So you want to mint the new Decentral Games Ice Poker Drop. Well my friends, you've come to the right place, you can finally stop searching. In today's video, I will show you guys how I have successfully minted four different ice poker drops and exactly how I'm about to mint my fifth drop today. Yes, you do have to jump through a few hoops, but it's definitely worth it. So let's go ahead and dive right into the video and get you set up to mint your first Ice Poker Drop. So prices have been going up on these drops. Today's drop was probably one of the more expensive drops so far, which is 0.75 Ethereum. So if you're wondering why you would pay that much to mint this wearable, if we pull up the Decentral Games Ice Poker OpenSea where people are selling their wearables, you'll see that the floor price, that means the lowest price right now is 1.69. So that means that if you wanted to, you could literally mint today's drop and resell it for a 125% return on your investment. So basically there's three steps that you need to take in order to be able to mint. The first one is you need to buy at least 1000 DG. Once you buy the 1000 DG, the next step is to stake it on their platform. Once you do that, the final step is to wrap your Ethereum in the Polygon network. And after that, you're basically done. All you have to do is make sure that you're eligible and get ready for the drop. All right, so the first step is to buy XDG. The simplest way to do this is to simply go to quickswap.exchange. So once you're here, you have to have the Polygon network on your MetaMask. If you don't have MetaMask, go to Google, type in Chrome Store, click the Chrome Web Store. On the top left, type in MetaMask, click MetaMask, and then you're just going to add it to Chrome right here. This is the easiest way to set up your MetaMask and to be able to use it. If you're using the Brave browser, you can do it the same exact way. If you don't have the Polygon network on your MetaMask, again, go to Google, put how to add Polygon to MetaMask. Click that first link and just literally follow these steps and they will show you exactly how to add Polygon network on MetaMask. So once you have that set up, all you have to do is switch from your Ethereum main net over to Polygon. Of course, the first thing you need to do is send over some Matic to your wallet. So that's as simple as buying some Matic on whatever exchange you use, then basically copying the address right here to clipboard and sending it to that address. Once that's done, the Matic that you have in your wallet should show up here. Remember, the Matic has to be on your MetaMask. And then you're simply going to add how much you want to buy. Remember that you do need some Matic to pay for gas fees. So leave a little bit just for the gas fees and then hit switch to Matic. Once you have your XDG, now you're going to go back to Decentral.games, click on Dow. Once you're on the Dow, just scroll down to the bottom, hit where it says stake your DG. And this is a page that will come up here. So remember, we're staking on Polygon. So go over right here to where it says Polygon. And you should see the bottom here that says stake DG. So then just go ahead and hit that. You will have to probably pay some more gas fees. But once you follow all the steps, after a few minutes, you should see it pop up here like this. So just kind of refresh the page and make sure that your XDG is now being staked here. So next step is going to be sending Ethereum to your MetaMask wallet and then wrapping it in the Polygon network. However, this is only if the Mint is in Ethereum. If the Mint is done with ICE, then you're going to be going back to quickswap.exchange. And after buying the XDG, you're going to also buy ICE. So all you literally have to do is type in ICE and you'll see that the ICE will come up again. Same thing as buying XDG. You put the amount that you want, leave a little bit so you can pay the Matic gas fees and then go ahead and do the swap. You'll know you did it correctly.  Go to my account here again. And on the bottom, you will see that it says ICE and it tells you the exact amount that you're holding currently. And so I currently have over 8,000 ICE. The amount of the Mint are usually 8,000, but they could vary. So now if the Mint is in Ethereum, then we have to get wrapped Ethereum. So to send Ethereum to your MetaMask wallet, the same steps that we covered before on Matic, except you're going to do it on the Ethereum mainnet. Buy Ethereum from whichever exchange you prefer. Make sure you're on the Ethereum mainnet. Simply copy this address right here and send it to that. Once that's done, the next step is go to Google, type in Polygon, or you can type in Polygon dot technology. What we're looking for is this right here, Polygon dot technology. So we're going to go ahead and click that. Once here, we're going to go to use Polygon. And then we're going to go to Polygon bridge. So once this is open, you're going to again go to Polygon bridge. You of course have to connect your MetaMask wallet. Once you connect your MetaMask wallet, it will look something like this. And basically what you're going to do here is switch your Ethereum over to Polygon. So if this does not say Ethereum here, just simply click the arrow and type in Ethereum, Ether, select it, hit the max amount that you would like to send over, and then simply hit transfer. Once you hit transfer, it'll look something like this. And it's going to tell you it's going to take seven to eight minutes. You're going to hit continue. It's going to tell you some numbers. And it's going to give you an estimate of your gas fees and the transaction fee. But it's never this exact amount. I think usually it's more around the $30 to $40 for the fee for the gas price to switch it over. Now, I already did mine. So I'm just going to show you a picture of what it looks like. Once you process and confirm the transfer on your MetaMask, it will look something like this. It's going to want to say approved. And then it will say confirmed. And then you will be on this window for about seven to eight minutes before it is completed. You will also see that it will say pending right here. Now, once it is completed, you will see that says transfer completed successfully. It will say completed here. And this will no longer say pending. So at that point, you're all set. The last step really is to just confirm your eligibility. If you see that you're eligible, that means that you've completed all the steps correctly. And now you just got to sit back and wait for that drop. Hope that you don't get any token errors and that you're able to successfully mint one. Alrighty, guys. So we are getting ready here to finally do the mint. We have about less than two minutes before the mint gets started. Now, the first thing you always want to do when you're preparing to do the mint is check eligibility. Make sure that this says you're ready to mint like it does here. Make sure you have enough Ethereum on the polygon and enough DG state. Now, if you're doing an ice mint, then this will instead say ice. Just make sure you have enough ice. Again, you need to still have enough X DG state here in order to be able to mint. So once you've come from that, basically what you're going to do, you just kind of wait here on the page. So what I like to do at this point is just pull up my clock and literally count it down here. As soon as that mint time opens, I will refresh the page one time and then I will try to mint. So here we go to one. Mint time. So I'm going to refresh one time. Just let this load up. All right. So let's mint. So this is where it gets a little tricky. Sometimes you might get some sort of error. Let's see what happens here. Just waiting as we see we've got that minting error. So that does happen. Sometimes I don't know why. Let's try it again. And sometimes if I'm getting that error multiple times over, I'm going to try to mint something like a different wearable. Maybe there's an issue with this one. Maybe too many people are trying to mint the same wearable. Maybe it ran out. So just kind of move on to the next one. I'm looking at the chat. People are getting that same token minting error. Now we are whitelisted. So we have a five minute advantage. I got an APR timeout. I don't know why. Let's try something different. Token minting error again. Again, we're going to exit. Try a different one. I see people saying star sold out. So I'm going to try to mint something different. That's what I figured. I figured everyone was going to try to get that star. Token minting error. Oh my God. Let's try to get a hat. They said that the token minting error is due to the polygon gas fees, which is unfortunate. And I'm seeing that the ice chef is actually sold out already. So we did not get one. Everything is sold out. So as you guys can see, you can't always get it. If you run into those token minting errors, unfortunately, it happens. There's only the second time out of six different mint drops. That I've tried that I haven't been able to actually mint one. So unfortunately, this time around, we were not able to mint a drop. We kept getting the token errors. And the drop literally sold out within the first five minutes, even with the whitelist. So we were whitelisted and we still could not get the mint. We weren't able to mint the drop.  But so far we've been successful four out of the six times that we've tried to mint a drop. So we have another drop coming up in a week. So we will prepare to try to mint that drop. Hopefully we get better luck that time. Thank you guys so much for watching this video. If there's anything that you did not understand, make sure to drop it in the comments and ask us there. And I will be more than happy to help you guys. If you guys enjoyed this video, don't forget to smash the like button on this. Also, don't forget to subscribe to the channel and turn on the notifications. If you were able to mint a whirlboat, then good luck at the tables. I will see you on the next one. As always, peace and love.


which simulates an earthquake of different magnitudes and the whole point of this is to give people an idea of what it feels like to be in an earthquake and we bring this out to different locations and Don you haven't been in this yet but it'll be interesting to see what it's like because you never know earthquakes could happen at any moment so we did exactly what we're supposed to do that's drop cover and hold on and you what did you think of that it's it's pretty wild uh you don't yeah I mean there's a lot of movement and I could definitely feel the things falling on top so yeah right and and so what we found is that a lot of times in earthquakes you think that a building is going to collapse on you and that's your biggest chance of getting injured the reality is that most injuries occur from stuff falling so that's unsecured items like we see here you've got all these books and things that can hit you in the head you can have a big flat panel television come down you could have you know maybe a coffee pot or something off of the top of your refrigerator so there's a lot of things that could cause an injury so we tell people and we teach them when the shaking starts you drop cover and hold on and if you can get underneath something and like this case we can't get under the couch so it's just drop cover your head and hold on until the shaking stops there's always a chance for aftershocks you should be aware of that and then after the shaking stops that's when you take the steps of deciding if you're going to evacuate or what you're going to do maybe shut off the gas because the gas means now so it was a pretty wild first experience for me so I have to say you know being new to California that was my first time of even having something simulated that and it is definitely an experience of just even trying to get down to the ground and but yeah it's a very interesting experience so glad I had the opportunity all right well that's the shake trailer and in the next segment we're going to be talking about what you should put in your emergency preparedness kit so we're here in downtown Sacramento where we're doing a demonstration for people on what it's like to be in an earthquake and we're also teaching people what you need to do to prepare yourself for an earthquake or any kind of disaster joining me is Don Limbloom with American Red Cross here thank you for joining me yeah thank you so what we want to find out is what is it we need to put in our kit that we would use in a disaster yeah well what's really interesting there's some really basic items that you want to have to be ready for an event so some of the things would be like having a flashlight extra batteries for the one in spares to have if something happens things like making sure you have a three-day supply of water usually our general recommendation is a gallon of water per person per day well that's important to know absolutely non-perishable food items so something that canned goods type of thing and make sure you have your can opener yeah that's really key I know a lot of people are like well you're going to be in your car and stranded somewhere or whatever and you've got cans how do you get in it right exactly that's really clever another thing is just some of the things that we don't always think about we see this all the time at the Red Cross and emergency response but make sure you have your prescription drugs you know have an extra supply on hand and if you don't have that have a copy of actually your prescription in and of itself because that's another piece that you know we can get refilled or do something like that but have that in place some of the other items if you have infants having baby food and formula not available and on hand and another thing to think about is that you know you don't know in the event you know how you know how much injuries are how people might get harmed during the event so make sure in your kit that you have a first date kit so that you can administer that if anything happens and so in here like so here's like a little tiny first aid kit and it doesn't have to be a big fancy one you don't have to get something that's cost you $50 or $100 no just be just be a really basic one it doesn't have to be um like you said anything too too huge toilet paper toilet paper could be a handy item to have you know and people laugh about that but it's true you never know when you're going to get stuck and you may need that right it is important to have I think some other things you know spare a set of keys in case you need that access to your home or or to that sort of thing so a lot of good things that you can have people can go actually to our website to find a full list of the type of items that you want to do to make your own kit and it really doesn't take a lot of effort even if you do it as a family for example you could do one item per month or one week per month just pick it up when you do your regular grocery store run and it just it's a good thing to have you know in any event of any type of disaster emergency that you're ready to go and that's great these are great tips and it doesn't have to be expensive you could just go around your house and just pick some things and put it in a bag and have it ready to go for whatever the disaster may be absolutely all right well thanks Don thanks for showing us and if you want more information you can go to the American Red Cross website which is www.redcrosscrc.org and then we also have totally unprepared.com which is a place you can see some videos and some other ways in which you can prepare yourself in your house and secure your items if you're going to be in in an area where there might be an earthquake which is basically all of California thanks for joining us


the younger surgeons. This is the group that you've all been waiting for. I know the first person that I'm gonna introduce is Dr. Melanie Sir. I mentioned Melanie a few minutes ago. She's currently assistant professor of surgery at Mount Sinai Health System. Melanie came here as a surgical oncology fellow, and if that wasn't enough, she also did a medical education fellowship and a fellowship in the McLean Center. And she's really done some phenomenal work. And I must say, for me, there's nothing better than seeing how great the people that I at least had a small part in training have done as they've left the University of Chicago. So Melanie, welcome. Thank you.  So just a heads up, I think there is gonna be a good amount of overlap, I think, between my talk and Dr. Langermansom. We've worked together in the past, but maybe I can give you a little bit of the young attending view, since I'm not that seasoned. I have two months of seasoning as an attending surgeon. So, we'll start with the case. So a 54-year-old man who's recently admitted to University Hospital for acute cholecystitis or an infection of the gallbladder. So he's admitted under the care of Dr. Lee, who's a well-known minimally invasive surgeon. The patient is otherwise healthy, so antibiotics are administered and he's scheduled to have a laparoscopic removal of his gallbladder. Before the surgery, the surgical chief resident approaches the patient at the bedside to obtain informed consent, which is quite common at any academic institution for the trainee to be the one actually sort of obtaining that informed consent signature. But as the resident goes on to introduce herself and the role within the team, the patient interrupts, you know, it's nice to meet you, but I hope you understand, I only want Dr. Lee to do the operation. So this is a situation that is quite familiar to the surgical resident and I think is sort of the basis for some of the ethical issues that we see in surgical education. So I think as a background, it's important to first to go back and recognize that there has been sort of a fundamental role of apprenticeship in the history of medical and particularly in surgical education. So in the United Kingdom, the barber surgeons of the 17th century sort of, this is where surgery began, the barbers were the ones that have the tools, the scissors to be able to start doing small procedures for their patients or clients. The barber surgeons, their training was characterized by the apprenticeship model as opposed to going to the academic setting that the medical doctors went to. And that's actually the basis for using the title mister for surgeons in England as opposed to doctor, they're not referred to as doctors, they're called, you know, mister or miss. So that was really an important aspect of the history of surgery. And if you look to the beginning of the 20th century, it really also was important for people like William Halstead who sort of formalized the apprenticeship model into formal surgical residencies. So Halstead is seen here with his, one of his mentees, Harvey Cushing. So if you think about all the surgeons practicing in America today, we essentially all have a lineage of mentor mentees and can really trace our lineages back to these founding fathers of surgery. And now certainly the ACGME, the American Board of Surgery, they're both sort of in charge of making sure that programs are standardized across the board, making sure that residents have some sense of graduating having completed some certain competencies. And of course they have to go through a rigorous written and oral board exam. So the problem with surgical education as Dr. Langerman has alluded to is that we have to have trainees directly involved in operations. So there's no way to get around that. We don't think that didactics alone or simulation alone is gonna be enough to train a surgeon for operating independently. So there's sort of two challenges that come from that. Number one, allowing less experienced physicians to participate in surgery obviously has a potential for increased risk to patient safety, which is obviously very important. Number two, it's not clear to what extent patients would really have this ability to actively consent or actively refuse trainee participation. So the social goal or societal level goal of physician training and making sure that patients of today and patients of the future have access to adequately trained surgeons may be at odds with patient safety, which is fundamentally about doing no harm and doing the best for the patient, as well as patient rights, respecting patient autonomy and understanding that ultimately no person should not be able to have the ability to sort of control what happens to their bodies. So I think it's useful to think about this problem sort of considering each of the stakeholders in surgical education. I think the first is the resident surgeon who has an obligation to care for patients and obviously to do no harm, but also to do their best to learn to care for future patients and be prepared for the day that comes when they are the attending. Some of the challenges here is that surgery is a physical act. And so for whatever reason, participation is seen as something that is more intrusive and more consequential really than medical decisions. So I've certainly never heard of a case and we have certainly non-surgeoned physicians in the room and let me know if you think otherwise, but I've certainly never heard really of a patient saying, stop, sir, I don't want a trainee, deciding what antibiotics I should be on. I don't want a trainee writing my admission orders or my rate, my IV fluid rate. But people have much more resistance to the idea of a trainee participating in an operation compared to a trainee participating in their overall medical care. There's also this long history of public distrust. So certainly we know about the Boston Globe expose on concurrent surgery, but this has gone on really, or I should say started over 20 years ago or over 30 years ago in the 1970s when there was a notorious sort of 60 minutes expose looking at how surgeries were performed. And essentially they interviewed a patient who was really sure that he had had the best surgeon do his, I think it was a hernia repair and behind the door behind the closed doors it was really the chief resident who essentially had done the operation independently. And so this was labeled, this is the title of that episode was called ghost surgery. And Dr. Sligo and Dr. Angelos and I have been talking about, well, what is really ghost surgery? I think traditionally we think of it as one surgeon being substituted for another without the patient's consent. And does trainee participation really constitute ghost surgery? I think technically no because it's not that one surgeon has been replaced 100% but I think the slope is slippery. From the patient's perspective, obviously any level of not knowing who's doing what could be seen as sort of deceitful. But so this question of does resident participation truly harm patients? It seems logical, they're less experienced but fortunately we actually have quite a number of studies that have looked at this through NISQIP data, through a variety of sources. And in general the trend is that resident participation and operations seems to increase sort of slightly increase the rate of minor complications and definitely increases operative time I think for obvious reasons. However, in general there tends to be a protective effect against mortality. And we think, although it's really hard when you're looking at these large numbers to try to identify what that is from, it would make sense that this might be through improved rescue from complications that sort of the price of having a trainee close up your wound maybe that they're also gonna be there in the middle of the night when the attending is not there to pick up on your desaturation and I diagnose a PE and get you taken care of. So I think there is this trade off and certainly one of the things I looked at when I was a fellow was this level of involvement of trainees and sort of speaking up about their patient's care and making changes potentially to their patient's care. So I think there is a role for that. For the attending surgeon, the obligation obviously number one is to maintain that responsibility for patient care and safety but all attendings do have responsibilities to teach as well. So the challenges here I think are this need to disclose from the attending really and explain resident participation to gain the patient's trust and ideally this is done in the elective setting but unfortunately the few studies that we have suggest that up to 80% of attendings surveyed don't routinely disclose the role of trainees. Now these are like small studies, you know I wouldn't necessarily generalize that to everybody but that's sort of the data that we have that there's not necessarily routine disclosure. Interestingly, where I am right now I actually don't have trainees in a hospital where I'm most commonly but I do have physician's assistants and house stocks and on the back of our consent form is a list of all the names and a separate signature that the patient has to sign to acknowledge that there will be someone else helping them in the operation. And of course at first I was like oh my goodness like one more piece of paperwork, one more signature but I realized even sitting here that what it forces me to do is that for any patient that I'm operating on I have had that one sentence or two sentences where I'm saying hey, as you know, I can't do this by myself I'm gonna have someone helping me and these are their names and these are their degrees and so I think there is value to that and I think that might be one of the ways that we work towards gaining public acceptance and actually giving them information about who are the residents and what are their qualifications, what milestones have they accomplished. The surgeon is also responsible, the attending surgeon is also responsible for sort of tailoring their didactic strategies to the trainees abilities and goals in order to sort of balance these education and patient safety goals. So actually I'll give an example Dr. Langerman is very good at this so when I was on his service rotating as a surgical oncology fellow we often had other rotating trainees from ENT, from plastic surgery and one of the things that he did very well was sort of actually tailor his teaching of different parts of the operation to the different specialties so maybe focusing on the vascular reconstruction aspects for the plastic surgeon and focusing more on the oncologic aspects for the cancer fellow. So I think that you have to tailor what kind of teaching you're doing to the trainee and then finally we should recognize that although we talk about this as sort of an issue of training the reality is that training doesn't end on graduation day and so new surgeons also really face some of these same issues and they must continue to disclose and sort of disclose their level of experience and seek senior help as appropriate. For the current patient obviously the goal of any of us when we are a patient is to heal, to regain health, to maintain ownership over their bodies. Now you might say well there's sort of a goal of perhaps giving back to the medical system by facilitating physician education but I think we would all agree that this is clearly secondary for the patient and really cannot be mandated for them. So the challenge is in that sense I think the ultimate question is should patients be able to really refuse trainees? I think full respect for autonomy does require an explicit consent process and you might say well okay if we do that that's fine a few of them might refuse it's not a big deal but if all of them were to refuse we would have a big problem and future patients would clearly be at risk. So one compromise of course is to disclose prior to elective procedures and offer this alternative of saying well you could always go somewhere else. But I think back to my own training and remember that in some settings sort of a public or city hospital setting patients don't have any other alternatives for insurance purposes there really is no other place where they can go to and so should their rights be any different? Should it be that the patient who has a good insurance policy has the option of going to a private hospital and not having a resident involved and the patient who has no insurance is forced to have the intern do their appendectomy? Well I think we all agree that we probably shouldn't have a system like that unfortunately I think we largely do to this day because there is still in surgery I think in medicine in general this idea that well you can do more at the community hospital it's really great to have this rotation at a public hospital because you can do more. So I think that is a problem and I think it's important that we maintain this degree of training participation across healthcare settings and not allow there to be more patient autonomy just based on access. And we also have to maintain the degree of disclosure. So for the future patient obviously they're not here to talk to and it's hard to sort of keep them in mind because their needs are in the future and they have no voice right now. Certainly there is a sense that we have a projected shortage of general surgeons and it's not just an issue with numbers but also that there's an increased perception among graduating residents that they are not prepared for independent practice. We don't really know why this is. Some people think it's due to work hour restrictions. I think a lot of trainees feel like there's certainly an increasing culture of supervision and decreased autonomy. And finally there may be actually some generational attitudes so there's some thought to think that the millennials actually self-assess themselves in a more honest way than people did 50 years ago and so they're more likely to sort of say they're not ready. So I offer in closing just a few strategies for the ethical training of surgeons. I think number one, we have to obviously educate surgeons in the safest way possible. Simulation is an amazing thing that is really starting to take off but we haven't figured out how really quite to make it standardize across the board. So the idea of having an intern before they're closing that wound, maybe they've actually had to close a wound in the lab ex vivo and maybe we can actually watch them, give them sort of ratings of their skill, give them feedback, check off a box when we know that they've actually acquired that competency for certain and prior to their being involved in the patient in the operating room, we can track their milestones and actually have true data-driven graduated responsibility right now. It's a very laissez-faire sort of process where attendings are sort of judging based on their overall sense of what the trainees like but it's hard, particularly because sometimes in these academic settings, you may be getting a trainee that you've never worked with before. So how are you supposed to judge them? If we had a separate data bank of simulation, we might have a better sense of what they're capable of doing. And lastly, I would say that trainees should probably learn skills as much as possible. They should be learning skills that they are most likely to use in the future so that we're not risking patient safety without having a reasonable gain in trainee skill. From the other end, informing patients about trainee participation and gaining buy-in in the elective setting I think is very important and we talked about this a little bit earlier. I think it's important for the institution to disclose its goals, to let the patient understand the trainee qualifications and the roles of people on their team to emphasize the team approach and their commitment to safety. And finally, as I mentioned earlier, I think it is important to ensure justice and equality of access across settings. I don't think that we should be allowing a system that allows trainees to do more in the city hospitals and have the sort of more indigent population be just suffering the consequences from that. So I thank you for your time and happy to take any questions if we have any time for that.


But right now we'll do a little Q&A. I'll answer all your questions the best my abilities and we'll go from there Also, we're going to have a meet-up in Puerto Rico. I think at the smokehouse. I gotta see when Steven's Steven the is the owner when he's back in town So we'll do that hopefully this week and we'll drink our sorrows away and we'll eat too much and we'll Talk and should be good times and I'll let you know when that happens probably Wednesday or Thursday Maybe Friday who knows but Q&A time Ask all your questions now and we'll go from there if you got to take off take off. Thanks for stopping by appreciate you Good times. All right. It's my favorite part of the show Who Hector? What is not just Hermanos? Good evening brothers Toby says I'm trying to learn we're all trying to learn let's see All the Hector come with us all the study in Let's see. I don't know if that's true, but it could be Mike says but Sam Bacon was a Sith Lord train by Soros I don't know what's going on. 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I don't need more. I'm very happy with where I'm at right now. I like the people that come here I don't have a lot of tourists. I get people who understand the process and I appreciate everybody. We're just here to support each other just to get to the next Next stage.  So I'm happy right now with you guys very happy Oh Jerky says never pay taxes boys moved to Monaco stop to help the capitalism keep robbing. That's a good point Go to Abu Dhabi. That seems like be a new hot place Coming to Puerto Rico. We could use some people over here We could definitely use especially when you move here and the different charities that you have to To give to one of those being protechos We need that here badly. So we will welcome you with open arms Also, there's a big boom here for solar panels and solar construction Just saying if you're into that, this is your next big place Good lord, that's funny. Ah Thank you, Vicki disclaimer not financial illegal attacks advice chance round-the-hand purposes only just an opinion Dan Is not an expert obviously or a financial planner perform your own research. Thank you Vicki on top of it as usual Yeah, David says I like you go. He's honest. I think yeah, he seems like a pretty good guy and again I was just I made a mistake yesterday. I thought I was talking about 2023 like Draper was talking about 250 K in the middle of next year. Do you think that's gonna happen a bit? I don't think it's gonna happen. I could be wrong, but use goes like he's like, yeah We can see 200 K in 2024 25. I'm like, yeah, it doesn't make sense. So I Don't know who this is have heard about Nikolai Moshege and over there. No, I did hear about the maker Dow CEO drown here in Puerto Rico So that was awful See So Heinz says if the FTX has financial problems, perhaps vote no on their bioproposal. That's a good thought But here's a thing I'm so gonna I'm gonna vote yes because I went out of this situation with with Voyager I know people are like I'm gonna vote no and you can you know, it's fine But I just want to move forward and and get 72% back of all my crypto The value that it is and over the 20 days that they're gonna say it is and just move forward I think right now is a great time to buy crypto. Could it go lower? Yes Could it take off? Yeah, maybe but or could it just be flat for the next year or two? Yeah, possibly, but I think right now just just Investing and just taking it slow and not investing more you can afford to lose not keeping things on the exchange and just waiting it out I think is is my best option. Maybe not for you. Ah, this is great Uncle Rob, what's your best trade you want to build wealth in your opinion? Just be patient and it's just like the army Like I if if Neville's here or anybody's in the military, you know, I'm talking about All you gotta do is show up with with the right uniform and you get promoted That's pretty much what that's the secret and it's a very boring secret So like as far as building wealth First of all like to me I look at like what's the what's the risk-risk-reward ratio here Like I can put my money into bonds and get a whopping 4% which is true And it's very very safe or I could dabble into equities or I could put a good amount into real estate Or I could do a decent rough amount in the crypto and I do all those things Except for the the the treasury bills. I don't do that So like in this situation, I just say like wait it out and then you have to understand is that I Didn't make all of my crypto gains in Bitcoin. I know shocker, right? So I know people especially the Bitcoin max will say Bitcoin is the only way right now in the bear market There's a lot of Bitcoin max. He's being being minted that is for sure But for me in 20 after I got a 2018 the nonsense that was 2018 and 19 and 20 I put a lot of funds into altcoins and that was a bigger payoff. It's very risky and Like I I mean I put I put a lot into Luna remember Luna. Yeah, that one and Thankfully I follow my own advice. It took profits along the way ruled that those profits into Well, this house actually and then some other condos here in Puerto Rico and worked out great But then as soon as I got done with that, I started to dollar cost average again into Luna lost it all Yeah lost all that so again, it's very risky and that's that's what I'm gonna tell you like Take it slow realize the risk first reward understand that there's sometimes a basket You might want to look into and unfortunately, I Said it like it's financial advice. It's not it's just the truth, you know But you have to decide what is your risk talents? I don't know your situation Yeah Huge thanks. There's less news. Well, it wasn't as mean was like everybody, but thank you I appreciate that it was quite scary getting some Bitcoin after it took eight hours. That's a long time Different definitely will be more careful in the future. You know, it's even scarier When I did that video on Celsius June 12, I think it was I Put in an order to take off because I had for Bitcoin on there And I said, okay, I'm I did a chest transaction like I was talking about and then the next one that came through and then I put an order in for three and a half Bitcoin to be taken off and never came through So I've got around for Something Bitcoin stuck on there. I have six figures on there actually No, no, I mean for me. Probably clean as well. I got a guy does that. He's awesome Yeah, Catech Coder says Rob the day of SPF and Eric was excellent Eric truly wants essential essential independence for everyone. That's BF wants to make a profit. That's it. I I Watched it. It was interesting and that's pretty much it. Unfortunately. I have to tell you guys. I like profits, too I think I think most of us do but I do Want to see us get away from the old version of the things that we've done so far because I think in the next evolution It's we're gonna need a lot of decentralization and there's a Great video we we took a look at it was a Congress hearing forgot the guy's name But he was talking about why we need decentralization and Bitcoin in general and it's the very first video I have what over on Dan teaches crypto comm and really just comes down to I mean everything is centralized Look at all the things you have to give up for having Centralization first of all, I know the banks aren't the greatest, right? It's if you're in America, it's not so bad But to move money around the world first of all you is always a middleman You got to be you know, someone has to be there someone has to approve it And it can't be so much and there's fees involved with that which is fees with everything But it's kind of exorbitant as you start to move a little more money around and then also How many times has your personal data been hacked or been leaked or something like that? And that's all because of centralization everything stuck on the cloud stuck in Google. It's stuck on all these different companies and When we have decentralization it's very hard to hack all those different things I say that with a grain of salt because look at pretty much a ton of the DeFi products like it's not that hard So these are the things there's pros and cons of everything, but yeah, got it. I gotta agree with you on that one Although I do think Sam Sam's getting a bad rap right now. Let's let's let's take it back a second We just talked about it, right, but we can't throw one of the bus all the way You know, he does have this This ideal to give away all of his wealth and he does talk a lot about helping out The little man and and the person out there. I Know I should learn my lesson after Mishinsky came and lied to all our all of us on our faces But I may I know it's gonna be hard to believe but I am an eternal optimist and I think in the long run things work out so I Don't know I think I think right now FDX is gonna go through some problems and all they can tell you is to don't be there when You know The last song is played. We'll say all right Robert you said before your station at Fort Leonard would because you ever hit big Louise never hit big Louise those days basic training worst plays ever Let's see that has good news. Yeah, that has some good news. I don't know what it is, but you can share with me So polka dot last thing I heard was Dr. Gavin would step down which I thought was a great play as the CEO and start to move into Moving polka dot forward what he's best at so yes SPF is an ex Voldemort, okay, I think slanted will go more down because of FTX foot, you know, it's interesting What's the what's the price of slant? I saw that they took a huge hit I Was after some really good news one of those is that Solana was was picked up by Google To help them with cloud service and they were going to be running nodes and on top of the fact that they partnered up with Facebook or meta for the Instagram NFT Minting and selling. Let's see Solana whoo Well, it's not like it's bad bet it down six percent But polygon, baby Yes, I own both of these I own Solana polygon so that's It's called the diversification works out pretty well, so do I think so I'll go that more down because of FTX but well, I mean That's Sam's big play. Do I think it will I could Not pretty entirely for sure. I will tell you this I don't know which way it's gonna go but It's good for me like as it goes down Usually my my DCA Plays trigger in the morning, so tomorrow morning. I should probably have a pretty good deal I was on a K wrenches Let's see. I missed boomer by one year and I think that's it. Hold on. Ah Here we go Jane Chow always answered that the good questions. What do you think of element research being the next triple? Three arrows capital and they acquired Voyager with probable Insolvent assets and what Jen Chow is talking about is the insolvent assets being a couple of things one of those is the FTX token FTT The other one is that they have it locked up also on top of that. They have almost a billion dollars locked up for Solana So man, I hope it's not the case. I hope Sam is you know, whether in that storm He can actually push things out, but I gotta tell you over the last year or so I mean since June it seems like everything that's The worst-case scenario seems to not the worst-case, but if it's gonna be bad, it's gonna happen and If if FTX becomes insolvent you can kiss that Voyager deal. Goodbye. That's just how it is. So Can we get a death spiral? I don't know, but I will tell you this if if FTX goes down That will hit repercussions throughout the entire crypto ecosystem and we'll start to see I Mean projects just go down left and right not through any fault of their own I mean you saw like a theorem is doing great things or building I mean Solana's got got picked up polygon is everywhere. I mean Cardano is doing their Cardano things But it'll drop everything and maybe even Gareth Salloway will say Gareth Salloway says yeah I think we're gonna see a Bitcoin 3k, which is worst-case scenario You can potentially see that if FTX goes down correct me where I'm wrong here But if that's just that would be the third centralized essentially exchange I know I know sales was really wasn't but that'd be the third one And under a year and that's a huge one.  Let me show you something on nomics there's a website it's called nomics.com forward slash exchanges and Let's see we got it here And as you can see Let's take a look at the volume so We can sort of buy volume in the last 24 hours Binance is always on top 64.68 billion. Okay, pretty good Okay, X 12.48 billion and FTX is 11.4 billion dollars in last 24 hours and they're always in the top five Always and that's just just the volume itself So again, can you if you want to if you think that now I won't be that big of a deal.  Was there a double spend? Did Vladimir Putin come out and say I I created Ethereum? I created Bitcoin Was there any enormous hack on a layer one Now it really just comes down to the centralized exchanges and I got to tell you after the after sell his and Voyager The one things that really did well I know there's been hacks on different B5 protocols But at least those at least they held their end of the bargain for the majority of different things So just remember this There's a difference between us hitting just this this huge slide because of Maybe green arrogance and hubris from the the powers that be up above and in certain exchanges As opposed to what the actual products are doing and I need you to make sure that you understand the valuation of What's happening and where things are going remember? There's a reason why a black rock with its I know much trillions of assets under management six trillion assets or management There's a reason why fidelity with three point four trillion assets under management is here and getting into crypto and actually Offering retail free trading for Bitcoin Ethereum. There's a reason why mass mutual doing the same as dipping into crypto There's a reason why one of the oldest banks in in the US BNY Mellon is also offering crypto to its customers There's a reason for all these things. There's a reason that president Biden commissioned a task force to understand crypto and digital assets how it's going to affect United States a whole commission on it a whole team Because I know it's going to be the future So just be aware that if things fall apart because of an exchange It's not because of the the projects a lot of projects suck But some will do well and that's why I spread things around go from there. Yeah, man Mentorimia carditis. That's funny. Thank God for dex's government wants to regulate them out of existence, but good luck with that Yeah, it's very tough. However You can't regulate the dex's but You can regulate a certain wall especially hot wallets and you can also regulate the on ramps So remember that although I was thinking about this You know We're just the post office here in Guainabo and I saw a sign for Bitcoin ATM So like I mean the prices are ridiculous and it's it's kind of over inflated for the price to actually use a Bitcoin ATM But once you do that and you have your Bitcoin and they send it to your wallets, right? You can do whatever you want to in that regard and no one's gonna do that now There is a limit how much you can actually buy at those ATMs after that I think they have to go to like KYC product correct me in the comments, but I'm pretty sure it is But if you do it slow enough crossway, no one will ever know you were there. Yeah Yeah, well Okay, so mentor says SPF wants Dexter to be rather he did initially But then when he had the debate with Voorhees and he took a look a step back He's like and he can read his tweets. He came back said maybe that was incorrect Maybe that's not a good idea for Dexter really now. He may have conned back again and flip flop I'm not for sure, but I mean good luck. Good luck with regulating dex's for sure wallets, you know, okay But that's what the free market's for create a wallet that Use where we want to ah, it's a good point. I never thought this Ingeri says I think the failure of FTX would solidify Coinbase and buy and finance the top two for a long time Well, like Apple and Microsoft It's a good point. Actually, I use Coinbase right now Coinbase has this this promo Where you can it's called a Coinbase one. I think it is you pay like It's like 15 bucks a month or 10 bucks a month one or two and there's no Fees there's no trading fees or no buying fees or anything like that up to $10,000 So that's why I get away with dollar-cost averaging every day I just pay the 15 bucks and pretty sure it's 15 bucks and then everything that's All the all the charges they get wiped away with that's with that free service and you can sign up for that on Coinbase, I don't have a link. So sorry But you'll find it Let's see Talking about Ben and James in a fist fight. It's funny But with the Google partnership so on it has some some hard long-term game. Yeah, it's very true And change has says it correctly. That's why I was gonna screw up everything. It is But again, the products are still good and that's see This is the beauty of this is the beauty of dollar-cost averaging as opposed to like going all in You can do you can go all in my friend Diddy from the Bitcoin family He did that in 2017 early worked out great for him, right? Because he got in Bitcoin at $1,000 These days a bit more difficult, right? It's hard to hard to say that But if you went all in let's say when Bitcoin was 30,000 you probably felt like a genius You're like, ah, well, I want to you know, 67,000 awesome If you would have sold great, but a lot of you didn't because you know, we get greedy and that's Why you watch these channels so you can figure out exactly what's a good time to you know, take profits I can't tell you when but I have a video on it. Anyhow, so I Just think that When you DCA like right now like I don't have a worry in the world so I'm like, okay Well, it could go down the price go down But I didn't dump a bunch of it because I'm actually dollar-cost averaging less because I don't think we've hit a bottom yet I just didn't So I'm dollar-cost having less and tell like we go down and then I start to what's called dynamic DCA as we drop 20% I had 20% to my daily and weekly allocation if it goes on my 50% You get this you get the drift and we go from there Chris says why would Binance want FTX to collapse and do massive damage to the whole ecosystem? That will damage Binance and put the market back for years. I will tell you one thing though it would put them back, but sometimes well if you want to If you want to be Monkey of alien and just say well, this is just a person or individual or a group who says well It's actually good because now we have less competition Peter Teal even says it he goes What do you say he said? Competition is for losers. He goes go into an industry where there's no competition Why would you want to go where there's a bunch of competition and right now there's a lot of exchanges out there? So if it does collapse, I'm not saying it wouldn't be bad for Binance. It's probably be pretty good in the long run Just saying it's a good point Scary though, but yeah, probably so Tony beg Coinbase pro accounts are being converted to Coinbase accounts. Thank you. I haven't seen Tony a while Tony's one of my old OG's from back in the day Yeah Zeno says I gotta join a work meeting at one minute Zeno, so you shouldn't You shouldn't be watching and at work, but you're quite quitting. That's up to you Thank you Tuesday's Wagon fire for the $2 super sticker. I will be able to buy a lot of A lot of Luna classic with that a lot of Luna Clinton class Yeah, so Jane Ches I heard a coinbase one is a ripoff version of coinbase pro this but it's terrible for trading You will buy it at a premium price. I heard you don't really buy to the premium price It's like a look at the different different spreads coinbase pro. Yes You do get a better rate just using coinbase pro.  So coinbase custody is doing that for them Well, that's interesting. I'm gonna take a look at that There's a bitcoin atm that requires no personal info 3000 usd per sim card. It's unlimited Just need a cell phone and a bag of sim cards Oh, maybe not god, I gotta tell you I think that's it guys For the questions, but thank you. Um, I don't think we could handle another lunar Celsius here. That'd be crazy That'd be crazy.  I guess the the next biggest one would be Bitconnect, but that was just a straight up Ponzi But I gotta tell you this was been this has been so far one of the worst and toughest years to take again When in doubt zoom out and just think to yourself, well, you know I'm here for, you know, a little bit of time And I don't spend way too much and I can't I can I don't want to afford what I can't lose Should be okay. It just takes again Boring time. That's what it comes down to and that's it. So look everybody That's it for today. We're coming up on 50 minutes. Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate you guys If you like today's video, give it a thumbs up consider subscribing I think it's talking about our very time sensitive, especially things that are going on right now But that's it. I'll everybody know about the Puerto Rico meetup. We'll do all that Hopefully this week and that's all I got so thanks so much. I appreciate you guys And I'll see you on the next one adios


All right, so today I'm gonna go over seven easy remote jobs for beginners. These are gonna be jobs that it's very easy to get into. Typically you might be able to get into them in less than a month. And some of them you can even get paid in less than a week. So this is gonna be a great video for someone who needs to get a job now and they wanna get a remote job where they can make money online. And this is gonna be from somebody who literally specializes in helping people get remote jobs and I've also hired a bunch of people and I've paid well over $100,000 to different freelancers and people who work online over the last few years. So I'm coming at this kind of from an employee's perspective as well as somebody who actually hires people. So with that being said, if you appreciate this type of video, go ahead, gently tap that like button and let's jump right into it. So the first one on this list is going to be transcription jobs. So you're basically going to get audio recordings of people talking and you are going to transcribe those audio recordings into the written word. According to Glassdoor, transcriptionists make about $67,000 a year. You can also see different freelancing transcriptionists and how much they make on Upwork. So for instance, Charlene makes $60 an hour, she's earned over $7,000. Javier makes $63 an hour, he's earned over $100,000 and he's from Columbia. So in Columbia, obviously $63 an hour is incredible. So yeah, transcriptionists can make amazing money. It's especially good if you're fluent in multiple languages. The reason Javier is probably able to make $63 an hour is I'm guessing he's probably fluent in both Spanish and English. So some companies you might want to check out if you're looking to get a job as a transcriptionist would be BabbleType, Accutransglobal, Scribee or TranscribeMe. And a good website to look for these jobs might be TranslatorBase. Next one on the list is going to be customer service representative. So I think everybody knows what this is. Somebody's having an issue with a product or a service and they call the company to get help. And the person that they're typically going to talk to is going to be a customer service representative. According to Glassdoor, customer service representatives make $55,000 a year. So you can easily get a job as a customer service representative in less than a month. You have a massive advantage if you have an English or American accent. And the reason for this is people are kind of tired of talking to people with other accents. No offense to those people but it can be a little bit frustrating. And they would much rather talk to somebody who has an accent from the country that they are from. This also tends to be an extremely flexible job. There's people who travel across the country in vans and they work as customer service representatives. Basically all you need is a phone and a laptop. That's it. Next one on the list is going to be probably the easiest job you could possibly get but it's a little bit mind-numbing but it can be good for a short period of time and that is data entry. According to Glassdoor, people who work in data entry make about $53,000 a year. And basically you have some sort of spreadsheet with a bunch of data on it and you enter that data in a logical way into another source, right? So sometimes that's gonna involve cleaning up the data a little bit or sometimes it's literally just copy-paste. So yeah, I don't think I need to say too much about this one. Very simple, very easy job. Probably pretty boring for someone like me anyways to do this for like 12 hours or eight hours but it is super easy to land these types of jobs. Next one on the list is going to be teaching English online. So this is actually a multi-billion dollar industry and this is exactly what it sounds like. You're gonna be teaching English online to people who are in countries like China or South Korea and according to Glassdoor, online English teachers make about $79,000 a year. It does help if you're a multilingual. So for instance, if you speak Korean and English that's going to really help you out but with that being said, a lot of people get into this with very little experience and no certification or training. There are websites out there like Cambly where you can do this kind of like on a part-time basis and there's also a ton of opportunities out there for you to get full-time work. So the next one on the list is going to be social media management and content creation. This is an emerging industry that's growing so rapidly and there's so many different jobs and niches and sub-niches that are popping up. Now this could be something as simple as responding to tweets on Twitter for a company or it could be getting hired to reach out to blogs in order to try to get backlinks to your company's blog. You also might get hired to create infographics for the company to post on social media. There's so many different niches and sub-niches like I said here but just know that this is an incredibly fast expanding industry and according to Glassdoor you make about $70,000 a year with this one and this is technically a type of digital marketing which is the next one on the list. According to Glassdoor digital marketers make about $86,000 a year and there's a bunch of different types of digital marketing. You might do paid ads, you could do SEO which is search engine optimization or you might do email marketing. So this is actually a position that I'm trying to hire within the next year or so. I'm gonna try to hire somebody who is a writer for me who also has experience in SEO which is search engine optimization because I'm trying to launch my blog. So this can be a great opportunity for freelancing as well as somebody who wants to get a full-time job. Now the next one on the list is probably the one that has the highest potential for earning and it might be the biggest opportunity on this entire list and that is going to be tech sales. Now according to Glassdoor technology sales makes about $106,000 a year and basically what this is is you work in a sales role for a B2B type business. B2B means it's a business that sells products or services to other businesses, not to consumers and that means it's not gonna be some kind of sketchy telemarketing job or used car salesman type of sales. It's understanding what the other business needs and then making sure that your business has a product or service that solves their problem and a lot of it is basically going to be relationship management. Now I've done a lot of different interviews with people on this channel who have gotten into tech sales. There's so many incredible stories and all of them have taken the free training which is offered by course careers. Now course careers on top of offering this free training also has a service where you can actually get trained by them in a specific role and they're going to get you interviews with different tech sales companies. So you can check out that free training down in the description as well as the pen comment below and check out the interviews that I've done with people who have gotten into tech sales. For instance, Della was able to go from stay at home mom to making over $100,000 a year and a month and a half and I'll make sure that pops up right here.


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The themed structure as we mentioned in the introduction we believe that the best retrospectives are structured in order to help set expectations about what is going to happen to ensure they don't just become talking shops but rather information is gathered, analyzed and acted upon. We've designed these retrospective templates around the structure that we called themed. We believe that one of the most important characteristics of a successful retrospective is that it's focused on a particular topic or subject. Therefore each of the templates that we've designed is focused on a specific aspect of the team's process and we recommend that the first part of the retrospective structure be set aside to explain what topic the retrospective is designed to help the team address. Of course all of these templates could be used for other topics with a small amount of creative tailoring so don't think they're too fixed. The next part of the retrospective structure looks at the hook. The term hook comes from the screenwriting industry. Our scriptwriters are encouraged to grab the attention of the audience or the reader in the first 10 or so pages of a screenplay. A good hook for a feature film is one that will be able to hold the audience's participation for about two to three hours and the same could be true for a hook for a retrospective. A good hook will explain the purpose and the logistics of the meeting as well as the expectations and the participation that will be required. The hook is also the first opportunity to refer back to the topic of the retrospective and in our retrospective designs you will see that we make use of this metaphor introduced in the topic. The next section we look at is dedicated to capturing information which could include what happened during the last iteration for example. We call this section events and we try to encourage the team to collect this information as objectively as possible without delving too much into the subjective interpretation of that information. By this we mean trying to avoid classifying these events as either good or bad or to put any other kind of judgment on them for the time being. Also we want to try and refrain from diving into any other type of insight just yet. The objective here instead is to as much as possible capture data from the sprint that couldn't be debated. Everyone should be able to agree that these things happened even if later on they may differ in their perception or interpretation of these events. Once we have the key moments of the iteration captured we'll then start to look at how we interpret them and look for meaning. This is the point of the retrospective where the facilitator will guide the team to adding their subjective interpretations into those events of the iteration. Perhaps the team will explore whether these events were helpful or unhelpful. Maybe they'll look for patterns or links between the events or maybe even how it affected the team's morale. The next section in the retrospective allows us to give you as a facilitator an insight into some of the other different avenues that you might want to pursue when facilitating this particular retrospective. This section also allows for the team to explore what else they might want or feel the need to discuss. Perhaps there are alternative perceptions the team need to consider or there might be variations to the retrospectives that we could run instead. And then finally we come to decisions. It's all very well having a focused and balanced retrospective within the team but if there's no attempts at improving the team's process then it could be argued that the meeting is meaningless. Therefore we dedicate a part of each retrospective to guiding the team to make some decisions about how they wish to move forward and take some learning forward. All of these sections will align with the metaphor within the theme of the retrospective and should become a familiar structure for the team's future retrospectives.


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how to build a drawer using the quarter quarter quarter method. I like to refer to it normally as the half half half method because that way it can be half of any workpiece that you're using. In other words if I was using going to build drawers that were three quarters sides and back then I would do three eighths half of the three quarters. When you're using half inch material you use half of that so that's a quarter quarter quarter quarter what does that mean? That means that this dado stack here is going to be set a quarter of an inch wide a quarter of an inch high and a quarter of an inch from a fence.  How do you adjust sizes for the joinery because these things are going to kind of go inside of each other. You'll see that when I get further along. Well I want my drawer to be 26 and a quarter a scotch under that 26 and a quarter wide and then 18 and a half deep and four and a quarter tall and so what I do with the two sides is I go ahead and cut them at four and a quarter. I cut everything at four and a quarter for the sides the front and the back. I get that done first so rip it to four and a quarter then lengthwise for the sides I make them the full length so if I want 18 and a half I cut them to 18 and a half. So here's my two sides I take these two sides so I've cut them four and a quarter by 18 and a half and I mark them with a triangle. The triangle is facing me I have looked at what I want to be my show faces on the inside of the drawer and I have put those together as if it's the inside of the drawer and then marked it with a triangle. In this triangle the pointed ends will point to the outside the triangle's on the top so I know what's on the top I know what's outside and I know what's inside so I know everything and I know this direction too. So that one carpenter triangle tells me how I want these boards done. Size-wise for the front and the back you make an adjustment because what's going to happen is when you set this up your front and back are going to go halfway into the side so if I want 26 and a quarter wide I'm going to take off a 16th on each side for spacing so it will fit in tightly but still slide so 26 and a quarter take off way a 16th and a 16th that's an eighth so now it's 26th and an eighth and then when I put this side in it's not going to go all the way to the edge here it's going to go halfway into the side and so I want to take off a quarter of an inch over here half of the half and a quarter of an inch over here so basically what I do is size the length of my front and back and my base should all be one thickness less than what I want to be so if I want 26 and a quarter take away a 16th and a 16th now I'm at 26 and an eighth and then I want to take away the thickness of one of my work pieces so that's a half of an inch or four eighths I have cut my front and my back to be four to quarter by 25 and five eighths so you make the same adjustment for the front and back as you do for the base so I've got those pieces cut the other thing I like to do well a couple things I do I mark the two sides when I look at them and I say hey where's my where's my show faces that I want on the inside of the drawer and what's the top what I want to be on the top so I get it oriented that way and then I draw a triangle on it and that triangle is pointing in this case it's the front and back so I make the triangle point toward me and it's on the top and now it tells me everything I want to know by just putting that triangle back together if you want your drawer to be 18 and a half inches deep this panel is going to go underneath the the back but it's only going to go halfway into the front so instead of it being 18 and a half it should be 18 and a quarter it's going to go halfway into the front and the front is a half of an inch wide so your bottom side should be the same width as your front and back in in my case here it's in 25 and 5 eighths but the depth should be a quarter of an inch less so first I need to set this up and I only need to set it up once and that is I want this to be a quarter of an inch high I'm going to take a set of bars these are from iGaging and I like them a lot and I'm going to find the one quarter so here's my one quarter bar and what it is is one quarter here on the top thickness so when I lay this down that's one quarter let me raise my blade my saw stop is completely unplugged I don't want to do this kind of stuff with it plugged in it's close to a quarter as I can and we're going to test it I've also got that a quarter of an inch wide I know how to set up my dado stack to be exactly a quarter of an inch because I do these kind of drawers all the time so I have my inside and my outside and in my case I got two little shims inside there so my uh this is a quarter of an inch wide next what I really want is a tall fence so here's my tall fence and we're going to bring this over we're going to try to set this tall fence I'm going to move it forward so there's no cutout at the blade here and I'm going to move that over and I'm going to set it at a quarter of an inch now let me get some uh braces in there so this fence of mine is using match fit dovetail clamps I want them fairly near the bottom so it's pulling it tight across the bottom if I have it too high it it might pull the fence across I've got a number of videos about doing various uh jigs using the match fit dovetail system and the tall fence which is also a board straightener which is also a tapering jig so that fence is a good straight up and down 90 degrees which is important let me try to set it at a quarter of an inch from the blade so sometimes when you press down and tighten it shifts your fence one way or the other mine shifts my fence to the left a little bit so I kind of get it up next to it back it off just a hair come on back off and then when I tighten it down I usually find it moves it over that hair again so here it's rubbing but it's not so tight that it's moving it so I think I got a good measurement there okay so let's take scrap wood and first let's see if we can get a slot down here that's a quarter of an inch wide quarter of an inch deep and a quarter of an inch from this edge so get my uh saw stop plugged back in now for a little test run I'm gonna try putting or into my electrical outlet that runs my dust collection sometimes if I get a wide enough heavy enough dado stack the 12 or 13 amp switch there I overrun it when I start up and so sometimes I got to put it in my 20 amp electric when you do the real work it's important that you keep this pressed down over the blade the whole way because if you let it ride up then you won't be a quarter of an inch deep in that part well let's check it how do we do let's uh use a set of calipers and check the depth of that and that is right on one quarter very good let's check the width if you don't use calipers you're making a mistake learn how to use them they're they're absolutely fantastic so one quarter again and then let's check how far it is in from the edge and right on one quarter so I've got this set up for one quarter one quarter one quarter I'm pretty happy with it one of the cuts I'm going to do is going to be inside of the board of the side so these three cuts represent the three things that we're going to do for our joinery we're going to have a slot in the bottom of all four pieces for the bottom to fit into we're going to have on the two sides we're going to have a slot or a data in this case a slot is one running with the grain and a data was one across the grain so anyway we're going to have another dado here running top to bottom on the sides and then we're going to have for the front the back a tenon here and that tenon is going to be a quarter thick and a and a quarter in so everything is a quarter quarter quarter so when these kits put together that tenon if this fits right will go into this slot so this is where I get into do I do any adjustments well dang I'm pretty happy that's uh went in reasonably putting some blue on here might make that a little more difficult but I like that nice fit like that get my triangle lined up here so I know this is the top so I'm going to put that on the inside well my inside is the open part of the triangle so that helps tell me uh what where the inside is so I don't get the wrong orientation and the other thing is it's going to be on the bottom so I'm going to take my triangle mark here make sure the open part of the triangle is down because that's the inside and make sure the pencil mark is out here that way where it's going to cut is on the bottom all right so anyway those marks help me stay oriented I want them to be the open side down and uh the mark away from the fence we'll do that to all four of them first plug in the saw stop when we're pushing through here we want to keep it down we don't want to let it rise up otherwise we won't get the depth that we need you can see there we've got the uh we got this slot or groove on the inside and on the bottom and so this is the way that drawers will will go now the uh on the two sides and the front and the back front and the back of the sides we're going to put a dado going across but we don't change our table setup at all so on those two we're going to put a dado and that dado is going to go on the same face as this in other words down so I'm going to go down and just run it this way there's a couple ways you can do this uh one would be uh just to go ahead and because you can keep it up against that fence and it's pretty short I don't see much trouble with with it getting off sync the other thing I could do is put in the miter gauge and then change the backing behind it and that would protect against tear out keep it more secure but to do that these go down and up against that fence nothing should get bound up so let's give it a go just don't push it too hard against the fence so you don't get a lot of friction so our next cut is to put a tenon on here now we want the tenon to be on the inside so I want to cut a rabbit in in this part here I want to cut a rabbit here because I want the tenon on the inside because that's going to fit into the sides and then come out flush so to get that tenon on the inside so if I did it right there the tenon would be on the outside no no it's going to cut the rabbit on the outside and that's going to leave me my tenon on the inside and that's the way we want it so we want the inside face up against the fence and we can tell the inside by the open part of our triangle now I'm just going to pass this I've got zero clearance here this is a special plate I saved just for the purpose of I didn't turn on my microphone so up till now the microphone sounded pretty crappy but let's fix that going forward anyway and maybe you can see the difference hopefully that connected yep looks like it all right so there's a couple ways to do this one way is to because of the tall fence is to hold it secure on that tall fence and run it over because I got zero clearance there's no place where it can dip down inside of that groove and so that should be safe you could also have a device you could also you know do something where you use two paddles and pass over it and another option if you're totally uncomfortable with it and what you would like to do is pass it over this way then we want that tenon to be right on the end so what you would do is insert a quarter inch fiberboard in between the fence and the blade that way you could push up against it and there but I'm just going to go I'm going to cut it right here think about this again I want the tenon on the inside and the tenon is going to be where it's not cutting so I want to cut on the outside and here we go you may be wondering what this is this is from Duragrit and it's a 60 grit substitution for sandpaper I have cut the top off of it so it's thinner and then that way I can always have it right there in my main pocket of my apron and then when I'm dealing with plywood or anything with tearout I can get rid of it the second I'm working with it or when I'm dealing with factory edges I can sand those quickly all right so I've got these two all of the sides and the front and the back have all the appropriate joinery in them now let's talk about the bottom I want that same kind of a tenon on the bottom and I've decided that this is my nice face so I want to mark that with a triangle and we'll call this the front toward me so this is my orientation of that piece so I want a tenon on the top side or on this face side of the three sides and I don't need it on the back I don't want it on the back the back's going to be flush underneath the the back side so to get that tenon on the top side here I want my top to go against the fence so the outside edge will get cut by the dado stack and then that'll leave the tenon on the upside or the face side do not touch your fence do not touch your blade do not touch your height do not touch anything you can unplug it if you want to but don't do anything else because you may find yourself with something not fitting and then you need to come back and do some more joinery I can't tell you how handy this little dure grit thing is for cleaning up I didn't get a good oh okay that's just a piece that's not a solid piece that's just a little piece there so hopefully now again I don't want my temptation there was to move that fence out of my way on this slot on the back I don't need that I want to go underneath that so I want to cut this whole piece off so this is halfway through if I run it over this being careful to stay out of the way of this piece that might get lodged in there then we're good effective I could hold a piece here like this and that should keep it so I'm going to cut that off I'm not going to raise my blade or anything so right there was the advantage of the gripper being able to hold that piece secure so it wouldn't fly anywhere all right again I'm not going to touch this in case I have to come back so I'm going to go over and do my assembly now everything should be ready let's do a dry assembly first so this is going to go into there and this is going to go into here put those clamps on there to hold it then I can turn the whole thing upside down and then this will go into there and then I can slide in my bottom so that's all going to work great I haven't dry fit my bottom perfect so that's flush there just because of that design of having the tenon be halfway through and a quarter of an inch up for the slot and so it works perfect stay together baby and there is my drawer before I put it together I like to do some shaping to my sides here I can either do that after the drawers all together or I can do it while they're separate pieces I prefer to do it while they're separate pieces so I'm going to set up for doing that next this is done the quarter quarter quarter system is right here and this is done everything can fit together there's no way when you pull on the front that that front's going to come off because you've got that going into the side you have the stock the bottom for additional stability for everything that'll be glued and that drawer is rock solid all we're going to do now is add glue and add the braces I only need two clamps going the lengthwise to hold that all together while it dries and that'll be perfect okay so that is how you do drawers using the quarter quarter quarter method or what I prefer to call the half half half method and when you're using half inch plywood it translates to the quarter quarter quarter one half of one half if I was using three-quarter inch stock then it would be three-eighths three-eighths three-eighths which is how I would set up my table saw dado stack to be three-eighths wide three-eighths tall and three-eighths from the fence and then everything else would be done exactly the same way well that's my one way that I make drawers I use it almost every time I find it's so great particularly when I'm not just doing one drawer like this but when I'm doing you know 10 drawers or five drawers the same you get that set up once and then you just run everything through to to create fancy joinery it's called a locking rabbit joint this is but it's easy to do when you have a table saw with the dado stack so that'll be a wrap always remember you can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf small workshop guy signing off so I'm going to add a profile to my tops of my sides just looks better on the drawers to have some sort of design feature so I've got a great big straight bit in here and I've got the fence set so it's about three-eighths of an inch from the leading edge of this I've got a brace over here so that when I push this up against that spinning blade there's going to be a pretty good chunk there it would want to just drive it that way I've got this to keep it from coming up I've got this to keep it from going that way and then once I've got it under control I I'm just going to push it along and that part's easy till I get about halfway and then I'm going to flip it and do the same thing again and then meet the two up so that way only need a brace on one side and I want to make sure I'm cutting on the top of my board all right so there we go let's see how this works it'd be best to have this guide down but then that gets a little difficult for me to push through and I do want to have this push stick so I'm going to leave that up I got my safety glasses on and probably ought to put on my hearing protection eyed glasses hearing and here we go and so there's the design I'm after I think that looks really cool and then we're going to do some rounding over it as well