Live from San Jose, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley, it's theCUBE, covering QuickBooks Connect 2016. Now, here are your hosts, Jeff Frick and John Wall. And welcome back inside the San Jose Convention Center here on theCUBE, along with Jeff Frick. I'm John Walls, appreciate you joining us here as we continue our coverage of QuickBooks Connect. 2016, live here on SiliconANGLE TV. This is the flagship broadcast, where we extract the signal from the noise. And Jeff, we're on the home stretch here to the second day. I think I could stay here for a few more days. Great guests, great lineups, great keynotes, and a lot of energy here on the floor, I like. A lot of energy, I love these kind of shows because it's really about helping people be successful. And we're talking about real things, and again, we keep coming back to products and solutions and technology, but for most small businesses, it's about cash. It's about cash flow. Very successful, Ranya Sukar is now joining us. She's a QuickBooks financing director there at QuickBooks, and we appreciate the time here, Ranya. So tell us about just the overarching mission, right? Because as Jeff said, helping people, giving them access to capital, badly needed, small business, it's a critical need. And what QuickBooks does on that, with that, on the financing platform. Well, you guys have seen it here for the last few days. The QuickBooks team is absolutely focused on helping small businesses survive and thrive. Everyone here is trying to crack that. And you just said it. Cash is one of the biggest pain points that small businesses face. Whenever we talk to small businesses, the first thing they tell us is the thing that keeps them up at night is cash flow.  And so the team a couple years back said, we've got to crack this in order to help more small businesses survive past the five year mark and to be able to put their dreams into action. So with that in mind, we took a look at financing. And for small businesses, it's a fairly broken process. So we're working to reinvent small business lending. It's broken for a couple of reasons. One is if you have 10 businesses that go into a bank to apply for a loan, only three get approved. And it takes over 30 hours of work for a small business to do that application to a bank. So it's ripe for innovating and improving the experience for small businesses. So what we do is we are hyper focused on making the experience better in three ways. First, we're trying to drive up the approval rate. And we do that with the incredible clarity with which we can understand a small business based on the data that we have. We understand the small business ecosystem better than anyone. And we understand the full picture of a small businesses credit worthiness and financial health better than anyone. We can give them access to, but we can help them get credit for all the future invoices that they have coming in. We understand the strength of their customer base. You put that together, we can drive approval rates up. The other thing we're focused on is the time it takes to apply. You need to put together tax returns and interim financial reports if it's the middle of the year. And bank statements, it's very frustrating. We have most of that information in the into it space. And our vision is rather than even applying, it's just available for you in QuickBooks when you need it. And the third thing, so approval rates, the time it takes, the third thing we're very focused on is the guidance. Small businesses need advice. Most of them didn't get into running their own small business because they knew anything about finances. They had a dream and they wanted to put it into place. And so we're very focused on taking the insights we have about a small business to help them get lending that's right for them with confidence that they're getting the right financing for their business. So we can help them predict when they're going to need financing. And we can connect them to an accountant because we know over a million of our small businesses are connected to accountants. So that's what we do. And this week, as you heard, we just announced we crossed the half a billion dollar mark in financing a small business. Say that again. Half a billion dollars. Half a billion dollars of financing. Congratulations. We're incredibly proud. We're incredibly proud. Let me ask you a couple of details. So my kids are going, they're trying for college right now. So the common apps. So do you have like- Jeff will get somewhere shy of half a billion. I need money. Do you have like a common app inside QuickBooks, which is a defined kind of definition that then gets shared with the lenders that want to participate in the market? Or do you have like a defined QuickBooks FICO score, if you will, based on these other parameters that you have that then gets shared with the lenders? How do you kind of, you've got all this data. It's my data. But I'm allowing you to use it in such a way to help me get this loan in this marketplace. How does the actual mechanics work? I love that. We're a platform. Almost like an Amazon, in a sense where you go to Amazon, you have one thing that you want to get and you get access to multiple different providers. So we're a platform. Right now the way that it works is there's a common app. But the amazing thing is you don't have to fill it out because we have all the information inside QuickBooks. So we pre-fill it for you and ask you for just a couple of things, but we do all the work. And then we figure out which of our lending partners based on what you need. We've got about a dozen, are best suited for your needs. And then we send the information to the lenders with your permission. And then you get all your offers right there. And the really neat thing about what we do is we compare the offers apples to apples. This is pretty incredible. We're super focused on transparency. This is a big part of our value proposition. We always disclose the APR of the loan. We always show the loan cost apples to apples so that you know exactly what you're getting. We show you things like what are the fees? What are the prepayment penalties? So it's super clear, super transparent and you know what you're getting. It's like the comparison shopping table. Exactly.  Exactly. And then how long does it usually take on a relatively smooth process given the fact that you're already pre-populating the data, it goes out, what does it usually take? A lot of our lenders fund within the same day. So literally with a lot of our lenders, if everything goes right, you can apply within minutes and get funding in your bank account the same business day. The money goes through the same system as well. There are lenders and we have a portfolio of offerings. So we'll work with, we have an SBA lender. We've got working capital lenders. If you're going through the SBA process, it's a lot faster through our process than it would be if you applied through a traditional bank. But it still could take a couple of months in that case. So we make that very clear. When you choose the offering that you want, if you're in need for financing right away, it can happen very quickly. If you're willing to wait a couple more months, and in the worst case, in the case of an SBA loan, on average it's less than a week. Well it seems like you have so many pieces in place to make it much more convenient and much more reliable and I guess much more predictable. That's right. For a small business. What about approval rates then? Was it three out of 10? I think it's on average. That's the current, yeah. Is that the current, is that your average? Ours is better than that. It's not quite where, you know, we have a really high aspiration on that where we'd like to be able to get, you know, much, we'd like to get it closer to 60 or 70% over time via approval rate. So we're still moving in that direction. We've got a great team of, we've got tons of innovation and R&D happening right now back in Mountain View. We've got a ton of data scientists that are combing through this data and improving the approval rates all the time. So that's an area where we're innovating and really pushing for our small businesses. And so if you, you know, nice announcement this week, we're better than nice, but I need it, you know, a great announcement this week. But you're always looking, as you said, for the next best thing. Yep. And so what are you, what have you heard from your client base that says, okay, we've addressed this, now this is where we need to pivot. This is where we need to go. Like what's the next, you know, big hurdle or the next big challenge that you think you need to handle? It's innovating on those three areas I told you. And on each of those three, we've made quite a big, quite a lot of work and quite a lot of headway in the last few years, but there's so much more room. And so like I said, we've got this team of phenomenal data scientists working to find those areas of advantage for small businesses where we can help them get approved more often. We've got the team that's trying to really make it to a point where you're in QuickBooks and you can see your financing offer before you even apply. We want to get rid of the application altogether and just surface the best offer for you. And then all the prediction around when you're going to need financing and that cash flow prediction, looping in the accountant so the accountant can immediately see all the options you are given and they can talk through them with you. And your clients can find out right away the customers do it if they did not get approved. At least there's, where's your trouble area? You know, where did the red light come on? That's right. Because of the figures and you're able to consult with them and help them to shore up their bottom line? We don't do enough of that today. It's absolutely in our roadmap. So that's a huge opportunity because we have a relationship with small businesses.  We're in it for the long term to help small businesses grow. And so you can imagine, and this is where we're headed, when you start, you know, you get your first financing, it could be a credit card. And then a year or two later, we see that your financials have improved and we consult you on the next offering and all the way you get better terms because you've been with us for a while and we can help make sure that you're getting better financing deals over time. It's a really interesting situation because, you know, hopefully over time, really it becomes, we always talk about kind of looking back and then predictive and then prescriptive. So in theory, as you're moving down your path as you're growing your business, it should actually be flaggy, right? Hey, by the way, you've got a big event, seasonality's coming up. Oh, we just noticed you just locked in a big purchase order. Somebody's late to pay, et cetera. It might be a good time to get actually ahead of the curve before you even know that this event is coming to go ahead and make, even up to probably in making the offer. Absolutely, you know, you're getting ready to, you know, for the holidays and have you thought about making sure you've got enough financing to buy as much inventory as you want this year so you can take advantage of the seasonal trends we're seeing? Or we're seeing a lot of retailers, you know, really having up on inventory this year. Have you thought about doing that as part of your strategy? It looks like it could be a good year. So there's so much opportunity there. We can pair every small business owner with a line of credit so that they can manage payroll at any given time and never have to worry about the cash flow ups and downs that come. Right, and then I would imagine too, within like those different offers, not only apples to apples that cost the same type of a loan that maybe should consider, you know, a factoring on your receivables versus, you know, a capital loan that's capitalized against some equipment or something, because there's also options within the types of financing that you may want to choose. So on that, we've done quite a bit of work. We have lenders in our portfolio that do invoice financing. We've got lenders in our portfolio, Mx Working Capital Terms that do vendor bill payment through, you know, paying all of your bills that are coming up. We've got, as I said, SBA loans that will help with long-term expansion. So we've got that and we're just continuing to innovate on that too. And from the lender point of view, as you start bringing, you said you have about a dozen bringing in more, you know, for the opportunity because a lot of them probably already have existing relationships with many of these clients. How do they see kind of the opportunity to interface with those clients in this different way through QuickBooks as an intermediary? Oh, they love it because it's very hard for these lenders to go out and acquire new customers. Oftentimes they don't have a relationship with these existing customers and they have to go out and do the hard work to acquire customers. Whereas they're in the QuickBooks ecosystem and, you know, customers really love the opportunity to work with these lenders because we can provide the right advice to them paired with the loan offering. So it works out very well. It should be cheaper for them to actually provide those too because, again, you're taking a lot of the headache out. So before we went live, you talked about some of the numbers. I just want to go through some of the numbers. So you shared the big number, 500 million. But in terms of kind of average loan size that you see, kind of lifetime value of the loans to some of the customers, I wonder if you could share some of those statistics. Sure. So, you know, we see two very different needs for financing from our customer base. There's the working capital loans and then there's the expansion capital loans. And our customers typically are split between the need for both. And at any given time, a business actually is looking for both. They need to smooth over the working capital and then the expansion capital as well. But our average loan size is about $35,000 today. And it ranges from as little as $2,500 to just smooth a very small cash flow bump that you have all the way up to $250,000, $500,000 to do some of the bigger expansions that small businesses are looking to do. And it's really wonderful to be able to help small businesses on both sides of the spectrum because if you're a small business owner, seasonality is really a major pain point. Oftentimes, they'll have most of their business concentrated in the summer months or potentially the summer months and the winter months, but not the spring and the fall. And so you need, you still have tons of bills, you have employees you need to cover in those off months and having access to financing where you can get it fairly quickly because you don't know when those bumps are going to hit is incredibly valuable. On the flip side, the expansion side, every business owner's dream is to expand. And it's been amazing to be here over the past few days and hear these stories. You know, Allie Webb on stage yesterday, the founder of Drybar, talking about how she went from one location to 66 in five years. And so it's very hard to go into a bank branch and convince them of your grand idea to expand. Especially if they don't have hair. Especially if they don't have hair. I mean, she had a hard time. And her brother, her business partner. Yeah, they're sitting with them, they don't have hair either. So for that reason, it's hard to convince people. And so it's wonderful to be able to help the expansion side of things too. Hopefully this has been, if nothing else, a great opportunity for Frick, Inc. to find out about the small business that my colleagues want. My application has already gone through. We'll find out in less than 24 hours. I'm going into my bank right now, Tom. If the kids are going to Stanford or you're going to work at the community college for a year or two. Ron, we appreciate the time. Sure, it was great. Thank you for being here. Thank you. And congratulations on the AmEx announcement and some of the other great things you have in the pipeline now to make spoiled business dreams come true. Wonderful. Thank you very much. It was great to chat with you. Thank you very much, Ron. Back with more here on theCUBE from San Jose in just a moment.


Good evening my beautiful internet friends welcome back. I'm very excited to bring you this video today It has been a while on the making but first I just want to say I just I just got this hoodie in the mail from Amazon It was $20 and then I'm feeling it. I'm feeling it just really feeling it as you may know a few months ago I went down to Texas for the amputee coalition conference. It was a fantastic experience. It was humbling. It was challenging It was Mind-opening among many other things, but the coolest experience I had there was being able to meet Chris All over from the amp to life. This is a YouTube channel that I followed since before I actually had my amputation He has fantastic information and is a really fantastic person We got to have a number of conversations over coffee including this conversation Which I'm really excited to bring you guys into today There are a number of things that he said during this conversation that you are about to witness that have stuck with me about depression about the evolution of Dealing with such a significant life change and it was an honor so Chris Thank you so much for being on my channel and without further ado Let's travel back in time a couple months ago to the amputee coalition with Chris Oliver in Texas Hello, my beautiful internet friends I am here at the amputee coalition in San Antonio, Texas and I finally got to meet Chris from the amp to life Which is a YouTube channel that I have followed since before I had my leg amputated It's actually one of the reasons I came to the conference to be able to meet him and other amputees that I've known I just you know from the virtual world And so we got chance to sit down and actually talk but one of the things I wanted to begin to discuss is how important Support is we were chatting about that yesterday And I feel like a lot of people at the conference have sort of referenced that especially an opening ceremony Yes, I think I mean I can I can talk from my perspective my experience about support that at some point I think we realized we I was kind of a help-rejecting Person and that got me to so much trouble Yeah, and it extended I mean it caused So many secondary secondary issues and secondary problems beyond the the the injury and the and the amputation Yes, so so I've generally learned over time that for me anyway a sign of my Emotional and mental well-being is how I cope with reality and in the past I've done a number of different things and we've touched on all of them But I've either I've blamed external circumstances for for where I found myself. So blaming others I've also done a bit of taking it on too much on myself all my fault or like this like poor me or just it's internalized. Yeah, some of that. I think a bit more of I'm overly responsible for situations. So One exact responsible for the emotions of others So when they said it's because of me or as opposed to it's okay for them to be to be sad or to be empathetic to a situation and I think that Kind of what I had to ask myself is how would you have responded in in a situation like that? Would you have Would you have found it a burden to help someone else or would you have liked them to accept the help? Yes, so and then the one I did a lot of was to run was to avoid and I did that in various various ways Which is to use at one point alcohol to to avoid to numb what was going on Abuse something I've spoken about on the channel Which is to abuse and pain medication, which is also a way of getting out of reality Yeah, and then the fourth one which is I think certainly something I a point I came to and a point You came to which is to ask for help and I think more importantly to to accept help to let people Help me which which is something you both struggle with at some point I think I Think that's I think it's interesting that you make that distinction too because in my head Sometimes I equate like well if I ask for help like if I'm going to an appointment or what if I'm reaching out Then I checked that box. I'm good. I'm done You know the follow-through doesn't necessarily connect in my head that you you really have to accept that like you have to Open yourself up and be vulnerable and follow through with it and not just throw a need out there and then be done With it. Yeah. Yeah, and vulnerability is there was was the big one. Yes I think another big obstacle was and I it's it's something I fit into as people saying Oh, you're so strong and you're dealing with us so well and meanwhile, you know, I mean, I wasn't I really wasn't and I fit into that and I felt it was creating a new identity after the accident Which is the strong guy the guy who could cope with everything. Yes Well, in fact, that wasn't true and was a very self-destructive thing to to do position to take getting to the point Where I became vulnerable enough to say I need help Please help me. Yeah, and then when people offered and stepped into is to is to go Thank you and to accept the hope. Yeah, which I was falling dead to people as I said earlier to think we I would have done the same for them or for anyone else. Why am I saying yeah? No, that's so true It feels amazing when we get to help people like it is so I think it's a beautiful process When you can actually fulfill a need for someone or when someone shares something with you and you can You can help them like you can fill that void You can come alongside someone it feels like it gives you purpose and and I deny I know that I deny people that so often when I'm like, no, I can like I've got it I'm doing it or whatever and I try to be overly independent or I try to do things that I can't actually do that I'm really taking I'm like taking something away from them I'm stopping a process that could actually be beautiful for both of us for both And I think that's important is is denying both both sides The person needing help as well as the one offering the help and also needing help at the same time Yeah, something else we spoke about which is it helps me in my own process is to is to share year and see the feedback from people and to feel that since that I Made so many mistakes after the amputation and to be able to assist somebody to get to the process of where I feel I've gotten to sooner Is why deny them that opportunity and then something the word used the word meaning Yeah, it's to find meaning in that in that struggle that I had by by sharing it And I think by finding meaning in that in the suffering of the struggle alleviated some of the the anxiety and some of the Despair that a stress because I can start to feel so I mean like I think it can be completely empty and hopeless Or you can choose to find purpose and choose to find meaning in different things Yeah, and a moment ago you talked about you know kind of I almost think of it as Constructing the persona like the strong guy or whatever because people tell you you're doing so well with it or whatever and That's something I've absolutely dealt with when people tell you you're inspirational or you're you know fill in the blank How did you deal with breaking that down or actually like coming out of that because I find that really difficult to do Sometimes yeah when people have this vision of you and you're like that's actually not what's going on It's hard to do and as we as we're talking I realized now that I was a liar because I wasn't coping I was lying to people Yeah, no, I've been there too. Yeah, and Well to answer your question is how I hearted a change is I hit a wall I had to hit some sort of a wall and it became incredibly self-destructive yeah, and and That awful sense of I knew what I was doing. I knew it's not how I want to live And that awful sense of self-betrayal is is and and I mean I'm becoming Incredibly self-destructive yeah, and that also awful sense that I had of self-betrayal is is this who you are or is this it? Is this is this what life is going to be about?  I had a crisis and the crisis forced me to reassess my my position or face death really Right essentially emotional and absolutely. Yeah self-betrayal is is a phrase I don't think I've ever actually heard before but that is that resonates I mean that's so true and so real I mean we think of betraying other people so often, but I've never really thought of like when we get Self-destructive and all of that it's really betraying ourselves and who we actually are could be yeah, and we could be I think it's really important It's not to say that I think I have something huge to contribute But I but I do think in in what we've learned There is something to share, but the sense of self-betrayal I remember driving one day and I've become quite emotional when I talk about it, but yeah through all of this This lying by a mission really so I wasn't overtly lying But we're not disclosing what is really going on and by lying people to think that I was okay I mean that is living a lie, but driving one day and I think I told you about this but and Listening to a song a Bob Seeger song called like a rock and this was me trying to be like a rock when when deep down I was I was losing time and and that recurring thoughts of is this it is this you're gonna be and What you've become and being extremely hard on myself too, but and then realizing but I don't want to be stuck in a room I'm Experiencing a sense of darkness when I did believe that there was nothing in a it goes just a little way But in a in a positive way that there's got to be more to who I am then an avoidance is did you to do it any at any point experience it that You're being inauthentic or because I remember when you started you become so vulnerable so early on and that is I had so much Respect to your ability to do that in a way inspired me to do the same in fact Shortly after you made it. I can't remember which video, but Joe made a made a video and I I was driving I was doing a long trip and for some reason I was feeling terribly down And I got home and there was no one there and unpacked my gear and I made a video on depression and And saying that it's okay to feel depressed and that you could be grateful and depressed at the same time I used to confuse those issues. Yeah I used to think that it's a depression shows a lack of gratitude. It's hard to be depressed because So much to be thankful for like all yeah, right, right all those cliche things were here Yeah, I'm to separate those issues and I think maybe it's something If you're struggling with those kind of thoughts is to separate those issues and to go But it's okay to feel down and at the same time feel Grateful for that aspect of my life, but if I don't make knowledge. Yeah, the press the depression side of things I'm great. I did I crashed that's such an important distinction to make and I'm so glad that you that you're talking about that stuff because more I mean more people need to we don't hear that we just hear they're like Have a gratitude journal or like just be more thankful for everything and all of that and that's such a beautiful message because it's true It's part of being human, you know, like that I don't think it's sustainable to do anything else. I think I could I tried I did the shredding for a while But it worked out so badly and there's a book called the power of positive thinking. Yes, maybe there's a I don't know Maybe maybe it works for some I don't want to Suggest that the way I see it, of course, it won't work for everyone, but it didn't work for me It's that idea of you know, look at the mirror and say look at you. Yeah, cool You're a badass Just say it 20 times and you'll leave it and like will be great So I in one of my blogs I spoke about Losing my leg having a positive impact to my life, too And maybe at one point I pushed it quite far I said that it's possibly the best thing that's ever happened to me Yeah, and a part of that is true because it forced me to confront Aspects of my life, which I don't think I would have confronted if I hadn't faced the crisis Which was the the accident and and a subsequent Disability right and I think about it as if I had to and we spoke about that being becoming a more self-aware That that was my senses that I became more self-aware through crisis Yes, but and and I got to the point where I realized look I wouldn't exchange the self-awareness for Having my limb back. It was and that's quite a big statement to make I think, you know, it's so funny I I forget it. I may have talked about this before or not, but I when I actually Before I had my amputation I went to a number of why talk to a number of people in person and then I also Wrote to like a couple online amputee support groups like on Facebook that had thousands of people and so many people wrote back The majority of the comments were really really really positive and so many people said this was the best thing that ever happened to me Or the best decision ever made if it was something that had to be decided on and I was like Oh, this is you know so cool And so I I mean not based on that but based on so many other factors I went ahead and made that decision and over the last nine months. I Just personally That's a state. I hope that one day. That's a statement that I can make but I can't Yet and I think it's a very Think yet is a really powerful word. I can't yet I mean, I can't say that I'm that this is like the best thing that's ever happened or that I wouldn't exchange it for anything because Because it is really hard and I am trying to figure it out. But at the same time, I think that self-awareness and having opportunities that allow us to Reflect on who we really are and push us in those ways are More valuable than just about anything that I can think of. Yeah, and also some of the most painful things Yeah You've made a very important use the yet word and I agree As you spoke I was thinking would I have made a statement like this five years ago Yeah, I wonder I would never done that. Okay. I would never I would have I would have taken my leg back Yeah, the years of struggle with infection and pain Any day it of any form of perceived self-awareness or so so that's a very important point So I really haven't thought about Is that has come about of the last year That thinking and that's really cool that that's been a recent thing for you. I'm excited for you for that I think that's a I would imagine there's some peace in that or or something Yeah, yes, as I said earlier I think that certain things have happened and as a result of that the despair of becoming an MPT Yes, as lifted my experiences that that I'm a happier more joyful person and that it's come about as a result of By doing what we're doing right now It's finding it that my life's become more meaningful just to to hopefully pass on something. Yes to you guys That'll help you Also to to my life is I got a bit more purpose. Yeah, and it's not all about being an amputee There's a lot more to it. It's got to do with being a husband and a dad and Doing the job that I do And and thirdly, I think I've been able to acknowledge love so love is always like It just didn't you know, I kind of knew what I was but I also didn't yes and for thinking about it kind of taking love and it's a purpose and Finding some meaning and putting that together has made me a happier happier person I think we live at least the society that you know that that I've experienced. There's a lot of emphasis on like, you know me and and like a personal journey and all of that and the more that I Experience anything especially anything kind of traumatic or negative or like extreme or unexpected the more I realize that I like We are meant to be together like people are meant to be together We're meant to be connected and if you don't have that life is agony like if you don't have support if you feel isolated it is just Unsustainable if I think back in at the point where I became addicted to I Needed substances to cope and I I kind of started hating the idea of needing a crutch To cope but Isolated and and even though I might have had a sense of that communicating with people Was being connected. That wasn't true. I wasn't really connected It was but some that that once the connection came the the love started happening Yes, so so yeah, I think connectedness is the opposite of a lot of things of unhappiness of depression of addiction I experienced that that's so true, and I think I don't know what your experience has been But I think to actually Experience support or connection kind of going back to me at our conversation You have to maybe not even put into words, but you have to ask for help You have to open yourself up. You have to be vulnerable to some extent because otherwise Like you can't get past the surface with yourself, but I spent so many years living in that I mean I spent the first like 20 two years of my life existing in that plane of like just Just surface with everything like I could swear the people I could you know, whatever But I never let anyone get past like, you know skin deep and that was So isolating and so alone even though I had so many friends I had so many people around me and all of that There was no true connection and I I felt like slow death in a way, you know One stuff actually started happening and do you know why you did that? I think it was self-protection in a way Good question Yeah, I think it's It was self-protection, you know If I didn't let anyone near who I really was and I also didn't know who I really was so I didn't have to know It allowed me to avoid any kind of self-awareness or self-reflection Or vulnerability with myself or other people. I think it was very much both. It wasn't just about other people It was about I didn't want to go into anything that I was really feeling or really experiencing And so I stayed service with myself. Yeah, which I think was probably the biggest thing even though it reflected in other people You know, I didn't let them be close, but I didn't let myself be close to myself either Yeah, yeah, and then and that yeah getting close to myself was and it was fear for me It was just fear what we're talking. It's quite arrogant It was quite arrogant of me to think that I didn't need you or you or other people in my life, too I mean it would suggest that I'm limitless, which obviously I'm not But it's quite an arrogant position to take as I can solve things also having technologies that I have limitations That there are certain things I just cannot cope with and for as long as I thought I could Things went really badly and came to a To a very to a crisis If someone is which I think we probably all are to some extent, but if someone is scared of vulnerability I mean that's something that you have experience and it's something that you experience not just with people in your life But also online. What is something that you would impart to someone who wants to be more vulnerable? It wants to take like the first step towards that. I think two things for me The first thing is I was concerned if I became vulnerable it would become an avalanche of Not coping with anything things would start falling apart that I had to hold on to the known That I feared what would what would be in the other side because I hadn't I hadn't seen it in my family of origin either It was it was all about when you grab them quite a conservative environment Where it was all about, you know, you have to be able to cope with things is the one the other thing I would suggest is it's the risk of vulnerability versus the risk of Perceived toughness if I put it that way either way you're gonna take a risk. So whilst I was Busy with the risk of of Thinking I could cope There was no no potential for change or for a good outcome Yeah, and when I realized that I had to take a risk to become vulnerable and at least then there would be an Opportunity for things to be to be different. Yeah, it's a matter of the what is the alternative to becoming vulnerable. Yes, it's more of the same or Yeah, what what would it have been for you? I think I think I mean first of all I think that's such that's such a good answer and that is kind of what comes to mind first for me too that it's almost Not not at all what other choice do you have because I think we always have choices when it comes to ourselves, you know Internally we always have choices, but if you want to Move forward you have to take a risk like if you want to progress with yourself or with anything there is going to be risk and I Think to some extent you have to make Peace with that risk you have to make peace with the fact that yeah Someone might not be okay with your vulnerability. Someone might not take it. Well, someone might say something That's not great and that's gonna hurt But it's also doesn't have to destroy you like you can move on to the next person or you could find help in a different Avenue and the world's a really big place. Yeah. Yeah, I found myself asking I got to the point where I became self assured enough at some stage and it's it's fleeting at times But where I could say if somebody has a problem with my vulnerability, does it say something about me or is it is more about Place where another person is not a judgmental statement. It's just a It's helping to say what does this say something about where I'm at or where the other person's at and it's it's not good or bad Or anything. It's just a statement of fact is And and and I think generally I've come to the point to where I'm able to reality test such a question and go Well, it's one of two things. I need to change or take a step back from the other person's perspective Yeah to protect myself. Oh, I think that's I think that's exactly it I think it's taken me a while to get there like he said it's fleeting sometimes some like the whole being self-assured enough to be like Well, it's actually isn't about me. Like, you know, if they're uncomfortable I mean to evaluate, you know, either either I did something wrong in this situation or whatever But if that's not the case then it's really not about me because not everyone's comfortable with vulnerability Not everyone's comfortable with you know fill in the blank and so if they have a negative reaction I feel like I see that a lot with comments. That's exactly. That was it. My next question is I'll help you deal with that because yeah, I Mean, not a lot the overwhelming amount of comments are really cool. Yeah and supportive But but there's been a few comments that I thought whoa, that's not okay. Yeah, cool at all How do you how do you deal with that? Yeah? Yeah, cuz I'm sure we both got on that and I've gotten my Bear share of people just saying things that are so far out of left field or so intentionally mean, you know, you they're just trying to hurt you or whatever and For a while it would get to me on The things that I was insecure on like on stuff that I didn't on stuff that was like whatever I was secure and then I was like whatever.  I haven't seen that but but that is so rough. Yeah, that I had Body integrity identity disorder was there a thing which is basically where you feel like a part of your body isn't yours And they took a long time to like detail this out and it was also from a place It wasn't like a hey, I think you might want to see someone about this It was like a like a year after and here's why and so I looked at that and I took a second and I was like And so I responded as compassionately as I could saying like thanks for the feedback Which is kind of like a Which kind of helps saying like thanks for the feedback on something that isn't great feedback kind of helps me Set my mindset like okay, cool. That's your opinion But then I just try to engage with them and be like I'm curious why you think that You're welcome to respond and they actually did and they and they talked about Their own family history and how they lost their mother to that and I was like, oh This is absolutely nothing to do with me. Yeah, this is This is deep pain in their life that is just Directed in my direction because it happens to remind them of trauma in their own past Exactly and so That and a couple other times where that's or similar things have happened where I've tried to engage with someone And the response has indicated something in their own story Has made it a lot easier to receive when people are just not being kind I realized that actually probably not about me. We've got a lot of topics. We have the kind of things that act all over the place I like it. That was good. I remember it was useful for For you guys. Okay. All right. Catch you guys in the next one. So Thank you guys so much for watching. 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One of the useful features about mathematics is that it is reversible. Remember we can represent signed numbers using our chip model, where we have positive numbers represented by positive chips, negative numbers represented by negative chips, and the important feature is that the positive and negative chips can cancel each other out. But let's think about this. If we can combine a positive and negative chip to form nothing, we should be able to form a positive and negative chip from nothing. And as it turns out, this will be very useful for us. So let's consider a problem like 3 minus 5. So we have 3 positive chips and want to remove 5 positive chips. But the problem is we don't have 5 positive chips. We need more positive chips. Since we want to be able to remove 5 positive chips, we need 2 more positive chips. So we'll make more at the cost of making negative chips as well. And now we're ready to remove 5 positive chips. And that leaves us with 2 negative chips. Now let's consider. We found 3 minus 5 is the additive inverse of 2. But let's consider another subtraction that uses the same numbers, not necessarily with the same signs. And that subtraction would be 5 minus 3, which is equal to 2. And if we compare our 2 subtractions, we see that again they have the same numbers, 5, 3, and 2. But 2 things have changed. We switch the order and we change the sign of the result. And this leads to an important theorem. For real numbers, a minus b is the same as the additive inverse of b minus a. So if I want to find 8 minus 15, the way we might approach it is this. I don't know what 8 minus 15 is. You can't subtract a larger number from a smaller number. But our theorem says you can reverse the order of the subtraction as long as you introduce an additive inverse. So instead of finding 8 minus 15, I'll find the additive inverse of 15 minus 8. And I know how to find 15 minus 8. That's 7. And at this point, we really don't need those parentheses. And so my result is the additive inverse of 7, or about 5 minus the additive inverse of 3. So we start out with 5 positive chips. It's a subtraction, so we need to remove 3 negative chips, but we don't have any to remove. No problem. We can make them from nothing as long as we get a positive chip at the same time. So let's make 3 negative chips from nothing getting 3 positive chips at the same time. And now I can remove 3 negative chips, which leaves me with 8 positive chips. And again, it's helpful to find the comparison. We found 5 minus the additive inverse of 3 is 8. And we also found that 5 plus 3 is 8. And we have the same numbers and the same result. And the only difference, that in one case we're subtracting an additive inverse. And so this leads to the following idea. A minus the additive inverse of B is the same as A plus B. So if I want to find 12 minus the additive inverse of 12, well, that's 12 plus the non-additive inverse of 12, which is 24.


Welcome to the Wild West 1800s cooking stream. Today you have to put in some methods only in the 1800s. First you need a fire-starring guide. We all need this. Obviously it looks like it's dark skinned people versus light-skinned people. E-Rob, go back to the... They took our idea. What the f***? I've already been doing it, dumbass. You just came up with it 30 seconds ago. Dumbass. You're gonna have to f***ing tell me. Stop it! You just want to make a fire. This big strong woman need a big man to make a fire. Jessie Jars. She's a convict. Uh, former. That's not my lore. I'm just a sexy, fertile lady of a town. Oh. Oh. Well, she should be in jail, is what you're saying. Stop! Stop! No! I need to f***! Come here, bro. F***! F***! No! Leave him alone! Hey, Feng, get this on camera. Oh! We're getting close. We'll be doing us some cowboy cooking today. We got the crew out here, fellow cow. We're gonna go out there and we got us, ourselves, two tables and we're gonna get in two stations. We're gonna get ourselves in two groups and we're gonna see who can make the best breakfast. Thank you, Cornwood, for inviting us out here to your haciende hats. Uh-huh. It was an absolute pleasure after having been in the Pleasure Grotto with you. Uh-huh. Split up into two groups. Fertile Fan Fan. Gonna have, uh, what's your name again, ma'am?  We're gonna want them. Yes. It is those, are the only two. My name is Jesse Jars. Great. Jesse Jars and Fertile Fan Fan. Y'all are gonna be over here. What are you doing over here? I don't know how to cook. I don't know how to cook. He wants to be with the women.  We're gonna put you all over here. I think that's a good idea. Hell yeah. Uh-huh. Former sheriff. You might just be a simple farm man from Podunk, Idaho. But I know what love is. Okay. The simple farm man who forgot his name. We're gonna be over here. All right. It's in the, oh, water. Yeah, yeah. It's just some water. We got that from the whale this morning. All right. Okay. So, here's the game plan. We got ourselves some wood. We got ourselves some point and tender. We got ourselves some charcoal. We're gonna make ourselves a fire. Y'all listening? Yeah. Okay. So, we're gonna make ourselves a fire. We're gonna make ourselves a fire right here. We're gonna cook on that fire. Where? Right here. Where? Right here. Right here. You can't make a fire on the ground. On the ground? We can do this on the ground? We have approval. We're just gonna make a fire in the middle of the town. Okay. The way he just nods and goes, mmm, makes me trust him. Cornwood, are you drunk again? No. You can't keep doing these events while hammered. I ain't drunk.  Well, that's just my mouthwash. You got it. Are you sure we're doing this? Stress. Thank you, thank you. You're not jumping around. It's a crack of dawn. I'm ready to cook, Chef S-Fans. Yeah, we're gonna put her in the corner. She's got too much energy this hour.  I was here on my team. You know I was trying to make a fire. Here, listen.  All right.  Hey, these are my gloves. Maybe startin' to wonder. So here we got Jessie Jars. Thank you. She's a convict. That's not my lore. Tell us what you're about. I'm just a sexy, fertile lady on the town. She should be in jail is what she's saying. Somebody lock her up. Right, fan fan? Yeah. We got old Cungus. Cungus is the city killer. I'm just here hanging out with all the everyone that I killed. It's just kind of the fun.  Yeah, very good. Welcome Cungus. Thanks for welcoming me here today. We're glad to have you. We have fertile fan fan. She is ovulating or something. What'd you say? I think I'm sterile today, honestly. Oh, never mind. Infernal fan fan. I'll take one for the team. I'm the fertile one. I mean, after that hot tub last night, I think we're all sterile. Oh, yeah. That was disgusting. That was gross. Also, we have Ole Miss Sunshine. Big Giot, Emily, as she says. Don't forget it, S-band. Big Giot. Big Giot. Emily, is he allowed to have a chair? Emily, go ahead. Do they have chairs to 1,800? Yeah, I crafted that myself. I don't have it. I want to have it. Next up on this team, we got ourselves Nicholas. Nicholas. He's an accountant. Why would you throw your throat? I don't know. It's because I was smoking and other cowboy things. What's up, Chad? Good morning, motherfuckers. Welcome back. Yeah, we got Marcus. He's our mayor's sheriff. Howdy. He's dead, actually. I don't know what happened.   That's right. We call him Kenny, but his name's Marcus. All right. Good morning. I'm Eric. Yeah, we have Eric. Glad to be here. Yeah. So, we also got myself. Yeah. But not before we introduced this simple farmer. We don't know his name, and I don't think he does neither. Go ahead. I'm just a simple farm man from Podunk, Idaho. But I know a thing or two about loving. So, we're going to have him showing some love to this here breakfast that we're going to work on. Myself, of course. Captain Cleetus Cornwood, the former sheriff. Who's team captain? Me? I'm Elena. First, you need a fire-starring guide. Watch. For both of you. We don't need this. Let me give you some backstory, guys. Welcome to the Wild West 1800s cooking stream. Today, you have to cook with ingredients and methods only in the 1800s. This cowboy here has traveled land and far from Dallas. That's about three days on horseback. And your goal is to impress him. I have a taste for the finer things, despite my simple exterior. Thank you, cowboy. At noon sharp, y'all will be presenting him a dish each of what you consider the perfect breakfast. With me. Grab the picnic basket. Head to the garden. You will find one garden bed for each team. Pick all your vegetables. I need to fell.  Fuck, I'm awake.  There's a butterfly behind you. Jesus. Just get one of these if you get one. Take everything. All right, let's get one of these. I want to take them this way. I'll box them off. Can you get off with your stanky feet? What are you doing? This is ours. It doesn't say your name on it. One for each team. We don't need that much. Tater's right here. Sweet potato. Let's keep this out. We use this to make a fire. Put it in there. You don't use that to make a fire. I don't want that. We got to use it. It looks like a goddamn... Tell me something. Why don't you want that? Just grab all of it.  Listen. It looks like a carrot. E-Rob is a Tyler one. But the carrot is Tyler one.  Am I making sense?  This is back in the day.  They would die. It's so privileged here with his air conditioning. Look at the town. We ain't living like we're settlers first time coming to the country.  We got ourselves some peppers. I don't think we can touch those. Those aren't our peppers. Let's go back. They were stuck into the ground. That's crazy that these carrots grew from this side. How did that happen? Was that magic? That's incredible. I'm home, Elena. All right, now mail team. Now take their rocks. Sounds good. When rocks existed in 1800s, they haven't started dick lick.  Stop! Come here, boy. Come here. I'm the sheriff of this town. Grab the rocks, boy. We're a wild west stream. I told you something. Look at the rest of my team. I got outnumbered.  What is this? I'm getting rocks. I don't want to put any of this in your mouth. This is not very sanitary. I'm scared of knives. Your next instruction is to go in the back and find rocks for your fire. Go to the bath. Back and find rocks. My idea.  Open the town, Marcus. I'll get you. The rocks that were left over still had dead fish on it. Ew. From E-Rob's stream. And there's maggots and flies all over the rocks. It smells. Can you find different rocks? He had all the rocks. Look at them.  It's not who makes the food the fastest. It isn't McDonald's vs. Waterbury. We have to give him the dish at 12 p.m. Are you listening at all? It's still 10 o'clock.  Read the time. It's 10 o'clock already. Why don't you give him some carrots? Good, good, good. You want a little bit of wind. You want chaos. This is going to be very good. We're going to start upgrading the wood here. It's my country gal right there. Oh my gosh. It twisted. Doesn't that look kind of sexual? No, no, whoa, whoa, whoa. Just like get the dirt off. Jesus Christ, ladies. Look at you. I'm scared. Get this on camera. Listen, two minutes. This is how you get out the wild one. How did a whole bottle of water not even douse that flame? I don't know. Look in those flames. How did not douse it? I poured a whole bottle of water and it still kept going. Chemical and the wood keeping it alive. You have cheese and wood?  So he's talking about some magic wood. Oh, you got some right there. No, no.  No competition. I'm just hungry as hell. So whoever makes the food, I'll eat it. All right. We can't be cheating. Dude, seriously cheating the whole day. Yeah, it's okay. It's a win. Just don't let them see it. I got it. Good job. Cover that win. No, Eric, stop it. Cover the win. Grab it. No, I need to cover it. Do it inside of this. I am. Trust me. I don't know. Oh, true. We got a fire. Yup. Put it in here. Get me in. There's no health and safety regulations here. I am just handling raw chicken and I have nowhere to put it. I can't put it on the cutting board that we just used to chop vegetables. I don't want him to die. He's got like two more years to live. I will slap you with this It sounds so privileged. It's insane. Okay, sorry. I don't want our guest of honor to die. You shouldn't even know that that's her health. I'd rather face it.  So I can't wash my hands. I'll just wash my hands in the dirty vegetable water. So bad. Oh, God. Dude, this is not good. Okay, scrub all your cooking clean like a desert rain washing away the dust. Okay, so let's wash the potatoes because there's no water. For sure, wash the potatoes.  Who's handling the meat, by the way? Here, I can handle the meat. All right. There's a clean potato doing all the rinsing we need here. Go ahead and get it on him. Yes, it is.  Is this how we learned in the country? You need soap. No, we don't need soap. Soap is for pussies. Someone's leaving her gang green, that's all I gotta say. Hey, listen. Are these potatoes? Nick, somebody start chopping these potatoes. I can chop, I can chop. Chop the potatoes. Why is this a person coming over here?  No, hey, hey, go. Get back.  I like it back in the day, man. We live more control than we do now. Well, not me, but some people do. What do you want? How do you want these chopped up? I want them chopped up, diced. You want diced? Sweet. Basically, we're letting it burn down a little bit. Get those hot coals so you can cook on. There's nothing better than nice, better hot coals to throw that cast iron on.  Simple jars. Anyways, I did the thing to the chicken that made it flat. And then I'm gonna beat it a little bit. And then I realized that we have flour, milk, and eggs, so we're gonna do a fried chicken outlet today for our good friend here who's using some weird device that I've never seen before. Because as you can tell by the health conditions, we are in the 1800s. Let's call it a cup. Oh, my God, look, I, like, decimated that. That's good. All right, look how clean, look how damn clean we got them carrots. That's pretty right there. Can someone get the bread off the cooking board?  Okay, good. Wait, was that a skinny? Hey, look. Want to make sure to put the meat on a clean surface. Don't you feel like break it back or something? Like... Nice. All right, now you gotta de-gut it. Why are streamers so useless? That's what you have to do, you have to break it back. True? I'm looking at that. That reminds me of my ex-wife.  Cut it open. First things first, you gotta go and get a... Wait, first things first, I'm the realist. First things first, I'm the realist. The skin is good. Don't take off the skin. Don't you want to... Cut it open. You pussy-footing, that's fan. Keep going. I gotta make sure... I don't want to see how the girls are doing. This is important. I was wrong. She said she was wrong. Here's what we're going to do. Here's what we're going to do. Here's the game plan. We're going to cook the chicken. I will season the chicken, I'll get it in the pan. Once the chicken's done being made, we'll make eggs on the same pan if the chicken's ready. I need two chicken breasts. I need these two pieces of meat.   What do you think I'm doing? Okay. You know what? This used to be a damn great country in the 1700s. Now it's the 1800s and we're just surrounded by pussies. That's what it is. Salt, pepper, garlic. We'll put the dipping in the flour. Any progress?  Apparently. Oh, we're going too fast.  Did you use an egg for that? Uh, yes, Jesse. I was... You know, I wanted to see if I could fry an egg with a fire. I've never done it before. That's okay. I don't need it. Cool. I've never made an actual fire before. Is it working? The actual flames are not as hot as that. The coals. That's why you want to cook on coals. The flame is a little bit more of a superficial heat. Oops! I got wood in my egg. Oh, it's cooking! They took our idea.  I've already been doing it, dumbass. You just came up with it 30 seconds ago. Oh, dumbass! Where's Brett to defend him? Just remove as much meat off the bone as possible. I know I ain't doing the most efficient of jobs, but listen, it's... It's 1800s, apparently. And, uh, things ain't easy. So we're gonna make it happen. We're gonna make it work. I'm definitely hitting... You know what? I'm just gonna break this thing off. Yeah, just about. Give me a second. We don't need any of that other shit, so I suggest you just filet. It's personally this point. Okay. So we got that. We'll take this. I'm gonna place this elsewhere. These are delicious. They're so good. I'm gonna put these off to the side. Put them in the pan. You want to make sure to go. That's a grateful ass, man. Thank you. You want to cut these in half because it'll cook a little bit better. We're gonna go right quick, right here. Hopefully this works. Hopefully this ain't too good.  So this spreads them out a little bit. It was a little bit uneven, but that's okay. This is gonna allow it to cook a little bit better. We're gonna do that to this one, too. We are in business. Cooking our veggies with salt and pain, and we got butter, salt, pepper. That's not that impressive.  What are you cooking? Fried chicken. Don't think so. Look, look, look. Eric. My late wife died of dysentery. Sometime along our trek to Idaho. I hope someone could be her mother again some day. What is that? I need to put this in there. Oh, that's egg. Eric. Eric. I think it was right there. No, he's got to do that. This is the only solution. This is the only solution. That was the only way this could have been done. That was the only way. I don't think that was the only way that could have been done. Oh, we're using this for... Just hit it, just hit it.  We're gonna put this. Real quick, guys, remember, there's $100 off Starforge for a Black Friday sales deal. You know what I'm saying? Right here, there's a graphic over top of me right now. $100 off Starforge PCs for Black Friday. Correcto-Bismal? Yep. That sounds about right, right? How you doing? All right. Looking mighty fine this morning? Okay, let me grab it. Merched out. That's right. Team cooking. It's women versus men. No, no, no, this is good. We got vegetables here with eggs. That's eggs? Yeah, we got eggs and vegetables in here. Trust me, this is a family recipe. Me and my brother Marcus here, we're actually related. Our great-great-grandmother who's Irish actually talks how to make this. You put yams and eggs?  Throwing out the family recipes? But this is my grandmother. My grandmother was a whore. Where do we put it? Where do we put it? Where does it go?  I'm putting it in the tin. Oh, my God! No, you're putting it on utensils. Look at that. Look how party that is. It's more special out there. You see that filet that butter's white? I'm going to put a little bit more of this beef on it. Is that chicken done? Yeah, but you already put... Don't put that one either. What do you mean? That's good? Hell yeah, that's good. What time is it?  That chicken is going to taste delicious. You throw a little bit of Tony's on there. It's going to be over. No, it's burnt. You don't have our eggs?   You just borrow some neighbor. What about western hospitality? It's important to be nice where I'm from. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, too far!  What are you guys going on in there? Open up, open up, Henry. You were aiming to make some mashed potatoes. Look at this. I made stars. If you cut them smaller and you see you're only going to put them in a skill, they'll cook faster. No, we're making mashed potatoes. We don't, we have time. We have time, ladies. No, no, we don't, because this fire is not going to last forever.  I told you we should have let more fire. Oh, Jesus! Okay, here we go. Come on, man, come on. Oh, my lord.  What are we cooking now? That's pretty, ain't it? That's pretty. Yeah, that's real good. Are we cooking these vegetables? Some of these vegetables are pretty burnt, brother. Here, I go there. Now, then vegetables is about done. Here's what I want to do. I don't think the carrots are done at all.  Sit down. Hey, he don't know his name. Yeah, why was hot, ladies? That's right. How? How? How? Caroline! That potato! What? How'd you make that potato over there? I bowled it. You bowled it? Do it again. We dumped the water out. We dumped the water out. Our potatoes just finished and we started them before you. No, we started ours way before you. Why are you here? You promised me commission. What's what? Did you touch my fat? That's my... Yeah, it's dip. Put it on the gums, buddy.  That's dip. Is that dipping sauce? It looks like some dipping sauce. No, it's dip for... Pull it out and flip it over. Flip it over. I knew it.  What the... We'll do it all in one. That looks like a hearty meal. That's a meal worthy enough for a king. There's a lot of work that goes into this and I want to go in and clarify.  There's a lot of work that went into this. So, you know, obviously Marcus did a phenomenal job here. Nicholas did a phenomenal job. A lot of work went into this. So, there's a lot of work. Looks delicious, obviously. We got ourselves some fried chicken. We got two big old breasts right here. We got some carrots. We got some onions in there. We got some eggs. And we got ourselves a nice good old baked tater. And I want to add that the objective was to feed this hungry farmer boy from Ohio the hearty meal because he is hungry. Idaho, sorry. Because he is hungry.  Breakfast, mind you, and chicken. I thought you said you boiled that potato. Why'd you call it baked? It's a bowl. It's the same thing. It's not the same thing. I knew you didn't cook it. It's a team effort. Let's see what he thinks about the food. We don't have more. We don't want the sauce. I have so much sauce in it, you can even understand it. We'll take a photo of this before you take a bite. This is delicious. He's got a photo already. Come on now. Take a picture of me and my boy. Thank you. I always thought my last meal would be served to me on death row. But if God says now, I'm just a poor farmhand from Po-Dunk Idaho. When's your hanging time today? Come again? When are you hanging today? Three times? Last meal. That's not how you're supposed to eat it. He's from Idaho now. You have a fork. Man, I taste the seasonings of the Pleasure Grotto in here. All kind of accumulating the little biofilm. I mean, it's pretty good. All right. Dude, it's coming through. All right. We checked for you. What are those? You don't eat them down there, bub. Oh. I don't have a fucking... Typically, you give me a little something to cut with, brother. You said you don't use utensils. All right.  Full plate. Hey, Caroline. Finger licking good. You see that, Nate? Hey, do you like it? He's licking his fingers.   We got some extra, too. That is not for a meal. No, no, I'm just this for myself. That is fine. That ain't for you. You're fine. Dead beat down. We made it ourselves, fuck-ass. This actually tastes really good.  No, that is not. That is the most dried chicken. Honestly, it takes one to no one. I don't know if you're gonna love us for this one. Good luck. That's really not hard to do. Blacker than them. Perfect. I forged some rosemary. Beautiful. I hope I found it in the middle of nowhere. In the woods. Wait, this is actually really good. Hey, listen, I want everybody in there. There's a method to my madness, okay? There's a method to my madness, okay? And you gotta trust the process, okay? This is my team right here. This is my team right here. Us four. We are the team. You gotta trust the process, all right? And listen, the process may involve a little bit of chaos, a little bit of distrust, a little bit of...  The second those eggs went in those vegetables, I thought it was over, but we were covered. Yeah, that first dish was... He spoke up and we were covered. That first dish was rough. I'd like to let each and every one of you know that life would be a little less lonely with more of you around. Mara? No, Mara! Well, that's unfortunate, because you're going back to the farm. I can't help myself. Come on, man. Maybe one day my daughter Stella will know what it's like to have a mother. Emily, you're on that team. I guess. Where are the eggs? I'm not on anyone's team. I wasn't here. Oh, boy. The eggs with the chicken are probably an amazing combo. Is the chicken so good? Because it's chicken from here, like it's a free range. I'm not kidding you. We picked the chicken and killed it. No way. Learn that one with the big gobble? No. So, there is a time limit. We're done. I don't know, boy. He's ready for seconds and that plate still looks full. So, I don't know what you guys did wrong. We did it. Can I have some? Oh, fork. Can y'all move, please? Move, move. Who's your team captain? I'll tell you what. So, what's your name? I'll be honest with you, brother. I'm just a simple farmhand from Hodongadaho. Now, Hodongadaho is an amazing place.  So, let me talk about our dish here. I seasoned the chicken, beat it a little bit with my raw fist. Then, we put it into an egg wash flour. That was seasoned.  All right. We fried it with some amazing ghee.  Here, we have some mashed potatoes with some beautiful carrot stars that match the Texas sky. All right. Additionally, I know I heard you over here. You said, I need enough to cut with, so we have also provided you enough in case you wish to dig in. Hand fist beaten chicken. You know what? I'll just actually feed you because I want to make sure that you get it right. So, we call this the perfect bite. Do not make any sort of moaning sounds peach, that's not fair.  I wasn't going to do that. I might be just as simple. No airplane mode either. Creamy ghee mashed potatoes with a chicken cutlet fried in that ghee. I think he loves it. No. I may just be a simple farmhand from Podunk, Idaho, but I do have a taste for the finer things. And these are seeming mighty fine. Woo! Now get a bite of my Gordon Ramsay style scrambled eggs. Gordon Ramsay. You love eggs, don't you? That's about a stick and a half of butter. That's how it should be. Well, it's actually ghee. It's better than butter. They sell it for $30 at Whole Foods. Can I try some? Now, before we move forward, I'd like to make one thing clear. I don't typically do much with leaves and shrubbery, but whatever this is there, I think a plant fell on it because we were outside. It's mighty magic. And I recommend each and every one of you try it. Damn! I'm suspending judgment for just a moment. Do you like them? You didn't try ours? Say it's good. It's good, but what?  Ours is really damn good, too. This is a thousand times better than yours! This is amazing! Let me inspire a more refined palette as I am once again just a simple farmhand from Podunk, Idaho. Billy Ace. Deputy Sheriff. Do you hear that moaning? I want you to taste it and not say anything. Come conspire with me for a moment. Yeah, that's good. The eggs are so good. Here's what we're going to do right quick. We're going to go ahead and have old Billy Ace go speak with the simple farm boy and we'll have a judge back committee.  Didn't we, Nick? It's okay, I'm saving that for later. But I know it's an egg. But I think we did a damn good job. So I trust the process. Now look, we got to have a lot of talent out here. I just think we got more. Hey, that's all you got to say. And I made extras. I made extras. Everyone who was in it, we need to line up before Wake tells her the answer. Wake? Oh, I made myself an egg sandwich. I'm about to... It's a bonus, extra credit.  It was good, ain't it? It was good, wasn't it? That's fried chicken.  Oh, my... Oh, it's so good! I'm really transparent. Ours was so much better. Try this. Ours literally tasted like restaurant quality food. Tasting your pans over your own food. It tastes like actual fried chicken.  You just said it was good. That was on the stream, I'm being honest. You were talking about E-Robs all day. Here's what we had. We had a little bit higher effort here on the team to the left of me here in that they scanned, they peeled, mashed a potato, the other ones just served me a potato plain. So the potatoes go to this group. I'm going to call it there. Now, the eggs went to the first group on the ride. Better eggs, the others far too sweet. You're right when you're sitting down. Now, the chicken I would say pound for pound flavor. Flavor was probably going to go to the group on the ride. That's what I would say too. So we're at number 2-1. What's our last take? I think... There should be a point for plating and I think this group takes plating by a landslide. So what we have is essentially two food parts go to the ride, one get to the left and then plating to the left. One egg cookoff. One perfect egg. All right. How much time we got left? Hold on. One egg cookoff. A true showdown. All right. This is how it goes. The ride prepared me a better chicken breast.  Fuller body, better profile, firmer. I enjoyed it more. The left, however, served me a better tater. It was fully mashed. It was peeled. It was tasty. I preferred the taters there. Beat them on eggs and the carrots both are kind of known. So what we had was plating and potatoes on the left. We had chicken and eggs on the ride. Now we have a one egg cookoff. A true showdown. All right. What?  Who's the captain of this here?  I accept.  I accept the duel. Who is the captain of that team? Who is the captain of that team? I accept. I accept. I'm going to be honest. In terms of flavor, you straight up lost. We gave you a point for playing. Let me be very clear.   I am a simple farm hand from Podonk, Idaho.  I might like to fight her things.  One egg. You can prove it. I accept the duel. Who is the captain? Oh, guy. Here you go. Extra. Extra. Let's do it. No, no, no. Let's lock it in. I need an egg. I need an egg myself. There it is. Get an egg. Let's hit the wrong one. Okay. I gave her our only egg. We only got one egg left. How about we share it? We can split in half. Then it was making eggs by yourself. Look into her hand. You're ruining the day. Unbelievable.  Okay, so here's what we're going to do. We've got one egg. Hold up. I'm done. Put butter in your pan. We don't have a whole egg left. One half egg each. I'm going to eat this out. You have half an egg. I've got half an egg. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to go in your pan. You cook it up. I'm going to cook this up. We have one egg. I get it. I think we win. I think we win. Listen, guys.  We want to have this duel. I can have a little more. It's fun to take a little more. Okay, that's good. We had better taste. They said we had better taste. Our chicken and eggs were better. That is literally the meal.  This is the 1800's. You're eating off the ground. Another half of the half of the half. Thank you. There you go. That's yummy. That's her.  Alright, that looks real good. We're going to have this duel and we'll find out what happens. Big duel. I mean, honestly, I said the boys are more likely to give wake food poisons. So even if the food is better. Two for three out of the food. You hit one for three out of the food, but your plating was better. But you are likely to die. Why? It was juicier. I don't know. This one was so juicy. There's only one thing we want. We won. Do we win? Can I offer some input? You and Will were both kind of split. Maybe I can say who I thought was better. Are they sure?  Do they want me to go Joker mode? There was no... I want to be honest. I ate both. And I also stole some eggs. There's is the best. Hand down. We don't go that far. There's a thing. Presentation would have been great. I imagine in about 200 years they're really going to appreciate that. But as far as I'm concerned, I'm just a simple farmhand from Podunk, Idaho.   And that's, thank you. Let's go, Eric.    I'm going to be honest with you. I had some of their chicken. I thought it was phenomenal. What do you think of that? That's a little bit of bonus I put together. You like that extra chicken? That's a bit pink, isn't it? It's dark meat. That's good. No, you're good. Listen, I think we just go in. We got to break some bread. Here we go. Crack one open for you. I don't drink sparkly water. Well, actually, you know what? I need to crack this one open now, too. Just for your last. All right. Cheers with you. Cheers. All right. Well, here you go. Wait. Cheers.  It's not going to bubble up. Cheers, though. Here you want it? Cheers. That's a refreshing beverage. After a hard day of work. Gentlemen! You're going to find a good job today. Good job. Hey, knock it off. You sound like Michael Jackson. I love when men beat women. Win competition.  No, no, my equal to one. The true winner is actually fan fan because Feet of the Week. Wait, is there actually Feet of the Year? Yeah. Feet of the Year. Is that a real thing? What is wrong with that? Impressive, right? But I've never gotten Feet of the Year. All right, fellas, here, listen up. A couple things that we got for you. We've had a fantastic, unbelievable weekend so far. Here at the Wild West Ranch. Except for Peach. Peach is having a great weekend, but a bad day so far. However, we're going to continue having a great day. What the game plan is going to be is we're going to raid into the OTK Network channel. You all can play with that camera. You can play with that camera if you do all that. I think we got a StarForge PC running that. So make sure to check out StarForgePCs.com and StarForgeSystems.com. I think we got both of them now. But anyway, you can check that out. You're all looking for a new computer. I don't use a computer personally, but some of y'all folks at home do. So StarForgeSystems.com, you guys can check out Wild West Merch, OTKNetwork.com for Wild West Merch. Actually, I go and explain it. I went to that Best Buy because I was doing work for, I have some special OTK stuff that's coming here in a couple of weeks that I went to go buy a laptop for. I know some of y'all, they made a joke about it prior, and I saw some of y'all, I heard through the grapevine, some of y'all were real upset and attacking my character, saying I was being selfish. That's shameful. Honestly, that is shameful behavior. If you'd attacked my character that way, when I was going out there making sure work was done, making sure stuff's happening behind the scenes. That's offensive to me. However, I'm a gracious cowboy, Cleetus Cornwood, and I'll forgive you. But please, don't attack my character like that and make assumptions off of a joke. Okay? So we're going to go ahead and we're going to go, we're going to raid into that OTK network channel, and then ol' Emery is going to teach us horseback riding, I believe. She's been corralling the horses, getting the stable ready this morning, and we're going to join her for some horseback riding. I may not be there myself, but she's going to be there. I may be working actually during that one. So anyway, thank y'all for joining us today. Thank y'all for joining us. It's been an unbelievable competition. I'll be honest, if I was doing the vote myself, I think their chicken was a little bit better. It was neck and neck, but don't you ever peach that. Okay? Don't tell her. That was my own personal opinion, because we won, I'm going to take the W. So, who was our best precedent, by the way. Anyway, thank y'all for joining us. We'll be over on the Ode to Game Network channel, and then we'll see you on Emery's. Then we got something else planned tonight.


I'm back and I brought Pete. It's always awkward getting him up on my lap because he's so much bigger than me but guys I'm back and I wanted to tell you that I'm sorry I was gone for so long but I was finishing a book but I've got a really cool new book stuff to talk about soon and B video is coming back yay give me high five feet he doesn't do that he doesn't know how to do stuff say bye say meow or not there you go


Welcome to Nation Beat. I am Genelle Norvel bringing you this brief on the pulse of our nation and highlights around the heart of St. Lucia. The Government of St. Lucia has made good on its promise to improve conditions in judiciary. The Caribbean Electric Utility Services Corporation 30 years on sets a new vision. Students of the St. Aloysius R.C. Boy School rewarded for excellence. The Government of St. Lucia has made good on its promise to improve conditions in judiciary amid plans for the construction of a Hall of Justice. The Government's efforts have led to the reopening of the High Court. The Naira Court from Monday for February 2019 will resume after refurbishments amounting to one million dollars. Anisea Antoine has more. The Minister for Home Affairs, Justice and National Security, Senator the Honourable Herman Guild Francis, along with the Permanent Secretary and an official of the Court, gave a tour of the newly renovated Naira Court. The Government has made an injection of approximately one million dollars into the refurbishment of the space. The aim, according to National Security Minister, Senator the Honourable Herman Guild Francis, is to create a more conducive workplace for members of the judiciary and staff of Naira Court. The money that was allocated for the Honourable Prime Minister had to find money outside of the budget and I want to thank him for being so gracious in allowing us to proceed. The Minister explained that the Naira Court underwent a lot of internal changes, including the utilising of the entire building with a courtroom on each floor. Before we occupied three floors and upstairs was used by the owner for some shipping area. And as a matter of fact, persons wanting to go to that area would have to pass the security and again would not want to be searched because they were not getting involved in the court. We have decided that this is not right and we have taken the whole building. So right now the shipping company is no longer there and a portion of the courthouse will be used to make the functions of the court more efficient. Minister Francis noted that as a result of the Naira Court being closed for renovations, there is a backlog of over 1,000 cases. The Minister spoke of plans to open two new courthouses in cross delay and castries respectively. We must make use of the bodily courthouse. It's there, it's been finished and we must use it so that we can bring down the backlog of cases and persons can have ready access to justice. The court will resume operations on Monday 4 February 2019. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Anzuan reporting. St. Lucia Strides in Disaster Risk Reduction came in for review Friday at a high-level meeting with international and regional partner agencies. The aim of the meeting was to provide the opportunity to highlight advances made towards achieving goals and targets through the project and to raise awareness among the political directorate on the required support for achieving integrated fully functional multi-hazard early warning systems. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society's Original Disaster Risk Management Coordinator for the English-Speaking Caribbean and Republic of Suriname, Tamara Lovell, highlighted the significance of ensuring multi-hazard early warning systems are in place. As I reflect on how this project contributes to the achievements of the IFRC's own strategy, Strategy 2020, saving lives, changing minds, research has shown how multi-hazard early warning systems not only save lives but also protect livelihoods. Prime Minister the Honourable Alan Chastney pledged his commitment with the signing of a commitment statement. Speaking to the attendees, the Prime Minister explained that action must be taken before it is too late. The hurricanes and the storms are actually the easier ones for us to deal with. The more complicated one, the one that's going to cost the greatest amount of money, the one that is inevitable, is rising water levels. So it means that Lucia through UNOPS has already done the UNS assessment. If there's a three-foot rise in the water levels, what does the country look like? So VG becomes an island. So where Gantor's is, the water will break through. Kuldusak will become a lake. And there are other areas where we have valleys in which those also will become lakes. So now, if you believe in the science, you know what you're going to have to invest. Executive Director for the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, CEDEMA, and Keynote Speaker Ronald Jackson addressed the topic of emergency policy considerations for multi-hazard early warning systems in the Caribbean. A multi-hazard early warning system with the ability to warn of one or more hazard increases the efficiency and consistency of warnings through coordinated and compatible mechanisms and capabilities, involving multiple disciplines for updated and accurate hazard identification and monitoring for multiple hazards. The prominence given to such an early warning is reflected in the global framework as well as our own comprehensive disaster management strategy and framework for the period 2014 to 2024. Other objectives of the meeting included handing over of key project results, identifying the early warning systems policy implications based on the project results, identifying key strategic and planning and programming actions that require regional coordination to name a few. The Caribbean Electric Utility Services Corporation, CARELEC, is reflecting on 30 years of service to the people of St. Glutia and the wider Caribbean. As part of its 30th anniversary celebrations, the Association of Electric Energy Service Providers have also taken the opportunity to announce its new strategic plan to the public for the period of 2018 to 2022. Details from Nisha Charles. It was a proud moment for stakeholders of CARELEC as the organization unveiled its plan for its 30th anniversary celebrations as well as its new strategic plan which includes reshaping the outlook of the organization moving forward. According to Executive Director Dr. Claytus Burton, the Board of Directors convened at a retreat in July of 2017 and felt it was more than necessary for the Association to reposition itself as a result of the critical changes taking place in the global environment. So we first had to recast our vision in terms of what we aspire to be. So the vision statement as we know it's a 2B statement is an aspirational statement. So CARELEC really seeks to position itself as no longer as in the previous statement an Association of Electric Utilities but an Association of Electric Energy Service Providers. So in the first instance we seek to be more all-encompassing. We seek to be more all-embracing of the major players in the sector whether independent power producers, electric utilities, governments etc. Dr. Burton outlines several of the future goals for the Association some of which includes collaborating with stakeholders, building capacity internally and throughout the sector and assisting its members to develop world-class sustainable energy solutions for the people of the Caribbean region. The goals naturally flow from the renewed vision and mission and so one of the main goals is increased collaboration, increased partnership, increased alliances with stakeholders across the region and beyond. So we are quite now deliberate and strategic informing alliances and partnerships recognising that CARELEC as a body cannot do it alone so to speak. So the transition that we seek to make to a green and sustainable future needs to be built on partnerships and collaboration. Also as part of its 30th anniversary celebrations CARELEC will be recognising and honouring those individuals who have made significant contributions to the organisation's success, development and advancement in the electricity industry in the Caribbean over the years through print, electronic media and various events. For the Government Information Service, Nisha Charles reporting. This is NationBeats coming up. Students of the Santa Loysias R.C. Boy School rewarded for excellence. Imagine being away from home, surrounded by danger and hostility, unable to escape or speak the language and being exploited. It might sound like fiction, but for 40 million victims of human trafficking worldwide, it is a reality. Innocent people enticed by the promise of a new life, then enslaved into forced labour or sex trafficking, human trafficking happens in plain sight. Know the signs, see it, report it. To report suspected cases of human trafficking, call the TIP hotline at 847. Welcome back. The Santa Loysias R.C. Boy School has recognised the dedication of students and staff to academic excellence. Nisha Charles reports. As the Aloysias celebrates its Nobel laureates for their achievements in literature and economics, the Santa Loysias R.C. Boy School used the opportunity to recognise their students for their academic achievements. Past and present students, principal and staff, gathered at the minor basilica of the Immaculate Conception to celebrate those students who excelled by gifting them with certificates and trophies. The teacher address was delivered by past student Don Howell, who applauded the school for its work in producing successful men in society by cultivating those habits which lead to success. As a student of the Santa Loysias R.C. Boy School, and I may add, echoing that of the principal, the number one school in the world, you are being taught values daily by your teachers. You learn different and new things daily. The point is, excellence is not when you are recognised, it's not when you are only recognised with trophies. Excellence is when you do what you are supposed to do and do it well. So we can be excellent with good manners, saying good morning, saying excuse me when interrupting. We can be excellent with discipline following our school rules, being obedient to your teachers. The school's principal, Julian Monroe, encouraged the students to always aim for excellence and to not let fear be the deciding factor in their lives. So if you set yourself goals and you're not afraid and you work very hard towards achieving these goals, your goals will become real. That would be your reality. The awards ceremony was held under the theme Celebrating Excellence 15 Years and Beyond from the Government Information Service, Nisha Traus reporting. That's nation beat. Join us next time on NTN at 7.30pm with a repeat at 7.30am and on this station as we fill the pulse and heart of our community. You can also catch up with us anytime on the St. Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I am Channel Norville.