What's the word, y'all? NBA preseason is here. I am super excited. I'm behind us with you. For some reason, every single year, for the last, I think, three to four years, league pass has not worked for me on preseason. Like, I'll log into my account and it'll say error. And I'll change the password and it'll say error. So because of that, I haven't been able to deep dive into preseason, which is probably a good thing. You probably shouldn't be deep diving into preseason because you're gonna have videos like this where you overreact into the highest degree. But I still wanted to talk about the things that I saw, whether it be from watching highlights or whether it be from me seeing a single player and going to watch their individual highlights because there are some great YouTube channels out there that focus on one player, the good and the bad. Shout out to them. I wanna overreact. Yeah, everything I said in this video is not my 100% opinion going into the real regular season, but let's act like these first few days of the preseason is the real deal, all right? And I'ma keep it a buck. If it wasn't for the bull, it's absolutely dominated last night. Maybe I don't make this video. Maybe we talking about something else. But since my boys went out there and looked amazing, I'm here to talk about it. Ladies and gentlemen, it was a absolute blast. Now I was there and people in my mentors were like, yo, Kenny, you decided to go to a random preseason game over the American League wildcard game? And I was like, yeah, I was keeping track of the wildcard game. I was, you know what I'm saying? But like, it's been so long since I have been extremely hyped for the Chicago Bulls. I feel like the last couple of years my hype has gone up and up and up, but this year was a little bit different. And I wanted to be there for DeMar DeRose's first bucket for Alice Caruso, Lanzo Ball's first bucket on the team. And I was there for that. And it was not a lot of people there because it was a preseason game and nobody wants to waste their money on a preseason, but it felt like a real game because the crowd was into it because it was a big time moment. For as long as y'all know me, the Chicago Bulls have been bad. And I said this on my podcast, I don't even know how I'm going to be if the Bulls are actually good. You know what I'm saying? As long as y'all know me, I've been an objective, unbiased Bulls fan. I don't know if that's going to stay the same if the Bulls are actually nice. I'm being honest. Now I'm not saying that I'm going to go out and beat the Bulls in four, Bulls in four for everything, but you get what I'm saying. I don't even know how to comprehend the fact that the Bulls might be okay. Now again, it's preseason and they were going against the Cavs, but still one of the biggest question marks about this team, or I guess there was two big question marks about this team that we saw glimpses of yesterday. How long would it take for this team to jail? There are only three players on this roster that we hear at the beginning of last season. Three, which means that there's at least 12 roster spots that haven't been here for it for the last eight months. That's huge. That's a crazy amount of turnaround in one individual season. And what I saw yesterday is that these boys are like they've been hooping together for a very long time. That's one. And the second thing had to deal with the defense. Again, it's the Cavaliers and they're still trying to figure themselves out as well. But the defense looked amazing. I knew Lanzo Ball was a really good defender, but I didn't understand to this capacity. He was everywhere. He was guarding bigs. He was in the passing lanes. He was getting blocks. Givante Green, who I expected that he was gonna get some type of run this season, but I didn't expect him to look as good as what he did. He was everywhere. I sat right behind the Bulls bench and Dary Jones Jr. is out in injury right now.  It was iced. I was like, stop, stop, my eyes. And anytime Vonte did anything, first of all, they called him Woo. Woo was his nickname. So I'm going with that for the rest of his Bulls career. Whenever Woo did anything, Dary Jones Jr. was like, that's my six-fold center. And that's what he was playing like. He was guarding seven footers with no problem. The seven footers on the Cavs, maybe not as big of a force as some of the other seven footers in the league. Like Larry Markin is not banging down there. Evan Moblius is thin frame rookie. He's not down there banging like that. But Givante held his own against those players. And I think that's gonna be good enough to have him get some real rotational minutes and he hit his shots. Oh, and he dunked on. So you know what I'm saying? So Vonte, big part of it. I knew that Trey Brown Jr. spent a lot of time in the gym taking care of his jump shot and you saw part of that. But overall, the team just looked good together. And the thing that I was not prepared for, even though I knew it was gonna happen to some extent, is the amount of highlights that came out about this Bulls team just from game number one. We signed Alice Caruso, who's one of the biggest highlight players when it comes to House of Highlights and all these places. Lonzo Ball is always gonna be a fan favorite, whether he's really good or really bad. So the amount of highlights I saw about this game, about this team yesterday, is something that I wasn't really prepared for. Like if you go to the NBA.com's YouTube channel or House of Highlights, the most amount of viewed videos from yesterday, even though I think there's like six games on or something like that, all of them were Chicago Bulls related. So there's hype behind this team because we have some fan favorites across the league. And I just wanna show y'all some of these moments. Please don't copy strike me NBA. You see what my cursor is? There is a guy there with a flannel on. Right here. That's me. Right? You see me? I did the uh, okay. So you see that, right? Now when we get to the real, real highlights? Yeah, they got one of the real highlights right here. Watch me over here. The amount of times I stood on my feet in this game was ridiculous, bro. I was hyped. Ain't never been this hype. Alice Caruso came off the bench and gave us a double, double with a six. He was out there playmaking. Oh, look, look, Zogosa. I mean, Zach Levin goes up and so do I. Like it was crazy. Now do I expect us to win the NBA championship? I don't. Do I expect us to be fun, competent and good? Yes. And that's all I really want. The next thing I want to overreact to or react to are the Houston Rockets. But more specifically, forget the whole team. The backcourt of Jaylen Green and Kevin Porter Jr. Now Jaylen Green did not have a good shooting night. He was four for 14. And I already saw some people making fun of the fact that when they came back in this game Jaylen Green was on the bench. Who cares? I want to talk about them specifically because boy, oh boy, oh boy. I've been trying since I watched the highlights again. I ain't watched the full game because I was at my game myself. But I was trying to try to think about a team that this reminded me of. And the only thing that came to mind and I don't want people to take this out of context because I need to really break this down. It reminded me of the early 2010 OKC Thunder. Now, I noticed the early 2010 OKC Thunder had Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, James Harden and they went on to a finals appearance. They were in the conference finals and all. They were a very, very successful team. I don't mean about overall team success because I do believe the Houston Rockies are probably going to win 30 games in a year. They're going to be fun doing it, but they're going to only win like 30 games a year. I don't mean as far as success go. But when I was younger and when this OKC team was coming up, I was in seventh, eighth grade, freshman year of high school, sophomore year of high school. And one thing about this team were they were the most fun team in the NBA at the time. People that weren't necessarily huge, huge basketball fans were wearing OKC jerseys. No, not jerseys. Shersies, the shirts that say Westbrook on the back, but OKC, things like that. Backpacks, jerseys, just wrapping OKC. And this is what the Houston Rockies team kind of remind me of. Now, not the team itself, but what I'm saying is that that front, that backcourt of Kevin Porter Jr. and Jaylen Green are going to be so fun that people are going to latch on to the Houston Rockies organization because of how fun that backcourt is. I don't think they're going to have the same level of success, especially not that early in their careers. But I'm just saying overall watchability and the way they can connect to the younger demographic, I think that those two players can absolutely do that. Now, the thing that's going to make it a little bit different is that OKC was young and good. So because of that, they were on national TV and stuff. You're going to need League Pass to watch the Houston Rockies because I don't know if they have any full-time like mainstream TV games. Maybe when they go against K Cunningham because of the one, two overall pick. But I'm not, I don't expect them to have more than three games on national TV. But that's what I'm trying to say. Those two players in the backcourt are going to remind people of that young fun just based on fun factor. And I think that's crazy. Like they got a lot of young fun players on the team. I saw somebody on Twitter call it the first AAU team in NBA history because that's exactly what it feels like. They have so many young players that are like highly touted young players, whether it be Kevin Porter Jr., Jalen Green, who else in the same? Josh Christopher, K-Mart Jr. Like they have so many players, a Shingoon, I guess he was a highly touted, but he looked really good in these minutes. They just, that's it. Does that make sense? Maybe not, it's overreaction. But you understand, hopefully. I didn't know Shingoon's playmaking was as good as it was out of that high post yesterday. Shout out to him. Overreaction again. Josh Primo, better than I expected. Now watch Summer League. It's all he was hooping, hooping. But he had moments in this game against the Jazz where he was just coming in. He was just shooting the ball. He's like, hey, I'm not getting a lot of PT right now. So let me show Greg Popovic that I deserve to have some PT. I didn't expect anything going into his Ricky season because he was the youngest player in the draft, but maybe he gets some PT and he makes the most out of it. Let me know what your overreactions are. Again, there were a lot of games that I didn't get to watch, but I hopefully my pre-season will start working eventually. NBA, they gotta be better about this. They definitely do. Now I know there are other ways to get around that. Wink, wink. But I pay for, I pay for League Pass. Bro, it should just work. Whatever, I'll see y'all tomorrow.


that the candy is totally completely off limits. Here are my top picks for low carb, low sugar, candy alternatives. This chocolate candy is similar to M&M's, so it is the perfect replacement for that. Today we are going to talk about candy. You heard me right. Wait a minute, what are we talking about? Candy for Diabetics. Stay tuned to see my top picks for low carb, low sugar, but of course some delicious candy. Hi everyone, I am Dr. Ahmed Ergin. I'm an endocrinologist and a certified diabetes educator. With Halloween just around the corner, everywhere you look there is candy, right? But as a diabetic or someone who is watching the carbs or the sugar, you may think that the candy is totally completely off limits. Well, you're wrong. I'm a believer in moderation, but it's also important to pay attention to the nutritional facts on the products. Well, I have done some serious research on candy alternatives, not just for my diabetic audience, but also for my own family. If you can still enjoy a sweet treat minus the carbs and excessive sugar, why not, right? Before I jump right into it, I want to let you know that this is not a sponsored video at all. You can find all of these products on Amazon or Walmart and I will have the links in the description below for you. Here are my top picks for low carb, low sugar, candy alternatives. Number one is called Choc Zero. Well, dark chocolate, sea salt, almond bark. Wow. With two grams of net carbs per serving, no artificial sweeteners and 120 calories per serving. This is a great choice. They also have a variety of low carb, low sugar products and check this link out here. Number two, Atkins and Dolge. This chocolate candy is similar to M&Ms. So it is the perfect replacement for that. They contain only one gram of net carbs, one gram of sugar and four grams of fiber per serving. Sounds too good to be true? Well, I kid you not, my friends, these are delicious. And look at this link in the description below. Number three is Tom and Jenny's sugar-free caramels with sea salt and vanilla. Enjoy these guilt-free caramels, guys. With only 2.5 grams of net carbs and 20 calories per caramel, these are perfect to satisfy your Halloween sweet tooth. Let's move on to my gummy candies.  What makes them great is that they come in individual packs. They're naturally flavored. They're soy-free and they're non-GMO. The Gummy Bears have two grams of sugar and only two grams of net carbs with 40 calories per serving. Again, check the link below. The Redfish, my wife's favorite, called Fish Friends, has only two grams of net carbs, one gram of sugar and 31 grams of fiber. With only 80 calories per serving, this makes a great low carb, diabetic-friendly candy alternative. Even though all of the candies that I mentioned are low in carbs and sugar, always remember to keep portion in mind when enjoying. But you deserve to enjoy not just on Halloween, but when you feel like the sweet tooth nagging, go ahead, they are there for you. But anyways, I hope you enjoyed this video. Check out the description to find all the links. Be sure to share, like and subscribe to this channel and we'll see you in the next video. Now remember, let me know what you think. If any of you want to share some of the candy alternatives you may have discovered, I would love to hear them as well. See you in the next video. Hey guys, I hope you're enjoying this channel so far and I hope you subscribed already. If you didn't do it, and if you did watch this video right there, I think that will help you too.


What's your secret party trick? Here we go. Yeah, that's my secret party trick. What's your go-to pizza topic? I don't eat pizza like that. No, yeah, sorry. But the topping, maybe it would be pineapples. What do you mean you don't eat pizza?  I think you might be the only person in the world. That doesn't eat pizza? No, a lot of my friends don't eat pizza. What? Like a lot of them. Who are these people? Jaden doesn't eat pizza. Rocky doesn't eat pizza. What's your most used emoji? Let's use the, you know, the drip water, the... The water, yeah, saucy, dripped. What's in your pocket right now? A little British money, yeah. You're balling? Counting up. Counting up some money. Wads of cash. Wads of cash, yeah. Pretending like I'm from England. How's my British accent? Is it getting any better? Yeah, I think you're getting there. We could have an English Spider-Man in the Spider-Verse, maybe? Maybe. Maybe in a while. Maybe in a while. I'm working on it. I'm a little embarrassed, guys. Don't make fun of me. If you could be any type of sandwich, what would you be? If I go out and I meet Mary Jane and Gwen, I would be Miles in the middle. I'm... It's a sandwich, guys. I think that's the best answer to that question I've ever had. That was as PG as I can make it. Would you rather have fingers as long as arms or arms as long as fingers? I don't know. Maybe fingers as long as arms. I'm a boxer. That might come in handy. What's your best joke? The gag is that I'm not that funny. Maybe my laugh has something I do, but me saying it, I don't really deliver jokes well. Let me think about one. How many looks does it take to get to the cinnamon roll of a tootsie pop? How many? Let's find out. Do you have a tootsie pop? One, two, three. The world may never know. I think it's funny. It probably wasn't, but this is best I can come up with right now. I'm so sorry. You're like, come on, you got a better joke than that. I'd be honest, I didn't really get it, but I enjoyed the delivery. The delivery was amazing. I didn't get it either. Oh. Do you not know what that is, though? The tootsie pop? Hold on, wait a second.  Oh, wow. The movie has so many funny moments. Just after Miles gets bitten by the spider and he's talking to Gwen at school. She's like, why are you so sweaty? And he's like, I'm going through puberty. Why did I say that out loud? I literally just put out my drink and dribbled it all down my chest. Oh, yeah? I would love if you could talk us through some of your favorite funny moments in the film. One of my favorite moments is when he's walking up to take the first leap, and then he runs back downstairs. He's like, because in the first, in the Tobey Maguire movies, he went up there, he's running, ah, she takes the jump. But Miles goes up there, he's running. He's like, nope, not me. I'm going down these steps. I'm not jumping. You know? I thought that was hilarious. With all those great one-liners, like, how were you with bloopers? Were there any lines that just had you cracking up laughing? I think working with Jake Johnson, he plays Peter Parker. He is hilarious. He's always throwing jokes. And working with Brian Terry Henry, we were, he plays my father.  Like, we were really riffing and going back and forth in the booth. And he was like, Shamique, I'm going to reach back there and I'm going to choke you for real. And I'm like, we are voice acting. I have to be believable. Jeez. So did you actually get to act together in the booth? Because I think normally on an animated movie, the actors don't see a lot of each other. Yeah, it's true. I only worked with those two in the booth. I got to meet almost everybody else. Those were the two I got to work with the most. Now we really want to see Miles Morales join the wider MCU. Would you be up for that? What? Most definitely. I definitely want to be the live action Miles Morales. I understand that he's a young kid, but hopefully, you know, they can play with time and, you know, put me in there. But I'm thankful for the opportunity. I would love to be fighting Venom as Miles. With Tom Hardy, you know what I mean? And that's a very, that'll be a great, I would love to play on screen with my favorite actor out right now. Well, that's what I wanted to ask you about because they must be in the same, they're kind of in the same movie universe, right? Yeah, it's at the end of the movie, they show our clip in the Spider-Verse, you know, at the end of the Venom movie. And I think that that's a seed. It just has to be.  I look like Miles Morales. All I have to do is cut my hair, you know? So let's make it happen. What do you think your Miles Morales and Tom Hardy's Venom, if they were in the same movie together, like what would they make of each other? He and I would have a great chess match on screen. Like I said, I would love to play with Tom Hardy on camera just to see what I'm really capable of. If you've seen any of my work, Dope, The Get Down, I have another movie called Pretenders coming out. I showcase, you know, some of my abilities pretty accurately and, you know, Tom Hardy and I would make a great movie. So I've got a very important question for you. In real life, would you rather have Spidey's ability to climb walls or his Spidey sense? That's a good one. I think maybe the wall climbing, the wall climbing. But the Spidey senses will come in handy in real situations. But let's say wall climbing, because that would be cool. Just do it, you know what I mean?


I'm the director of senior services and I think we'll start about 30 seconds early because if there's one thing I've learned in my year of working with older adults is that they're very often early so I think it would be most fitting for us to start a little early and I see all my friends giggling in the crowd so first I'm gonna introduce city administrator Todd Wolf who's gonna say a few words thank you Emily a few words you said I could talk for like the half an hour right what a beautiful day right it's amazing we had what kind of snow this morning it's like 32 degrees right now and we're standing outside this great event today and about a two years ago in March nobody would have thought that this would be happening that we would have had COVID-19 and we would have had the changes that we are standing here in front of today so I just wanted to kind of talk about a couple of things real quickly because we want to keep things moving but as I said it was two years ago so we think about March March seems to be my name is Anne Kraft and I'm an interrupter thank you Anne you're doing a great job sure thank you so much how's that thank you so anyway back in March we actually had obviously COVID-19 come come through and then in March of 2019 we had a new director of the senior center prior to that right so we we saw some changes coming through we had Vicki Schneider come in and Wendy was moving on and then we had COVID and was unfortunate because I made a lot of people very upset during that time and many of you are out there right now and I hope you forgive me but I had to close the senior center because of health and safety right so basically in 20 in March of 2020 our senior director actually took took on a position with the as HR director within the city which was a great thing for the city but unfortunately was a unfortunate situation for the seniors for this then called senior center then great things happen to Christmas present as I call it December 22nd 2020 Emily comes on board becomes part of our director for for the senior center at that time which is now marketed as uptown social again clubhouse right so because of failures with the facility I actually had to again upset a lot of people and we had to close the senior center at that time and then we tried to reopen it in 2020 but unfortunately because of the failure with the roof and leaking and you know HVAC and things like that we had some significant structural problems within it and for health and safety it really didn't mean that we wanted people to go in there and have fun on a daily basis so it really meant that we needed to look at it as a city what are we going to do about that so from my perspective I like to look at the DMEAC so define measure analyze improve and control which is through lean so we looked at it and said what how do we define the problem we really need a senior center or an uptown social or a clubhouse right then we look at the measure and we measure it the old facility was old 14,000 15,000 square feet parking was really really you know bad right can't really expand that that that location so then we looked at analyzing what options do we have and then we looked at improving so how do we improve it we the city purchased this facility using ARPA and HUD dollars and we obviously are now looking at upwards of 30,000 so that's a huge improvement for us so again it gives us that growth for the future then we look at controls so pursuing perfection and that's where we bring in our our JH contractors and they're gonna help us to take it to the next level maybe not all at once I know we'd all really like to see the whole thing done at one time but it'll be phased as we've always been saying phased but we're gonna have some great great things coming so in 2021 new beginnings for our for important assets as I call it our experienced constituents so I just want to thank everyone yes I said experienced I just want to thank everyone and thank the council think our our government officials that are here think our contractors we're doing so much as quickly as we can supply chain doesn't help but we're really trying to get everybody back in this building where we really want to be so thank you thank you thank you Emily thank you everybody for coming out on this wonderful cold Wisconsin Monday afternoon I wouldn't want it any other way with the few flurries coming down but this is truly an exciting project we're building a new community center right here in the heart of our community and I appreciate all the active seniors that we have in the vision moving forward under Emily's leadership for for this organization the senior center is gonna be bigger and better than ever it's gonna be offering more services not only for seniors but for everybody in this community so I'm excited to be a part of this journey new mayor new administrator and new senior services director we're moving this community forward so thank you so much Emily and I just want to do some quick recognitions because teamwork is always done in a collaborative endeavor so nobody does this alone so I want to think our contractors guys just give a wave for all the hard work and dedication that you're putting on you guys are the ones in the trenches getting this work done too our DPW crews kind of sprinkled throughout the crowd here as well thanks DPW for moving this project forward as well we have our council members here we have council president Barb Felde vice president Roberta Flicky Pineski, Alder Dean Decker, Alder Andre Walton, Alder Grazia Pirella thank you all the council for your support to make sure that we build this community center moving forward we have some county board supervisors here we have vice chairman Bob Ziggabauer Bob just give a wave we have Wendy Schoberts here and county board supervisor Marilyn Montemayor as well everyone knows Marilyn I know we have some friends on the friends of the senior center board and the friends board senior center commission just give a wave and friends of Uptown Social just give a wave if you're on any of those boards so thank you so much additionally we have Jen Garner from Senator Baldwin's office here and Chris from Senator or excuse me Congressman Glenn growthman so we appreciate their support as well some other community partners are here we have Deidre from the Chamber of Commerce and Brian from the SEDC so we appreciate the communities involved in on that now I'm gonna call up our friend and state representative Terry Katzma Terry has a special present to share with everybody today so representative good afternoon and thank you Ryan and Emily and Todd needs some help here I have a proclamation here from Senator Devin Lenio and representative Tyler Vopago that states citation from the state Senate whereas on March 7, 2022 Uptown Social will be breaking ground on the new building for the center located at 1817 North 8th Street and whereas the original Sheboygan Center first opened in 1970 and was housed in a number of different buildings until the city of Sheboygan purchased this new location for Uptown Social and whereas the new facility will provide a place for the Sheboygan community to engage with one another and stay active through community fitness, recreation, arts and crafts and other programs and whereas Uptown Social's mission is to promote wellness, learning, socialization and recreation for the community now therefore the members of the Wisconsin State Senate, a motion of Senator Devin Lenio and representatives Terry Katzma and Todd Vopago, all hereby congratulate the city of Sheboygan and Uptown Social for their achievement on this ground breaking for the new community center congratulations. Well thank you Terry and thank you Mayor Sorenson and Administrator Wolfe. I will tell you my feet are freezing so we will make this very quick but there are a few more people that I want to thank. Well first I'll start so we woke up this morning and Mayor Sorenson did text me at about 6 30 a.m. and said it'll be fine it'll be fine and I said my first thought was we finally got some snow so that our program and wellness coordinator can take our group out snowshoeing today so congratulations Josh on a successful snowshoeing adventure earlier today at Maywood but I want to thank everyone for being here I want to recognize Terry from AARP who made the drive-up today I want to thank my colleague Chad Pellecek our director of planning and development because he certainly did a ton of work on this project before I joined the team on securing this location and securing the funding for this first round of construction through a CityBG grant loan and working very closely with the team at HUD so major thanks to them and I see lots and lots of our very engaged active seniors thank you everyone for being here I promise everyone that you see up here is trying to make this happen as fast as we can and our team over here are busting their butts to get you in as soon as they can and it's so exciting I got here early and I picked my eyes and I promised them I would not go in the building without prior permission so I did not break the rules but I did pick in and every time I'm here it's so different there are walls in there there are walls in there they're gonna put drywall up so it's so exciting and so I know the wait has been long I know the wait has been frustrating but I promise you when we are inside you're gonna you're gonna forget all about this tough time in the pandemic and everything going on in the world and not having your clubhouse and I know I speak for everyone up here when I say how excited we are to deliver the building that ship wagons older adults really deserve and I know I speak for everyone here when I say that we're trying to design a facility that will serve this population not just now not just next year but 10 20 30 years from now so thank you everyone for coming we're gonna take a couple quick pictures with some shovels thank you to the friends of uptown social thank you to some of our major donors that are here supporting us Bader Philanthropies is doing a building gift of $50,000 to help us with our second phase of construction that's going to be in 2023. Sheboygan senior community and Pine Hill and Christian communities are also here if they want to give a wave thank you for supporting this project and also big thanks to Polar Company for meeting with a major sponsorship at this venture we'll still have lots more money to raise but we will take some quick pictures and then I want to invite everyone back over to City Hall the idea is that this building is very much under construction it's really ugly right it's hard to see what it's gonna look like you know City Hall was renovated not that long ago and it is beautiful so I want everyone to come there see how lovely it is eat some cake drink some hot coffee I have regular and decaf for folks who can't drink the loaded stuff after a certain hour I'm looking at my mom and I want you to come enjoy yourselves at City Hall we have some pictures of what the space is gonna look like over there so if you want to start making your way over if you want to join us for some pictures I just insist that if anyone wants to hold a shovel you have to borrow my hard hat thank you all for coming


This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recorded by Annie Coleman in St. Louis, Missouri in April 2006. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or The Preservation of Favored Races and the Struggle for Life Sixth London Edition by Charles Darwin Introduction When on board HMS Beagle as a naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seem to throw some light on the origin of species, that mystery of mysteries as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work, I allowed myself to speculate on the subject and drew up some short notes. These I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable. From that period to the present day, I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision. My work is now, 1859, nearly finished, but as it will take me many more years to complete it, and as my health is far from strong, I have been urged to publish this abstract. I have more especially been induced to do this as Mr. Wallace, who is now studying the natural history of the Malay Archipelago, has arrived at almost exactly the same general conclusions that I have on the origin of species. In 1858, he sent me a memoir on this subject with a request that I would forward it to Sir Charles Lyell, who sent it to the Linnean Society, and it is published in the third volume of the Journal of That Society. Sir C. Lyell and Dr.


Hey Psych2Goers and welcome back to our channel. Thank you so much for all the love you've given us. Your ongoing support has helped us make psychology and mental health more accessible to everyone. So thank you. Now let's continue. In hindsight, have you ever wished you'd listened to that good piece of advice or wished you would have taken that hard to swallow pill? Maybe if you had, things would have turned out a bit better. Maybe it was something like that SAT doesn't determine the entire course of your life or being nice is sometimes more important than being right. No matter what age or stage of life you're in, it's never too late to learn some new tricks. Here are nine hard truths you need to know to help you live with as few regrets as possible. Number one, you will never be younger than you are now. This is a simple truth. You only have a certain amount of time to live, build relationships and make the difference you wanna make in the world. Taking action is one of the most important things you can do. Don't wait for the perfect time or opportunity to present itself. You already have what you need to succeed yourself. If you wait too long, you may find that the time for action has passed. This principle can be summed up to a quote from the famous Broadway musical, Hamilton. You don't get a win unless you play in the game. You get loved for it, you get hate for it. You get nothing if you wait for it. Number two, life isn't a safe predictable formula. There is no set rule book on how to live life, despite what you may have been taught.  While this particular formula does increase your chances of financial stability, it doesn't guarantee your happiness. There is no checking off X, Y and Z and then your happy and fulfilled formula. Life is messy and uncontrollable at times and it's far from perfect. Sometimes you've got to dance to the beat of your own drum and follow your own path in life. 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Did that one failed test actually affect where you are now? Chances are that it didn't.  Whether it's something good or bad, no one thing is going to dramatically improve or ruin your life. When life isn't about passing or failing, it's a series of events and choices that make up who you are. Number five, the most important relationship is the one with yourself. This is something that can be hard to remember with all the social pressures of being in a relationship and obligations to your friends and family. However, it's very important to prioritize your mental health. You are important and deserve to be treated well. The people who don't recognize this simply aren't worth fighting for because at the end of the day, you are the one constant in your life. As Uncle Iroh put it, it's time for you to look inward and start asking yourself the big question. Who are you and what do you want? Number six, everyone has emotions and is a person just like you. 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Betrayal can hurt if it does happen, but ultimately the many emotional benefits of trust outweigh those risks. By assuming everyone is untrustworthy, you block everyone off without giving them a fair chance to be in your life. Number eight, social media affects your mental health. In this day and age, social media is a great way to stay connected and entertained. However, there is a stark difference between using social media as a way to gain inspiration, affirmation and make connections, then using it to compare yourself to others. It is all too easy to compare your lifestyle, body and achievements to other people online. Comparing yourself to snapshots of someone else's greatest highlights and achievements isn't healthy, especially considering most people only put their best, most aesthetically pleasing and ultimately unrealistic versions of themselves online. When comparing yourself to those photos, it can make you feel like you're not good enough or that your life doesn't amount to as much as theirs. Social media can end up doing more harm than good. So if you need to, take a break from Instagram, your mental health will thank you. And number nine, retirement shouldn't be your goal. While saving up for retirement and planning mindfully for your future is a good thing. Retirement shouldn't be your only goal with your career. If you're waiting around until the day you can finally retire, chances are it's not the right job or career for you.  This principle is sure to help you in deciding on a career. And if you're already working and now realize you don't enjoy it, this truth still applies. Do you relate to any of these truths? Do you think learning these now will help you in the future? While these may be hard to put into practice at first, they're truths that will ultimately benefit you in the long run. 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Our first caller is James from Georgia. Hey, what's up, James? How can we help you? Hey, guys. I'm so excited to be here today. I can't believe I'm actually talking to you guys. This is a dream come true. So a little bit about me. I'm currently in the Army National Guard right now, and I'm hoping to go to Ranger School to start coming April. My current goal, I'm trying to increase my endurance so that I can pass a Ranger physical fitness test, which requires me to be able to do 49 push-ups in two minutes, 59 sit-ups in two minutes, five mile run and 40 minutes or less, six pull-ups, and then my personal goal is to get my five mile run down to 35 minutes here at home. So that way there's no doubt that I can go to Ranger School and pass the RPFT. I'm also trying to increase my endurance with working 12 miles with a 43-pound ruck. I need to be able to do this 12 mile ruck in three hours or less. Let's see. About a month and a half ago, I hired a personal trainer, a founding guy on Instagram. He claimed to have gone to Ranger School. He claimed to have worked with Special Forces Group and claims to have been training soldiers like myself who want to go to Ranger School or SF selection on the side for the past four or five years. He's been having me do a lot of Metcons with long distance running as well as strength training all on the same training day. For example, in the first month, he had me doing four days a week of something like one of the training days was bench, three sets, four to six, 85% of your training max deadlift, building up 85% and doing doing two sets at 85% of three to six reps, then doing a 21, 15, and nine pull-ups and wall ball and toaster bar Metcon as fast as you can. And then going into incline dumbbell bench, three sets of eight dumbbell hammer curls, three sets, 10 to 12 and then going in for a five mile run at the end of it. It was killing me doing stuff like that. I had not been doing Metcons. I'd been running all of y'all's maps, programs, maps, aesthetics, maps, anabolic maps, performance, maps strong. Maps anywhere. I've been doing maps prime and I mean, y'all made y'all's programs.  Intentionally, yes, I was dying. So after the first month, I talked to the guy, told him I couldn't do four days a week. I'm currently a RN that works in the hospital at a pediatric cardiac. I see you works night shift and doing four days a week. I mean, I was going in there off of no sleep, having the caffeine up just to be able to get through everything and body end of it. I mean, it was doing everything I could just to get home. I bet. Since then, talk to the guy. He's got me down doing three days a week now, pretty much the same style of training. Let's say, yeah, doing three days a week, the same style of training. I followed you guys for about three years now. I feel like he's just throwing everything in the kitchen sink at me without any real progression strategies. He also refuses to give out his personal phone number for me to be able to contact him or his actual last name. So I have no idea to even verify. This is telling me the truth about anything. So a friend claims to have found him on Facebook. Apparently she's good at stalking people. I don't know. It was kind of a whatever. Believe her, girls are really good. Yeah, we'll find a way. Anyways, like he wants me to contact him through his like company's Instagram and his company's email instead. And he's pretty quick to email me back, but it's still kind of weird. I mean, you all have given me a little red flags to look out for. And he kind of checks them all off. So my question basically is what would y'all recommend me do to increase my running endurance and rucking to get a five mile time to 35 minutes, a 12 mile ruck in three hours or less. And then just trying to maintain as much muscle mass as possible to help me not get injured. Yeah. How many times a week right now are you doing the rucking right now? How often do you you test this? So what I do for rucking, the rucking I've not as worried about. I've been doing it for four years now. The best way I've learned to train for rucking is actually by biking. It's got my ruck time down from three hours to in college. I was doing a 12 mile ruck with a 50 pound ruck in two hours and 15 minutes. OK, pretty good. You know, you know, something that a lot of people kind of don't consider when it comes to, you know, passing physical type tests, is that a great deal, a large percentage of your success doing those tests is actually getting good at the skill of the components of that test. OK, so to give you an example, you know, you let's say you wanted to get better at doing pull ups. Well, yeah, you can make your lats stronger. You can make your back stronger, doing different exercises. But one of the best strategies would be just to practice pull ups because that'll get you back your back stronger. But also it's practicing the skill that you need to actually, you know, do in this particular test. So training for specific tests isn't as complicated as people think. I think one of the best strategies you could do is literally practice the test a couple days a week, two or three days a week, do the tests that they're going to be asking you to do in order to, you know, get into ranger school. And then you may want to add one day a week of basic traditional strength training with mobility, and you'll probably be just fine. If anything, you'll notice that you'll you'll improve you'll improve at a pretty rapid rate. I'm glad you stopped what you were doing earlier when you noticed that you just had no energy to go to work. Yeah, that's been your tires in the dirt. Yeah, that's a really, really big red flag. Like you should not feel like you're totally zapped and your performance is declining when you're doing a workout.  There's other than just exhaust you to exhaust you. So it makes no sense. It makes no sense to do a movement like that if it's not going to benefit anything else that you're doing.  This is a perfect example of somebody, though, that this is I would do the test and I would slowly scale the weight vest, right? So I would I would run the test with a light weight weight vest, improve my time, start to slowly add weight to the vest slowly. Before you know it, you're going to you're blazing through the test with, you know, 40, 50, 60 pounds on you. And then whatever you need to do for the time, I don't know what the weight. What's the weight for the actual test? 40, 50, 30, 35 pounds. Is that what you said? Yeah. For the ruck, it's a 45 pound. Oh, 45. Yeah. So if you could get up to where you're doing 50 pounds, you know, going going through the test, like, is this incline? Are you doing it on like roads? It's on a road. So it'll be some incline, some decline. Yeah. So here's a good example of kind of what I'm talking about when I say, you know, use the test as your workout. What that doesn't mean is three days a week, you do the exact test. So in other words, you don't do the exact 49 push ups and as fast as you can.  What it means is you're doing the exact same exercises, but in different, you know, different intensities and volumes. So for example, and this is just I'm throwing this out there, one day a week, you may do the actual test. So you're doing the exact numbers, the exact times that you're aiming for and distances and trying to improve and trying to improve it. The other one other day a week, it might be half. So cut everything in half and then do the other, do the exact test. And then a third day a week would be down to a third.  So something like that would get you to improve quite dramatically. And then one day a week of like four to five compound lifts and some mobility work, and you're probably going to be better than OK. Where would you say is your biggest area of struggle in those different items? The run, the run, I can get the push ups on, I can get the setups, I can find it, pull ups, the ruck, I'm not really that worried about. It's just one of those things that you just got to push through. But the run, my five mile run right now is currently sitting at like 43 minutes. And that's well rested going into the run at Ranger School. It's going to be six o'clock bright and early in the morning, probably earlier than that. We'll go into our range of physical fitness tests. So it's going to be straight into push ups for two minutes, straighten the setups, straight into the run. And are you getting up at six and sort of emulating that some days with your running schedule? Sorry, what was that? Are you emulating that in terms of like what time of the day you train and everything else? I try to working nights. It's a little bit difficult. Usually my training schedule now is I work Sunday, Monday, Tuesday at the hospital. Today is Wednesday. It's usually a rest day because I try to wake up around two o'clock so I can flip myself back to days and not be a night owl with nothing going on. Well, the endurance part is going to be something that Thursday, Friday, Saturday, I'll get up early and go run. OK. Yeah. Just just a gradual progression of that. If that's the area of focus, I would just like gradually start to include that a bit more throughout the week and start adding a bit more time devoted to that. The other thing that I might add that, Sal, you didn't say on those example days is a strength day where you actually load all these things, right? So maybe you're not getting 58 push ups or 69 sit ups or six pull ups, whatever, but do a heavy day. Sure. Do a heavy loaded day and get strong at all those movements. Very rarely do you see people do like loaded sit ups, but this would be a perfect example of one of those three or four days. I would do like some loaded sit ups. So so in other words, you're doing the same skills a few days a week. Some days it's the same distance and exactly like the test. Some days it's loaded in much shorter amount of time or reps. More strength, right? Other days, it's shorter and faster. So you're practicing on sprinting through instead of running five miles, you're running two miles, but you're running it really fast. So that's what I mean by focusing on the skill of what you're doing. You definitely want to do some mobility work, too, because you're doing the same movements over and over again. So you're running a lot, you're doing a lot of push ups, a lot of pull ups. If you don't do mobility work, if your technique and form is even off a little bit, you could find yourself with some nagging injuries and then forget it, right? You're not able to do what you want to do because things hurt. And then one day a week you do like four basic strength training exercises and you should not fatigue yourself. You're just kind of practicing your deadlifts and your squats and your presses and that kind of stuff. And then you're probably pretty much set. Now, the other part of your question was keeping as much muscle mass as possible. I would forget, not that you're not going to keep muscle mass, but don't worry about that. Don't worry about aesthetics. Don't worry about anything else. Not only that, that actually is not advantageous for what we're training for right now.  They only care about your performance. Now after that, after you pass and you know, maybe you can train for aesthetics and that kind of stuff a little later, but for now it's all focused on performance and nothing is going to give you a greater return than actually practicing the things that you have to do in the test. I mean, it's quite remarkable. I mean, I've trained with athletes and people where I beat them at exercises all day long. But then when we do a specific skill, even if it uses the same muscles that I typically am stronger at, they kick my ass because they practice those skills so often. So don't discredit that. What you don't want to do is look at your overall general fitness as the goal. Although that is an important thing to focus on, you want to look at the skills because the rangers school is testing you specifically on skills. What they're not saying is, we're going to generally test your endurance and we're not going to tell you what we're going to do. We're going to generally test your chest and triceps strength, but we're not going to tell you what it is.  So because you know those specific things, you got to get good at them. Yeah, a majority of your... Get strong at them, build endurance around them. I mean, it's focused mainly around that. And like you said, I would only add a couple of the big four lifts in there just to complement some of that stuff, but I would not do it to fatigue. I would do straight sets, plenty of rest. I think that would be a great strategy for you. Yeah, anytime somebody needs to take a test for something, what they're actually... It's almost like this, like, okay, let me ask you a question, right?  You'd have to learn the whole human body to prepare for some random test. But what if I told you, here's the 10 questions that I'm going to ask you on the test. What are you going to spend your time focusing on, right? You're not going to waste your time on general physiology. If you want to pass the test, you're going to focus specifically on the 10 things that I'm going to test you on. So they're literally giving you the workout. The only real thing you need to focus on programming is one day a week, do exactly what they're going to test you on. One day a week, do it maybe half distance, half volume, try and do it faster. And another day a week, do it even shorter, but maybe loaded. And there you go. Now you're kind of phasing each one of those skills for strength, strength endurance, and then just endurance, and it's going to make you better at the test. Does that make sense? Yes. Excellent. Now I know you said you had a lot of our programs. I think you have them all. Get them in the forum. Yeah, are you in our forum, James? I think I am still, I haven't paid for it in a while, but... Okay, so here's what we're going to do.  Yeah. What the hell's going on? You've been getting away, Scott, for you. No, I'm just kidding.  Yeah, I would love to hear the update on this. Ask questions, and there's other people in there. We have other military people in there who are experienced in other trainers. And just get some consensus and kind of get some virtual coaching that way. I think that'll benefit you greatly. If you're not in there, we'll let you in for free, by the way. And then, James, what's the etiquette if you and I are friends and you pass Ranger School and you get one of those shirts, can I wear one? Is that okay or is that frowned upon? I'm serious, serious question. I can definitely get you one. I don't want it until you make it. When you make it, I want one and then I rock it. And then if people ask me, I'll say James is my friend.  It's got to say something like a friend or a Ranger. No, no, no, I used to have one because my boy had one. And it just says Ranger across the sixth shirt. Yeah. I know you know, right, James? Yeah, they look awesome. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.  So it's like they're rare to get a hold of. And I want to make sure I have a friend that I can say that's a Ranger right now. So when you get past, you do that. You hit me up and then you do all the hard work and we'll wear the shirt. Send us an extra medium. Extra medium, please. Yeah. Thanks, James. Thank you. No problem. Yeah, when you it's when you have a specific test, you know that they're going to test you on. They're literally giving you generally the workout that you want to. It's almost like they're giving you the answer. Why do you why does this CrossFit make it way into so many things like this? Because that's the medium they think is like, I got to get all this endurance and strength all at once. And so just that's the one where everything gets so muddy because they just smash it all together. You know what I mean? It kind of works. That's why. Because it's a very temporary window.  It works better than nothing. Right. Well, I mean, if he wasn't like working and had a life on top of training, he probably could sustain this ridiculous amount of training that they have going on. And then he'd probably build so much resiliency that he would be able to power through the test and actually do okay. So maybe he would pass this test with this going this route. But there's such a smarter way to go about it. I love the analogy. I've never heard any of us use the analogy like that. Like you're right. Like you have a test. You know what the questions are. You could go study a million other things related to that. You know, all the other exercises that exist. Or just refine what's actually going to be there. Yeah, or just know those 10 questions inside and out. I love breaking that apart. Like you said, with different approaches to each one of those types of exercise. So you do it fast. You do it long. You know, you do like a slower, gradual kind of progression of it. I think I could add a little bit to what you said. Because one would I definitely think that you should do a heavy strength component. Sure. You know, I think that would. It's like phasing the test, right? Yeah, I think a heavy strength. And then I would actually even do one that probably pushes him a little bit further. So that will really push the endurance. Yeah, so and then exactly it's just more focus on it. Maybe he doesn't have the vest on or he has half the weight on the vest and then I would exceed the distance. We're going to pass the amount of time that you're supposed to do. Yeah, so give him, so he's building that tank a little bit. So you have like an endurance day. You have kind of like a really heavy power strength day and then something maybe in the middle. I mean, but the key is you're practicing the same skills that they're going to test you on. That makes the biggest, the absolute biggest difference. I mean, look, if one of the biggest examples of what we're talking about is the Olympics, right? The Olympics are, is one of the most competitive places where you're going to see athletic performance worldwide. And in the early days of the Olympics, what people thought would make the best athlete was general athletes. So shop putters, long distance runners, wrestlers, they all kind of look the same. But eventually because they're so competitive and you wanted your country to win, you started to notice what was called the democratization of these particular events where shop putters look nothing like long distance runners. And that's because to be a very good shop putter means you probably look a lot different and train a lot different. Different leverage. That's right. So if they're telling you what they're going to test you on, practice those skills and only do other skills as a way to prevent injury, to prevent imbalances, to improve mobility. But the whole approach where you're like, oh, you need strength and endurance. Okay, here's what we're going to do. We're going to do all this stuff that's around strength and endurance and do very little of the skills that they're going to test you on. That's the wrong approach, complete wrong approach.


Wonderful. Continuous measurement. It's measurement conducted in a manner such that all instances of the behavior or the response classes are captured during the observation period. All of them, every last one of them, which you might imagine would be challenging if the response classes are very varied and there's a whole bunch of them, right? So you're trying to get a measure of everything, folks, and that's a challenge. So we often break them up, but again, it's a total. It just kind of gives you a really big picture of, oh my gosh, the problem of the behavior or the scope of the behavior, what the issues are in terms of quantity or even magnitude, if you will, of this particular response. So you need to, it's useful in that sense, but it's a very challenging thing to do.  So there you go.