All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is time for a blood work slash health update and you guys know I've been very transparent about the health issues. I've had Following the carnivore diet what happened afterwards so that has kind of helped me be really really honest and somewhat humble in researching and discovering and always being open-minded and and being really good with you know pattern recognition and process of elimination in regards to really figuring out and understanding what needs to be done pertaining to health Basically five months ago. We discovered that I probably have some type of copper toxicity issues So that has been the recent focus and that's what we're gonna talk about in this video I did not comb my hair this morning. I'm still half asleep. So Video has to get done though So we got a little bit of blood work, we're gonna look at starting in September of 2023 our vitamin D was 57 on a scale of 30 to 100 Which is pretty good and this will be important later to make an interesting comparison calcium magnesium not a regular liver enzymes were not out of range testosterone was around 400 which is where I'm typically at because you know with liver damage or hormone production is Gone cooked ferritin is low at 25 because I donate blood to keep it low And the main issue we discovered was that my seruolo plasm was out of range at 38 and my copper was 120 Which is slightly out of range Seruolo plasma is the main copper carrying protein in the body and It actually requires magnesium to bind to copper That's why I was like getting magnesium and calcium tests done and then we also had Micronutrient analysis done showing I was zinc deficient So that kind of explained why you know despite me thinking I had my diet correct and everything I was still having Extreme difficulty sleeping. I was still getting insomnia and then copper toxicity copper in the bloodstream would definitely cause that So I started taking a lot of zinc. I felt a bit better But I still wasn't sleeping and then in December of 2023 You know about few months after that first blood work I tested my copper again and it went up to a hundred thirty nine zinc went up a few points and That's telling me that the zinc I was taking was putting more copper into the bloodstream And it can be common in cases of any sort of toxicity Where when you start fixing the problem It actually causes higher blood levels initially and gets worse and I didn't discover and Research Seruolo plasma and that it needs magnesium to bind to copper in order to take the copper out of the body until late December and Honestly, like the only reason I don't regret getting that eye surgery is because like a really specific set of circumstances happened when I was in California that Caused me to experiment with a high dose of magnesium and that's ultimately how I figured out to feel better If I didn't go out there, I don't think I would have ever I mean, it's hard to say if I would have ever figured that out but thankfully I did So Seruolo plasma brings copper to the liver where it is excreted in the bile to be you know pushed out the digestive system and Again, the Seruolo plasma the protein enzyme cannot pick up copper unless you have enough magnesium So you can take all the zinc you want and you cannot detox copper without magnesium And it can really make things worse if you just increase your circulating copper From how you feel perspective. Yeah, so the first blood work we mentioned was September 2023 That slight deviation where the copper went up was in December of 2023 three months later And now this blood work is is just about a week ago middle of February So five six months since we initially discovered the issue vitamin D Dropped down to 17 on a scale of 30 to 100 Copper went down slightly to 115 So I went from like 120 to 139 to 115 and zinc was at 65 so around the same Fertin dropped down to nine because I donated blood recently And my understanding of this is that I was severely severely magnesium deficient Which was not allowing my body to utilize vitamin D stores So when I did take the magnesium It caused a sudden drop as my body was actually activating the vitamin D and using it Although I want I want to double-check my vitamin D levels to confirm. This was the case because The the blood circulation Regross of whether you're getting one or the other vitamin D test is not necessarily an indicator of liver stores. However If you were like toxic and vitamin D from taking supplements hypothetically the blood levels usually don't go below 75% So from everything I've seen in my understanding of blood work If you're toxic in something the levels will never be below like 75% But we're going to double-check the bottom of the anyway And a reason I'm so sure of that is because when I was tanning last summer I would get Extreme excruciating headaches towards the end of the summer and magnesium actually made those go away instantly But then I'd get insomnia because what was happening was Okay, you replenish the magnesium stores, but now you have a lot of circulating copper and ceruloplasm, so you're still not going to sleep Same thing with the blood copper the blood copper is not an indicator of liver stores. However, what we just said It's high because there is a probable toxicity, but We don't know how much is in the liver and what we did kind of confirms this because when we take a lot of zinc You know we mobilized more copper in the body and the serum goes up and same thing if we took a lot of zinc plus magnesium The copper and ceruloplasm probably go up substantially But the reason that we don't want to do that an experiment is because I will just feel terrible and not sleep But but it could probably be done. So instead of taking my typical Supplement dosage I could just go crazy for a day or two just to artificially inflate the blood levels to show you guys Hey This is actually happening. This is working. So these are just indicators that my body is removing the copper and Once the copper levels are mostly removed from the liver. We should see it go down so I could I could be detoxing for months and months and months and At the point where the copper toxicity really starts getting better where most of the liver is depleted of copper Then we'll see the levels start to lower So just because the blood levels don't necessarily change much doesn't mean that we're not doing the right thing and The reason the zinc hasn't gone up is Partially because I donated blood because when you donate blood both the zinc and copper are removed.  That means if anything my zinc would have gone up if I if I didn't donate blood But it's more important to to keep the zinc low and remove copper with blood work Then it is to just leave everything in I think Although I haven't felt much better when I donate blood but hard to say and some of you guys suggested zinc pecanate instead of amino acid chelations and More than one of you. So I tried this. I took it for a month only zinc pecanate I mean, I didn't notice or feel a difference and then because of that I read about a dozen different studies on zinc chelations and That plus my anecdotal experimenting. I'm not convinced the chelation of zinc is that relevant you guys that are focused on that It's very insignificant in in the picture of this copper toxicity thing Yeah, on top of the anecdotal experiments not working all of those studies basically said that Amino acid chelations of zinc such as zinc glycinate are more bioavailable and more utilized to the body and that makes sense, especially considering The the stuff we'll talk about ceruloplasma in a little bit and I'll go more in depth on this in general in future videos But to simplify it Zinc helps prevent excess copper absorption. It's antagonistic to copper metabolically and Overall helps reduce free copper in the bloodstream Magnesium is required to bind the copper to ceruloplasma Allowing you to detox it and you need large amounts of both Magnesium and zinc orally at the same time to fix this if you just take zinc on its own Didn't help Molybdenum on its own, which we'll talk about now Didn't help Magnesium on its own didn't help you need the combination of all three of these so molybdenum is also antagonistic to copper and It even binds to copper in the intestine and brings copper to the kidneys to be excreted in the urine So through my trial and error I've noticed that I feel best when taking all three of these with every meal a moderate amount of zinc Magnesium and molybdenum with every single meal for the most part again each of these individually might not help you much but all together it's very effective and Sometimes I would take zinc and molybdenum most of the time I add magnesium in there The only time I would stop the magnesium is if I overdid it a little bit And had some sleeping issues. So you got to figure out the dosage where you feel good Because you don't want the ceruloplasma and the copper and the bloodstream to go too high because although you might detox faster You're not going to feel so good. You're not going to sleep. You're going to have insomnia and the purpose of The magnesium is to just have enough ceruloplasma production in the liver So it doesn't have to be taken with every single meal as your body can store the magnesium The reason you need Zinc and molybdenum with every single meal is because it's preventing the copper in the food from being absorbed So every single meal is going to have copper in it copper isn't so many foods and If you take zinc and molybdenum with the meal, that's going to prevent the copper absorption So zinc and molybdenum every single meal have a purpose, but magnesium Yes, your body needs magnesium in the liver to produce the ceruloplasma to transport the copper. However In regards from an every individual meal purpose, it's not necessarily going to chelate anything or help them At least my understanding but it's better anyway to have a consistently low dose of magnesium The reason I'm bringing this up is that hey, you don't necessarily have to take magnesium every meal is because you might overdo it I mean same with the other minerals if you overdo zinc you'll you'll feel kind of crappy if you overdo molybdenum You'll feel kind of crappy but the reason that even if you overdo it you would still want to take it with the meals is because in In the physical intestine in the actual digestive tract when you're eating the meals it serves a function to prevent the copper from being reabsorbed and This is also the reason why I came up with the magnesium and zinc complexes on organ supplements I want to be most effective forms for this issue of copper toxicity, which I believe is very common so the those forms of magnesium, I think it's Magnesium glycinate magnesium torate and magnesium l3 and 8 those are the most bio available and the same with the zinc The zinc is all amino acid forms off the top of my head. I think for the zinc we did torate glycinate and methionine and those are also really relevant because Ceruleoplasmin Being an enzyme is a protein made up of a lot of amino acids So you would argue there that you know if you need high ceruleoplasma production in the body If anything having these minerals and amino acid form is more relevant to that And I don't think I let me just say it again because I should have explained it a little easier at the beginning of the video a little simpler Ceruleoplasmin carries copper to the liver or it will be excreted in the vial to be detoxed Ceruleoplasmin is also created in the liver and requires magnesium zinc and proteins to be created So the real main thing here We're trying to do is to optimize ceruleoplasmin production and that's how we're going to basically detox copper as quickly as possible So we're doing a few things overall optimizing ceruleoplasmin production Preventing absorption of copper from foods by taking certain minerals and also we're using these minerals to replenish depleted nutrient stores especially zinc especially magnesium molybdenum I doubt is I doubt I have a molybdenum deficiency. I don't think I do but it serves a purpose every meal in in helping detox copper and People have issues with molybdenum toxicity to however because the dose we have on organ supplements is so low I haven't noticed any issues with taking molybdenum every meal. My doses is on that 15 to 30 milligrams of zinc Sometimes I'll do 30 in the morning, but it's usually 15 most of the day 50 to 100 milligrams of magnesium again I'll do the higher dose 100 milligrams of magnesium in the morning and then 50 milligrams the other meals in the day And then I take one molybdenum capsule every meal, which is a hundred micrograms So if I go to 45 zinc, I notice I don't feel good per meal If I go like to 150 200 magnesium, I don't feel bad. I just don't sleep that well that night I actually feel better if anything sometimes and molybdenum I have invested around too much with going with higher doses, but before I started Taking magnesium every single meal or I guess just in general I noticed that taking the molybdenum is important because there was a period of time where I was just taking zinc with meals And then when I ended up just a molybdenum in I was feeling and sleeping better, but Hey, hopefully hopefully a few more months. I mean, we don't really have many more questions to answer We kind of have an idea of the protocol and we know what we're doing I guess as I feel better as my body recovers now that I'm able to sleep better for the most part The the next six months is gonna be a pretty big deal We're gonna see kind of how bad the copper toxicity is because it's the blood levels are the same in three months Even six months or oh my god. How how long is this gonna take to fix? The vitamin D is definitely is definitely interesting You know, I could have been tanning all these years and who knows what my body was really doing with the vitamin D stores I could have just been burning them up as fast as possible If I didn't because I definitely didn't have enough magnesium Throughout this whole period of time and I knew that I knew I knew I couldn't I Knew I was really magnesium deficient for many years But I couldn't take magnesium because I would I would get insomnia and the reason for that was because I had Copper toxicity and I was also zinc deficient. So now that we've you know, pieced a few things together mainly thanks to A lot of you guys mentioning stuff in the comments as well as me experimenting a lot We've kind of put the pieces together. We're just finishing the puzzle right now and Yeah, no, I mean you guys made suggestions here and there But it really took me, you know reading a lot of studies and experimenting on my own to figure out What I had to do because I'm really sensitive to things. So if Something works for someone They might not necessarily be a good indicator of that because if they've never had sleeping issues if they've never had extreme circumstances then Anything's gonna work if you don't feel too crappy if your health isn't too ruined like You're not you're not at this like I Won't I want to say life or death, but you're not in this like extreme On and off night and day thing where as soon as you do something wrong, it's super obvious and how you feel that it was wrong But anyway Thank you guys for joining me We have all the supplements available on ordinance supplements calm and hopefully if my eyes My eyes get a little better. I feel like if I feel up to it I do want to do some whiteboard videos and And do a little more of reading the studies and stuff explaining to you guys the ceruloplasma stuff in depth and I have all the studies compile. I think like Showing the zinc bioavailabilities Showing the molybdenum function showing the ceruloplasma magnesium stuff I have all the studies maybe will I feel up to it. Maybe we'll I don't know My eyes get fixed maybe we'll do that But for now you guys have all the information you need In what to do to fix the top toxicity. So I will see you guys in Columbia with ten girls that are taller than me


Hi everybody, Sean with jaspyscasebreaks.com doing a 2019-20 Panini Contenders basketball two box break. Pick your team number six where we'll be taking the 29 spots that are already purchased and randomizing the pelicans for free to one spot. Here is the list of customers from Matt all the way down to Brock Pine. In the middle here you'll see the spot where the pelicans would be filled. We're going to go ahead and delete that and randomize it to one person. We're going to do a virtual dice roll to see how many times we're going to do the randomizer and it's a one and a three four times. So one, two, three and fourth and final time. Good luck everyone. Matt Silverstein gets the pelicans for free. Congrats Matt. Now let's see if it can pay off in the break for you. And there's Matt's free spot in the New Orleans pelicans. Congrats. Now let's get ripping and see what we can find for you guys. There are the remaining two boxes from the case that we've been doing these two box breaks from. Here's our list.  So you can see these are marked number four. We just did boxes five and pick your team five. Good timing to chase all the rookies especially with the restart of basketball coming in about a week. I don't remember if it starts officially on the 30th or the 31st, but yeah it just kind of pops for you. If I say Will Christian Fitch, you'll both think that I'm yelling, I'm talking to you. But also it sounds like a good question, kind of Will Christian Fitch? It could be a band. Sounds like a question. There you go. I hope so too. It'd make me look that much cooler. So does the Yankees Nationals game, does that get finished at a different date or what? I mean it's already a shortened season. And they really shortened it by one more game again. PJ Washington for the Hornets and Kyle Koch. Cam Reddish lottery ticket. Atlanta Hawks and Matt Chara. Denver Nuggets quads to Darren McKenzie. Oh they called it and Yankees got the win. MVP contenders Russell Westbrook. Kobe White, lottery ticket for the Bulls and Ericsson-Sala. Ignas Frazikis, rookie ticket auto for the New York Knicks and John McCall. Legendary contenders autograph, Hall of Famer David Robinson. That's numbered out of 49, 21 out of 49, San Antonio Spurs and Steve Locke, nice. Superstar Dicat Giannis Alatacumpo, Milwaukee Bucks, Nancy Ripple. Tyler Harrow, lottery ticket, Miami Heat and Sergio Antiso. Miles Turner, playoff ticket to 199 for the Indiana Panthers and Nancy Ripple. John Morant, lottery ticket for the Memphis Grizzlies and Matt Chara. Jalil Okafour, semi-final tickets to 149 for the Pelicans going to Matt Silverstein in his free spot. I found a stat this morning, we always talk about like Garrett Cull obviously pretty good picture right. I found this thing this morning on Randy Johnson over a three game period. He had three complete games where he had a total of between the three games. He had 43 strikeouts, 43 strikeouts and gave up one run in the first, two in the second and one in the third and got three losses, pretty rough, 27 innings, 43 strikeouts, four runs total and not get a single win. And then people are like, well it was the Mariners, wrong, it was when he was playing with the Dinobaks. Can anybody think of, you know, a better streak of performances with a worse result? The Angels, the Angels had a combined no-hitter, I think at the Dodgers, if I remember back in the day, maybe five years ago or so, but I think it's been a couple of times when somebody's thrown a no-hitter through nine, but it's gone to extras and either they or the team has lost. But if I remember correctly, I want to say the Angels did it, they had a combined no-hitter and I think they lost at the Dodgers stadium, somebody's not thinking that that happened. So, Miles Turner, playoff ticket, $199, Indiana Pacers and Nancy, Cameron Johnson, rookie of the year contender, Phoenix Suns, Scott, Jared Tickler, Jared Tickler, Jared Tickler, Jared Colver, playoff ticket, auto, $199 for the Minnesota Timberwolves and Sean Matta, last spot mojo, D'Angelo Russell Conference Finals ticket to $125 for the Golden State Warriors and Sarah Bernard, rookie of the year contenders, Deandre Hunter, Atlanta Hawks and Matt Sharoff, Zion Williamson Lottery ticket, New Orleans Pelicans and Matt Silverstein in his free spot, Team Quads, Houston Rockets, Nancy, Jared Colver Lottery ticket, Minnesota and Sean, Chicago Pools, Team Quads, go into Eric. That was at Dodger Stadium, right Joe? Ooh, redemption, any guesses? Anybody remember who's a redemption in this? I want to say the combined no hitter was Weaver and somebody or Skaggs and somebody, Jackson Hayes, Joe, Darius Garland, Lottery ticket, going to Cleveland and Sean Matta, Utah Jazz, Team Quads, Anthony Tetra, Kobe White, it was Weaver and Aridonda, so it was Weaver. Did Weaver go, he went eight, right Joe? Or was it seven? I'll have to look at the box square after this. 2019 playoff contenders, rookie variation, season ticket premium. Anybody any idea, season ticket premium, he went six, card 116 S E K O U, Seiko Dunboya, Detroit Pistons and Scott Blackwell. Anybody know what the season ticket premium edition is numbered out of? No matter what it's numbered out of, that's going to Scott Blackwell, congratulations. And everybody, that was 2019-2020 Panini Contenders, basketball, two box break, pick your team number six. I'm Sean with jaspyscasebreaks.com. Thank you very much and we'll see you next time.


How's it going everyone? Welcome to another video. This video I've been quite reluctant to make but things have changed since I left to go to the UK. I had an insight when I was in the UK doing activism, connecting with all the other activists. I spent a lot of time with some hard working dedicated activists and I also attended a lot of vigils. I've seen a lot of the reality of what's happening to these animals first hand. For me the suffering of the chickens it felt it really hit home for me a lot more because I know that the chickens they're only infants and they're about six weeks old at slaughter and you can just see they're terrified they're suffering a lot and they're anemic and lying on their back a lot of them are dying on the way to the slaughterhouse they have broken legs they can't stand up because they've been genetically bred so that they're a lot bigger than their body can hold. It really gave me some perspective now up until this point I have been dedicated to my activism. I was doing as much as I could given the circumstances I was in but I feel like I could do more I feel like I could dedicate a lot more of my time to this and since getting back from the UK I've decided not to to go back and attend my job I was working as a traffic controller three days a week and I've decided that that's not for me I've decided that it's an injustice to the animals to spend three days a week at a job that stops my momentum so those three days a week 30 hours stops my momentum and I could be spending those three days a week working on videos organizing activist events helping other activists so traveling around doing my activism helping people doing talks activism workshops things like that has really helped me sort of see what I need to do here and that's be full-time activist so what this video is about is I've started a patreon page I've been pretty reluctant to do that I didn't really want to but I've decided it's best and what was holding me back from doing that and I've realized what was holding me back was my ego people are going to say stuff about you no matter what no matter how good you're doing no matter how much your heart is in the right place there's always going to be people that are going to say stuff about you and that's something I have to come to terms with and you know what I've realized and I was speaking to a friend about this and she she actually gave me a really good insight I said as a part of my ego and my pride that doesn't want to put up a patreon and ask for support from people I feel like I can you know go to work make my own money and do it myself and be an animal activist on top of that and she said well you know like you're kind of choosing your ego over the animals and I was like wow that is a truth bomb because you're right that's exactly what I'm doing I'm letting my ego get in the way of being a hundred percent dedicated animal rights activist and an online activist and all the things I need to be doing because this is where I shine this is what I love to do and this is what needs to be done it's imperative this is becoming beyond urgent the animals need me urgently I need to be focusing full time now this is a way that you can help out if you can't if you feel like you can't do what I do out there on the streets you can't do it quite like I do this is your way to contribute this is your way to contribute and to support me if you think I'm worthy of support for getting by as an activist the type of activism I do street interviews positive vegan outreach organizing attending and supporting vigils training activists and supporting activist groups worldwide public speaking and activism workshops making educational vegan videos with a positive message organizing direct action activism future marches and other animal rights work supporting and coaching new vegans so with my patreon team we'll work we'll work together and brainstorm ideas I'll make a monthly video for you guys a live stream and we can talk about my activism and what I've done for the month and what I plan to do for the month and you can really help me and you can channel your ideas through me and I can take them and put them into action so this is your way of sort of it's like a a little network here and we're all doing this together so that would be I think that would be a very positive thing working together is what we need more in this more of in this movement okay another thing I want to talk about if you want me to come to your country to where you are to help out with the activism over there to help the activists to talk at a festival to do activism workshops I'm willing to go anywhere you can and I can come and help out help set things up just give you that morale boost bring the eyes from my subscribers to your work and to what's going on in your area all I would ask for is to help me out with travel expenses and somewhere to stay and I can literally go anywhere and help you with whatever you're doing in your country or whatever so I'm happy to do that I've really taken a leap of faith here guys I don't know how this has got to turn out I've just decided to just focus on this full time and I'm hoping that when you when your heart's in the right place and you follow your passion then things just work themselves out so I just want to say thank you so much for all of your support it's been overwhelming the last few weeks I've been getting inundated with messages and comments of support I can't keep up with a lot of them and I just want to say thank you so much this is what I really feel like I need to be doing and like I said no matter what you do people are always going to say stuff and I don't care about that I care about the animal message and helping the most oppressed victims on earth and this is what I need to be doing so if you want to stand by me and support me I'll leave the link to my patreon in my description box and I'll leave it at the end of my videos from now on so I could really use some help right now and thank you so much for your support peace


This tenth year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by you, the listener, thanks to every single one of you, including Cali Cook, Scott Hepburn, Bjorn Andre, and our new patrons helping us to get to our patron goal, Michelle, Scott, Wauga, and Mark. On this episode of Daily Tech News Show, the metaverse may have started in Indonesia. They got real-life meta-humans down there. Plus, EA makes moves away from being a video game company. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, June 21st, 2023 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio 7Lamps, I'm Sarah Lane. From Salt Lake City, I'm Scott Johnson. And the show's produced, sir Roger Chan. Let's get right into the quick hits! As part of the continuing protests around Reddit's API pricing changes, some subreddit moderators have switched their communities to NSFW, aka Not Safe for Work. This means that Reddit doesn't display ads on these communities. Now, as a result, Reddit started suspending some of these mods with spokesperson Tim Rothschmidt saying, Moderators incorrectly marking a community as NSFW is a violation of both our content policy and moderator code of conduct. Mods for the mildly interesting subreddit report that their team has been subsequently reinstated. Maybe they posted some Not Safe for Work content. Like, no, see? It's correct. It's mildly interesting. ByteDance-owned TikTok is testing a new shopping feature in the UK called Trendy Beat, offering a selection of items that are popular in TikTok videos. The Financial Times reports these items are sold by another ByteDance-owned company with ByteDance reportedly taking all the revenue from the sales, but keeps it all in the family. This is different from TikTok Shop, which you may have come across. That allows third parties to sell items with TikTok taking a commission on the sales. TikTok Shop has proven popular in some Southeast Asian markets, but has not proved popular in the UK. So maybe Trendy Beat is a way to be like, well, what if we sold just stuff in a different way? Shopping on social media is popular. Yonap News reports that YouTube is going to launch a shopping channel of its own in South Korea on June 30th, and that will offer live streamed shopping content with 30 brands signed up to go with it at launch. Discord Group Product Manager Derek Yang announced the platform plans to experiment with letting servers sell digital products as one-time purchases over the coming months. So these products will be available in a new server shop section. The company is also updating its server subscription options, providing tier templates to make it easier to initially set up some support levels. Apple added support for pass keys to the betas of iOS 17, iPad OS 17, and macOS Sonoma. So if you're running the beta, you can use pass keys now to sign into any account linked to an Apple ID, and that includes your third-party Apple ID sign-ins if you're using the Apple ID to sign into a third-party site. So it doesn't have to be an Apple-owned service, but you do have to be using an Apple device. This is not going to work on your Windows machine, even if you're logging into something with an Apple ID. The Verge is West Davis, though, expects that support across devices would happen once the feature is fully released. DP Review Fans Rejoice! Hopefully, publisher Gear Patrol announced it is saving by way of acquiring DP Review around three months. After the camera review site announced it was being shut down by Amazon. Amazon acquired DP Review back in 2007. So, why the hopefully? Are you doubtful that Gear Patrol is going to keep its word? I'm just saying, I know there are a lot of fans of DP Review saying, hey, it does not die after all. So let's hope it thrives under its new ownership. Alright, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Amazon alleging the company violated rules by using so-called dark patterns. Dark patterns is that practice of kind of trying to trick you into answering a same way because you're not paying close attention. Like, you design the page to make the yes button bright blue with big letters and the no buttons kind of gray and small letters so you're not going to pay attention to it as easily. But the main complaints of the FTC lawsuit are that non-prime subscribers saw multiple buttons for checkout. That would be where the dark patterns played in, making it hard to see which one would not subscribe them to prime. In other words, there was one they had to pay close attention to to not accidentally sign up for prime. Also, once they were tricked into signing up for prime, cancellation was too complicated according to the FTC, making customers go through unnecessary steps. Amazon allegedly calls the prices Iliad internally, at least according to this lawsuit. Iliad is a reference to the work by Homer about the Trojan War. I would have thought Odyssey would have been a better Homeric reference there because, you know, making people on a big long travel bit Iliad apparently is what they used. The FTC is looking for a court order to force Amazon to change its practices and provide refunds to affected customers. We all agree dark patterns suck, but Scott, should they be against the law? Oh, that's a big jump, isn't it? Going from they're terrible to we should ban them in legal ways. I don't know. I worked for a company for a while and was in some meetings that felt downright devious because those meetings were all about how do we make it hard for people to cancel our service. And it was a web service. This is like 2004 or 2005, so it was early. But it was still this feeling of like we're going to make it really easy for them to sign up and almost impossible for them to figure out how to get out of here. And worst case is they'll have to email us finally and then we'll be forced to get them out. But then we'll still ask them questions. So this thinking, I think, is still pervasive and obviously it exists in big, huge companies like Amazon all the way down to smaller services and sites. In terms of the question, though, should it be illegal? I'm kind of tempted. If you'd asked me 10 years ago, I said, no, it's fine. We're all adults here. We can figure it out. I'm starting to think maybe there ought to be, at the very least, some regulations that people have to adhere to where they get fined. And I guess that would bring in legal status. So yeah, I'm going to answer the question, yes.  There's no money involved.  Fine, whatever.  I know what Prime 2 is. I've been an Amazon Prime member for, I can't even tell you how long it's been. Not since the beginning of Amazon, certainly, but we're going on a decade. The price has crawled up over the years. It's $140 a year. It used to be $99. And each time it goes up, $10 or so, I go, well, but it makes sense to me because I use Prime a lot and over the course of any given year, I am saving money. But if I didn't use Amazon the way that I do use it, then that could be a little much, especially if I was like, you know, I'm not using it. And so this doesn't make sense for me. I'm going to go ahead and cancel. Now, I've never tried to cancel Prime since I signed up for it. So I'm not a great person to ask about how hard this is. However, there are definitely times where I'm going to buy a product and I'm seeing like, here's the, you know, here's the Prime button to get it, you know, when two days shipping or that sort of thing, you know, where here's the, you know, the Prime way to get it in fewer boxes, you know, save the planet while you're doing this type thing. Or here's another option to do it another way. Now, as a non Prime subscriber, if you're seeing all those same options and you're kind of like, I really just need toilet paper, you know, whatever it is, I can see where this could be confusing. I don't think Amazon is going out of their way to be like, Hey, here are the differences between your account that is non Prime and a Prime account, which could benefit you going forward. So that's I think where, you know, a lot of this stuff comes in. Stokes world just said in our chat room, I'm not one to defend Amazon, but when I canceled Prime, it was easy. So I think that it's a it's bad policy to try to define a business practice in a law. So trying to define dark patterns in a way that people won't be able to get around them sounds like a recipe for ineffective legislation. What I support is something that they've done in Europe. I believe they've done it in the UK may or may not have become an actual law, but I know it was it was in the draft, which is if you sign up for a thing away, you have to provide cancellation in the same way. So if it's one click to sign up for the thing, it should be one click to get rid of it. For example, in Europe, they required Amazon to make Prime cancelable in two clicks. If I call to to subscribe, I should call to unsubscribe. But if I sign up online, I shouldn't have to call to unsubscribe. And again, Amazon isn't making you call. They're not going that far. But that's where I would go with the rules and the laws. When you start trying to say like, well, your dark pattern is too confusing. It becomes a fight over like, well, but what if we did two buttons and what if we did this shade of yellow? And I'm not sure that that's the most effective way to. There's a there's a lot I can do in two clicks to I was just thinking about my exit from Adobe. I finally am not paying for any Adobe services after years and years and years of doing it. And they really just gave me one page when I said, I want to cancel. And the page said, hey, stick around. We'll give you this deal for so many months. You want to do that? And that was on the same page as it's saying, no, I'm still canceling and I can hit that button right below it. I don't mind that, right? I don't feel like I'm being misdirected. I don't feel like I'm being tricked. Of course, the company wants to retain your sir. Yeah, sure. And they probably they probably have numbers there that say this many people have been retained because we did you know how long I kept paying for Acrobat for this exact reason where I was like, oh, well, that was good. Thank you for the kickback. I guess I'll stick around for another four months. Sure. Sure. I don't want to take that away from anybody who's sort of like dark patterns. I don't know. Have I ever seen something like this anytime you get an email and it's like, oh, I don't want this. I want to unsubscribe. Sometimes that's pretty easy to see. Sometimes it's like in a weird font where it's barely legible where it seems to not appear at all. You know, it's all sort of the same thing. It's a company saying, OK, we're providing the service, but we don't want you to do it. So we're going to look for an uns, yeah, look for an unsubscribe in an email that that'll help you understand dark patterns. So at least the first step. Well, what do we got next, Sarah? Well, Tom, I'm glad you asked. Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson announced that the company will restructure its studios as far as naming goes anyway, starting an effort to empower our creative team. So this includes splitting up EA Sports and EA Games into separate units with the latter EA Games renamed to EA Entertainment. This will see COO, Chief Operating Officer Laura Meal, as President of EA Entertainment and Cam Weber, remaining the head of EA Sports. Now, Scott, EA renaming Games to Entertainment sort of sounds like EA's got plans to expand. Where do you think that might go? Well, it's an interesting question, right? I have my own feelings about why sports should be separate and maybe should have been separate for years, given the business that that represents because it's a very complicated, licensed based thing. And you're always negotiating for a better deal from the NFL for this year. And are we going to continue getting the Madden license or not and all this sort of stuff? Aside from that, though, maybe this is an opportunity for them on the quote unquote now Games, or what was Game Side now Entertainment side to do more with their IPs. They have a number of them that are popular and that have been around for a long time, Mass Effect, Dead Space. The list goes on and they also do some Star Wars games. They no longer have exclusivity on that. But maybe this is a chance for them to say we want to make a deal with Hulu and make a Dead Space series. It'll be a horror anthology series and we're really excited about it. It'll be part of our EA Entertainment brand. Games will still come out of there, but they'll be closely associated with these other projects. Like the way I'm saying it is the kind of spin I could expect. And I don't mean that to say that it's just spin. It very well could be a great way for them to branch out. But they haven't really done any of this up till now. There hasn't been any way that you see from other IP holders. You see more of this sort of stuff from Konami and Riot Games with their recent success with Arcane and various others. The new Mario movies, an example of a big one from Nintendo after being kind of quiet on that front for a while. So I do think there's a desire from gaming juggernauts out there, EA being one of them, whether we like it or not, who want to do more of this and end up with more hands and more cookie jars. And those cookie jars are other kinds and forms of entertainment. But they're not necessarily suited to do internally, by the way. They're not going to make their own Dead Space television show. They will likely sub that out like Nintendo did with Imagine Entertainment or like Konami did with Castlevania and whoever they worked with. They don't do these things internally, but they do a lot more of this now. And I think this is an opportunity for them to do that. Hold on, Scott. I'm on the phone with five year ago Scott Johnson who's telling me, well, Netflix isn't going to make games. They're just going to license their properties to games. Oh, I remember that, Scott Johnson. Do you think there's a possibility that, yes, not today? No. They're absolutely not going to make TV shows. They're just laying the groundwork of like, well, future streaming. Maybe we need to keep that door open entirely possible, I suppose. The problem with doing your own homegrown entertainment, you know, like Blizzard Entertainment is known for having the best internal animation cinematic studio in the business. Like there's no question. And most other companies, they sub out the stuff to companies that are suited more to that full time. But Blizzard has their own. So they kind of farm their own stuff internally. They've never turned around and made a television show out of it or even a one-off film out of it. It's all aimed toward the games. So I'm not saying they're not doing that because it's hard. I just think they're not doing it because it's a separate business. And so this could be them saying, well, by branching out this way, now we have a separate business kind of. The problem is they're not splitting games from that. This isn't a whole new third leg. This is still part of the second leg. Sports being part of the first leg. So, so it doesn't sound like that's what they're ready to do.  And secondly, he's, he might be wrong about this. Who knows? Yeah. He said quit eating the fat food. All right. Too late. Wait, I didn't change immediately. So it must not work. It didn't work. That was, that was a bad reception. All right, folks, we have fewer than 400 patrons to go to until we're at 399. We can do it. We want to have 4,000 paid patrons by next Thursday. You can help us make that happen. And if we get there, Molly Wood has committed to being on the show the next day, June 30th, and once a month on Friday from then on. So help us make Molly Fridays happen. Patreon.com slash D T N S. The metaverse may have arrived, but it's in Southeast Asia and it's out in the world, not in a headset. Restofworld.org reports the first example. We've got multiple examples, but the first example, Indonesia's TV one biggest broadcast channel in the country or at least one of the biggest has been using a digital reporter called Nadira based on human news anchor Fahada Indy. Indy still provides the voice, but the machine model provides the visuals and the movements as well as translations. Here's the key into British and American accent in English. So two different accents, Chinese and many local dialects of which Indonesia has many, including Javanese and Sundanese. There are two other avatars to Sasha is an imposing looking Chinese Indonesian avatar and Bumi is a curly haired eastern Indonesian. This is fascinating to me and Indonesia being where this is taking place and seems to be thriving of particular interest because a lot of people live in Indonesia, series of islands, lots of different dialects. And the idea that a, I don't know how popular Fahada Indy is, but let's just say pretty popular, right? News anchor, people like her, people like her voice, people like her to give the news. Not everybody in Indonesia is going to want the news or be able to even absorb the news translated in one way. A human trying to figure out how to deliver news with a population of folks who are in the hundreds of dialects, that would be an impossible task. So you'd have to leave a lot of people out for this to be able to reach more people. And as far as I know, this is something that Indonesia has been experimenting with in a variety of ways. Airports, for example, certain banks, that kind of thing. That makes a lot of sense and it doesn't. This is a situation where I can't possibly say, well, you're putting people out of jobs. In a way, you're being able to keep somebody in a job to be able to reach more folks. Yeah, it's interesting that this is in Indonesia, isn't it? The immigration office at the airport, as you just mentioned, has four virtual spokespeople.  Why so popular in Indonesia in particular? I know Indonesia is a center of tech startups and tech life and they've tried to position themselves as a great place for companies to pivot to as they start to try to find new areas of the world to diversify supply chains and that. Maybe that's why? Because there's just a culture of trying things? I don't know. It feels like this is where this stuff will often start as we move forward into these metaverse-like things or AI-driven things. And the reason I think that is mainly I'm criticizing ourselves. I think we're a little hesitant to do this. I think we're hesitant to see an avatar on the nightly news. When you say we, you mean the US? Americans. I'd say the Americans. I think there's some truth to that. We look at some avatar on the nightly news telling us what's going on or what we should be hearing about or thinking. And I think we block at that. And I think that can change, like a lot of things have. But I don't think it's going to come within. We're going to get super stoked here in pockets about it. We're going to get really excited about what it could mean, but as a mainstream acceptable method of disseminating news in multiple accents, markets, languages, I think we're going to be slow to embrace it the way that other markets could. And by them embracing it, I think that will help us get around to it. I hate that we're slow with this stuff because actually I'm kind of a fan of this aspect of the metaverse. I think it's cool. Respectfully, US isn't the only market. Why isn't this happening in Europe? Why isn't it happening in India? Why isn't it happening in South Korea, Japan? Same problem to some degree, right? Like there were all a little slow to do it. I would even argue Indonesia is just slow to do it. They're just going to be the first one. They're going to be the least slow to do it. Maybe. I don't know that it will catch on like wildfire either. And it may take time to suss out what people actually really want. Personally, I'm stoked about it. I think about a game like Mass Effect where I walk into a space and a holographic robot lady tells me everything I need to know. And I tell her where I need to go and what I need to do. There's interactivity there and more beyond just consuming what she's saying, I can ask questions and get all I need. I'm for this future. I'm stoked about it. I am too. I know a lot of people want to sit down and watch, you know, NBC Nightly News with a fake dude yet. Yeah, but at the same time. Okay. So I was thinking about this earlier. It's like, okay. So let's say I call my bank and I've got to go through some phone tree thing, right? You know, I live in California. So there's, you know, a lot of Spanish that's spoken in California as well as English.  So it's like, there's, I'm used to this in some respects. But yes, if I'm watching my Nightly News, you know, and Tom Broca is telling me what's going on. And I'm like, yeah, well, I don't speak English. So I would like Tom Broca, you know, trusted name of news to be able to speak to me in a way that feels a little bit more seamless, a little bit more like I'm being heard. I'm being reached. I think that is an awesome thing. Now I know where the US is, you know, where we can be pretty insular about a lot of things, you know, and I live here. So, you know, I feel like I can say that only speaking for myself, but, you know, some of you as well. But yeah, a country like Indonesia I think is so much more of a melting pot of culture, of language, of, you know, you are pretty close to going to lots of other countries, just geographically. You know, the official language, which is based on Malay, I was reading up about this this morning because it's very fascinating, is actually not the most spoken language, just the official language. So when you have all that stuff, plus a country of, you know, 200 plus million people in a relatively small space, I think it's fascinating that this is happening and it's also working. And that makes me think that India would be the next on the docket for something like this, right? Because same thing, huge population with a large number of languages. And you know what? If you're in the audience in India right now and you're like, oh no, we already have it, please. Send us an email. Feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com. Well, I don't know how hungry everybody is after this conversation about the Metaverse being a real thing, but I am. So I would like to let you know that you can drop a pin and get a pizza. That is, if you like Domino's Pizza because the company announced pin point delivery. This is designed to be able to get a pizza delivered to a specific location but not necessarily a specific address. You might not be home. You might be at the beach. Maybe you're having a picnic in the park. Or on a street corner. I don't care. You might just want to eat some pizza. So Domino's is using Google Maps in its mobile app, its own mobile app to receive your order. You drop a pin. Then you can trap your driver and also track your driver's GPS location.  Now if you're saying this is magical, there are some restrictions. You can't like have the driver wade out into the ocean and give you a pizza type of thing. Hey, get a speedboat driver. Come on.  And then you only have four minutes to meet them. So if you're giving them, you know, a little bit of a curveball, just know that it might not work out. But hey, if you want to play, pizza is pizza. We are preparing for a trip in the end of August beginning of September. And we've been watching these videos about the Han River in Seoul. One of the things that is normal there is to get delivery.  And there's a space dedicated for delivery people that you have to go meet. This turns that into anywhere in the world, well, anywhere Domino's is operating, I guess, for pizza. It doesn't have to be a specific area that is organized. You can just have your pizza at whatever park, beach, wherever you are. I think that's pretty cool. Yeah, and Domino's is quick to say and it's announcement. It's like, listen, if you're backpacking in some back country area that Domino's would never deliver to, don't expect somebody to magically find you. They're not going to drop it. Parachute down. It's not going to happen. They're like, well, I'm at home, but I'm not at a friend's house either. We're kind of in transit and wouldn't that be fun? This is another option. That's what the, you know, that's what the drones are for. Eventually the drone delivered pizza will be able to use this to go anywhere. We're just not there yet. Exactly. All right, let's check out the mailbag. Let's do it. We got some really good feedback on our Fediverse conversation today. The Fed is joining the Fediverse is in a big way and stays there long enough to have some traction. If they then decide to block some other mastodon operators, though, they have outsize impact in terms of the number of users that removes them from the site and because of human inertia, that means that most of those users won't quickly switch over. Doug says open systems are good. What are better are open systems in terms of size and impact. Katie wrote in with a somewhat similar sentiment. She wrote into our Patreon saying, I think my main concern with Meta and the Fediverse is that the Fediverse was someplace that a lot of marginalized people sought out to be a safe haven from places like Twitter and Facebook. The other concern I have is the ability of a company like Meta to have a greater influence on protocols like ActivityPub to change them to be more Facebook Meta friendly. These are both great points. What I would say to Doug and Katie is the hope is that the open protocol is designed to prevent the abuses that Doug and Katie are worried about. Katie's point about Meta getting influence over the ActivityPub protocol is another spin on that. But again, if you have a properly functioning, properly governed set of rules for ActivityPub, they shouldn't be able to have undue influence for them. All these concerns are totally valid though. And thanks to Katie and Doug for sharing them with us. Tom, aka Kedgie Kemper wanted to follow up on our GDI discussion about Samsung's forthcoming 49-inch Odyssey monitor and linked us to an article from How2Geek called Your Gaming Monitor Might Be Too Big. Scott, this How2Geek article says that issues like lower pixel density and a large monitor strained reactions because it's so big, ergonomic stress, hidden costs contribute to diminishing returns as screen size increases. For optimum gameplay comfort and budget balance, smaller monitors often prove more beneficial. Says How2Geek. I 100% agree with this. I had an experience that I will now share with you, which is this. I thought it would be cool to have a 46-inch 4K television as a computer monitor. I thought that would be the coolest way to play. I could play in 4K, HDR, all the fancy bells and whistles and do it right for my computer. Here's what happened. I would miss all kinds of special peripheral UI elements. It would be like I'm going to where is that supposed to be? I don't see it. Well, way over here, if I had just stood back and looked up to the left, I would have seen the tiny corner up here where some very valuable UI information is telling me exactly what I need and where I need to go. It became a problem. I actually noticed it a lot where I was just forgetting to look at the rest of it. I became very, not tunnel vision, but very narrow focused on what was right in front of me depending on the game. It really threw me. I went back to a 32 and it solved it. My wife got a television in the bedroom so now that's there. But it solved the problem. I don't have this problem anymore. I'm pretty sure that if I even went smaller, I'd benefit more. 27 feels like the happy place for most gamers. But we do have this thing going where they get cheaper, they get bigger and we all think we want bigger all the time. I think there's an upper limit on that with Gaming Monitor so I completely agree about this. This article is correct as far as I'm concerned. 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What kind of doctors should I be? All right guys, what is going on? Luxury from the MD journey helping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress. This video, we're going to talk about that question that everybody asks all the time, which is, I want to become a physician. I'm in med school, but I have no idea what kind of physician I want to be. How do I decide? What do I do? What tips do you have? So I'm going to give you my tips. A few of them are going to be things to help you decide and kind of figure out what is best for you. A few things are going to be tips on how to get more exposure as well as things to consider, especially if you're deciding between a lot of different things. So try not to keep this video long, but I have a lot of tips for you guys. Tip number one, which is, it is okay to not know very early. Actually, it's okay not to even know pretty far down the line. I have, I'm applying to residency right now, I'm making this video and I have friends that literally switched their minds within a month or two months before residency applications are about to be submitted. So it tells you that you can consider taking more information in and make your decision accordingly. This is your life career. So it is okay to say, I don't need to make a commitment from the very start. There are a few specialties that I'll talk about that are competitive. And so they require a little bit of grunt work that you do from an early point. So research, getting exposure with faculty, and I'll tell you kind of how to approach that. But just remember the idea that if you're deciding between many things or a lot of things on your rotations or classes seem interesting, that's okay. You're, you're, you're going to be like me too, where I'm like, well, this seems cool and that seems cool. And I'm considering this and then you'll do another rotation by, okay, I'm considering that. And it all comes back to you and you give yourself time to think. So wrap up this tip. It's okay to not decide early. What I will say is to continue to reflect on how you look at each specialty, because, and this goes to tip two, which is you will realize it because you will find your people. And when I got this tip, as a first, you know, first to second year med student, I really don't know what that meant. They've always talked about finding your people. But you know, who are my people? I don't even know, you know, myself well enough. Instead, I'm now supposed to be evaluating other people and seeing if I'll get along with them. But it is true. You will find personalities that will rub you the wrong way. And you'll find people that think about medicine, that think about patient care much differently than you will. And maybe those won't be the specialties for you because their pace may be much different. You may enjoy a fast pace and you're on a rotation when it's very slow. And you'll realize, okay, this is not for me. And the people here enjoy the slow pace and I'm not one of them. Or you may be on something where the treatment is not definite or the treatment is definite. And that's important to you. And you're going to realize that and you're going to gravitate towards people who enjoy having a solution and fixing it in a very specific way, or people that are willing to tinker with things, especially when they realize that it is not a perfect solution. So for example, a specialty like physical medicine and rehab often deals with patients who are quite injured from things like strokes and things like multiple sclerosis, bad traumas. And so a PM&R's job is to help them recover. But if you ask the doc, they aren't always focused on bringing them back to 100%. Sometimes it's just meeting the goals of the patient. What does the patient want to do? Maybe the patient just wants to be able to use a restroom without having a family member help them. And so helping the patient with that goal. But as a student, you may not be interested in working in a field where you're not able to help the patient 100% of the time or get them back to full health. That's something that you have to deal with, understand what patient population you work with. But you'll find that even within these little categories, other people just like you with preferences, just like you will also gravitate towards the field.  And so you'll find your people to look for people that you get along with when you're on your rotation, seeing if you get along with your residents and attendings, or if they seem like they're totally different personalities than you. So keep an eye out for that. So tip number three is understand that if you're considering a competitive specialty, and this was me when I was applying or considering between a competitive specialty and a not so competitive specialty, is act like you're going to go into the competitive specialty. So what are competitive specialties? So that includes a lot of your surgery rotations or surgery specialties.  And so those are specialties that people enjoy because they have very limited spots, they are very high paying. And so and some of them do have a very beneficial lifestyle component to them. And for various reasons that a lot of people applied to them, obviously. And so they are competitive. But they also things like plastic surgery, things like radiation oncology, do require you to kind of have a foot in the door early on so that way you can get exposure.  That's one of the fields where they expect you to have research in the field. And so you don't apply to residency without any research and plastic surgery or dermatology, things of those sort. So my tip, and this is something I learned when I was a first year medical students, if you're considering between a competitive specialty, or if you're considering a competitive specialty, make sure that you just act like you're applying to it. And so set yourself up nicely, contact the faculty, get some research experience, get some shadowing experience. And even if you decide against it, your application is going to look very impressive. I'm going to give you my own experience. I considered going into oncology, and this still is something that I have as a potential future goal. So I looked into the field of radiation oncology. And for various reasons, I chose to not do the field mainly for geographic flexibility and knowing where my family and my significant others wanted to end up in the next few years. But, and I found a field that I'm perfectly happy with internal medicine I'm thrilled to go into. But I applied as if I kind of approached my application originally during my first few years, as if I was going into radonk. And so I did a lot of research and oncology that can definitely carry over and help me in the future if I choose to do chemok. But I have a lot of research and experience, I have a lot of publications. And you get an application that looks a little bit more filled with experiences that are that can, you know, positively looked, can be looked upon very positively, because you're, you're going towards the competitiveness, even if you choose not to do it, those applications or those extracurriculars and those experiences still stand. And so those are definitely things you can continue to talk about. Versus if you flip it around, you know, if I chose to apply to internal medicine, maybe my desire or urgency of doing research and getting faculty exposure may not have been as high, because it may not have been a specialty that considered research as high as a field like radiation oncology. So because I set myself up for a competitive specialty, and I may change my mind to, because I found something else that I loved, I still have those experiences.  So that really helps your application will look a lot more impressive too. So a few things to consider in terms of what fields you want to choose is one, consider how long it takes to become that physician. So especially if you're an older applicant, this is pretty important. If you want to become a neurosurgeon, but you also want to become maybe a family medicine doc, those are pretty different. And so you'll have some unique reasons why you want to do one versus the other. One takes seven years and one takes three. So understanding that there's a lot of time to go into something and residency and fellowship. And those can add times before you officially become attending and are able to do that independently. So timing is one competitiveness. We also talked about so understand what grades you need, what step one grade you need, what GPA things of that sort. And then go into other things about competitiveness to geographic. If you really want to end up in Boston, there are plenty of great schools in Boston.  So even if your specialty isn't the most competitive, those areas are. And especially if you want to go in those areas and the competitive specialty, you're just fighting against a bigger hurdle. That's not to say that you're not going to get it, but just understand that from the start that just motivates you to work harder. So you're able to have a better result in case that's where you decide. You don't have to know where you want to go to residency now, but just understand that if you wanted to be on the West Coast and you wanted to be in California, if you want to be in New York or Boston, things of those cities that are pretty popular for people to end up in that you set yourself up to work hard now in case you choose to go in those decisions. And then finally, something that, you know, I don't want to brush over because it is something that more and more people consider is considered the lifestyle of the specialty. Now, I don't like to mention the monetary conversations of a job because I don't feel like you should ever consider a specialty just for the money that it makes. And so that is part of the lifestyle. But the other things that are more important in lifestyle are how much time do you want to be in the hospital? How much time do you want to be at clinic? Do you want to have some free time with your family?  And that's going to be a good exposure. If you're unsure, make sure you ask them like, what is your day look like? What is your month look like? How much are you able to see your loved ones? How much are you able to do other hobbies outside of medicine? If that is important to you, if you love the OR, and you really don't care about other stuff out, that's totally fine. If you love, there's people that are huge fans of ICU and they're really big interventionist and they love being in the hospital. And so that's really important to them. So that the lifestyle aspect isn't that important to them. And that's, there's nothing wrong with that. There are people that are family, you know, your, their parents are already going into medical school or they're about to start a family. And that is something you, you should consider. So look at the lifestyle of things and ask the people in the field how happy they are in the specialty of their choice and saying, if you are okay with the sacrifices that they're making, because everybody makes a sacrifice regardless of what specialty you're in. So consider lifestyle, not for the monetary, but just for your ability to live the life that you think you want to and ask the people that are currently living it right now. So the last two things that I'll give you in this video are basically how to understand a little bit more of what specialty you want to do. So the first thing in this tip is given also all the time. So the first thing in this tip is given all the time is make sure you're shadowing in medical school, especially as a pre-med in medical school, and recommend trying to do at least one shadowing experience a month. If you're interested in going into emergency medicine, but you're also interested in maybe doing trauma surgery. Those are kind of similar, but you know, there are distinctions. Make sure at least once a month you're going into the EDD, following people around, make sure another month you're getting some exposure with a trauma surgeon. And then every month, try to find an experience that can be within the fields you're interested in. Or if you hear about a feeling you know nothing about, if you've never heard about PMR, it's a fantastic field and people often don't hear about it early enough. Radiation oncology is another example too. You can at least sign up for an experience, reach out to a faculty, ask them and try to book something once a month on a day that you're, you know that you're going to be free. That's my goal, especially during your first and two years. When you think you're busy, you are busy, but you have time to dedicate maybe, you know, three to four hours on a day that's not too hectic, because you're going to be able to make a decision much easier and kind of head in a direction towards research to other shadowing experiences because you found a cool mentor that you shadowed. So try to get once a month is my tip. It's not just do shadowing. That's what I'll tell you is do at least once a month. And then the second thing you can do is do the careers in medicine quiz. So I'll link it down below, but there's great quiz has like 120 questions, I believe, but I asked you about different things that you should or you have to consider when you're applying to medicine. Do you like working with your hands? Do you like working with long-term chronic diseases? Do you like just fixing things or do you, are you okay with kind of being creative on a treatment plan and working over time? Those require different types of specialties. They require different personalities. There are certain answers where I said absolutely not. I'm not interested enough. There are certain answers like, yep, that's, that's me. So take the quiz. I'll put it down below. I do think you may need a membership to the site, but in case you don't, then, you know, I'll put the link down below and you may be able to get one through your school, but it's a fantastic quiz. If the quiz that I linked down below doesn't work, you know, just Google, what kind of doctor should I be quiz and you'll find something which will ask you different personality questions and points you in a direction based off of what things you are interested in. So hopefully this video was helpful and I gave you a little bit of insight on how to consider things, how to approach getting a motor exposure, as well as how to make decisions when you have multiple options that you may be considering. And then I'll kind of wrap it up that if you are a pre-med and you want more insight on deciding what kind of position to be in a medical school and the first place is right for you, then I'll link down below to my pre-med course called the pre-med blueprint, which is my attempt to help all the pre-meds on not only how to study, how to manage your time, but also how to set yourself up for a grade application. That way when the medical school application comes across, you're not stressed. You know you're going to get in somewhere, you're going to feel confident that your extracurriculars, your grades, and whatnot are set up nicely. So if you want to check out the course, plenty of great reviews at the course, I'll link that down below too. But if you enjoyed this video, give it a like, subscribe to the channel, obviously comment down below with anything you've learned or questions you have. 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