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in today's video we're revisiting my binder with every ghost rare ever made what's up guys we're back with another ghost rare binder update video i did an original video on this where i announced that i was going to collect every ghost rare in first edition and unlimited and all the other versions of the cards in their original set so like rainbow dragon on a tactical evolution had a secret rare as well then when you get into some of the zexel sets they'd have ultis they'd have also a secret baby an ultra as well so there was like three different versions so i'd be collecting if there's three different versions i'd have three first heads three unlimited so today i'm continuing this goal i mentioned it many times since then like if we pull something that i think i need i sometimes reference the binder and sometimes even show myself putting something in the binder i did that the other day with the star reader so i figured you know what let's do an update i actually watched back the old video and saw we've made a lot of progress since last time but before we get into the goodies we have a giveaway i'll be giving away this ghost rare star reader because i did upgrade mine from light plate in your mit so you guys get the light plate the old one just like the video be subscribed turn on notifications let me know what you think of the binder do you have any collection goals that you're attempting to pursue at the moment if you do let me know in the comments so i can read about them and you know see what you guys are doing all right guys you guys know binder collections are really hard to show so i'm gonna do my best so our first page it used to be on the first page here but then i realized if i'm gonna do ghost rare and secret rare with unlimited first head i need four slots not three so i'm gonna have to have another page and then it's gonna get weird with the chaos neos because it also has a misprint ghost rare as well so there's a lot of different things you guys can see me in the reflection hey how's it going guys at the top we didn't originally have a rainbow dragon but we did get a light play unlimited it's actually pretty nice light play we got a near mint rainbow dragon secret rare so we've completed those two well we need the near mint then we need a first ed and a first ed secret and ghost so we need both of those then for this one we really only have the near mint chaos neos we don't have like the ghost share i do have the ghost share misprint because uh that's in a bgs slab though so it's not gonna be in the binder this is near mint so i can really take that near mint off i really just don't need that to mark because i really try to mark only non near mint then we go down to the rainbow neos which i think we already had these this is a heavy play uh first edition haven't gotten a better copy since same with this secret rare there's also the unlimited which i believe we do have a near mint i think i acquired that one over the past year we have an unlimited near mint here this is just a bonus copy so we really have completed these two we just need the first eds of these but fan of darkness is so crazy hard to find it's gonna be a difficult one but if we do it's gonna be great i want to take a look at at least one ghost share from every like two pages here so uh we'll first take a look at the rainbow neos it's pretty well in the light i mean it's not as good as like the stardust and stuff i feel like they improved it as they went but then it kind of got worse we'll kind of see how the ghost share foiling did because we're gonna go you know year by year basically here so rainbow neos looks really nice that's the unlimited so very very cool stuff for the binder so far all right our next page is one of the coolest pages because it has the uh light of destruction not legacy of darkness light of destruction ghost share which is the honest we don't have first eds yet we do have the unlimited light play and then we have a near mint secret rare so this is before they added in like an ultimate rare as well which is coming in these sets but in here was just secret rare and ghost share for the original few in the gx era so we obviously don't have first eds yet then we go to of course the stardust we have a near mint ghost rare there which is pretty nice we have the light play ultimate rare i thought i had a near mint one of those i don't i might have sold it actually i probably should have put it in my binder and realized that uh don't have the ghost share first ed don't have the ultras we need the ultras first ed as well so we got to find those then the black rose i used to have the uh look you can see me in the reflection here we used to have the first eds i should be wearing this shiny uh shiny sweatshirt you guys can see a shout out to Jarvis ghost rare first edition i had the ps8 10 but i sold it don't have the ultra right here we have the ghost rare black rose i don't remember if this is near mint or not i pulled it out of one of my decks i think it actually is near mint then we have the ultimate rare of course and then missing the ultras so the ultras are some might sometimes the weirdest ones to find and the reason the ultras are so hard to find is because not necessarily because they're hard but because you forget you need them so i like will sell them or like you know they just you're not really looking for them as hard like if you say a ghost like do i need that ghost ulti do i need that ulti you don't really think that as much with the ultimate wow or the uh ultra i should say the black rose one of the best looking ghost sure is ever made i mean it looks absolutely amazing check it out we got that background 3d texture going on really good i mean it's got to be hard to beat this one let me know in the comments the best foil you see out of all the ghost we look at very very nice pull this out of a deck just for the video uh because i needed to put it in the spot where it belongs but really nice it's hard to beat the black rose all right on this next page now you see some serious progress so we have i think we had a lot of these before we didn't have all of them so we have light play red dragon arch fiend here so we need to replace that one then we have the ulti that's near mint we have the ultra that's near mint the unlimited that's near mint we have a light play ulti so we're almost at everything we need the ultra over there but i have the red dragon arch fiend that doesn't actually belong in the minor but i figured it really just fits here but it doesn't actually because it's not in the same set it's also not even the assault mode it's a different version then we have the power tool which i remember having this last year or at least the last time we did this i watched this video back so we have this near mint we have a near mint here we need the ultra obviously because we have an extra ultimate i have a lot of ulti's of this card and a lot of ghosts so we have unlimited ghosts that one's near mint as well another near mint ulti unlimited and then another ghost unlimited so we have doubles of a lot double ulti's double ghosts you know there's a lot of good stuff on the power tool but we have a lot of near mint cards which is great then we have i have added this this ancient fairy dragon came from collecticon when yugimo and i picked it up if you guys remember that video charlotte it was back in like april or may or june of last year i don't remember uh check that video out if you guys missed it was really fun we picked this up near mint i think it has some weird corners but other than that it's really really nice near mint first ed we need a near mint ulti don't have the ultra unlimited we have it we have the ultimate and we have the ancient fairy dragon unlimited ultra as well so we need this is the only card we actually don't have one that's actually not true some of the ultras i just have extras in there but really nice row here i mean just a lot of good stuff because this is such a nice one we'll show a couple so we have the ancient fairy dragon which i agree or i agree i think i agree with myself ruxin good job ruxin i agree uh that this is one of the best looking months i think this one is up there with the black rose it has kind of the 3d going on with it it's beautiful coloring like it looks amazing we once created a ps8 10 on one of these we sold it unfortunately but beautiful i mean not unfortunately because like it helped us buy other stuff but you know it was like you know be cool if we still add that power tool dragon also a really good one they just in this era they were crushing the go shares they did a really good job power tool looks amazing as well you can see some 3d texturing going on make sure to be thinking about your favorite go share because there's a lot of good ones i'm going to look at the unlimited see if there's any difference here it seems like it's pretty similar so wait are these shifted time out these are definitely shifted look at this so this look at the little loop down here it is farther away on the unlimited okay the foil seems pretty similar but this is moved so that happens a lot like gold series haunted mine but i didn't realize it happened with other ones i guess maybe it's just the unlimited print was a little bit you know shifted but that is interesting something i've never noticed it feels like it's also shifted this way compared to this one i don't know let me know if you guys know any info about that let me know in the comments all right our next page has the uh majestic star dragon no first ed ghost we do we wait we created a first ed ultimate i should have put that in the binder to be honest didn't get like a nine or something like that at bgs we created it we pulled it it was an awesome pull that needs to be in the binder i need to add that i don't think i sold that one i think i still have we have unlimited ghosts unlimited so those look good we need the ultra over there then we have the majestic red dragon which is a pretty card missing the ultra of course we have the unlimited ultra i think we might have pulled that one and then we're missing the ultimate right here the ghost sure is there the black i remember we had all these blackwing dragons we had the uh we got these out of a collection like a long time ago so these are all near meant we need this way oh that is an ultra okay yeah we did have that we did not have this unlimited i remember that so we've acquired this unlimited ghost share since then i mean this is a really awesome card so now i want to do a little first ed unlimited when we can so there's the first ed this one is a little blurry like there's like a lot of it is like background blur and not as much in the front so i don't like it as much as some of the others i think it still looks pretty good but like you can really see the head and the wings and that's it like the legs feel like they're kind of blurry and honestly he has creepy legs like he looks like an insect or something very weird i don't really love his look then we have the unlimited does this seem any different let's see i want to see if like the legs are more easy to see here wait are they shifted at all looks like they're about it looks like they're about the same yeah they look like the same here for the blackwing dragon both look pretty good i'd say it's a pretty solid looking ghost not the worst one for sure okay but eyeball in it from the binder i think that majestic red is different look how okay look at the distance here from the border on the little tail thing there and then look here this one's about to touch the border this one's not so these have definitely got some shift going on to them as well majestic red dragon these look good i really like the look of these i love how the colors really shine on these okay interesting so it looks like some of them have a shift going with unlimited first yet interesting development we've had here but we have the draco quest that's all of these need to be replaced so mod play light play light play this is i think we did we pull this no we definitely didn't pull that i got into collection that's near mint that's the only one that actually is near mint there's light play and a light play so at least we have the ultra there this one we don't have the ultra but still my stuff shooting star we've had this for a long time out of a collection all these are near mint or these two are near mint this one's mod play i think we required that one these two came out of the collection and then the odens still need to be replaced both light play we did pull didn't we pull a ghost on i guess we that was for somebody else that's what it was so we don't have one of those we have two oldies here so we need the ultra and the ghost for this one so we're missing quite a bit on this page we have a lot filled in but a lot of it is not in the right condition back to our ghost share shift search i feel like this one might be a little shifted too so look at this guy's little ankle going on there and then you go to here it feels like this one is farther down so it looks like this one's going down and this one you can see a little bit more going on there so those are a little bit different the drakoe quest uh not the biggest coaster ever probably one of the least you know even known nobody cares about this one really but it looks pretty nice to be honest and of course we're not going to go without looking at the shooting star which honestly is it the best looking one i mean it kind of shines like the new gray ghost from the past ones where like well one part it's shiny and then the rest it's kind of gray you can't really like hit the whole thing if you know what i mean so like let me compare this so like notice on this one the entire thing is colored like all the shine is colored there this one it looks more like the new foiling where it's kind of like it's kind of shiny there but then it's kind of gray it doesn't hit the same i'm not gonna lie the shooting star dragon i never noticed this one does not hit as well so that's pretty interesting a friend of mine rj you guys know him from simo series he's big into like which ghosts are nice and which are not so i've been thinking about looking at those a lot more and uh yeah you can really tell i didn't know shooting star like that old of a card is actually kind of not that pretty i still think it looks nice but compared to the old ones it's like it's not even close so this one the junk berserker looks like it has the star strike blast foiling as well so star strike blasts where we started cheaping out on the foiling maybe it is wait let me look at that i'm gonna have to look at that some of these other ones okay no it must not have been because this galaxy eyes looks amazing too i'm gonna have to check that out so what we're missing here is unlimbs of these i need to upgrade this to near mint this one we need to get a near mint copy we need an ultra we need a near mint ultra here near mint ghost or for leviathan dragon we have the galaxy eyes photon dragons beautiful all those look good i actually have i don't even know if there's an unlimited uh photon shock wave i think they're it oh of course there is because that's the one yeah there is i know there is because that's where we pulled one out of the uh walmart thing i don't have any of them i just have extra ghosts here so we're missing all of those there so we got to grab those so now i'm interested to see like when they started cheaping out so this one feels like more like the star strike blast foiling actually this one looks a little better but it's got more gray going on you really don't want the gray in the ghost show you're really looking for the shiny colors that's what i like about it at least then the leviathan leviathan looks it looks pretty good but it does have some gray going on there it feels like it's getting a back to a little bit but i think the photon shock wave is really nice look at the galaxy eyes photon dragon this feels like an old school one so it looks like they went back to the old school foiling here this looks incredible like this looks a lot better than those other two and the star strike blast so i don't know what's going on it was like they're going i guess they were going back and forth with people like their factories and stuff and they different quality control and stuff all right going on to the next one this is where we get to kind of the weird ones we get to like utopia ray it's like this is a ghost shirt yeah it is a ghost shirt so we need to upgrade all the conditions here at least we have the versions right we don't have any unlimbs i did i guess they made unlimited orcs i think they did there's just back with basically everything got an unlimited then we got near mint galaxy eyes photo under i feel like we added that no ultimate we do have the first at ultra in near mint no ghost here these appear to be in the right condition as well so four out of six right condition which is really nice we just need those two then the Excalibur i thought we had pulled this but i guess it was all on limbs that we pulled this is a light place we need that we need the ultimate rare the ultra isn't i think we've pulled this since then we pulled multiple of this car there's two of them right there so we're missing the ulti and then a nice near mint ultra are there as well so let's just take a run through these ghosts so this one looks more like the star strike blast kind of cheap out foiling it's not terrible like you can kind of get most of it really like that so it's a little bit better i think but not too horrible then this one with galactic overlord this one feels similar so it's like these are pretty nice but they're not like blowing you out of the water you're like wow this is like the best looking card ever but it also looks pretty good so i won't like hate on that too much and then we have the heroic champion Excalibur this one actually hits pretty well i don't know what it is like every one every few has a really nice one even when they kind of have some cheap ones around them but this one looks pretty good even though it's not a really highly desired one but it's really cool card all right now we're on to the shark drake i don't think we had any of these before so we've added the number 32 shark drake this is from abyss rising we don't have the ghost but we do have the ulti mod play ultra we're gonna have to replace that we need another unlimited ghost we have the unlimited ulti which i think we pulled and then new ultra but that's still nice to add those this one we have the number 92 hardest dragon we did not before but i think we did have it because it was in the blue eyes deck we have light play unlimited which is nice i think we got that in a collection we have an ultimate that we may or may not have pulled i think we did pull that one and then we go to the number 107 which we did pull we somehow never pulled an ultimate or ultra at least i didn't keep them that near mid i think is from my collection and then we're missing the unlimbs as well so we got to grab those we have the unlimb ultra at least i remember if i remember correctly this one looks good yeah that whoa this one looks crazy and this one definitely has some shift from the unlimited i'm not going to pull it out but i can tell just looking at it this one shifted that way pretty interesting how that works but this card has some serious serious pop to it that looks amazing then we have the number 107 galaxy has tacky on this one also looks pretty nice and that's like an aura around it looks pretty pretty pretty pretty okay pretty pretty pretty very pretty that's what i'm trying to say okay it looks great then we get to the page of starator so i think this is the first set where they had secret ultimate ghost so instead of ultra ultimate ghost of secret ultimate ghost so secret we're starting the first day we need the first that's here we have the ghost which we just pulled the other day by the way you can even like tell that that's a ghost that's amazing look at that that's really cool looking just looks a little bit shiny we have the ulti and the secret rare that we also pulled the other day as well that was a pretty awesome pull so we filled out four out of six there we need the first eds then we have the divine knife hell grand i really like no ultimate rare there we have the first dead secret we have the ghost two ghosts actually that's a first dead light place we're missing ulti and ultra in the unlimbs mobius that's near mid okay i must have gotten that in a collection we're missing the other first eds need to replace this unlimited play we need the ulti we pulled the secret rare at some point that was actually a surprising pull that i needed so that was cool so for some of these ghosts it looks like yeah the fell grand hits pretty well like it's not as good as some of the other ones but i'd say it's an upper tier i should like make a tier list of how these look like when i get all of them we like look at the foil and say tier list of the best ghost foiling that would be pretty cool actually so this would be up there probably like a or b tier that looks really good then we have a mobius the mega monarch surprisingly this one looks amazing i remember when i got this and i was like why does this card look so good i remember this apparently used to be i wasn't around then but uh house of champs and people have said like this was like a three dollar ghost like it was super cheap but man it looks really really nice all right now we have the bujinki amatorasu that has the mod play we got to replace that these ulti and secrets so we got both those wait this is unlimited why is that there i guess i have double unlimited so i got to replace that so we have unlimited ghosts here that's near mint then we have another ulti and a secret so we've got the unlimited covered and this one but we need the first here then we have the settler knight delteros one you don't even remember exist it's in duals alliance too which is a pretty good card early up a good set i should say mod play first got to replace that we got the ulti that looks good and then nothing else so we got a lot of work to do with the unlimbs there then we have the dark rebellion a seize dragon another one you could forget about but it's a pretty nice card foiling doesn't look too good there we're gonna check that in a second ultimate where it looks good need the ultra and then we just have the mod play unlimbs we've got to replace that and get the other two so first we have bujingi amaturasu so this one looks it's okay it's like middle ground you know it's not great it's but it's not really bad i would say it's not like ugly but it looks pretty okay so yeah it's okay then we have settler knight delteros that one looks a little bit better i would say this also is mod play so it has some scratches on it but the foiling is hitting pretty decent on that one and then we have the dark rebellion disease dragon this one oh yeah that one has like the aura around it i really like around the artwork so it kind of hits better on the monster that one looks pretty nice then we have the malakota our first go sure that we ever pulled was this so this is the first that we need the ultimate rare unlearned or the first add then we have to replace this on limb and get the others then we have the clearwing sinker dragon which we also pulled this one need the ulti there and then we need to replace that one and get an unlimited ulti then of course red eyes flare metal dragon i had this one in uh the $1,000 purchase that's the one we got it was actually near meant from tcg player we've got the ulti's we need to replace this unlearned and then we have all so all we need is the unlearned go share and near meant we're good to go there so the malakota is sort of a newer go share you can see it like kind of fades off it's only kind of shiny so this is definitely one of the worst foils and it's not really a desired one anyway so it's not like that big of a deal you know then we got our clearwing this one definitely hits better than that one so it's like they were using different factories and one factor would make bad ones the other one make pretty good one so this one hits pretty well it's not like the perfect one but it's definitely really good then we have that red eyes flare metal dragon always been one of my favorites this is definitely shifted from my unlimited it's definitely up a little bit but this one hits amazing it's also red eyes so this is just an amazing card so i love love this one all right we are into the last core set which is dimension of chaos which you guys know about we have pulled many many scarlet red dragon arch fiends we got the ulti the secret of course we pull all those then we have the uh no unlimited i don't even know if this had unlimited i think it did but we got to get to work on those then we have gold series on in mind which is of course awesome we've pulled many many cards out of those we've got the blue eyes and stuff then we've got some of the newer ones like the wing dragon of raw we got the blue eyes alternative all the ghosts from the past one stuff which uh are we missing one we're missing the firewall i didn't realize that apparently i don't have the firewall so i got to add the firewall to this and then we'll have everything all right so this will be interesting because there's a lot of different areas here so we have this is the last ghost rare in a core set this one is it's honestly hate to say it but it's not a perfect ghost rare it looks okay but it's got some of that gray action going on which is not awesome then you got the gold series out of mind this one is beautiful the the go haunted mind ghost shares look really really good they crushed that i mean they they look amazing i mean look how shiny that card is beautiful blue eyes then of course wing dragon raw so this one is where they start getting pretty bad so like the wing dragon raw is cool but unfortunately i mean if you compare it to the older foil it's nothing like if you put it side by side i'm not going to do that because i don't want to hurt the wing dragon raw's feelings but it's just not as good i mean you can get some nice foil shine to it like that but it's only see you know it kind of goes in a line you know ooh shiny but then like the rest is not as nice so let me know what you guys think about this newer foiling do you like like it dislike it let me know i personally like the old foiling better or at least not all the old foiling as we've seen because some of the old foiling wasn't as good so there's just specific ones i would like to do a tier list on this i think it'd be fun and then the blue eyes alternative from ghost of the past is very similar to the wing dragon raw so they've done it so it's like where exactly the light hits it's beautiful but the rest of it is kind of lacking it still looks great i mean i still like the go shirt so one of my favorite rarities but when you put it next to the stardust of black rose i'm like man i just wish they were like that all right our last page is of course ghost from the past too so well we have a whatever this is called synchro storm and then we have ghosts from the past to all of those and then we have the silent honor arc so the foiling is pretty similar on these it doesn't change much from like the newer ones they're all kind of like that they got a little bit of shine to them they're not too bad not too good some people have a problem with them i i still like them i think they look really nice ghost is one of my favorite rarities but they definitely could be better i would say then i have a bunch of extras so we got some extra stuff from ghost from the past too yada yada and then we have that's about it so that's the whole binder for you guys all right guys hope you enjoyed the update video i'm getting close to finishing i mean there's a long way to go but i've made a lot of progress if you enjoyed the video make sure to subscribe to channel for more epic content let me know in the comments what you think shout out the tone foe show dax or jt chill puppets of doom or nesto danda dizzy hoppers choice three through three my cycle james jance tcg trust cards america doitzer supreme sage 21 and then the tie show ian musa junior barney mimic echo and thomas mclean thank you guys for supporting the channel i'll see you guys in the next one peace


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Why does Germany block 61% of YouTube and how do you get the Germans to watch your videos? Let's find out on today's episode of The George Show. This is actually a follow-up to the new YouTube music policies video that I made yesterday. Click that I up there in case you haven't seen it because this is part two of that video. The reason why 61.5% of the 1,000 most viewed YouTube clips are blocked in Germany is because of GEMMA. What is GEMMA? According to the Wikipedia article, GEMMA is the Performing Rights Organization in Germany that administers music and copyright. And according to a German court, there is an ongoing dispute with YouTube and GEMMA that is preventing YouTube from playing videos that GEMMA administers in the country. Now, the link to this article is down there in the description below if you want to read the whole thing. But the key points are that YouTube has already entered into 20 agreements with 33, or sorry, 20 agreements with collection societies from 33 countries. And GEMMA is one of the last few remaining who chooses to do a legal, to pursue legal proceedings instead of negotiating. And YouTube, of course, is prepared to resume negotiations at any time. So we're just waiting on GEMMA to wake up. Apparently, GEMMA has not yet understood the new developments in the international market, according to Frank Briegman, who's the president of Universal Music Germany. How can the Germans watch your videos? Well, the Wikipedia article has a circumventions section at the end, which talk about the common ways that people can get around to viewing blocked videos in Germany. So I encourage you to read that and communicate that to your audience if you feel a lot of Germans are missing out on your great content. So it's an interesting concept. But how does that affect you? Well, in yesterday's video, I talked about this, the new music policy section of your Creator Studio, where you can now use professional music like Gungnams style in your videos. Now you will lose monetization, so don't, you know, make sure you understand that. But in this case, Gungnams style is viewable worldwide, including Germany, because GEMMA has no rights on Gungnams style. It's a Korean music label that released it. And here it is. Let me play a short clip because it's allowed. Okay. Now, Gungnams style is actually the most viewed video in all of YouTube. Currently, it is sitting at 2.5 billion views. That video has made over $2 million to YG Entertainment. One video, $2 million. Pretty impressive. And you can use that music in your videos. Now, you won't make $2 million if you get 2 million views, but you will get views and potentially grow your audience from that. What is the second most viewed video in the world that is blocked in Germany, sadly, and that is Baby by Justin Bieber? Let's listen to that in case you haven't heard of this song before. Just a clip. Okay. You get the idea. So the way you find out which music is available in which countries and which can be used in your videos is by going to this music policies page. Some of you have asked, how will this help me get more views? So GamerDudes said, although he asked, how does it help to actually get views at all? Maybe it does make the video seem more professional, although from what I've seen, no offense to any of these channels, there are so many little channels that do not edit sometimes at all, do not commentate well at all and overall need work on their content. Okay. So the answer to that was also given in the comments by Barklord. So Barklord wrote 15 hours ago, George, thanks so much for the tip. This is yesterday's video about the music policies. I have for so long wanted to make an epic montage using the Ed Sheeran song, I See Fire, which is now available for use. Let's make sure it is. So I See Fire by Ed Sheenan Sheeran is available everywhere except Germany, of course, Germany. And Barklord said, he's now a paramedic in real life and this video Horror of War was close to his heart. He should check it out. Let's check it out, Freedom Family. What did Barklord do with this song? And did he do a good job? So here is the song. Here is his video. As you can see, it's monetized by Universal Music Group. By the way, how do we get this information monetized by Universal Music Group? It's a feature of Heartbeat. Don't know what Heartbeat is, just click that I up there and that'll take you to information about Heartbeat or you could just go to www.heartbeat.tm and click Get This App. So this video is monetized by Universal Music Group because he used a copyright song, so he's not making any money off of it, but Barkley did create this video. Let's have a peek. Okay, and if you want to see this video, click the link down there in the video description to watch the whole video by Barkley. And that is an example of how you can use the professional music to really spice up your videos, do something you've always wanted to do using a featured popular song from the radio or you've seen on television, and just make sure to search the Music Policies page for your rights because some of these songs, like many from one direction, are simply not allowed to be used in YouTube videos and if you try to use it, you will get a strike. And speaking of strikes, there's also the concern that the rights holder may change their policy in the future and videos that are okay to use now may get strikes in the future. That is a risk you run by using the music in the professional music catalog and it doesn't happen often, but it can happen. So you have to judge whether it's worth the risk. And if you decide it's not worth the risk, that's okay because there are so many alternatives to using the professional music that YouTube now gives you the rights to and that starts with position music. Position music has an exclusive deal with freedom, with you, with me, with us, the freedom family, where we can use everything in the freedom catalog on positionmusic.com. All you need to do is sign in with this shiny freedom button, click it and then you'll be able to sign in with your freedom account and you'll be able to use music from, that's been used in Deadpool. Who saw the new Deadpool movie? 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Welcome to Monet Café, Artistic Friends and Visitors. I'm artist Susan Jenkins. I think you'll really enjoy today's lesson and art is definitely better with friends. Please click that subscribe button if you'd like to have more of these videos coming your way. Now don't think you're doing a double-take with this video tutorial. This is actually a larger painting for a commissioned piece that I did. You may have seen the previous painting that was smaller and I thought this was an excellent opportunity to talk about under paintings. How and why we create them. This is my pastel palette that literally is from my previous painting. So this painting, even though it's very large, is going to go faster and I'm using the same under painting strategy as the first smaller version with a lot of warm tones that I'll talk about. So here you can just see my pastels. I love keeping them in these little appetizer trays and organize them like the color wheel. Oh and I'll also be talking about those brilliant blues. So many people were inquiring about those in the last tutorial. Alright this is a large 16 or actually I should say 20 inch by 16 inch piece of UART paper 400 grit. I am using a piece of vine charcoal also called willow charcoal just to get in a sketch and once again this will go more quickly really even though it's larger because it is a painting I've not only done once before but I'm literally following my own tutorial because I had videotaped it and made a YouTube video. I can watch myself paint and see the exact colors I used and really it's just a duplicate of my other painting just larger. The section where I do the under painting is going to be all real time but I am speeding up this sketch portion and also a bit at the end. So basically I am getting in the same sketch idea. I liked the composition of the first one. I like when your tree line has trees that are going up on the edges rather than drooping down on the edges. So that's my same strategy and goal here. Now with the vine charcoal I like using this because unlike a charcoal pencil unless you sharpen it with the lead very exposed with the pencil you can't get broad strokes like this and in this case it's very important because this is a large piece and this leads me to the first point about creating an under painting which it really creates a composition roadmap for you. By the way I'm just using a piece of pipe foam insulation you can get at any hardware store to do some blending and I find that getting an overall composition helps us to establish the large shapes the general gestural quality of the composition and it really does give you a good foundation to build upon. A second reasoning for creating an under painting is to establish your values. If you get a good value study early on your painting is going to be more accurate artistically and really values are so important. So here you'll see how I'm doing just that. I know that darker values occur in elements that are upright in the landscape such as trees and values are darker in the foreground like foreground grasses. So in a minute you'll see me also do that trail leading the viewer's eye into the background. So this is literally look how loosely I'm applying this keeping a light touch. I'm not specifically trying to draw or paint a tree in this. I'm just literally laying this little purple pastel that's a darker value on its side and I am just kind of scumbling in some of the tree shapes and just see how loose it is. One of the things that was challenging for me early on and I think it is for a lot of artists is we feel like our painting has to look like something earlier than it really does. It really does have to go through this wonky kind of adolescent stage before it actually starts to take shape. So embrace the unfinished quality of a painting early on otherwise you're going to risk your painting being too tight and really over detailed also over muddied with color. So just keeping it really loose. So here's where I'm getting the foreground grasses and that element of like a trail or something leading the eye again once incredibly loose big broad strokes. I wish I had had a bigger pastel for this. I didn't quite use all of this pastel by this time this painting was done but that's something to keep in mind with larger paintings. It definitely uses up a lot more of your pastel but again I like working really large. I am really glad I did this because I haven't done it in a while and it's worth it. It's worth using those pastels and just buying more because of the dramatic impact of large pieces. So back to the point of the value study. That is basically what I'm going to be getting here and very soon you'll see me actually do a wet underpainting of sorts. I'm going to apply alcohol. Now you could use water in this case too but what I'm going to be doing is creating a value study with literally just this purple color some alcohol and I had to find the largest brushes I had and that that one there on the left is definitely my larger no actually I have a big kind paint brush like you'd paint a house with a real big brush could have used that for the foreground and so now I just have a paper towel because I like to dab the alcohol off of my brush as I paint.  I like the drips that happen but you've it's a strategy you learn as you go how much to add because if you add too much alcohol it's going to drip too much and it's also could perhaps curl your paper you might just get it oversaturated. Now this one actually wasn't wet enough I start to add more water you'll see in a minute so I'm kind of reminding myself of my alcohol technique that I like to use but here's what I'm doing now is I'm just using the alcohol it's going to blend it in you see how the unblended trees right now are so you see so much of the paper showing through so what this is going to do it's going to blend it together a little bit more give it more of the feeling of trees cover up some of the background of that paper so it's not so textural and I'm keeping really really loose strokes not over fussing about things being just so but I've learned that I like my trees to be gestural and not just blobs or sticking in one direction up and down I'm actually trying to get even better about that give your your trees some energy and some motion and almost personalize them like people like how would they be would they be reaching to the heavens would they be praising creation so that's just something I think that emotionally can move you and move your viewers with your artwork so I'm just kind of dabbing and working and establishing again the direction of my trees but notice what I'll be doing here I'm going to get in really really just wild loose strokes I apologize my camera sometimes doesn't know when to focus on my hand and the actual painting so it's kind of coming and going out of focus a little bit and my board shaking too I really need a better easel I hope I hope I can get that soon so I am using just big old broad strokes this is a point where I could have used my really wide painters brush one that's even larger than this and energy looseness that's another point about the under paintings is to keep that loose gestural painterly feel so both of those under painting strategies are actually happening here you'll see me even establishing the value study even more so I'm establishing value study for my under painting and a loose energetic gestural quality it really is going to make your final painting just artistically more beautiful really now what I'm going to be doing now is I've already gotten down quite a bit of my values but I use what's on the paper already almost like a little palette of paint where I can grab some of the color and it stays on the brush and then I can apply it to other areas typically flatter areas in the horizon are not as dark in value so I'm just grabbing some of the color that's already there and wetting my brush as needed and getting in the general values of the the foreground now that area where the trail is that I envisioned that like a hill kind of coming forward so it was going to be a little bit more in shadow because the sun is way in the back there behind those distant trees so this is a hill that isn't getting as much light as the distant hill in the background so now I'm going to gradually grab some more color that's kind of what I'm doing right there and I'm using some of that color to really paint kind of a sketch combination paint strategy here to get in that background field I see I grabbed a little more paint there and I know the the area behind those background trees they're going to have a little bit more shadow behind them because the sun's back there so I grab a little more color and all this might feel a bit mechanical at first I know it did for me when I first started but the more you do it the more it starts to make sense I also knew I had a stream in there somewhere so I didn't worry about the stream as much with this part because I just wanted to get the general lighter value going on back there to get the mood now can you see how we've already done three things now we've established our overall composition with big shapes not getting too fussy on details we've established a value study we've got our general values in you know just something pretty general and simple and we've got loose beginnings so those are the first three points about creating an underpainting next let's talk about my fourth principle for creating an underpainting which is color interest I know we have a tendency early on in our art careers to say oh that's a green field let me grab a green color but if we can learn some of the underpainting techniques for creating more interesting color I think you'll find your paintings become more alive and exciting and while there are many different strategies for creating colored under paintings the one that I'm using here is what is typically called a complementary underpainting and all that means is that you are using the complement to the color that is primarily in the landscape scene and most landscape scenes are greens for the fields and the trees and blues for the skies so if you grab a color wheel a complementary color is just the opposite side of that color on the color wheel and opposite to the greens and blues and cooler colors are the reds and yellows and orangey type of colors so what happens is when you put these complements down you're creating a base of color for your greens and your blues to really vibrate with color and have a lot more interest so let me talk a little bit here about the color choices I'm using basically I'm using yellow orange and red if you want to think of it that way and I'm creating a value study with those colors the lightest of these would be the yellow which is in the sky the next in value would be the orange which I'm choosing to put a little bit behind those trees and in the fields in certain places and using the darkest red that I'll get to in a minute for some of those upright grasses in the foreground now a reasoning for that is not only do values get darker in the foreground like I mentioned before we've already got our dark value base with that beautiful purple but they also tend to get warmer in the foreground so I've got that nice red that I'll be adding in a minute to those foreground grasses that's going to intensify that illusion of depth all we're doing is as artists is recreating the way that nature and the laws of physics really works so no you don't have to have a degree in physics or science or anything like that to be an artist but it does help to learn these rules all right so here's where I'm going in and I'm adding once again this is a Terry Ludwig pastel I'm using a lot of real softies at the beginning I know the general rule with pastels is hard pastels first use your softies at the end but really my strategy has been use what you have what colors you have that work the best and learn to keep a lighter touch so that you can still apply other colors at the end and now I'm adding more of that orange to the side of the field or that rolling hill on the outsides of those deepest or deeper grasses I also knew that once again I'm thinking about how nature works I know that behind those tall trees logically we can assume there's going to be darker values because again the sun is setting way back there in the back there's going to be more shadow on the other side of the trees so that's why I established a little bit of the dark red there as well now this is the same strategy as I did when I just put my darkest value down I'm basically doing an alcohol wash to this and again I'm using the same strategy of wetting my brush enough to where I can paint with it but not so wet that it just drips everywhere now as I am applying the alcohol here let me talk about another common question I get with regards to under paintings so many times the question is why do you do an under painting I've been talking so far about how but why would you do an under painting if you're just going to cover it all up anyway oh my goodness I can't tell you how many times I get asked that and it's a great question because I thought the same thing early on I would see wow there's all that color there and you're just going to cover it up and you're not even going to see it well two answers to that one is I purposely try not to cover up all of the under painting I love it when little bits of the color shows through and creates just that energy with color that I think makes the painting overall more beautiful but the second thing is it's affecting it more than you think even when you think you've covered up all of the under painting you know that's a great idea for a video I need to do one painting with an under painting and one maybe I have done that and one without and cover up most of it just to show how the underneath color really does influence the layers of other pastel colors that you put on top oh and by the way this large painting really only took me maybe two hours if that and again the reasoning is because I had already painted it and I'm literally just following my own tutorial I had my ipad sitting next to me and I was just watching myself paint the first painting I originally had some flowers in a photo for reference but I did a lot of the composition out of my head and going with working with the client as to what some of her color choices were of course what size she wanted and also she found some of the other paintings of mine that she liked and that was why I came up with this composition idea she liked the idea of flowers in the foreground and perhaps a stream she loved a little stream and I was trying very hard not to have the two competing with each other and came up with keeping the stream in the background very subtle now notice how the broad strokes that I did for the deeper grasses in the middle there and I'm doing the same thing I did with the purple in grabbing some of the color and using it literally to paint with like a little paint palette of color so I find this works really great for creating a value study type of underpainting for complementary under paintings notice too when this is wet it's much darker see the purple trees how they've dried so light now the same thing is going to happen with these warmer tones that I've applied as well also too notice that even though this is an underpainting it's still important to keep directional strokes that's going to intensify the energy and the drama of your painting so I'm using directional strokes to in my mind I'm imagining these grasses just reaching towards the heavens or that sunset in the background and so my strokes are very vertical notice the background field however I had them more horizontal in in the way they're laid out but they also look kind of I don't know if you can tell from the video almost like they're curving down I'm doing some forethought into that stream that's going to be there and the the hill is going to go down into the stream all right so now the purple that I applied as my darkest value before has lightened as it dried but it gave me a great roadmap once again that's one of the first things about an underpainting that that has allowed me to do you see how now I know where I'm going I don't have any guesswork anymore I know where my darkest values are so I'm re-establishing these darker values when I apply the alcohol also too to the pastel it actually kind of sets the pastel into the ur paper that I'm using here and I feel it gives me a little bit more layering capability it almost like it soaks into the paper and so it's almost like applying a fresh first layer of pastel not quite but definitely helps with that and so I'm just kind of gingerly working here notice again just using the broad side of that pastel to get in the darkest value now while I have it in my hand where's my other darkest values going to be they're going to be in these grasses I'm noticed to look back at the trees you see how the purple is still showing through the background and if you keep a light touch the influence of the underpainting is really going to shine through and create some beautiful drama for you with color and again using directional large strokes and my strokes get larger the closer I get to the foreground you can probably see I can see it on my screen now how the pastel dust is falling off of this so once again using these big broad strokes the way I'm doing on this large format painting is going to eat up some of your pastels but again I think I miss working large I'm going to definitely do more of that all right now I'm just very lightly my touch is even lighter back here that tree that I'm working on right now of the distant trees it's closer I would say that one's kind of middle ground along with a little bit of those on the right side that are a little further back now notice how I changed colors here this is a greenish tone but it is lighter in value than the purple values decrease in the distance now I've gone kind of off the topic of the complementary underpainting or why and how and underpainting because I'm past that stage all right so now it's just looking at the influence of the underpainting and what's actually happening here I decided to re-establish my tree line a little bit shape it out a little differently I've got that flexibility I wanted to give you know a little bit more variety in the trees instead of them all just being so more like rounded forms and now I'm using a little bit of that green just to kind of hit upon some of those four ground trees to create some unity and harmony throughout the painting and I always say while the I have economies of scale I guess you would say with my pastel approach and I think a lot of artists do is while you've got the pastel in your hand see where else you might can use it in the painting I noticed here how much of the pastel I'm using when you work on a large painting like this but once again if you have the pastel in your hand one reasoning why it's a good idea to just go ahead and use it in other places is it's practical you know I mean why have to pick it up again and the second reason is it will create a unity to your painting having color throughout the painting that works together now these are some of the blues that will be the flowers however I'm using this blue to actually kind of glaze in some of the blue in the background field there even though there is warmth in the sky I liked the fact that these blue flowers also part of the color palette selection from the client was a feature I wanted to accentuate so I'm just laying the pastel on the side I'm cooling off that orange in other words I am going to put some greens down on top of this but this blue will create a cooler final result than just doing the green right away now I went to a little bit of a darker value blue there and I know that I'm getting more towards the middle ground and also some of those behind those trees maybe a little more shadow there so that's why I switched the value I changed to a little bit of a darker blue now the main point of this lesson was about how and why would you create an underpainting and hopefully I've shared enough about the importance of it and and really how it works so well in helping you to keep a painterly approach and for your final result to be fun and exciting with color so I am going to speed up the rest of this video you're going to see the whole thing but the very first part here I've been talking for about 23 minutes now has all been real time oh I can't resist the urge to say more things I'm using a piece of pipe foam insulation here just to kind of blend in some of the darker values that I added to the trees and it also creates more of a looseness I don't always blend I try not to over blend but sometimes in the initial stages it will soften things and give a little bit more of a painterly feel and impressionistic feel I know that those background trees too you see how just blending them in gave a little bit of warmth and how you really are kind of seeing that orange behind there so and they would be warmer in the background area there because that's where the sun is setting or rising I don't know why I was thinking of this one as a sunset so again using the pipe foam insulation to blend so enjoy the rest of this I'm trying I'll try to find a lovely song for you to listen to a lot of people ask about the music that I use for these and I am limited in having videos on YouTube to use music that doesn't have a copyright and so YouTube has a very neat audio library with choices a lot of the songs aren't very long so I try to find the longest ones that I can and ones that are just ethereal and relaxing for you to listen to so it's not driving you crazy of course you have the option to turn it down so that's usually where I get my music from and I apologize for all those little beeps you may be hearing in the background that's actually my I have my discord group open my patrons I have a patreon page and I'm having so much fun with you patrons guys you are just a blessing to me patreon is a way that artists musicians all kinds of people have a way that you can support them to keep their efforts growing and to get the equipment they need that's definitely helped me with that and my patreon page you can become a patron for only 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of anything I ever started so god bless you all thank you all right now I am going to be quiet listen to some music as I paint I'll try not to speed this up too much and please like this comment on this video please subscribe if you haven't already and continue to be part of this Monet Cafe family all right enjoy I will be back at the end well wasn't that fun I really like that song to the sped up version here so I hope you enjoyed this I hope you learned a lot especially about under painting here's the final painting and I'm so happy the client loved it thanks for watching Monet Cafe family and thank you patrons for your support and as always happy painting


और वरहडतें। पहन्ट्याल यह तो ग़ागौता है, उस जो निपने साभ करते हैं? आसी आप देखा है, यह जामरबही आत हो यह नहीं तोग़ाएं। से परिखाए देखा करेटा की आप रही नहीं। आसी ठिथा क्योगी ती लेठा के है। अप्छन सी में डालों या मेरे अपने पास राक लों या फलाँ बेंक में डाल दूू। सो मुझे दिसचन लेने है के मुझे अपने इन पैसों को क्या करना है के साथ क्या करना है ताके मुझे सब से जब जाएदा पाइदा पूँची। बोरो करने पैसे तो आपको एक रेट बोरों या लेंडिंग से पेले बताया जाएगा या एक एगरीड अपन रेट आप पेले का तो उस में क्या है के आपको बैसिकली हाँ तिस पतिकलर तेंग अस देटामन बन बनेवर वी नी तु वी लुकाट असर्टन नमबर के में एक रेट काड बाए किया है और उस के उपर मुझे उनो नहीं बोला अगर अप इतना ट्रन्जेक्छन करेंगे इस क्रटिड काड को अस्तमाल कर के तो उस के अपको अपको 30% interest rate charge होगी या 25% interest rate charge होगा या 40% interest rate charge होगा तो this will be pre-agreed so we need to understand that fine and the important एक तो interest rate होगा तुस्तरा इसी तरा से जब आपने गर को finance कराने है आपके पास गर के खरीदने के पैसे नहीं है या किसी individual ने या group ने कोई गर लेने है और उस के लिए वो banks को या financial institutions के पास जाते है और उनको बलते हैं के हमें गर को परचेस करने क तो जो रेड बताया जाते है जिस के उपर वो लोन लेंगे गर को बनाने के लिए आगर को एक स्पान करने के लिए आगर की रेनोवेशन करने के वास दे ताद वो भी the mortgage rate again. So this is another type of the interest rate that is prevailing in a financial market. So the third type of rate is the commercial loan rate. So when you have taken a loan for the corporate sector on a commercial basis, from any financial institution, they will give you a rate. So these are the three major types of it. Apart from that, a lot of rates prevail in the financial market. But these are the three major rates that are considered to be important rates in our financial market. So the question arises that how these rates are established, how they are determined. So basically, how much risk is there in any sector. So that is another one important aspect. So rate of interest is considered based upon number one, the unit of account. So what is the amount of interest that you are going to charge for the money. So if it is a huge amount, if it is a small amount, that matters. Because if you want to borrow only 1 lakh from somewhere and you want to pay 100 crore from somewhere, then there is a difference in the interest. So the next important thing is that for how much time period I am taking the money. So what is its objective and what is its time duration. So if I am borrowing money for one night or one day, then naturally there is less risk involved. And time period is considered, it will be few hours. So interest rate will be very low as compared to if the same amount of money is borrowed for a longer time period. So first of all, when we talk about the determination of interest rate, then the first thing that is accounted for is the unit of account. And the next important thing that is accounted for is the time period or the duration for which you are borrowing the money or for which the money is being borrowed. Another important and the most important factor, one of the most important factor is the risk associated with that type of borrowing or lending. You have taken money from the bank to buy a house or you have taken a commercial loan. So with that, the different types of default risks that you will be defaulting, what is its probability that is also considered to be an important determinant of interest rate. So if the default risk is higher, that the chances of the money being borrowed are higher, then naturally your interest rate will be more. And if the default risk is very low, that is why you should maintain your credit history and maintain it well. That your due dates according to which you have repayment, then your credit history will be good. Then naturally banks will easily lend you money and you will have to charge the interest rate relatively less. So basically when we consider or look at the major determinants of the interest rate, there are these three factors. The first one is the unit of account, then we have the time period for which you are borrowing the money and the third one is the default risk. So to gather these three things help us in determining what will be the interest rate. On its back end, there is another important concept that is the bank rate, the prevailing bank rate. Bank rate always defines the central bank of that country. And like in Pakistan, in monetary policy, your bank rate is defined. Bank rate forms the threshold, this is the base rate on which all your other interest rates are calculated, developed and established. So bank rate defines the state bank of Pakistan and in the context of Pakistan. And on top of this, I have also told you these three elements, the default risk, the duration and the unit of account. These three things will be considered at the top of the bank rate and then your interest rate will be calculated or determined that how much you have to charge.


to Inventing Our Future and Think Tech Hawaii. I'm your host, Brittany Zimmerman. And I'm your co-host Richard Hall. Today, we're going to do a deep dive into our L conversation about leadership. Getting into that first, though, how you doing, Richard? Oh, top shape. Very good. Good, good, good, good. So in the topic of leadership, I thought we would take this week to have a conversation about what that means. And we are coming off of this, I would say, pretty freshly. We just hosted a leadership camp up at Halei Pohaku in Manakea, here on the Big Island, where we brought students from all around Big Island, grades 9 through 12, to have conversations about what it means to be a leader, both of themselves, of their communities, and then what their grand plans for leadership are. They run out. And so Richard was able to come up and meet with us up on the Mauna, which was very exciting. So we'll dive into some of that. First, Richard, what were some of your takeaways from the adventure? The most important thing that I noticed was how smart they are. I'm just amazed. I just listen and see how the interact and stuff like that. I was really impressed. Without a doubt. It's always amazing to me, every time you have a leadership camp, just the quality of interactions that there are, and the ability to grasp concepts and really grab on to them, and build off of things that are new information to them, it's always amazing to me. And I feel like every year it gets better and better, which is a positive outlook for humanity. So in the development of some of these curriculums, it's been really magnificent. We do a lot to really pull the rug out, so to speak, from some of the, I'd say, misconceptions that students may have coming out of high school and then getting ready to move into college. They're getting ready to move into making big decisions for themselves in very new environments. And so we get to have really beautiful conversations around what are the academic hierarchies? What are the hierarchies of corporations? What does the hierarchy look like in the entrepreneurial business world? What do hierarchies look like if you're transversing in the political realm? So as we have conversations about what each of those hierarchies mean, we also have conversations about how do people get abused by those systems or those hierarchies. What kind of tools do we need to ensure that these individuals have so that they can get the most out of these systems and be extracted from the least? And so it's a really interesting process up there. And the first day, we really focus on how to lead self. Second day, we really focus on how do we lead small groups? And then from there, we focus on then how do we translate those sorts of leadership skills externally to larger communities? So it was really exciting, a phenomenal, I would say. You know, my thought was that I look at them and try to imagine where I was at their age. And it occurred to me, wow, at their age, a lot of the people in Vietnam, when I was in Vietnam, were the age. So I take myself back to that time.  At that time, you know, getting in trouble and all that kind of stuff. Yeah. And alive. It was eye-opening. Yeah, for sure. And it's one of those things, too, I feel like, sure, the people who are with us were from 9th grade to 12th grade, but I feel like the activities that we go through in some of these camps are just as important for adults to go through, you know, and the fact that they're going through it at such a young age is a step in the right direction, right? I feel like it gives them a little bit of a head start compared to maybe some of the other people who are just going out into the world for their first time. Because, for example, right, on the Focus on Me section, we really have conversations around how do you lead yourself, right? A lot of people have really good information. So it's not just about having information. How do you translate the information into action? For example, right, we could go ask just about anybody in the United States, in Hawaii, in any of the schools, we can say, what does it mean to be healthy? Like, what do you have to do to be healthy? People will know, right, Richard? You should work out. You should eat healthy. They know of things that they should avoid, right? And so they know what decisions need to be made to live a healthy lifestyle. Yet when you look at the populace, how many people are actually living a healthy lifestyle? And it has nothing to do with a lack of the information, right? They all just listed exactly what it takes to be healthy. And it's like, then what is the missing thing that can connect knowledge, right, of what to do to the actual action of doing? And so one of the things that we really work on there is the psychological part, right? How do we make that transition happen? How do we translate that information into a viable action? And that's an interesting thing, too, Richard.  You're breaking state records. You're on track for world records. When you think about you individually, how do you translate? And I think of what you're doing in an extreme leadership quality, right, in your extreme leadership position. What do you do when you wake up in the morning?  Yeah, you know, it's really something because there was a point about a year ago that I knew that I was going downhill and it was going to be a one-way trip downhill. And I could tell over a matter of about several weeks, maybe a month, I knew it was going to be a one-way trip. And there just had been circumstances, you know, my nieces and nephews started bugging me about lifting weights. And when I started thinking about that, so maybe I'll try. And what was amazing about doing that was just trying and then finding out that, hey, wow, I can do this. You know, I'm 29 years old, but wow, I can do this.  It improves and every day you're happy and mental health lies and everything. Yeah. Why? It helps a lot. Without a doubt. So what are the thoughts that you, like when you wake up in the morning, right? You, you, you're very serious about making sure you make time for the gym. Yeah. Like what thoughts are you thinking, you know, when you're making the decision to go to gym? Right? How do we translate to other folks? Like how do we take a lessons learned from this? Like, are you saying positive things to yourself? Or is there fear that's motivating? Like help me understand what's helping you make the decision to go to the gym. I have a general plan, you know, a monthly plan and three days a week.  How much time I don't know. But this is a real effective use of the time. 45 minutes, three times a week and you come out feeling so good. And then you're positive and you're thinking into the future and you wanna do all kinds of stuff. Right. It's that, you know, it's just that idea of feeling good is what is motivating. Yeah, no, that's good. So I'd say it's somewhere, is it fair to say then that it's somewhere of a combination between you knew what that decline started to feel like and you're not interested in that paired with the positive reinforcement of the benefit that you get from doing it, right? Which is the good feeling, right? The being mobile, the having the clear mental space, all of these things that you really get from the workout. Yeah, you gotta understand what your limitations are. You know, like joints, injury to your muscles and muscles have deteriorated. Some are more than others and trying to put all those things together so that it ends up in positive movement. So you kind of think through what are the different things you have to do to, you know, you don't wanna hurt yourself because you're just wasting time, right? Right. So it's all that kind of stuff that goes through my mind. You know, it's not, oh, I wanna set a record. It's not that, it's okay. If I'm gonna do, I'll say bench press, I need to get strong shoulders back and arms and stuff like that. And which is the weakest link? Oh, I better work on that. And you know what? I'll try to make that really strong, you know? And then even if it's such a little small increase, but the fact that at my age, you can actually increase and grow is amazing to me. And I need a limitation other than I do something that injures myself. Yep. So that's kind of what makes me happy. Yeah. No, and I think that's wonderful. And I think that's another part of leadership, right? What type of leader do you wanna be? Right? We have to first make good decisions for ourselves. So we have to be able to lead self. If we're not making good decisions for us, what gives us the right to tell anybody else, right? Any sort of direction, right? How can we lead other people if we're not leading ourselves effectively? And that's one of the things that I think you do a beautiful job demonstrating, Richard. Like there's a lot of people who have worked for you in the past, right? Who I think you've been a phenomenal leader too, because you lead by demonstration. But you don't ask people to do things that you don't do yourself, right? And I think that's a really important quality in good leadership. And so we see this, you know, we see this brought to life in so many different arenas, but I think in the corporate world, in places where there are coaches, in the academic world, why should we follow the leader, the direction of anybody who's not in a position that we would wanna be in? Or it's not making decisions for themselves the way that we think is the healthiest, right? And so I think when we have conversations about how leadership translates into culture, right, breeding positive culture in a specific organization or arena or community, I think all these things tie in extremely, extremely closely. And so let's say we have an organization, and in that organization, we have people in power, right? Who are in the highest positions of leadership, but they're in a position, maybe they're the VP of operations because their brother owns the organization. They don't know very much about operations. They don't know very much about the actual business, what they happen to be family, right? Or very good friends. What happens is you bring people into an organization and the people are looking up to the folks who are supposed to lead them and say, wow, they're not making very good decisions because they don't have all of the information. And let's say somebody is trying to share information because they have a lot of history in the business and that's not listened to. That's really where you start breeding a toxic culture, right? It's like, man, I really don't like working for this guy. I know a lot more than this guy and this guy is unwilling to listen, right? Why am I having to work in this way? And so one negative thing like that in an organization really starts to fester, right? These sorts of feelings of resentment start building. And so when you're looking at that, you're like, okay, that translates into poor leadership, right? I mean, we see that, we're like, okay, they don't know as much and they're unwilling to listen and they're making decisions that aren't what's best for the organization because of that lack of competency. Now let's take a look at a different type of leader, right? And I think this is the type of leader that you are, Richard. And it's the type of leader. What happened with me was when we were small kids, we went down to visit Makul, where, you know, Kamehile family lived, took a living, lived, and the reception we got from her, I never forgot. She didn't speak English and we didn't speak Hawaiian, but she just took care of us like nothing I've ever, I mean, it just lasted all my life. And then her son went into the Merchant Marines and came back to that subsistence farming, living that they had, which was fishing, growing stuff and having animals and stuff like that. And it was just basic subsistence farming and living. And many years later, when I went back to see Uncle Sonny, her son, I wanted to get some banana kiki to start a banana farm. And I spent many hours with him because he had such a strong personality. My auntie could only listen, couldn't say anything. But you know, while I was there, what came to me was that, you know, the values that I saw there, you know, was the values that my father basically told us when we were kids. But I noticed that. And I told myself, you know, I would like to share this with kids later on, you know, but then I realized that I had to go and prove myself first before I could say anything because, you know, otherwise I'd just be talking. So it took a long time to grow the bananas, to get up to planting, I mean, planting up 600 acres. We took at least steps and we had to look at four or five different options at any given time all the while having the future in your mind where you want to go. So you choose the different options and then make the decision that you have to make. But anyway, it took a long time, maybe 30 years to get to a point where I actually was in a position to be able to see now I can help.  Anyway, that's how it happened for me. Yeah, and in such a perfect example, right, of being able to lead first yourself. But you started by being able to grow your information and your knowledge on a specific topic to the point where you knew that you were competent in it, right? You had done everything that you were supposed to do in order to gain that information and that knowledge, both probably through reading about it, through doing research about it and then actually implementing it yourself and going through the different life cycles of that. And so you knew already back then that that was something that you had to go through before you felt comfortable guiding, right? And so I think that's super important because a lot of folks really, I just really wanna lead this stuff and then they'll jump into a position of leadership prematurely. So as soon as you jump into that position of leadership prematurely, meaning you don't have the competency or the background or the experience necessary to guide or lead in these arenas, now you're setting yourself up for failure, right?  And so it's beautiful, I think, Richard, to see multiple examples of it being done correctly, right? And so I think everything that you've done in multiple sectors of agriculture as an example and as an example of that. And I think we get to see that even in the tech world, right? We get beautiful examples of what happens if the person who's in the highest position doesn't have the competency and doesn't have the vision. I think a lot of people point to Apple as an example, right? When they had Steve Jobs in the range, holding the reins for the organization, they started developing all of these new products, all of these innovative technologies. And then what happened? The board ousted Steve Jobs out of his own company and the organization plummeted, right? Eventually they had to go back to Steve Jobs and say, hey, we need to bring you back on. And Steve Jobs then revived the company, revived the organization. And then of course Steve Jobs passed away and we haven't seen a lot of innovation out of Apple since Steve Jobs has been gone, right? I mean, we still are just having the next generations of the iPhones and the iPads, right? But when he was there, we were seeing the innovation of these things. We were seeing the iPads for the first time. So we're getting the iPods, right? The music players, we're getting all this stuff, this constant innovation. And then we see the leader, the person who's in the position of leadership who's fostering that creativity, who's pushing the bounds, right? Of the organization and of innovation. And with that person not there, look what happens to an organization even if they have millions and billions of dollars behind them, it takes that leadership. It takes that person at the top of the hierarchy with that vision to push. And Steve Jobs put his time in too, right? To be able to get to where he was. So we get to see these real-time examples of what it looks like in terms of fostering beautiful leadership. What happens when that leadership goes away? What does it look like when you have people in positions of leadership don't deserve to be in those positions, right? And then what are the short-term benefits versus long-term benefits, right? We see some short-term benefits. In my case, I look at Hawaii Island first and then the state because we're sitting in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the largest ocean in the world, dependent on fuel from outside sources to bring all your food in. You take a step back and look at how the Hawaiians used to do it before. And when I think about how they operate it, they used the resources that they had in a very smart way. You know, like the modern day Ahipua, we talk about. It's based on water running downhill, first of all, gravity. And then it's based on trading, of course, here. People from upland and the lowland. And they did not have any metals, so they did not have any money, which forced reciprocity. I mean, the more I give, the more I receive. That kind of reciprocity. And they took it a step further. They included all living things to be part of the resource, you know, all the living things. That's why in their legends that they talk about, they have the tree people, the fish people, and bird people. That's the way of keeping humans and all living things equal. So the resources are in balance. I think, you know, when I think a step back and look at it that way, and I put it together with what my father taught us kids, and what he taught us was just attitude. The attitude was not no can can. Yes. Find two answers for every problem we're just in case, you know, that kind of thing. Yeah. It was never no can, you know. It was okay, you know. Yeah. I'm hoping to be able to influence youngsters to kind of take that attitude and see what it is they can become as leaders. You know, so. With, without a doubt, Richard, I love that. Right. And in your book too, that's one of my favorite parts. I love that part of your book, right? The not no can can and some of the stories passed down from your father. And one of the things that we talked about in day one, right, of leadership over president's day weekend at the leadership camp too, was making the conscious decision to select the philosophy and adopt the philosophy that's most beneficial to self. Right, because you can take a look at different ways of viewing the world around you. And if you're not consciously deciding what your philosophy and what your foundation is, then you're accepting whatever one is being given to you, right, maybe through media, maybe through parenting styles, maybe through friends, right? Maybe it's through school, but if we sit down and start thinking about why are we having the thoughts that we have and what are the implications of those thoughts and those philosophies, we get right down to not no can can or its alternatives, right? For example, I think we've brought a lot of nihilism into our recent generations. And that is the feeling that because what we see on media, that the government and big pharma and politics and big corporations have already stacked the odds against everybody, right? It's like a very difficult system to be successful in, right? Or to work against in terms of trying to breed cultures based on reciprocity, for example, like what you're talking about. And if we come into this at a young age thinking, oh, this system's rigged against me, what's the point? Any actions I take won't make a difference because it's already so far gone. That's nihilism, right? And that's the accepting of nihilism because of what we've seen on the media. But if we instead instill a different type of mentality, different type of philosophy, the exact type of philosophy that your father handed down while he's pounding on the table, right? That not no can can. That means if you're looking, right? If you're facing a problem and if you're looking at it straight on, don't just come up with two solutions, come up with a third one just in case and figure out how, right? And we do a really interesting activity on this. And we start by going up to somebody, Richard, for example, and saying something along the lines of, hey, can you go and flip my truck over? It's in the parking lot.  And I'll say, can you go flip over my truck? It's in the parking lot right there. I want the roof on the ground and the tires in the air. They're like, I can't do that. And then we'll have a conversation about mentality and how what we say to ourself and whether we're choosing the positive or the negative makes such a big difference. And just the words I can't hold so much power. What if we changed that to just what you were talking about, Richard, to how can I instead? And now if you say, how can I flip the truck in the parking lot over? All of a sudden the students offer up a lot of suggestions. They say, oh, we could find somebody with a tractor and they could come over and we could hire them to just, you know, stick something under the car and flip it over. Great. Oh, we could get a whole bunch of guys to lift up on one side at the same time. Oh, we could blow a hole in the ground on one side of it and just push it over right into the whole. All of a sudden there's so many ways that they can flip the car over and nothing has changed except for the mentality. I can't do that as the knee-jerk reaction and then just changing the words that are said to self to how can I? Yeah. And that's all it takes. So choose your philosophy, be the type of leader that you want, right? To stay in the world around you, start building those leadership qualities up by being conscious of what we've been taught, what we're accepting as information and what we know is best, most beneficial for each individual. And if we are conscious about that, then we can build up the leadership qualities to be good leaders of ourselves and the leaders of community and even further. So, all right, Richard. Any closing statements before we let people sit on that for a while? Not no can. Can. Yeah. Can we do it in sync? Ready? We'll do it together. Ready? Three, two, one. Not no can. Okay. Can. Can. Awesome. Well, thank you so much. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you viewers for watching. And if you want to get on our email advisories to see the complete listing of other shows, please feel free to sign up for those on ThinkTekHawaii.com. We will be back in two weeks. So please tune in then to do a deep dive into our M invention. So until then, I'm Brittany Zimmerman. I'm Richard Ha. Aloha. Aloha.