And just like that YouTube team keep it clean Justin Houston is a Baltic more raven Whoo after all of that Wow after just this entire summer having so many conversations so many videos about them So many just comments tweets back and forth about Justin Houston to the Raven why it made so much sense It finally came to fruition. It's actually happening right now I'm gonna tell me straight up with y'all doesn't even seem real It doesn't even seem real man This feels like a dream and you know just what I mean. It does not seem real at all But it is official like when my boy Sean first sent me the tweet from Adam Schefter Because I literally just got out the shower That's why I got that Raven hoodie on right now because it's hot. I ain't trying to be hot right now I said man forget that Raven hoodie right now. It's too hot for that I ain't trying to sweat but anyway when my guy Sean sent me the tweet. I was thinking I looked at it I was thinking oh man did my boy Sean did my boy scribes get got Did he get okie doke by one of them a little fake Adam Schefter accounts cuz you know people be trolling heavy and you gotta watch but It's real. It's real. Let's read the report. It says former all-proad edge rusher Justin Houston reached an agreement on a one-year deal One-year deal. Hey you come through one year. That's it. We got you. Let's do it Let's make it happen this year But he came to an agreement on a one-year deal worth up to four million dollars with the Baltimore Ravens That's real. It's real with the Ravens now Let's let's break that part down Because we don't have all the the numbers and whatnot of the deal We don't have exactly what it's worth But with it being a one-year deal worth up to four million dollars that does not mean it's a one-year four million dollar deal It's worth up to so I guarantee you the guarantees are probably gonna be at the most two mil at the most At the most but my opinion not fact. We'll see soon Probably by the time y'all see this video the details of the guarantees will have come out But a one-year deal worth up to four million dollars Ravens did it again. Justin Houston and Ravens made it happen Anyway, and it says per sources Houston turned down significantly more money from other teams in order to pursue a championship Hey that poor baby smile, man God I haven't read this whole thing until like literally right now I saw the top part that they reached an agreement But I didn't read the bottom part till just now and that like that just sounds so pretty man It sounds beautiful like he turned down significantly more money from other teams in order to pursue a championship With the Ravens per source I'm with it all day, man I'm with it all day all day, man All day while these DMs going crazy right now, and I know Instagram DMs gonna be going crazy right now, too Um, I love y'all team keeping clean real quick I love y'all and I appreciate the fact that y'all um y'all show a lot of support And y'all y'all put y'all show a lot of support to the work that gets put into this And y'all rock with us heavy I rock with y'all even heavier So I really love y'all and appreciate it man So Justin Houston man is it's real this is actually real it's crazy, man Who would have thought well? I know a lot of people that would have thought and like I told y'all before man When the whole Justin Houston thing first started buzzing a lot more I wanted them to get them, but I didn't think it was gonna happen didn't think it was gonna happen I was like, ah, yeah, this we know the usual like right and again like we were talking about in the last videos A lot of people who just said they don't want to get their hopes up. They're like, oh no I ain't trying to get my hopes up I ain't trying to get all hyped I ain't trying to get all excited and we could understand that especially as Ravens fans Because we done been through it especially this offseason like we done been through it over the past couple of seasons Like of course with the DeAndre Hopkins and then they tried to trade for Jamal Adams And then we've had all these maybes, but this offseason It's been hitting like harder than ever and and we became just well at least me myself We became like numb to it. We became numb to the almost Because with juju Smith shoes the interest it in him, but oh no turn them T White Hill interested in him even put office on the table for both. Nope. They turned it down both of them Who little Jones all the Ravens interested in him But then once the draft hit and they drafted a sharp Bateman and Tylen Wallace is always thing. Okay. Yeah, that's that's probably done But then it was still gonna be interested, but the Raven like no, we're good. We're good So it we so used to even with Justin Houston again I think he visited earlier, but he was like, oh, he won't send me walking. He initially visited but then he left He's like, okay We just became so numb to it and and we not that our expectations were lowered but We were just like used to oh, yeah, Ravens like this play they like that play that like that play all but they ain't getting So I guess that's why it just it still hasn't hit for me yet, but I love it I love it and I guess Justin Houston.  I'm not doing it. Not doing it. Nope. Nope. Mm-hmm I don't want to do it. Y'all ain't putting the pads on don't sign me Don't ask me to come through because I'm not doing it He just wanted to come to train the cram when they put the pads on but this is good man because this gives us a Proven pass rusher proven guy now I do still wish they would have took taking the same approach Well, they kind of did with Sammy Watkins But it's a little bit different with him because he got that injury history Only thing with him, but I wish they would have taken this approach to get a proven guy on offense at the wide receiver position to Like a proven guy that has been producing as well But that's a whole nother conversation But Raven this really like again. I told you for me. I didn't feel like pass rush was necessarily a need It was an unknown button. Oh Start to hit them Now we get an unknown guy man a known guy Somebody who got credibility somebody who got Consistency and consistent production consistent production as a pass rusher my guy JT had text me last night and he said um He said Houston is better than Jude on and in Godway put together Put together and this when he sent that he is not somebody that speaks off of emotion He doesn't at all.  They're like old Ravens can do no wrong and no No, he is not like that at all He said and he said uh, he's pernell McPhee with more speed. So sort of versatile guy So we'll see man. We'll see but I'm excited for it because this excites me for Justin Houston This excites me for the Ravens. This excites me for their pass rush. This excites me for the entire defense Health now health is the biggest key health is the biggest thing with this team man And and and now it's about really turning it on in the playoffs man It's it's it's about that right now and I think what this move does I feel like it's an underrated move Because it gives you a veteran guy who's obviously been around the league for a long time and again He's had a lot of production for a long time but When it comes to preparation because that's what I feel like there is the Ravens biggest Achilles heel when it's come to their last Three seasons the lack of preparation in the playoffs has bit them in the behind big time The lack of preparation has been terrible.  They came out slow 2018 came out slow 2019 came out slow hottest team in the league best team in the league came out slow 2020 against the Titans came out slow to that and then against the bills came out slow every time But this is why the additions of us most on offense for Sammy Watkins That's why that addition was huge because like I like I say every time we talk about Sammy He's played in every type of game So he can help bring that veteran presence that veteran leadership because sometimes you just need somebody that's been there done that and that Sammy Watkins Justin Houston. He's a guy. He's been there done that ain't got a Super Bowl But he's had a lot of success and he can help these young guys It is not his job to help the young guys Because shout out to Joe Flacco because I love when Joe Flacco said that about drew luck when he went to the Broncos It ain't my job to coach him. I ain't no coach because he's not but a Lot of the veteran players they take it upon themselves to show the young guys the ropes It's like when you go to a job And you're a new person and your trainer your trainer will teach you the stuff how to company once it to be taught But then you have the people that you're working with and they'll show you different ways like stuff that the trainers might not Even be aware of but they show you stuff that where you can really it can really help you a lot With that on the job training and just your work period So that's what Justin Houston can be to die fair way to Daylan Hayes And then you still have again veterans. You got a good group of veterans Kaleas Campbell pernell McPhee and Kaleas Campbell played in the Super Bowl But he lost the Super Bowl should have won because that's Antonio home catch was not a catch He was on one foot but another conversation for another day pernell McPhee Super Bowl champion Derek Wolf Super Bowl champion So the defense has a good set of Players veteran players that got great experience and now you add Justin Houston to the mix These Ravens are ready They're ready. I initially um My my when people actually what my season prediction work for the Ravens I said ASC championship and now I'm gonna stick with that again. Like I said, I hope that I'm wrong I really hope that I'm wrong. I do not want to be right about that at all I want them to win the Super Bowl but Right now with adding Justin Houston and makes them a significantly better team in my opinion But now you got to show it now you got to show it and again regular season not worried about them What's so ever in a regular season? I'm not But playoffs man, they gotta they got to put this thing together because for the last couple of years They have had these really really great teams really really great team. Well, they really really good teams But this year these dudes got another chance to really be great now They've had an offseason now. They got all these solid additions. They they got it man You got a chance to really do something and I really hope these boys go off team keep it clean I love y'all I see y'all at the banking a little bit cuz I don't think anything else is gonna happen today that can't happen But I love y'all appreciate y'all we out


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Burnto or not, it's time to eat. But first, Shane Jones has a phone call to make. Oh, should I ring Cunliffe then? David Cunliffe has been trying to talk to Jones all day about not letting the media in on the family lives of the three Labour leadership contenders. Kia ora, Dave. You've been chasing me around Taitokere. I'm up north, pal. We asked both David Cunliffe and Grant Robertson to film with us for this programme, but they refused. Now, it sounds like David Cunliffe is suggesting Shane should do the same. OK, well, it's a bit late, Dave. I've had the TV group already do it up north and go to the whare and all that sort of jazz. You might think Shane Jones has more to hide than his competitors, but he seems pretty comfortable in his own skin. And so the Cunliffe plea falls on deaf ears. Right, right, right. No, I understand what you're saying, mate, but it's come and gone. OK, catch you later, bro. I just want to let you know that... Is he not a happy chevy? Come and Grant, they're worried about...  Doing things in a soft fashion has never really been a failing of mine. Interesting there, what David Cunliffe was trying to do was stitch up a deal with Shane Jones so you couldn't get into their private lives. That's right, and look, that's there right, but it's interesting that David Cunliffe and Grant Robertson weren't happy for the cameras to come in and see how they lived their own lives. I think they figured that Shane Jones would have the broken marriage and the porn scandal in the past that he would have a bit more to hide, but he went in and said, look, what's in all this is how I live my life and I think it probably worked for him.


I haven't slept a wink tonight, so please forgive my frazzled look and atrobilious nature. Usually I'm much more cheerful and a lot more optimistic as all of you can attest. But today we are going to do, or I'm going to do, what I do best. I'm going to be iconoclastic. I'm going to be, yet again, psychologist whistleblower. Now what blows my mind is that when I blow the whistle on psychology, when I expose to you the dirty secrets and the taboos and the topics that are hidden under the rug in the closet, you're angry at me. You don't want to know the truth. I'd rather live in Disneyland, inhabit a terrain of fantasy. And so I'm not quite sure whether I should proceed doing this to do this or not. But let me give it a last try. Today we are going to discuss four facts that will blow your mind. And these are the facts for those of you who don't wish to trowl through my long-winded presentations. These are the facts. Parents are much less happy than the childless. People who have children are less happy than people who do not have children. Fact number two, abusive behavior in a relationship is a strong indicator of love and care ring. I'm going to get a lot of flak for this one. Number three, stress is good for you. Meditation and mindfulness intended to treat stress and reduce it and ameliorate it. Meditation and mindfulness are not always beneficial to use a British understatement. Number four, the marshmallow test is wrong. And this was an earth shattering statement. Only you have no idea what I'm talking about. So stick around till the end of the video and you will find out. We're going to start with the most explosive of these claims. And that is a claim that abuse within relationships actually means love and is a strong indicator of deep caring.  When you talk to abused women, victims of domestic violence, for example, they tell you, he beat me up because he loves me and he's jealous. I made him do it. I provoked him. And then when you ask them, why don't you get away? These women answer better to have better attention than no attention at all. And these victims insist that when the abuse stops, it makes them very worried because they equate pain, maltreatment, they equate hurt and harm with love. They believe if their intimate partner cares about them, he cares about them enough to abuse them. He cares about them enough to be possessive. He cares about them enough to penalize them for misbehavior such as triangulation or flirting or just saying or thinking the wrong thing. Indeed, when couples come to me, a standard practice in couple therapy is to ask, I am you still fighting? Fighting is an indicator, is a determinant of emotional investment. Only people who are still emotionally invested in each other and in the togetherness, in the relationship, only such people keep fighting. The moment the fighting stops, you know that the partners have given up on each other, that it's hopeless, that it's a lost cause and they better break up, better split up. Fighting therefore is like a thermometer or like a barometer of the health, vitality, resilience and energy of the relationship, the life force left in the relationship. When the fighting stops, the relationship is dead, it's a corpse. So but fighting easily and frequently deteriorates into abuse. So where do we draw the line? Should we ask in couple therapy, are you still abusing her? Are you still abusing him? Or should we make a clear delineation and demarcation between fighting, legitimately arguing, debating things, trying to reach a consensus or trying to express emotions, negative affectivities such as anger and envy and jealousy? This is a legitimate side of things. Should we demarcate this from abuse and then what is abuse? Where do we draw the line? Each person, each person alive has his own or her own standards of what constitutes abuse and what doesn't. Boundaries are not rigid, they are not universal. My boundaries are not your boundaries. What you may consider to be abusive, I want and what I consider to be abusive, you will not consider the same. You will not agree with me. There's a lot of disagreement on what constitutes abuse. I want to read to you a text from a book titled Human Sexuality, Biological, Psychological and Cultural Perspectives. The second edition has just been published in 2021 by Rutledge and the book is authored by Anne Bolin and others. Here's the book. I hope the camera captures it. I'm going to move it around a bit so that it captures the whole cover. Human Sexuality, Biological, Psychological and Cultural Perspectives, actually, it's the anthropology of human sexuality. Interesting book. Here's what it says on page 36, right, the dark side of relationships, inflicting of aggressive behaviors on your partner. This can be seen in a study conducted by Hammock, A-H-A-M-M-O-C-K. The study was conducted in 2003. The book continues to describe the study. This study investigated the ability of a number of variables to predict the use of physical and psychological aggression in intimate relationships. Very aggressive behaviors were actions that either threatened or delivered physical harm, for example, kicking, hitting, forcing sex and choking. Psychologically aggressive tactics involved those that potentially harmed the self-concept of the recipient, for example, calling the recipient names, giving angry stares, isolating the recipient from friends and family and humiliating or degrading the recipient. Hammock, in 2003, it's a woman. She found a number of variables that reliably predicted the use of the participant's physical and psychologically harmful behaviors. In other words, she isolated a series of variables that predicted well, aggressive and abusive behavior. These variables involved hold on to your chairs. It's going to get very bumpy. These variables involved love, trust and emotional commitment. Not surprisingly, those individuals who felt they could not trust their partner were more likely to use both physical and psychological aggression with the partner. On the other hand, those who reported high levels of love and high levels of commitment for their partners were more likely to use physical and psychological aggression. No, I didn't get it wrong. I didn't misread this sentence. I'm going to read it to you again. Those who reported higher, high levels of love and commitment for their partners were more, more like in more likely to use physical and psychological aggression against the partner. Though the last finding says the author, though the last finding might seem surprising, an interesting explanation is given. We are not likely to bother using aggressive behaviors with our partners when their relationship is of little value to us. In other words, ones in which we have little emotional commitment. However, when we have high levels of emotional commitment, we might have a greater motive for controlling the partner or for retaliating against the partner for things the partner says or does. Certainly concludes the author. This study suggests that emotional responses have interesting impacts on relationships and what we are willing to do in relationships. So this is one example of quite a few studies that link aggression in relationships, abusive behaviors in relationships, constant conflict in relationships, two levels of love, commitment and emotional investment, the higher the levels of love, commitment and emotional investment, the more frequent and intense the conflicts and the more they tend to escalate towards maltreatment, abuse and worse. Yes, there is a direct positive linkage, positive correlation between love and commitment and abusive behavior. The more you love and the more you care, the more abusive you are.  He beat me up because I made him do it. I provoked him. In other words, I am in control. So we used to poo-poo these narratives. We used to say these are nonsensical, self-soothing stories that abused women tell themselves, but it seems that they were right all along. The next amazing fact, parenthood makes you unhappy. I'm referring to a series of articles, all of them in the description, you go to the description, you find as usual the bibliography. One of them is titled, Parenthood and Happiness, Effects of Work-Family Reconciliation Policies in 22 OECD countries, industrialized countries. The lead author is Jennifer Glass and there are others. The authors found, I'm quoting, the authors found that more generous family policies, particularly paid time off and childcare subsidies, are associated with smaller disparities in happiness between parents and non-parents. Moreover, the policies that augment parental happiness do not reduce the happiness of non-parents. This is one of the most refined sleight of hand texts I've ever read because it disguises the truth. And this is what the text actually says. The text actually says that people who are not parents are much happier than people who have children. That having children reduces happiness pretty dramatically, by the way. And what they are saying is, Jennifer Glass and others, what they are saying is, the state can help, the state can provide paid time off, childcare, and this will narrow the happiness gap. But even the authors admit that it will not resolve or eliminate the happiness gap. It will only narrow it somewhat. It's a fact.  And in a minute we'll come to this. There is an article titled, Does having children make people happier in the long run? It was authored by Nicholas Wolfinger, I'm not making this up. And he says, I examined the relationship between children and happiness using over 40 years of data from the General Social Survey, a national omnibus survey conducted annually or bi-annually since 1972. These data provide a sample size of almost 14,000 adults in the 50 to 70 age range and allow me to ascertain whether the benefits or liabilities of children for parental happiness have changed over time across the lifespan. In particular, I examined both overall happiness and marital happiness. One finding is consistent in all analysis, says Wolfinger. Other parents with minor children still at home are less happy than emptiness contemporaries. In other words, if you still have children at home, you are still unhappy. You become much happier the minute all of them leave home. The emptiness syndrome is a myth and the difference is huge. This five to six percentage point statistically significant difference. I'm going to read this paragraph again because it defies all the myths about the happiness that children bring to you as a parent and how heartbroken and devastated you are when they leave home. It's not true. You are unhappy when they are at home and you are delighted, relieved and elated when they are gone and you are free finally. So here's what Wolfinger says. One finding is consistent in all analysis. All the parents with minor children still at home are less happy than their emptiness contemporaries by about five to six percentage points, a difference that's statistically significant. Myth or nonsense number three, stress is bad for you. You should meditate. You should do mindfulness. So there's a series of articles published in New Scientist. New Scientist is a popular science magazine but relatively okay when it comes to depth of research and so on. And the article is titled How to hack your stress and turn it into a positive force in your life. And this is what, these are some excerpts from the article. It was offered by Catherine Delange. I love these French names. They reduce my stress. So here's what the article says. Too much stress hurts the mind and body. But the stress response exists for good evolutionary reasons. Recognizing this fact is the first step to turning the negative effects of stress around. And Delange continues. Last year the American Psychological Association found that two thirds of people in the US reported feeling more stressed in the pandemic and predicted a mental health crisis that could yield serious health and social consequences for years to come. Increased risk of diabetes, depression and cardiovascular disease and more are all associated with high stress levels. It's enough to make you feel stressed just thinking about it. Perhaps says Catherine Delange in New Scientist. Perhaps we just need to think about stress differently though. That at least is the startling conclusion of researchers studying the mind-body connection. There are natural benefits to being stressed, they say, and if we change our stress mindset, we might be able to turn things around and make stress a positive influence on our lives. Fortunately there are some simple hacks that will allow us to do this and they bring with them the promise of better physical health, clearer thinking, increased mental toughness and greater productivity. There is no denying continuous Delange. There's no denying that too much stress can harm both body and mind. It has been linked to all six of the main causes of death in the West. Cancer, heart disease, liver disease, accidents, lung disease and suicide. You forgot to mention listening to some vacuum. Stress can weaken the immune system, leaving us more prone to infection. What does one of the leading authorities in the world have to say about this? Ellen Francis, medical doctor, is professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University School of Medicine and the author of Saving Normal and Insiders Revolt Against Out-of-Controlled Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life. Sounds like a chap I could be friends with, write this very second emeritus or not. Ellen Francis gave an interview to Star News in 2016, 8th of February 2016. Again the link is in the description. Ellen Francis is a respected US psychiatrist. He helps write previous version of the country's main psychiatry textbook and he says there is an increasing tendency for people to confuse depression and anxiety with normal short-lived feelings of sadness and stress. I repeat what he says. There is an increasing tendency for people and he should have added diagnosticians, clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists and therapists. They all committed the same mistake. In 2016 depression and anxiety with normal short-lived feelings of sadness and stress. In 2016 he went all out against depression screening and in an article titled depression screening for adults and adolescents has benefits but don't ignore the downsides. The author was Patrick Skerrant and it was published in February 2016. So Ellen Francis says routine screening for depression is wrong on several levels. It perpetuates a huge mistake made in 1980 as part of the update of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, psychiatry's Bible for defining mental illness. It combined two distinct types of depression under a single label, major depressive disorder. Some type known as melancholia or endogenous depression causes severe, severe trouble, eating, sleeping, feeling, moving and talking along with unbearable sadness, worse than losing a loved one, severe agitation and sometimes delusions. But the other type known as reactive depression is more common and much milder and is on a continuum with a normal sadness that comes with daily life. Francis says, in lumping together these two very different severities of depression, major depressive disorder was often no longer really major or depressive or even a real disorder. This helped to medicalize the inevitable disappointments, stresses and losses that are a part of everyday life. The pharmaceutical industry exploited the loose definition with misleading marketing claims that all depression is due to a chemical imbalance in the brain that requires treatment with a pill. Today 11% of Americans take an antidepressant among women over 14, the rate is 25%. Screening test continues Dr. Francis. Screening tests, especially the brief ones used by primary care clinicians cannot judge clinical significance. They are not specific, meaning they identify as depressed, a large number of people who really are not depressed and who will do just fine with a simple passage of time, natural resilience, family support or brief counseling. Not too often, they won't be given a chance to get well on their own, instead, hired clinicians prescribe pills as the easiest way to get the patient out of the office. Insurance companies make things worse by not paying for careful diagnosis and further encourage a rush to medication. Routine screening of all adults and adolescents would ramp up this already excessive treatment of the mildly ill and worried well. It would also further burden primary care clinicians, giving them yet another box to tick off and reducing precious quality time spent caring, actually caring for their patients, says Dr. Francis. I love this guy. Instead of screening all adults and adolescents for depression, our efforts says Dr. Francis would be better spent identifying and helping those with true clinical depression. It doesn't make sense to create an army of fake patients when hundreds of thousands of Americans with serious depression and other mental health issues slip through wide cracks in our broken healthcare system and receive minimal or no treatment. What about the interventions that we do have? Not with screening tools, few of these interventions have been shown to do more good than harm in randomized clinical trials. Actually I could generalize and say that I'm not aware, although I'm not infallible and I'm not omniscient. Here you heard it first on this video, I am not infallible and I'm not omniscient and I'm not godlike, I'm just perfect. But to the best of my knowledge, I am not aware of any intervention that had gone through the rigorous process of randomized clinical trial and that had been proven to do more good than harm, none, not one. Depression and anxiety screening tools have been trialed several times but there were no findings of any benefits to mental health. Some of the trials don't even attempt to find out if they improve mental health but just measure if they work at finding cases of depression. Screening tools do find the outlier case of depression here and there but do they find people who really have depression or is the rate of false positives so overwhelming that they should be avoided altogether? Okay, you say, forget screening. Once you have been diagnosed with depression by a proper diagnostician administering all the tests over many hours by the way and then analyzing them for several days because that's what needs to happen for you to be properly diagnosed with major depressive disorder. Once you've been diagnosed with major depressive disorder, how about mindfulness and meditation? Aren't they supposed to help these new age tools? Here's an article, New Scientist, 14th of August 2020 by Claire Wilson. It's titled Mindfulness and Meditation Can Worseen Depression and Anxiety and I read to you from the article. Mindfulness says Claire Wilson and other types of meditation are usually seen as simple stress relievers but they can sometimes leave people worse off. About one in 12 people who try meditation experience an unwanted negative effect. I'm going to read this back to you because one in 12 is seriously high. You wouldn't take antibiotics if they killed you one in 12 times, would you? So about one in 12 people says the article, who try meditation experience an unwanted negative effect, usually a worsening in depression or anxiety or even the onset of these conditions for the first time according to the first systematic review of the evidence. Miguel Farias at Coventry University in the United Kingdom is one of the researchers behind this study and he says for most people it works fine but it has undoubtedly been overhyped and it's not universally benevolent. There are many types of meditation of course. One of the most popular though is mindfulness. Mindfulness to my mind is absolutely the reification of narcissism. It's the narcissist therapy, it's a narcissist meditation, had a narcissist been forced to invent to come up with a meditation protocol he would have come with mindfulness. I deal with this in other videos but okay forget my personal angle let's go back to mindfulness. There are many types of meditation mindfulness is one. In mindfulness people pay attention to the present moment. They focus on their own thoughts and feelings or on external sensations on their body right here and now in the present. Actually several national health bodies around the world in the United Kingdom as well do recommend mindfulness as a way to reduce depression and especially the relapse of depression in people who have experienced the condition several times. And so there's a huge hype and a huge enthusiasm for meditation and of course numerous and army of self-styled experts on YouTube and promoting and hyping and praising and bragging about outcomes and pushing you and forcing you to buy products and retreats and so on so forth. Enthusiasm it's all over the place it's a hot button topic. The article says enthusiasm for meditation may partly stem from a growing awareness of the side effects of antidepressant medicines and the difficulties some people report in stopping taking them. There have been some reports of people experiencing worse mental health after starting meditation but it is unclear how often this happens. This team come through medical journals and found 55 that's a lot relevant studies. Once the researchers have excluded those studies who had deliberately set out to find negative effects they worked out the prevalence of people who experience harm, harm, damage within each study and then calculated the average adjusted for the study size a common method in this kind of analysis known as meta-analysis. So they become the literature they excluded studies that they thought were biased they focused only on neutral studies and then they adjusted the outcomes to the sample size. Having gone through this very rigorous and statistically efficient series of techniques various and others found that about 8% of people who try meditation experience an unwanted effect people have experienced various sense people have experienced anything from an increase in anxiety up to panic attacks they also found instances of psychosis and thoughts of suicide following meditation and especially mindfulness they found that about 8% of people who try meditation are subject to this 8% I can tell you is a vast underestimate how do I know many studies of meditation record only very serious negative side effects many studies of medication don't record negative side effects and are biased in the opposite direction they are more like marketing tools than real studies generally there's a reluctance because it's politically incorrect there's a reluctance to record the negative effects of meditation and I would venture a guess that in one of five cases meditation and mindfulness are potentially life-threatening Katie Sparks is a chartered psychologist is a member of the British psychological society and in this article she says the figure could have been pushed up by people trying out meditation because of undiagnosed anxiety or depression meditation has been found to help people to relax and refocus and help them both mentally and physically she says but sometimes when people are trying to steal their thoughts the mind can rebel she says it's like a backlash to the attempt to control the mind and this results in an episode of anxiety or depression this doesn't mean people should stop trying the technique says these psychologists but instead they should opt for guided meditation sessions led by a teacher or for an app with a recorded narration which she believes is safer I don't know why you should why you should try techniques when you need to take safety measures I mean that sounds totally nuts to me but that's what she says and she concludes the current study could stop people participating in something which can be of benefit in the right context she says and I add or kill them the journal references the article Fairest article where he discovered that about one in 12 people are seriously adversely affected by meditation and mindfulness the article is published in Akta Psychiatrica Scandinavica it's a mouthful and it's titled systematic review or meta analysis adverse events in meditation practices and meditation based therapies a systematic review Fairest and others 21st of august 2020 link in the description let's continue a bit further to augment our case there's an article published in New Scientist where else in the third on 13th of May 2015 and it's by the same Miguel Faglias and Catherine Wiko it's titled panic depression and stress the case against meditation it couldn't be more explicit Fairest is is a leading scholar of this of meditation the effects of meditation medical psychiatric effects so here is offering an article in 2015 since then by the way is a bit a lot more careful probably the backlash or some threats or some censorship or whatever I don't know but the guy is a lot more gentle but in 2015 he was all gone the whole and the article is titled panic depression and stress the case against meditation end of story it says meditation and mindfulness have become the new aspirin a Buddha pill without side effects but not all their effects are positive wake home and Fairest say twitching trembling panic disorientation hallucinations terror depression mania and psychotic breakdown these are some of the reported effects of meditation surprised we were to say the two psychologists techniques such as transcendental meditation mindfulness are promoted as ways of quieting the mind alleviating pain and anxiety and even transforming you into a happier and more compassionate person natural q alls without adverse effects but happiness and distressing were not what meditation techniques with their buddhist and Hindu developers had in mind to start with read this article it's relatively frightened and shocking okay this was topic number three stress is actually good for you and if you do attempt to read and to reduce stress because it's become too much please reconsider whether you listen to youtube hype rather than to scholarly articles meditation and mindfulness if not guided by a really really good professional can be life-threatening and definitely have in many cases adverse mental health effects including depression anxiety and even psychosis our last topic is the marshmallow taste test a tasty test for a change in psychology generations decades a mountain range of textbooks have relied on this seminal study known as the marshmallow test yet it's beginning to unravel science daily in on the 21st of july 2022 published a review of an article the article is titled cultures crossing the power of habit in delaying gratification was published in psychological science in 2022 volume 33 it's called it was co-authored by kai chi anahoka laura michelson and others the university of colorado at boulder and here is what the article has to say it's a new take on the marshmallow test when it comes to resisting temptation a child's cultural upbringing matters the article is so well written that i'm simply going to read it to you for decades studies have shown that children able to resist temptation children opting to wait for two marshmallows later rather than consume one now these children tend to do better on measures of health and success later in life but 50 years after the seminal marshmallow test had suggested this a fresh multicultural approach to the test adds a missing piece of the story what kids are willing to wait for depends largely on their cultural upbringing and i would simply say on their upbringing i don't know why they need the word culturally in a study published in the journal psychological science the studies i mentioned before children in Kyoto japan waited three times longer for food than for gifts whereas children in boulder colorado waited nearly four times longer for gifts than for food the one of the authors says we found that the ability to delay gratification which predicts many important life outcomes is not just about variations in genes of brain development but also about habits supported by culture the findings provide good news to parents showing that fostering simple culturally appropriate habits in young children may influence their development in ways that make it easier for them to delay gratification later but it also calls into question decades of social science research suggesting that some children deemed lacking in self-control may have instead just had different cultural values around waiting uh monocata one of the authors says it calls into question how much of our scientific conclusions are shaped by the cultural lens we as researchers bring to our work some major problem in psychology anthropology sociology sexology some major problem we bring into the studies into the research our cultural biases our values our beliefs our education social more is expectations this is wrong this contaminates the work the studies what is the marshmallow test first conducted in the early 1970s by psychologist walter michel m is ch el water mixture the marshmallow test worked like this a preschooler was placed in a room with a marshmallow they were told they could eat the marshmallow now or they could wait and get two marshmallows later then the experimenter left the room and the children were left alone while the clock ticked and a video camera rolled many studies found because the marshmallow test has been replicated like thousands of times many studies found the preschoolers who waited longer did better on academic test scores were less likely to exhibit problem behavior and had a healthier body mass index and better relationships later in life now i know why i am the way i am i ate the marshmallow even before the experimenter left the room i'm continuing from the article some studies also found that these same study subjects were less likely to end up in jail and more likely to make more money so if you didn't eat the marshmallow if you waited for two marshmallows later you had it made early on researchers focused on inherent and cognitive explanations munakata says there was this idea that some kids simply have more self-control and some kids have less self-control munakata who is a professor of psychology at the university of california davis is as the name implies of japanese heritage but he grew up in the us and actually he conceived of the idea while he was on sabbatical in Kyoto on the first day of school her two children tore into the lunchboxes the peers quickly the peers the japanese peers in Kyoto told them that in japan you don't eat until everyone sits down munakata noticed that her children the behavior of her children and her children's ability to delay gratification was heavily influenced by peer pressure and of course peer pressure reflects socialization and and culture in other words peer pressure reflects society society's strictures and mores and edicts and expectations beliefs and values so the peers communicated japanese culture to these two american kids and munakata noticed that her kids are changing while her children were used to waiting to open their gifts on birthdays and christmas their japanese peers opened the gifts the moment they got them whether the gift giver was present or not so here she saw the opposite example japanese children were able to postpone delay the gratification of food they waited for everyone to sit down before they ate which is a process and could take a few minutes but they were used to that but they were japanese were unable to delay gratification when it came to gifts american children were the opposite they were able to delay gratification when it came when it came to gifts but not when it came to food obesity anyone so she asked herself how much does culture influence all this so she teamed up with professor Satoru Saito at the graduate school of education in japan and Kaichi Yanaoka a graduate student in university of tokyo what they did they recruited 144 children from border colorado and Kyoto they randomly assigned these children to a test involving a marshmallow or a wrapped present a wrapped gift and then they looked through the video so how did the children cope they say one counted the dots on the ceiling another drew his name on the desk another paste around the room it was fascinating to see the self soothing techniques these children engaged in the children in japan were overwhelmingly better at waiting for the marshmallow with a median wait time of 15 minutes i'm not sure i could do this if we had just looked at their behavior with the sweets it would have looked like japanese kids have better self control says said muna kata but that was not the end of the story in japan kids waited less than five minutes to open the presents open the gifts the reverse was true in the united states where kids waited almost 15 minutes to open the presents versus less than four minutes to gobble the poor marshmallow so notably kids who had a habit of waiting for meals at home and elsewhere waited longer to eat the marshmallow and across cultures children who were more attuned to social conventions as measured by surveys waited longer generally this suggests says dostat one of the office this suggests that the way you grow up the social conventions you are raised around and how much you pay attention to these social conventions these are all important muna kata said that the study does not debunk the marshmallow test central finding that the ability to resist here and now rewards is linked to success in long-term goals she acknowledges the genetics neurocognitive factors and social factors play a role in how much willpower the child exhibits she herself actually in 2018 another study she found that preschoolers in in their in group opt to wait for the second marshmallow because the in group does so she herself kind of supported the the the main conclusions of the of the marshmallow test but this new this new study clearly indicated that the locus of cell control the locus of delayed gratification has nothing to do with genetics new your brain your neurological system nothing is going to do with the new piece where you exercise control self-control where you delay gratification is determined by culture and society not by you cultivating the office conclude cultivating habits of waiting for others could be doing much more than supporting politeness moon kata says such habits may change brain systems in ways that makes delaying gratification more automatic it could make it easier for kids to succeed in future life situations without having to work so hard i wish someone told my mother this but you know i was born way too early okay so today we delve deep into some of the taboos and the myths and of of psychology things that psychologists know but rarely dare dare to speak of number one parents are less happy than childless people across the lifespan they become very happy when the children live home number two abusive behavior aggressive behavior does indicate love caring and investment in a committed relationship it does it's linked to it number three stress is good for you meditation and mindfulness can be seriously bad for you and number four delayed gratification has at least as much to do with culture as with us we are molded by cultures by the culture and society we grow in if the culture and society broadcast to you tells you that you have to wait that you have to be polite that you have to be considerate then you would then you will be and you will be able to delay gratification if the culture tells you that you come first you are entitled you should gratify yourself at the expense of everyone and immediately it's it's a jungle out there it's dog eat dog it's a zero sum game you're likely to be unable to delay gratification and these are the results of the recent most recent studies you have been warned and for warrant is for armed what's with the british idioms today


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A little more spray painting, by the way, hope you're doing well, and yes, Dave, you called me out, you called me out real good and I appreciate it. Comment of the week, coming up, I actually didn't forget on Monday, but I did not put it into Monday's vlog because it was already getting a little long and I forgot yesterday. So anyway, it's coming, comment of the week, but first a little spray paint. We're back. The day of work, the day of work. As promised, comment of the week, comment of the week, thank you Dave for keeping me accountable, appreciate it. Let me just make sure I'm not too bright. The sun just came out, hold on. Nope, we're good. Okay, it goes to Carol. Thank you, Carol, for commenting and always commenting. This was in connection to the question of the day about the car and new car, used car, what's your strategy for buying a car. So I thought there was just a lot of good sound advice in here. So Carol wrote, Carol's from Texas, she wrote, New car route, my dad told me buying a new car is better since it's under warranty and you were not buying other people's problems. I think that's very wise. He also said once I finished paying it off that I should continue making the same payment into my savings account, genius. His reasoning was to save enough money to eventually buy my next car with cash and avoid interest. I mean, just a lot of logic, good logic here. I followed his advice and it has worked out great for me. I also passed this onto my kids. I normally keep cars for 10 plus years and do a ton of research before buying the last car I bought a 2015 Tesla S90D. I did months of research and hope to keep this car for 15 plus years, basically no maintenance and gas bills. So I'm really happy. We have a really good electric plan in Texas. Texas is well known for good energy. One bonus of living there. We have a really good electric plan. I've never enjoyed a car more. My son just bought the Tesla Model 3 and he will get the same tax rebates that I got. God bless. Okay, Carol, gonna challenge you. Hopefully you watch this. I would be really cute because I've heard other people talk about the Tesla Model 3 and I believe it's a little more affordable in the $35,000 range, which is a lot of money, but more affordable than other Teslas. I'd be curious if you could send this video to your son and see if he could comment and I just would be I'd love to hear his thoughts on the Tesla S3 Model. So that would be so amazing. Thank you for commenting. You get the comment of the week for just giving sound good advice here in this comment. I love it. All right, the day is marching on. The clouds are coming. It just actually we just had a rainstorm and it's dinner time.  We're going to get Chick-fil-A. Come on, come on. Come on. I told you to come on. Brother went to play in the play place, but Seth does not leave when there's cookies coming, right Seth? No, you don't leave, daddy. Last time before race day. On the evening marches on, I'm going to bed and this is a tip of the day question of the day. Tip of the day, if you are getting ready for an endurance sport, an endurance event, don't necessarily carboload the night before. Try to start two days before and maybe even three days before, especially if it's a long bike event, right? You know, running event, swimming, whatever you're doing, just a tip of the day. Don't carboload the night before because your body can't process everything quickly enough by that next morning. Does that make sense? And that leads to the question of the day. What was the last athletic event that you competed in? It could have been in middle school. It could have been in high school. Maybe it was last week. I'm not sure, but let everyone know in the comments below what your last athletic event was and how did you do, all right? Team or individual sports, doesn't matter. All right, seek beauty or card.


Okay, so what we're going to do right now is we're going to set up our custom audiences and this is what it's literally all about 99% of social media advertising is literally all about. Custom audiences tracking those who watch previous videos.   Some may opt in some may not. But the fact that we're tracking them all. That's what it's all about. And you can only do it when you have when you have landing pages like this and you're able to customize the domain, which is what we've been able to do. So now let's simply set it up in in Facebook. So click the three lines to the left. And we're going to set up three audiences. We're going to come down audiences. And this is a bookmark as well custom audiences, but you'll see it there audiences. And so our first audience is going to be is going to be we have these two right here that we set up the intro video 25% and then people who engage. And then this drop down in the top right, can you hit that little drop down, not that one, but right below it. There's that little arrow. Yeah, click on that. Yeah, perfect. Okay, give us a little bit more room. So the first audience we're going to create is an audience based on on people who click on your ad land on your landing page, but not opt in. Right. Many times we click on ads we go to a website, but for whatever reason we don't purchase we don't even click on many much more after that we clicked and we landed there. And that was about it. That's an audience. So we want to be able to track those who land on a page. So click the blue button create audience. And then we're going to come down a custom audience. And we're going to be very, very specific as well. This is all about specific being super specific. So we're going to go website, website and then next. Okay, cool. So now over here that in fact did we add the pixel to the pages. No, you know what we have not right we haven't. Okay, so what we're going to do today is we're going to add the pixel and we're going to set up custom audiences. So go ahead and go back to Cartra. Let's let's open up the page that's what we haven't done. Okay, so we haven't. Okay, cool. So, I guess we could do we could do any of them. So we're going to start with we're going to do all of them. Okay, thank you or start wherever click on edit. And go into edit. Yeah, go in go into the actual page. You have your folder. Yeah, we're going to just work out every folder. So, so FB business manager folder, click on the folder and come down to pixel. Yeah, your bookmarks FB business manager your bookmarks to the left your folder.  So we're going to activate this pixel and go to scroll down to that blue dot click on continue pixel setup and then met a pixel. Connect. Install code manually. Copy code and then continue.  Continue. And then the domains already been verified so continue.  Okay, cool. So now we're going to take that pixel and we're going to we we already copied it so now go to Cartra. And we're going to simply paste it in so to the very, very left settings and come down a tracking code. Okay, tracking code and scroll all the way down and paste it into the Facebook tracking. Apply and then actions publish live. Yeah, apply actions publish live, and then return a dashboard. Okay. Go to these three pages that you have the tabs download now schedule your call refresh the page.  Okay, cool. So now Facebook just read the pixel for the first time. So now did you refresh this one refresh this page. Okay, cool. So now go back to the events manager and then refresh this page and this page should open up. Perfect. We're good. Okay, cool. So now exit of this. Okay, so now our pixel is on the pages all all we got to do so now go to your. So actually, that's fine. That's fine. Okay, cool. So we're good here. So now let's click now we can do our audiences. So three lines to the left and go to audiences. Yeah, it is and it was because the red dot so as we come came over here, we click on the blue blue button create audience. And then we went. Yeah, custom audience and then we went website it was the fact that I saw the red dot and I'm like, man, we didn't install it yet. Now it's green. So now events. So now we're just going down from top to bottom. There's the green dot the pixel is activated. The events all website visitors come down and go to specific. So again, we're going to be very specific. So come down a specific people who visit specific. Yeah, okay, cool. Now, get the link for the download now page so that's your landing page so go up there and copy this link the whole actually you just need you just need the the domain Sharon Bell realtor. Yes, no w w w no HTTPS. So just just that none. No w w w. Yes, so just take the domain. Okay, copy that, and then just bring that over to right here. Okay, so we're going to paste it in. And so what we're going to tell Facebook. No, no, no, just paste it at the bottom. We're going to tell Facebook here and then hit the drop down. Yeah, perfect. So we're telling Facebook here that that to keep people and 30 days, 30 days I would go I would go maybe I would go maybe maybe maybe 45 days the max like that's the max 45 days. Okay, okay, so we're creating an audience of those who landed on the landing page, but never opted in. They landed, but they never opted in. And how does Facebook know that because we're going to tell it to him here. So scroll down. They landed on that first page, but they never landed on the second page. So click exclude people. Now get the link for the thank you page. So copy this one everything except for the w w w. We've got that. And we're going to all website visitors go specific. And then the retention 180 max it out at 180 and then just paste in that link. Okay, and then scroll down. And we're going to give an audience name this is this is this is buyer guide page visitors buyer guide page visitors, and then in parentheses only. Only landed here they have not opted in buyer guide page visitors only this will be an audience that you'll always retarget. So on every ad create audience every ad every ad you'll always retarget this audience. They've landed on the website but they've yet to they've yet to opt in so now done. Okay, so now click on create audience again. That's one audience that's buyer guide page visitors only the next one is going to be website. We're going to go next. We're going to go specific. And then the retention 180 that's the max 180 and then paste in that link you have the thank you page link. So paste that in no no don't touch contains paste it in right there. And then scroll down. And this is audience name buyer guide leads, buyer guide leads. So, so when it comes to the leads when it comes to the thank you page this is the thank you page create audience. There's two things that you got to do with with the thank you page number one was create the custom audience that's what we just did. This would be an honest click on done. This will be an audience that you always exclude. So as you start to capture leads, people are going into this audience, then you'll start to exclude them so add number three and on for example you'll always exclude this audience. Okay. I'll exclude my buyer guys. Yeah, they don't need to see they don't need to keep seeing your because they're already. Yeah, so exclude them. Yeah. So, so that's that and then and then the next audience would be create audience will be simply your, your appointments anyone who's landed on the call confirm page, put them in an audience. So website. Next. And then, and then yep, specific. So this is called confirmed and you can go 180 180 is fine on this on the max and then just get your call confirmed link and paste it in there. And so now audience name just appointments or yeah appointments scheduled appointments or whatever. Okay, create audience. And that's that so those are your three audiences. Yeah, those are those are super important. Those are super important audiences. So as you go and run the ads, so click on the three lines to the left go to the ads manager. So now, as you go through the actual ad setup, which will just kind of go through the first step now but click on the green one, the green button create. And let's say we went with, let's say we went with, well, we got to set up our custom conversion that we're, that's what we're going to do next but let's just say we went with traffic go traffic, and then continue. And then over here the drop down you're always going to go categories you're always going to go housing. So right. Categories. Yeah, housing. So as you go to the second step, this is where you would choose your budget, this is where you would choose your, your, your targeting, but this is where you would also choose the retargeting of audiences or excluding of audiences so scroll down come down audiences. So right here. Keep going. Right here, right here, right here, custom audiences. So if you click inside that box custom audiences, this is where you can retarget your audiences. So you'll see your audiences right here so as you go on again this is super important and this is super, super basic it's super obvious I don't know why people still get confused on this part. When you're retargeting all your retargeting are people who watch your videos or people who visit the page only. That's it. So if they've watched any of your videos retarget them if they've landed on the page, but they haven't opted in retarget them. That's simple. And then and then for your leads, your buyer guide leads, click away get away from the drop down. So on the on the excluding you would click exclude. So if I don't want to target those who've already opted in, I would exclude them so exclude click the box and I would exclude the buyer guide leads. That's it. Oh, I see but if I'm retargeting me. So I'm going to include. No, you're going to. Yeah, go ahead. I'm either include them, or I'm going to exclude them, and I'll exclude the leaves. That's all you're doing is excluding just not the way you have it set up there. But but you're including so you're including buyer guide leads and you're including page visitors only right so you're including exclude so down at the bottom exclude, you're excluding leads. I had them both include got it. Okay. Yeah, that's it. That's it. That's simple. It's that simple. So, from this point on just keep creating audiences around videos keep creating audiences around any landing page. But but right now I would go all in with just the buyer guide I wouldn't even run an ad for anything else like I would only run. Yeah, my buyer guys ready to go. Yeah, so so exit of this. So we're done with custom audiences so any questions on custom audiences that's pretty much how you set up a Facebook custom audience. No, that was awesome.


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Good morning everybody. It's me again. Got another load of these rolls right over here. It's going on Wapden, North Dakota again So we got Pedro here in front of me. We got a couple of my other co-workers down the street They're gonna be loading as well. I think we're all going to the same place. I can see four of us here right now Oh Just waking up trying to figure out where I am. I checked in already so Whenever they're ready for me, they'll come and grab me pull me in there We can get this day on the road after today instead of coming back here again under today. I go back home There's a couple of you that live out in the Carman area. You guys are coming sit high to me throughout the week. I appreciate that made my day We're just off to Tim Horton's here We are ready to go. I'm just gonna go and turn myself around so I can head back the other direction I'm facing down. What is this? This is Highway 3 I don't want to go down through Wickler anyway, so Probably gonna be home tonight around I'd say It's gonna be later like nine or ten I'll say ten o'clock then when I'm home earlier. I look good, you know Too often in the past I'm like, yeah, I'll be home for supper End up coming through the door at like eleven thirty I don't want to get anyone's hopes up. We'll be home late. We'll just say that okay Between ten o'clock in midnight Anything before that surprise Pleasant good surprise I'm just going around the parking lot here if you're wondering Turning around in the parking lot here and then headed back the other way out of Carman They have a drive-in here right beside Tim Horton's. What is this called sills? Sids Look sills syl apostrophe s. I had breakfast there on Tuesday Wow Really good food really good food so you can come here get your breakfast at sills walk across park I'll get your coffee at Tim's that is a That is a magnificent start to any day. I'll give them a shout out and today That's their sign right there look for that sign You know, there'll be good food.  I'm up here and I just hang them on the trailer or I take them off hang them on the trailer Just like I hung these on the trailer here, right when I'm ready to roll them up like this I start on the driver's side Right over there and I walk around the trailer and I drag them all the way around here all at once that I Only have to touch them once to bring them here and I only have to walk around the truck once to bring them here I have them all neatly By the hooks That they're all organized like this Somewhat Work smarter not harder You only want to touch them once if you have to or you don't want to touch them twice if you don't have to you You don't want to touch them three times if you don't have to Those are keeping real busy here comes another one harvest season There's some skinny tires on that tractor Must be for a certain kind of crop or something Pull up this trap You want the numbering and the lettering On the outside so that when you're finished rolling it up.   I See a lot of guys who roll them up backwards, and I don't know why nothing against you guys I don't know why you do that though much easier to do it this way And it's much easier to throw it over the load if you roll it up this way in my opinion It's up to you though I mean, I'm gonna tell you what works best for me, but There's no right or wrong way to roll up a strap. You do you That's what I usually say. There's no right or wrong way of doing things usually But very often there's an easier way and a harder way And there's a more convenient way in a less convenient way And once you find a more convenient way that takes less effort or less work or that just works better You don't want to go back to doing it the old way Some bugs that are Sorry I got distracted. I had a bug in on my head and then I Got distracted by the beautiful song of those tires humming by. Do you hear that? That was beautiful Perfect harmony So when you're going over your strap like this you're making sure that there's no tears no rips No damages. You're also making sure that it's straight not all twisted up You get to the end here and usually, you know, you have those that center line down one side, right?  We just got to go home now. Let's set the GPS. Shall we? Let's set it to Boom you guys got big plans for your weekend. We have mushrooms growing in our yard And my job this weekend is to get rid of them because the dogs like to eat them and they're not supposed to eat them It could make them very sick I'm not sure what kind of mushrooms that they are, but I don't want them growing wild in my yard Wild and free just hanging out. No, not my yard If I didn't plant you No business girl in there. You know what I mean? Makes sense, right? I'll see you on the other side. It's the Canadian border just about home Just need to get through here Passport a closed scale is a good scale. That's right. It's Friday. No need for that. Come on Quick day. No waste in time today. I want to go home So that's my laundry all Kicked out of the truck here already a couple of towels. These are my floor towels all of my floors in the truck Always have blue towels. So I'm always stepping on towels and no shoes in my truck So it keeps the original flooring, which is just that rubber flooring keeps it clean as much easier to clean this way This way on the weekends I just take my towels home and I wash them instead of having to you know Scrub out the truck because in the sleeper. It's a rug. I'd like to put laminate flooring in there You'd eventually like waterproof laminate or something or water-resistant, whatever they call it, but We'll get to that eventually there's so many things I want to do to the truck It's hard to know even where to start but Not gonna think about that tonight. Just got to get this stuff in the pickup and go home It's been a good week. It's been a really good week busy Good night, old blue. It's been a good week You guys want to see how happy the dogs are gonna be? They always give the best welcomes after a trip Who's that in there? Who's snowed is that?  What's up? I'm going inside. You coming in? Come on I think we left one out there Diesel wants to go get me his favorite toy, I bet. What's your favorite toy this week? I bet it's a big boom What's he gonna bring diesel what you got?


It's time to go behind enemy lines presented by windows 11. I'm Mike Keith joined by Bob so see the voice of the New England Patriots His Patriots are back rolling again. You guys are having fun once again on that five-game win streak Bob Just like old times Mike, you know the Patriots went through the 79 season as you know last year got off to the Two and four season this year. It's amazing. How quickly things have shifted now in a month's time and in New England, of course It's not just the Patriots, but it's Tom Brady and the Buccaneers since he's no longer the quarterback here And they've lost back-to-back games and now Bill Belichick once again. It has been crowned a football genius and the greatest coach of all time 13 points allowed in the last three games. What gives with this defense playing so well, you know I think that what's happened like is they spent a lot of money free agency, of course And they brought in some new people in the offseason Resigned some key veterans in the offseason and it took some time particularly in the front seven to get everybody on the same page to kind of orchestrate the pressure that they've been able to sustain now over the course of the last three or four games in particular But what they've done is they've married up that zone coverage with kind of relentless pressure But they're a lot better right now up front And I think part of it is just those guys playing together the run fits being better and also adapting to what's expected of them week to game the game 18 Interceptions do I have that right? 18 interceptions, you know, this team has been among the league leaders It's not at the top of the leaderboard in that category and chasey Jackson has been fantastic He's got tremendous ball skills, and he always seems to be in the right place at the right time So he's a guy that's really playing well right now I'm taking full advantage of his circumstances Kyle Duggar second-year player out of Lenore Ryan He's had three interceptions in the last month Adrienne Phillips had two Interceptions against his former team the Chargers so the defense is making place They're not only taking the ball away, but they're doing damage with it Mac Jones is playing well as a rookie at quarterback. What has surprised you about Jones? Yeah, I think just the consistency there's been a resilience that he's shown Not only from game to game But within a game but Mac Jones after a season and a half starting quarterback at Alabama I came into the NFL. He up played Cam Newton from day one Bob, who does he like throw the football to the cliche we thought to whoever's open? I think Mac Jones has demonstrated that Jacobi Myers has been a big third down guy for this team There have been times where his ball distribution has Spreaded around like a good point guard now He's developed a certain act and a chemistry of looking for Hunter Henry in the red zone And he's also solved a problem for the Patriots because they had no tight end production the last couple of years at all And they were really plagued by red zone problems his last two seasons Their Hunter Henry has helped to address a lot of those and he's got some guys to hand the football to who've been very Damian Harris came into this season as The number one back for sure But I tell you what the moderate Stevens the rookie out of Oklahoma has played his way into the mix James white went down in the season's third game And he's lost for the year after his injury against the Saints and Brad and Bolton has been kind of a jack of all trades Somebody that often gets written off in these parts is nothing more than a course special teams guy and a lot bloom guy Well, he's been able to step into that third down back And give them enough production in the screen game Bob so see great stuff on this week's opponent the New England Patriots Thank you for taking us behind enemy lines presented by Windows 11 like after you shave it