Welcome to the sports playbook where we discuss solutions to issues that impact sports. I'm your host, Angela Hazelett. Today's guest is Jen Nelson, the coordinator of events in a logistics at the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee. We are here to discuss Olympic and Paralympic Sport Travel, Coordinating Athlete Logistics. Welcome, Jen. Thanks so much for having me, Angela. I really appreciate it and looking forward to being on the show today. Excellent. We are so excited to have you. I know you work for the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, also known as the USOPC. So describe for us what you do for the USOPC. Sure. So I've been here at the USOPC a little over three and a half years now. I am in the events and logistics department, but I focus primarily on air travel. So there's three of us on the book air travel for the USOPC. The whole organization kind of refers us to the team behind the team. So we really do the logistics behind the scenes to really ensure that the athletes once they're on the ground, everything's kind of taken care for them. So yeah, so we focus on air travel primarily for games. So I've worked on the games, the Pan Am games we had in Lima in 2019, Tokyo in 2020, and then that was of course a challenge with the postponement.  So yeah, it's been busy the past few years and looking ahead to the next games as well. Absolutely. That lots of challenges and we're definitely going to get into some of those challenges. So basically you're involved in booking the air travel. You have colleagues who work on the housing and accreditation. So you're really kind of making things as smooth for the athletes, kind of like a travel agent would do coordinating those logistics. And you mentioned a couple of the events that you coordinate travel for. Can you can you expand on that? What what other events do you also coordinate the air travel for? So we do youth. It's called the youth games as well. So they had in La Sonde, Switzerland in 2020. I primarily booked the youth game. So that's I think it was ages 12 to 18. Primarily just games. So it kind of goes in flow. So our next games coming up will be in 2023. Pan American and Parapan games in Santiago, Chile and then Paris in 2024. We also do a few months ago after the games, the athletes and staff get to celebrate at the White House. So we did book all the travel for that. So with the Tokyo Post Poma in Beijing, since the games were so close together as the first time ever that they did a combined White House visit. So it was about over 800 flights. We had about three weeks to book them. So like I said, it's all hands on deck. And then we got everyone to enjoy their time and they got to see the president. So I know they got to celebrate their achievements. So it was a really nice event. That is amazing. And what an honor for them, I'm sure, to take part in that ceremony. So if you were looking at a typical year, how many events, how many people do you coordinate travel for? What's the typical average year for you? Oh, gosh, a lot. Hard to say a specific number. I focus primarily on Paralympic bookings. So that alone is about over 20 sports or summer sports. Definitely have more teams. You know, you have wheelchair rugby, wheelchair basketball. So even though the numbers for Paralympic is a little less, it does come with challenges because, you know, sometimes you have some visually impaired athletes or athletes with wheelchairs. That kind of adds a whole added aspect to the travel component. And I do book about 10 to 15 Olympic sports. My boss does the remaining of them. But, yeah, I'd say a few thousand, especially we bring a lot of staff to games to probably two to three hundred staff, like I said, not only my department, we work closely with a department called Games Operations. So they're kind of the core. We work together, events, logistics and games operations to really help operate the games. Like you mentioned earlier, housing, logistics, transport, accreditation, it's all it's all connected. And Air Travel is kind of that first first piece of first. They got to fly over there before they can get their accreditation and housing. So it's nice to work together with everyone. Yeah. And you mentioned you do a lot of bookings for the Paralympic athletes. So those are athletes with disabilities of all kinds. And you mentioned that there's some maybe some special things that you have to consider when you're doing booking for them. So what are some of the things that maybe you have to consider when you're booking travel for these first and foremost? I guess there's a certain it just depends on the plane. But there's a certain amount of wheelchairs that are allowed on the plane at once, especially in case of emergency. So that's kind of a big thing we work with the airline to say, OK, we're only allowed to have 20 wheelchair passengers. OK, well, we have both the wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby that want to fly the same day. So maybe we have to pick have them go through a different hub city, stuff like that. So it's kind of juggling a big, big puzzle. So aside from wheelchairs, sometimes with our visually impaired, we'll have service dogs. So that's just something we have to let the airline know ahead of time, the kind of the breed of the dog, how much the dog weighs, stuff like that. Additionally, with the wheelchairs, sometimes not everyone's able to walk fully. So they do have to get an aisle chair on the plane. So that's something we also have to let the airline and flight attendants know ahead of time that way. You know, they're boarding early than the other passengers, that way they have it all ready to go so they can help assist them on the plane. So lots of different aspects. Sometimes there's minors. So that's something to if they're traveling with a parent or kind of like a chaperone, that making sure their tickets are linked together. So definitely not a one end be all. It kind of just depends on the situation, the teams and yeah. Our minors considered under 18 or do the airlines have a different kind of class of occasion and I don't have all that memorize. It depends on the airline. So I have the games. It's under 18, but each airline sometimes it's under 15, I think, or four, it just depends on the airline. Gotcha. But normally what can happen, though, is a coach. Let's say there is a minor, but we'll just kind of try to pair them up with the coach if their parents aren't able to attend something like that. So but there's a lot to coordinate and you mentioned wheelchairs. You mentioned service dogs, but there's there's also other pieces of sporting equipment if we're talking on the Olympic side. We have athletes bringing pole vaults, cycling athletes bringing bicycles, equestrian athletes need their horses. Canoing is a sport now in the Olympics. That's that's a lot of big pieces of equipment. And you mentioned there's limitations that the airlines have and restrictions on sizes and the types of bags they can transport. So how do you get all of the things that they need to the location of where they're going to compete? We try our best ahead of time. We have meetings with all the teams, especially leading up to the games to try to capture as much information as we can. So we ask those team leaders, OK, how many of your athletes are bringing surfboards or pole vaults and what are the weight and dimensions? So we can pass that along to our airline or agents. And right now our airline partners Delta Airlines. So we'll work with our contacts there and generally what they do is, you know, because not every athlete lives in the same hometown. So they're flying from all over the US, small towns, big towns. And then we're trying to pick one hub airport for them to kind of go over the water too. So these smaller, smaller airports have smaller planes. So primarily what we do is we'll let them know the equipment information Delta will kind of pass it down. They call it they're like station managers or leaders at each airport that way. Kind of they're aware that way they can kind of track the equipment all the way through. And for some like example, Colorado Springs is a really kind of a small town. So if they need to fly out of Denver, sometimes the airline will ship up their equipment on a flight the day early or larger flights. So that's just kind of up to the airline of how they'll handle it. But the more information they have, the better to make sure everyone's equipment makes it there safely. So yeah, a lot of coordinating and probably fingers crossed that flights soon get canceled, things of that nature. And who all gets to travel? You mentioned a little bit about coaches. We've primarily been speaking about athletes, but there's there's other support staff. You mentioned some of the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee staff goes. But who else are you booking travel for? Yeah, so a whole bunch of people. So each team is sort of different of who they bring. I don't understand it all. It really depends on accreditation and kind of allocations. The bigger the team, easy way to look at the bigger the team, the more people you can bring. So track and field is a huge team. They bring a lot of staff. Track and field will have personal coaches. You'll have medical trainers, athletic trainers, some teams even have their own mental health or that college is kind of doctors as well. So really just depends on the team kind of, you know, usually what the athletes and staff prefer. They kind of pick, you know, they get to pick who they want to bring. In terms of the US OPC, just all sorts of pretty much everyone, almost everyone gets to go to the games. You know, you have your support staff on the ground. You have your marketing. You have your cons. You have we have our own medical department. We have mental health. We have you name it pretty much everyone goes there. So yeah, pretty much all hands on deck at the games. When I'm on the ground at the games, I work. It's called airport operations. So behind leading up to the games, I do all the bookings. And then once we're on the ground, once the teams land, we actually help them get their bags and baggage claim and find their way to the bus to the village or the hotel or wherever they're staying and then they're kind of on their way. So for really the first touchpoint that they see, familiar face and name, at least if we haven't met them once they get to the games and then start their journey. So that has to be reassuring to see a familiar face. And of course, someone who speaks there at the language and knows is intimately familiar with where they need to go and what they need to do and coordinating all these pieces. How do you keep track of all this communication? What's your process? Yeah, it's a lot. Like I said, I probably have one. I have all the Paralympic. I'm solely the Paralympic and then at least 10 to 15 of the Olympic lots of spreadsheets. So like I kind of mentioned, we have meetings probably about once a month or once every two months, depending on the schedules with each team. So there are NGPs, national governing bodies.  So all the steps kind of flow together. So we kind of have databases where we keep our notes and stuff like that. But for air travel, yeah, primarily just spreadsheets. So we'll have each all the teams, you know, we need their legal names. We need their date of birth. We need what's the airport code they're starting in, where they're ending. If they have any equipment, if they have any accessibility needs. So that's kind of how we keep track of all the teams. So it's lots of like lots of spreadsheets. And then from that, I also work on our manifest. So once all the flights are booked, we have I put into every leg of the flight. So if they're starting in Denver and then connecting and then getting to Tokyo, every leg of their flight. And then that translates to we have a program called Tableau, which kind of generates a document. So not just us, but everyone in the organization that needs to see it, that's on the ground, can view these reports and kind of filter it, how they need. So people know where everyone is at all times. So it's a good thing. If a piece of equipment goes missing in transit, are you the one that has to track it down? Or who's the best as we can?  And they're alerting all their station managers and pretty much trying to give us priority. So if that does happen, which, you know, every so often it does, you know, people have a late connection and it just wasn't able to get loaded or something. But we'll work on that with the airline on the ground, generally in baggage claim, or they'll have a support kind of equipment desk. And usually, at least with United, when they were our previous airline, we kind of had a baggage supervisor contact. That was his full job was just packing bags. So we're still I'm sure eventually we'll meet someone with Delta who's like him as well. But so, yeah, we kind of work our connections and do all they can to make sure their bags make it there to floss. Yeah, but it's not always easy, right? Because we have athletes who get sick and injured. So what do you have to do when you have to substitute travel? Like an alternate's now getting called up to go compete. Yeah. What's what's your process? You know, that happens all the time very, very last minute. And I guess we're used to it, you know, games time. I have my phone on work phone on me pretty much 24 seven. And that happened, especially in Beijing. We unfortunately, we had some winter athletes who got injured and had to, you know, we they need to fly back to Boston because they need to get surgery. So yeah, it's just something we're just prepared for. And hopefully the team has kind of a plan in place of who they want to send next, all kind of depends on selection procedures. And like I said, each team is kind of different of how they do things and what's allowed. But yeah, so we'll just be ready to book someone if needed. So and how exactly are you informed that a change needs to happen and someone needs to go home? What? Yeah, they're a key point person that you communicate with. So each team, each NGB has what we call their team leader, kind of like the team parent, I guess you could say. So they're the ones that we contact for air travel. And I'm sure other departments talk with them as well in the coaches. So they're kind of our point person. That way we're not going directly to the athlete. So they kind of let us know everything that, you know, if there's any issues or if I need anything, they kind of go to us. So kind of a chain reaction, you know, either if we're abroad, we'll use WhatsApp or email or just other kind of communication devices. So that way we can kind of get it done quickly. So yeah, absolutely. Sometimes the timing is really important with with that, I would imagine. Have you ever had an athlete or are aware of an athlete who wasn't able to travel by plane because of their injury or sickness but needed to get maybe some medical treatment? Yeah, not that I can recall. I know I think people maybe if they were injured before, maybe just maybe they couldn't fly when they were, you know, supposed to or something like that. But I'm sure it happens all the time is unfortunately, people get injured. That's kind of just how it goes. And they're not able to compete, which I'm sure is really hard for them. So but hopefully everyone stays healthy. Well, unfortunately, COVID has been a problem. So let's talk about it. Let's talk about the impact on travel and sport because we've had games and events cancelled, athletes, coaches get sick and are in need of quarantine, flights have been cancelled and rescheduled. This is definitely evident with the Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The whole games were delayed an entire year. They were scheduled to take place in the summer of 2020, but were eventually held in 2021 and for control measure, spectators weren't allowed to even go. And this amount of support staff was significantly reduced, particularly for the Paralympics, which is even maybe more important to have support staff. So talk to me about flexibility, communication, making those changes. What kind of challenges did you face with Tokyo? For sure. Yeah, COVID. I never, you know, I remember getting that announcement that the games were postponed and couldn't even believe it. So just just from that moment on, even just, you know, we had some flights booked already and United was our previous partner and Delta was supposed to start. So Delta was nice enough to let United keep the games for the fall 2021. So they got to finish off the partnership. But, you know, we had to cancel tickets. We had e-credits. We had just it was a lot of just against kind of spreadsheet and data kind of collection and capture. And then kind of almost starting from square one, you know, we had all these everything planned, all the dates and everything kind of all in place and lined up and pretty much had to start from scratch. But yeah, so just COVID in general, just definitely not a normal games. Super sad for these athletes that they couldn't have their, you know, parents that have been helping them their whole life train and probably gone to most of all their competitions and college and stuff like that, not be able to go. So that's definitely sad. But I know NBC did a kind of a great job at broadcasting and got to connect the families and stuff like that. So that was super nice and just spectators. Yeah, spectators to Tokyo, I think was going to be such a huge revenue generation. I know people definitely will look forward to Paris. I'll hopefully the next kind of normal games. But yeah, just so many COVID protocols just to even get into the country like can't tell you how many documents and apps we had to download and we had to, you know, track our health every day in an after temperature. We had to do a COVID test every day. We had to do before we got into country. It was called an activity plan. So the organizing committee Tokyo really wanted to know where are you going to be almost every day of the games?  So they just really wanted to track everyone's movements. Even on arrival, like I said, I was there working at the airport. Just we'd have to wait for everyone on the whole entire plane to get COVID tested, even if we weren't it wasn't all team USA people. If someone had a positive, they kind of had to retest everyone. People were could be close contacts if you're few rows of front and behind. So it was just it was just really crazy. Just the amount of yeah, just how it really affected every aspect of the games. And I was there for about over a month and I could see Tokyo Disneyland from my hotel, but couldn't go. So that was just hard. But, you know, I really bonded with our coworkers, you know, we're kind of all in all in the same situation, had to make the best of it. So at least my outing was kind of going to the airport every day. So got to see some different faces, but couldn't experience Tokyo's culture as much as we like. So I'll just have to go back one day. So there you go, land it on your own. And typically you have about a year and a half of time between the summer games and the winter games. But this was really unusual with Tokyo games being delayed a year. And so you had for about six months to get up and running for Beijing, China for the winter games. Was this enough time for you to coordinate the travel logistics for the winter games? I don't know how we did it. Somehow we did. I didn't sleep probably for a year, but I got, you know, went to Tokyo 2020, August of 2021, got back September. And it was pretty much full force Beijing. People were leaving for Beijing in January. So we worked around the clock. I actually didn't end up going to Beijing along with some of my air travel colleagues just because with technology and kind of stuff over there, we are better able to support air travel on the ground. So I spent about two months in LA from January to March, helping with our send offs there over to Beijing. So yeah, definitely a challenge. One thing, too, Beijing wasn't allowing US airlines to fly. So originally, Delta had a route from Seattle. And I think LA when we were kind of planning before covid stuff. But so they weren't allowing those routes to fly. So we actually had a charter for Beijing. So that was a whole new aspect. I think my boss said they chartered 20 plus years ago. So it's been a while. So kind of our launch spot was in LA. So that was just a whole kind of new game for us trying to, you know, normally teams fly from all over the different routes based on where they live. So to get everyone to LA and then Beijing also had very strict covid protocols. You had to get a special covid test from an approved consulate. And so that was in LA. That's kind of how we picked, kind of picked our launching spot based on a big hub airport and where we could kind of do all of our Beijing protocols. So people were pretty much in LA for about two days before they flew to Beijing to do all their covid testing. Again, a lot of apps and you had to get a whole green health code. And it was a whole just lots of paperwork and stuff like that. And then also in LA, everyone kind of gets their team USA gear. So that's the fun part. Actually, I think this is from the Beijing kit.  And it's really cool, especially kind of knowing how kind of what apparels for what. So if you get a medal, you have to wear specific things on the metal stand. They have their village wear. They have competition stuff. So it's really neat. That's kind of the fun part. They do a whole social media thing and they get their Olympic ring. And it's kind of a whole really neat thing, a few hour thing for them. So it's really cool to see that whole experience and be a part of it. So that's pretty unusual then from what you're describing, that to route everybody through LA as the kind of the starting point to go internet for international travel. And what about coming back for people able to fly closer to their home location? So coming back also, they had had to charter as well. We actually were able to pick Salt Lake City as our ending location just because it's a delta hub and we have a lot of our ski teams are kind of based in Park City or Salt Lake City. That way they could just drive home and they were good to go. So then that way, Salt Lake City also was a good hub to connect for everyone else. So kind of chose that on purpose instead of flying back to LA. We do have some teams after the Olympics and Paralympics, like they're still competing in other events. So a lot of them flew back to Europe. There was other airlines that were allowed to fly like Air France, KOM, stuff like that. So we did have some teams fly through Europe. We also used Japan Airlines in LAX. They were one of an approved airline. So they had to fly through Japan, but we did have some people that weren't able to fly on the charter that wanted to go earlier or later. So we had them fly to Beijing through Tokyo and then same with on the return if they needed to fly back and not to Salt Lake City. So lots of different routes. And you've mentioned a few times about the transition from airline partners. So United Airlines used to be the airline partner for the U.S. OPC. And now it's Delta Airlines. They've agreed to a $400 million deal, which in part gives them the status as the official airline for the Olympic and Paralympic teams. So they have an eight-year agreement that started in January 2021. So this includes booking athlete travel on Delta Airlines for Olympic and Paralympic games. So this replaces a 40-year partnership with United Airlines. So what impact has switching airline partners had on your job coordinating travel? Yeah, definitely excited for the partnership. You know, they're through the games since 2028 and LA is going to be a great game. So I think Delta, they just actually had us down there at their headquarters a few weeks ago. We got to do a pilot training and a flight attend training. So they're definitely super and engaged and excited for their partnership. Definitely sad to leave United. More so, my colleagues have worked with these agents for a while. We actually had our own United Olympic desk that booked specifically just for Team USA. So that was kind of hard to leave those agents. And they had to kind of go get a new job. But we're excited for Delta and looking forward to the next few years. And hopefully no more not as many COVID protocols. And we can kind of have that, you know, our flight routes back to normal. Right. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So I imagine now you're kind of looking at probably one of the key changes that you mentioned having their hub airports. So probably routing athletes through different cities is probably part of, and connecting airports is probably part of the change that you're experiencing. Exactly. Yeah, especially unfortunately Delta isn't a Denver hub. And so whereas United was, so that's something, you know, if we're flying to the East Coast or West Coast, we have to generally connect in Salt Lake City or Minneapolis or Detroit or Atlanta. So I think some of our staff are a little upset that they have to have one or two connections. But that's just kind of how it goes. And hopefully in the future, they'll kind of expand their routes and maybe have, you know, Colorado Springs or kind of Denver flights. So there you go. There you go. And does having an airline partner mean that athletes and their support staff travel for free? I wish. No, no. What does that mean exactly?  So, you know, we want to try to fly Delta as much as we can. So not for free, but I think especially the athletes and staff, a lot of people tend to like Delta on a very nice airline. So I think everyone's kind of excited about the partnership. So who actually pays for things? You mentioned maybe you get a little bit of a discount from your airline partner, but is it the USOPC's responsibility to pick up the tab? We have the national governing bodies for each of the sports. Do they pick up the tab? Who is going to be ultimately financially responsible for the travel piece? So day-to-day travel, when they're traveling to just, you know, they have so many, a huge calendar of events and competitions that NGB does pick up that travel, because every NGB is kind of different on what they need to do and where they need to go. But for games, the USOPC does pick up the majority. They do pay for all the athletes. And then, like I said, for each NGB kind of just depends on their allocation. We will pay for a few of their staff members based on team size, and then the NGB will have to pay for the rest. So it's not, you know, straight cut. It just kind of just depends on the allocations, but for the most part, USOPC pays for a lot of the travel. And I'm sure those national governing bodies are always advocating for more thoughts being covered. Well, what else can you tell us about your job that our viewers may not know or may not realize?  I guess working in sports that really makes you, especially, like I said, being the team behind the team, it really makes you appreciate how much logistics and stuff goes into it. It's not just, you know, an easy thing overnight. There's so many moving parts that we have to work to together just to really make sure that those athletes, when they're on the ground, all they're worrying about is competing. So it's, you know, it's really awesome to kind of, you know, I've always watched sports on TV, but really being a part of it and seeing what goes into it. Well, thank you, Jen, for your insight into the Olympic and Paralympic sport travel and coordinating the athlete logistics. Thank you to our viewers for joining us today on the sports playbook. In two weeks, our guest is Maggie McKinley from the University of Cincinnati, who will discuss current challenges in college athletics. We will see you then.


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Now if you have the perfect body that yes, fine We're what you need to wear, but if your body is not in the best shape Then you shouldn't be wearing certain types of clothes That are too form-fitting If you want to stay in the classy category, okay Now if you're a daredevil and you will wear anything and don't care and you're you know a fashion blogger that blogs and Where's whatever they want? That's fine But remember no well-respected man It's gonna take you out to dinner if your clothes are suffocating you. Okay, and I'm just saying okay Now y'all have always y'all have seen some women who know that they shouldn't be wearing certain things and we'll still put it on And I'm gonna say this for all women if it comes in your size. It still doesn't mean you should wear it There are body types. There are different types of clothing that we can wear to make ourselves look good Okay, confidence is great if you have the confidence to wear a certain thing. That's fine But remember we're trying to stay classy. Okay, so if you want to stay classy You need to also dress for your body type Okay, you can't dress like the size two over here if you're a size 12 14 15, you know You can't dress like that. You have to tone it down Okay, or you have to cover it up or you have to get your right size It's because I know a lot of people still trying to squeeze into that size 10 When they know they are 14 or 12. Oh, I know you get your right size, okay People can't tell what size it is if it fits on your body. It looks good. If it doesn't fit. It looks bad.   Okay um You know if you're at a nightclub and you're drinking and everybody's loud the music loud Yes, but in the middle of the day at 11 30 in the morning noon You shouldn't be all rowdy and screaming um because let me tell you why because People are watching you.   I'm watching them in the mall but You can weird yourself out too much to attract the type of men you like if you have too much weird crap on Men are not going to approach you unless they're into the exact same thing.  Do you? But if you're out and about trying to attract a man, don't wear 80,000 nose rings and purple lipstick and Green hair dye unless that's the type of man you're trying to attract too, you know Don't be too weird and weird yourself out of the circle Of attracting, you know abundant men, you know Unless you're attracting a owner of a tattoo shop or something like that and you're in that environment. Yes But if you're trying to just get someone in general, you got it.  You got on like I said this in other videos. Y'all probably heard it But feminine colors, okay A lot of women ask me. Oh, well, how do I act? um, you know How do I approach a man online? Okay, you don't approach a man online Stop asking me how to approach men. You don't approach men Let them approach you if they're truly interested in you they will approach You know if you they don't know you're alive and you're trying to get their attention Put a couple selfies up, you know like some of their pictures And that's it if they come to your page and see what you're all about great But don't chase after a man online.  Okay I have a lot of people that come to me and ask me how to get some guy's attention And they always get mad at me because I say If they're not chasing after you you don't need their attention Okay, because they're not they're not looking for you. Okay fine.  Okay Now Never approach a man. Okay. I don't know how many times I have to tell women this And a lot of women will come and tell me well, I have to approach men because that's the only way I'm going to get a date But let me ask you a question If you didn't approach men Do you think that any of men would have approached you and that you might be in a relationship right now If you would have just waited and let the right one come along instead of Men watching you go up from men to man to man you know, that doesn't look right from A distance if I'm a man I'm in a club or wherever I am a bar and I'm watching this woman go up to to different men Or just one man women that approach a man. I'm like dang. She must be desperate And the next time I'm out and about and I see her alone.  I'm gonna approach someone who's Got it together confident Not desperate and trying to highlight everything in the bar. Okay No So that's another way to act feminine stop approaching men Okay I know a lot of girls grew up and where it was cute To approach men, but it's un-ladylike Okay, it's not very feminine. Okay. It's not just Totally undo that what you learn And don't approach men anymore let them come to you because men always want what they can't have and if you're offering It to them. Hey, how you doing? You're so cute. My name is da da da. What's your name? That's like, uh, you know They're trying to look behind you at that girl who's just sitting there. You know Waiting to be approached so Please ladies don't do this anymore If that's the one piece of advice I could give anyone is do not approach men I don't know a lot of women are gonna write in the comments.  I know that but I'm just saying um, well Basically, you know, I don't know any other things to kind of tell you but Make sure You know, you keep it classy Keep it classy. Okay. I can't stress that enough Um I I can't stress that enough Classy is feminine Unclassy is trashy. Okay.  They're not attracted to that. Okay They're not unless they're playing on leave hitting it and quitting it You know So give someone An idea of what you would be like if you were married a wife or something like that They when you walk by someone you say, oh, he makes good husband material and they say, oh If they're marriage minded, oh, she would make a good wifey.  Okay, you don't want to be that girl You want to be like, oh my god, that's wifey right there. Oh my god. Yes You know, that's wifey right there.   Okay, you need to Clean it up. Okay, and I'm not I'm not it's getting ready to be spring. I know these toes are ready to come out I don't want to see this. Okay. I don't want to see claws over the sandals ladies.  They don't have your size. Go find your size or skip them Okay, I'm tired of seeing these feet claws. Okay I'll see a nice pretty lady She have all the nice clothes nice hair nice makeup. Then I see her feet and I'm like Oh, you should have wore some boots And stop getting those long toenails put on your um toenails Okay, why do you have to have pressed on toenails? I don't understand. Why do you have to have acrylic toenails? Did you lose your toenails? Do they have fungus on them? You guys if you don't have like medical foot problems, stop putting that stuff on your toenails. Okay It looks bad Um, especially to Certain types of men. It looks really bad.  You know those feet gotta look sexy not scary. Okay All right. I'm gonna see y'all later. I know it was like rambling, but um, I really didn't have Any structured things to say I just kind of Um went off the top of my head on this one. So I hoped that this is helpful to you I hope if you're You know Young and you could take some of this advice You will Because I have heard men talk about women from a distance and I'll be walking behind them and I'm listening and watching them Talk about the women walking in front of them because y'all know I eavesdrop They're like, oh my god. Look at her. Ooh Um, look at those. Oh her feet are ashy. Oh look at her.   They're like, oh look at that You know and look Listen to what they're looking at and referencing. They'll be laughing at some women. Oh my god. Look at her hair.  All right. See y'all later. Bye


On this week's update of the new Everton Stadium, on this week's update you'll see great footage of the roof battle cladding going up on the west stand for the first time as well as the steps on the outside of the west stand and the mezzanine. Inside the stadium bowl there are more seats that have gone in this week and more fantastic views of the fans plaza. For more great footage make sure you head over to Barry 1878's channel where extra drone content goes up all week. The links are in the description and are coming up at the end of this video. Thanks for watching and enjoy.


Hi, everyone. Happy Tuesday. I'm Joe for jazby's casebreaks.com. Come as you live and breaking that 2019-2020 panini encased basketball 4 box half case pick your team number one from jazby's casebreaks.com Second half is in the store. No fillers or anything like that yet. So get into it while While they're available to you Now here all the teams or all the people that bought their team straight up. Thanks. We did some number blocks as well I'll show you the results of that in just a second Alright, so here is the Memphis Brooklyn number block and OKC and The randomized for this is all in a separate video So if you're looking for the actual video itself, and then there's Pelicans Detroit right there There are the results of that So it's just a number block break right or serial number break But only applies to those particular teams in this particular break Sit those next to me right here the encased basketball comes from a fresh case So let's pop this eight box case open and see which four boxes we're going to do All right, so one two three on the dice roll for the left side four five six for the right side I'm going to select that guy right there one two three four five six and It's five one two three four five six this we will save Four pick your team two so we wrote kind of marked pick your team two right here So you know they're all from the same case That might be the only case we have anyway All right, there it is. There's Zion on the front right there And as you know, there's one graded card per box. We'll save all those graded cards for the end Use this blank card right here to Slow play some of the hits a little bit. There's 10 out of 35 bam out of bio Miami Ryan with Miami.  There you go 188 out of 199 Dame with the Celtics Got Nikhil Alexander Walker substantial swatches That's 28 out of 199 pelicans eight It's on this side over here pelicans eight is going to be for Jake Maybe we'll find his teammate in there somewhere and the last one here is Mo Bamba 36 out of 99 for Orlando picked up straight up by Joshua cherry. There you go, Josh next box Now I know the NFL has had a lot of free agency frenzy over the last couple days and today Basketball the trading deadline for hoops is coming up soon less than a little over a week maybe 25th 28th Something like that. We're getting pretty close. So we might see a lot of action Happening in the NBA as well. It's a lot of player movement in March There's Deandre 86 at a 99 Phoenix Victor Dwayne Wade Chicago Bulls relic 58 out of 149 for Joshua and the Bulls Josh cherry with that one too Kauai Leonard Clippers Jersey 39 out of 299 that will go to the Clippers It's gonna go to Greg and it should be autograph here. It's Vlade Vlade Divac 28 out of 99 Who's got my Laker Hovsep? with the Lakers The Lakers are playing tonight the home back-to-back two more box go then we'll do the encased cards Second half already in the store if you want to go pick your teams I don't think there's any number blocks or fillers for that just yet There is not there's 10 teams straight up left and pick your team to Hawks Nets Bulls pistons Grizzlies are available straight up heat Palakins are still available straight up okc sixers and Spurs if you want to get a head start on that there you go Hovsep in the house get him a monster He says that's the plan. Oh every day Every day. That's the plan. All right got Carmelo Anthony 28 out of 99. It's Hovsep Portland We have Bruno Fernando 125 out of 199 for the Atlanta Hawks Eric J with the ATL We got John Morant piece of his jersey substantial swatches Rookie Jersey 007 out of 199 Memphis is a number block team. So Memphis 7 is for Gretchen and the auto is Is KG Kevin Garnett Celtics edition? 11 out of 25 hands off the glass KG and Dame Damian with the C's fourth and final box as much as I like Golf and I'll look at Masters here looks I think we should have jazz Celtics coming up soon. We have a pregame show for that Geostorm on TNT to end Before we can get there's porzingis five out of 15 Hovsep as Minnesota he wanted to yeah I like Timberwol's edition of of KG a lot better than then than Celtics version That's for sure mark Cuban saying porzingis not going anywhere. No truth to those rumors allegedly Hovsep with Dallas the Andre Hunter two-color jersey for ATL Eric with the Hawks We've got Eric Pascal. I Kind of like this design where it sort of looks like becket label 102 out of 199 that goes to Dimitri and the Warriors warriors come out to play And back here is Steven Jackson for the Pacers There you go nice even Jackson 48 out of 99 for Michael Schwartz with the Pacers there you go Mike All right now the encased cards Let's see what we got. All right. The first one is a 9 5 10 and I think this is a nice one it is it's Kobe white For the Chicago Bulls Joshua Cherry there you go nice Kobe white that's 66 No, it must be out of 99 right 69 out of 99 9 5 and 10 on the grade. That's pretty cool nice one next one is An 8 5 10 and it's gonna be Taco fall 92 out of 99 that is for Damien and the Celtics 8 5 10 Two more we got a another 8 5 10 on this one and it's gonna be and we got an inscription here to Terence Davis You know is that that's a social media must be at Terence Davis jr. 8 5 10 on that one For the Raptors, it'll be for Brandon 90 out of 99 and the fourth and final one good luck. We got a 9 10 on this and It's cam reddish 3 out of 99 for Eric J. Dual relic and autograph Nice you got a 9 10 on that no John Morant No Zion on this in this first half, but maybe in the second half. I'm Joe for Jasper's case breaks calm I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye


This is baseball leather. I need a steel bag Yeah, I think that's what's holding my power back right now. Let's see my showcase arm I'm just gonna start like literally catching it and just lobbing it to first I'm gonna drive the ball to let like that 365 As I look right there Forward you know, you know, you're out like here a little bit. So you know yourself Versus saying turning back here and saying saying behind it. Yeah, I'm staying behind. Yeah Think I'm getting beat so I'm trying not to get beat by going to get it But I really need to get beat more and say behind it, which makes No baseball sense, but Oh Yeah, I took too many swings. They're doing a live auction on Friday I know you guys are gonna try to give me this silent treatment, but I will dapp everyone up Hey, I gotta start that and go with one hand. No, it's not fine Not as much as you think if you're on with Less than two outs. I'm not swinging until you're at third base. Okay You watch the fireworks we went to the water and like No on the East on the East River we're like the main display was it was crazy Yeah, I thought there was like Five different grand finales and they just kept going and going. Hey guys, how are you? Nice to meet you guys doing No problem guys


Chokmoshki Kim and everybody for coming out. Yeah, I guess just as a little bit of a background, I'm Chukasaw from Oklahoma, and my various interest in education and having a job have taken me to lots of different states and lots of different places. And so a lot of my poems will speak to that and what it's like to be an Indigenous academic in the fields of linguistics and anthropology. So, thank you. Ceremony of Rending. The most beautiful place in the world is a grove of trees in the hills of northeastern Oklahoma, between a waterfall and two acre-sized ponds. It was not easy to leave those woods. 12 years ago, I performed a ceremony of Rending, the swaying of my bow shifting ever stronger against the soil around my toes, but the red clay gripped firm and no amount of twisting could loose it. I threw my weight east and west, then north and south, until the howl of ripping trunk from roots tore through the night. There was nothing left to do but cut off my branches to move quicker across land and water, peel off my bark to write letters for people who will never even see my grove, burn my leaves to keep warm in far-off winters and carve myself into a pole that would separate twins. Stand me in the ground and I will point your way. I am always leaning home. Our film director is there. Ofi Tobi Ijina, The White Dog's Way. I didn't carry my ancestors' bones with me to this midwestern place. I could not hear their voices. I asked Rabbit to carry a note to them, but he baked them into cookies and ate them with rose-hit tea. I asked Woodpacker to pound a note for them in cedar but the songs could not cross the Mississippi. I scratched a song in four lines for our ancestors. I will have a lullaby of yarn for our descendants and a stomp for all of us moving counterclockwise in between. Finally, in the still of night, cicada buzzed answers in a tree beside my ear. We left our bones because we do not need them to dance along The White Dog's Way. You do not need them to dance along beneath us. All right, this one's a little more lively. Real Indian, ABC. According to someone we all know, real Indians don't adapt or break tradition. Don't call out racism, misogyny, and privilege. Don't date white, black, Mexican women. Don't have ebony skin or blue eyes. Don't fight disenrollment or get college degrees. No hablan español. Don't identify as gay, trans, genderqueer, true spirit. Don't jam to death metal, hip hop, or classical music. Don't study Kepler's laws of planetary motion. Never live off res, especially not in cities. Don't march in pride parades or need to get tested. Wouldn't operate casinos or preach the Bible. Never question their elders or tribal leaders. Don't receive per caps or get sex reassignment surgery. Wouldn't teach outsiders our languages. Don't use condoms or need sunblock. Don't validate our freedmen. Don't watch sci-fi or read X-Men. Definitely don't yawn during sunrise ceremonies and have zero interests in anthropology.  Nothing personal in that one at all. We leave home. We leave home because somehow it seems easier for the punches, slurs, and spit to be coming from strangers instead of the people we've known our whole lives. We leave home because there are only three other queer people in this town and two of them are dating each other. We leave home because the three other queer people in this town are tall or loud or masculine or feminine of center and we crave short or shy or butch or femme in a hundred shades not found here. Or they are our cousins. We leave home because as a wise friend once told me if you walk into a bar and have dated more than three of the people there it's time to move to a new city. We leave home because everyone says the city is full of sin and danger and people who break all the rules and it is already dangerous for us here and the rest sounds wonderfully enticing. We leave home because even though the Sunday school teacher has been cheating on his wife with the scorekeeper of his son's baseball team for years we are the ones going to hell and we've learned from experience that the phrase we'll pray for you is not kind. It's the most vicious version of the southern flesh or heart. We come home. We come home because it can be hard to connect to people who have never hauled hay in the August heat. Never defied nature by climbing up to the roof instead of down into a cellar when the tornado sirens went off and been rewarded with the most spectacular view. We come home because sometimes it helps to know that the person throwing punches and slurs comes from a home where their father beats everyone smaller than them and so in a way with each strike they are claiming you as family in the only way they know how. We come home because the younger ones need to see people who are like them and if everyone leaves there will always only be three of us in every small town. We come home because even when they rail against us and who we are and who we love or who we do or don't worship they can't deny we are a part of them. The red clay between all of our childhood toes is binding as blood and just as impossible to wash out. This was written November 21st, 2016 which was in the kind of heart of the pipeline protests in 2016. It's called Apocalypse Journals. It is the 21st day of the 11th month of the 524th year of the apocalypse and the tobacco plant is blooming. As I poured water into soil I lean forward to ask the pale pink petals how can you flower in all this chaos? She didn't hesitate to answer. My child, it is the only time to bloom. Each season is dangerous in its own ways and if you hold your breath until it is safe you will suffocate, it is always the apocalypse. Four directions? There is only one direction and its names are here, now or me and it doesn't matter which one you use because those are all the same word. There are only two directions, toward home and away, being defined by family and soil that understand my features or strangers who can only pretend to. There are only three directions, past, present, future and no matter what those textbooks tell you they never meet but run on tracks in opposite directions. There are only four directions. I have worn out the roads to home from all of them filled up the pages of my grandmother's address book until she gave up and used post-it notes to hold my place instead. There is only one direction, its name is home and I am never there and I have never left. Goodbye. This letting go is not the open palm so a butterfly can fly free. It is the cutting off of a limb trapped between two rocks on the third day without water. This goodbye is not a tearful kiss knowing we are heading off to brighter futures. It is the underwater uncurling of fiercely gripped fingers from the arm of someone who is drowning too because you can't get both of you to the surface. This letting go is not the dusting of hands after a job well done. It is the giving up of something that will never fully come to be. Something that will never give back the time and heart poured into it. There will be no happy reunion down the road, no archeological expositions in wonder and awe. This absence is not a fawn sigh for the one that got the way. It is the memory that has old rib fractures to keep you from forgetting. A flinch, a phantom limb, a scar that stopped the bleeding but also stopped the ability to feel. This letting go is not a butterfly set free but it is still goodbye. This is submergence and it is set in response to Joy Harjo and a line from her amazingly more crazy bribe where she says, if you fight water, you drown. Most days I struggle to catch ragged breath above the surface. A crawdad's call reminds me I was born underwater. I need only to relax, slip below, and breathe with hidden gills. Academic sideshow woman. Dear mom, I've run away to join the circus. They say I'm just what the show needs. I will travel far and wide. I'll be famous. You'll see when the circus comes back to town. Come one, come all. To be shocked and amazed by the bearded woman, the tattooed lady, a savage on display. My tattoos will come to life when I dance for tinted crowds. I will braid my beard into shapes they can recognize. They will count themselves lucky to have seen my kind in person. Has there ever been such a show? They will charge extra. Dear mom, I have run away to join the academy. They say I'm just what the campus needs. I will travel far and wide. I'll be famous. You'll see when the conference comes back to town. Come one, come all. To be shocked and amazed, the working-class professor, a two-spirit scholar, an Indian in academe. My words will come to life when I dance for review committees. I will braid my queerness into shapes they can recognize. They will count themselves lucky to add my numbers to diversity tallies. Has there ever been such a show? I will charge extra. Two more here. Bone songs. Being the first native in this department is just another word for only. But I am not really the first one here. These halls used to hold my ancestors whole, but now favor cells and scrapings. Horse nation, canine nation, primate nation. We are all gathered here in boxes and slides. If I sang the bone songs, they would all sing back to me. I have lined this office with plants, books by southeastern women, two-spirit art, and Indian comics. Sometimes I find the echoes of my people here comforting. At least they tell jokes with the same intonation. No removal cuts bone deep, the longing for home and resistance to shovels and scalpels of loneliness. I am here to call this story, paper, lecture into being. Peel the bark from my flesh to bite the patterns of my thoughts. Weave the honeysuckle vines so resistant to squared pages. Type the beads onto cloth in the traditional patterns of paragraphs, columns, chapters. Mother prayers to do this in a good way, a kind way. Pray that no one will inspect the backside where the disorder of streams betrays my shaking hands. When they sing the bone songs, I will sing back to them. And a bit of fun. So this one is, most of these are in my book, but my book is titled Trickster Academy. This is a seat at the trickster table, and with this I will leave you. I arrived hungry to the feast, invitation clutched in hand, but something seems off. There are only tricksters around this table. I can't look too closely at the center offering in case I recognize the face. It's a well-kept secret, but even the most respectable animals will eat one another if the season is right. They just hide their blood-soaked lips behind fine linen napkins. I spent so long learning to use the cutlery from the outside in, butternife on its own plate, but the buzzard at the head of the table has no need for such utensils. And the rabbit to his right eats everything with a dessert fork. I could leave, but I spent years sewing this dress. This isn't the fashion back home, and I still owe so much for the fabric. Besides, I'm hungry. I traveled too far to turn back now on an empty stomach. They don't give these invitations to everyone. Just ask the guy they're serving onto plates. I guess there's nothing left to do, but claim the seat between fox and crow. Grow my nails long to pick apart the bones. Even the gentlest of beasts will eat flesh if the season is right.


Over the last 3,000 years, we've been experientially studying consciousness and metaphysics. Only recently, since the scientific revolution, has a global paradigm of materialism become dominant. Industrialization has connected billions of people to electricity and the internet, plus much more. The revelation of quantum mechanics blew our minds, and now the 21st century is knocking. How can science possibly probe the most primal question of our existence? What is consciousness? If you'll join me for a moment in a game, I'd like to ask you to close your eyes and imagine you are in bed. Dozing off. You immediately begin dreaming that you're in a kitchen, pouring yourself some tea. You're adoring the high quality of this full immersion, where you can literally even smell the aroma. You accidentally spill a little, and suddenly you snap back to laying in your bed with your eyes closed. Now you can open your eyes. What you just experienced, we predict, is a microcosm reflecting the macrocosm. In other words, the same way we dream a reality, and take a first person perspective, is precisely what we are doing with this reality. One indivisible infinite consciousness in a dream, fully immersed in the high quality, completely forgetting it is a dream. Why we see people running around, seeking objects, relationships, substances, anything, is because they want to pierce the veil of separation to feel whole. The irony is, you already are what you seek.


Starter up again. I dash comes on. Yeah y'all we have some truck upgrades to discuss today. Welcome on back to the channel. I am right now preparing for a three-week jaunt into the Mondadnias. I'm talking Colorado y'all and we're going all over the state. I'm gonna be staying up there for nearly a month and this is the truck that's gonna get me around and on all my trucks my last three four trucks. I've had a cap and I've had a rack on top but this time on the latest adventure wagon I decided to put a iron skillet on the top of the dagum thing because it just looks like it can hold a way more stuff at a more weight distribution effectiveness if that makes sense. We'll get into it but I've also got a couple of tasty additions on the inside of the truck that I want to talk about. Been testing them out for a few weeks now. Anybody that has a diesel truck I would highly recommend these things but Banks Power sent me a couple of things. We're gonna go over there in just a second. The chickens are absolutely going nuts over here. I've got to give them their morning jog. They like to do a little morning jog, give them some grains, scratch around, then they go make the eggs. Doctor, eat the bugs. Eat the bad bugs please. Oh gee speaking of bugs.  It is. Let's see what we got here. Oh a little Martha. So our other chickens are around here free-ranging. That's Pete, one of our Easter Eggers. There's Puff, her sister. Both laying eggs now. Beautiful little blue eggs. I thought you guys would be the craziest wild little raptors out of the bunch and you've turned out to be some of the sweetest. We just we just like it. Two weeks ago, not even a week ago, you could not touch this chicken. Since she started laying eggs, full transformation into a nice little sweetheart. I don't know what it is. We got a problem with Martha. She is she's low lady on the totem pole right now on the the dream team. She's just not performing and she has she has a problem with her eggs. I'm waiting to see today if she drops one and if it's okay. But her first five or six eggs that we've had to throw out because they have holes in them. They're like incomplete eggs. So I think her egg lens not fully developed. A little Martha, I've been very sweet to you.  Get you to get on that nice egg laying train with the rest of the team. And you're not you're not performing. Now what happens to non-performing chickens? Do I need to start throwing some recipes out there? Okay, cordon blue, chicken noodle soup, enchiladas. Okay, there's there's a lot of options out there. Okay, and you happen to be one of the most delicious breeds of chickens. Further meat, not just for their eggs. Okay, Martha, she's getting a little nervous. She's getting a little nervous talking about that. I'm gonna let her down.  You're skinny. You put on some weight. You got to start dropping some quality eggs. Yes, you girls. You're doing good work. Proud of you. Got a bonus spinach bundle for the top producer this month. Keep working. Keep grinding. But anyway, that's part of the daily life here. Let's get into the truck and let's actually start on the inside and go to the the bank's modules and the accessories that we have on the inside. First thing we're going to look at is the bank's pedal monster. I didn't even know what the pedal monster was until banks email me and said, you got to have one of these for your truck. You'll it'll make a you'll just see a huge difference. And they were right. And I already knew about something called the it's basically pedal lag in this truck and in other modern diesel trucks, especially the eco diesel trucks. But there's a delayed response in when you press the throttle and the response of the engine. So what the pedal monster does is it allows you to determine the timing of that throttle. So you can make it to where it's literally like old school where it's on a wire, you know, as soon as you hit it, the engine's going to jump or you can make it in a what, you know, a balance. You know, there's all sorts of settings. There's three different modes on it. And then there's settings within that mode. So I'm going to show you guys that we're going to start it up and take a test drive and all that stuff. So we're going to start with this first because this is the last thing I need to do is just kind of tuck this thing away and zip tie it. Just make it nice and pretty. But this has been connected up to my truck for a few weeks now. This wire is going up to the I dash. I'll show you guys that in just a minute. But you just take this right here. This plugs in it's dark in here. I know it's kind of hard to see. But at the top of on my truck specifically at the top of my foot pedal, there is a little connection that connects to the computer that goes to the engine and tells it how to respond to this. So this isn't like an old school engine where this is connected to a wire. It's all done by a computer.  So the pedal monster actually does not give you any more horsepower, any more torque, anything like that. It actually just adjusts that timing.  And it's it's like four seconds later than it downshifts and then it goes well this can basically make it immediate. So as soon as you press it just just goes it's really nice. And I've noticed it's especially nice for towing you just don't have to work as hard. Keep working that gas pedal to get it to downshift. It'll just do it with the slightest movements and you can adjust that movement as much as you want. Next thing we got in the adventure wagon that connects to that pedal monster and then comes up to the dash is the I dash this module right here when I cut the truck on it turns on whatever recognizes RPMs and it gives any read out that you can think of that the truck will put out. So instead of me sitting here and just kind of explaining what all this thing does, I think the easiest thing to do is just show you it's fired up and then we should see the I dash come on. This basically just suction cups to the window. I haven't done a super clean install on this like you wanted to completely tuck this you could but any vehicle that has one of these ports right here. So if you've got one of these, I think it's called an OD2 port, something like that. You can plug the I dash into it. We have got to go get some diesel my friends. So we're gonna head to the Buckeys and go get us some along the way. I'm gonna show you what this thing actually reads out and how cool it is to watch what your truck or vehicle is doing. First thing is bobbing up on the I dash is to tell me I got a low fuel level, which is actually appearing before it even does on my truck dash. And one thing I like about that is I can get a more exact fuel read out on the I dash. So I can know how many miles I've got left until I'm actually gonna run out of gas. Whereas the truck won't once it gets below, I think it's 50 miles, then it just says low. So you don't know exactly. So any sort of information that your truck is going to put out to you, you can pull up on the I dash and that includes error codes, you know, things that are going wrong with the trucks. I've got a lot of those. It'll actually tell you what the problem is. Because it's plugging into that port. That's the same thing that the mechanics and the technicians are going to plug into and see what those codes are. So you can see those and diagnose those before you even take your truck into the shop, you know, give your technician a heads up, say, Hey, I'm getting this code, you know, maybe they can go ahead and order the part or something for you. I don't know, it might speed up that process of you getting your truck back faster. So I like that fact. One of the main things that I find outstanding and the truck honestly should tell you this by itself. I can't believe that it doesn't. The I dash will tell you when your truck is going to go through a region. So a region on a diesel, y'all, if you've got a new diesel truck, you know exactly what I'm talking about. But you never want to stop your truck when it's going through one of those cycles, you want to let it burn through completely. So right now, it's telling me I'm at 58%. When that reaches 100%. That's when that region trigger is going to cut on. And I know that my truck is going through a region cycle. And you can actually watch all the trucks going to come out, cut up, cut on again. Here we go.  So I think it's good to know exactly where you are through that region cycle.  You've got to pull on here and get a little Dessal at the Bucky's real quick. Back in action. Start her up again. I dash comes on. So you can flip through these different settings. And you can say I think it's five different pages, custom pages. And you can kind of adjust things. You can literally adjust every little thing. But right here on this setting, this is monitoring the pedal monster. And this allows you to adjust your power as well. So I'm in city right now. I can adjust this. I can keep going up sport.  Track is basically like, like I talked about having a wire like an old school wire that goes straight to the throttle. That's what this would be like. So just kind of give you an example here. I normally keep it midway through the city setting. I think this right here, the tires might come out from under me on this one. Oh, yeah. Like the it is just straight response when it is on track. So if you've got a serious diesel, and you've made a lot of modifications, and you really want to squeal tires and just make it easier on yourself, this, this would be the setting right here. I mean, I'm barely pressing it. And it is just won't go in. Let's turn that back down. Just give her a little gas right here. You guys can see where the stock performance would be. The stock throttle response versus the pedal monster response. So at the setting that I have it on right here, it's it's probably about 20% above stock performance. So I've been playing around with the iDash for a few weeks. I love it. And I've got it on an eight gauge system. I want to see as much as possible what is going on. But I asked them, I said, Well, you know, hey, what is the best? What are the best categories, the best readouts for monitoring a diesel? And right now I've got it on RPM. So you can see your exact RPMs. And you can just take mental notes of when you know, you're getting the most power at certain RPMs and whatnot. It's just more specific than your actual analog gauge manifold air density. That's on both gasoline and diesel engines. That's like a true performance monitor. So you can see the exact density inside of the manifold. My engine has a turbo on it. So I thought it'd be cool to monitor when that turbo is kicking in and adding that additional pressure. So I can see that I can see my horsepower. And it's really neat to see like the horsepower as you're driving. And I've towed with this thing a bunch. Very interesting to watch that. A couple other categories I think are cool for diesels. You can monitor your torque so you can see how much torque that your engine is requiring or commanding. So what I find fascinating is watching the torque versus the horsepower. So there's times like when I've had my boat towing up a hill and the engine is asking for more torque than the horsepower. When you see the horsepower go up a little bit, then you'll see the torque ramp up to like 100%. And it's not shifting any gears. That's what's really neat. You're putting all that torque into that gear and it just keeps tugging it. It's really cool. I've just learned a lot having it quite honestly. So Banks didn't sponsor this video or anything, but I just want to give a shout out to them because they have been watching my videos, saw the videos on my truck. They seem really interested in these smaller diesels as well. So that's why they wanted to create this pedal monster for this specific truck and they just came out with it. So they're available. I'll leave a link for them. If you guys want to check them out, do your own homework on Banks. Nice thing about these two things, you can install them in 30 minutes. There's no tools required. It's just very simple plug and play. Even I can do it. And I know nothing about working on diesel trucks. So a couple of gizmos to make the adventure wagon plug away a little better. And let me also show you guys what's on top of this thing to help with cargo tremendously. I've let it cool off to about a crisp 98 degrees outside. Got a little shade. So I'm not just killing myself out here. While I was at monkeys, I got one of these jugs racing jugs. I thought to myself for these little indentions right here, this would be perfect to strap down inside of the bed of the truck or even on top. You can even put water in one of these. I think I'm going to end up putting diesel in here so I can have a five gallons extra diesel on them on the road. I was going to do a fancy Jerry can holder on top of the pioneer rack system and all that and get fancy but that gum it's expensive. This was like 30 bucks. And I'm most likely going to be throwing a kayak and some other stuff on top of there, which I'm going to show you here in just a second. There's two very, very large bags. Got to carry enough stuff for my whole family. Initially, they're going to meet me up later.  And I'm most likely going to be testing the 300 pound loadout capacity of this rack that's on top. Let's look at an example of how this thing is going to work out during campuses. Let's step up here and check it out. Grab on to the platform. Here we go. So up here, we've got our Duffy's. These have got our sleeping pads, our sleeping bags, just a lot of extra camping gear that's not extremely heavy but takes up a lot of space. I've got a real big husky crate that I just slide into the bed that's got the cots and it's got the main tent and it's got a few other things in it tarps and whatnot. I keep that in there because it's super heavy. It's probably 250 pounds. But the pads are usually keeping the back of my truck and they take up like the whole back seat. So this is perfect. And I'm not too heavy right to strap those babies down. We also have a cooler right here. So we've got a mid size cooler. I can also use this as storage. This is a cheap one from Academy but it's got little little holes right here so you could ratchet it down onto the platform. The whole reason I wanted this platform is just so much more square inches that you can utilize to put stuff on it and ratchet it down securely. So we've still got you know our underbelly typical rack. There's your bar right there. But with this platform right here, I can fill up all this whole square footage, you know, I could put a kayak on this side, I could do other stuff on this side. So I'm definitely gonna make it arrangeable where when I go on different trips, I can switch things in and out. And that's what's real nice about this. This is made by Rhino Rack. My dad has a Rhino Rack. He likes it. I decided to try this one. It's pretty pricey. I think this whole system right here was around $2,100. But I just haven't had a truck without a rack system in a while. And I thought this was the cat's pajamas. So hopefully it'll be worth the money.  And you can do all sorts of stuff you can customize this however you want. But that's basically the platform, how you use it. Like I said, you know, you got your jerry can or water jug, whatever, you can stick that up there out of the way. But as an additional little nice feature, having it up here like this, I've got actually another jug that has a valve.   Okay, hopefully, hopefully that's what's going to happen. And then lastly, you know, I've got a solar panel up here.  This also has some reinforced ringlets on the side so you could take some paracord or take some hooks and hang it off the platform itself. If you're getting some morning sun, you know, this midday, and you could also just set this puppy flat, set her flat down for that midday sun and then you're really charging up. So that puppy right there is going to be getting a ton of use with the life of the truck. I just love having a truck cap. I love having the rack. It is so useful. I like to avoid a trailer having another set of axles or two or three. That's just more problems that can happen, especially when you're in hairy places. You can put everything inside of a truck on top of the truck. And then it's easily accessible to and almost becomes part of the camp and it can be advantageous as I think this is then I think it's extremely useful and not just a showy thing. If I could complain, just a few things right on rack. This thing should just come with a couple of little couple of rings, couple of cleats, something because I mean, they're like 50, 50 bucks for a couple of rings, maybe more than that, like 100. A lot of their accessories are just super pricey. You can get a typical ratchet strap up under here. But the just the way they have this system with so many different cleat tracks are just tracks to put all sorts of accessories. I mean, you could throw a couple of rings in the box and it probably wouldn't hurt production costs too bad. So if you have a decent garage and you're and you're okay at doing some machining probably makes a little inserts to go into this track and it's it's really similar to the M lock, you know, the M lock sort of connection if you all are familiar with that. So y'all I think the adventure wagon just stepped it up a little bit and it's ready to get out in the woods. And hopefully it's going to have some antlers and a lot of fish on top of it. And we get to monitor the performance of everything while we're cruising down the road. I don't know much all but I'm looking forward to looking at some furry things out in the woods instead of just slobbery old summer scales. Anyways, y'all thank you for tuning in to all the episodes if you want to check out more around here at the Treehouse more chicken whatnot family stuff, Lake life family channel link down below. And I hope wherever you are driving a blessed adventure out in the woods or water somewhere. And the best of luck to you God bless you. Marcia. What you doing here? Oh dad gone Marcia. Marcia laid an egg with no shell.  I think you're going to get cut from the team and I hate to tell you what that means. Y'all pray for Marcia.