Hi, my name is Lori Stromness. I am from Inner Mountain Health Care and today I'm going to be speaking about difficult urinary catheter navigation guidelines. The objective for this is decreasing infectious and non-infectious harm to patients through education enhanced with evidence-based guidelines and rationale to navigate difficult urinary catheter situations and through having a difficult Foley team. In 2017 I was at the 5th annual World Patient Safety Science and Technology Summit, having placed in the top 10 for a Patient Safety Innovation Award for our submission of having a difficult Foley team. At that time, my bio had said, honor student in her first year of graduate studies. I had thought that I would then be starting a difficult Foley team elsewhere external to Inner Mountain Health Care. What we've learned from the Foley team is that we know that failed attempts or improperly performed attempts at urinary catheter placement increases the risk of harm for patients. Our Foley team had profoundly increased the rate and frequency of failed attempts. The difficult Foley team was a collaboration between urologist Dr. Jay Bischoff and Brad Waterman and the manager of one of our acute care floors, Kenna Johnson, who trained staff from our department to be the experts in assisting other departments when they had difficult urinary catheter situations. The success of the difficult Foley team at Inner Mountain Medical Center revealed evidence that and training improved proficiency of nursing urinary catheter placement or navigating difficult situations and decreased calls to urology for consults by over 82% since September of 2013. When urology received a consult, they then knew that meant the patient was likely going to need to go to the OR. And before inception of the Foley team, urology used to receive consults related to urethral injuries from improperly placed catheters one to two times a week. And since the inception of the Foley team, those calls have become very rare. As I approached beginning my doctoral research project and finding an external site to launch a Foley team, while researching through evidence-based databases to find evidence to support my proposal to start a Foley team. In attending meetings with stakeholders at the external site, I began to realize there may be a more productive direction for me to head. The danger with icebergs is all that we can see is a tiny piece that's above the water and we can't ignore what's beneath the water for very long before disaster. Culture trumps strategy. It's the iceberg that sinks organizational change. Not the top. It's the way we say we get things done. But then at the bottom is the way things really get done. Between the two above the water is the strategy, shared values, and goals. Below the water, getting more difficult to see are the structures, policies, beliefs, assumptions, values, traditions, unwritten rules, stories, and the feelings. Initially, I only saw the part of the iceberg that was sticking out of the water, but recognizing what was beneath the water allowed me to see a way to alter my course and realize the point of the Foley team and how to add value to the point. Knowledge, confidence, and proficiency are paramount for patient safety during difficult urinary catheter placement, especially when that placement becomes difficult. Placement is difficult if the first attempt is not successful. When the patient is encountering difficult placements are left to either try again, call urology for a consult, or rely on the variable experience of other nurses around them. A hazardous knowledge gap exists without standardization for addressing difficult urinary catheter situations. Existing education is limited, and it only teaches the basic steps of placement on a mannequin, which lacks correlation for actual placement and consideration for the numerous anatomical variations. My research initially aimed at creating a difficult Foley team at an external site, but it evolved as data revealed a hazardous knowledge gap. Existing procedural education has a failure. It lacks evidence-based rationale addressing difficulties, which really is pretty optimistic, but it sets our staff up for failure. If we don't teach them what to do when things go wrong, then they're left to discover by trial and error on patients. Through the implementation of the difficult Foley team, we saw the benefit of improving and enhancing nursing education beyond the basic steps of placement. Taking it to the next level was the design to evaluate if creating education supplemented with evidence-based best practice guidelines for navigating difficult urinary catheter placements would increase nursing knowledge and comfort. The project began with assessing current knowledge and research and data collection for medical and educational databases, and data collected via feedback during focus groups with senior nursing leadership and nursing educators before creating the initial education with the navigation guidelines. The initial guidelines were shared during focus groups with pre- and post-education surveys with open-ended, short-answer survey questions and ordinal Likert scale questions. The participants were the educators from the acute care floors at the study site. The education was created and enhanced with the data from the evidence-based research, shared, and then enhanced with feedback from the additional focus groups and pre- and post-education surveys. While catheter-associated urinary tract infections or CAUTIs are never events, they're not the only harm occurring with urinary catheters, as both infectious and non-infectious harms can result. Up to 25% of patients in the hospital will need a catheter. One in ten of those patients will get a urinary tract infection. That is beginning to show that non-infectious urethral harm occurs up to four times as often as infectious urethral harm. Rates of harm rise when protocol or guidelines are absent. There is a failure in existing education with a limitation of learning placement steps on a mannequin, which lacks correlation for actual placement in real life in consideration for numerous anatomical variations. Nurses otherwise are left to rely on their experience, the experience of their coworkers or the availability of the on-call physician or resident who might be in surgery or otherwise indisposed. At the study site, the average response team for a urology consult was over 90 minutes. That's the patient waiting in discomfort for over 90 minutes. Knowledge training and standardized protocol or guidelines around urinary catheter placement and troubleshooting when there's difficult insertion increases staff knowledge and proficiency while decreasing patient harm related to catheter placement. The findings from the difficult fully team were that more than 82% of calls of over 1,000 patients since September of 2013 were able to address the urinary catheter needs. So over 820 patients were saved a urology consult over 820 times. A dedicated fully team can disseminate the education system wide. They can teach as they go. This increases mindfulness and mentorship. It's a collaboration and a synergy between nursing staff and urologists. It decreases trauma and harm. It costs nothing to implement, but it has a significant cost savings for the patient. And it elevates the safety culture and reliability. Safety climate can serve as a leading indicator of safety performance in contrast to error and injury rates, which are lagging indicators. The safest way to prevent harm is early detection of the opportunity for harm. The earliest opportunity is addressing harm prevention at the education level by providing evidence based guidelines for navigating difficult urinary catheter situations by increasing the efficiency for urinary catheter placement and other urological bladder catheter related troubleshooting measures. We can state that we not only significantly increase the reliability and safety, which reduces harm, but also identifying a failure in time to intervene before the harm occurs. At the local level, this prevents infectious and non-infectious harm to patients in the hospital, but on a larger scale, health care is impacted by Medicare withholding reimbursement for hospital acquired infections and emerging data indicates non-infectious urethral trauma occurs four times as often as infectious urethral trauma. Proactively mitigating difficult urinary catheter placement before harm will improve the culture of reliability and can prevent non-infectious urethral trauma from reaching the hospital acquired infection status. Thank you.


Orlando, Florida for IBM Edge 2012. This is theCUBE, SiliconANGLE.TV's extensive coverage. Wall to wall, IBM for two days talking about converging infrastructure, storage technology, innovation. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE.com, and I'm joined by co-host. I'm Dave Vellante of Wikibon.org, and we're here with Laura Gio, who is the Vice President of Business Line Executive in charge of the storage portfolio. Laura used to run sales for the storage group. Laura, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. Good to see you, and Edge, it's the coming out party for IBM Storage. You must be excited. This is so exciting, and to really hear from our customers directly about how we're helping them solve their problems, what we're doing to really advance their businesses forward is really inspiring to all of us here at IBM. So, okay, so Vice President of Business Line Executive, we were talking off camera that you're essentially in charge of the portfolio. That's correct. What does that mean? That means that I look across the portfolio where we're making our investments in technology. What are we going to do going forward from a strategic standpoint? So not only keeping the health of the existing product line that we have today, but where do we reach out to in the future? And you know, one of the things that IBM has beyond the competition is a large patent portfolio, a huge research and development organization. So we have all that to draw on as we look at it, and my job is to pull that all together in one cohesive view. So it's to pull it together from both a product standpoint, working with the product groups, M&A, R&D, new invention, all of the above. That's correct, that's correct. We pull it all together, we get a view of where are we going to go in the future? Along with, and most importantly, what do our clients need to help solve their problems? So the interesting thing is you came out of a sales role, right? So you got the voice of the customer. Now do you also have a technology background? Yes, I do. I ran development for IBM for many years. I ran a software storage development, which was our backup archive product and some of our storage management products. So I have a very background all around storage. So you're like IBM's secret weapon. Well, we were just talking on their intro package, Laura, about the IBM's opportunity to kind of get the strategic position with storage and expand on that with all the assets IBM has, hence the portfolio. So the question I have for you is, how do you balance the legacy customer environment that you have to deliver P&L responsibility for, yet add new technologies around innovation, around flash, software? Because we've been talking about big data and cloud and these new kind of converged infrastructures where the architectures are changing. So the new architectures are involving a little bit of different tweaks to how data is managed and stored and storage and real-time analytics and big data or one of those value propositions. So what is your angle on the innovation around the portfolio opportunity that you're leading? Looking forward, as you guys move forward from this edge and going forward, what are you guys talking about here and then in the future around those innovations? Yeah, so first of all, when you talk about legacy and where we're going, it's all about integration. It's about taking what our foundations are from a corporate perspective and then adding to that the new things that are coming out the door. But that doesn't mean it's a rip and replace type strategy. It is building on what's been our foundation. We take that, we add the new innovations and it's a stepped approach. So clients can insert themselves at any point along this process, whether they've been a legacy client of ours. You know, we invented storage in IBM in 1956 and we've been adding to that portfolio ever since then. So as clients look to this, they can step it up any time they want. They can add more feature function richness. But along with that is the ability to do it in a less complex way. So I think your job is uniquely difficult because you have the short-term allure of being able to integrate with IBM. And so from an ROI standpoint, if you do some kind of need integration with DB2 or some kind of mainframe integration, you're going to do very well because IBM really knows how to sell that. At the same time, you have to serve an audience that has a huge appetite for these hot new features and these startups coming out. How do you manage all that? So there's a couple ways we do that. First of all, if you look at IBM, we've had a premise all along the way that we want to be the voice of the customer. We want to help them solve their problems. And that doesn't mean it's all IBM. So if you take our storage virtualization product, that integrates both IBM hardware, non-IBM hardware in a heterogeneous type environment. If you take feature function richness that's out in the environment out there, ISVs are key to that to us in IBM. Leveraging those partners of ours in the industry that have very specific knowledge that fits niches for different clients in different industries and then integrating that into the IBM portfolio. So how do you work, Laura, with other groups within IBM? Because obviously when you form a software person in development, you've got these rich assets in Tivoli, they sit in, I guess it's sort of now the same division under Mills, but they're still, it's a big organization. How do you pick and choose and how do you integrate all those assets into your portfolio? I think the best way that we look at it is from a use case perspective. I mean, you're right, it is complex in IBM. We have different organizations across the business unit. But if you look at it from the problems you're solving for our clients, that's how you approach it. You do it in use case and then you fold in those parts of the assets in the IBM corporation to come up with a good solution. So my observation at the top of the show was that IBM, 10 years ago, decided to de-invest in storage in a way and it sort of, and I've talked to Bill Zeitler, you know Bill Zeitler about it, I said Bill, you were an awesome leader but the one mistake you made is you de-invested in storage and IBM had to really retool and go out and make some acquisitions and we're now, I don't know, I'm guessing five years into that transformation, maybe it's a little bit more. So we really should start to see a big impact from that. You can't just turn it on overnight. We're at edge, a lot of energy here. Is that premise about right that we should really start to see that portfolio begin to explode? Yeah, and you're starting to see it now. You are right that I wouldn't necessarily call it disinvestment, I'd say, putting things on ice for a while. And if you look back to 2008, we were starting to catch up on market share. Since 2008 to present, we've been holding market share with how fast the market's been growing. And as you look forward from this point on, you're seeing IBM takeover market share. For example, Growth Markets Unit, where I just ran the sales organization, we increased market share by three points on the competition. We are close to taking over that number one position in the Growth Markets Unit. So you're seeing this change. So Growth Markets Unit's being like. It's Asia Pacific, Latin America, Central Eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East. Yeah, we were talking about at the top of the show about the investments IBM made in China, which were enormous. You guys were right on in that call. And now you're seeing IBM uniquely talk about Africa. No other company is talking about Africa the way IBM is. So how do you guys do that? You just sort of figure it out and then put a lot of resources behind it? Well, it's a little more complicated than that. I mean, we look at a market where there is a lot of opportunity for growth. There is a lot of investment in that area. There's money in that area. And these countries, which we call them Growth Markets, are those that are emerging countries that need the technology and don't necessarily have the legacy systems to leverage on. So they're coming in and a unique opportunity to start building on a brand new system.  You saw, you know, the three-par acquisition. You saw the Isilon acquisition, the Component, I mean, multi-billion data domain, multi-billion dollar acquisitions. IBM tends not to chase auctions, per se. What do you make of all the M&A that's going on in storage? And, you know, how do you make sense of all that? Well, you know, you look at the competition. First of all, I'd say, you know, IBM is very fortunate in the fact that we don't have to make some of these acquisitions because we have such a large R&D organization. We have the assets within this corporation to organically build a lot of things that some companies rely on doing an acquisition to get. You know, what do you make out of it? You know, there's a lot of consolidation going on in the industry right now and it'll be interesting to see how it pans out. You know, I would argue some of these mega acquisitions that competition are making right now yet to see how successful it'll be in integrating that into their portfolio. Laura, what about the flash trend? Now, see, Ed Walsh was on theCUBE with Dave a couple weeks ago, but obviously at Fusion IO in public, we see violin memory systems as here working with you guys. How does flash change or enhance your portfolio strategy? So flash is very important. You know, we've got a lot of things in the hopper right now, some of which I can't talk about at the moment, but you know, as you look at flash going on. It's secured, you can talk right away. Yeah, yeah, get fired. No one ever got fired for coming into theCUBE. I think I've heard that before. Oh, good, good. Oh, that was IBM. They never got fired for buying IBM. That's right, that's right. You didn't get fired for being in the team. So as far as flash, I mean it's extremely important for clients. It allows them to get faster utilization out of their IO rates. And as flash comes down in cost, it'll become even more and more relevant. But flash in itself isn't going to solve that problem. You've got to add software that integrates in with this flash technology that really gets the additional advantages out of it that a customer needs. Yeah, working across tiers is something that's challenging that some people look at flash as, oh, it's a server enhancement or cash. Do you guys see it that way kind of narrowly or do you guys look at it more like, hey, flash can sit anywhere? I think we look at it more broadly. Flash can sit anywhere. It can sit on the server, it can sit on the storage. It can be manipulated in a way that advantages a client's ability to manage that data. And what we try to do is look at all the ways that you can incorporate that into a system and get that edge. What is the number one thing you hear from customers around as they plan for the future building on the technologies you guys have? Good, I do agree. It's not sorry I've never been replaced. It is an extension. Yeah, some stuff may go away over time, but it's really an extension. What do you hear from customers around? The kinds of questions they're asking, are they looking for navigation around what to buy and they have their use cases set up? What are some of this, what's the sentiment in the customer base around flash? So there's a couple of things. How does flash help me manage this overwhelming amount of data? How do I implement that into my system? And then other things you're starting to hear about is how does flash integrate into a cloud tech technology? Cloud is a big thing that we're talking about this week here at Edge, and what does that mean to a customer? And CIOs feel like flash is on the mandate, on their agenda, and is it changing some of their architectures? Have you heard any of those conversations around architectural changes? You hear a little bit about that. I mean, really they're looking to see when is the technology going to come more price-effective, cost-effective, and then what do they do with that going forward? You know, so we had some interesting discussions around this and that is obviously the fact that flash is way more expensive than spinning disk. At the same time, you're starting to see applications emerge in virtually all industries where the productivity impact of these applications running at near memory speeds is enormous. It's like when we all went to PCs, we had this huge productivity hit. And the CIOs I talked to, you're right, are focused more on that cost. Are you seeing use cases where that productivity impact is enormous? And how long do you think it's going to take for the world to catch up to that? You've seen a similar thing with big data, for example, where big data productivity impacts could be huge, but the mainstream IT organization, from my sense, isn't there yet. What's your take? I think it depends on the industry.  When they are doing explorations on where to drill for oil, they have a lot of data coming at them fast that has to be analyzed and then brought back in as to what's the next step that they're going to take. They are very much utilizing flash technology. Yeah, a lot of the social guys as well, you know, you hear a lot about Facebook and Zynga and guys like that. What about big data?  It seems to hold a lot of promise, a lot of interesting stuff going on with a dupe. You guys, IBM has your fingers in all those pies. What does it mean for the storage portfolio? Well, big data, you know, is one of the key areas that we've focused on. You've seen some of the sessions potentially that we've had here at Edge. You've listened to some of these clients and what they've talked about. And just the overwhelming amount of data, how do I manage it? And not just managing it by storing it, what tier do I put it on, but how do I get analytical data out of this? How do I look at that and really make key business decisions going forward with this overwhelming amount of data coming at them? Yeah, so we've talked for years about the data problem, data management, software expert. Do you feel like data is actually going to become an opportunity more so than a problem? I think data is currency for a business nowadays. That is their lifeline. That's how they make key decisions in their business and what are they going to do differently going forward? And our job is to help them understand that quickly and make those decisions. I love that's a great quote. We're data fanatics. We love data. We've been following big data for years with SiliconANGLE, Wikibon, and we see it as a critical role now in development. So the question I have for you, given that you have a development background, what are you seeing around the development with data, specifically software development? We're seeing DevOps being one of the hottest trends in the cloud where you've got to develop a operational kind of integration mindset. How do customers program with data? I mean, in the old days it was store it, bring it back, put it away, take it out. Now you have such a different use cases. Real-time applications, consumer applications, these kinds of new use cases. So data and not only the currency, it's a critical asset in the development process. Are you seeing any trends there that you could share? Absolutely. I mean, you're seeing when we talked just a minute ago about flash technology and the integration of software. The key is to be able to access that data quickly, do analysis on it, and then make real-time short-term decisions on that business based on that. No longer does a customer have the luxury to put it out, store it, run some tests later on it, glean off the information that they need. They want it now and they want it immediate. And so you have to have that integration there of storage and software to really allow them to do that. Awesome. Laura Guille, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. We're going to have Brian on later. Great. So we must be very excited about working for him in your new role, so congratulations on that. Thanks very much for coming inside theCUBE and sharing your knowledge. Thank you. We'll be right back. And remember, no one ever got fired that we know of for being on theCUBE. So thanks for sharing your perspective with us. We'll be right back with our next guest after this break.


What's up guys, I'm about to head to Walmart and look for the new mystery power box which has graded cards inside. Hopefully I can find one at one of the few Walmart's around me. If not, it's going to suck, but we're going to be looking. So let's go. All right guys, we made it to the first Walmart. Hopefully this is the one that has the graded boxes so we don't have to go anywhere else, but I doubt it. Got some sleeves. That's not what we're looking for. Fortnite. Let's go, number one victory around. No luck in the first Walmart. They had an empty mystery cube and sleeves. That was it. So not looking too good so far, but we got, I think, three more total in a semi-close range. So we're going to be checking those out. Walmart round two, here we go. Let's see if we can find one or something. Anything Yu-Gi-Oh at all, that'd be great. We'll see. I don't know, not feeling too good. Count Yu-Gi-Oh cards. This is as close as I'm getting the cards. We've got dog side dimensions and packaging. Well, they said it was in electronics. I looked for 15 minutes. There was nothing, like not even a hint of cards. So definitely nothing in there. We're going to have to go to the next one. Round three. I have high hopes for this one. I hope there's something like anything, like just a couple of packs. Like didn't even have to be the mystery box. Just come on. Oh, this is nice. Looks like that. Oh, interesting. I've never seen these before. Oh, let me mis-gush that. More structured eggs. If you get Metazoo, it's the wrong mystery box. We don't want Metazoo. I'm going Yu-Gi-Oh. Finally bought something at least. Two structured eggs. That's not really going to help our opening though. Of course, Walmart's our last chance. Walmart number four. We have so far found two structured eggs, Metazoo mystery boxes, sleeves, and an empty mystery cube. Been pretty successful so far, I'd say. Now let's see if we can find that mystery box we're looking for. All right, we got a couple of packs. These were $8 each though. So that was a little bit insane, but at least we got something out of our four Walmart trips. Not much, but something. Woo, this is pretty rough. We got a secret forces. This was $8 by the way. Yeah, insane. Then we got another secret forces, also $8. So that's going to be tough to break even on that one. We did get a Fusion Enforcers Alistair baby. Let's go see if that'll focus. There we go. Eight bucks as well. So yeah, I paid over 40 bucks for five packs. Here it is, another Fusion Enforcers. That's actually kind of cool. And then our last pack, a third Fusion Enforcers. So nothing too insane, $43 for that. So this has not been a successful Walmart trip. If you do want those mystery boxes, hit me up. I'll buy them from you. All right guys, we are back in the studio. We have our five packs that we found. Yeah, five packs. And then we have our goes from the past two that we got from Frontline Games. So we're going to have a few things to open, but not as successful as the trip is I would have liked. Before we get any farther into this video, I do have a giveaway. I'll be getting away these two mini boxes of Ghost of the Paths, the second haunting. This was from the same mini box that we got red eyes. So you could get a second one because that actually is a possible thing. All you have to do to enter that is like this video, be subscribed. Let me know what you think about the vlog is, like searching for cards type videos. If you want to see more, let me know below. All right, let's crack this thing open and let's see what we got from Frontline. One thing I don't miss at all about opening these is the packaging. It is insane. It is crazy with all the live streams. It took me forever to actually open all those up before the live streams. But this has been sitting at Frontline since Wednesday. I'm supposed to get in on Wednesday. I totally forgot about it because of all the live streams. So if it has a ghost right here, I'm going to be kicking myself. It's just been sitting there, chaos crepper. So not in that one. Okay, we're gonna have to kick ourselves yet. Also do I have this extra pack? This was the last pack when we got the red eyes and I didn't open this. We're going to open this up real quick. A little bonus pack here. Let's see what we can get. Okay, that didn't have anything. Master player hyperion. Let's open up one of our five $8 packs. Let's see if we can get our money back. We're going to need like invocation or something. It's going to be pretty tough. What in the world is going on here? Is this taped? Hello? I think it is taped back together. What in the world? Did I get scammed over here? Let's go and let's see what we got. So trap tricks. Yeah, okay. Some random stuff. Did we get scammed? All right, we'll see. We'll see. Hopefully not. At the Walmart, these were... I forgot, it's at the front. That's a cool card though. Okay, Fluffle Penguin Owl, Pradaplant and Miracle Fertilizer. I do like this card, Secret Rare Invoked. Of course I like it. That was at the Walmart where they were behind the counter. The first time I've ever actually seen that from where I'm from, which is interesting. So I was like, okay, all right, interesting. But that's weird that it was taped together. Number 97, that's worth like a buck, I think. Very cool. Yeah, so it was an interesting trip today, guys. Very interesting. It was fun to drive around, but not a lot available. Dramaturgs, that's another good card. Galaxy Soldier, another good card. We'll have Cyber Inn. I finally, guys, I went through all of my bulk of like the 12 and a half cases that I opened for the cards. Like a dollar, two dollars. Took like four hours. It was very, very long, but it still worked. When you open that much, you need to sell the one to two dollar cards. So I'll get your money back. And that's part of the reason why I did it. Dark Alligator, very nice. DD Neco Slime and the Plunder Petrol Ship Barangay. All right, all right. I was really hoping to find that Mystery Box, but if you guys do have one or you've seen a bunch of your Walmart and you don't want them, you could help pick them up for me. That'd be great. Skull Knight, this card's worth nothing. I thought it was the whole time I was opening it. Not really worth anything, like 38 cents. A couple more packs for me to open one of those special eight dollar packs over there, which realistically, those are probably like worse than ghosts from the past. It would be an adventure, which will be all right. Cool. Ha ha! One display! Ha ha! Let's go! Ghost Rare, Dark Magician Girl. All right. Thank you very much, Frontline Games. Shout out to my locals for selling me one display. I left it there four days late.  And there's a Dark Magician Girl in there. The best Ghost Rare from the set. And even though the prices are going down, this one's still holding pretty fast around like 300 plus dollars. Almost 400. That's our 40th Ghost Rare too. We've pulled 40 Ghost Rates from the set. Just process that. That's insane. All right, that was worth it. That was worth it. Okay. Once again, shout out to the locals that, yeah, I went in there. Look, they literally sold me these for eight dollars. Look at this. Look at this. They're open. Okay. But yeah, I went in there and I walked in and I was like, hey, sorry about being four days late to pick up my stuff. And the guy who was working there was like, I'm a huge fan of your channel. And I was like, thanks, man. Actually, I don't even think I said, I think I just like knuckled them or something. I'd never seen him working there before, but shout out to the guy in front of my game. So you said he was a fan. That's actually pretty cool. Sacred Phoenix. But yeah, then we picked it up. It turns out he had a dark magician girl in there. He just kept sitting there, waiting to be opened. You'll love to see it. Ah, I gotta stop opening this. They're always in the front. Ritual Beast, Ulti Apello. That's pretty good. Oh, I think it's good. I don't know if it's actually good. Altitude Knight, that's not the Dawn Knight, or what is he? Dusk Knight? No. What's the guy? You dump a dark and it's used in the Dad Dex. I can't remember. I don't know. Walmart basically ripped me off. It charged me $8 for packs that were like not even sealed. So that's great. But then my locals came in classes while you buy from your locals. Quintet, very cool. Quintet's actually like, I think over a dollar. I sold a bunch of stuff on my TCG player store, which is Ruxen, if you guys wanna ever check it out. Woo, a lot of shipping, guys. We put in a work shipping those cards. So we got a Lera J, the Boreland. Okay, Boreland Vampire Sucker, and Vashuda. It's a different kind of opening when you know you only have one display. It's a little more exciting when you get those ghostries. Not that it wasn't exciting in the live streams because it was, but when you only have one display and you pull a ghostry, I'm sure you guys can relate with this a little bit more than the way that I open them with like a million packs. Sandwich, Magisterie, Hyperion, another good one as well. And speaking of ghost from the past as well, Sassy Out of still does have some displays. I think he's actually stocking more cases soon. So if you guys wanna use Ruxen GFTP, you can get 5% off there. And that sports me as well, which is really awesome. Dark Magician, The Dragon Knight, very cool. Yazi and Track Black. And if you do go to TCG player, you don't have to buy for me to use my TCG player and fill you to support me as well by buying anything with the link in the description, which is pretty cool. Rookie Order Lady, we've got the Visionary Affair. Man, this is a great display. That's another like two and a half dollar card. We will take that.  So pretty cool. We got in an AI reborn or an AI idol reborn. Okay. This one was also not completely sealed, which is interesting to watch cat. Very, very nice. Love to see it. All right. The secret is at the front. Wait, is it gonna? Gotta do a Patrick here. Gotta remember not to ruin it. Okay. Fright for Wolf. Fluffle Penguin. The Fluffle Owl. Preda Plant. Fright for Tiger. Pretty cool card. I think it might, I mean, I think it's over a dollar. So it's therefore worth something to me. Just kidding. All cards are worth something, especially Chickalock days. I can hear the comments now. What about Pocanioma? I think Civilian Shield was your favorite card. All right. Okay. Look, it's a three-way tie. Okay. Tatsu Nacro. We got the Protector of the Moon, the Tini Spirit and the Leer Fish. All right. Give us something good, guys. Give us something good. It was weird. Like, I live streamed three days in a row, guys. So it felt so weird to actually make a video. It's been so long. I was like, oh, what do I even do now? Like, I've just been live streaming every day. It's the life of a streamer. You stream, you don't make videos. The Sanctuary in the sky. I've got the Fossil Machine Skull Convoy and the Hornet. Very nice. The Agent of Mystery. Well, they do, but they do it like during the war. Which is different. Different. For me at least. Doppel Warrior. Let's see if we can get another ghost. Chronicle Magician. All right, that's pretty cool. And the Vampire Sucker. Secret Forces attack. This one might be the first one that's actually not open already.  Cards flying everywhere. What did we throw? Visionary Otrinity. I mean, I think that might be an okay card. Put that aside. Okay, pretty cool. Nothing too much there. Let's go to Secret Forces. Remember the Secret Warriors at the front. Do not forget. Do not forget. Do not forget. I didn't forget. See that? You just gotta keep saying it. Vanity Disemptiness. Emptiness, good card. Do you get the Advanced Ritual Art? Another good card. This one doesn't go from the past too as well though. Yosinji. Yosinji, Yosinju. And then another comma three. Very cool. A few more packs in this opening. Hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you have, make sure to subscribe to the channel and let me know in the comments. What you liked about it. What you think you would like even more. You know, maybe if you have suggestions for these kinds of videos that would make it even more interesting for you. Let me know and I would like to see that. Give me another ghost. You can get two from the same display. So let's see. Venus, we got a Galaxy Soldier again. That's very, very good. We will take that. No allovers so far, but I am down to pull one now. How about that? Three packs left in display out of 20. Didi, Savant, Copernicus, the Heavenly Dragon, Fossil, Warrior, Skull Knight, not a good card. Well, I mean, it's not bad card. It's just not very valuable. Okay, two more ghosts in the past and then we have one more fusion of forces. Let's do the ghost. Well, one ghost in the past. Then we'll do fusion of forces. Number 38, this is a good card. Oh, and a heat soul. Another good card. We'll take that. That's one of the best cards at like three and a half dollars. On to our final $8 pack. Have we pulled this card out of these yet? Not like a good card. We pulled like a couple of okay cards, which means like two bucks or $1. But we've not pulled a good card yet. Okay. Deep Sea Entry, Thunder Dragon. We got a dogmatic and Nexus and Gravity Gun. This is the bad dogmatic that nobody cares about, which is really all, kind of funny. Let's do it. Fusion enforcers do not ruin it at the front. Come on. Don't ruin it. Don't forget. Let's go. Give us, oh, one fire. Cool for Edison. Battle Fusion, a barring itch. The summoner monk. And, ooh, Greedy Venom Fusion Dragon. I think that's a couple of bucks. It's not too bad. We'll take it. And the final pack of the video. We pulled Dark Medition Rogors. Not really too mad. We are going to be doing one more ghost from the past video against Rhyme Style. I think that's probably our last one, but we'll see. Can we get something good at the end? Masterflare Hyperion, and that is it. But that's okay. When you pull a DMG out of one display, that's totally worth it. If you guys enjoyed the video, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more epic videos like this. Shout out to TCG Trust, Cards, Tornfall Show, Tomato Juice, Stanley and Mike, Nance, Bivic Echo, Dexter, Yamoussi, Junior Barring, another Thai show, JT Joe, David FJ, Clayton Fitzgerald, 87, Josh Evans, and John Noel. Thank you guys for supporting the channel, and I'll see you guys next time. Peace.


Today, I have the distinct pleasure of speaking with Mr. Jack Lifton. How are you today? I'm great, Tracy. How are you? I'd like to start by discussing the breaking news that just came out from Rare Element Resources. I'm very impressed by Rare Element Resources' announcement. I really had very little advanced knowledge, and certainly I don't know any more details of the process than were revealed in the press release. However, I do know all of the people involved, and I can tell you that they are far and away the most professional group of chemical engineer, mining engineers that I know in the space, really the most professional. Their work was, to a point, targeted at their deposit and at the customers they have and hope to have. This is a perfect example of how to do something. They are not talking about conquering the world with their great process. They are talking about solving their problem, and I really think they have. I believe we're really at a turning point in America. Additionally this month, you wrote an excellent piece about how the news with Tantalus and their deal with Shanghai was a real industry and global game changer. Can you tell us what you mean and give us a little bit more of some background on that? Please, Jack. Thank you. What I mean is that Tantalus reached two goals that the entire industry should have been targeting. One is they got an actual major vertically integrated rare earth company, Shanghai Resources of China, to commit into a contractual relationship, taking 30% of their output from their Madagascar mine, and investing up to 30% of their capital needs for the development of that project. Second, they got Taysen Krupp Metalurgical, one of the world's great trade, metal and commodity trading houses, to do the same. Issue a contract, a real contract, not a memorandum of understanding, to take 30% of their output for sale exclusively into the German market. Now we've been talking about the German market on investor intel, I have to point out to you, Taysen Krupp is a member of the Rostoff Alliance. Therefore, instead of secondhand, when they go to a meeting of the Rostoff Alliance, they sit across from companies like Siemens, Bosch, let's say BASF, and they say to them, we have material for you. And these large corporations, which do not like to deal with midcaps and microcaps, they say, okay, we're in the same club, let's have a chat.  Now you notice that Taysen Krupp has also started to deal with Rainbow in Africa, indicating they have a very high confidence level that Rainbow will go into production, because it costs Taysen Krupp money to do these deals, and they don't do them as a waste of time, because their major global 1,000 customers are looking for material, not promises. So Tantalus has simply shown us that they are professional, well-managed and know what they're doing. Well, thank you so much, Jack, for reminding our viewers that investor intel is moving into Germany in the middle of August, so we will be talking to you more and more about that, because undoubtedly the German audience will love you as much as our American audience does. But I want to ask you one more question. We seem to have lost Hong Po has gone on a vacation for a month, so we don't really know what's happening with China. We'd love for you to give us an update on what's really happening in China at this moment in time. What's happening in the rarest sector? Thank you. Well, although I suspect the Wall Street Journal hasn't noticed this, China is restructuring its commodity production space. Very much so, modernizing it, getting lean and mean. And unlike other countries or other regions where people talk about it and hope they can raise capital in their centers, the Chinese government, when it gets an idea to do something, just simply does it and let the pieces fall where they may. China is rapidly, rapidly improving its commodity production and utilization space and is even now a more fierce competitor than it ever has been. That's all you need to know about China. The Chinese are worried about China's future, the future of the growth of the Chinese economy, and in particular the future of the Communist Party of China, which is the ruling party of China. Therefore, everything they do is not difficult to understand. It is for the good of China. If you see that, then it's not hard to understand what they're doing. And keep in mind that they are not worrying, oh, are we going to offend some investors on Bay Street and Toronto? Not at all. They are worried about their own economic growth and the survival of their formal government. This is a big driver for them. And they laugh when they read our analyses. Now, I suspect that Hong Kong is off to the side for some education. That's my theory. And that he'll be back, or it will be back, and telling us again from the inside what's going on. Remember, Hong Kong is telling us what they want us to know. Pay attention because the truth is in there somewhere, as they used to say in the X-Factor. The truth is out there. Hong Kong is closer to it than anybody we know. Well, thank you so much for this, Jack. And I'm going to ask you, I'm going to squeeze in one more question. The Chinese, of course, are trying to increase their imports. They're decreasing their exports, especially of the permanent magnet materials. Where are they going to find them? Because we're still in that race to produce them here in North America. If I had to guess, I'd say they're going to find them in North America, Africa, and Australia, as well as Southeast Asia. They are fierce competitors. And they are out here looking for material. I think when they choose a company to work with, that you better pay attention because they have given a lot of thought to this. They've wasted a lot of time in the last 10 years playing around. I mean playing around, looking to see what's going on. But their current president Xi is telling them, we need to go outside of China and find materials to continue the improvement of our lifestyle. That is not a suggestion. So suddenly, we're saying, oh my god, all these Chinese companies are talking to all of our, and they are, they're talking North American companies, we know. And you say, why is that? Because they're supposed to do that. They are coming here, whether we like it or not, and we have to accommodate that. Now, they'll be good customers, but do we really want to become a third world continent where we just supply the great manufacturing nations of the East with what they need? Everybody better think about that. Great interview, Jack, as always. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Thank you.


So it's absolutely wonderful to be back here and see like everything is just virtually unchanged.  You know all the time I spent with friends and like skipping class to do various projects and whatnot and just seeing all your old teachers virtually unchanged is just so very exciting and I'm really energized and really excited to be meeting everyone right now. To my juniors I just say that have fun in whatever you do. Education is fun and life after your school will be plenty of fun. Work hard, good luck.


What is up you guys welcome back to another one if you are new to the channel I am Goldpony I do new car truck SUV reviews on youtube and today I'm quite excited we are in the new 2022 Acura MDX courtesy of Bobby Ray Hall Acura in McKennaxburg PA for more information on their inventory Please feel free to check out the link in the description box below And so yes the 22s are now making their way to the dealership that is quite exciting for me at least But anyways wanted to chop in this one today because this has been completely redesigned for the 2022 model year for the MDX My mother actually owns an MDX as well and she loves it. It's definitely been perfectly reliable for her So today in this video, I will be going over everything about this new 2022 MDX testing out acceleration breaking ride quality sound system Exhaust clip everything so having said all of that What do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it and as always Let's start with pricing. And so as you can imagine, there are several different trim levels for the 2022 MDX First one being the base trim starting at 46,900 dollars Then you have the technology package for 51,600 a spec, which is the one we have today going for 57,100 advanced package for 60,650 And then there is the type s which isn't out yet So I can't give you any of that pricing information But that one should be coming approximately in the summer of this year 2021 So having said that there's first two trims that was pricing for the front wheel drive configuration If you wanted to add all-wheel drive simply add 2000 dollars However, for the a spec and advanced package those do come standard with all-wheel drive So don't add anything to those prices But regardless of trim level that you go with the power plant on the MDX is going to be the same Powering this beast is a 3.5 liter direct injected v6 putting out 290 horsepower at 6,200 rpm 267 pound-feet of torque available at 4,700 rpm Power sent to front wheels or all wheels through a 10 speed automatic with some very Nice silver paddle shifters, which you guys know we will be testing out a little bit here Zero to 60 time comes in at approximately 6.1 seconds with mpg numbers coming in at 19 city 26 highway for the front wheel drive 19 city 25 on the highway then for the all-wheel drive configuration But either way taking premium unleaded fuel that is the recommended fuel for the MDX But so that before we do any kind of paddle shifter test or acceleration test in the MDX Didn't want to mention there are several drive modes. They will include snow comfort normal sport An individual and so the drive mode button is labeled dynamic mode It is a silver button located just Up top of the drive buttons, I guess you could say so when you turn that to the left or to the right That is how you're going to be able to adjust those drive modes and what those drive mode adjustments will do Is it just things like the shift points the throttle response the steering sensitivity the digital gauge cluster as well Give you some different colors there and I'll go over the gauge cluster in a little bit It's actually pretty cool Also a sportier engine sound if you were to put it in that sport driving mode And it's also going to adjust the all-wheel drive system engagement As well as you can imagine with the snow mode that is going to essentially give you full-time all-wheel drive more or less So having said all that now, let's go ahead and find a straight away I want to put the paddle shifters to the test here first essentially just testing out how quickly they are going to react for us here All right, you guys here's our straight away. Here we go Not bad. There is a slight delay. It's not too bad though. I will say that for an SUV Typically with SUVs, you'll find absolutely ridiculously slow paddle shifters, but actually with the MDX They're okay. They're okay. They're not the quickest I've ever tested, but they're okay So I don't mind them and also they're also nice to have because we have a ton of snow here in Pennsylvania You can always just use the paddle shifters to do some engine braking So you're less inclined to slide off a hill perhaps when you're going down a hill Rather than actually hitting the brakes Just use the paddle shifters and that's going to help you out a little bit there too But now what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and give back full control to the MDX and let's do a quick little acceleration test And we'll see if uh, see how quickly we can get the new MDX here up to speed. Let's hit it guys It actually does sound good in sport mode. I'm gonna test it out That is that was pretty cool Definitely more than enough of an acceleration to get you up to speed emerge on to the highways Not the quickest SUV I've ever tested, but it is a direct injected v6 So we'll definitely get the job done without a doubt that plenty of an acceleration for the MDX But to go along with that acceleration as always braking is equally important And so up front you will find 13.8 inch ventilated front discs in the back 13 inch solid rear disc As far as the braking feel goes it's been perfectly fine for me today I know in the past sometimes I know with the RDX back in the day It did have a softer braking feel but actually with the MDX maybe it's because we have the A-spec I don't know braking feel is perfectly fine. So no issues there touching on suspension and handling up front You're going to get a double wishbone tight front suspension in the back independent multi-link rear suspension Of course front and rear stabilizer bars as well But Acura actually goes above and beyond with the suspension on the MDX here is why Also adaptive damping suspension for every single trim level across the board. I absolutely love that I love adaptive damping suspensions Here's why what that essentially means is the MDX is going to monitor each shock absorber Not only tightening up the suspension during heavy cornering But also it's going to use those sensors to read the roads and perfections and also give you a smoother ride then As well, so it really gives you the best of both worlds So I absolutely love that Acura put that standard on the MDX I know my mother's MDX doesn't have it So that is pretty darn cold and having said that the ride quality is actually very very good And I do have it in comfort drive mode right now We do actually have some pretty punishing roads here in Pennsylvania, but I will say it is absorbing them quite nicely So ride quality is plenty fine in the MDX far steering feel goes I will say it is a noticeable difference depending upon what drive mode that you put it in So when I put it in that sport driving mode, it did have a noticeably heavier feel which I like that is the steering feel I would prefer so all in all I would probably put it on the individual mode here Just so I could tailor that steering feel to be a bit heavier But not necessarily the acceleration because you really don't need that instant acceleration at all times in the MDX But all in all steering feel is plenty fine. I particularly like it in the sport driving mode As far as cabin noise goes that is excellent in the MDX And part of the reason that is excellent in the MDX Is because this one does come with an acoustic laminated front windshield and Side glass as well. You don't always get the side glass So for that reason there is no wind noise coming into the cabin whatsoever Even with this insanely large panoramic moonroof that we have here Sometimes wind noise comes in through that as well and other vehicles that I've tested There's nothing nothing in here in the MDX. So that is pretty darn cool. I like that But anyways touching on visibility. I can see plenty fine out the back I will say when you have that third row up those headrests are quite beefy So that's going to impede visibility ever so slightly if you don't have third row passengers Just fold it down and it's all good. So I do want to mention that and in addition to that Rain-sensing windshield wipers you're actually going to get them if you go with the technology package And up. Essentially what that means is when the MDX detects any kind of mist or rainfall It's going to automatically turn on those windshield wipers just like automatic headlights It's just one last thing you got to worry about there. So that's pretty cool Also, if you were to go with the advanced package you will get a head up display And that is the only package that you're going to get that head up display So if you wanted that that's how you're going to get it But that about rounds out the performance segment of this review you guys Let's now go to the park and let's check out the exterior of our brand new 2022 Acura MDX. All right, so here she is you guys the new completely redesigned 2022 Acura MDX. What do you guys think about the design? Let me know in the comment section below I actually like it. I think it's a lot sportier looking than its predecessor So for that reason, I'm actually a fan. But let's go ahead and start up front of the MDX here Got to say I'm definitely a fan of the front grille that Acura logo is probably the biggest manufacturer logo I have seen on any vehicle out there as of now that is a massive Acura logo Anyways, it still looks good up there, of course But to the sides, dual eye LED headlights do come standard for every single trim level of that Automatic feature, of course, coming standard with that Meaning when it starts to get dark out at night they will turn on automatically for there Automatic high beams also standard, meaning all you got to do is set that And then when it senses a car coming in the opposite direction It's going to automatically dim down those high beams back to low beams And then when that vehicle is gone it puts back on the high beams for you So added visibility at night and definitely a very nice feature to have LED daytime running lights also standard LED fog lights down below coming with the A-spec and advanced packages only So therefore that's what you guys are looking at right now Also have some air curtains in the front corners there as well And actually since we have the A-spec today there is some A-spec specific styling That you will find on this particular trim as opposed to the other package options Available for the MDX But now let's go ahead and make our way to the side of this one And so now since we are around the side of the MDX First thing I want to mention is roof rails If you want a roof rails that will come only with the advanced package So I found that kind of interesting But it's how you're going to get them Rear privacy glass do come standard across the board Chrome window surrounds come standard with the exception of the A-spec Therefore we are going to get black window surrounds because of that A little different styling there You will find some A-spec badging for the A-spec trim level Found on the front fenders there I think you guys can see that When it comes to the side mirrors they are power adjustable body colored Side mirrors for all trims They will be heated for all trims LED integrated turd signals as well With a reverse gear tilt down feature then as well So a lot going on with the side mirrors actually Let's take a look down at the wheel setup 19 by 8.5 inch split 5 spoke alloys for the base However 20 by 9 inch split 5 spoke alloys with the technology package An A-spec and 20 by 9 inch premium silver 10 spoke alloys then For the advanced so a little different wheel setups Depended upon the trim level that you go with Also wanted to mention LED door handle lights Coming with the advanced package then as well But now let's go ahead and make our way to the back of the MDX This has been out since we are around back up top You will find that body colored shark fin antenna Just below that rear spoiler with the integrated brake light Just below that rear window wiper Also LED tail lights coming standard for all trim levels across the board Love the design of those real tail lights As well as pretty cool Also going to find that A-spec badging if you go with the A-spec trim level SHAWD is super handling all wheel drive That of course is Acura's all wheel drive system Found on the bottom portion of that tailgate there And then just below it all a very cool looking exhaust setup I got to admit dual exhaust outlets with chrome tips So having said that I do believe you guys know what we have to do next As always here is that exhaust clip Alright so now since we are around back of the MDX When it comes to opening that rear lift gate It is a power lift gate for every single trim level across the board There is a button on the key fob itself that is one way There is also a button on the driver's side door And of course there is a button on the lift gate itself as well But I did want to mention in addition to that If you were to go with the advanced package That is also going to give you a hands free power lift gate If you have your hands full and then it That actually also comes with the walk away close feature Meaning if you just simply walk away It is going to automatically close for you Which is kind of convenient I kind of like that But anyways once opened up cargo capacity comes in at 16.3 cubic feet Behind that third row There is a 50-50 split folding third row by the way So once you folded that down That comes in at 39.1 cubic feet And then with all rows folded It is going to come in at 71.4 cubic feet So decent amount of space Not as much as some of the competition But still a decent amount of space back there But wanted to mention in the cargo area It really does have everything you could possibly want back there You got in-floor storage for every single trim level And a decent amount of that Not every manufacturer gives you that So I like that Also 12-volt power outlet back there There is grocery bag hooks There's cargo tie-down anchors There's also LED cargo lighting back there as well So really just about everything you could possibly want In the cargo area which is pretty nice But then making our way to the third row leg room That is going to come in at 29.1 inches Which is slightly better than my old four Mustang GT Which came in at 29 inches So having said that Maybe small children can fit back there But it's really not a whole lot of space in the third row at least But then making our way to the second row leg room That is going to come in at 38.5 inches Definitely acceptable there Again, for reference I mean even six feet tall This is how much space I had in the second row So plenty for me Not to mention one of my favorite parts Technology packaging up Is going to give you rear window sunshades Which essentially is going to block the sun from blinding your newborn Or your small children in the back seat And they are tons better than the ones you buy at Walmart aftermarket So definitely go with the manufacturer Wear window sunshades when you have the opportunity Like you can get in the MDX here But TriZone climate control is also going to come standard On every single trim level Meaning the rear passengers can actually set Their own temperatures back there if they wanted to Advanced package is also going to give you heated second row seats Which is pretty cool We'll also get a 12-volt power outlet back there And two USB charging ports then For their second row passengers as well So they can charge up their tablets in the back So that's always a good thing too Second row is definitely where you want to be here In the MDX, it's plenty fine Then making our way up to the front seats 12-way power adjustable driver and passenger seat come standard You don't always get the power adjustable passenger seat So that is pretty cool Leatherette finish comes standard Heated front seats come standard Then when you go to the technology package and up That's going to give you perforated leather A-spec is going to add to that perforated leather With the suede combination to it That of course is what you guys are looking at right now Also with the A-spec you get heated and ventilated front seats Then if you were to go with that advanced package That is going to add in addition to that 16-way power adjustable front seats And that includes power lumbar, power thigh extensions, Power side bolsters That is a good bit of adjustments But nonetheless, since we have the A-spec today I will say these seats are plenty comfortable And you know why? Because they don't have any horizontal seams I love that So whenever we got vertical seams I feel like the seats are always more comfortable Because you don't have any awkward pressure points So that's why I'm a big fan of these MDX seats But nonetheless, let's now go ahead and make our way to the steering wheel It is end telescoping It is power adjustable for every single trim level And not only that It's a fairly quickly power adjustable steering wheel too A lot of times it's super slow And you use these power adjustable steering wheels But this one's pretty quick I like that Leather wrap steering wheel comes standard on all trim levels You also get a flat bottom with the A-spec logo towards the bottom If you were to go with that A-spec So like the flat bottom, that's pretty cool And you will get a heated steering wheel then If you were to go with that advanced package But now, let's go ahead and make our way to the startup Because there's a lot of things I want to say about this Let me show you guys the key here first Definitely a new design It's a heavier weight to it So I like that You do have your Acura logo on the one side Then you got your Acura lettering on the side of the key And then when you flip it over I guess it's pretty basic on that side Just your lock Unlocking that button to pop the rear hatch But of course it is all keyless entry With the push button start for every single trim level Then you will actually get a remote start In addition to that If you were to go with the advanced package So all I'm going to do Simply put my foot in the brake And press that bright red engine start button Located just to the left of the climate control vents there And so once started up This is perhaps my favorite part of the new MDX here This is a 12.3 inch Digital gauge cluster Which by the way Comes standard on every single trim level I love that A lot of times with other luxury manufacturers You only get the digital gauges on the upper trim level So I love that every trim is going to get them Because they are awesome Here's why You can of course adjust what is on those digital gauges By using the steering wheel mounted controls And it's a pretty common sense setup here So there's steering wheel mounted controls On the left side to adjust The left side of those gauges And then steering wheel mounted controls On the right side To adjust the right side of the gauges And then of course there is a digital speedometer Front and center towards the top there Little picture of the MDX as well How many miles you have left until you hit empty outside temperature Really everything you could possibly want up there But the best part Like I was alluding to earlier in the video you guys When you change the drive mode It is going to completely adjust the colors Up on those gauges It's going to make a pretty cool sound When you do that to you guys Probably heard that Snow driving mode is going to kind of put it in white The color of snow of course Comfort is going to put you in blue Normal is going to put you in gray And sport is going to put you in red All of that makes sense And I love that it changes the complete look Of the gauges It's pretty darn cool I love it But anyways Let's now go ahead and make our way to overall interior quality Panoramic moonroof Comes standard on all trim levels And actually a good bit comes standard across the board Including LED interior lighting You do get an auto dimming Frameless rear view mirror for all trim levels as well That's pretty cool Tri-Zone climate control comes standard for all trim levels as well Brushed aluminum trim Coming with the base trim level of the MDX Also if you go with the technology packaging up You will get ambient LED lighting With 27 different color options Which is pretty darn cool You do get metal pedals With the A-spec package Love that Advanced packages It's going to give you some wood trim In lieu of the aluminum trim that we have here There's also a wireless phone charger For every single trim level Which my phone is charging right now That is pretty cool Homeland controls also found just below the frameless rear view mirror For up to three different garage doors Also standard on every single trim level across the board Love that There's a cool cabin talk system Which I know Genesis does too That is going to come with the A-spec and advanced packages Projecting your voice into the rear seats That is pretty darn cool Overall interior quality is definitely quite nice I love the red contrast stitching with the black leather Found just underneath the infotainment screen I like the aluminum trim details Definitely like the speaker covers We'll test out that sound system in a little bit here Love all the red leather Is definitely a very vibrant, very in-your-face color Which I personally love I don't know Like the silver accents on even the passenger side glove box handle They don't need to do that A lot of manufacturers just leave it as like a matte gray Or a matte black But I love the silver there Also the piano black finishes I'm definitely a fan of However, my one constructive criticism for the interior quality Is everything around the cup holders and the wireless phone charger That is a matte gray finish And I think they probably could have put If you're going to leave it plastic At least a nice little design to that plastic Or maybe bring this aluminum trim that you have up here Just below the infotainment screen down there as well I think that would look pretty good Anyways, that's my one constructive criticism But everything else is 100% on point Overhead sunglass holder I almost forgot to mention that So overall definitely very nice Very very nice interior quality of the MDX Then taking a look at the infotainment screen 12.3 inch infotainment screen to match the 12.3 inch digital gauges So that's pretty cool Bluetooth and audio streaming comes standard Wireless Android Auto Apple CarPlay for all trim levels I emphasize that because There are very few manufacturers doing wireless Android Auto Apple CarPlay right now So I love that Acura I'll put that in the MDX It's so hard to get that these days At least as of this video as of right now So I love that You don't have any wires dangling everywhere So well done Acura for that Factory navigation system Coming with technology packaging up Ambient lighting as I said You can adjust up there as well Climate control settings And also your radio information So when it comes to the sound systems There are three of them Depended upon the trim level Or package option that you go with Base trim is going to give you nine speakers Technology package is going to give you a 12 speaker ELS Studio Sound System Then the A-spec and advanced packages Will give you a 16 speaker ELS Studio Sound System So having said that you guys What do you guys say? Let's go ahead and turn on the radio See what we got playing today And let's test out the clarity of our 16 speaker ELS Studio Sound System we have here today It's amazing It's absolutely amazing I would say at this point Because I remember playing the sound system in the TLX as well Which is amazing Again, this is my solid number two sound system Of every vehicle out there right now Just behind Bowers and Wilkins in Volvo But this is an absolutely amazing sound system Without a doubt the bass is great The clarity is amazing Wonderful sound system I'd probably say maybe Lexicon With Genesis would be my number three Mark Levinson with Lexicon would be my number four and so on So wow, amazing sound system with the ELS Studio there Last thing I wanted to mention to you guys On that infotainment screen is When you do put the MDX in reverse You will find a rear view camera Coming standard for every single trim level Across the board Surround view camera Coming with the advanced package then As well which is always Is going to lead us in this safety And so front side side current airbags Do come standard driver and passenger Knee airbags as well You don't always get that with every vehicle Out there In the back you're going to have latch AKA lower anchors and tethers for children For the rear car seats Rear child door locks Tire pressure monitoring system But also standard for every single trim level Across the board A collision mitigation braking system Advanced pedestrian detection Adaptive cruise control Lane keep assist Road departure mitigation system Traffic jam assist Traffic sign recognition Forward collision warning Lane departure warning And a blind spot monitoring system With rear cross traffic alert That is essentially everything You could possibly want coming standard on all trim levels But If you were to go with a technology packaging up You also get front and rear parking sensors In addition to that So really all of the safety comes standard across the board Which I absolutely love So overall When it comes to my final thoughts here Of the MDX The redesign definitely looks good I'm definitely excited To check out the Type S If I get that opportunity That'll be pretty cool ELS Studio sound system is absolutely amazing If you love music Definitely go with the advanced package Or the A-spec That is going to give you the best sound systems More or less out there right now So that is pretty cool Digital gauges are amazing I'm glad Acura is finally getting into that category Since a lot of other manufacturers are doing that right now too So I love that I personally would probably pick the technology package I feel like that's the best bang for your buck With the MDX Reason being Is you do get 27 colors of ambient lighting You also get An upgraded ELS Studio sound system It's not the very best one But it is still ELS So that is definitely good Tons of advanced safety features on this one as well Which I love As far as constructive criticism goes I will say for Acura If you maybe made the MDX a little bit bigger You would give it a little more third row legroom It'd be a little more competitive With some of the other competitors in its class Since this is a three row SUV Overall cargo capacity should come in at Right around 84 cubic feet In my opinion Just kind of like the Honda pilot I guess So I think it would definitely benefit From a little extra size there And of course you would have the RDX just below that If you wanted a smaller SUV And also the only other thing I got Is just so so fuel economy But honestly who really cares It's alright So overall definitely a very solid pick I really like this one for all of these reasons I just mentioned Let me know what you guys think Of the new 2022 MDX In the comment section below That is about it for this one you guys Feel free to follow me on TikTok If you want to see what's coming next on the channel Before it hits YouTube Be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button If you're into new car reviews That is what we do here on this channel After all Do appreciate you guys watching More than you know And I will see you guys all in the next video Stay Gold


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