and welcome to Lillian's Vegan World. I'm your host, Lillian Cumick with Think Tech Hawaii. Today's show is Animal Activism in Hawaii 2021, creating awareness of animal exploitation. I would love to introduce my guest on the show today, co-founder of the Animal Rights Activist Organization, pardon me, Animal Rights Initiative, Amanda Fox. Welcome to the show. Hi, thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure, Amanda, so grateful for you to come on the show. And I do want to say personally, thank you for everything that you do. Thank you so much. Thank you. It means a lot to me. Amanda, tell us about your organization, Animal Rights Initiative. Tell us what it's about. Well, it's just about how we can possibly get these animals protected, how we can stop them from being exploited and anything that we can do in the meantime to sort of protest or pass legislature or introduce new foods to bystanders on the street. Anything we can do that will be effective in helping raise awareness for the plight of these animals. That's what we're doing at Animal Rights Initiative. Amazing. When you mentioned these animals, are you talking about cats and dogs? No, I'm talking about all animals. We're not a species specific. It's any animal that's being exploited. We believe that all animals are equal. We can see with their own eyes that cats and dogs can feel pain and it's the same for all of them. They're, yeah, it's the same for all of them. So we're fighting for all of them, especially animals in the animal like that are being farmed for food or farmed for clothing. Yeah, the reason I asked that question, Amanda, is because I think people are so out of touch with animals that somehow it always comes down to like the domesticated cats and dogs that people care about. And for some reason, humans have found a way to kind of just accept or be able to just let really bad things happen to animals that are not cats or dogs and not even, you know, add an eye over it. That's why I asked. So we're in agreement that all animals, whether it's the sheep, a cow, a pig, a chicken, all animals are sentient beings. Is that correct? They feel love. They can also feel pain. They can feel cruelness, torture, all of the above. Yeah, love, fear, like you said, they love their babies. They don't want to be separated. They don't want to be scared. They feel all the same things that we are capable of feeling. It's wrong to deny that that's happening just because we have the ability to own cats and dogs in our own homes, but the pigs and cows and fish are being exploited in farms outside of our vision, you know? Like that's just because it's happening behind closed doors doesn't mean that it's okay and anybody can see that the animals feel pain. The animals feel joy. The animals want to be free. Okay, Amanda, I came across a very interesting article online. It's from theworldanimalfoundation.com and it goes through the 12 steps to become an animal advocate. It does say, quote, the best way to persuade others to adopt humane and responsible lifestyles is to set a good example. So can you quickly go through a few things that we can do like as a daily practice that will help animals in the future without having to actually be part of a demonstration or a protest? Yeah, great. And the easiest thing that we can do to help animals is to just live a vegan lifestyle or eat a plant-based diet. We can save or spare 200 animals a year just with our diet. And that's incredible. And when you really think about the extension of veganism and abolishing all animal exploitation, we're sparing animals in rodeos, sparing animals in circuses, aquariums, anything that animals could have been exploited in for their fur or for their skin, like anything. We're sparing thousands of animals when you think about that. And yeah, I would just start with eating a plant-based diet as fast as possible for most. Yeah, that's excellent advice. Are you vegan? Are you on a plant-based diet? Yeah, I've been vegan for about 12 years now. I'm actually curious. Are there any volunteers at your animal rights initiative that help with the demonstrations? Are there any that are actually not vegan? You know, we have had volunteers come that weren't vegan yet, but that didn't last very long. Once they were exposed to what we were protesting for and they saw why we were so passionate about stopping the enslavement of these animals, stopping the torture of these animals, they too were compelled to go vegan and not let this happen. We can't pay for this to happen. They were, yeah. Well, that's good to know. So for any of the viewers who are watching this show who are actually not living on a plant-based diet, you are welcome to help out at the demonstrations, if you like. Is that something that you would welcome? Oh yeah, of course. Any person that wants to help come hold a sign or write an email to their legislature or anything. We want your help. We're not judging anybody. Yeah, the animals need our help and they need us to be working together. Okay, Amanda, take us through what volunteers would do at your initiative with your organization in terms of animal activism. Sure. Well, there's a lot of different types of demonstrations that we do. So some types are just street activism where we go down to a public area and show footage like hidden surveillance footage of what's happening inside these farms. And a volunteer could just hold the screens or they can just hold the signs and let the other outreachers be speaking to the public about this or they can help us prep the tables. They can help us prep the screens. If they're not doing a street outreach event, we also do food sampling events where they can help pass out food samples or they can gather supplies and in other events that we do, we have done like protests just outside of any stores. There's a lot of ways to be involved in these demos where they're not directly outreaching to by-senders which is what causes people the most fear. You know, they can feel relaxed at these demos and know that they're supporting the demonstration that we really need the people to be holding the signs. We really need this presence. We really need this visibility. Just being there, just watching the footage is creating visibility for other people that are saying like, hey, what's going on there? Hey, why are they protesting for animal rights? Why are those animals being abused? There's people that think that's wrong and maybe I'm a person like that too. Okay, if they aren't coming to the Otis type of demonstrations, we also do legislative work where we need people's help to contact our legislators, contact our policymakers. That's something everyone can do from home. We have templates that can be sent out and anything like that can be performed. I actually sign petitions every day. I belong to PETA, P-E-T-A. You can go to their website and if you become a member, it doesn't cost anything. Becoming a member just means that they're going to email you and ask you to sign petitions that you just email out. They actually do all the work for you. They even write the messages which you can tweak anytime and I tweak them just to make them a bit more kind of relative to Hawaii. But I often get responses from Senator Shotze's office acknowledging that they have received emails. I'm sure they know my name by now because I do this literally every day and I know a lot of people that do. So that is one thing I can say to the viewers if you genuinely want to help animals, they clearly need help. Please do start, you know, it's actually what Amanda said, start signing petitions, start reaching out to your government, to your local community and do what you can for the animals. I mean, something's got to change in this world. Quite frankly, we can't keep doing this and expect just not aligning with our morals and the compassion and love that we're born with because it's human nature to love animals. We've just somehow taken a really wrong turn and allow this to go on. So again, amazing what you do. Amanda, let's take a look at some of the slides that you've provided for us. Let's see the first one. Tell us a little bit about this. Great, so that's an image of a food sampling event that we did where we were putting out free samples of different types of vegan chicken and vegan pork. So we generally in those events we'll sample a couple of different brands of like a chicken nugget or like different samples of milks like we've done a ton of different milks. And obviously the demos are really popular because we are just all really excited and we're like, hey, it's free food, just come try it. And the bystanders have never tried this before and they're always so surprised how good it is. That type of sampling is just miraculous because every single person is like, wow, I had no idea that I could still be having the same taste living my same life, but just with a vegan alternative that they sell at the same grocery store. We can get pizza and chicken nuggets at the same grocery store that we're already going to. We just need to go into a different aisle. That's it, it's brilliant. I love that. I really do love that idea of handing out, plant-based food. So most of the people in Waikiki, are they tourists that approach you during these food samplings or the demonstrations or are they locals? It depends on the night. Like a lot of times they're mostly tourists. Most of the time people are from other places in the States, but right now because of COVID there's not as many tourists because tourism has kind of cut off from a couple of areas of the world. So I would say half are local people and half are people traveling. I wanna get back to some of the footage, the video footage that you show people on the streets during the outreach program that you do. What is the initial reaction people have when they see the footage I'm gathering is footage of slaughterhouses or what kind of footage are you actually showing? Sure, well in this type of demonstration that we're speaking about where we would be showing hidden surveillance camera footage, it's footage that an undercover worker would have had to go into the farm and place or wear the camera. So it's not sensationalized footage. It's just what's happening in the farms and the bystanders walking by, they don't like it. They are shocked, they are sad, they're horrified that this is what's happening, they feel lied to, yeah, they're appalled. Everyone is appalled. And I can say that no one sees the footage of the animals being killed and feels hungry. Well, you know what they say, Amanda, sometimes the truth hurts and sometimes the truth shall set you free. We are what we are talking about animal activism in Hawaii 2021, creating awareness of animal exploitation. We are going to take a very short break and be back with more on animal exploitation with Amanda Fox, stay tuned. Aloha, I'm Dan Leif. I go by fig because I was an Air Force fighter pilot for 33 years and you have to have a nickname. I get to host, I'm Think Tech Hawaii, two shows, figments, the power of imagination and figments on reality. The power of imagination introduces you to some of my incredible friends and their life experiences, astronauts, war heroes, Hollywood writers, you name it, they're on it and you'll be inspired and entertained. And on reality, I'll give you something hard to find, non-political commentary on today's events. That's right, non-political because the vitriol doesn't help folks. So figments, power of imagination, figments, I'm reality, both on Think Tech Hawaii. Welcome back to Lillian's Vegan World. I'm your host, Lillian Cumick. And today's show is animal activism in Hawaii 2021, creating awareness of animal exploitation. I am a vegan chef, cooking instructor and cookbook author. I published my first book, Hawaii, a Vegan Paradise last year, 2020 in November. And I'm so excited to tell you about my second book, Tasting Hawaii Vegan Style. This book has over 120 vegan recipes, all plant-based and all gluten-free. So it should be hitting stores early December. You can also order the book directly from Mutual Publishing, which is a local publishing house. So you will be supporting local when you purchase this book. I'd like to welcome back my guest, Amanda Fox to the show. Welcome back, Amanda. Amanda. Great, thank you. Amanda, let's get right back into it. We're talking about your animal rights initiative. You are the co-founder and you have some upcoming events. Amanda, how, first of all, how can people get in touch with you if they want to volunteer for your organization? If they want to volunteer, we have a Facebook group. So there's a Facebook page, the Animal Rights Initiative and then there's the group. There's one specifically for Oahu and then there's a main one too. So Animal Rights Initiative group and then there's Animal Rights Initiative Oahu. Do you have an email address that you would like to share? Yeah, I would love for anybody to get into contact with me if they'd like to. It's amandahenson.ari.gmail.com. Okay, awesome. So please, anyone watching the show who really wants to make a difference can start by reaching out to Amanda and doing something to help the animals. Amanda, here's a question for you. How can children be educated about animal exploitation without scaring them? Well, that's a good question. We don't need to scare them. We don't need to show them footage of the animals being hurt. Like animals being hurt is sensitive for children. They don't want to see animals being hurt. Children are the first ones to say no, that's wrong. That's wrong. They're like, why is that happening? They don't want it to happen. They don't need as many details. They don't need as many facts because children are more connected to their heart already. Like as we grow older, we become desensitized. We have our own biases. We have our own opinions that we formulated around these diets because we're seeing them as just a diet.  So then they know that hurting animals is wrong. Simple as that. Okay. And what do you say to people who claim animal activists are aggressive and intrusive? Well, I would say to just watch TV for about an hour and see how many times you're advertised animal products. And I would say that that is really intrusive. That is really aggressive. Almost every single commercial is going to have animal products in it. And they're going to try to make you think that it's healthy. They're going to try to make you think that the animals were being treated fairly. And it's not true. It's marketing. So our protests or our demonstrations or just giving out free food, there's no way possible that we could be as in your face or as intrusive or aggressive as these marketing campaigns from these restaurants, from McDonald's, from anywhere, from Cheesecake Factory, anywhere that is exploiting animals, they should think about that as intrusive. That is actually a really great answer. I have never thought about that. And you're absolutely right. I like that. Amanda, let's take a look at another line of your slides. Tell us about this one. Great. This one, that's from another sampling that we did where we had a partnership with an animal sanctuary where they brought a rooster to the sampling. So we were passing out vegan chicken products and vegan turkey products and having a live rooster there that was totally safe that we didn't let anyone pet, just had there and was put away as soon as we felt like they needed to be treated very gently, but it was really helpful for the bystanders to be like, oh, this is the chicken that I don't want to hurt. You don't see these animals and instinctively think I want to hurt that animal. So it helps people confront the difference between our actions and what we want.  And seeing the live animals there is really a big wake-up call for people to think, oh, I don't want to pay for someone to hurt that animal. Absolutely, yeah. People don't get it that they are actually, whether it's directly or indirectly, they are supporting this cruelty to continue on. So yeah, it's horrendous and it's sad at the same time. But I'm so excited with where the plant-based diet is going, it's the strongest growing diet on the planet as of today. So more and more people are giving up their knives for forks, which is awesome. In my second book, I talk a lot about the plant-based diet and veganism, the vegan lifestyle. And it's such an easy thing to do. There's nothing difficult about giving up meat and fish because it's all in the mind when you think about it. My husband is not vegan, but he eats, our home is vegan. And when we go out, he eats whatever he likes.   I can see it. I can see it without him having to say anything. You're gonna feel good when you start going plant-based and you're going to feel good emotionally as well because everything starts to align. Would you say like you become more, when you become more aware of your food and when you become more mindful of what you're eating? Like things start to shift. And that's what I think people need to do. Find that place where you can look at yourself in the mirror and go, well, I did something cool today. I didn't support any of that animal cruelty because I went vegan for a day for a meal. So you can just start there. I think what you said about going plant-based is a great way to start helping animals. So I do urge anyone who's watching the show to just give up that, give up meat even if you start once a week, that's a good start. So tell us some more daily practices, daily choices that we can make that will help animals in the future. So we can definitely sign petitions, go online, reach out to the Facebook group, your Facebook group, Animal Rights Initiative, see what's going on there. What else we can go plant-based? What other practices are there? Well, it's important to remember that veganism is not just about our diet. It's about what we're raring and what we're using too. And these products that are tested on animals too, because a lot of the products that people are using, like for beauty, for house cleaning, those animals are currently being tested on animals, or those products are currently being tested on animals that don't need to be. And plenty of those products are available at regular grocery stores, at Target. Anywhere that you're going, they have a natural option too that's not tested. If you're at the store and making a choice on what to purchase and you don't know, you can just say, Clorox tested on animals in your phone and you'll find it was tested on animals. So you can go to the next brand, seventh generation, tested on animals and you'll find it wasn't tested on animals. So you can know that you can buy that product, guilt-free, that you're not funding these cruel experiments on animals, the same way that we choose our food, the same way that we would choose not to buy cashmere or not to buy a wool sweater or anything like that, because there's no way to farm these animals in such a massive way without hurting them. There's no way. There's billions of people on the planet making these purchases. We have to make conscious consumer purchases, you know? Yeah, excellent point. And that's also not hard to do.  You can just ask Siri if exactly what you said, if the brand that you have picked up when you're at the store is tested on animals, that's a great way to do it. And you can start by learning how to read labels. I love teaching people about reading labels, like becoming aware of what's in the product that you're buying, whether it's food or as you just pointed out, cosmetics. Very, very important point, Amanda. Thank you for sharing that. Let's have a look at another one of your slides. Great, this one's from a street outreach event that we did in Waikiki and the two people on the right, they are bystanders that attended our event. They saw the footage. They actually came and said hi to one of the dogs, my dog that I had brought to the event, because they instinctively loved my dog. They wanted to pet her and it gave us the opportunity to be like, hey, well, if you love this dog, let me show you this footage because the footage sometimes shows dog farming because it's happening all over the world. Even though it's not happening in the United States or not happening in Australia, it's happening. And they were instantly like, oh, made the connection. And they came back the next week to tell us that they had been vegan for a whole week and that they had planned to continue it. And then it wasn't as hard as they thought but they felt much better about aligning their actions with their morals. Because like you said, we're lying to ourselves if we're saying we care about animals or just don't want them to suffer but we're paying for them to suffer. So that's one of my favorite slides actually. That's awesome. That's so awesome that these bystanders came over and took that leap of faith and opened up their mind before a moment. And then went vegan for a week. Hopefully they still are practising that what they said that they enjoyed. Amanda, let's have a look at another one of your slides. Okay, this one's from a dairy event that my group protested at. We disrupted their event. It was an ice cream festival. It was a dairy ice cream festival. And so we all had our signs and we walked through we walked through and let everybody know there that the animals that made the milk that they were eating were tortured. Their babies were killed. We had the farmers had to kill the baby calves in order for those humans to have that ice cream. And it doesn't make sense because we can just have oat milk ice cream or coconut milk ice cream or soy milk or anything. Any other ice cream that doesn't involve killing already exists. So we went there with tons of activists and made it very clear that we did not think that it was okay to be celebrating this dairy ice cream festival. We did a speak out, we had speeches. It was really fun. A lot of people were really affected. They were shocked with the information that we were giving them because it had been hidden from them their whole lives thinking that these cows are just out there grazing and giving milk away freely, not being told that we're actually impregnating them forcibly and taking their babies away and hooking them up to machines where they're milked every single day. It's really painful. Amanda, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and I do wish you and your organization all the best and I support everything that you do for the animals and please to any of the viewers who are watching do reach out to Animal Rights Initiative Amanda Fox. I'm sure she'll get back to you or someone from her team can get back to you and let you know how you can help. Amanda, it's been awesome having you on the show. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. My pleasure. And to everyone else, I look forward to seeing you another time on Lillian's Vegan World. Stay safe and Aloha.


Academic dishonesty can take many forms, and I'm going to go over a few examples, but please realize that this list is not complete. Examples of cheating on an exam might include using unauthorized materials such as crib notes or electronic aids, copying from another student either with or without their cooperation, taking more time than is allowed by the instructor, and by that I mean if the instructor says pencil is down in the test, you need to immediately put your pencil down and stop working on the exam. A further example might be if you were particularly good at a particular subject agreeing to take an exam for another student. All of these things are bad. Cheating on homework can include copying work from other students without doing it yourself or allowing students to copy your work and them not doing the work themselves. Falsification of information is also a serious offense. This might include making up data in a lab exercise. It might mean making false statements of fact as if you knew something was true, but you had really made it up. Or it might be just making improper citations about the information, but the citations are either fabricated or misleading. So the dictionary definition of plagiarism is active using another person's words or ideas and presenting them as your own. To avoid plagiarism, you want to make sure that you properly cite references and that if you do make direct quotes that you encase them in quotation marks and cite them as well. You does have an online facility to assist you with these questions and not only about avoiding plagiarism, but as well as just writing skills in general. That link to that site is on the screen. Collaboration can be a sticky issue on assignments and projects. You need to make sure that you discuss this with your instructor if you have any uncertainty about what to do. In many cases, collaboration is encouraged, such as in team projects or study groups. Other cases the instructor will want you to have conducted all the work individually by yourself without any outside help. It is important for you to make sure you understand what the expectations are.


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When Republicans are in power, the so-called free press claims that they're just holding truth to power with their partisan onslaught. But when Democrats are in power, suddenly the narrative switches to spinning everything positively in favor of Democrats and mocking their critics. We're seeing an excellent example of this from the openly socialist Stephanie Ruhl who has a history of mocking Americans who want to keep their money. As you say, inflation's over 6% numbers we haven't seen in more than 30 years, so how much higher can these prices go, and when do you see them coming down? The dirty little secret here, Willie, while nobody likes to pay more, on average we have the money to do so. And while the stock market isn't the economy, you got over half of American households with some investment in the markets, and the markets have hit record highs.  The same wannabe tyrant has also mocked Americans in the past for being skeptical of socialism. But lots of people don't get into the argument. They just go, oh my gosh, socialist, I can't have that, it's going to take all my money.


I guess it's a good thing we came to Pritz mom's house overnight Cuz they were right the storm came in and apparently this is just the beginning This is mid-April in Manitoba, Canada. I want to say this isn't normal, but what what is normal? Well? What is normal? Oh? So we came in last night before any of this started I'm just gonna go or I'm just going to get the car warmed up. I got the big guys with us We got all the dogs Pritz mom's house We got to go to the ultrasound appointment The big guys are gonna come with us There's quite a bit to handle when we're not around they get a little bit anxious Plus with a snowstorm Grandma's house. They just get all excited and last time diesel ripped the curtains down Ray diesel He's back there Okay, let's go pick up Brett. I just got to bring the vehicle up to the door I've got an ultrasound The good thing this train is a tank It'll go through anything Mother nature couldn't stop us. It's actually not as bad as I thought it would be yet Blowing over the hood Winnipeg's always windy Yeah, it was just another day in Winnipeg. That's why it couldn't understand why everyone was freaking out over this blizzard Now people were panicking they were panicking buying the supermarkets were like stripped bear Yeah, I went in the other day just for a couple top-ups couple things on my list. No big deal.  I'm in line. I'm like, oh Oh Right, it's gonna snow so everyone's panicking even though that's what Manitoba does it snows Yeah, it's mountain and it's gonna be gone in three days Yeah, so most people should have three at least three days worth of food already in their house Why do you need to stock up like we're gonna be like locked down for another COVID lockdown? That's exactly what it seemed like when I was in there. I thought we were going into lockdown for a second Yeah, it was crazy, but yeah, it's Manitoba just another day There go the sirens that's how you know, you're in Winnipeg All right, I got to get up there. All right another ultrasound. Good luck today. I am triggered So that I'm triggered Not that kind of trigger not that kind of trigger. I'm not that kind of girl Yeah, hopefully Friday can be the surgery, but I guess we'll see might have stay at mom's another night or two Getting close though Have fun Crazy weather though. Hey, it just doesn't really scare me that much like it scared everybody else I really don't know why people were they were they were panicking. It really looked like we were going into another lockdown Three days of snow people three days You'll be fine If you don't have three days worth of food in your house at all times You should probably reevaluate how your grocery shopping I In my opinion in my opinion you should have at least a month's worth of food You should have a big freezer somewhere and have some frozen food in there Just be ready for a month because three days. I mean not maybe because We live out in the country. Well, we live in a small town now But I'm from the countryside and a storm like this guaranteed There's gonna be power outages outside the city guaranteed all the snow is very wet and sticky and it's gonna stick on the power lines and cause power outages So you gotta be ready for that as a country person and the grocery store is also a long ways away when you live in the country It's a it's a full afternoon event to go grocery shopping So you always have enough food in your house just in case, you know If the roads close or if you can't you know if you get snowed in or if the power goes out You got to have a generator and you know, you got to be prepared I I guess people in the city have a different lifestyle that I don't understand And they only have enough food in their house for a day or two and they always have in the back of their minds like Oh, the grocery store will be open tomorrow and it's just down the street. I'll just go get more groceries I guess it's a little bit of a different mindset when everything is so close by and convenient No, oh well to each their own If I could give my opinion, I'd say always have at least two weeks of food At least two weeks of food if you can do more do more But some people they can our house were space restricted. Where are we gonna put a big freezer? Now we got the shop. So we're gonna put a big freezer in there and we'll have some food in there just in case you know You never know This is Manitoba in Mid-April sometimes this happens That doesn't mean we like it But we must accept it That's heavy mid-April Manitoba third winter There will be another fake spring yet Sometimes we even get blizzards in May. So honestly, this is not that big of a surprise We are a little over it though at this point On our way to the pharmacy again Five more shots and then it's go time Everything's gonna happen or the big surgery is gonna happen on Saturday, right? Yep Saturday morning Really getting excited now. Can't believe we're having this much snow mid-April even from Manitoba this is This is nuts We'll probably be staying in the city again tonight. I don't think we'll be driving home in this and possibly tomorrow night I doubt there's anything going on at work today and tomorrow is probably gonna be the same thing We'll probably be shut down the rest of the week Yeah, highways are closed We have like not even a quarter mile of visibility here, and this is in the city Yeah, can't imagine how bad it would be up on the highway Yeah, better safe than sorry We've invested too much time too many emotions and way too much money into this to miss it Well, we have a follow-up After but we'll get into that later. We got a very detailed sheet But tonight I take my trigger shot Then it's go time until then we play the game. Are we in the lane? I don't know Who's to say? I don't know you guys think I'm in a way. I think I'm in a lane I mean there's some parked cars there. There's a van traveling there. It's anyone's guess really. There's a guy parked over here I don't know if he's I mean, I'm on the road. He looks like he's up against the curve. So I think Probably the right distance. I'm thinking this is probably the right lane Even the professional drivers have in trouble here. So you know it's bad Well, this terrain is like a tank. It'll go through the snow no problem. I just worry about everyone else on the road I'm just gonna go ahead and point out though that we have no venomous spiders or snakes Or giant crabs that want to break your arm in half So I mean or kangaroos that want to punch you in the throat and we have no earthquakes not very many tornadoes We have a few tornadoes no hurricanes Natural disasters no tsunamis We just got this and I'll I'll take this over like shark attacks and tidal waves Earthquakes I run on hot anyway, so I prefer the cold maybe not this Snowy and blowy though not a big fan of wind and ice. That's crazy. It's still just the beginning It's supposed to go on all day and all day tomorrow and the next day Yep, so it will be the biggest. They said it's gonna be the biggest one in decades. I guess they're right Thank goodness for my mother and the fact that she still lives in my childhood home in Winnipeg Thank you, mom. Otherwise, we would have been tough to get into they and thank you for loving our boys diesel He's just having a blast Chevy hates it We're here for our drugs My wipers are all full of snow on second here. We're gonna fix this given the old Canadian wackaroo Go with that method today. Let's just wait here boys. Okay, just wait.  I can't see down the street Look at that truck disappear into the snow over there Yeah Just down the street Right. Hey Chevy. Oh Sounded like Scooby-Doo there, bud He's a friend My mom-in-law let us stay here through the storm so we can make it to our appointment And it looks like we have a family of eight Or eighteen eighteen. We just got dogs. We don't even have kids yet Okay, he's trying to get into the room we slept in separate beds I slept in there and And Brett slept in that room there. She's just getting ready. You don't tell where she is because you just find weiner Yeah, so there's a small break in the storm right now It's supposed to be raging on for the next couple of days and that's what it looks like out there right now But it has cleared up quite a bit a little bit windy But the snow has stopped so we're gonna quickly run home before it starts up again tonight and all day tomorrow It's supposed to storm But yeah, all that snow was not there this morning or yesterday. Sorry It was all grass. It's crazy how much snow got dumped Thanks for letting us hang out here though With our whole zoo Back at home here, you can see the snow that fell is very wet and heavy And mostly melting Right away, but the whole backyard is A winter wonderland again. This was all mostly water in the center here already You can see here melting through Wow, their whole yard is like water Part of ours and where I'm walking here is pretty squishy All of this. Look at that It's just a low spot and the ground is still frozen So I still can't get into the ground If I give it a few weeks and the ground will fall And all this will disappear in a day or two Just go straight down Makes its way into the aquifers I'm sure And then it gets into our uh Drinking water eventually. I don't know how that works. I'm not a scientist But I am tired. I know that I didn't sleep the best At their house overnight The mattress house. Well, it just wasn't my mattress. It wasn't home. It wasn't my bed. I'm a home body. I like to be at home So I didn't sleep the best. I feel like I was like I pulled an all-nighter. I've been struggling to keep my eyes open all day It's nice that we were able to get home Uh during the break of the storm you can see that the snow started falling again I don't know if the camera's even picking it up It's just starting again according to uh environment canada There was going to be a bit of a break during the day today and then around suppertime today It's going to start snowing and then intensifying overnight So we're going to get another blizzard overnight And then it'll all melt in a week. I'm sure or less And by the time we have our next appointment in the city, uh, the next appointment is the egg retrieval And that's my big day too. That's when I've got to bring in uh do my part and bring in my contribution And uh, so Saturday is my big day I might have to do my hair. I don't know put on some cologne. Oh wait. No, they specifically said no fragrances in their office I don't know why there must be a medical reason for that, but I can't wear cologne. No I can shower clean myself up a little bit And then you know after that It's just a waiting game because they retrieved the eggs out of her today. They saw 11 So hopefully they can get all 11. Maybe there's some more hiding in there as well And then they'll fertilize them and in a few days Within a week less than a week. We'll know how many uh took and how many lasted and they'll be frozen And we'll be ready for uh mid to late may for the transfer I'm still awake Barely day three thousand six hundred ninety three It's been 84 years We're just practicing for when we actually have the kid You know, we're never gonna get sleep again. So we may as well get used to it now It's a great prep Prep session. Yeah So we got what three more days worth today Right Nope Who that alcohol strong whoo that firms you that's a gooder Um, I got tonight. I got tomorrow morning. I haven't done morning injections yet And then I have tomorrow night. I trigger myself Yeah, we explained this before right? You have three injections Saturday is the big day the big egg retrieval day and of course my grand performance I was telling them about it before outside You were telling them about it. Yeah the big wall a lot of detail not details I don't even want to know the details So what were you telling them?   I'm sorry dear 25 gotta put 25 into the next one Put the sharps over here since you guys seem to be taking up my sharps container there Yeah, I got you mounted on top of the container right there What am I gonna do with all these leftover needles like I'll bring them to the pharmacy But I bet you they just dispose of them even though they're completely sealed Because they've been in someone else's home like what a waste I have like I have like 15 needles in here and I probably have like 20 or 30 in the other box that I've just held on to Yeah, I guess they'll never be used. What a waste. They're completely sealed Maybe they'll take them back. I'll bring them with me when we return the sharps container But we'll see what they say.  I only have to put 25 into this one. Okay. You got a primate too.  I dressed in my best dressed in my best first time I'm meeting my kid We've been up a long time. So we get weird. It's a big day Yeah, it's a celebrate Should ask if they'll buy me dinner I was gonna say that to you today before you went up. I said you should ask if they'll buy you dinner Man for all everything you've been through That's okay. There's a lot of ladies out there that have been through a lot more than me She made friends today at the fertility clinic. It's so quiet in there. I'm tired of all the silence So I broke that silence everybody always sits there with their heads down like we're like Shameful in there and I was just like no not today I started talking to everybody Sometimes people seem to think there's a stigma around IVF and infertility and there kind of is even a month I guess not with me and Brett though. We're just like, huh? I'll tell the world. Hey. Hey, look what we're doing My uterine lining is beautiful We're bow tied in my performance My huge contribution Anyway, she's about to inject herself with a few more needles tonight yet and uh, we've got a couple more days of this and then Saturday's the big day like we've been saying so we'll uh Fill you in as we go We'll end the vlog here then Oh, we're ending it. Yeah. Oh, oh, whoa. Whoa. Whoa You're not ready to end it five little droplets. Well, I mean I was and then that happened Oh, exciting. Excitement. Yeah, I better concentrate on this instead of you guys. Yeah. Have a good night guys


Werddw I yw rydych yn fydd ei wneud o ddegwch sy'n gweithio. Oetherwydd y Ffordgenedigol wedi eu pradysgol o'r cyfnodd archeers. Fyddyn ni'n mynd ei parwysgol ar ddegwch nodi. A dyma'r rhaid i ddangos cymryd y maedd i'r cyfnodd yma ychydig sy'n cael ei weld i fuddodol? Felly iddo nid gweithio dweudio ar yr entrygwynebu ar y cwmhysgol. Felly, yma'r ddegwch wedi gweithio ar gyfer oedd eidirelau mewn deillur, Wrth y gwbl gwirio'r gwirio cwilio ar gyfer gyda'r ymweld, mae'n ddiweddio'r ddod i'r cyflwyno ar gyflwyno ar gyfer gwaith. Rwy'n credu i'r ddod o'r cynhyfodd, fel y gallwn y lleolau yn Davos, fel y gallwn y lleolau sydd yn gorfodd yma, yn ogylcheddol i'r cyflwyno ar gyflwyno, mae'n gweithio'n ddod i'r cyflwyno ar gyflwyno. Mae'n cyflwyno'r cyflwyno ar gyflwyno a'r cyflwyno ar gyflwyno. ..y'r unig ysgol yw'r cyffredin. Mae'n rhaid i'r rhaid i'r rhaid i'r cyffredin. Rhaid i'n rhaid i'r cyffredin. Rhyw gwaith i'r cyffredin. Lysus ynddo, mae'r cyffredin. Mae'r profesiad ym Mhwyl, ym Ysgol, ym Ysgol, ym Ysgol... ..y'r cyffredin yn y Cymru. Mae'r cyffredin yn y Cymru. Robert Deych Gryff, ym Ysgol, a'r profesiad Leon Levy... ..y'r cyffredin erioedol, dwi'n dynnu'r Awr, ym Ysgol. Ym corelliannol ym Ysgol , am Llyfrgell Ysgrimd Llyfrgell. Ym yn ym Mhwyl, yn y Cymru. Ayodol, Robert, ddim yn ym Mhwyl, ym Cymru, fe eau'r pob, mae'r cyffredin syniad syniadau syniadau a'r cyffredin. Felly, i wneud ei wneud eu cyfinsiwn. Mae'r cyffredin syniadau syniadau syniadau syniad... ..y may ydyw gwelio, bydd hi'n cyffredin.. ..en mynd i'r blaiddau sy'n sydd ymgyrch. Mae sectorau ar y cyfnodau ac ar gyfer cyfnodau.. ..yna'r ysgol yma yn rhoi? Roedd y gallais ymddangos o'r cyffredd.. ..yna'r gymryd o hynny yn llawd. Mae'r ysgrifennu yw'r angen. Mae'n rhaid i'r cyflwyno i'r cyflwyno yn ysgrifennu.. ..i'r cyflwyno i'r llawd yn llawd yma.. ..yna'r cyflwyno yn gwyllwyd.. ..u'r cyflwyno'n llawd yn llawd yn llwydd yn llwydd. mae'r cyfgau ddysgol yn ymdill gydag ymddangos hwn o unrhyw hwn o'r cyfnodd o'r cyfnodd ymdill. Mae'r cyfnodd ymdill yn cyfnodd ymdill. A'r cyfnodd, yn ddigon ni, yn ymdill gafod o'r ddweud sy'n gyfnodd gweithio'r gwybod tiynau i'r dyfodol. A'r ddweudio'r dyfodol efallai'r gyfnodd llyfr yn gwneud o'r ffordd a'r ffordd yn gwneud o'r ddweud. Ac mae o'i elunol yn ei ddweud, fe o enthymiddio saith yr ydy'r elunol yn ei ddweud. Mae gydag o gyd, o gydag o'r ffordd, o gydag o'r ffordd o ffordd, o gydag o'r ffordd, o gydag o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd. Mae gydag o'r ffordd, o gydag o'r ffordd o'r ffordd, o'r ffordd o'r gydag o'r ffordd. Felly mae'r cwisio'r gwerth o gael gyda'i cyflaen mewn i weld gyda 90% ganddoedd o'r cyfrifiadu. Rydyn ni'n rydyn ni'n gallu gyda'i cyfrifiadau. Rydyn ni'n gael o'r plant yn gael, rwy'n golygu'r gael, mae'r cyfrifiadau yn awr yn 10% mae hwnnw o blwyddiol. Dyma'r rhaid i'r ddweud yn gweithio. Ac mae'n gallu'n cerddwysgreddion nag yma gan ymlaen i gweithio. Mae'n cael ei wneud hynny sydd gennym ei wneud yr wych yn ddod i gweithio. Dwi'n cael o gynnyddio'r pethau newydd gwiriaeth cymrydau gwiriaeth cymrydol yn grid, sy'n meddwl ar hyn o gychwyn oherwydd gyda'r cymrydd cyfrydd. Mae'n meddwl am gyfer gallu cyfryd wedyn anghyddio'n meddwl. Felly, yna buffes. I'm fascinated by the suggestion that, as we all become protoscientists, the more knowledge we acquire, the more we are inclined to get wrong. Yes, well there's something, and I must say that another interesting element of this is that we can debate this, but the wonderful thing is that no scientist can also study this. So people are studying how we communicate science, how we are dealing with these issues, and one counterintuitive fact, but it seems to be quite universal, is that if you learn more about it, your opinions harden. So the most obvious solution to this to many scientists is, well I just spread more information, explain it to you again, and again, and again, and again. But this seems to have kind of an adverse effect. So it's something that we have to address probably in a smarter way, and I hope that the other scientists, and this is of course myself a physicist, this is something that social scientists, et cetera, study communication scientists. So I think as a whole scientific body is something that we probably can find smarter ways to counter these forces, which I feel will only grow in time. That's really important. We'll come to how to address here by first, please. What's your experience on the medical side of the debate? Well, I think that in addition to the more you know, the more solidified your belief system gets, I think there's also like a growing sort of skepticism about what the authorities say. There's sort of an anti-authoritarianism, even as we move towards authoritarianism in my country, but there's a kind of a distrust of authority that makes people go, oh yeah, I don't think so. That I don't really understand where it's coming from, but you certainly see it all the time. When you look at vaccines, it's been well studied. The more you try to educate people when they've done studies, the less likely they are to change their minds. And actually some people move from being, oh sure, vaccines are fine. Everybody does it too. Oh, I don't know. Maybe I don't want to have my child vaccinated with the application of more information. So I don't think we really understand how this all works, but it's certainly having a devastating effect on all of us. And I encourage as much interaction as possible. Those of you watching live online, I've taken some questions from Twitter this morning, but please if you have any questions or disagree, we'd love disagreement, please do stick your hand up. Or all these are perhaps just in a unique moment in history where the whole mushrooming of the digital world has caught everybody's surprise, and there are just so many ways to manipulate people's opinions that maybe those loopholes will get closed. I was reading, of course, my preparation. YouTube, I believe it, it is that said it's dropped a number of fake referrals by 50% in the past year. Fact checkers are being recruited en masse by the big social media platforms. So it seems maybe there is a plan in place, and this is just a unique period of history where we're just struggling to, as always, catch up with people who are finding ways of abusing and exploiting frailties in our digital ecosystem. I think that's absolutely right, and I think that you have to be pretty sophisticated to tell the difference between what's true in science and the people who set out fake stuff in science. I mean, they have like, they come from different institutes, and they're published in all these different papers, and they have all these fancy letters after their names. So they look like, they use the right language or language that sounds scientific, so they have a simulacrum of reality or truth that is not true. Well, it's also good to realize that we have been here before, right? Before the advent of modern science, everything was fake science. Now we call it alchemy or whatever, and you see when the printing press came, we think, oh wow, this now certainly authorized knowledge was distributed, but actually there was like an incredible amount of spam in the 16th and 17th century. There were pamphlets with obscure texts. A very, very minute fraction was Newton's Wikipedia or something. And exactly what you were just saying happened, of course. There was a kind of weaving out process, and a scientific literature was established. So, and in retrospect, we say wonderful, because before that, there was a very dogmatic point of view. So the fact that people were challenged to think for themselves, that the scientific method showed them, well, you can actually see with your own eyes how things work instead of just hearing. In math, we sometimes talk about proof by intimidation, and I think that's a very bad way to present science. So I think there are some kind of correcting mechanisms, but it was a painful process. And in some sense, the communication means have been disrupted again. One of my colleagues had this wonderful phrase that the problem with the global village are the global village idiots. And so they now can spread now. And so right what you say, you know, it's sometimes very clever. They pick the acronyms, which are close cousins of the established organizations. And I must say also the media play a very important role, because often these things are discussed in a way where media feels that should be kind of two-sided, so it should give a fair chance. So on one hand, you would have, say, 98% of all climate scientists, and it will be representative who has to obey to the rules that science imposes. So be very careful with your statements. On the other side, there's somebody who's like completely devoid of the facts and can play as dirty as you want. And it's a debate. And I would say almost invariably such a debate ends in a draw, which actually will be a loss for science. And I find very refreshing that now some news organizations have decided to think to be busy recently. We're not always going to show the other side, because that's kind of complete nonsense. If we debate gravity, you're not asking an anti-gravity person to sit on the other side and talk about whatever crazy ideas. We just know it's a law of nature. I can't tell whether it's just the media or if it really is a proliferation of people who believe in crazy things. This whole flat earth thing, it's hard to imagine how anybody could go for that. And maybe it's really only two people who know how to manipulate the media. Maybe they tell a better story than the scientists. Maybe it's more interesting to believe this nonsense. Maybe you guys aren't telling the story correct. And I can't believe that it's only commercial interests that drive this. Certainly in climate change, there are people who obviously have a lot to lose. But like anti-vax, who's profiting from that really? One guy, his study still got kicked out of the journal. If you go to that page, you can see it has a big stamp over it that says discredited. Vaccinations, I'm not at all an expert, but I find it kind of an interesting debate. Because some people say, well, wait a moment, there are many other viruses, etc. Should we vaccinate against everything and are there some unintended consequences? So they put some question marks. I think putting the question marks is fine. But for instance, measles is a good example. You know much more about it.  So it has devastating consequences. So you can say, well, whatever your doubts are, there are a few vaccines that you should take anyhow, because you can make the case much stronger. So I think there's this kind of natural quest that people have. They're doubting, they're questioning certain elements. I think as a scientific community, we can have real balanced and meaningful answers to that. Right, and of course measles is a great example, because that is the most contagious disease that I know of. If somebody breathes or sneezes in a room, those measle viruses stay airborne for hours. Nobody else, no other disease does that. So there's one person in a room with 100 other people, then there's a very good chance that 10 of those people are going to get the measles. That's insane. So if you're going to make, and I think that that's a reasonable way to go, I'm sorry I gave my kids the chicken pox vaccine, because of course now that they're in their 20s, it's not working. So there are some things that were less useful, but measles, tetanus, mums. I mean the reason that people were at least initially against it, doing it, because why do we need it? Nobody has these things anymore. Well, that is not the case now. Tuff of questions. We're kind of reaching the halfway stage. Anyone? Gentleman here, please. Thank you. Hi, my name is Alejandro, medical doctor from Colombia, and part of the global shapers community in Colombia. So I wanted to touch on the point on the cultural differences, and maybe the differences on critical pricing science between high income countries and middle and low income countries, because it seems that for some of the anti-vaccine movement that could be very much an issue of high income countries. So what are your takes on these differences between these cultural backgrounds? Good point. Cultural differences. I know for instance there's a lot of research being done with global warming and the attitudes there. And it's quite remarkable. So there are two things you can measure. How much people are aware of the issues, and how much they feel that action should be taken. And if you look around the globe, you see all possible combinations. For instance, one thing we see typically in the global south that people initially are less aware of it. But the moment they become aware, they also want to take action. So there's very little climate skepticism. I think countries, I think like Latin America and Japan, they are both aware and they want to take action. North America is in some sense really an exception to the rule. And even I think within Europe you see local differences. So in that sense we think that science is a universal language. So we are describing a universal effect, namely how that language is learned and appreciated. You're quite right to point out that a lot of cultural differences. So I think if you want to address these issues, we also have to be aware of what the local culture is. Culture in terms of, you know, in some sense it's very history dependent. How people, what their position of science is in a particular country or community. How people should be addressed. How they feel with respect to authority. So I strongly feel this has a very regional and cultural coloring, both in the effect and how it has to be addressed. And I think we did a pretty poor job in many cases of introducing, trying to sell the idea of vaccines. We just thought we're big, we're America, we're Europe, we're scientists. This is the right thing to do and just said we should do this. And then funding, you know, programs to vaccinate everybody without really thinking about these people have opinions of their own. And we have to convince people that it's the right thing to do. We can't just say do this and expect them to jump because I believe that we have a history that's filled with wickedness, you know, in the past. And so people are maybe rightfully skeptical and I think we didn't do a good job, a good enough job of convincing people. Perhaps it's an element of data literacy here as well. Maybe the more informed you are about spotting fake news online or misinformation online. Maybe that kind of digital literacy is going to be a big help in addressing such concerns as pseudoscience in less developed parts of the world. Maybe, but you know, there's a lot of research that says we believe things not because we're convinced by the science because we don't really, you know, in medicine in particular, we're terrible at math. I mean, so we pretend like we have these conversations about evidence-based medicine, but we don't really do that, we don't really feel comfortable with the math. So I think that it's been difficult, you know, and I don't know, I forgot what I was going to say. I actually want to kind of almost use the metaphor of vaccines or vaccinations and viruses a little bit because I think part of all of this is kind of building kind of an intellectual immune system. You know, we have to be able to react to this kind of infiltration of fake news. And one thing I think we can learn from political scientists, they've studied various kind of environments and they've found that environments that are pluralistic where you, like in the US, would both watch CNN and Fox News and where people in some sense have to kind of exercise their brains, if I can say it like that, have to critical thinking that they are more politically engaged. So that's a one-to-one correlation. And I feel that perhaps we have been a bit negligent also, I think, from the scientific community to build that immune system.  We think if you just are fed the fact that you will appreciate science, I think that you need a certain kind of messiness. I think you have to train people in their critical thinking because whatever is happening now with these topics of anti-vaxxers or climate deniers, there will be a next crisis, there will be a next topic.  So the good thing of, you know, vaccinations or having an infection is that you build up antibodies to resist the next. And I think that's something that we have to do. So it's something much broader than this one topic. So I don't think by just learning more about the climate or learning more about the body will immunize ourselves to the next debate which might be about AI or about quantum technology or something that has to be invented. But there are some kind of general skills which I think, again, go to the heart of science is to actually look at the evidence, think critically about it, deal with uncertainties. And that should be part of our literacy and indeed dealing with data is a crucial part of that. Let me just kind of think about what you said earlier about the kind of proto-scientists and the more balance you give, the more ambiguity you create and the more room for people to be fed the wrong conclusion or draw the wrong conclusion too. So getting that balance right. Can you think of successful examples of where beliefs have been successfully shifted or influenced behavior have been influenced successfully. And have you been able to identify why and what has been done differently in those situations in either of your respective fields? I think tobacco clearly took a long time. It took a long time. It took a long time. It took a lot of lives. But I think that there's no one who thinks that the tobacco companies were right. And it took a lot of stuff coming out from their records through lawsuits. But I think your idea of an intellectual immune system is a really powerful metaphor because one of the things we know is that people don't actually form their own opinions. They sort of take on the opinions of the people around them. And if you could maybe try to deal with it on that sort of metaphorical level, you know, when I was a kid we used to have chicken pox parties.  And I wonder if there's a way to sort of identify people who are going to be the right people to spread a message in targeting those people rather than trying to target everybody because even people who want to understand numbers and science and all that literature, it's going to be hard for them. It's hard for me. So there's got to be a way to spread it in a different way. So you're talking about, you know, recruiting influences to help spread that message. Oh my God, how terrible. Yes, I think I am. I mean, in some sense, we're saying that fake scientists learn from science and they try to replicate at least in a superficial way, but we can clearly also learn from what's successful in spreading fake science. I must say to push the discussion a little bit to the negative perhaps. The thing I worry about is that there are two things we certainly know that science will progress and it will dig deeper and it will be more complicated. So it will be more difficult to understand. The science in 100 years will probably be totally unknowledgeable from the present point of view and yet at the same time its impact will be bigger because of all that details. So the big risk is that we're moving to society that's completely ignorant and totally in the grip of science. And so that gap, that knowledge gap, that human gap has to be bridged. And so we have to really think of building that bridge. I think it's not just the general public on one side and the scientists on the other side. I think we need intermediaries. We have to think about how to spread the knowledge, how to educate. Certainly I think from the point of view of science, we need kind of bridgeheads on the other side, people in the media, people in policy that are willing to play these roles. And I think there's a lot of knowledge in people who build the digital infrastructure, who know about communications, etc. That can help. In the end I think these processes could help also to bridge that gap, which is actually I think very fearsome development. Let's just very little time left, which is a great show because we're only just getting started. This is fascinating. But let's just think about the role of government here in the world clunky old-fashioned top-down approach of regulation, for example. So we think more and more countries making a vaccination legally enforceable and enforcing it. Is that going to be effective? Well, you know one of the things that happened with vaccination in this country is that the number of exceptions grew and grew and grew. And then there's so you can get it for religious and personal reasons, all kinds of reasons that you can choose not to get your children vaccinated. And the more exceptions there are, the fewer the children are that get vaccinated. There is one state, it's either Mississippi or Alabama, they're next to each other and I get them confused, that long ago said everybody has to be vaccinated before they start public schools, no exceptions period. And they have the highest rate of vaccination in the country. And this is a place that's not well known for their education, for their valuing of science. It was just a rule, everybody did it. And so I think that there is a role for government to be inflexible like that. We have this good that you want to participate in, public education. This is the price you have to pay for it. I totally agree. One of the sometimes really depressing thought is that we have to fight this battle again and again. Whether it's not talking mostly about climate change and vaccinations, but we had tobacco, we had nuclear energy and so many issues. And unfortunately I think it's sometimes also in the scientific community, it's siloed. So the stories and the methods and the experience are not shared. But also think about tobacco, what was really important here was government regulations. It's kind of for building smoking in public rooms, taxes. And tobacco I think also shows that it's very difficult to get a 100% buy-in. There's still 10, 20% some countries more people who smoke and they are totally aware of the risks. So I think at some point we also should be fine with it. I don't think I feel we should say well we only go, the vaccination is different, but to be active in climate say we wait till we got the last person convinced and get a 100% buy-in. Probably you will never get that. But I think you're quite right. In the end it's top-down efforts that really make the difference. I think in educating the media, I mean I think the media sort of has stumbled around without recognizing their power and how much it's changed. And I think that they just haven't been, they haven't kept up with it. You know there's this idea, this Jeffersonian idea that the way to, or Madison, the way to fight bad ideas is with more ideas. And they just feel like well we'll just keep, what you said, we'll just keep pushing it out there and people will eventually be beaten into submission, but that doesn't work. And I think that, and this fairism also, this both sidesism, I think they're slowly getting over that. I love this, we're coming down in favour of a media that is very much controlling of the message rather than exploring a balanced reportage. Fascinating, a mix of hard and soft power, one could say, the strong arm of the law, but also clever, sophisticated ways of influencing people to bridge the scientific community as you're creating all this knowledge. Other people are following your wake using it for nefarious purposes. Fascinating conversation, I would love for us to stay longer, but unfortunately we've come to an end already. So thank you very much for joining us, thank you very much.


How Narcissus put you under their spell? Narcissus are expert manipulators. They know how to fuel your emotions so that you overlook the red flags because our emotions are very powerful. They're more powerful than our intellect so if they can control your emotions they can control you. They make you feel a certain way about them and the situation. They use a detailed vision of the future to facilitate bonding and connection. They plant these ideas in your head of what could come into fruition and they do things that make you believe they're going to make it a reality but you have to hold on to them because they're indicating that they are important and useful to you which makes you work hard for them to keep them in your life because they're manipulating your emotions because why else would you hold on to them? Why else would anyone hold on to a narcissist? This is how they trap you. This is how they blind you. This is how they put you under their spell. It's how they're able to keep you unaware of what they're doing because they've managed to deceive you. You may have felt like something was wrong in the beginning but you always found a way to rationalise it. You made excuses for them when you already knew the truth. You already knew that something was not right. Many of you have caught the narcissist cheating. Many of you have caught them stealing from you. Many of you have caught them lying to you but they still managed to get you to change your thoughts and decisions about it. They managed to get you to relax after being radio alert even after they lied to you and manipulated you and you knew exactly what they were doing but you still changed your thoughts about it. Because you wanted to believe that they cared about you. You wanted to believe they're a good person and they're on your side. You weren't saying that this person could hurt you. You weren't saying that they could leave you without resources or help. You weren't thinking about that. If you were, you wouldn't give them a chance. You wouldn't honourate their behaviour. But you do. Because you think they care about you. Just like you care about them. But they don't. They're not like you. They're very different. That's how they lack affection and warmth. It's how they don't have any sympathy for you. It's how it's so easy for them to not feel your pain and show serious or careful thought or real understanding when they finally get rid of you because you've accepted them as being deserving of your trust. You're expecting them to share the same thoughts and feelings that you have of them but they're not going to return that same thing back to you when you put up with things from the narcissist. It's because you think they would do the same thing for you. You think they would consider you. You think that they would show compassion for you because you're together in a relationship and they're showing you that they want to be with you. But they don't follow the same moral rules or standards of good behaviour or fair dealing as you do. They don't have the same morals and values. If they're going through a difficult time you might struggle to overcome, eliminate and prevent something for them. You might do anything to help them. But if they changed from being in a weaker position to being in a stronger position they wouldn't do the same for you. They would get rid of you. They would replace you and leave you without resources or help which is something that many of you can't comprehend. Many of you can't make sense of that which is why you really need to have this talk with the people that you get involved with. You need to ask them that if you were in need of something if you didn't have enough money, food or good health would they have the same amount of understanding as you would have for them? Would they have the same amount of patience? Would they bring approval and kindness to you just as you would do for them? This is something you really need to ask yourself. If they give you the same type of treatment that you would give to them and if you're unsure about that or if you have never seen them behaving in that way then that should tell you everything that you need to know. There may have been times where you loaned the narcissist some money and they may have taken a long time to pay you back. They may have made a lot of excuses but you were okay with it. You didn't pressure them about it but then you borrowed money from them and they didn't have the same patience and understanding. They may have started insulting you. They may have threatened to call the police if they didn't get their money on time because they couldn't relate. They couldn't feel the same way as you do. They couldn't see that when they did it you were patient with them. You didn't insult them. You didn't threaten them but they don't have the same understanding. They don't think the same way as you do. They don't think that you loaned them money and you had a lot of patience with them. You didn't insult them or threaten them. So they shouldn't treat you that way. They don't think like that because they lack empathy. They lack the ability to understand your feelings. They lack the ability to put themselves in your shoes. They're self-centered. They're only interested in themselves. They have no regard for you. They're not even looking at the bigger picture to see that they put you in that situation. Which is how you should already know that there's going to be a problem later down the line because for them to put you under their spell there needs to be double standards. There needs to be codes and policies that favour them over you. You will always need to be giving them better treatment than they're giving to you and anyone who does that is going to be a problem to you because they think it's okay for them to be doing that to you. But if you did that to them they wouldn't put up with it. They wouldn't accept it. But they want you to accept them. They want you to accept things that they would never accept from you. And that is a huge red flag. You will have problems with anyone who thinks that way because they will want you to overlook it. They will want you to be asleep when they do something wrong. They won't want you to pay attention to it. They don't have the same understanding. They don't think the same way as you do. Which is why they can't put themselves in your situation. They can't see that they wouldn't like it. If someone did that to them. Which is why they will betray you. They will break their promise. They will lie. They will be disloyal. They will steal from you. But sometimes it's good to be in these situations so that you can see how they respond. So you can see if they're really in your corner. You can see if they're really on your side. Because that will tell you if they're really investing in you. If they only care about themselves. Or if they're united with you. The narcissist will put you under their spell. Because they want you to overlook problems. They want you to forget about things that they've done wrong. They want you to think that things will get better on their own. But things won't get better. They never will. You will experience a very difficult struggle that requires a great deal of effort and determination. And you won't understand how you could do so much for them. But they couldn't do the same for you in return. Which is something that you need to be aware of. Because when you're dealing with them you will find that you're always the one who has to do the right thing. You always have to prevent your anger from taking control of you. And you are the one that has to go through things that are not good for you. Not them. They never have to deal with anything. They never have to share your pain.  You're left to carry the weight. You're left to apologize. You're left to fix things and make things right. To make things more interesting. To add excitement and entertainment to their lives. While they indirectly express their negative feelings instead of openly addressing them. While they insult you and put you down. While they constantly make you feel like you're doing something wrong because they put you under their spell. Narcissists are always thinking of ways to hurt you. They can never be normal because they're afraid. They live in fear. They're very insecure. They're constantly scanning the environment of threats. Because they're in survival mode, they're just trying to survive. So they always need to have an advantage. They always need control. So they can't afford to be equal or fair. They have to bargain with you. They have to deal with you on a budget instead of giving you the same treatment that you're giving to them. There will never be any fairness for the narcissist which means that they will never be loyal to you because they can't afford it. They can't invest in you because they just see you as a means to an end. They see you as something temporary. They're already expecting things to go wrong. Because things do go wrong. As a result of their own behavior. Which is why they don't believe in you or trust you. They don't believe in or trust anything. So even if there was a perfect person walking the earth and they managed to be involved with them they would still find a way to mess it up because they are the problem and they know it. So their mission is to find someone who can fix the problem. Their mission is to find someone who can fix them. Someone who will overlook and tolerate their shocker behavior. Someone who will be their doma. Someone who will be their fool and love them without conditions or limits. Without wanting anything in return. Without desiring any fairness or equality. That's the kind of person they want.  By making you not aware or concerned about all of the things they're doing to you. To break you down mentally. So that they can do what they want to you and get away without any consequences. And you're just supposed to take it. You're just meant to accept it. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonates with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. If you would like to donate my PayPal link is in the video description. Coaching Inquiries. You can email me at coaching at naksabiver.uk Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


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Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discussed the following question which says, if the mean of the following frequency distribution is 6, find the value of p. This is the frequency distribution given to us in which we have the variable xi and frequency fi. Before we move on to the solution, let's recall the formula to calculate the mean. We take let the frequencies of n observations x1, x2 and so on up to xn be f1, f2 and so on up to fn respectively then the mean is equal to summation fi xi where we have i goes from 1 to n upon summation fi where i goes from 1 to n. This is the key idea to be used for this question. Now we move on to the solution. To calculate the mean we need to make a table. In this table we have the variable xi, the corresponding frequency is fi and the product of the variable xi and frequency fi. We are given the variable xi as 3, 2, 4, 5, 7. Now the frequency fi for variable xi when xi is 3 is 2. When xi is 2, frequency is 3. When xi is 4, frequency is 4. When xi is 5, frequency is 5. When xi is 7, frequency is p. Now the product of fi and xi is 6, 6, 16, 25, 7, p. Then we have summation fi is equal to the sum of the subverse that is 2 plus 3 plus 4 plus 5 plus p and this is equal to 14 plus p. Then summation fi xi is equal to the sum of these numbers that is equal to 6 plus 6 plus 16 plus 25 plus 7p and this is equal to 53 plus 7p. Now mean is equal to summation fi xi upon summation fi that is equal to 53 plus 7p upon 14 plus p. In the question we are given that the mean of the frequency distribution is 6. So we have 53 plus 7p upon 14 plus p is equal to 6 since we are given the mean equal to 6. So this gives us 53 plus 7p is equal to 6 multiplied by 14 plus p that is 53 plus 7p is equal to 84 plus 6p. This gives us 7p minus 6p is equal to 84 minus 53 that is we have p is equal to 31. We were supposed to find the value of p which is equal to 31. So our final answer is p equal to 31. This completes the session. Hope you have understood the solution for this question.