so to adjust but I mean we saw this with Josh Allen We saw this with Lamar Jackson and you know, maybe we don't crown him in that regard yet But you can see the writing on the wall and that just feels great for a bears fan You know, we keep losing games. We'll get that better draft pick in the first round Maybe team them up with the former Ohio State running or a wide receiver in the draft They get get some offensive line help and skies the limit in 2023. I feel like yeah My wife is from the Chicago suburb so she asked me how the bears did and I like it's like Oh, yeah, Justin Fields broke the record from those rushing yards in Regular regular season game for a quarterback like he played great and it was super encouraging They lost but like it was like I had like included at the end because it was also exciting like he played so well and like It was fun to watch like I was watch I was on Twitter and someone like was posting a clip of him doing like this six grand I was like that was like his third best scramble of the game Like that wasn't even top two from the like that you're talking about the design runs like his his touchdown I don't think was a design run the 61 yard or was like There was like chaos all around him. He got out of some trouble kept on going So it was delight to watch if we can have more fun quarterback play. I'm never gonna be mad about that Yeah, and some things you just can't teach right like I mean how many times I'm third and seven third and long This guy is back there dead to rights with the sack and he does that spin move which is gonna be patented pretty soon Looks like Alan Iverson out there when he Then he just picked off and the he's just so fast I don't think we saw that speed last year to start this season and all of a sudden he said in the second year Which which is great, and I know that you know not to beat a dead horses We're talking about the Monday day football game here, but I know they say there's no moral victories But that is totally out of the window when you're talking about the Chicago Bears Like if you can have a franchise quarterback like that We can go through two years of growing pains for what the future looks like this team was not expected to do anything this year Their win total was at six and a half five and a half for some places So we're just riding the wave right now and build on for 23 Hey fun football and a better draft pick couldn't ask for much better than that We're gonna break down as Ryan said the Ravens at the Saints for today to get you set for that one breaking down Traditional markets and the player props over at Fan Duel Sportsbook We'll do that in just one second But first a reminder to make sure you are subscribed to covering the spread wherever you get your podcast We of course are an Apple podcast Spotify Stitcher Google podcast Amazon wherever you find your podcast you can find us Just search for covering the spread hit subscribe and if you like what you hear leave us a rating and review as well Also up on the Fandall YouTube page each day after the fact now is the perfect time to download Fandall America's number one sportsbook because right now new customers get a no sweat first bet up to $1,000 that's free bets back if your first bet doesn't win Try out features like same-game parlays play your way and bet on more than just the final score We've drawn everything from touchdowns to the yards and catches all in an app that's safe secure and super easy to use So sign up today for your first no sweat first bet Make every moment more this season with Fandall official sportsbook partner of the NFL must be 21 plus and president select states First online real money wager only refund issue is not on the trouble-free bets that expire in 14 days Restrictions apply state terms at sportsbook.fandall.com gambling problem call 1-800 gambler or visit fandall.com slash RG and Arizona 1-800 next step or text next step to 5334 2 in Connecticut 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org slash chat in Indiana 1-809 with it in Kansas NY only 105 to 2 40 is 100 and in Kansas KS gambling health comm in Louisiana 1877 770 stop in New York 1 877 a hopin wire text open Y in Tennessee call the red line at 1 889 9789 let's shift our focus now to this Ravens at the same scheme or right now We got the Ravens as one and a half point favorites total is 46 now We'll break down those markets here in a second but Ryan first I want your overall thoughts on this game Ravens at Saints where the Ravens coming into this game super super banged up Yeah, I think though the only thing that's the saving grace for Baltimore coming into this game as you look at the Saints and they're dealing with their own multitude of injuries right on the offensive side and the defensive side I believe too almost with some pieces banged up. So You know for the Ravens here for me, it's gonna be it's gonna come down to the fourth quarter I mean this team has absolutely and we've seen it with a lot of good teams I think the Rams are really bad in the fourth We saw the Titans last night on Sunday night football their numbers aren't great in the in the Ravens are the same way They have you know gone out to early leads here through the first three quarters And then they just let teams back in the game because they can't do anything. So I think the Saints are Actually one of the best offensive teams when it comes to the fourth quarter as well, too So this is gonna be really huge. I think, you know, the books are getting the line right at opened at one Ravens favored by one now it's one and a half I know it was better up to two and a half but because of the injuries and everything that the Ravens are experiencing the number one back down. So This this is one where you know, you kind of do the heart versus the head, right? And and Baltimore's actually had some success Going against the Saints. I believe they're five and two all time against this team And they're actually two and oh in New Orleans against this team as well, too So they have a little trend working with them in their favor You know it if you do like the Raven side I think I'm gonna tend to lean the over in this matchup too because the Saints have you know They they found some offensive strides here being able to put up 24 points in every Andy Dalton start We're expecting to see him again But the defense has also allowed 20 plus points to opposing teams in every game So if we like, you know the Saints to be able to put up some points here in this game Ravens to win. I think I actually like the over here Yeah Oh, the total is a 46 and a half right now over at Fandall Sportsbook And I want to keep an eye on the money line in this game I think that's the key thing for me is keeping tabs there because I'm not gonna get to the spread in this game I want to see if we continue to see movement towards the Saints because I've got the Ravens win-offs at 53.8% right now and that's that's including the Mark Andrews injury that includes No, we're shot Bateman and stuff like that So if we continue to see movement in New Orleans favor and we can get that across 110 and get it to like Minus 107 minus 105 you honestly minus 110. I might take the Ravens money line there I am not seeing enough value right now with the money line being minus 120 I want a little bit more leeway to get myself margin for error to be wrong on my read on this team given all the injuries they've got so As we get closer to kick off maybe Travis Lander gets announced and something like that And that does if that moves stuff towards the Saints I could see myself buying to the Ravens if it doesn't get to 110 I'm probably just gonna stay away and be content to enjoy some football as opposed to Sweating out that money line like I just wet the bucks last night So I want to see where it goes right now that I think that's the one place I could see myself getting into is potentially the Ravens money line if we get it at 110 or better Yeah, no, I I think that makes you know a good call and even if you want to look at some just because of how Exciting they've been and how explosive they've been to start games Like if you want to look at Ravens first half numbers when those get posted, I think that's an interesting lean as well, too But but yeah, we're hoping for we're hoping for fireworks in this game Even without the key pieces. We've seen this with the Ravens, you know a lot of the time And I think that's why the line has only moved a little bit because I mean Mark Andrews is great I I don't want to say anything about him and what he means to this offense But like, you know, they're gonna throw out likely there It's not even that great of a matchup for tight end, which we'll talk about later I imagine but still with like even without Bateman who hasn't really been healthy at all since week one or two It feels like they still have other pieces to kind of make things go on offense So as long as Lamar's in there, we can expect lots more to do some of the same things So let's talk about those remaining pieces here. The Ravens are missing Mark Andrews for shot Bateman Gus Edwards will be he's doubtful for today as well So that could open up some stuff on the Raven side in addition to the fact that it could just lower their offense overall So when we take those pieces out of the equation any props standing out for you on the Raven side of things Yeah, I mean especially the Gus Edwards one because he came back in and just you know Looked actually absolutely explosive and we know that the Ravens are still only giving the running backs limited work Right these are guys that are gonna see 20 touches But Gus Edwards through his career has been, you know, a great kind of guards for Kerry guy without him being there and without the goal line Back opportunities for him. I do like Lamar Anytime touchdown, which is at around plus 145 I believe is what I saw it on the Fandall sportsbook That that's just such a great number for him when I get into the red zone You know, I think that people think it'll be, you know, Kenyan Drake or things like that And you hope that the run game could be going a little bit because they're just apt to you know run an RPO And let Lamar kind of figure it out himself and anytime we can get that number, you know, almost one and a half Plus one and a half there. I got it. I got a look at that I'm also interested as well just because in the grand scheme of things. I know the Saints The Saints actually have allowed a couple rushing touchdowns already this year Which is, you know, they're better on paper than they actually have been with their stats, but I still think they've been Trying to be better on their run defense. And so Lamar Jackson passing as well I think is interesting over one and a half passing touchdowns. You're getting at plus money there We've seen him, you know Be able to find the likes of guys like likely and they've tried to throw the James crochet and Devin Duverney is there So if they are, you know, able to hold them kind of in the red zone and get them into some second and long Third and longs there. We could see Lamar passing a little bit more in the red zone So I like getting this passing touchdowns too. Yeah, the anytime touchdown one is as you mentioned plus 145 The over one and a half passing touchdowns is plus 108 right now at Fandle Sports We can get both those as of right now for Lamar. I did want to look at Justice Hill props given that there is one less guy in the backfield, but there aren't any right now I've checked a couple books. I've not found any Justice Hill props as of now Because Kenny and Drake will likely be the lead back for this team But as you mentioned, they don't like to make one guy be kind of the primary option here So Justice Hill 21% snap rate last week. That was a game after he had a pretty crucial mistake I think that was in week seven where he had a really bad fun Yeah week seven really bad fumble there and I thought that he might get totally phased out But still a 21% snap rate there had four carries no targets But if you can get like a super low number on Justice Hill once it once it opens I think he'll be involved Fortunately, I do not expect this to be a full Kenny and Drake kind of game I'd like that for one dinosaur team where I accidentally hadn't on a roster still But I think we could see some Justice Hill sprinkled in there So once slash if Justice Hill props wind up going up I'd probably at least give them a look because I think he'll be involved in some way I don't think it'll be you know, just Ken and Drake here I don't think Mike Davis gonna get a ton because it's Mike Davis. So I would check out Justice Hill numbers I did look at Isaiah likely You're not catching anybody sleeping here He's at 40 and a half receiving yards at some other spots like that's not a low number It's it's a fair number. I get it, but it's not where I'm looking to snag and over there by any means So I would check out Justice Hill once those numbers are up. Let's slip it over to this. Okay Yeah, I was just gonna say real quickly jump the other thing about Ken and Drake too is like he's very prominent in the receiving game So I'm looking at other books and like you're looking at his rushing and receiving prop being at 60 and a half But his receiving prop is only at 12 and a half Which is definitely this doesn't feel right right like we feel like we have an edge there a little bit 12 and a half it is it is on some books like juice to 120 But I still kind of like that and if you see some outlines to like I'd be willing to get it's like 15 or so Because that seems a little bit more reasonable. Yeah, Drake was firmly the passing game back last week four targets in that game Cottle four for only five yards, but like he was very involved in the passing game in that one Let's talk about the Saints here Jarvis Landry questionable heading into this game They will not have Michael Thomas definitively here. No Mark Ingram either The Mark Ingram absence last week did kind of open up things for Alvin Camaro a bit But I think he was probably gonna do that regardless So what's your read on the Saints here with no Thomas and no Ingram? Yeah, so, you know just back to some of the same I mean no Thomas and no Ingram. It's fire up Alvin Camaro any anywhere that you can The touch any time touchdown line at minus 110 on the fan bill sports book is absolutely I just don't understand it at all. It's my favorite bit of the game by a pretty wide margin Yeah, I mean that that is just like a hammer town I mean, you know again I hate to say locks and things that nature right because we got another guy in there that I want to talk about but But yeah, this just feels right if for some reason it doesn't it doesn't hit It's because you know, they gave Alvin Camaro all this work last week and he's used up And so we can't get the favorable but it's just the fair number I'm you're also looking at his rushing and receiving yard prop I believe around like one oh one oh five and a half one oh six possibly in some places the only Running back that I can see that has hit this number all season against this team is Nick Chubb So I think that's a that's a that's an interesting line there Against the Ravens the other thing to talk about is Taysum Hill and what we get him at Taysum Hill last week saw a Season high and in 10 carries We know that they love to use him all around the field doesn't matter You know, it doesn't matter who's starting like this guy This is why this guy has quarterback and tight and eligibility and some of your fantasy leagues We're interested in him time touchdown to I believe plus one six on the Fandall's workbook is where we have him It's probably not gonna come out on the lines But if we could get you know a rushing prop on him or maybe some carries prop I would be apt to look into them because outside of like you're saying Alvin Camero with these other guys like I'm not gonna fall into the Washington bucket or anything like that like it's gonna be the Alvin Camero and Taysum Hill show that they've shown us all year long Yeah, Taysum plus 170 for any time touchdown over a Fandall sportsbook right now So not a bad number there given the way he is he is not I agree that with no mark anger You could see him used even more Because they want another bruising type back and he kind of is that guy for the team right now going back to Camero The reason I loved the any time touchdown prop at minus 110 And that's my favorite bet of tonight's game is that he had the three touchdowns last week But that was actually the worst red zone role He's had in a while because he scored outside the red zone twice. He just he was very good. He played great Leading into that I think his red zone share on the season was like 41.8 percent. That's a very good number That's the kind you get like I'm like a top ish and running back is around 40% You'll get guys a 50% or system times, but 41% is a very good number So although it's frustrating to see Taysum Hill take away some goal line work from Camero That's a really good role still so when I opened it up with Camero coming off a Three touchdown game. I kind of thought we'd see him hovering closer to minus 130 or so for an anytime touchdown I was like, okay, cool. Like I'll check it I'm probably not gonna get there, but I'll check it. He's minus 110 at Fandle He's minus 125 at a lot of other books. I think I saw minus 105 at that MGM this morning So check around still, but he's shorter a lot of other places I think that is the best bet in this game Unless we get the Ravens money line to be minus one of seven ish or so I would buy in there But I think the Camero anytime touchdown Ryan I agree with you is like the best way to get exposure to this game right now Yeah, it just is not a normal number that we see for a lead back in an offense, you know in a In a game that's got a one and a half spread To it with pieces missing it just you know And I you know, I guess it's because of how the Saints kind of run their offense, right? Yeah, anybody have any given day which does frustrate them But the way that they've been giving Camero the ball like you're talking about in recent weeks is great We can't you know, let's not bury the lead here as I talked about Camero and taste milk Crystal Lave is an absolute stud like you can see why they wanted to get this guy On their roster here in the first round and sorry even the even the guys outside. I think are a little bit They're excited to bang in the table. They want the a lot of a props exactly So yeah, his prop is I'm looking at in some books. You know, you're looking at over receiving yards of 63 and a half This guy's not had under 50 since his week one performance and that was his first game ever in the NFL I think those are very interesting and especially when you're looking at the way that the deep ball has factored in with these two teams He has been, you know, absolutely one of the best when you're looking at passes 20 yards or more down the field And the Ravens are allowing the second most yards on pass attempts 20 plus yards down the field So, I mean Crystal Lave could be in a prime spot to just pop even when Jarvis Landry who's questionable We'll see if he's going to play it seemed it trended likely going into the weekend But obviously he hasn't played in a couple weeks. So we want to see that come to fruition first But I think any Crystal Lave props that you can get behind are absolutely great Baltimore is allowing the second most targets third most yards and receptions to wide receivers. So Smash spot for Crystal Lave and I think a lot is one of the guys where you could also consider the alternate markets We talked about that with was it Marquez Valdez scantling a couple weeks ago where they Have a path to explosions a path to eruptions because a lot of a like he he gets seven targets in a lot of games but he also has games where he gets like 14 and With the deep balls that you mentioned It's not just deep balls like he gets other stuff too But the deep balls given paths to having a bunch of yardage in a very short time span So if you want to dive in alternate markets for a lava He is a guy who can actually get there and do it in a pretty decent manner I wouldn't be looking to catch props because he's getting a lot of low percentage balls But yardage numbers like that yardage when you mentioned 63 and a half I think that's interesting But also alternate numbers on a lava very much in play for this week as far as touchdown props We did talk about Khmer we talked about Taysum Hill plus 170 in the Lamar touchdown a plus 145 I'm not seeing anything else. I did check out again Justice Hill for any time touchdown He's a plus 310. I believe right now 320 not quite long enough to give me to buy in to Shawn Jackson his debut is three to one I did look I didn't I'm not taking it But I did look anything else you want to mention there before we close up shop for today I can't believe I can't believe Fando sportsbook. We're gonna have to look into this three to one on just on Jackson Who hasn't seen action in 2022? Yeah, just baiting us just I did want to quickly talk about this guy for the New Orleans Saints Rashid Shahid He is plus 1100 anytime touchdown and that's all this guy does right like I'm watching these island games with the Saints and They they are just drawing up packages to get this dude in space and Dalton has hit him a couple times already this season So he's an interesting one, especially if we get Jarvis Landry ruled out I think that I might you know take a shot on that at you know 11 to one odds for him to score a touchdown when the pieces of who can score pretty limited I'm in this offense right like outside of those two main pieces. We talked about our three main pieces I guess when you factor in taste them held to Camara and Crystal Ave But they each week it feels like they've gotten him more plays and more involved into the office It's still in a limited fashion But you know when we're talking about you know anytime touchdowns and getting a good number If he's gonna be on the field, you know a quarter of the time I'm willing to take a shot at 11 to one Yeah, I mean and they seem like they've been getting his role increased a bit because I think they realize that he's kind of fun He is with a lot of teams You'll see them use gadget type guys to get like some a field stretcher in there like if the Rams had this guy He'd have an 80% snap rate because they have no juice With the Saints they don't need that because Chris Olavi has juice But they're I think they just kind of like him and I don't blame them. He's kind of fun So she heed is 11 to 1 to score touchdown at Bandual sports book I find that pretty interesting as well any other Props or things you want to mention from this game before we close up shop for today No, I think that's all I think I think it is a It feels like we only talked about a handful of good pieces in here And like that's what it seems like But these are two offenses that I think you know why I like the overs because they'll find ways to get Some of these other pieces involved like they will make it work Like we could see Marcus Callaway going out there without Jarvis Landry until you know get those targets on the other side You know James crochet and Tylen Wallace like they're just gonna find ways to get Guys the ball and just move down. They don't necessarily always rely on their main pieces to get things done So that's what makes it exciting for me and why I'm interested in getting the over here. No more quest Callaway tonight Let's let's give it all to Camara, please He can have his time next week. I just want to get that Camara anytime touchdown and we can be happy So Callaway next week, please that is all that we have here on covering the spread of forward today We'll be back once again tomorrow to break down and if a week number 10 get a first look at that and also recap Went down this past week another good week by Ryan So recap that on tomorrow show hope we can close it out on a good note for Monday night as well Get that by subscribing to the covering the spread podcast feed and the fan dual YouTube page Ryan I appreciate the time as always. Oh, good job again this week Good luck to you on Monday night to close out things and we'll talk to you once again Thursday for our week 10 full preview sounds good good luck to you my good friend and all our friends out there listening appreciate it Absolutely, that is Ryan Williams checking out on Twitter at Ryan Alexander underscore W I'm on Twitter at Jim Sonnis You can also follow the fan dual podcast network at fan dual podcast big Thank you to everyone for tuning in and good luck to you with your bets for Monday night football Let's get that Camara touchdown. We'll talk to you once again tomorrow to recap week number nine Look forward to week number ten. This has been covering the spread right here on the fan dual podcast network


So, our next talk is entitled is my kidney cancer genetic and our members of my family at risk. I can tell you that one of the things that's changed over the last decade is more and more people with kidney cancer are asking that question. And there are a group of experts in our country, one of which is Oro Gordon, who's the director of our genetic risk program who can really start to put some content on the relationship between your kidney cancer yourself, your family's risk, and what you should be thinking about. So welcome, Oro. Thank you for coming and talking to us. Hi. Good afternoon, everybody. I will try very hard to keep you awake after lunch. Okay. So, the first thing that most people think about when you start to talk about genetic testing, risk susceptibility, your family, the consequences is a whole range from I want to know everything to I don't go to a fortune teller why would I possibly want to get into this genetic information. And I think that you'll see in the next few minutes that really there's a lot of practical, very important information and we approach every individual and every family as a unique circumstance and what's right for one may be right for it, may not be right for another. I'm going to give you a five-minute primer on genetics 101 and don't worry, there will not be a quiz at the end. So there has been an extraordinary evolution in terms of the information that we have gained from the human genome projects and sequencing of our human genome. And what we have culled from that is that we have a lot fewer genes than we thought we did, but there's still a whole lot of them, about 25,000. And of those, there are several hundred which are causative for susceptibility to malignancy. So within the last five years or so, there has really been great advances in two arenas, one in identifying single genes that cause kidney cancer and other disorders or other tumors as well as the trying to understand well, what's the vulnerability for somebody who has what appears to be a sporadic cancer? Is there some kind of susceptibility that can be identified? And also the genomics or the genome of the tumor itself and how do we use that to target therapy to exquisitely kill off the cancer that is unique to that tumor? We all carry deleterious mutations, every single one of us. The question is whether we can identify it, if it manifests in a way that brings to attention that we need to look for something or we do carrier screening because of family planning, we have four to five, at least, what we call deleterious or harmful genes that we carry within our body. This just sort of walks you through kind of the various spectrums of genetic disease and how things are identified. And what we call genomics is really looking at less one single gene. Did you get it? Did you pass it on? But more the gestalt of your DNA. How is this interaction between your genome personally and your environment? How does that work? How does that make you vulnerable to disease, particularly chronic disease of adulthood, response to therapy and other kinds of things? What I'm gonna talk to you about today really is much more in the arena of the single gene disorder to really try to give you some practical guidelines about whether your kidney cancer could be part of a hereditary susceptibility. And how do you go about approaching that? So this is an old adage, all cancer is genetic, only 10% is inherited. And that has held pretty true. So within the kidney cancer arena, it's estimated between about five and 10% are due to single gene susceptibility. So that there was a intrinsic change in your DNA or in a person's DNA that put them at risk for developing their kidney cancer. And in all, in many common cancers, we see this same genetic susceptibility. Familiar, so when we use this language, it means, well, there's more than one in a family, and can we identify something or not? When there's only one or two cancers and not in the spectrum of things that I'll talk to you about kind of these harbingers of syndromes, it's much harder to identify a single vulnerability. And it's much harder to identify who's really at risk. So this is sort of the classic development of cancer. And so when we think about tumors, it is when the genetic makeup of the cell becomes aberrant, and it loses its ability to do what it was supposed to do.  And so that's what cancer is. So all cancer is a result of an acquired set of mutations or errors in the DNA. It gets very confusing because we now hear a lot about tumor testing, genomic testing of the tumor, trying to figure out is there a targeted therapy that is appropriate for that specific cancer? And so people feel like well, I had genetic testing. They sent off my, my tumor was sent off and I had some genetic testing. There are two different kinds of genetic testing. One is what we call germline, which is what is in every cell of your body that you were born with. And the other is what we call somatic, or in the tumor itself. The germline mutations cause the familial hereditary susceptibility. From in the egg or the sperm and in every cell of the body. It is not doing anything problematic until its function is lost. And then that cell becomes more vulnerable to acquired injury, which ultimately may become cancer. Those are the ones that you can pass down. The somatic mutations only occur in the tissue. A question that's going to be emerging as we do more and more tumor testing is will we identify genetic changes in the tumor that are in fact reflective of what's inside that person's germline as well? And will we perhaps find people who are at risk for familial syndromes by actually testing their tumors first? So this is all very new and very novel, but there are kind of two approaches. The classic approach is based on the family history. So for those of you who aren't used to drawing family trees, first of all, I want to encourage you because Thanksgiving is National Family History Day and it really is a great opportunity to just take a little time and get information on family members and pass that down and kind of make it a legacy to be able to be clear. It's amazing how much good information people have about their family members and how much misinformation they have, particularly when you get about a generation back. So what we call these cancer syndromes are autosomal dominant with incomplete penetrance and what that means is that you carry a susceptibility. It's in every cell of your body. You have a working copy and a non-working copy. When you reproduce, when you make egg or sperm, you either pass on the good copy or you pass on the copy that has the mutation. You have to lose the working, the other copy is normal and you have to lose or that one has to become injured in order for that cell to become vulnerable, which is why not every person who has a hereditary susceptibility develops cancer and in fact the lifetime risks really range from 30 to 40% perhaps a risk for kidney cancer to 60 to 70%, but not 100%. In fact, there are only a couple of cancer syndromes where there really is the expectation that unless you do something that person will develop cancer. So here's just a list of sort of some common cancers, all of which have at least this 10% underlying genetic cause for which we can identify a mutation and figure out who's at risk and who's not at risk. Here are some that can cluster in families but that are felt to be much more environmental. But even this is evolving as I was talking about sort of the genomics, it's the, well, what's my genetic may loo? And maybe that's why I'm more susceptible to smoking or more resistant to smoking related cancer. I apologize that this is a little hard to read. But basically the cancer syndromes and syndrome means a bunch of things that seem to be unconnected going together from one the same etiology. So they historically had a whole bunch of names, most of which from European physicians who have kind of unusual names. And so Von Hithlalindau, Lee Fraumani, Bert Hogg-Dubay. These are all just guys who decided that for their epitaph, they wanted to have a syndrome named after them. The more recent syndromes, we start to describe what it is we're actually talking about. Like hereditary papillary renal cell. You know what that is because that's what those words are. And the hereditary leomitosis and renal cell, you may not know what leomitosis is, but you can figure it out. But the important thing is that there are benign things that people probably would never even think about. Conditions that could be going on within the family. Not connected to the person who has kidney cancer. That could in fact be all part of the same underlying genetic vulnerability. So what I say is if you have one of these in your family. In fact, if you even recognize these words, it probably means you need to come in and see me. They are individually quite rare, most of them. A few, like Lyoma, which are fibroids on the uterus, are incredibly common. Lots of ladies will have fibroids on their uterus. Just having a fibroid does not mean that you're at risk for kidney cancer or part of a kidney cancer syndrome. But some of these otherwise benign but very distinctive, like a fibrofoliculoma, is a little popular, like a milia. Like when babies get the little white bumps on the face, the trunk, the back. Nobody would ever put it together with somebody else in the family having kidney cancer. But those are the kinds of clues that say, hey, there might be something going on here. I know this morning in the pathology lecture that was touched on to about certain kinds of the histology that certain kinds of cancer speak to a higher genetic vulnerability. And that also very much so. So if there's a chromophobe tumor within your, you've had it yourself, an oncocytoma, the papillary renal cells. These have a much higher component of an underlying genetic susceptibility. So just in case you don't know, when we talk about a first degree relative, people get this all confused. So your first degree relatives are your parents, your siblings, and your kids. And from there on it goes on.  It's okay. So what we, the genetic counselors who work with me take a lot of time to really try to get a very careful family history. The other thing that people actually stop paying attention to is that all of the cancers have to be actually on the same side of the family for it to really pull together as a genetic susceptibility. If you have a mom and a dad who've had kidney cancer, that may impact your risk, but it's not likely to be due to a single gene. Because unless they were distant cousins or related somehow. So you're really trying to track everything from one side of the family and everything from the other side of the family. Familial kidney cancer, so this has been, this is sort of a semantic description when there's more than one kidney cancer within the family. Generally felt to be the same histologic subtype. So it's papillary or it's a oncocytoma or it's RCC or it's a clear cell. And that there's no underlying known syndrome. There doesn't appear to be anything else going on. The rate or the amount of this is really shifting because we have done so much in terms of being able to increase the number of genes that we can identify. I forgot to mention, let me just go back. So this list on the left of all these letters. These are the letters encoding the names of the genes that cause these syndromes. And historically somebody who was thought to be part of a syndrome would come in, see me, I would do a clinical exam, I would scour their skin, I would look for things, I would ask them things that seem totally unrelated like, do you have you ever had problems with your thyroid? Have you ever had fatty tumors that have been taken off and all kinds of other stuff? And then I would make a decision, I'd say, this seems to be syndrome leaf romeany, this seems to be von Hippolindo. And I'm going to proceed with one single gene test, which costs several thousand dollars and the yield was pretty low. We now in the last year have been able to do something called next generation sequencing, look at huge amounts of genetic information at much reduced costs, very expeditiously. So now all of these genes are available to be tested all together on one panel for half the price of testing, one of them singularly. So this has really been this massive revolution in terms of being able to get data and that's why that familial component may really be changing because people were not getting tested before or the genes weren't available. That said, if you've gone through genetic testing, if there are multiple kidney cancers in your family, there's nothing clinically that seems to be explaining it and all genetic testing is otherwise negative, then you are left with this sort of familial risk. And when there are two or more cancers, we do recommend screening to the next generation. So in first degree relatives, siblings or children, very unclear in terms of what's the modality, should it be ultrasound or should it be CT? How often it should be? There was one series that was very long term out of the National Cancer Institute picking up two of about 150 people who had been screened because of the family history. But I think that that's really very limited in terms of trying to understand what's the best way to identify that empiric risk if all else fails. When there is sporadic cancer, only one kidney cancer is not recommended to screen the family members routinely. So these are sort of the red flags, the walk-offs in terms of what to, if could this be part of your family and your personal history with your cancer. Early age of onset, in the older I get, earlier becomes later, but under the age of 50, some say 45, but I say 50 in my clinical practice. Bilaterality, which means you've either had two separate kidney cancers, or you have tumors that are on both kidneys. Multifocalody, so with the exception of oncocytomas, you would expect with multiple primary tumors to be higher likelihood of having our hereditary syndrome. And then if there's family history, particularly of these clasts that are called neuroendocrine tumors. And these are really tumors that probably most people have never heard of. But if you've had someone in your family or you, with a pheochromocytoma, or a paraganglioma, or something called a gist tumor, it is, again, very high probability that there is in fact an underlying genetic susceptibility as the cause of that cancer. So I thank you all for your attention. I'm very impressed that nobody has passed out from their turkey, their turkey sedation, and I open it for questions. Thank you. So, and we'll have a couple of moments for questions, but Cora, help them understand what they would do if they come to your office. You do a genetic screening, you identify a risk. What do you, how do you act on that risk in a general sense? You know, that's, thank you so much because what happens, so somebody comes in and we take a lot of time in terms of getting records and family history and really trying to clarify things and we undergo genetic testing. If we find that you or someone in your family carries a mutation, it is not a diagnosis and that's a really important message. This is just recognizing that there is elevated risk. So then I start screening and prevention, whatever the constellation of cancers or other kinds of clinical findings. So for example, in Burt Hogg-Dubey, we would do chest x-rays to see if that person might have the cysts that could put them at risk for having their lung collapse and make preventive recommendations before they fly or go to high altitude. So those kinds of practical things. If it's cancer susceptibility, there may be cancer susceptibility of the colon or the uterus or the ovaries connected to what was just appeared to be the kidney cancer. And so that we do high risk screening in some situations, recommend preventive surgery, for example, hysterectomies after childbearing. Those are the kinds of empiric things. We don't have medical primary preventive options currently for kidney cancer, but this is all sort of part of the emerging, what the hope is in terms of going forward and in research is really saying, how can we identify somebody at risk before they have cancer and do something to intervene and intercede so they don't get cancer?  While you're walking there, let me just ask one or one more question. So there are familial syndromes, but people who have family members over the age of 50 who have kidney cancer still have an increased risk. Right. How do you help those people as compared to those that have the germ line abnormalities? How do you approach that? It's a much more gray area. And so a single family member, later age of onset, there is a small increase in risk. Sometimes we feel more confident if we feel that there's some strong environmental component, very heavy tobacco history in that individual, not by others. But I tend to try to advocate for some surveillance to at least do baseline ultrasounds because there isn't radiation to do screening. But there's no guideline. And it's really kind of an open arena in terms of how often can I get it covered by insurance, what should I be doing? But I do, especially if there's more than one cancer in the family. If there are 12 siblings and there's only one person with kidney cancer, provide a lot of reassurance. I'm wondering what you suggest if you have very little family history or almost no family history, if you suggest doing something? Because I wonder about my children. I have very little family history because I'm adopted and so on. Right, absolutely. So people who are adopted the threshold, obviously you can't use a family history. So then we really hone in on just the individual. So if when you had your cancer, the age that you had your cancer, I would advocate that a very thorough exam that we basically, the benchmark comes all the way down because we don't have, the power of the family history is either to describe something that looks like a syndrome or to give a lot of reassurance saying there's so many people with nothing that we feel better about that. But without, if you have, you're estranged from your family, you're adopted, everybody passed away early from other causes. Then you should come in kind of based on the age or if there's something characteristic about your cancer. Thank you. Thank you, Laura.


Why did Jesus come to earth? Uh-hmm. Uh, yeah? Jesus came to show us how to be good people. Don't you remember in the Bible where it says that we've all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God? That we are incapable of doing good? Oh, yes. I forgot about that. Well, he came to overthrow the Romans and liberate the Jewish people. Don't you remember where Jesus said, I've come to bring peace, not a sword? Oh, my bad. Um, you know, okay, please stop. The Bible says that we are dead spiritually, but this is what Jesus said. The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy, but I have come that they may have life and life abundantly. The abundant life that Jesus is talking about isn't referring to money or social standing. It's about being freed from the power and penalty of sin and finding our joy in Christ. Jesus came to this earth, lived, died, rose, that we would be free from sin and live in relationship forever with him. Follow up for more Christ-centered content.


Hey everyone, it's Gabrielle with Oxmerotic Group. I'm here today at Oxmer Twitter for our Facebook Use Vehicles of the Week. Now this week I have three luxury brand vehicles to share with you. So this first one is luxury at its finest. This is a 2014 Rolls Royce Ghost. This vehicle is incredible. So I want to go over a couple of the features. There's just way too many to actually talk about. But the first one I want to show you is this right here. This is actually $10,000. And when you lock the car it goes down so that nobody will steal that. But let's go ahead and unlock it again. The exterior color is in a silver. So I want to go ahead and go in the interior. Now this vehicle does have a camera system. There is a panoramic sunroof. The vehicle has a comfort entry system. So the leather, which you can see, is gorgeous. But it's the Napa Valley leather. The leather actually has zero imperfections. This vehicle does have a 6.6 liter V12 engine. There is front ventilated seats. And Kenny, I actually want to show you another thing. If you want to show right here, if you push this button, there is an umbrella that actually comes out for you. So I don't know if you've ever seen anything like that before. But the vehicle has an umbrella. So something really cool. But this vehicle is just gorgeous. I just wanted to highlight it for you. Now the mileage on here though is $12,158. And the price is $149,700. For our second vehicle this is a 2017 Lexus RX350. It is all-wheel drive. The exterior color you're seeing is in a silver. Now this vehicle does have 17-inch alloy wheels. In the interior it has heated and ventilated seats. There is a heated steering wheel. So the vehicle does have the premium package. It has a blind-spot monitoring. There is a sunroof. There's a backup camera. It also has touch-free power rear door. The interior is a parchment leather. Mileage on this is $17,979. The price is $38,987. For our last vehicle this is a 2016 Lexus IS 200T. The exterior color is in a silver. This vehicle does have 241 horsepower with 258 pound foot of torque. Vehicle does have bluetooth backup camera. There's a sunroof. 17-inch alloy wheels. Vehicle does have a clean car fax. Had one previous owner. The interior is a black. Mileage is $24,915. Price is $23,223. If you guys have any questions on any one of these vehicles please feel free to let us know. Also make sure to check out our express store on our website just at oxmartwayota.com. I'll have a link to each vehicle that I did go over today in the comments. So thanks so much and I will see you all soon. Bye!


Hi, a very good evening to everybody. What I'm going to spend the next 10, 15 minutes is to take you through the brand's perspective of how we view influencer marketing, and maybe share an example of how influencer marketing has been responsible for success for certain products that we've launched. I'll try to keep it as engaging as possible, so please bear with me. Just to set a little context as to who we are as a brand. So Plum is our flagship brand. It's a 100% vegan brand, and we operate in skin, hair, and color cosmetics. We have a sub-brand called Body Lovin, which is a bathroom body extension of Plum. And then we have Fi, which is into mail grooming. Our brand's all about spreading goodness without costing the earth too much. And that's what we really believe in what we stand for, and we bring forward to our consumer base. The Body Lovin brand is all about loving every inch, and that's the proposition that we bring about with this category of products, which are much more fun. How influencer marketing really helps us in bringing forward all of this is something that I would want to take you through. These are a couple of values that we really, really stand for, and any marketing mix that we approach also is an extension of these values. Of course, customer delight. When we approach influencer marketing, we first solve for what's in for the consumer, rather than trying to do a hard sell about the product. And the previous panel also spoke very strongly about it. We let the influencers create content. We really don't compartmentalize it in very strong briefs. There's an overarching brief that is shared with the influencers, but we give them all the leeway because they understand their audience better. Of course, transparency, when it comes to our products, when it comes to any communication, we do not hide anything. We are as black and white as it can get from an offering perspective. And that also helps on in building trust with the consumers. Of course, we are all about spreading goodness. So through our content strategy, we also bring about good to the planet. We are partners with 1% for the planet, where 1% share of our sales goes every year towards WWF. In the past, we were associated with saving the snow leopard. As of now, we are working with beach cleanup drives with WWF as well. Just a little context setting as to where we are, because I think this will give you a perspective of the strategy that then unfolds when it comes to influencer marketing. We are a multi-channel brand. We are amongst the top five skincare brands in different marketplaces. As far as our spread goes, we are in about 300 towns in over 300 assisted outlets, more than 15,000 unassisted outlets. We already have exclusive outlets, which are 10 in number. And every month, we are adding one or two more doors. So that's as far as the overall expanse of the brand really goes. Of course, you're present in all top retailers, whether online and offline. I think what are the challenges that one is facing? And I can say that with hand on heart for every brand and brand custodian that is there in this room today or outside. It's a very, very diverse consumer set that we are addressing. There is no one fixed solution that can serve the needs of every consumer. I think the linear funnel that really existed long time back, which was all about top of final awareness, consideration, and purchase doesn't really exist. I think it's morphed into more of a sphere where the consumer is bouncing within that sphere across all touch points, which makes the life even more harder for brands. Of course, constant change in consumer behavior, change in trends doesn't make our life any simpler at that. And to top it all, clutter. How many skin care brands today in the market and one mushrooming in every corner of the country every now and then? So it just makes life even more tougher for brands like us. If that was not enough, I think these are all the parameters that even add more to the complexity of for brands. There's language, there's skin type, there is age, gender, income level, exposure level, education level, understanding trends.  I'm sure we all collectively can add another 10, 15 to this, if not more, which brings to the point that there's not going to be a one set pattern that can work for every launch that you do. Or even across categories, what works for skin as a category may not work for color cosmetics, may not work for hair. So you need to come and offer a distinct go-to market with each of these launches. So I'm just going to take you through one case study, which we're really proud of. And today, the product that I'm showing you is the Vitamin C serum. It is our number two across all market places. And this is one product which has been built on the back of influencer marketing. And just going to take you through how we kind of followed this entire journey through in the last one year of its launch. Of course, when you launch a product, you want people to know. But this is a more nuanced product. It's not like selling a face wash, which is a wash-off product, and you really don't need to hard sell it. When it comes to a serum category, there's no education that needs to be imparted to the consumer, hence solving what's in for them, rather than trying to solve for the brand as such. And again, a category which needs to be built on credibility. So while you would probably take the celebrity influencers to create awareness, but when it comes to credibility, efficacy, talking sense about ingredients, you really need to go to the specialist. And that's exactly the approach that we took. Of course, target audience essentially was 18 to 35. Like I said, it's a very nuanced product. It's talking about 15% ethyl ascorbic. It's talking about mandarin. It's talking about a lot of ingredients, which even I'm sure a lot of people in this audience would find it hard to understand. So how do you really dumb it down and make it more approachable is the way forward that we had to solve for. Two big channels for us, Instagram and YouTube. While Instagram, the approach was very simple. That we took care of very snackable content, which was more friendly for the platform. But long form content on YouTube was hardcore education about what serums are. What is vitamin C? What is the ingredient? What is the benefit? How do you layer and pair with other products that are available in the market? So prime underlying factor through this influencer campaign was to create a lot of education content with the specialists. Now, with any campaign that you're doing, you have to set aside what your key objective is and what the key communication parameter is going to be. Like I mentioned, we did not force fit that these are the five things that every influencer really needs to talk about. What we gave them was the ingredient understanding. What we told them was that you need to concentrate on what the end benefit of this product is, which was glow in this case. And of course, we tried to keep a color appeal so that there is more resilience and then more brand recall with respect to this product. In terms of our content strategy, in terms of the format strategy rather, for Instagrams, we all know reels really do well. We continue to do that. We also threw a lot of education carousel content through influencers, video stories where we wanted to track and have attributable traffic through influencers. And of course, every brand wants to do all of this for business at the end of the day. But that was not the key objective. I think a lot of brands fail when they try to use influencer marketing as or rather, they keep sales as a KPI for influencer marketing. We at Plum do not promote that at all. Yes, if sales come, great. But the idea is not to take that as a primary KPI. That's always a secondary KPI when we approach influencer marketing. And YouTube, like I said, we talk about a lot of integrated videos and not standalone videos to drive further more credibility. We were absolutely fine when we were being compared to other products and other brands in the market. In terms of the overall mix, I think there are certain fundamentals that we really believe in and have consistently proven are successful for us. One is long-term association with creative partners. I think it goes a long way in building credibility. And specifically when you're talking about a skin first brand, to ask a consumer to put an active-based serum requires the influencer to be really highly credible and be looked upon. You're not just going to get anybody who can create content and has a follower base to be able to do that. There is a very, very stringent short-listing process that we follow. We have a great in-house team. Of course, we work with a lot of agencies as well. But the mandate for the team is to actually wet each and every influencer so that we understand the credible aspect of it. Of course, awareness and those metrics that reach followers, engagement. Yes, those are hygiene. But beyond that, what kind of brands have they been associated with? What sort of content have they been able to create in this similar space? So a lot of checks and balances that we keep in mind before short-listing any particular influencer. For this particular campaign, it was a great mix between macros and micros. And we did layer it up with about a 10% mix coming from celebrity influencers for instant eyeballs for this particular launch. Besides this, at Plum, we have a very active, almost 2,000 influencer's affiliate program, which till today are running campaigns and creating content for us. And even through the affiliate program, till date, it's been more than a year of launch. Vitamin C serum happens to be our highest seller. So I think one big learning is ongoing engagement, nurture the content creators, make them grow with you. And I think that's where there is a win-win situation for both the brand as well as the content creator. Of course, influencer marketing is never in isolation. So our entire social campaign, content, all reach and frequency-based campaigns had the similar messaging to reinforce what the key communication was. These are the kind of content pieces on education that we were initiating with a lot of content creators as well and on our social media handles, which is actually decoding and making life simpler. I mean, skin business in India is still evolving. Consumers are still evolving. There is no 100% understanding of what products are available. And I think if a brand can take the high ground of trying to educate and make life simpler, it goes a long way in generating and building customer loyalty. Just coming through, like I said, we associated with a lot of Celeb influencers to get more and more eyeballs and instant awareness and talkability around it. Other key influencers were mostly beauty influencers going back to my couple of slides that I was talking about, where there is education leading to credibility. Because they have a loyal fan following. They swear by their recommendations. And that is exactly what we wanted to play along with. Of course, once this was done, we had a new brand ambassador on board. And what we then did was did a complete SOV campaign with YouTube on top 100 beauty influencers, again, helping to further drive credibility. And be seen at the right place, because beauty content is being consumed on YouTube. So why not show and reinforce your advertising through these content influencers? Just to summarize, we did all of this, but what did we gain out of it at the end of the day? What we gained out from an Instagram perspective was a very healthy CPV of 0.47, which is great by any industry standards. Even when it comes to YouTube, we were at a CPV of 0.54. I think one point that I would really like to emphasize here is that for brands and agencies, the KPIs that you've really gone for, I mean, you would not see sale here, right? Sale is an end result when it comes to influencer marketing. But what's really, really critical is that your primary KPIs are very, very well-defined. What did all of this engaging with more than 600 influencers, 2,000 affiliates really result into? As on date, we are number two on Amazon, just next to Garnier, which is, of course, really pumping a lot of money on top of mind, national television burst, et cetera. The Vitamin C campaign has never seen the face of television. It has only been supported in the last one year with extensive influencer marketing. And of course, we've coupled that with reach and frequency-based advertising as well. And we are one of the best sellers in this category on Nica. So all of this really gives us the confidence that influencer marketing is here to stay and will deliver results if done right. And I think just the last slide I want to take you through is what our learnings are as a brand, right? Relevant content, please solve for the consumer first and then for the brand. I think it's extremely important. Attention span is not more than a second, like we were discussing in the previous discourse as well. What's in for the consumer? Solve for that. Understand the content creator and what they can bring on board rather than trying to give them a checklist of things that you want to be spoken about only. Let the natural flair of that content creator be appreciated. Consistency, I think for driving credibility, it's important that you work with similar sort of consumers, influencers over a long period of time. It really helps build credibility. And we have seen results on a positive side, not just for this campaign, for multiple campaigns that we end up doing. Vernacular mix, I think I just missed talking about it even during the campaign. Tier two, tier three, Vernacular is here to stay. We've seen far better CPVs, far better engagement, far better ROI from a sale perspective, the moment we have a great mix of Vernacular content. Again, give the consumer the language that they really want to be spoken to in. Do not force fit English as your primary medium of communication even while creating content. Keep an eye on trends. I think, I mean, I don't really need to elaborate much on this, but what worked probably one year back may not be working for my launch that I'm going to do another three months down the line. So you need to continuously reinvent as a brand. And I think I've mentioned this enough. Look at the right KPIs. The other day I was speaking to an upcoming brand and the co-founder just mentioned to me that, you know what, how do you measure your ROI? We are not seeing sales happening. We've used the best of the influencers, et cetera, but I think it's just the wrong primary KPI. It's okay to have it as a secondary KPI, but primary KPI needs to be more on engagement and views. And I think that really is the success story for a lot of brands who approach it this way rather than trying to get instant sales and then culling off influencers who've not been able to do that. That's about it from me. I hope I could just add two cents of our experience and add value to yours. Thank you so much.


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Stop doing things that you don't like. I don't know about you, but f**k that. Today, we're gonna be talking about how to find yourself and how to become who you truly want to become. And we're actually going to follow a format by a philosopher who's now dead, as most philosophers are, and his name is Friedrich Nietzsche. And Friedrich Nietzsche is a philosopher who thought way different than everybody else did in the time that he was alive. And so I'm gonna go through the four different steps and talk through them and give you my opinion on all of them as we go through them as well. So let's dive into it. The first tip that he says to find yourself is to don't follow the herd mentality. And one thing that he says that we've all... What we call universal values, what we call truths, are always only personal expressions from the people who promoted them. So the things that we think are values and things that we're supposed to follow and things that we're supposed to do are only personal expressions of those who promoted them. And one of the things that I love thinking about it and what's really made me kind of forget about the system that we've been raised in, everything that I've been told and allowed me to think outside of the box, is I realize that everything that I have been told to follow, everything that I've been told is important, everything I've been told to do, and everything that we follow with society of what we are or not supposed to do, what's taboo, what's not taboo, is all made up by people that are no smarter than you and I. And they're usually dead. That's the crazy part about it. So we're following a set of values and things that we're supposed to societal constructs.  And I don't know about you. I don't want to listen to any dead people. I want to live my life the way that I want to live it. So what he's saying is don't follow the herd and it's tribal. We're all tribal people. So we want to fit in. We don't want to not fit in, but in order to create the life that we truly want to and the life that we see and know that we have the potential of creating, we're going to have to not fit in, right? If you think of all of the people that you look up to, Steve Jobs or Elon Musk or Nelson Mandela, I could go off and give you a ton of different people and go off on tangents and Jesus and Buddha and all of the people that you could look up to in your life, they were not people who fit in. So why do we feel like we need to fit in? If we want to live an extraordinary life, we should probably follow other people who had extraordinary lives, the ones that we look up to. And if they didn't fit in, then we should think to ourselves, I need to do whatever I can to not fit in as well, right? Because when we go with the herd mentality, it limits our individuality and it also limits our creativity as well. Right? How many people right now listening to this don't wear what you want to wear because it makes you stand out in some way. How many people don't act the way that you want to act or do the things that you want to do simply because you're worried about the thoughts and opinions of other people, right? That is the herd mentality.  You're dimming your light just to keep other people comfortable. I don't know about you, but that, that's not what I want to do. Think about that for a second. People don't stand out because they have the fear of being rejected. They have the fear of other people saying no to them. They're the fear of being ridiculed. And I understand once we go back to the fact that we are tribal beings, we have a part of our brain that makes us want to actually fit in with everybody. Because if you go back 100,000 years ago, 200,000 years ago, when we had to be in a tribe, we literally had to survive. The only way that we could survive is through a tribe.  They were there for our safety, they're there for our food, they're there for our community, they're there for protection, everything. So we have that part of our brain that still exists. But in 2021, 2022, beyond, do we really need to fit in with everybody else to survive? No, we have a society and systems built that we can survive without needing other people. Now, I'm not saying just be a loner forever. What I'm saying is if you don't fit in, if the future that you want to create doesn't fit in with the tribe that you currently have, you might have to leave that tribe and find a new one, right? People don't create the life that they want to. They're dimming their light simply because they don't want to be rejected. They don't want to stand out. They don't want to wear something different. They don't want to say a different opinion because people will ridicule you for standing out because you're showing them where they're dimming themselves. So let's talk about that for a second. The reason why people will will try to cut down. Australians call it tall poppy syndrome. Never been to Australia, but I have a lot of Australians that listen to me and they always talk about tall poppy syndrome, which is like, if you look at a poppy field and there's one poppy that's sticking up higher than the other one, you have to cut it down. And so one thing that's that I've been told, this is what I've been told as part of their culture is tall poppy syndrome. You're not supposed to stand out. And if you do stand out, you will be ridiculed in some way, right? And they ridicule you for standing out because they feel like you're showing off in some sort of way. But think about how many people don't create the life that they want. They don't have the life they want simply because they're worried about what they call tall poppy syndrome, what they're, you know, of being ridiculed, of, you know, being condemned. This is, but, but the reason why tall poppy syndrome exists in all of these different aspects can exist of not standing out.  And that makes them uncomfortable to see somebody living to their full potential. When they know deep down inside, they're not living to their full potential. So what do they need to do? They need to cut you down in some sort of way.  Right. That's the reason why you don't want to follow the herd. The herd consists of people who have, in a sense, killed their true self. They've killed their dreams. They've killed their goals and the life that they want simply to fit in. So if you want to create the life that you want, you've got to get rid of that. You've got to stand out. You've got to be OK knowing that there's a chance that some people are going to ridicule you. They're going to try to make you feel insecure. You've got to have the mental fortitude to not listen to them. Why do you think there's so many addictions? Why there's so many alcohol and drugs and food and sex and workaholism? Why? Because those things numb us from the feeling that we're dimming our light. Reason why addictions exist is because they numb and people are trying to numb the feeling that they are not living the life that they truly want to and that they're killing their dreams simply because they're afraid of what other people might think or because they don't want to stand out. It is numbing. Right. You've got to realize that. That's why so many people when they finally follow their dreams, they get rid of their addictions because they don't need to numb the feeling of I'm killing myself, my dreams, my life, my potential because I'm simply just trying to fit in. So the first part of how to find yourself is to don't fit in with the herd mentality. Right. The second part is to embrace the difficulty of self discovery. Right. As you start to discover yourself, as you start to do personal development, you start to work on yourself, things are going to pop up. And one of the things that Friedrich Nietzsche says is it's only when we're willing to face the challenge of life that we're spiritually growing. Right. It's about taking the difficult path, distancing yourself from others who aren't on the same path as you. That's what it requires of you. The path of self discovery means that you might have to walk alone for a little while.  It goes back to the, you know, as we go into self discovery and how it can be so hard as you kind of have to go into your past in order to, to be the full expression and to create the self that you're trying to create, you're going to have to get rid of the old things, the traumas, the fears, the worries, all of those things that are holding you back and are going to be slowing you down as you're creating that. Right. And it goes back to one of my favorite quotes. And it's the cave that you are afraid to enter holds the treasure that you seek. They say that again, the cave that you are afraid to enter holds the treasure that you seek. So let me ask you a question. What cave are you afraid to enter?  Leaving, acting like those things never existed are not going to help you going forward and creating the life that you want. You've got to go back and relive those things and work through them. And so I had this, this call with my mastermind and we talked about this the other day where it's kind of like if you've ever gone in the way I see trauma and unresolved trauma is it's kind of like if someone breaks a bone, right? The bone cracks in half and it goes back together, but it's not put together correctly, right? It's not put together correctly. There's going to be issues with that bone. And so what do you have to do in order for that bone to heal correctly after it's already healed? You have to break it again and heal it correctly. And so if something happened to me when I was eight years old and I won't go back and look at that thing and try to reprocess it and try to work through it, I'm still living. I'm still stuck energetically in my mind, in my life, processing that event as an eight year old. And I can tell you as a 35 year old right now, I was not as emotionally and intellectually intelligent as I am now. So I can either forever live that trauma and that event as an eight year old in my lack of intellectual and emotional intelligence or go back now as a 35 year old and it's not going to feel very good. Just like breaking another bone won't feel very good. But I've got to go back and do it in order to heal properly. And once they heal properly, I don't have to worry about it again, right? Once the bone heals properly, the bone heals properly. Once you heal properly, you heal properly. So that's why, you know, he says you have to embrace the difficulty of self discovery. It becomes hard sometimes, but I promise you this, it is the path that you need to follow in order to create the life that you want. The cave that you're afraid to enter holds the treasure that you seek. So what cave are you afraid to enter? You've got to figure out a way to get into it. OK, so that's the second one. Number three is to say yes to what gives you meaning. OK, say yes to what gives you meaning. So one of the things that he says, one of the famous quotes that he has, Frederick Nietzsche has, is he who has a why can bear almost any how. He who has a why can bear almost any how. My very first mentor used to say something very similar to this. He said, he used to always say, if your why is strong enough, your how will reveal itself, right? So say yes to what gives you meaning. What is it that gives your life meaning? What is it that you love? What is it that you loved as a kid? Right? What is it that makes you happy? One of the things that I find is that as people get older, they tend to act like they're not a little kid anymore.  I still feel like I'm a little kid.  You always feel like a little kid deep down inside.  And all of the things that you loved as a little kid, you still love now. It would still bring you joy. So what did you love as a kid? How many things have you muted in yourself simply because you feel like you're too old now, you're older, you're not supposed to do that. Once again, another societal construct based off of the herd mentality, right? What makes you happy?  It could be, you know, seeing your bank account grow. It could be a cup of coffee in the morning. It could be the sunshine, right? The sunshine makes me happy, right? What is it that makes you happy?  And I got this from a friend of mine who was the number 13 employee at Facebook and got fired from Facebook right before they went public and lost out on $180 million because he got fired from Facebook before they went public. And he went into a mini depression after all of this happened because Facebook was like his life. And one of the things that he said, that's a quote I don't think I'll forget the rest of my life is that I will not let my depression or my happiness be left up to chance. Let me say that again. I will not let my happiness or my depression be left up to chance. What he means is that if I'm going to be depressed, I'm going to be the one that's in control of that depression. But if I'm going to be happy, I'm going to be the one that's in control of that happiness. And so he did this. He made a list, a happy list of every single thing that he loves that makes him happy. And how did he get himself out of his depression?  And then every single day he would wake up and he would look at that list and plan how he can get as many of those things into his day as possible. Guess what? If you have a bunch of things in your day that make you happy, it's pretty hard to be depressed. And so the way he got himself out of that depression was by bringing as much happiness into his life as he possibly could. So do you have a happy list? What did you love as a kid? What do you love now? What do you want to try? What what what creativity makes you come alive? What music makes you come alive? What actions make you come alive, right? Bring as many of those things into your day. Stop doing things that you don't like, right? And some of you are going, Oh, well, that sounds nice, but you don't know my life, right? OK, cool. We'll make a transition plan. Make a goal by 2023. I will not do anything that doesn't light me up inside. Why can you not do that? Give yourself a couple of years to work on on creating the life that you want to. And you go, OK, do I have to do some things in my business now that I want to? Yes. Do I have to do this things that I want to? Yes. But how can I transition those things out over the next couple of years so that I don't have to worry about them by 2023? Is that possible for everybody? Yes. The only thing that's holding you back from doing it, though, is you. So make a happy list and bring as many of those things into your life as possible. Say yes to what gives you meaning. And number four, the fourth part of finding yourself is to know your true values, not the values that have been taught to you. But what are your true values? What are your values? Do you know what your values are? Who do you want to be? Not what do you want to accomplish? Who do you want to be? Think about that. What makes you feel alive? What makes you feel free? What are your true values? Write down everything and everyone that limits your freedom as a person, your partner, your friends, your work, your actions, whatever it is that limits your freedom and figure out a way to work through every single one of those. And a way to think of your true values is this.  How do you want to be described as your funeral? When people walk up to the stage, whenever that day comes, what do you want them to say about you? What do you want them to say about you? Think about that. That's your values. Not what your parents told you to do. Not what your parents told you was right or wrong. Not what societies told you were right or wrong. Not what your friends and every construct is told you is right or wrong. What are your true values?  How do you want people to talk about you? What do you want them to say about you? What do you want them to feel? How do you want to be described as your funeral? Those are your true values. So when you go in and you try to find yourself, one of those things is what is your true values? And you wake up every single morning, you look at that list of true values and you say, how can I make myself more of this? Okay, giving. Giving is one of the values that I want to work on. If that's the case, how can I give more today? What can I do today to give more? And you work at bringing those things into your life every single moment. Hey, thanks so much for watching this video. If you want to learn even more about Master Your Mind, click right here and watch this video as well. There has never been a study that's been done like this. Some of them became drug addicts, some of them became successful, some of them became CEOs, and one person in the study even became the president of the United States.


Hi, everybody. Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com with the last filler. We got to do to knock out that 2016 NT football break. We still have some spots left over. Other spots, other breaks filled before then, but that break is coming up a little bit later. But first, let's do the pack break before we give away the spots. Big thanks to Carl and Yon. Carl with 31 spots. Certainly has the odds on his side. Let's do the break first. Let's roll it randomizer one and a six, seven times. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh and final time. Seven times for the teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh and final time. All right, there's the first half of the list right there, second half of the list right over here. And let's just print and rip. Is this the right one? Let me look at the picture. It is. So many different retail packs in different years, different products, touchdown masters. These are kind of like the touchdown masters cards there. All right, so nothing too crazy there. What's in this bonus pack? Cousins Elijah Mitchell and James Robinson. Elijah Mitchell could be a somebody this year. It's pretty solid last year. Let's see if he builds on that this year. Rookie Pink Camo, Carl, and the Niners. And then an outdated kid reporter card. All right, now let's flip back over here. Let's gather everybody's names from one through 32 for a second and final dice roll. Now Carl definitely has the odds on his side. He's going to get spots. But let's see if Yan can sneak in there with that one spot. After three times, good luck to both of you. One, two, and three. After three times, top 10, get in. That's all Carl's right there. So I think Yan got in. Yan in spot four. Congrats, Carl. Thank you very much for all of your spots. Hey, Yan sneaks in as well after three. There you go, gang. I'm Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


As a doctor, as a surgeon, we are involved with major surgical interventions. Unfortunately, in our business, this is the only business in the world where a customer can die. I don't know. Taxi drivers. It's however much you try, Sadhguru, to dissociate ourselves. When you are operating, you need to concentrate and do the job. But what comes to your mind is the young wife, young children waiting outside. The margin of error is very small, few millimeters here and there. Then you think what are the consequences on them. Then you start thinking about when you are a kid, if something happens to your father, where you would have been. We are after all human beings. We are always torn between what we do to somebody and what could have happened to our own life. It's a constant tension. How do we overcome it? I've been in this profession for more than 30 years. Still I haven't yet mastered the art of dissociating myself from the patient's life. Yes, when you are given a certain responsibility which could determine the shape and scope of people's lives, it's a big thing to carry on one's shoulders. But the important thing is that somebody has chosen to place such a responsibility in our hands. It's a tremendous privilege. If we execute it, can we do the best? We can never do the best, but we can do the best that we can do always with life. Is it the best? No, we are doing our best. If we lack in that, then we have a serious problem. But if we're doing our best in everything that we do, we know it is not the best. But it's our best. We have not spared anything. That's good. And above all, when you refer to yourself as a human being, after all we are human beings, this is a big problem. This will reduce our best. That is, people are always using the word human being as a limitation, as a compulsiveness, as a small thing. We are not referring to the word or term human being as a possibility. Instead of saying, we are just human beings, why don't we say we are human beings? Great, we're doing so many things, we can replace a damn heart. Isn't it? Yes. Now, replacing a part of a machine is not a big thing. It's like this.  It's okay. It just came to when I saw you. So, a cardiac surgeon took his Aston Martin, which was giving him a little bit of trouble, engine trouble, to the mechanic. So he said by evening he'll have it ready. After this hospital job, he went there to pick up his car. It was not ready. The mechanic was swaggering around a little bit and I said, hey doc, why is it I do the course engines? You do people's engines. After all a pumping thing, you know. Why is it that you earn in millions? I just make a few bucks. Come tomorrow, doc, we'll fix it. So the doctor looked at him and said, try to fix the engine when it's running. That's the important thing. You got to keep it running and fix it.