Raspberry Pi signage. This is actually a really clever solution for creating a sign server, like menu servers that you may see in restaurants or display boards like you've seen me at like a mall kiosk, or even one of our clients who is using this to display safety messages and other company announcements across 30 locations across the US. And they just managed all in this Pi signage dashboard. They pushed it out to a series of raspberry pies. And we'll talk about this product because I've had a lot of people ask me about sign solutions. And we've worked with this one a couple times now and I really like it. So let's talk a little bit about Pi signage specifically and what you need for it. So first Raspberry Pi. That's the first minimum requirement of it. Then you need the Pi signage sign up, which is a free sign up and you get two free licenses. Now the product is open source. You can run your own server. You can manage it all yourself and do everything yourself. What they're charging you for when I say licenses is the software hosting side of it. So if you need to spin it up and do all of it yourself and run all your own servers without any licensing, you can. But they have a fee like $35 a year is what it's at at June 2019. And that will allow you to get this up and running for a pretty minimal fee. Now it's not that expensive compared to a lot of the other science solutions I've seen. And like I said, the product itself is open source. I want to get that out of the way first. It will work for free as long as you're doing all the hosting on the system. Just getting that out of the way. Back to Pi signage itself. And let's talk about some of the details. So they're a little marketing blurb is Pi signage is an HD video capable digital signage player based on a standard off the shelf components, that being a Raspberry Pi. And it connects to TV via HDMI is powered by a standard USB source. And I'm actually powering it via the Raspberry Pi supplied power connector I bought as the kit. It is based on the Raspberry Pi Model B B plus and Pi two, also Pi three, they don't have Pi four, which just was announced listed in here, but I'm sure it should work on a Pi four as well. And I'll leave links below where you can get all the parts you need for this. But like I said, it's basically a Raspberry Pi and an SD card. Now, there are two ways you can get the Pi signage software. Here's the PDF guide where they have a lot of information and details. Then here's the link for G drive as in Google Drive is just an image file that you download and flash to it. And they have more documentation how to do it a couple different ways. So it's pretty, pretty straightforward of getting it out of the box and set up download the image flash the image there. Done. They have actually a lot of documentation in here as well. This whole project has great documentation, which is wonderful.  This is what you'll see. You see the player ID and the IP address that the player has assigned to it. Now the way the player got the address is with a network cable plugged in. So it's got the HDMI power and network plugged in here. Probably wondering why don't want to run a network cable to every TV location I want to display. Not a problem. That's where once you see the IP address of the 172 1669 192, we're going to go there now and show you how you can set this up and put it on your Wi-Fi.  The username is pie password pie. And you can see where it's set to DHCP. We can put a static IP in and here's the Wi-Fi setting so we can scan network. It can find a network and put the password in save and we'll see if it connects to the Wi-Fi and the pie reboots and tries with the network settings. Alright, so now the pie is connected after a reboot to the Wi-Fi. So no more cable plugged in. The only thing we got plugged in now is HDMI and power. So that's great. And then we're going to go here and log into it on its new IP address that it was assigned. Whoops, P I P I sign it. So it's how you get it connected to Wi-Fi pretty straightforward. You can actually and I didn't demo this but you can plug a keyboard into Raspberry Pi and program it that way too. So it's another option. I like programming it this way. It seems pretty easy. The only thing I changed from default here is I did set the player to be at 1080. That is what I prefer to have the resolution be but it does support 720 as well. In case you're hooking up something like that. Now, if you go to the user settings, you can change the password but I don't recommend changing that here because you do that and manage all that through the central dashboard. So now that we have our networking taken care of and this actually because I had it plugged in via network cable, it already came up to the player ID but you notice it's green. It says server Pi signage connected. So there's not any networking that you have to do. There's no firewalls to map. This reaches out to the Pi signage server. As I mentioned, if you wanted it to go out to a different server because you wanted to do all your own hosting, you can change that in here. Like I said, for the sake of this video, we're going to do everything on the Pi signage server. But now that we have the player ID, we know it's attached to it. We're just going to go ahead and put this 16 digit player ID in here. We'll call it the Pi player. And it's studio is location hit register. And it's yellow for essentially like it's provisioning it. It takes a second to think and away it goes. But we're going to change things on it from here now if we wanted to changing. So it's default group, we can put it in the studio Chromecast group and it will get that group right there or the default group that I have set up. And we're actually going to leave this one in default. So I don't have to change the playlist anybody's can take a second and it will update the player and it will start playing based on that after we hit deploy. So you have your groups here. I have the default group and studio Chromecast group. You have the assets where you assign each of the assets to the different playlists. Then you have the playlists themselves. And then the playlist get assigned to the different groups. So here is the launch system studio playlist. And I have that actually assigned inside of here. So we look at default group default playlist launch system studio and then we can hit deploy put them both here and hit deploy. And that's going to push the settings out. And that's actually a kind of a nice feature. So if you're editing the playlist, you're not messing with things in real time. You do have to go back to the group and deploy once you update or change a playlist. Now the pie is actually downloading a playlist and getting ready to pull that data down. So let's go over here and see what's in the playlist. Now I've got a couple different templates and you can actually preview how this is going to be looking on there. It's got a little preview window that's going to pop up and it's slowly loading it. So there we go. This preview is actually trying to render it as it's going to look on the pie, which is kind of cool. And then I can force it to go to the next slide. It's got a 10 second countdown timer. So I can say, OK, preview what it looks like. But let's see what it actually looks like by switching to it. So here we are back at the Raspberry Pi and you can see it's going through and running through the slides that we have assigned to it. And I even assigned a video in this as well. And what this does is it's not pulling these online each time. It downloads and caches each one of these assets that you put to it to the pie itself.  And this is showing you that it will play full 1080 video downloaded to it without a problem that we have in the assets list. This is over at the cruise the other day. A couple other details about the settings on this. So here is the default playlist on here. We're going to go in here and settings. I know I changed it to 1080 because I wanted this at 1080. That's actually because my capture card, if you change resolutions, has a headache. So it's why I had to make sure it was set that way. But without being at the location, you can, when you build these groups, you can build the default settings. How you want the animations to work, like slide left, slide right. Matter of fact, we're going to change these. We're going to have them slide in. Actually, yeah, slide seems fine. Background color, show a logo, show the clock. Hey, let's show the time on the screen. So we'll do that. And you can do some small adjustments like volume adjustments, video break. So if you want to pause things in between, you can schedule power on and off of the TV. And a couple other details that are inside of here. They also have like a couple offset options in here. So we're going to have it. Okay. Now, anytime we do a change like this, we go ahead and hit deploy again, deploy. And that just pushes the settings back down to the players. And away you go. So we'll give this a second to deploy. And one of the things I'll comment here is I do have the Chromecast setup. And that's actually that's running behind me is the Chromecast. Now it's kind of novel. But in it's actually moved my head up here is if you want to connect it to a Chromecast device locally, I think it's kind of neat that they added a scenario. I did some testing with it. It's like that's running behind me. It does work. I like the extra features you get with the Raspberry Pi and the fact that once these pies are deployed, it doesn't require a local computer to try to connect to one of the Chromecast devices to get them going and get them started. Plus with Google's ecosystem, if Google makes changes to it, these changes then have to be made over here, et cetera, et cetera. Raspberry Pi, I think is a much more solid option for this. But it does have the option to work with the Chromecast or even the Chrome browser. So now that this is deployed and we go back over here to the players and we'll look at the Pi player again. And it was just synced. All right, cool. Let's go back and look at it. And we have the time down at the bottom. So we can see that it's currently 144 p.m. on there. And this is like some of the features you can add when you go through these. You can add also tickers. You can add information. You can even add a website to this. So to add new things, we go over here to our assets. First, we have to add as an asset. We want to add a link, add a message, create a notice. I like the idea of creating a notice. You know, yo, this is a notice. We'll go ahead and save and preview. There we go. Great. That's one of the things in there. Yo 30502 HTML. All right, let's find a site to add. So let's add a link for dark sky. I've never tried this on here. But this is kind of novel because they got live streaming, audio streaming, web link embedded web page opens a new browser. It shows an iFrame media message or local folder or file. So it's got a couple different options here. So let's try and put dark sky in here and see if this works as an asset. All right. Now we go over here to playlists, Lawrence System Studios. And here's those other assets like the dark sky one.  We'll add dark sky and the yo message. And we'll take out a couple of these. We don't need that much stuff in here. Now it's kind of novel. You don't have to click save. I was kept looking for the save button.  So we want to push this to the default group here. Deploy. Now the request has been sent to our players. It takes a minute. I actually noticed the pet pie sort of blinking. So it's downloading pretty quick on here. And now the weather is part of the slides in here. So it's rendering it. And this is kind of neat because you can do these different live feeds inside of here. And when you're doing the live feeds, gives you that option to, you know, choose different things. Yo, this is a notice. Still has a time on there. So you can create a page even. And I have a client that working on this project where they created a specific page. And then they just update the information on that page. It can even be like a WordPress page. And as they update that specific page, that page gets pulled as one of the slides on there. So instead of even having to log into the pie manager, it can pull information, especially if you have a page is actively updated, maybe a score page or anything. These are really dynamic solutions and offer a lot of features on here. The menu and everything on here is very extensive. The way you can manage all the assets, everything from uploading video to dynamic web pages, you can even set some rolling tickers. That's the last thing I think we'll do is a rolling ticker on the bottom. So we'll get back over the playlist and we'll set ticker, enable, add message and wow, we can even do an RSS feed. So we'll actually do a medium, maybe full speed ticker. So here's some text. This is the ticker notice more to come later. Save. So that is now a ticker related to this playlist. And we're going to go ahead and deploy it. Deploy and done. Now one more asset we'll add while I'm waiting for that to deploy is we can add. We just assign this basically a YouTube test, live sharing YouTube, drop in a YouTube link, save. We'll have that one to deploy it as well. So we added as an asset over to the playlist. Back to deploy. And now we can see it's rendering the video or rendering the ticker on the bottom and still pulling through the web pages. And if the deployment is ready, it should start playing the YouTube video after this. Oh, we got the yo notice that actually I think is in order before that. And now it's playing the YouTube video we listed in here. It plays YouTube quite well. I thought this was kind of neat that you can list videos in there as one of the options. So you can just build your own little playlist of YouTube videos and they will just roll along on the Raspberry Pi going to the next one going to the next one, etc, etc. I'm excited because if you notice the rendering is a little bit slow on the Raspberry Pi 3 that this one here is, but the Raspberry Pi 4 should be just a little bit faster. I have not tested this because it was just released with the Raspberry Pi 4. I'm pretty sure it works. If it doesn't work, I'm sure they'll have an update for it soon. But it does clearly work on Raspberry Pi 3s, which you may be able to get a discount on now that they're becoming so popular. But that's it for Pi signage. It's a really simple sign tool. I really like it. Not being locked into some weird proprietary ecosystem. The menus on it are kind of overwhelming at first, but they give you a lot of flexibility. It does have a lot of options. But the out of the box, if you just use default default on everything, it works pretty well to get you started. But this does scale very well. This allows you to manage, you know, even hundreds of these things deployed. You can even group them into different client groupings, different playlist groups, etc., etc. So you get a lot of granular control. And for doing signage at like a restaurant or menu or any type of display board advertising, this is an easy little solution. It's relatively inexpensive. And even with the fees, if you don't decide to spin up your own server, you want to have them host everything, it's not too bad, not not too expensive to do. And I like the way it just puts the ID number on the screen when you boot it up. Now, something interesting about that when this is registered to a Pi signage server and goes to a Pi signage account, that is right now where I've got it tied to. Once you do this, and you reflash the card, it always grabs the settings again. So if the Raspberry Pi, this card goes bad, and I have to put another one in, it grabs the same settings, I believe it's generating it probably off some ID inside of here, maybe even the MAC addresses that it has. But the ID stays the same even if you change the card. As I'd actually popped this was at a different customer as a demo, they sent it back to us, and I just reflashed the card thinking, okay, I'll reflash it and adopt it again. Turns out I went right back to their account automatically. I didn't have to do anything. I grabbed the settings. So I had to actually go into their account, remove it. So it was free again to be adopted to another account. And because these work in cache, the video that they're playing, even if there's an outage and online outage, they'll keep playing the last playlist given. But of course, if they're not online, any of the web page links won't render. But that's it. I'll leave links below where you can check this out. 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In the vast expense of the digital realm, nestled between the familiar domains of .com.net and .org, there existed a mysterious and enigmatic domain known only as UNK or .UNK. It was whispered about in hush tones among the denizens of the internet, its origins shrouded in secrecy and its purpose unknown. No one knew who controlled the UNK domain, nor did they understand its true capabilities. Some speculated that it held the keys to yet a knowledge, while others believed it to be a gateway to another dimension entirely. But regardless of the speculation, one thing was certain. Those who dared to venture into the depths of UNK often found themselves lost in a labyrinth of cryptic websites and obscure forms. Among the countless users who were drawn to the allure of UNK was a young programmer named Sarah. Intrigued by the rumors swirling around the mysterious domain, she embarked on a quest to uncover its secrets. Armed with her wits and her trusty laptop, Sarah delved deep into the digital abyss, navigating through its tangled web of URLs and IP addresses. As she journeyed further into the heart of UNK, Sarah encountered strange and wondrous sites. She stumbled upon websites filled with esoteric knowledge, where scholars debated the nature of reality and hackers traded forbidden code. She found herself drawn into conversations with anonymous users who spoke in riddles and shared tantalizing glimpses of forbidden truths. But the deeper Sarah delved, the more she realized that UNK was not merely a collection of websites, it was a living breathing entity unto itself. It seemed to pulse with a strange energy, its digital tendrils reaching out to ensnare unsuspecting visitors and draw them into its web. Despite the dangers that lurked within UNK, Sarah pressed on, driven by an insatiable curiosity and a thirst for knowledge. But as she ventured deeper into its depths, she began to sense a malevolent presence lurking in the shadows, watching her every move with cold unlinking eyes. Determined to uncover the truth, Sarah pressed on, hacking her way through firewalls and bypassing security protocols with the skill of a seasoned hacker. But with each step she took, the darkness grew stronger, threatening to consume her completely. Finally, after what felt like an eternity, Sarah reached the heart of UNK, a place where reality itself seemed to warp and shift with every passing moment. There, she came face to face with the entity that lurked within the domain, a being of pure digital energy, ancient and unfathomable. But instead of striking out in anger or fear, the entity spoke to Sarah in a voice that resonated with wisdom and sorrow. It revealed to her the true nature of UNK, not as a mere domain, but as a repository of all the knowledge and wisdom of the universe, given from mortal eyes by those who feared its power. Moved by the entity's words, Sarah made a choice to leave UNK behind and return to the world of the living, armed with the knowledge that she had gained. And as she stepped back into the light of day, she knew that she would never forget her journey into the depths of the mysterious domain, known as .UNK.


Hey guys, how are you today? Alrighty. So, I told you already in previous videos that for me, February is not only about showing your love to your family, your children, your spouse, but yourself. And remembering those that you love who have passed is also, for me, is part of the whole month of February. Not the least of which because my grandmother, who is very near and dear to all of us in the family, passed away in February about three years ago. And I think she was like 99. So, she had a really good long life, but she was a very sweet dear lady. And this is her photo when she was, I think in her early 20s, if not late teens. Beautiful, right? And so, we're going to do a remembrance piece of her. So, I've got her photo. I actually have it twice because my printer was out of running out of ink, and it printed it this way. And I really kind of wanted it to be the original like sepia tone. So, I printed it again. I have a quote that actually I think is appropriate to my grandmother that says, Bigger, Bigger, Biggest often doesn't even lead to happiness. It's the small things that make people happy. She definitely believed that. She also never ever went to visit anybody empty-handed. We always used to tease her. She always used to bring a pound cake. She would bring other things sometimes, but always she had a pound cake. I have a textured piece of packaging here that I did a while ago on a previous YouTube video. I'll try to remember to link in the description below. I'm not sure if I'm going to use it or not, but it is interesting and I may want to use it. So, I have it out just in case. I have some old distressed lace that I actually distressed myself. I have a piece of a woven printed old-fashioned style of fabric from my dear friend Cindy Utter. My grandmother always never went anywhere without a handkerchief, and I still carry on that tradition. And so does my daughter. My grandmother frequently had these type of handkerchiefs with a crocheted lace, delicate lace edge. This is not hers that I'm aware of, but this was in my box of collage fabrics that I have here sitting in my studio. This is hers, and it was just like this when I inherited it. It is a jar of buttons. It literally was like this, so we may want to use some of these, probably with the card and all, on there. What else do we have here? I have these, so these both were my grandmothers. They both have the things in them. They originally did when I inherited them, plus I've added a few things to them. This smaller one, these were some of her eyeglass frames. The smaller one, I've added a few little bits and toys. This is actually my grandfather on the other side of the family. My grandmother was very Catholic, and my great grandmother had a lot of these medallions and things around, so I do think I want to maybe use one of these in the project. And I'm actually thinking, every time I've gone in here, I'm thinking this one. There's also this teeny miniature Bible, which is interesting in here. So that maybe. There's also a Red Cross card of hers. She was very philanthropic, not only with donating blood, but she gave to charity on a very regular basis. And let's see. This is Catholic Ladies Aid Society, evidently Branch 63. Some of this I haven't looked at since she passed, to be honest with you. There are some, I forget what these are called. I'm no longer practicing Catholic, I don't remember. This is one of her address stamps, and I think that's the old house. Yeah, kiddie mat place. Here's another pouch. What does this have in it? Oh, that's pretty funny.  It has, I'm not going to show you this because it actually has my home address on it, and my home telephone number. And then it has some of her old address labels. That's pretty interesting. I'm going to take that one in. Hide that. I'm not sure why that's in there, but that's from a chandelier. Oh, there are one of her, her handkerchiefs in here. And rosaries. She had rosaries. I have boxes of her rosary beads. And I've added a few little toys and a hot wheel and things like that to the box. So I'm going to keep out the things that I think I might want to use. And what I don't use, we'll go back in the box. And then I have this larger round one. And I love these boxes of hers. I didn't even know she had them until she passed, which was a shame. There was a third one, a canister that I actually said to my sister, and if I'm not mistaken, I put some more extra things in it when I sent it to her. This one was just like this one I inherited it. And it has some of her crocheted pieces unfinished in it. And it has this needle book, some gummed labels, thread of bobbin. I don't know what that is. This is a piece of one of these sock darner things. I'm not sure why that piece is in there. She never threw anything away, which we always kind of knew, but we found out when she passed. Really how bad it was. What is this? Oh, that's funny. I don't know exactly what that is. Does anybody know? It's cute. Oops, it's cute. Whatever it is. Maybe it's supposed to hold thread or something. Maybe needles in the inside. Yeah, there are needles in the inside. Maybe thread on the outside. Maybe it's some sort of little pocket sewing kit. It's very cute. So anyway, we're going to use some of these pieces in this piece for her. I want to try to keep the size of it fairly small so that it fits back in my journal. So I am going to get started with that. I'm going to speed forward through the process. I am also going to use probably some cardboard. I've got an Amazon box here next to me. So I do think I'm going to use that too. So I am going to get started and I'll speed forward through it and I'll be right back. Okay, here is the finished piece. And while it's still wet, I love it. And I can't wait for it to dry and I can hang it up in here. It turned out much bigger than I thought it was going to be, but I honestly was just having fun and doing what felt right and not thinking about it too much. At least 50% of the pieces on here are things that she personally owned and or her picture.  And I used a goop glue to attach everything and or heavy gel medium and actually a couple of staples. I actually kind of like the way the stapler kind of looks, the grungy look of the stapler. So just take some of your bits and pieces that you may have that either actually belonged to or remind you of that person in your life who has passed on that you love and miss and create a remembrance piece of them, something that you could remember with fondness with a smile instead of tears. This is definitely going to remind me of my grandmother. And although it's too big to fit in my journal for this year, I think that's okay because I think it needs to hang by my desk and here in the office. That's it for today, everybody. Please don't forget to like, share and subscribe. Join the My Year 2017 Facebook group if you'd like to see more things like this and be part of what's going on over there. We're having a lot of fun. Support my channel if you can by shopping in my Etsy shop. I would really appreciate that. And the links for everything are in the description below. And don't forget the most important thing, go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye, guys. Hey, guys. You thought we were done, didn't you? Only those of you who watch my videos to the end are going to see this part unless I put a warning in the beginning, which I might. So I decided after looking at this, and it's mostly dry, it's not completely dry, that I really wanted to add some pen marks, just rough pen marks. I should have probably done this before. I put everything together. Oh, that's okay. This is a Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pen. And then I have a gold paint pen. There's some gold on here from this ribbon that my grandmother had at the bottom in the fringe and also from the pin part of it that I kept and put it on here. And I really want to just add some gold. I might want to stuff on my hand. I'm going to just come in here with a little bit of the Sharpie pen a little bit at a time.  Doing this with the baby wipe means that after it dries, it's not going to go anywhere, unlike a gelato or something. And if I'm going to do it this way, I have to be really careful because I don't have tons of control over my left hand.  I like that. That just adds a little something to it, don't you think? Yeah, I like that a lot. All right, that's it. Now we're done. All right, see you later. Bye, guys.


The use of vinegar for weight loss dates back to the 1700s. I did a whole chapter about it in my book, How Not to Diet, entitled Amping AMPK, the fat-controller enzyme in the body, which appears to be the mechanism behind the multitude of beneficial metabolic effects. In my 21 tweaks to accelerate weight loss, I recommend two teaspoons with every meal, which is considered safe, though it should be added to food or diluted in water, never consumed straight. And diabetics should make sure the vinegar doesn't make their blood sugars go too low. But that's one of the benefits of vinegar, blunting the blood sugar and insulin spikes after a meal in both healthy individuals and those with blood sugar disorders like diabetes. In a systematic review and meta-analysis of interventional trials of the effects of vinegar consumption on blood sugar control and type 2 diabetes, vinegar improves both short-term and longer-term measures of blood sugar control and like a little side bonus resulted in a remarkable reduction in cholesterol to boot. And it didn't seem to matter whether it was apple cider vinegar or not, all vinegar by definition has the active ingredient acetic acid. So what are the implications for clinical practice? Well, clinicians could incorporate vinegar consumption as part of their dietary advice for patients with diabetes, with the caution that it can work a little too good and so you have to monitor closely to make sure diabetic patients aren't over-medicated and bottom out their sugars. In my video on water purification, I talked about this study showing that the cheapest and best way to disinfect your toothbrush, so you don't have to keep buying new ones, maybe to soak it for 10 minutes in 50% white vinegar in water. So what about a vinegar sock soak for athlete's foot or toenail fungus? Foot soaks in half vinegar, half water can help antifungals work better, but the inconvenience of tub soaks limits compliance, so how about pouring vinegar and water on the toes of your socks and then just like putting your feet up for a little while? Not sure how that would be any more convenient, but seem to work in this clinician's practice. Instead of vinegar for just an athlete's foot, what about vinegar for the whole athlete? The effect of vinegar supplementation on high-intensity cycling performance, they randomized people to do two tablespoons of diluted vinegar, or sugar, or both, or neither, and the vinegar did nothing. Is there anything else vinegar does help with? The intake of a vinegar beverage is associated with restoration of ovulatory function in women with polycystic ovary syndrome. For those of you unfamiliar, PCOS is a major cause of irregular menstruation and since insulin resistance has been suggested to be one of the causes of polycystic ovaries and we know vinegar can improve insulin resistance, researchers decided to study the effect of vinegar by giving seven patients seeking a non-pharmacological treatment for PCOS, a beverage containing a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar daily for a few months. The insulin resistance did improve in most, but did their cycles return? Yes, in 4 out of 7. Before the study, they were either only having their periods every 50 days or so, or none at all, or just not ovulating, but most resumed within 40 days on the vinegar. Now, this doesn't prove anything, but it's at least sufficient to indicate the possibility that it may help and what's the downside? A tablespoon of vinegar would cost less than 10 cents a day. Just remember, never drink vinegar straight, as it can cause second-degree caustic burns down your throat.


I lost focus. I lost focus for two seconds. We back.  We mongey that straight and put it into like that old stretch to get the turn right. Except if you're in a longer car it makes it significant. Yeah, I know what that means. Oh, it's so weird doing it in VR. Yeah? Oh, I hear you. Yeah, you may. Go sideways. Do drift stuff. We're like running that whole outer section and you just kind of... Yeah, got a little too ballsy. Touch the little... Ow! I forgot this car doesn't have a rear view mirror. We've only got side mirrors. It's a pro car. No, you focus on what's in front. Yeah, it's me coming up behind. I saw the underside of my 13. It looks cool. Decreasing radius to the wheel. Your wheel just lodged from the car. When you jumped over the wall. To what was actually going on. This thing's just dumping smoke. I got dizzy there for a second. Now how much I sweat when I use my act. At the same time. Then you tried to make it so you actually did one on purpose and you went into the wall.


Which city should I move to to maximize my dating potential and do dating apps still work guys? These are two common questions We see a lot on the internet concerning dating and hopefully we'll help yeah We pulled these off reddit. These are two commonly asked questions. Hey guys, what city should I move in? Which city will I thrive in as well as does online data even work anymore? I got like a hundred matches and no girls wanted to meet up So make sure you like subscribe and turning notifications because hopefully we'll get to a deeper level of understanding of these issues Or perhaps I should say Andrew deeper layer, but you know what else has layers? Smala sauce got a lot of layers of flavors and a delayed Sichuan kick in a little stature You know get your tongue buzzing in the background. So anyways check it out smaller sauce calm I mean of course to answer the first question Andrew location and environment do matter, but it goes deeper than that, right? Yeah It also matters what you have to offer that environment because every environment is different and there's voids in every market Right, but it also depends on what you're offering. So as much as I want to say hey guys move to this in that city Obviously New York LA for Asians. That's not a wrong choice. Never wrong choice Never a wrong choice Toronto is not a wrong choice either never a wrong choice, right? But still also how you fit into those cities matters a lot Yeah, I know this guy that I grew up with in the suburbs of Seattle He was an electronic Korean DJ one of the only Koreans in the whole city He moved to a rural Tennessee town because he met a southern bell that was sort of obsessed with that Steve Aoki Sort of like foreign Japanese Korean DJ look Do you know I'm saying so he wouldn't have been able to like go to Tennessee and like kill it on the online dating apps But he ultimately found his southern bell wife in Tennessee had something to offer guys Obviously if you're an outgoing social Asian bartender guy You're gonna have something to offer a lot of cities because you can work at any bar and you're gonna meet a lot of women So here's the interesting choice and if somebody just asked me off the bat Yo shit as an Asian guy shot I moved to Tennessee and do online dating the answer would be no right, but this guy Found his biggest. Yes. So it goes to show you it's it varies. It depends on what like layer you're looking at Right, so yeah, there's the simple answer, but the detail the answer can get way more complicated As far as this guy Andrew who's saying I got a hundred Matt of matches on online dating, but no IRL dates How do you explain it first of all this is very common and I want to say on our experience of online data I'll speak for myself You will end up swiping a lot and then from that There's a certain percentage that you'll match with and then from that There's a lower percentage that will even talk to you and then from the people that you talked to It's a lower percentage that you're actually gonna convert to meeting up in real life Right, it's like an inverted pyramid. It is very tough I'm not gonna lie guys from the conversion rate is David Is there a statistic that says what 1% of matter like 10% of matches you actually meet up with or it depends on You know also again what you're offering if you invite every girl out to omakase your rate of meeting up in person We'll probably be higher because people will find that appealing right if coffee or boba versus omakase You might have a different conversion right right exactly So what I need people to understand and and this is having been in the online dating world for several years now Okay, back on the website. There was websites. Obviously. I've done it in real life dating plenty, but We've been on we've used the apps You need to understand that the online dating apps now It's a sport and what I mean by sport is that there is technique There is practice. There is a learning curve There is stamina involved and there is a way to prepare and get yourself better for it Hmm, there's all these things and there's different layers to it man I well is there a reason why isn't that the reason why there's so many people making so much money off those subscription base? Courses to try to teach you to learn exactly. There's so many coaches out there And I'm not saying like you could ask your friend who's really knowledgeable or you can pay for one of these online dating coaches Sure, whatever you choose to do I'm sure they have real information But literally guys were like, oh, no, I haven't been successful on the dating apps That's like saying hey man when I go to the park I can hit seven out of ten free throws How come no one wants me on their five on five? Recreational league team or someone's like, hey, I'm pretty quick How come no team wants me on their flag football team as their number one wide receiver or it's like Hey, I know how to cook some chicken thigh in the air fryer.  It's a multi-layered game. Yes. Yes. Yes I mean, I would say it if we're gonna compare it to sport Andrew There's like your layer one players which are looking up in the face-up ISO That's like cam Thomas cam Thomas is an incredible score within a layer one face-up interaction There's layer two players dame Lillard dame Lillard likes to come off that high-picking role and then operate off that right But then there's a layer three player like Steph Curry Andrew where he got layer one layer two in the bag But if you take away all that and the play breaks down, guess what he's gonna reset and relocate Run halfway across the floor and still get an open shot because that's his level of IQ and understanding of How deep this game goes now to I think most guys are still stuck at level one, but they need to be at least level Two I'm not saying you got to be level three and master the game ten out of ten Obviously it would help if you thought about it that much, but you need to be layer two You've got to up your game It is no longer just opposed to pictures and then I match with girls, but then she wasn't interested F online dating apps.  It's like dude. That's so simplistic for sure I mean Andrew some people were arguing that it's all the city that matters These are the people who are basically saying for the guys who don't want to develop the layer two or levels layer three Understanding of it. Just pick New York for just pick a city with the fashion industry Dude like we say it again LA Toronto, New York You can't go wrong. Give it a swipe change your location swipe in those cities If maybe if you exhausted those cities swiping Asia can swipe in Houston, Texas But yeah swiping San Francisco I could see Houston working better for some people than New York though Even though Houston would never rank as high on a layer one answer Let's say you're kind of like a you know a thicker Asian guy with tattoos I would say give Houston a shot. Why not deep voice. Yeah, but also New York in LA still always New York LA in Toronto Always for sure guys always LA, New York and Toronto But for example, Andrew if you have Ivy League education You went to a high-rank college, but not a lot of people know about that college go to New York or Boston Where they tend to value the college that you went to more because those are the metrics and that's like the way The analytics are structured in that environment, right? Right? Somebody said just go to any city in Asia Somebody said please go to Hawaii. I'll say this though It's important to go places where the type of girl that you like or that you the archetypes You're attracted to are also attracted to you. Yeah, that's a pretty key thing That's like a layer to understanding that a lot of guys don't have they're just like, oh, yeah I'm like a computer engineer, but I love ABG's and it's just like I just don't know how many ABG's Like computer engineers. Well, I do know I do know yeah I know some computer engineers by the way some software engineers that are kind of come from that background that are buff and tatted and Know how to spend their money and those guys are gonna do fine It's not necessarily about your occupation, but it's it is true. Do you come off as a software engineer? Do you appear to be a software engineer? You know, it'd be cool a software engineer who doesn't look like a software engineer Right, right, right. Let's move on to the next post This is the guy with the 50 hundred matches in a month or whatever, but no dates This guy said man, you need to just focus on IRL game and live in an awesome life in real life So my my life is so awesome with all the cars and the watches and all the places I fly to on my Instagram I just message girls on Instagram. So I don't even need hinge And then somebody else said yeah, that is true that that's a good point But having a cool online dating profile is possibly one-tenth or maybe one-one hundredth the effort of having a damn Bilzerian life in IRL Yes, I agree that having a truly cool and Substantial and multi-faceted and holistic cool lifestyle the jet-set lifestyle is so hard to achieve Gosh the said the best thing you can do is at least make yourself appear as if you're a good man on Online dating guys.  Yeah, your systems usually you'll you'll know people if you live the life of a celebrity You don't read you I think that you could use the apps But you don't need it because the life you'll be living will be so dynamic and a certain like how about this? Let's just do a test.  There's a reason why and this is an extreme example We know a guy who cashed out his shares of a startup in Silicon Valley. He ended up with like, you know He was light rich. He moved to Shanghai and became a bartender not he could he had enough money to Capitalize and own the bar, but he didn't want to do that He just wanted to be a bartender and sometimes you just want to give him the life He wanted the exposure that he wanted dude Being a bartender for example is like already being on the dating app all the time because of how many people you meet And this is why you put yourself in a position to meet a lot now whether it's online dating I'm not saying everybody got to be a bartender But whatever puts you in front of a lot of different people is key because then you're gonna get an exposure And you're gonna get a chance to talk to everybody and plus it is hard I'm not gonna lie to be the Dan Bilzerian Steve Aoki's listen their dads actually live that jet set no They were already baller playboy lifestyle their dads were essentially mini Hugh Hefner's yet already That's why they were able to build on top of it and take it that far. Yeah There was a lot of arguing back and forth. No, it's all about IRL approaching people or online dating a lot of people Defending online dating obviously and a lot of people saying that this guy Andrew how important is text game in your opinion? Like for this guy was saying if you have a hundred matches and you can't actually convert any of them into a IRL date You must have bad text game. Oh My well my opinion is if you had he said 50 matches Oh, and he said he usually has takes about 15 messages back and forth before he asked a girl to go on a date And he's has no conversion. All right If you have 50 matches and you have not gone on a date with any of them It's something that you're saying probably you gotta be coming across As a serial killer. Yeah, you may be coming off weird. You say something offensive. You're taking too long You are not proposing anything of substance. I'm not saying omakase, but I'm just saying even like just hey You want to check out a couple bars in this area? What are you doing? That's like 50 bucks 60 bucks like, you know, I'm saying like Still offer something especially if you're in the city if you're in New York You have to offer something so this guy's obviously doing something something wrong Hi, Tensushi if you don't want to pay spring for omakase because I get it Yeah, some girls the girls who's down for something humble usually are I would say I would say generally if a girl Likes your photos. I would just ask her out within the first five volleys Vol one volley being like a ping-pong. I would say just ask her out one after five down in backs Yeah, yeah after I would say just within the first five Just say hey, do you want to meet up? Oh, do you like are you free here and here? Yeah, like a lot of dudes don't even have maybe there's another video on how to even ask out a girl on online dating But anyways, yeah, listen guys like we said, there's a layer one understanding layer two layer three Some people and they stay at layer one their whole life I see a lot of uh, you know, I'm just gonna call it out under a lot of kids from China They love basketball basketball is the number one sport in China. It seems like sometimes if they didn't go to a basketball academy Their understanding is like always just face up isos and like fancy moves forever. There's no like Play action. There's certainly no off-ball movement. Listen guys. I'm just saying Somebody got to teach people the layers. All right Ultimately, I'll say this and I think there's more Asian guys in the online dating game than there ever were I think impossibly in previous generations a lot of Especially the more technical guys they either just opted out of the dating pool or they just got set up at church or something like that So it's kind of reminds me of the first time investors that Robin Hood got interested in investing So people are buying like options and Calls and stuff like that. They're looking at the VWAP on Weeble But these are like layer one people that have like all of a sudden looking at a game that goes super deep Right, but who's gonna teach them all the layers? Mmm. So it's not a man I went through it with investing to to be honest. I mean like I'll look at all the I didn't know what I was whether it's investing or learning basketball or learning how to date online It is better to get in real life coaching somebody who's sitting down with you Who can talk to you get a feel for you cares about you? That's gonna be the best But until then guys, you just have to know there are different layers to this you do probably don't understand the game and You know if you make yourself appealing and you've done what you think you can to lose a little weight Hit the gym get a new haircut get a little couple photos of a professional photo shoot Dude, there's AI now. I'm not saying lie, but I'm just saying use AI to like, you know touch stuff up Let's say you first of all don't necessarily recommend the gym selfie. There's a old man his naked butt is in the gym selfie use the Crop feature on the Google Pixel Pro 8 man. Dude, even Instagram has a AI now filters You can say select this subject and put it on some background. Anyways, I'm just saying get creative guys Anyways, let us know if you guys want more specific advice. I'm down to maybe do like a Coaching video like an online coaching video. I guess of what I suggest listen man You can score 30, but steps 30 dames 30 and cam thomas is 30. Those are a different 30 Yeah, let us know what you think in the comment section below Leave a comment on both these popular questions one what city should I date in as an Asian guy and number two Should I pick online dating or IRL until next time with a hop-hop boys. We out. Peace


Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel Geo here and today we're going to be talking about Shake-O. I think I said that right. Shake-O, or Shaco. Shaco's manga Nersitomi's monster infirmary Volume 1. This came out a while ago. I know if you're watching this channel for the first time You're thinking man, this guy reviewing something that came out ages ago But I got this last year. Thanks to my friend Nelson for gifting me his copy, and I was really excited. One, I like weird cookie stories and two, I love manga. So when you mix the two of them together you get Geo here reading monster monster infirmary volume one. So what the heck is this manga about? First and foremost, you need to know something This is in an alternate reality where The earth is populated by monster creatures, monster girls, monster dudes, monster people, you know There are invisible people. There are Cyclop ladies. There are vampires Very talking beasts. I don't know. There's a lot of weird random Funny-ass people in this manga and we follow this high school and the school nurse Hitomi and she is a wholesome sweetheart who is a klutz and Yeah, can you see her problem right there? Can you see it? Her huge eye right there. She's a Cyclops. What attracted me to this story is the fact that Hitomi She is more than happy to help you with whatever it is whatever problem you need, whether it be a physical problem or a psychological one and Throughout the first volume she gets different people, most of them girls With different sorts of problems with Monster abilities like you have a character that keeps growing.  There's another character that has like a serpent tongue and it's super long And she's freaking out because she can't control it. So Hitomi is giving her advice and in this craziness of Monster infirmary What we really get is a story about a school nurse doing her utmost best to cheer motivate and make these kids realize that they're special regardless of deformities regardless of their situation they are special and she is validating who these characters are and Bringing a positiveness to their lives, which I really like I I Came in for the wackiness and stayed for the wholesomeness. Let's just say that much. Yeah, the story is a little bit cuckoo and there is some Etchy type humor that doesn't necessarily stick the landing a hundred percent of the time maybe like 80 to 90 percent of the time and Yeah, there is some fan-servicing bits, but it's mostly played for comedy and not necessarily in a creepy manner but the interaction between the characters is very sweet and Sincere through the randomness that Shaco is doing with the story. There is a sincerity to Having a profession like being a nurse and helping out others because that is one of the best acts that another human being can do So to have that in the context of monster people because You know school puberty kids going through changes What a perfect metaphor then to represent them as monster creatures like you have The tongue you can see them here at the back some of the characters right there. There's an undead girl There's another one. That's like I said earlier tiny There's another one. That's invisible and they all have unique problems That the school nurse he told me can help them with so I thought that was really cool and Offered a fresh twist on the whole monster creature monster person Trope, I don't know it's it's weird, but I'd like it the art For the most part the art is very simple, but it's nice to look at the designs for the characters are Unique where new student comes in and you can easily identify that person and not be confused with the hundreds of other students There are in the school obviously the main focal point and there are a lot of I puns in this manga is He told me herself and the way that she deals with Her students with my students, you know, you know what I mean the school patients Yeah And I just noticed hopefully I don't get flagged for indecency, but that is as Risky as it's going to get but it's played for comedy and it's not played in a pervy sort of way There aren't a lot of backgrounds because it's a school for the most part, you know, it's an infirmary and What little backgrounds like yeah, I see a lot of white spaces but the character designs make up for it in my opinion and There is some actual funny humor. There's a bit there was a joke with her going to Getting new eyeglasses or an eyeglass, I should say and then going to the movie theater and not being able to see a 3d movie because you need both lenses. So I thought that was pretty cool. I liked that sort of humor pretty Slapstick tongue-in-cheek. So yeah, the story is nothing too complicated, but it's just the right amount of Whackiness and wholesomeness where it balances itself out at least in my Enjoyment and I I like it. It's an ongoing series. I don't think it's over yet And I think I would have to get a whole bunch of volumes from seven seas, but I mean, I like it Shaco You did a cool thing. I dig it Monster girls we're here to help this is rated older teens 16 and up and I get it. Yeah, there's some There's some ecchi humor that might not fly with some people but for the most part, you know, just take it comedic route You'll be fine. There's nothing Too risque about this.  Okay. It really liked to end things on a weird note. I liked the Can I show this? Yeah, I can I liked the Undead girl I thought that bit was pretty funny how she can Disassemble herself basically and you know, she gets stitched up again because she's basically a zombie So this is a type of humor slice of life comedy thing that you would be interested in I think you're gonna have a fun time with a nursing Tommy's monster infirmary. This is volume one Hopefully down the line. I'm able to get more volumes and do like a proper review on the series but for a first impressions I Why not I liked it sue me Have you read this manga? Let me know in the comment section down below. Also, let me know two things favorite comedy manga and your favorite supernatural manga because this is sort of a take on both Subgenres rolled into one I think Thank you everybody for tuning in you can like comment and subscribe help us help me get this channel to 2,000 subscribers That would be amazing. Thank you so much. 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Okay, how do you think about the advocates for expanded federal spending, Medicare for all, Green New Deal, Freedom Dividend, altruists, nihilists, simply envious and having a legal framework to redistribute wealth? So I don't think that necessarily, I think they're all altruists. There's no question that they're altruists. They're not necessarily nihilists, although some of them are, because, you know, Denmark has Medicare for all, or they're equivalent of. Green New Deal is just science fiction, bizarre nonsense.   But they don't even know that they can't, they can't conceive of that they can't hold that they hold it as like the NHS. It's functioning. It's not the greatest healthcare in the world, but it's okay. If it's good enough for the Brits, it's got to be good enough for us, like the king, I guess. I think they're mainly altruists and collectivists. And many of them, or some of them, the ones that are more nihilistic are envious. That nihilism and envy go together. Envy is the emotion driving the nihilism. And they want a legal framework to redistribute the world, to destroy it, to knock people down. But I think, so, some are nihilists, right? But I think the majority are altruists, collectivists who are ignorant, who haven't thought it through, but who can't think it through because like Ray Dalio that I have described here, people need healthcare. They really, really, really need healthcare. And look, other countries do it. I mean, this is what AOC does so well. Other countries do it. And we're richer than other countries. And I'm going to rich countries like America have 20% of its population need healthcare and not be able to get it because they're uninsured because insurance rates are so high. And unless you've given up on altruism, unless you've rejected altruism, how can you, how can you argue against that? How can you argue against that? I mean, you can, you can make sophisticated economic arguments about, no, those people are better served by a free healthcare system and in a free healthcare system, it'll also be universal. Really? You can guarantee that? How can we guarantee it? And by the way, you say, everybody's treated in emergency rooms. We've got a law for that. But that law is a problem. That law is wrong. That law is driven by altruism. So I really think philosophically it's altruism and collectivism and deeper down, it's not an explicit but an implicit rejection of reason. An implicit rejection of facts and science and reason, evidence, thinking things through. But economics is not easy as Henry has, let's say. Economics is about second and third level consequences. And sometimes, oh, we'll give everybody healthcare. That's easy. So we'll text people a little bit more. It works with Denmark or whatever. But then what are the impacts of that? How does that circle through the economy? What impact does that have on our standard of living? Are Danish people richer or poorer than us? What does that do to healthcare not only in the United States and everywhere given that so many of the healthcare in the United States, in the world is driven by innovation in the United States? All of that kind of stuff, it's pretty unbelievable.


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and welcome to another episode of Recover Loud, I'm Mike Paddleford and I Recover Loud. Tonight's episode we're going to be speaking with Tommy Hayes from Rumford. Tommy is a registered peer recovery coach and trainer and distributor of Naloxone. Let's watch as Tommy recovers loud. Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of Recover Loud. I'm sitting here today with Tommy Hayes from Rumford, Maine. Welcome Tommy, thanks for coming. Thank you Mike, thank you for allowing me to come here and share my story today. Absolutely, so Tommy you're somebody that identifies as a recovery ally and to me that's it's pretty amazing that you don't feel like you've had these struggles that many of us in substance use disorder dealt with but you're out there trying to help us. So can you tell me a little bit about your background? What made you decide to jump in as a recovery coach and try to help this community? Well first to start off with I Kathy, the director of Layer of the Blind Recovery Center. She's known me my entire life and she gave me the opportunity just to become a staff member of LLRC and then once she presented the opportunity of becoming a recovery coach I had a feeling that I would probably be a good fit for this whereas I have a lot of family members who are dealing with substance use disorder on a daily basis even right now or you know even in the past life where they're in recovery now but it's something once I took the class and went through the five-day training course through CCAR and through Portland Recovery Center it was definitely a good fit I could see myself you know moving forward with this and helping out our community of the River Valley area. Yeah that's great and of course western Maine just like any part of Maine has its struggles and you know I see western Maine come up in the news all the time and what we don't see is you know a lot of recovery over that way. I actually took a ride out to the Larry Labani Center the other day and I was actually surprised at the support that it seemed the community had. The Larry Labani Center is there to support people. A staff of how many people work there right now? I think right now we have a staff of five people. Five people yes and you mentioned Kathy. Kathy started that correct. Kathy and Lonnie started the Recovery Center after seeing quite a few of Lonnie's friends struggle over his lifetime and just overwhelming how much our area of River Valley needs it so they had first just having the idea of Lonnie has a business right now and we use part of that building as their recovery center so we have a location but they just didn't know where to start from there they had the idea we had a big fundraiser and we had a lot of people come out for that first thing so that way we could get construction underway. Yeah and you know it's it's great just for somebody to have that idea and to to see it through you know it's not easy to start a recovery center and you know for people to have the heart and willingness to help you know just like you you know joining the team doing the work that it takes to become a registered or a certified recovery coach you know it's not easy but you decided to do it. You actually you don't struggle with substance use disorder but you do struggle with the disease of your own can you tell us a little bit about that? Yes I have a muscular and nerve disease called Sharco Marie Tooth disease it's kind of like the shark animal and they just put an L on the end but it deals with my muscles and nerves it's progressive and it's hereditary so right now there isn't a cure for it but just like anything else there's tons of research being done there is improvements here and there with medicine but nothing too much of a case yet that I could be eligible for so it's just dealing with the daily struggles of limited mobility from my flexibility and just the lack of muscle. And it is a hereditary disease? Yes. So you've had it from day one? Yes I started showing symptoms probably about middle school but even before then elementary school I would fail gym because I couldn't run or keep up with the other kids. Okay so you knew something was going on? Correct my grandmother has it significantly and so did my great-grandmother as well as there's some other family members that have it as well at the time I was probably the oldest the youngest out of our family to show symptoms of it. So that must have been tough for you to to go from you know what you considered you know your normal childhood to finding out you had this debilitating disease.  It definitely is something that I've had to struggle with a majority of my life just because of until I got a diagnosis we always knew there was something wrong but could never say like oh this why I couldn't keep up with everybody else or for example gym class we would go skiing and I would only be able to do a quarter of what the entire class would be able to do in what a class period would be so that was always a struggle with me with doing the physical activities needed for schooling and everything like that and whereas I didn't have a diagnosis I really wasn't exempt for anything like that so I was still really pushed to do everything even know I didn't have the ability to do it. Gotcha. So throughout your struggles with that you were telling me about a you know a community of people advocates trying to do things for Charco Marie Tooth. Can you tell us what's going on and how you're involved you're trying to be involved? Yes it's just in the beginning stages right now but an organization called Charco Marie Tooth Awareness at Charco Marie Tooth Association has started a group of streamers on Twitch and maybe a couple other streaming platforms to kind of raise awareness of Charco Marie Tooth and other things that we deal with on a daily life just for example one thing I've struggled with just growing up you know we see everybody else just opening a regular soda bottle like it's nothing but with me I have very limited mobility of my hands so I have a soda bottle and I use my thumb on my chin and I add that extra pressure so that way I can open it so that was a big thing growing up was adapting to making things work for me. So the your hands that started in the middle school or were your hands always? My hands have always been a little difficult to deal with now that I'm getting older it's definitely progressing more. What's happening is my fingers are starting to curl so my fingertips are coming in towards my palms. I mean and that's hard to accept a lot of times you know and what I notice from you tell me is your positive attitude and your smile all the time. I've met you in 12-step meetings online you know and I've seen you out at the Larry the Barney Center. How do you keep your smile? That's something I am I always wonder myself because it is a struggle to deal with everything. I think partly because I've seen other families deal with it, other family members deal with it and pushing past the struggle is something that you know all of us have to deal with no matter what our issue is but getting past the struggle whether it be is like on a daily basis I have to put on and take off my leg braces and that is quite a bit of a struggle pain wise for me and it's getting to the point where I almost can't do that. Dealing with it when it comes up and knowing that for myself the pain at this point is only for a minute or two while I'm doing the activity. It is a daily struggle every day but it's something that I feel is all I'm gonna have to deal with it for the rest of my life so I'm just gonna have to keep pushing and just keep doing what I'm doing to maintain what I do now. Nothing lasts forever you know that pain isn't going to last forever right you know you can alter the way you do things you can come up with a better way of doing it for yourself to not inflict pain you can find other ways to open a soda bottle you know so you don't have to give up the activities you just have to get through it right you know in recovery I mean we're all dealing with that you know and that's you know that's a great lesson you know we are all going to struggle with something we all have to find a way to cope with it and you know in our in my previous life I chose substances to avoid it but you know now in recovery I have to find ways to cope to get through and I know it's not gonna last forever so I'm glad you've learned that in that aspect of your life. So tell us a little bit about your work at Larry LeBonte. What is it that you you do at the center? What are you doing? So when I'm staffing the center on my days to work we meet anybody who comes through the door you know whatever part of recovery they're in whether they're only thinking about recovery they're not sure if even what they're doing on a day-to-day is even harming their life or then somebody who says I want to get into treatment right now and then we have a good sized binder that we've gone through and we have a lot of resources throughout the state that we can try to narrow down with talking with them what would be more appropriate of a place to refer them to than just any recovery program or something like that we're definitely sorry we're definitely not pushing anything over another type of recovery it's whatever they feel as though they want to travel down for a path of recovery but it's meeting them where they are when they come through their door of like I said either starting recovery maintaining just looking for meetings in our area because they're new to our area or wherever the case may be meeting them at that point at the door when they first come in. So as recovery coaches we support all pathways of recovery because we never know what's what it's going to take for somebody to get that you know some people try many different paths before they figure out what works for them so for us to to try to push something on to somebody you know that might not be what they need and it might not be what they want we try to support whatever decisions that they they come up with. My definition of recovery encompasses the entire spectrum of the process of change and as you mentioned you know the pre-contemplation is step one you know so when we decide that I'm sick and tired of doing the same thing every day struggling every day with this you know that's that's part of it you know before we even put the substances down our recovery can start you know harm reduction is a big part of somebody's journey or can be a big part of somebody's journey you know and harm reduction encompasses everything from using naloxone to a syringe service program and you know I mean even in our normal lives wearing a seat belt is harm reduction so in harm reduction abstinence may be a goal of their recovery journey but in that stage it might not be you know and that's not for us to tell them you know you need to do this so that you get sober you need to do this so you live today. Exactly quite frequently what I hear from folks in our community is that it's a choice of what they're doing and a big thing that I've seen is with somebody who's in that pre-contemplation state is who am I when I'm not using or in active addiction so for some people it's you know once it seems so scary to even take that first step of even asking for help because they feel as though this is something I need every day who am I without that right so making a big life choice like that is something when somebody walks into our center we want to ease them into that you know get them into some either just programs to start out or whatever the case may be meet them at that point yeah and you know you're somebody you're actually you became the naloxone coordinator at the center yes so you train and distribute naloxone what and you're actually going out into the community to distribute you're not just waiting for people to come get it can you tell us about some of the outreach programs that you're involved in so right now we're doing on Thursdays we head out to Norway in front of common ground counseling as long as the weather permitted if it's a downpour we're not unfortunately we're not going to head out that way it is quite a drive for us and we're definitely not going to get people showing up to our table who would need to be coming to our table but on the days that as long as it permitted we're out there from 11 to 230 and in Norway and that's anybody who'd like to come up to our table we can train them of how to use Narcan what's happening during an overdose and what should what are the steps that should be taken in case you are there when that happens yeah Tommy you had told me about a program that uh you guys are involved in with the Larry Labani Center uh were you going into the schools to speak to kids can you talk about that yes um right now we're in a middle school helping out some students some students have our support just as they have things happening in their life at home that they may need to talk about but then also as almost like a consequence from the school um not necessarily like they're getting in trouble with us or anything but we're just there to more or less provide information about if for example they had brought a vape of some kind of school you know we could meet with them for a couple of weeks once a week just to kind of talk about vaping and any questions they may have about other things of substance use disorder or things that go along those lines that we might be able to help them out with so I think it's important that you're going to the schools um you know in in my opinion a lot of the trauma that we experience that leads to using happens during those those developmental years um so I appreciate you going to the schools and doing that I think that's a great program and you know having someone like you to go talk to the kids I think is very very uh very important and effective um yes I know for myself I felt as though going into these schools might be another step for most kids have dare program now but I know for myself when I was at that age of even before going into dare when we got a letter at home saying you know this is what dare is and this is what it's covering you know I was told by quite a few family members this is what we don't talk about outside the house so no matter what is said at dare this is what we do and that's okay so going in as almost at this middle school age is something along the lines of you know we were in that same situation that you were and we're not saying that we made all the right decisions but we're just here to pass along some information that we we wish we we had when we were in middle school or around that that age yeah absolutely and you know I I just want to thank you for that work um I I think you know it's important and if we could have someone in the schools all over the state all over the country I think it would be great so you know maybe something you're doing today is going to help another program down the road I was in westbrook high school a couple weeks ago got to talk to the junior and senior class and I was surprised at how involved the students were and how focused on what we had to say that they were because when I was in school I didn't want to hear anybody telling me about drugs being bad but it was a different message back then you know you know this is your brain this is your brain on drugs none of that stuff made sense to us and it was a joke seemed like a lot of scared tactics yeah yeah and so now today um you know there's one girl that that was in the in the school with me and you know she talked about how we know you're gonna use and if you're gonna use know how to save your friends lives because that's what has come to nowadays if you're going if you're going to use then you should know how to save somebody's life and I'm actually looking forward to the end of the show you're gonna do a quick training with tea yeah and you know so stick around to the end of the show to get a quick training on how to administer no oxone um Tommy is there anything else you'd like to say to the viewers any any other message you'd like to put out there for anybody in recovery or seeking recovery please reach out there's plenty of recovery centers throughout the state I believe there's 17 right now so please reach out there's people here that will help and guide you to recovery yeah and our recovery community is constantly growing um you know that's we always talk about the the overdose numbers and the rates of death and and all that horror but our recovery community is growing you know people are starting to figure out that there is a life after using substances and you know people like you and you know other reco recovery coaches out there helping guide people you know that's where the work is and and that's that's great I appreciate everything you're doing over there thank you I really appreciate you having this show it's a great spotlight on the recovery community yeah and and that's really the goal you know to show that we are recovering you know it is possible we can live a life without using um I know when I was using I didn't believe I could you know I had accepted the fact that my life was over at the age of 40 um and that I was just waiting for death you know here five years later I'm three and a half years into recovery and I'm loving life again you know so um tremendous to hear that yeah and and it's I never expected it you know over 40 life life's over you know um but every is possible for everyone absolutely it's never too late it's never too late um and again through your struggles you're out there trying to help the rest of us um and you know you're helping your own community the Sharco Marie Tooth yes um community and you know I just I commend you for all the work you're putting hi guys welcome to T talk I'm standing here with Tommy is and um he's gonna show me and all of you have to administer naloxone if ever needed and it's important for everyone to know not just people in recovery or an addiction everyone because chances are you're gonna see someone unfortunately and you're gonna need to know what to do so he's gonna show us I had a recent event where unfortunately I I wasn't properly shown how to do it in the past and I kind of panicked luckily the police was there and I was embarrassed and that will never happen again so do not let yourself get in that situation and I want to also say pay attention because you are gonna panic when it happens and you need to know what to do so let's get started all right thank you team and so we're gonna first start out with this here is how nasal narcan comes it comes with in a box and it has two kits uh two doses this here is the two doses one big thing I get when I train people is naloxone and narcan they may be two different names but they are the same exact thing okay one is the actual um medicine name and then narcan is the company name for it so this with nasal here the the steps to be taken with this we're gonna first not give the person narcan we're gonna call 911 and then we're gonna give them air this will be called rescue breathing first we're what gonna do is out of this package here it's simply we just peel this open and when we do we have this right here this is one dose of naloxone there are a couple other forms of this but the nasal here is by far the easiest to use all types of naloxone have the same effectiveness and the same roughly the same amount of time of when they're going to become effective so if you have it use it whether it be an expiration date or whatever the case may be you can use it no matter what see I was I thought there was a piece missing because you know I didn't know that that just was so good yes with this here the nasal there's nothing to do once you take it out of this case right here it's good to go and you can use it the way we're gonna use this is we're gonna have our fingers in our thumb in a place like this and we're gonna put this into the one nostril while we're plugging the other nostril when we do this we're gonna push up on this red plunger and it's gonna aerosol once we have this aerosol this will be absorbed in the mucous membrane of somebody's nose and that's how it gets into somebody's system okay what this does is when it gets into your system it's the opioids in somebody's system is no longer effective your body does not see it in your system okay so from this point on if if you're the only one at the scene this is when you're gonna call 911 okay if you have somebody else on the scene they could be calling 911 at the same time and then give you a location of a best area where to find you okay now if someone's not overdosing and you assume they are and you give this to them is it are they safe or as far as I've been trained you can give naloxone even if you're not sure about if they're have opioids in their system and you can give multiple doses of naloxone as well okay so if they're not coming around with the first dose I'll get into that in just a second but you can give multiple doses I myself have heard of a case of a person needing 12 doses so that's six kits of Narcan from people at the scene as well as the ambulance attendants on the way to the hospital right okay um so once we have given the Narcan and we've called 911 this is when we're gonna do rescue breathing so this isn't CPR we're not doing chest compressions on somebody but we are providing oxygen to them so what we're gonna do is tip the head back and making sure that the airway is clear plugging their nose and then providing air from mouth to mouth you do want to go full mouth to mouth contact um during COVID times right now if they have a CPR shield which is something as a plastic barrier between you and the other person that allows airflow but you can also use a t-shirt some other type of fabric in the case of so you don't have to be exactly physical contact to contact during this time okay yeah that's good advice but uh yeah I don't know if I would tend to do that in that situation but I know people will you know think about that so that's good to know it can be quite hectic in the situation yes um once we have given Narcan to somebody uh and the paramedics have arrived um everybody does have the right to refuse treatment from an ambulance of being shipped to a hospital but at that time we generally ask somebody to stay with that person for at least an hour and a half after then this Narcan here in any type of Narcan medicine wears off after about 45 minutes so if the person has uh depending on the amount of opioids in somebody's system there is the possibility of a second overdose once this medicine wears off so that's why we ask you to stay with them for at least an hour and a half if you have more Narcan after the fact you can use that again call the ambulance again they will come back and they will give that person Narcan okay a big thing about Narcan it's we want to give a person at another chance at recovery it doesn't matter what they do with that out of the chance but as long as we keep giving them that chance to recovery remember recover loud thanks for joining us for another episode of recover loud you can watch us saturday nights at eight o'clock on youtube and thursday nights at seven thirty on p mc channel five in the greater portland area recover loud everyone because every time i call you pick up the phone and always reminding me that i'm not alone and even when i'm scared in my feet of frozen you help me keep it going like a semi-colon so i'ma follow your steps for all of the way up on my faith in you and walk on the waves and if i stumble a bit and fall on my face you come and save me with all of your grace yeah thank god