The ultimate 15-step checklist for successful product research. Okay, so you've picked a product, but will it work? If you just move forward from this point forward, your chances are kind of random if you're going to be successful or not. And that's not good. That's why I put together this checklist. I want you to take your product, put it up against this checklist, and you'll know if the product's going to work or not. Don't forget to ring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I go live or if I upload a video. And give me a thumbs up if you don't mind. Okay, also make use of the comments down there. Some of you may have questions on this and I get it. Put those questions in the comments and I'll come back and I'll answer them. So I want to go through this list, put your product up against this list, and it can make you a whole lot more successful.  Well, product research is basically figuring out in advance if you're going to be successful. That's pretty cool stuff. So you're going to look at the market. You're going to look at competitors. You're going to look at the audiences out there. And we're going to put all this stuff together and determine whether you've selected a good product. Okay, so let's go through, before we do the actual product research, let's look at how you can do product research. Okay, the first one is market-based criteria. So what is the potential market size? Really important to ask, what does the competitive landscape look like? Is it a trim or a fad or a flat or a growing market? What's going on with it? Is your product available locally and who are your target customers? So that is going to be your market-based criteria. Now let's look at your product-based criteria. What's your markup? What is your potential selling price? What is your product size and weight? How durable is your product? Does your product seasonal? Does your product serve a passion, relieve a pain or solve a problem? How often will you need to turn over inventory? This is really important in our products because we sell survival food and it has a shelf life, everything does. Is your product consumable or disposable? Is your product perishable? Are there any restrictions or regulations on your product? Is your product scalable? Okay, let me give you an example of one product. This is a company called Daneson and they sell high-end luxury toothpicks. Let's check it out. Okay, you can imagine that it takes a pretty discerning and dapper person to purchase exquisite toothpicks, right? So these are Daneson, the finest toothpicks right here. A product like this likely has a very narrow market size. The narrow market size limits the revenue potential for the business. However, depending on the exact market, a narrow market size potentially can be easier to market to allowing company like Daneson to penetrate its market and capture it more effectively. Now, once you've determined the market size, it's usually impossible for most businesses but there are a few ways to understand market size in more general way. Google Trends is a good starting point. So let's pull this up toothpicks on Google Trends. Check this out. From there, you can look for your particular product area being sold elsewhere and look at the number and quality of customer reviews. Are there no reviews, just a few or hundreds? This can give you an idea of how many people are searching for your keyword. And we also wanna look at competitive analysis. Who's selling out there? How long have they been selling? How much are they selling it for? And are they successful? Next thing I'm gonna tell you is determine your product outlook. When I started selling survival food online 12 years ago, a lot of people said, well, you don't have much future in that because once people buy it, then of course, you know, they don't need it anymore. But of course, that wasn't true because it doesn't last forever and people's attitude towards survival food changes. When I first started selling survival food online, there were a very few niche people that would buy it. But after we went through the world illness, almost everybody will buy my product now, okay? It's a very marketable product. So when you think it's a fad, sometimes it's not a fad and sometimes that fad will change. So you need to look at that. Now here's a chart on a fad right here. A fad is something that grows in popularity for a very short period of time, dies out just as quickly. Now a trend can be lucrative if your entry into the market or exit are timed perfectly. I think mine was with survival food. But this can be difficult to predict and usually a recipe for disaster if you don't know what you're doing. Now here's a good example here. A Geiger counter is a personal electronic device about the size of a cell phone that measures the level of radiation around you. Shortly after Japan suffered the earthquake in 2011, well, Geiger counters were just flying off the shelf. However, you can see from this Google Trends graph right here, interest died right after that. Nobody was interested anymore. So you wanna see if it's a trend, okay? Is it a trend? Is it something that's gonna die out later on? Now, maybe you're looking at a stable product. Maybe it's a product that consistently sells and it's been selling for a long, long time and it's probably gonna continue to do so. That's one of the best products to sell but it's also one of the toughest to break into the market of. Is the market growing or is it shrinking? In our case with survival food, the market grew exponentially because of the world illness. People started realizing there were food shortages and prices were going up and they wanted to have food in their home so that they were buying our products in masses. You also, since you're selling online, when you ask yourself, is your product sold locally? You know, if you were selling number two pencils, you could go down to any store and grab a pencil. That's not a problem. So the odds of somebody buying that online are far less because they could just buy it locally. So if you have a locally sourced product that anybody can buy anywhere, you gotta watch out. Next thing you gotta do is determine your target customer. I think that's very, very important. I alluded in the beginning of this that everybody needed our product now and they probably do need our product every person but not every person's gonna buy our product. So we have target customers. We figured out the age groups. We figured out the income level. We figured out regions of the country so we know who our target customer is and you gotta do the same thing with your product. Next part is you gotta determine the markup. How much are you gonna charge for your product? What percent of profit do you need to make? And that varies. Now, I've seen products that sell for, you know, $10. It only costs the person $2. That's a pretty good markup. Our market owner survival food is nowhere near that because we can't market up that much. However, I'm not selling a $10 product. I'm selling a $500 or a $1,000 product. So our percent of markup may not be as much but our total profit is far greater. Okay, so let's look at an example on the screen and I'm gonna talk about a 1,200% markup, which sounds like a lot, but let's check it out. Okay, so the cost per unit's $2. Product packaging is $0.10. Import shipping cost per unit is $0.30. Customs and duties is $0.40. Shopping cart fees is $0.25. Credit card processing fee, which is 2.75% of selling price is $0.69. Shipping fulfillment fee is $3.30. Shipping cost is $5. Advertising cost per unit is $5. So our total cost per unit is $17.04. Potential selling price, $24.99. So the shipping revenue is about $5. Total revenue per unit is $29.99. Now the margin dollars is $12.95. Margin is 43.8% and the markup is 46.65%. So as you can see, there's a lot of things to go into selling a product. And when you say, well, I can buy it for X number of dollars and sell it for X number of dollars, there's a lot of stuff in between. Then you get to determine your product's weight and size. We sell canned meats and those canned meats are heavy. They're very heavy and it costs us a lot to ship it. In addition to that, we have a lot of packing supplies we have to buy. We have to pack that product with styrofoam all around it so those cans don't get dented. If we have dented cans, people are unhappy and we have to replace products. So you've got to figure this out, what does it weigh? What is going to cost you to ship? How are you going to package it so it doesn't get damaged? Those are all factors you need to look at. Also ask yourself this, is your product seasonal? Now you would think we sell survival food canned meats and that wouldn't be seasonal, but it is. The majority of our sales are from September to March and that's been historically for the past 10, 12 years way it's gone, except when the world illness started and then people started buying year round because it was a year round problem then. Prior to that it was just people who were preppers and they were on vacation in the summertime and they didn't really worry about doing any of that stuff but when winter came of course they thought of stocking up. Now our cycle has changed. So your cycle may change on your product too but you've got to ask yourself, is it seasonal? Now the next three I think are really important that's pain, passion or problem. If people are super passionate about your product that's a good thing, are they passionate?  Does it solve a pain point for them? Is some type of pain that they're going through right now that they don't have your product? Or does it solve a problem for them? Are they having some problem right now that your product could solve the problem? So if you could hit on all three of these your product has a much better chance of selling. Next up, what is the product turnover? How quickly are you gonna turn this over? Now our canned meats we have to make every two weeks but lately we've been making them every single week and the reason we've been doing that is because the demand is so great. So what is gonna be your turnover for your product? Another thing you gotta ask yourself will you have the inventory? Also ask yourself is your product consumable or is it disposable? Our product is consumable, not as often as we would want but it is consumable. But let's say makeup products or dish detergents or soaps those things are disposable and consumable. Now the last thing I wanna discuss is are there restrictions and regulations on your product? Now we produce food so we have to produce our food under USDA standards and we have to adhere to that. Does your product need some of those same standards because that's another additional cost that you've got a factor in. And of course the most important factor is your product scalable. Can you scale it up and make a lot of money? If it's always gonna be a small audience and small sales and you can't scale it you may wanna look at other products. Now I hope this helped you out. I've walked you through a lot of steps to check out your product and I hope I didn't hurt your feelings if your product didn't match up very well on this list. But it's better that you know that now than to spend a lot of time, effort, money and find out that you're not gonna make any money on your product. 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Go into something real, real deep, because last night we started to get into hypothetical thinking and this whole world is hypothetical thinking. In fact, what I would say is that this whole cosmos is over and gone and that the step towards that would be to say that it's all simultaneous. It's simultaneously over. It happened in one instance and it was corrected simultaneously by the Holy Spirit, by the Spirit within and so effectively that this entire world is passed, simultaneously passed. It's like it's not like a big long timeline, it's really spread out over millennium. That's the illusion of the hallucination. Along with hypothetical thinking, which is, we were, we were at Iris who was talking about you know, what if somebody comes in and attacks you or wants to stab Evelyn and how could it be practical and this and that and so we started just to touch the subject yesterday of hypothetical thinking but I would say another word for that because that can, everything's potential potential but it's nothing's actual and another way to look at that I would call it situational thinking that we were just talking about how you behave with certain situations or how you react that situational thinking is the problem, that the ego is entirely situational and so what happens is it takes what is already over and done was already just one thing which is the past and it springs it out on a timeline and then it breaks it into little time segments which we could call situations you know, some people may say that this is a little gathering situation even though gatherings are really continuous just like the mind is continuous you know, your mind goes with you wherever you go but the mind, the ego mind tries to break it up into situations and I used to ponder, I would say when people would say this is the beginning or this is the end, the beginning or the end of the relationship and I would say, well how do you, how can you mark really the beginning of the end of the relationship or a song or a day or whatever these are the artificial increments of seconds and minutes and hours and days and weeks and months so situational thinking is the problem in fact in Course in Miracles, you know, he says in no situation in which you find yourself do you perceive your own best interest that's a, that's a radical statement in no situation, no meaning zero you mean to tell me I've never once, ever been in a situation and I knew my own best interest and this is what the Christ says right, that's what I'm saying here in no situation because situational thinking is the problem and as long as you see yourself fragmented into separate meaningless little persons human bodies that are in separate meaningless little disconnected situations he says that is madness, that is chaos, that is distortion and what you take to be human life just basic situational thinking A B C D E F G no, that's not possible so the next thing is, okay how do I get out of this and what I would say is the practical advice in the Course is the rules for decision section where he says here, if your mind is untrained so I'm going to give you some real basic steps this isn't going to be real theoretical, this is going to be highly practical decide kind of day you want that's the torch because you're asking me how do I get this environment and this torch reconcile decide the kind of day you want not specifically, you know, not how I want to meet with these people I want this to happen, I want to get that raised and I want to make sure I make the train on time but experientially I want a joyful day, I want a happy day I want a peaceful day, I want a loving day I want to be totally free all day decide the kind of day you want and then say to yourself, if I make no decisions by myself this is the day that will be given in other words, by myself meaning if I make no decisions apart from my higher self from the Spirit, from the Holy Spirit whatever you want to call it that's exactly the day that I'll get and it's guaranteed if I'm staying my intuition 100% it doesn't matter what it looks like I will be happy because that's the torch so what I'm saying is the torch is completely uninfluenced by the environment in fact Jesus goes on to say in that section that this also means that you cannot judge what anything means in any situation and that takes a lot of willingness because if your self-concept is tied into being at best by and having this particular position and your job is tied into making judgments or fashion design if you have to make judgments in terms of evaluating how models look, how clothing looks and this and that most every profession you could imagine other than maybe the savior of the world which you are which you are the savior of the world but if you have any other profession other than that and you see how it fits with family relationships like here with my sponsor I'm really feeling more of my savior's shift coming through here really feeling free and authentic I can just let it rip without worrying about consequences but with my father or with my sister or so on and so forth that that's again going to be filtered through that lens of personality I'm Ivan I'm a son or a brother you know so on and so forth and that little personality again is weak and frail you don't want to rock the boat too much or there can seem to be a lot of heat that gets put on intensity that gets put on to that personality so the rest of the rules for decision are really just like if you get off the beam if you he says right away it's easier to just go through a day with the one-two punch the kind of day you want firmly in your mind and really willing to make no decisions by yourself and what I would say is what will happen if you follow this simple one-two is that the self-concept that you believe you are will dissolve away very quickly because of course you are much more than Ivan the worker or Ivan the 12-step participant or Ivan the brother or so forth the son those are constructs and personality things that have been built that the mind believes that it really is but if you start getting into this higher purpose those things will start washing and dissolving away and you will be given other concepts by the Holy Spirit nothing will get yanked away but let's say you're a course student and you think of yourself as like a teacher of God or a minister of God or a messenger of peace or however it fits in your mind that's going to be more expansive you're going to feel much more fluid and much more happy it could even be belly dancing in the sense of from where you've come from you feel more free belly dancing and of course the doubt thoughts will come like you can't make a living with belly dancing you better not give up your day job you're like I want to get going with this this is where my passion and my joy is you know that's the way the Spirit guides you and more and more miracles happen like grandmother paying off all the debts somebody signed over an apartment for you oh my gosh I've got a healing center going here yeah I like this and then you get into your joy then people start seeing your joy and they say I want to support that joy I want to contribute this I want to help out here can I help you in any way you're joyful I want to be like that I want to hang around that energy then the ball is rolling and the Holy Spirit is like expanding those self-concepts to more of what your true function is and your true function only is just a state of mind it's people like to always tie it down to how's this going to look and you know do I have to stand on street corners and give out horse and reckless pamphlets so you know where is this going but what the Course calls your special function is just how it seems to look but there's really no judgment placed on that you could be in your joy of belly dancing or in a pulpit or sitting under a tree somewhere you know there's nothing saying ritualistically is a formula that's going to have to look a certain way you'll just know by your joy that you're totally in your sense of being and that's really what it's all about that's what it's all about are you teaching statistics? yes teaching statistics I was a grocery store


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We're at Kaui Gokhti Health Research Center here in Iqalibi, Nuna Root. Can you please describe your program? So the program that I focus on is the Mokkim optics at youth wellness and empowerment camps. And so basically what the program is, is a program that we developed here at the center that are land-based, basically land-based programs that follow the 8 Uyari curriculum module. And this program was developed here at the center because there was a need in the communities, communities were saying that they wanted a program to kind of follow for their land-based programs. So basically the programs help increase protective factors for youth ages 8 to 13 and it's all culturally based and culturally relevant programming. So what kind of things do the students do in the program? Well, the program, it can be run as an 8 to 10 day day camp or it can be run as an after-school program. So throughout the program there are 8 different modules in the program. And the program is the 8 different modules are strengthening coping skills, learning about building healthy relationships, learning about developing an awareness of your body and nutrition, as well as learning about the importance of crafting and exploring creativity and the arts, learning about personal wellness and how it's tied into community wellness, the importance of taking care of community and then learning about self-discovery, future planning and then understanding informed choices and peer pressure. So coming up with skills to be able to deal with real life situations and then celebrating the land and so connecting all the knowledge and the skills that they've learned sort of throughout the program and how it applies to being out on the land. And so those are the areas that the youth get to focus on. It's all sort of fun hands-on learning and so they do a lot of icebreakers, they do a lot of games, they do some worksheets, but they really get to connect with community members. A big part of the program is making sure that community members are coming in and also teaching these different subjects to the youth. And how do you measure the success of the program? Like how do you evaluate the students' progress? So the way that we measure the program, before the program starts we do a pre-evaluation just to kind of get a baseline of how they're feeling that week or some of the subject areas that we might be talking about. We try to get an understanding of what they know about those subject areas and then they go through the program and we do a post-evaluation to see how the program has impacted them. So we do pre- and post-evaluations. And from your perspective or from the perspective of mathematics what is Illinois education? That's a really broad question. So I'm trying to think of how I might answer that. What is eating the educational? I mean I guess it's all, like it's all encompassing, right? So eating the education, you're learning about traditional knowledge, you're learning about traditional values, you're learning about different customs, you're learning language, you're learning about spirituality, relationship with land, animals, with other people, with community members. Eating the education really is like, it's all, it's all encompassing. And typically you're learning about those things from elders or you're learning about those things from knowledge or culture bearers and you're learning about it from your parents or different adults in the community. From my personal perspective, that's what, that's what Inuit education is. And I think we try to include that in the program that we run as much as possible. Since it was a broad question, another way to have looked at it is like, what is the significance of the activities you offer in makimautic set? Like, from what you offer to the students for them to do, I guess? Where am I going? What is the significance of those? Oh, the significance of the activities. Well, I think some of the most important lessons that you kind of get out of the makimautic set program is strengthened relationships with their peers, the people who are taking the program with them, and then with community members, so people who come in and teach the program or people that they interact with. Not just because they're being taught through the program, but there's one of the modules, one of the things that's built in is the importance of giving back to the community. And so the youth actually plan an event where they can pay it forward, where they can serve the community. Sometimes that looks like shoveling snow. Sometimes it's throwing a potluck for the community. It's kind of up to the youth what they decide what they want to do. And so I think that's one of the most significant teachings or things that kind of comes out of makimautic set. And so strengthening relationships within the community. I think after so many great changes happened in our community, a lot of, and when I say our community, I would say I'm speaking from like unique communities in general. A lot of those traditional ties started to break down. People in communities became less not as close, I guess. So for me that's one of the most significant things that kind of comes out of this program. And with strengthening relationships, it strengthens the youth's, their feeling of comfort. I guess it helps them to feel more confident that they now have community members that they can look to and learn from. Yeah, so that's one of the most important things.  What would you like to see accomplished? So are you, are you talking about globally or just here in Nunavut? It can be both or either one of them. It can be for Makimautic set or it can be for whole Nunavut. I guess another way to ask that is what is your vision for indigenous, for the education of your people for the next ten years? My vision for any education over the next ten years is I think that when the Western education system came in, it really fractured, well, not just fractured, but sort of tore apart traditional, the way that Inuit were traditionally educated, which was all day long their entire lives, right? It was very holistic. Learning was lifelong and then we were forced to sit in a classroom and learn from people who were not from our communities around subjects that didn't necessarily apply to what was happening in our communities. To some extent that's actually still, not to some extent, but to a great extent that's still happening in our communities. And so I think for me what I hope to see in the next kind of ten years is our schools. So that sort of like Western education, those institutions and our communities and different organizations kind of coming together to redefine what success means for our individual communities and then sort of remodeling how education is delivered, whether it's happening in partnership with different organizations like Awikapdeep or it's happening in people's homes or it's entirely changed within the school system. And I know that's kind of a big vision, but I think that that's something that is going to, it's going to be necessary. I think it's a conversation that's already being had here in Univu. How can we change education to make it effective to bring out graduation rates? And I think that's part of it is we have to redefine what it means to be successful in our communities and then develop what it is we're teaching our youth and community members from that definition of success.


Everything you said we already knew, more or less. So here's something that you didn't know. Two of those specials told me, Bob, you can't be so loud. Today, I am at Coronado Springs, and I'm here because I've been anticipating the opening of Three Bridges for a very long time, and this is the first chance that I've been able to get out here and check it out for myself, but I've been waiting for this place to open up forever. I always thought it would be a beautiful location for a nice chill out, relaxed bar. So that's what we're gonna do today. We're gonna take in some of the beautiful sights and maybe a beer or two. So let's go do this. And you can see the Grand Destino Tower right there, looking very beautiful. I hear it looks absolutely stunning at night because they light it up. Maybe we'll get to see that, but I don't know because that looks like it's gonna rain, and it looks like it's gonna rain pretty hard. Finally, I'm gonna be able to actually walk across this bridge and into this beautiful water. Such great views at Coronado Springs. Look at the pool area over there. That's one of my favorite pool areas, such a great water slide, and nothing goes well or goes better than a water view with the beer. That's how I feel. I appreciate how they have this little resting area right here with some benches, midway in the bridge itself, because that's a pretty long bridge. Look at that. And there's three of them. Man, maybe that's why they call it three bridges. Ooh, I'm liking the music too. You hear that? Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. This is so cool. Honestly, it's crazy that they never had this here before, because you figure it would be a great way to actually get around the resort instead of walking in big circles. Now you can just cut from one side and walk straight across. Very smart. Very nice. And what is this sorcery here? It's like they got a little floating garden with some windmills. Very fancy. Look at those babies go. Before we actually sit down at the bar, I might as well explain to you, because it is a little tricky, but you notice on the outside it says Villa de Lago, but it's actually called three bridges on Villa de Lago, because Villa de Lago is actually this whole entire lagoon. So it may say Villa de Lago, but it is three bridges on the Villa de Lago. And would you just look at the views? I mean, I know the sky looks pretty nasty, but this is really relaxing. I like it a lot. I'm not gonna be getting anything to eat. I just wanted to come here and see what the atmosphere was like itself, because I always thought, like I said, it was gonna be a cool, chill out, relaxed spot. So I'll pull up a seat next to the bar, take a look at the menu, no reservation needed, and enjoy. Here is the bar area itself. Look at these chairs. Oh, lots of padding, lots of cushion. I bet you I'm gonna like them a lot. Look at the menu. You see right there, three bridges bar and grill at Villa de Lago. And we got a nice collection of sangria, some specialty cocktails. Ooh, that sherry cobbler sounds pretty interesting. And then of course you got your draft beers, your wines, and hot and cold beverages. Very interesting. I like it. They do actually have food offerings. I heard the fried shrimp corn dogs are pretty bangin', and then of course the burger right there, three bridges signature burger. I hear that's the thing to go for. $16, that's not too bad for a burger on Disney property, but it looks pretty good overall. Uh-oh, the thunder. It is really nicely themed in here. Very neat. I don't know how to express my artistic side. So they have these nets right here that are kind of like blocking the view itself, but they're not normally down. They put it down some days to keep the sun out and to keep it a little cold inside here because it is an open bar. So it is an open layout, no walls, but they have very nice little seating. So when these are actually up and you can look through, a nice place is to hop right here and just stare out at the water. What is this sorcery here? It's like fake fire. I'm pretty sure that's just smoke with lighting, but it's pretty cool. Look at that. I don't know if it's fake or not, it just looks fake, but I guess I gotta touch it to find out. It's fake, it's fake, but it's pretty cool. Look at these little lounge areas they got here too. This is pretty nifty. I gotta check out the chairs. Let me get it. Okay, the chairs are very soft and relaxing. I like them a lot. It's very nice. Pretty fancy little coffee tables they got here too. Ooh, that's not real, but it looks cool. These bartenders are probably looking at me like I'm nuts. I'm hopping from like one spot to another just sitting down. I just wanna test out the different seating areas. I like that. I feel like that says a lot. Like look at this little couch area over here. Well, well, well, don't mind if I do. It's very comfortable, but you guys notice I did not let my shoes touch the cushions. My mother raised me right.  See? 100 people waiting outside the door. Seriously, such a great time hanging out in there. What a great lounge. It might be one of my new favorites. I wish that I could stay until nighttime, but like I said, I don't know what's happening and it looks like the storm clouds just keep on brewing. Well, here's a little sadness. The Laguna Bar is not open. And I don't know if they're planning to keep this closed and maybe open it when there's a convention in town, but this used to be my favorite bar before that bar opened up to hang out at a Coronado Springs because it's on the water. So maybe I don't know. Here's a good map to more understand how important this little area is. Look at this. If you were like, I'm standing right here and this is the main check-in area. So if you ended up staying over here and you wanted to come to the food court, you'd have to like walk all the way around and all the way over here. That is a hike. Of course, they still have some amazing classics like Cafe Ritz. And then of course, Ritz Sports Bar and Grill. Then they have the Maya. A lot of good eateries and bars and places you can hang out with. That's why I like Coronado Springs. It's a very big resort. But one of my favorite things to do is when there's no conventions around, I like to go in the convention center and just run amok. Because it's just like wide open spaces, lots of cool carpeting. I don't know, I like it a lot. It also smells very nice in the convention area. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's the air fresheners. Kind of reminds me of the shining a little bit. Look at this. You get the whole place to yourself almost. Wow. Saloon L. Saloon K. And I'm gonna guess that's Saloon J. Wow. The silence in here is pretty amazing. It's like everything's zoned out. Now it's not normally like this when there's a convention going on. Have any of you guys ever been here for a convention? Wow. Look at that. My mustache is really growing in. Look at this, a little charging station. Very cute. You are not the droid we're looking for. I just stumbled on to the preview center. And it's a little strange.  Look at that. Huge. This is such a gigantic resort. This looks like a park. Ooh, look it.  There's the grandestino. There's three bridges. Look at this. This is pretty fancy. And the water's green. That's good. I like to keep it real. I wonder if I can go in this door. Oh, nope. Okay. Sorry. Well okay. We made it all the way to the other end of the convention center. Now it's time to run back. I thought I was alone in here. That was absolutely ludicrous. It felt like the right thing to do at the moment though. So no complaints, I had fun running. And now I think that's gonna do it for me. Had a lot of fun hanging out here. Very cool resort. A bus just pulled up. So the audio might go a little bit soft and love the life you live. See you next time. Bye. And hopefully once the grandestino opens I'll be able to check that beauty out because that's gonna be an amazing view from the top.


What's going on everybody got Kyle and Shawn here with late sports cards ribbon 2023 bowman super jumbo six box case number one Random team style did a randomized for the break had Kevin F with the Nationals down to Darren S. Mullins Good luck here guys. Let's do it. Let's do it super jumbo case Yeah tonight tonight at midnight will be my birthday as correct any 15 is correct These things Shawn is through with the drafts. All right box one box one. Good luck here. Hey, thank you, sir I appreciate that my man. I'll be off tomorrow. So I'm golfing at a kiva. I believe in the morning or no Sweetwater sweetwater because what kind of has some issues with the par-3's right now Means Shawn played there last Monday, and they had a it's an issues It's like 40 yards on all the par-3's because they're doing the Redoing the The teaboxes box is they shorten every par-3 by a hundred yards More than that. It's crazy Had some decent scores on those par-3's though Getting pretty close on the 40 yards tomorrow Johnson. There's a Blake Mitchell insert and Lunar Glow is Yankee Fernandez Said that's that's about right. That's about right mine to mine too. So there's a Jew Jones before any night Aqua paper Cole Emerson first we actually they weren't bad man We were doing all right with the 40 yard par-3's. Those are probably our best holes of the day There's a first refractor of salt-a-bond. I wouldn't go back there for that. We're Roka Fort Yeah, really is on the tello threes are all shortly. Yeah max Anderson and start us off in the autos is Joe Vatrono They're 250 I know this guy's Jackson. Yeah, they did not discount for sure They most definitely did not discount for that Is Jacob already here set I'm assuming so if they Were playing with them at one tomorrow. There's a max Clark first Yeah, definitely should have had a little discount there. I would think Taking out like 400 yards on the on the course There's a noble mire and a gold behind it is Gavin Cross. It's one their prospect for the Royals. Oh Nice linen hour ago. Did you have to go pick them up?  There's a first aqua. That's gonna be salt-a-bond to 499 With our closeness to the airport we get asked Airport trips look quite often. There's a first refractor Marotis Trosser Wiggins Crowell Lord Denson and Regio and first auto candle George for the Dodgers Colin Hauke and Holiday. Yeah, they're getting married in Italy I'm going that but I think I'm trying to Be a little costly out there though, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. It's a Bryce Eldridge first Never been on that side of the ocean though, so you might have to check it out The Tommy Troy first got a nizan Zenatello Blum and glass and Celestin to 199 Phoenix paper in this one. Good as great. Jake Gonzalez. There's a wide length for Refractor first Grant Taylor Huddapult Whitman Riley Keener Thornton Thurston Walton and a Andrew Pickney first woman base for the Nationals Adrienne Santana and a Chase Davis insert got the darts world championship started tomorrow to sab Big day tomorrow Big day tomorrow Skeens Skeens first Adrienne Santana and nice. There's a mood ring of a Lankford white Lankford for the Rangers Colton Ledbetter and Jack Hurley the 125 aqua crater paper paper paper Fractor first Joe Redfield Forrester Farmello there's a first Chase Davis Joe you and you Vargas and that is gonna be Calvin Harris on the first to 199 When I met you in the summer Matt Shaw and a white Lankford picks and prospects Yeah, right Calvin Harris button going My buddy actually has one like the little mixers we were playing with it one time couple of years ago Dude, pretty fun. Oh, there's messing around with them hitting rain of buttons. There's a Blake Mitchell first Dylan Just got one from my daughter's fiance's dad. Oh really?  Yeah, man. Anything coming out. There's a 499 Spencer Nevins first for the Royals Shoulda gave it to me man. I'll make all kinds of me some beats the first noble Meyer honey man Yeah, I just want to do the looping the Levenson Jonah Cox and Otto is Enrique Bradfield nice one their Orioles first woman base Otto I'm sure you had some got some font going down All right guys. There's one box one This is the amount of paper from one box Let me see the description it should be it should be sorted split even He's donated Thank You dare taking three in upper deck. I think we're down there Thank You Derek. I think we're down to 16. That should be our next one with spots 16 to go on that got our first um upper deck hockey already filled up box to Fox to What's everyone thinking on this game tonight? We got we're going with the Raiders are we going with a Eastern stick? Feeling confident in that. I Don't know. It's uh seems like the potentials of a stinker for sure. I Don't know Roka for there's a Charlie Soto and that'll be hunter hollanda 199 first wait Thinking Raiders drive. Yeah, I'm thinking Raiders to O'Connell side a little more experience for sure They got the Vonte. I don't know if I'm an Eastern stick guy did pull a couple Eastern sticks back in the day Man 2019 uh naming products pull plenty of Eastern sticks Tommy Troy There's a Colt Emerson first Fractures of Sabios Rimer first Patrono Bomin and Otto is Ethan solace nice one there on the short print insert Otto to 99. We'll get a mag on that Nice one there out of Kissimmee. Here we go Padres was not expecting that for the Padres very nice Short print solid saw to definitely take that why Langford and a Jacob Gonzalez We go Padres really nice one there They can zero zero. I like that sad honestly. I don't hate that at all.  I took a random bet. I saw on the uh this game It's the Vonte Adams to have a catch on the first drive really. I don't know why they even have that but I'm down Like I've never seen that that before but I'm in There's a Jacob Wilson and nice and 99 is a draft picks Paul Skeets for the Pirates Nice scheme so far. So 99 got a match Shaw on the first green Was that is even questionable? I know uh, I know Josh Jacobs was questionable I didn't know Adams was questionable probably should have known that before I Made the bedroom to go on the first drive or catch up catch a pass. There was a white Langford first Jacobs is out. Yeah, I knew I knew Jacobs was supposed to be out Bradfield first That's why I don't feel very great about this game latter coupe a type heat like three of the four best players and aren't playing It's a Colin Hauke and Otto is gonna be Colton led better for the rates base out of their Crawford and another Skeets. I didn't even realize he was a questionable that's That's all me. I guess I do my research Okay Yeah Down on that Yeah, I'm just hoping it's not another like the Chargers and the freakin Patriots last or a couple weeks ago. That's six. I was thinker Hoping it's not one of those Really hoping The type heat first Colin Hauke got a Paul Skeets draft card and Grayson hit to 199 V-backs Fracture first of Cole Emerson nice one there Mariners first bovi First McLean Spencer Jones Campbell and Otto is gonna be CJ capes first woman based auto-gadians James Wood and Eldridge old packs in this one took Adams over yards. No Jacobs. Yeah, that's why I feel that too. What's up with the? Jacobi Myers he had a nice start to the season. He hasn't uh Isn't wasn't playing that well recently Matt Shaw first. He's supposed to play tonight.  I just remember the beginning of the year. He was killing it man He's killing it as a Paul Skeets first base refractor first winnaker so refractor TJ Floyd and Otto is noble mire to 499 nice one there 10th pick in the draft for the Malins Very nice one there Jackson holiday and Cole Emerson. We're ready one more Double pack here like blue paper first is Philip Abner to 499 refractor first of Kendall George Sullivan Picard cooler Lindsay and AJ Ewing refractors And on the back is an Otto max Anderson for the Tigers first woman base Rainer Arias Drew Jones the white link for draft card and a Speckle max Anderson not numbered on the speckles Already here guys box number three Box number three things are tanks, man Freakin box Hey, thank you. What Ward Ward grabbing a spot in one-on-one basketball down to six on that one guys One is tiered random team style you two teams one from the top tier teams one from the bottom tier teams looking for downtown timeless moments big RPAs Be a fun one later, man. I love opening one-on-one such a fun product full case going later Tiered random styles and then we are on to Look at Star Wars going last masterwork. It's a white Langford base first Fractor Brock rodent. There's a Blake Mitchell insert and that'll be a Refractor of Charlie Soto on the draft insert to 250 Refractor Soto for the twins It's a nice one Enrique Bradfield on the paper to 199 Aqua and fuchsia Nice Enrique Jacob Gonzalez first paper the first chrome Refractor Hurley Sabios Justin Reimer Petrano Balmain and there is a Devon Salta Ballon that'll be for the Phillies nice one there to 199 Aqua Lava Red Louder James Wood. I know Shaiq was saying earlier. This might be a defensive touchdown kind of game going tonight No, no, I don't hate that idea either Under feels right Yeah That's right Yeah, last week was supposed to be a stinker to it pretty decent Always happened man. There's a Max Clark on the Bowman glass Tigers and green is for certain 99 a green forest That's fair Brad. That's fair. I Mean we got a not much else option. So I'm in on it either way Not too excited about this one Brad the Paul Skeens first Fractor versus Bradfield Red Louder Coupe Pete and that'll be a Colin Hough And our first auto is gonna be cam Fisher on the Bowman auto Astros There's Max Clark actually relatively breaking news Nick. That's pretty crazy Jack Flaherty 14 million Pirates, huh? Pirates pirates doing something no Herbert. No Jacobs. Yeah Yeah, no, it's a pure stinker, dude Not the not the not the players we won this one There's a Tommy Troy like three of the top four players in the in the contest. They're not out. They're not playing Colt Emerson Come on, man. You got to get the new like Mitchell. You gotta tighten that up Garrett Bomb and that one is on the speckle can't come in with news. Oh, you did say Tigers. No, you didn't change I've read it wrong. Oh God. That was me You need your eyeballs red paper it is gonna be Luis on Hella Cunha a nice one there Mets Luis on Hella Cunha there. That is the I think the cousin of Cousin of Ronald believe Flaherty's a tire. There we go, Jase That's what Nicholas was saying. I thought it was pirates at first. I thought it was pirates There's a first Colt Emerson refractor. Well, usually Nicholas is breaking news is about the pirates Mike Bovey refractor got McLean and Campbell And Otto is gonna be first woman base Otto Austin Troesser for the Mets Nicholas. Give me some red socks breaking news What are we doing? I can't call you're not a fan of that one. Uh, Jason not a fan of that move Flaherty for 14 million Hey, what's up Edward? What's up Edward? Um, there was one base Brady that whole break man one base in that whole break Which one? Well, yeah, last night. Yeah, yeah, that was crazy man Sam and uh, Sam and Sean were going hard off about seven or eight hours straight Pretty girl No, I didn't see that Joshua really Geez, dude.  That's crazy. That is crazy There's a Zonatello on the insert and nice Bryce Eldridge 2150 on the mini diamond Bowman glass these look pretty good. I like the mini diamond makes it more of a mosaic look to it. That's fair. That's fair, Jase There's a light blue roka fort to four ninety nine Refractor first Cooper Engel Pinkney winnaker TJ Floyd and a refractor of Teddy McGraw That's Tim's son Teddy McGraw on the base Otto I'm gonna get there's like Matt you calm down over there Jackson sherry up He did it again the other night yesterday.  It's a first Blake Mitchell For the Royals It's a mood ring of Jacob Gonzalez for the white socks Led better and that'll be a um Marcella might to 199 on the lunar crater Have to imagine his socks pull up a or Bring up Marcella pretty early on the season I have to think one of their top prospects for a while. There's a Kendall George first Sullivan Picard cooler, uh, Lindsay Ewing all first refractors And Otto is gonna be Jackson bowmeister on the refractor Otto for the ohs the 499 Paul Skeens and Jacob Wilson Alrighty guys, there's three down three down Three to go To another case of a super jumbo after this one guys and then we are on to hockey onto hockey first one is filled up Thank you, Arturo taking a spot in Star Wars. Appreciate you my man Second one is at 16 on the hockey upper deck game use Come on now. Where's Brady? empty Box number four Tommy Troy first Cole Emerson McLean there's Blake Mitchell insert and that'll be Kemp Alderman to 199 Fuchsia lunar crater Fractors. Yeah, sir. There's a Paul Skeens refractor Cole Miller Santana Cole Carrick and Otto is going to be a Joe Redfield first base Otto for the angels Los Angeles Can you imagine getting a check for 698 million as I At the firmic thing.  It's all it's supposed to said the uh Bobby Bonilla day ends the same year that the show haste the show has starts 2035 or whatever And they why that was What a deal. Yeah, there's a Jacob Wilson that one is a um bowman glass nice when they're ace And so 150 Tommy Hawk It's either like the same year or like one year off Really goes from bug onee day to show hey day for the rest of the rest of my life For the rest of my life. It's show hey day. It was green in 99 red louder for the Reds It's gonna be show hey day for the rest of our lives. There's a first Lucas Gordon. Good for him, man. Clemmy Jay Bashir's pass McDaniel and a speckle Otto Cole Miller that'll be number to 71 That's when their ace on the low numbered pitcher Otto got Cole Keith and Braden Taylor They showed what the bond did 536 million over 21 years. Yeah, right guys gonna get it. Yep Yeah, that's ridiculous Keeps growing baby Bag gets bigger the bag always gets bigger, you know you're not the To figure something out if these bags keep it in this big. Oh, no, that was a one-on-one. Yeah, that's a one-on-one His world drawing on that is that Paul Skeens And kind of Delgado. No, absolutely. They're gonna make a bazillion dollars over in Middle East Asia They first Cole Emerson his first games in Korea. So who go they're playing a like a pre-season thing in really Korea Yeah, so his first game is the Dodgers in Korea Is a first refractor Horvath that's going to be expected to go so many merch there. Charlie. So he has what I'm saying waldrup Blake Mitchell refractor and basato is christian napsick The guard is Tommy Troy. Just to have a jersey like Mitchell Tony jersey. Yeah, I love the Dodgers white ones. Yeah, why they do have nice jerseys Hey, what's up puka? Puka. How we doing today my man? How we doing today? Puka, what's going on bruh? How you doing puka? Where are you from? I'm getting right into it That's right. Oh, I didn't know A people There's a colton ledbetter insert and this is a throwback. Nice one is johnny formello For the mariners that one's number two 54 on the 54 throwback These are sick-looking man. Very nice one. They're mariners on the bowman flag I like those Is camp alderman before night night? Pretty sick Fractor first is Olson rios See him up by the helmet. Yeah, there's a print line going down that thing. Olson a box. I guess uh barely could see it It's a print line here and here You can see him kind of boat. There's one up by his helmet and then one down there So we'll send a box of that for the mariners Break this box part. Nope. They don't matter. I'll take The other ones I can the jumbos. I can break nicely and just slide the packs right outside. Let's break it All right, so that was first of um kariko The first a leo opper waltzers and nice flake Mitchell there the uh six pick in the draft on the first bowman refractor auto Or eighth pick my bad. That one's for the royals. Nice one there Very nice. Blake Mitchell. We were seeing a ton of him on that release day Right guys keep it going That happened uh, jakes. I think I saw it the other day, right? Last now going to dodgers. Oh boy Hopefully the race can get something there He's probably the happiest person on the planet. Yeah, they need pitching. So Glass now will work if he can stay healthy man. He is a he's a very good pitcher Really? Yeah, that's a mat shaw first That's jakes boy glass nasty Paul skeens first Old jake There's a zonatello and that'll be a herston wall drop nice one there for the brace First bowman aqua to 125 Feel that a boy I'm in nashville. I got you. I got you nashfield, tana say I reckon Now you got a little early weekend A little early weekend puka happy to hear that There's a brace eldridge refractor the Giants dillon head Sim Uh refractors schleiger and that'll be a saven sabios first bowman base auto for the braves Marcello meyer and rique bradfield Alrighty guys two more two mo box five of the super jumbo This is random team number one We'll get number two going right after this guys and then we are on to hockey First break is filled up second one is down to 16 to go Oh, I got you puka. Got you. So be a slow one and i'm wrong with that Nothing wrong with the nice chill day at work box number five Tommy trey first Jacob wilson and green is gonna be jesson crawford a 99 Carl's son for the fillies Not during bowman release. That's for sure It is certainly not slow during bowman. There's a 499 brady smith There's a first white lankford got a top score in black coming out tomorrow as well We'll get those ripping with sam in the morning and then rich will actually be live on fanatics as well Uh clay stab. There's hawk Got paul wilson early smith Nichols and foster and our auto nice one there is first bowman base auto brice eldritch We go giants the uh two-way player Nice one there brice eldritch and solace Yeah, they came a little bit puka for sure Yesterday there was uh, we had that big big break going on yesterday. So I think a lot of people who would Get uh, personals were probably in that one yesterday. So a little bit slower yesterday Most of the time it's moving too though. There's a jake of gonzalez first got, um, charlie soto And that'll be roman anthony you don't want 25 on the aqua aqua shimmer red socks Fractors now i've got a espinoza braden taylor for the race There's a max clark refractor reed burns Nelson rada o donnell and gold on the auto is going to be drew hackenburg. That'll be um, it's a 50 there for the braves Drew hackenburg second round pick for the braves go wave to 50 Santana and um chase davis paper paper There's a paul skeens and aqua or the luna crater is brady house brady house nationals Now I feel you on that puka for sure for sure Probably better to save up and try to go over case if that's what you're thinking Not a bad idea. It's a light blue mac wharf at the 499 There's a troi terry first or tommy troi Thinking of tom terry the uh weatherman. There's a uh col emerson first.  There's a first match shaw refractor. He's called tom terrer He is a negative guy there the jake of wilson oan brown wells Napstick and auto is jonah cox for the apes Never forget How can holiday I forget what hurricane it was And he was they were And he was telling people if you did not evacuate you might die And I'm like, oh my god Calm down tom Oh god greg no, it's no we're still going this is we got 10 more cases We're almost there greg never ends bruh almost there greg Uncle g Bryce eldridge first Skeets There's a ty peat bowman glass and jonathan may he out of 250 Um, I don't think any auto yet puka In rica. I'm assuming another but uh, yeah, we did have a base auto actually in rica bradfield. We did have a base auto what's going on greg Chill and greg. How you doing today, man? How you doing today, sir? There's a cool. Younger 199 Not quite in fuchsia. It's the first refractor of savakul cunningham could be a tony led better First alderman and auto is homer bush refractor auto potricks Hey, you know it greg You know it Oh, you saw play vandy nice vandy is a uh, they're quite a baseball school, man They are quite a baseball school. That's right greg Company man Grinder Yeah, that was quite a grind yesterday, man But we all grind here Paper paper. Hey blazing. Let's go first blake michel Hey, thank you. Jay blazing. Appreciate you my man Jay blazing There's a wild langford insert and fuchsia is going to be a michael arroyo to 199 Carl's here. Greg's here. Oh man, jangling. I might get out of control here in a moment What's going on everybody? How we doing? How we doing? How's thursdays? That's the thursdays going yeet yeet Got stash and trash on thursday. Let's get live in there. Classic combination there barofa Cravey, uh, muth woodward mohoney Halloran morris and auto another blake michel. There we go royals This time the base auto had the um refractor the last time Matt shaw and langford on the insert That'd be dope. All righty guys one more I heard natural's good time. Oh, yeah, I've heard that as well like the bachelorette party of the world Yeah, that and savannah there. Yeah, I need to get over there immediately. You never been to nashville. No It's a pretty good time. It's pretty good time. Yeah, right A weekend trip, man. I'm down for some nashville. Oh god. Just me you and me and puka. Yeah All right, you guys jumbo case or box number six. We'll do another case right after this Yeah, that's right timmy. Appreciate you man. I am gonna get wiser right at that moment right at 1201 I shall be wiser. Oh nice. There we go. Jay. That's awesome, man Some cards for the daughter. Thank you. Greg taking one in the uh one-on-one basketball Brian taking one in the um Um upper deck hockey so we are down to uh Down to 15 on the second hockey super jumbo Super jumbo Down to five I believe on um one-on-one basketball And then like I said just second 15 to go on the upper deck hockey and then we are on to just star wars for the night Star Wars master work, you know be um random mini box style on that one And really fun looking for some big autos some uh some sketches Carl, how you feeling there's a first wide length for Cold and dry Right and tell me what to do and blue to 150 Andrew lenzie. Oh boy Didn't shan go and now I did that for what 12 years We're getting shan going now. Don't even get me started Really jay. Let's go man. I forgot that we pulled that for you.  Yeah, we were uh, we were hot last weekend or last thursday man.  It's a good stash and trash thursday last week rodent Nevins And auto is gonna be Maui ahuna for the giants Maui ahuna we everyone's here now strive everyone's here now There's a max claudrake fix the real world latent. Oh god. I would love that, dude I would love that. I wanted to get on that back in the day. I'm sure he did. Yeah I could see you on there. Oh dude. I would erect that show Oh man, there's a colt emerson. Oh sam was on tilt for sure Kendall george is a brice eldritch bowman glass An hour three. Yeah about there. Brady house in 99 on the green grass. Yeah, uh, it didn't take too long for sure Yeah, it was more. Yeah, he was at the end there. He was Yeah, I came in and his foot was his foot was jumping it while he was going through these. He was uh He was getting tired. There's the uh, 199 ryan clifford for the Mets Fractur first home were bush Fractur hackenburg hits brown Miancy, there's a tumby chore refractor tanner hall and refractor auto is going to be k. Ditten So there to 499 for the Rockies right louder Three more three more here guys. Good luck Malia Hoona Yeah, his name is walter sam just telling us that sam keeps telling us that Yeah, that cars for kids name. Yeah. Yeah, that's fair I've seen the cars for kids live. He he has to be losing it for that one max Clark. You're seeing him live No, no, I'm saying I've seen sam do that. Oh It's usually when he's starting to uh, are you going to start to lose it? There's a noble mire and a speckle of kendo george Be like seeing uh kids bob live There's a blue paper to 499 christian vicaro But one of those are like a blow dart fracter k this just quietly in the corner Blow darting people. Yeah first game fisher catch them in the ankle There's a uh, jaworsky debtmer bowmeister and auto is going to be nazan zantatello based out over there, boston Nice dart right in that ankle bone. Yeah, you know It's in the bone Last couple backs here Oh Aquarius here we go. It's the first blake michael Straight leo over here boy. I don't know why Greg's asking that question, but hey, thank you george. Thank you, sir Appreciate that my man There's a max clark and the lunar glow of kendo george There's a light blue to 499. I'm gonna be jade spirofen Satutarius I believe I believe it's paul skeens Think What is what is tomorrow? First is casey friday first jacob consales bonilla white lengthford refractor And jackson maryl refractor and on the back is connor burns to 150 It'll be on the true blue for the wretz max clark and shurio Yeah, it's tomorrow greg so I guess sagittarius. I'm pretty sure Pretty sure Last double pack here Oh, no ryan pepio I don't know if I love that. I like mani margot on the outfield too. We might need a uh I had a good defender in the outfield to replace that lord bowman glass is white lengthford And a wret louder to 250 Mine's a 25th. Go fast because you're santa claus greg Birthdays on the 25th. You gotta be Gotta be Paper refractor first gonna be uh tim mcrawl son There's a um abner wyatt clark tray morgan first refractor of vredenberg and Auto is gonna be max clark. Nice way to end it there. Go tigers max clark On the base class of 2023 auto very nice one there Third pick in the draft for the tigers ended with a skeens and a jacob wilson Alrighty there guys that will do it for the um 2023 bowman draft super jumbo case number one To a quick head recap and we are on to case two To 250 mohoney to 199 alderman arroyo meyer hit 150 auto was um That over here. We had um Lindsey that was hawk to 199 anthony holland to 99 house to 125 waldrup hurley Crawford to 99 skeens to 99 and forster to 99 Yeah, that is kind of wild greg. You got the uh, you got the christmas birthday My mom's is the 20th. So it's pretty close, but not on the day Zamatello dentin Ahuna mitchell bush cox brice eldridge Sabios, there's a Blake mitchell to 499. Nice one there royals knapsick Joe redfield for and i bowmeister mcgraw troser fisher anderson. There's a refractor noble meyer K-fist led better. Um, there's a um, enrique bradfield picnic and a kindle george Now for the numbered autos we had to 150 connor burns 250 patronel 199 saltobon and calvin harris 71 cold miller had to 54 that one was a formello and gold to 52 hackenberg And max we had a insert auto the sp auto of heathen solace Nice one there podrex and we had max clark class of 2023 base auto there Alrighty all righty guys, that'll do it for super jumbo case number one I mean just a moment here. We'll get super jumbo case number two gell


Hey everybody today. We're talking about the spider-man push-up. So this is a nice It's kind of like a mountain climber except I'm doing a push-up while I do it Mountain climber where you're bringing your leg up. I'll show you This one's nice because it teaches your rib cage to contort and your spine to contort in different ways And you can use that like I'll use this one as a way to Mobilize that rib cage if you spend a lot of time doing normal rows and normal benching and normal pull-ups the rib cage tends to stiffen up because it supports the Heavy loads that you use when you do movements like that. And so doing a spider-man push-up Kind of helps loosen all that stuff up helps you get ready for salsa class, you know so Normal push-up set up tuck my hips push long at the top and then as I come down I'm gonna bring one knee up toward my hand like this Return other side Making sure I reach long at the top again So that's what it looks like again. I gave you the cues tuck the hips reach long at the top Give that one a shot. That's one of my favorites


And that truth is that the costs and risks of aggression are out of line with any conceivable benefit. To make that clear today, we'll use existing capabilities and build new ones. And use all of them in networked ways, hand in hand with our allies and partners. With the international situation in the region, the strong, mutually beneficial relationship will contribute to the safety and stability of the Indo-Pacific region. These relationships are more important than ever. So we're not going to go into the next fight alone. We're going to need each other, so we need to build a familiarity as to how both of us operate when we work together. It's a matter of resupply and it's a matter of who is going to be the ones that are going to be giving to us, because it's probably not going to be Marines. We're going to have to work together with the different services and different nations to be able to provide those logistics. I recognize the significance in strengthening our coordination. Because both the United States and Japan share tactical principles, philosophy and universal values, strengthening the U.S.-Japan coordination is important when considering our country's security issues. Since we are a small unit directly dealing with human rescue, I learned the importance of SWIFT triage and treatment. Especially with the U.S. military having so much combat experience, I felt that their work was very important. I was able to communicate with the U.S. and the U.S. especially with the U.S. military having so much combat experience. I felt that there were differences in attitude and perspectives that the U.S. possessed towards training. We've integrated the Japanese ground self-defense force into doing one of these exercises and testing out their capability. It basically helped me coordinate and communicate between the naval forces involved in the exercise and the ground self-defense force. So they're a big link with them linking their C2 capabilities in order to execute Navy missions. We need to be united front across the region. We have a heavy presence here and in the event we have an adversary, we need to be able to work together to defeat them.


Welcome to Think Tech Hawaii. My name is Dorei Shen. I'm the host of this show, Finding Our Future, and I'm here every other Wednesday, 1 to 1.30. I like to interview people who have been involved with our community for a while and have some insights they can share and inspire the rest of our community. So Stuart Coleman is here, boss, and long-time activist. Can you introduce yourself for everyone? Yes, sure. Thank you, Dorei. My name is Stuart Coleman, and I have been the regional manager for the Sirfighter Foundation for the last 10 years. I'm just about to embark on a new project. Yeah, so talk about your new project, just to intro people to what that is. Yeah, so it's called by WAI. It stands for Wastewater Alternatives and Innovations, and it's a new non-profit that's dedicated to water quality and specifically the kind of conversion and improvement of our cesspool situation. Yes, so we sometimes laugh about how you're the cesspool guy, the toilet expert, and stuff. So can you share how you got involved? What made you passionate about this? Yeah. Probably five years ago, we started working, a little more than that, we started working on the cesspool issues, and I learned that Hawaii has the highest number of cesspools in the country, which I was kind of stunned to learn. We think of the pristine waters of Hawaii and the environment, but we have 88,000 cesspools across the state. So I started working on the issue, and with Sirfighter and a number of different organizations, we were able to pass three different laws that first span the creation of new cesspools, and then the second law created a $10,000 tax credit for homeowners to convert their cesspools into a more efficient system, and then mandated the closure of all cesspools by 2050. And then the final law created the cesspool conversion working for which I've been serving.  Yes. Someone just told me the other day, never trust a cesspool because they're full of crap, so they're giving me a lot more. That's a meme! You should make a meme out of that. Yeah, there'll be a lot more of those puns. A cesspool is basically just a hole in the ground. So it's literally the least developed form of wastewater sanitation that exists in the world. You have a lot of them in developing countries. But when Hawaii was being developed, so much of it was rural and it was country, and a lot of people just started digging cesspools. And so they're anywhere from 20 to 40 feet deep, 3 to 5 feet across, depending how big. And all the water from the house, including the gray water from the showers and sinks, and then the black water from the toilets goes into the cesspool, and then it just kind of permeates out through the soil. Some of them have bricks, but it leaches out into the environment. Right. So I was surprised that neighborhoods Black Point, which is known as an extremely wealthy neighborhood, they still have cesspool. So what do they look or smell or feel like? How come they're not known? It's remarkable that in Honolulu, in one of the wealthy areas, we still have cesspool, which kind of explains why the water quality sometimes in that area is bad, because it's coarse rock and it's just filtering through. A lot of times you can't see this. It's in the yard, so everything's underground. So there's like grass above it? So there's grass above it? Sorry, there's usually like a hole, like a manhole kind of sized thing. And that's where you can go to pump it. You have to pump it every so often when it gets full. Most people don't even realize that. And so they don't pump it. And so when it rains, it just overflows, and that's part of the problem. So maintenance of the cesspools is a big issue. And they have to pay for that too, I'm guessing. Homeowners have to pay for that. Yeah, but unlike people on the sewer system who pay average $100 a month, say, and they're not really part of the problem, people with cesspools are directly contributing to that knowingly or not. And they don't have to pay any monthly fees. And so we're looking to create a program that's a little more equitable for everybody, because the people who are contributing to the problem aren't giving any money to help clean it up. And so maybe just having a very small fee to help maintain and to help those who are poor upgrade their system. So just to be clear, the impact on the ocean, is it from rainwater coming in and overflowing it? Or is it more just like a runoff situation? Good question. It's both. So just when it works naturally, it's going into the ground and it gets into the groundwater. So at Black Point and places on the big island and along the shores, the groundwater is very shallow. And so if you have this thing going down, it's just seeping into the groundwater, which is going directly out into the ocean. If you're more upcountry and inland, it's still going into streams or groundwater and then coming out through submarine tubes. And so it's a problem just in the normal way it functions. And then also when it rains, they fill up and they overflow. And then a lot of people just don't even know that they have to be pumped. And so they're not maintained regularly. And so we have an average of, pause for this, 53 million gallons per day of untreated wastewater is coming out through cesspools all across why? Every day. Every day. And is Oahu the worst just because we have more people or is it more in rural areas? It's more in rural areas because Oahu is the most sewered of all the counties, but they're still, you know, when you get outside of the city, the North Shore, East Side, West Side, there's still lots and lots of cesspools. But the big island has the most. They have almost half of the cesspools in the state. All the off-grid hippies. Yes. So what percentage of homeowners that have cesspools know that they have cesspools? Is it pretty much all of them or some unaware? I think most people realize that they do, but there are probably some, if they inherited house from their parents, you know, or are renting, may have no idea about how bad the problem is. Okay. So just to finish up the cesspool conversation, I just think it's very interesting. The solution is that to go door to door homeowner by homeowner and convince them to switch? And what's the process for doing that for them? Yeah. So there's a mandate that they have to, all of them have to be converted by 2050. That seems a long way off, right? But with 30-year mortgages starting next year, if you buy a house and it's got a cesspool on it and there's a 30-year mortgage, that runs up against that conversion date. So by 2021, we have to have, start having solutions so that we can help people with these conversions. So one of the options we're trying to do is like a point of sale conversion. Yeah.  Right. And if you buy a house and if you're in a certain area, like priority one area, like Kahlua and Oahu or of country Maui, then you have to immediately upgrade. So, you know, we see it in the water quality, especially in Kahlua and the bays and, you know, on the Kaniyoi side. In upcountry Maui, it's also a drinking water issue. Absolutely. So it seeps into the groundwater. So it seeps into the groundwater into the wells. And so, yeah, we're, you know, that's, it's the Department of Health who oversees this is really just trying to educate people about the nature of the problem and help them understand that, you know, nobody wants to contribute to the problem knowingly. Yeah. Most people just don't understand. Right. So how would you, because you've been involved with so many ocean pollution issues for so long, how would you rank like the different pollutants that enter the ocean? Like there's, you know, there's pesticides, there's cesspools, plastic, like if you had to rank, like in terms of importance or volume, like whatever the measure would be. Yeah, that's a challenging question. The number one source of water pollution is just stormwater runoff. Yeah. So whenever we have a storm, especially what's called that first rain, that first flush is what they call it, is just all the streets, all the garbage, all the animal waste, the tire waste, the gasoline, oil, cigarette butts, plastic, everything goes out. Right. So you should never swim within, you know, at least 24 hours after major rain, especially if it's the first major rain in a while. Right. And so that's the number one. I'd say cesspools are probably number two, you know, with 53 million gallons a day going into our surface waters and our ocean.  You know, hard to quantify with the volume, but. Versus impact. Impact, yeah. But pesticides have a clear impact on our coral reefs. And, but now they're new studies from science are showing from science magazine are saying that plastics are abrasives and they scratch the coral and then they get infected. So it contributes to the disease and the coral bleaching of coral reef. Yeah, exactly. And for some background on your involvement, because you've been a surfwriter for so long, can you share just kind of like a quick reflection on your experience, like maybe a quick like intro on how you got involved and where, like why you're moving on and kind of how you feel about that. Because it's such a long place for you to live in our community. Yeah. So I was a teacher at private schools, Yolani and Punahou, and then at UH and then finally at the East West Center and love teaching, but was also thinking I was teaching leadership at the East West Center and I was like, okay, I want to get leadership out of the classroom and into the community. And so there was an opportunity with surfwriter and we created this, the first position, the Oahu manager position, I mean the Y manager position for surfwriter. And so that was just a dream job. I was so happy. So for 10 years I was doing that. But it's, you know, it's five different chapters across Hawaii. It's five different initiatives and programs and campaigns. And water quality just arose is for me one of the most important issues that we have to deal with. And so it became for me more important and more of a personal issue because you hear there's more stories of people getting sick that we have, you know, four times the level of staff in the entire country, twice the level of a MRSA, MRSA infections. So I was realizing like our water quality is down, you know, it's deteriorating quickly. And so I really wanted to focus on that. And I thought, this is one of the most important issues that no one has really been dealing with. Yeah. Tripp Fletcher just told me that there's been an increased rate of those infections. And he was saying it's because of like the heat of the ocean and how that just like breeds bacteria. So is that true? Because I hadn't really, I don't really follow like thicknesses happening from like surfers or ocean entering the ocean. One of the things that we've been talking about with DOH and other groups is we're one of the few states that doctors don't have to report these illnesses. And so we need a database to track who's getting sick, whether it's waterborne intestinal or it's, you know, infections like MRSA or staff, just so we have a clear database. When you mentioned ship, it made me think of the also the effects of climate change and sea level rise. So a lot of these cesspools and even septic systems are near the coast. And so as the groundwater is the water table rises, the sea level rise, those things are going to start flooding over. And so the cesspool problem is going to become even worse. Yeah. That's something we really have to kind of prepare for. Get ahead of and not like react later when it's more expensive and like an emergency. Exactly. We got to be proactive and kind of get a better handle on it. Right. So what would be like your wish for people to know? Like most people aren't, you know, they're not going to like get involved on a very deep level with like cesspools and water quality. So what would be like your wish list or your message to like a general person who just wants to like be of help in terms of ocean and water quality? Yeah, I think, you know, it's going to be fascinating because I volunteered for surfrider for eight years before working there for the last 10. And I'm kind of going to be returning to that and volunteering and advising the chapters. And it's going to be a focus on water quality. And so I would tell people get involved with surfrider foundation or Sierra Club, but these water quality issues are not going away. And these environmental issues are only going to get worse. And so we really have to start being, like you said, proactive so that they don't catch us by surprise and end up costing 10 times as much. Whereas if we plan for it, you know, we can help ameliorate the situation before it gets bigger. Yeah, exactly. Okay, any other reflections from just like your time at surfrider and like sharing the mission and any of the work that you did? Before we do a deeper dive into cesspools. Before we go on break. Yeah, exactly. We would just talk about toilets. Yeah. I, you know, I think the biggest plug I would make for people is if you haven't volunteered, volunteering with surfrider and working with them was transformational in my life. And I think people do this kind of pit environment and business. And it's just such a false dichotomy because we are totally pro-business and we just want business to be smarter and be thinking towards the future and not longing towards the past. And so get involved because it's, there are some of the greatest people you meet. They're passionate. They're diverse. They're business people, scientists, researchers serve, you know, just people who love the ocean and love the environment. So whatever organization is just get involved. Exactly. I love it. And surfrider, I think is like such a great organization because it is pretty much we're the only two staff for the whole state. And so it is volunteer run.  So it's a great community, surfrider and any other organization that resonates for you all nonprofits need help. And it makes you happier. There are studies that show volunteering makes you happier. Oh, totally. More community connected. You make friends and you feel purposeful. So, yeah. This has truly become my ohana and extended family and friends out here. Yeah, exactly. Cool. Well, we're going to go on a quick break and then after when we come back, we'll talk about bill 40 for a little bit. And yeah, anything else related to oceans and water quality that we want to touch base on. Hello, my name is Becky Samson. And I'm the host of It's About Time on the Think Tech, Hawaii, a digital nonprofit organization that's raising public awareness. Join us on Wednesday at 2pm where we talk about real issues. 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And I'm here today with Stuart Coleman, who's my boss at Surfrider, and he's outgoing. He's starting his own nonprofit. He'll be the executive director at Vi, which is wastewater alternatives and innovations, also the Hawaiian word for water. And I think it's really cool because Vi Vi means wealth. So water is life and it's, you know, our most important resource, not only for us as humans, but for our whole, like, all wildlife and all living things. So I think that's such a cool name for an organization and a really cool mission to share a little bit about how that got started and like what the vision is for that nonprofit. Yeah.  And now that we are approaching the Christmas season, you know, it's just all about things. And the native Hawaiians and indigenous communities around the world have so much to teach us about like Vi Vi wealth, meaning water. Like if you have water and then you can farm, you have everything you need right there. And so getting back to that original meaning of what true wealth is, that it's our well-being and straight, very far from that. And so what I hope to do with this new nonprofit is really kind of remind people how important clean water is because we're seeing across the country with Flint, Michigan, Michigan with the lead in the pipes and we have aging infrastructure systems around the country, sewer systems and many cesspools and septic systems. And if we don't take care of these, they're the basic things trying to cost us so much more, not only just in terms of, you know, financial costs, but in terms of just health costs and well-being. Exactly. Yeah. So how is the organization funded and like what is the actual work that you guys will be doing on the ground? So we're going to be focusing on kind of five areas and one of them is new technology. I went to the Gates Foundation last year and I'll tell you a little more about that. And there's new technology that's just much cleaner and better than cesspools and septic systems. So the financial piece and financial opportunities trying to, since we have this mandate, convert these cesspools, making sure that we find alternative funding for people. Because a lot of these cesspools are in poorer communities, so we want to make sure that they're taken care of and they're not, you know, given a burden that they have to buy a new system that they can't afford.  Like that's a huge thing right there that will improve our water quality. Yeah. And then just finally, trying to set up a pilot project where we can demonstrate some of these new technology and financial options to help the people of Hawaii with this burden because with 88,000 cesspools across the country and a minimum of, you know, at least 20,000 to convert them, you know, this is a multi-billion dollar problem. And so I just, we figured that they need an organization that was really focused on this to help people with this transition. So whether you have a cesspool or not or a septic system, everybody's involved because it's our water. Yeah. And I think just like learning about it as a citizen and a community member is really important because I don't think most people are aware that this is an issue in Hawaii. And even if you hear it, like, I'm like, what is a cesspool? You know, so just getting that message out there, it's just like plastic, like plastic is now this global narrative. We all know about it. We know why it's a problem and we know what the solutions are. I think creating that around cesspools is really important. Yeah. So I mean, imagine, you know, you convert all the cesspools in Hawaii, maybe I'm optimistic and I'm just like, yeah, we could do that in the next 10, 20 years. Who knows? But if you do that, then what would be next for your organization? I think, you know, it's going to take a while, you know, 30 years at least to do all this. But just the idea of clean water, you know, and reducing the amount of pollution. So, you know, there's green infrastructure projects. We're talking with Pacific Current about, you know, doing green infrastructure changes that reduces the amount of stormwater runoff. So the more we get into the ground, more permeable surfaces, no part of surfrider, you know, we have ocean friendly gardens and that key term is CPR, you know, conservation, permeability, and retention. So trying to keep the water in the land, recharging the aquifer. So we have plenty of drinking water. And then out from taking all these chemicals, pesticides, pollutants into our waterways into the ocean. So that's a unfortunately never ending job right there. But we wanted to start with the cesspool problem, which was the biggest issue. Yeah, exactly. Do you want to share about the Gates Foundation and the kind of origins of the organization? Yeah. So like I said, I kind of started working on this issue with surfrider. Passing a number of laws to deal with the cesspool issue. And then last year, I was invited to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They had the reinvented toilet expo. And I know you're jealous that you were not there. It was amazing. And every poo pun you could make, Representative Chris Lee made them. And Chris Lee and I were invited to be on the closing panel of the conference. And there were like 500 people from around the world. And we were kind of confused. We're like, why are they asking us to speak? But it was really ingenious. The director, Brian Arbagas, realized that if people from around the world and the Bill Gates Foundation focuses on developing countries, if they realize is Hawaii, which is known as one of the most beautiful places on earth, is pristine waters, has an accessible problem. And other people would be like, oh, we're not alone. This is truly a global issue that the developing world and the developed world are still dealing with. And so we gave a talk about that. And then we kind of, because they're working in the developing world, we need Western companies to really adapt this new technology that the Bill Gates Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation spent $200 million doing research for and coming out with a new technology. And it was pretty funny. It was an opening conference. And the world is watching. It's going to be headlines around the world. He puts a jar of human excrement on the podium. And everybody's like, oh my God, that's going to make headlines right there. And he said, when I first began, we were looking at computers that were the size of entire rooms. And we had this vision for personal computers that could just change and radically change our society. And he's like, when we started the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, we were looking at all the diseases that are the most deadly diseases around the world.  And so he spent all this money and he was just like, look at the toilet. We've had the same toilet since Thomas Crapper basically invented the toilet or popularized it in England almost 150 years ago. And so he's like, we really realized this was the area that needed the greatest amount of innovation. Yeah, totally. Why do we like, also, maybe this is a little different, but why do we can't poop into potable drinking water? I feel like that's so unnecessary. There's so much recycled gray water we can use. And drinking water is scarce for a lot of impoverished countries and it just feels like a slap in the face to people who can't even access fresh drinking water. Absolutely. When you think about it with countries, and there were a lot of countries represented in this expo in Beijing that have real water issues. And increasingly, South Africa, there was a day where they ran out of water. It's so scary. Not just developing countries anymore. And the idea of using clean drinking water is just ridiculous. Yeah, wasting it. It's a total waste. And so that's one of the things that we hope to change. It's a scale of small little changes we can make separating gray water and black water. And you can recycle the water from your shower to flush your toilet or your sink. There's no reason that can't be a connection right there to fill it up and not use clean potable drinking water. So just a little bit of technology. A little bit of technology. We can do anything. Two, there's vast changes. And the three basic categories are the single-use toilet you have in a home that is totally self-sufficient. It's not connected to plumbing, the New Gates technology. That's still a year or two out. But they're models. They're testing around the world. And then there's the multi-use bathrooms that you might find in a park or a school or a playground. Four to eight seats. And the great thing about these is that when you're going out in the country, part of the reason people have these test pools is because there are no sewer lines. On the east side, when you go into Kaluu, it's just too expensive. It's hundreds of millions of dollars. And so people go into the ground and build the test pool. But what we can have here is you don't need a sewer system. It's completely off the grid. Very low energy can be powered by solar. And what it does is it separates the liquids and the solids and then burns the solids, which becomes its own fuel and helps burn it. And then that pasteurizes the water. And so the water can be totally recycled for garden use, can be used for anything. Many more circular systems. Like everything's linear. We just waste things. So the more we can see things as a resource. Exactly. One of the great expenses that we have is pumping water all across the island to get to these treatment plants. We treat it. We spend hundreds of millions of dollars on these plants. And then we just pump it out to sea. So it's a one-way system and it's total wasted water and everything. Where these systems, it's 100% circular. You recycle everything. And the burned waste becomes biochar. And you can literally put that on your garden. It is the best. It's pathogen-free, chemical-free, and it's a great fertilizer. And it's also a carbon sink. Exactly, sequestering carbon. People don't know that. A lot of people. So we do have to wrap it up. But I do just want to do a quick shout-out to Bill Forty and Civic Engagement if you can do a little something and then we got to close up the show. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks to people like you and all of the good folks at Sierra Club and Sustainable Coastlines and Zero Waste O'ahu and Kukua Hawaii Foundation and Beach and so many others. After I've been working on this issue for 10 years, as you know, that's what I started on. And nobody really knew about plastic pollution. And just last week, we were able to pass Bill Forty, which is going to be one of the leading examples of bills across the country to reduce plastic pollution. It's super exciting. Yeah, yeah. And then so for people who want to get involved with Starfighter, we just had this huge victory. It's a super good time to get involved. Or any of the other nonprofits we gave a shout-out to. Just follow us on Instagram or get on our email list or our websites. And we'll be kind of gearing up for the legislative session. So there will be some stuff around cesspools, plastics. We'll see what kind of comes up. But January through May is the legislative session and 2020 is an election year. So we really highly encourage everyone to register to vote. It's going to be a vote by mail. You can vote in your underwear or your pajamas at home. So just register to vote at your current address. Super easy. It takes a minute to do online and register as a Democrat if you want to vote in the presidential primary. So that's like my little civic engagement. Do you have any final words? You know, I just say that watching Bill Forty pass over the last 10 years and that development, we've engaged so many people, thousands of people. And I just want to empower people. You can turn government around. And it's so exciting to be part of it. It's really fun. And I think that's what people don't understand. So get involved and let's make Hawaii the best place it can be. Yeah, awesome. Well, thank you so much. This is our show.