Hello, I'm Professor Vanille Urundel and we're going to talk about starting your course summaries early. Now, you may have heard the term outlines, but we don't want to confuse what you're going to do with commercial outlines, with outlines prepared by other students. The course summary is something you have to do for yourself in order to help your learning and facilitate your learning. And the process is an ongoing process that starts very early in the semester. So the reason to start the course, to do a summary is so that you can synthesize the essential information that you need for the course that you're taking. When you get someone else's outline that they've done, you are essentially using someone else's summary of the course they took. Even if it's taught by the same professor, there's many, many things that can be different in the course. The content can be different, the emphasis can be different. And if you use someone else's summary, you will make the mistake of either being both over-inclusive and under-inclusive in terms of material. More importantly though, the problem becomes is that it is the process of making a course summary that helps you understand the law and help you develop issue-spotting skills. And when you tell me that you have an outline by a student who made an A, what you're saying to me is that that student did the work, you shouldn't expect to make an A just because you have an outline made by someone who made an A. And even if the outline is perfect for the course they took, it can be fatally flawed in some ways for the course that you're taking. So you need to do your own summary. The other reason to do an outline is because the outline helps you to identify information you need to clarify. So as you do your summary and you don't understand things, then you can draw up questions and go in and talk to your faculty member. If you're having particularly difficult with a particular course, you may want to have a standing appointment to go in to see the professor of that course to talk about it. So doing the course summary helps you to establish a structure for your learning and around what it is you need to know and be able to do on the exam. You're going to organize your course outline not around the cases or around the class date but around theories, concepts, cause of actions, crimes, and our defenses. You're going to use the table of contents of your casebook and you're going to use commercial outlines to help you make sure that you have everything essential in your outline that you need. You can know one material, one no one item is going to have everything you need in order to do well on law school exams. However, you do want to be sure that you follow the order that your professor has provided. So you don't want to just take a table of contents or take, you don't want to just take the table of contents. You want to go by the order that your professor has established. Timing wise, you want to start developing your course summary no later than the second week of school. If you haven't started then you're behind. You're going to work on your course summary throughout the semester. You're going to rotate courses and bring your course outline up to date as you rotate doing them. What your goal is to have your course summary up to date by Thanksgiving because Thanksgiving is a big study period and you don't want to use that time for doing course summaries. You want to use that time more productively in terms of preparing for exams. So you're going to organize your course summary around issues not cases. You're going to synthesize. You're going to take all the law from all the different areas and synthesize it into clear cut rules, standards and tests. You're going to use your own words because when you want to be able to repeat these on exams and if you don't use your own words you will spend a lot of time trying to memorize something the way someone else says it instead of the way you need to say it. That said you're going to always use legally applicable words in your terminology. You're training to be a lawyer not a layperson and so your own words must include legal jargon. Even if you use another outline whether it's an outline prepared by the student outline prepared by the professor or a commercial outline you want to rewrite it into your own words. Finally as you do your outline you're going to go from the general to the specific and doing the outline. So as you're working on you you need to I'm just going to briefly go through what it is you need to identify then we're going to go back and I'm going to give you some examples. For each course you need to identify the theories, concepts, causes of action, crimes and our defenses that was covered in that course. Not every theory, not every concept, not every cause of action, not every crime, not every defense will be covered in a course and so you don't need to take responsibility for the law school exams. Now that is not to say that you won't be responsible for it on the baby bar and you need to remember that you have to study for the baby bar in a way that is more inclusive than maybe what you study for exams. For each TCCD you need to identify the primary rule for solving that theory, concept, cause of action. For each rule you want to break them up into the necessary elements that are required to prove the rule. For each element you want to identify the standards or tests that will help you solve whether or not an element has been met.  Then you need to identify alternative rules, minority rules, exception rules for each primary or secondary rule. So and that's going to be based on what your faculty member covered, not just in class but what they assigned in the reading. This is why you need the table of content. You should presume that you are responsible for understanding and knowing every area that was assigned in reading. So for instance, let's say that your faculty member assigned trespass to shadow in the reading but barely talks about it in class. You're still responsible. You're responsible for knowing all the major information about that cause of action.  Use high short hypotheticals to illustrate them. And then finally, you want to identify important policy reasons behind the rules elements, standards and tests because it's the policy reasons that will bump a C plus B plus paper into an A paper. So when you get into it doing your analysis and you use a discussion of how this rule or applying this rule in this way are not applying it, will meet some policy objective, that's a high level paper. So when you're doing your summary, you should constantly be asking yourself because you remember you're going to be doing it every two weeks because you're only taking two courses. You don't need to do a summary for this course, this, our primary focus of this course is teaching you the skills that you need for studying the skills that you need for writing good exams and we are constantly reinforcing that throughout the course and we will be testing you on the application of that in exams. And so if you do the things you need to do for your contracts course and for your tort course, then you will be preparing for this course because you will be better able to write good answers because you know the law very well. So we said this earlier but we'll say it again, you should be starting now when you set a specific time, when you're going to work on your summary and a set of a specific amount of time, couple of hours every two weeks is good. Gather the resources that you need, your case brief, your class notes, focus on issues and not cases, use resources for the rules but put the rules in your own word, use cases for examples and use your own words, go from the general to the specific. So your course outline, your course summary is going to be organized around the theories, concept, causes of actions and when you get into criminal law, crimes and defenses, battery, negligence, consideration, offer, adverse possession, defensive others are all examples of the major theories, concept, causes of actions around which you're going to organize your summary. You're going to have to arrive at a primary rule for each theory, concept, cause of action, crime or defense. You want to have as few words as possible and you want it to be in words that in your own words but you want it to be something that is legally correct. So a battery requires an act of intent resulting in a harmful or offensive contact, consideration, to have an enforceable agreement, there must be consideration on both sides. So you're going to have to arrive at a primary rule for each theory, concept, then you're going to take the rule and break it into elements that is the component parts, that is each part that must be proven and you're going to define the standard or test for each element and any exception to the definition. That's what needs to go into your summary because that's what you need to learn. These are things also you're going to put on your flashcards and we're going to talk about making and using flashcards. Consent may, for instance, consent may be actual implied, okay, so then I have to have a definition for when actual consent and then I have to put in the exceptions to actual consent and I have to have a definition for implied consent, a rule, standard or test. You want to wear appropriate and it's not appropriate in all circumstances but if there exists alternative rules or minority rules or trends then you want to break that, you want to identify those rules and you want to break those rules into the elements with their standard or test. So it's not enough to know just the majority rule, you need to know the minority rule and you need to know the standard and test for the minority rule. This is all knowledge that you have to have in order to do issue spotting and analysis. It is not knowledge that by itself will be sufficient. It's necessary but not sufficient for doing well on law school exams and on the bar. You may want to use illustrations to illustrate the definitions and exceptions especially if you find you don't necessarily want to illustrate everything but if you have a hard time with a certain concept then putting in an illustration will help you when you when you're studying an illustration can say okay this is this is what I meant this is what this means using the illustration. In this I used example an exception to actual consent is fraud and we put in an example we put the rule in for fraud a defense and then we put an example of where there was no consent and where there was consent even though the person had been tricked. So you do want to use illustration, you want to illustrate them definitions and exceptions. You can't illustrate everything and so you want to make choices about what to illustrate, illustrate the things that you're having difficulty with so that as you go back to your summary which you're going to go back every two weeks you're going to go back reread your summary from the beginning you're not just going to pick it up and start where you left off you're going to go back and reread the summary see if anything needs to be changed based on what you've already done and then move it forward. So you keep one of the things about learning something is to keep revisiting it over and over again in a different way and this is one way to do that. You want to identify the policy reason behind rules and elements because I said policy is what sets off the the good exams from the great exams and so understanding policy so that as you argue about how the law should be applied putting in that applying it this way does or does not meet the policy behind the rule makes strengthens your analysis. Policy will not be enough. You can't argue just policy. You have to argue what the law is how the law is applied to the facts and then use policy to strengthen your argument. So here's a tentative schedule you can use for doing your car summaries. Let's assume you start this week September the 23rd and you rotate every other week. You spend a couple of hours each week one and a half to two hours each week reviewing bringing your course summary up to date. By the time you get to November Native American week your course outline should be up to date and what you should be doing during that period is exam prep. You are not having a vacation. Scratch that out of your mind. That week that you're off is not a vacation from school it's more concentrated study time and it would be good for you if you could in fact take a vacation from work so that you can study more it had this time to concentrate study.  Take the time to visit with people who are visiting.  No this is not the time for that. What you need to do is schedule Thanksgiving day as a day that you will take the time for your family Native American day one day during that week and then the rest of the time you need to get up and go into the library and study and then you need to redo for the coming coming out of the November holiday period you want to redo your you want to put in any study periods bringing your exam up to date I it's my impression that that not all schools have a study period right before exams if you're in a school that doesn't have a study period right before exams using this time is even more important so trust the process prepare for success uh uh doing summaries is part of preparing you to think like a lawyer and sound like a lawyer I I and it it's a part of the process that will lead you to uh your personal best lead you to to doing well on the uh law school exams and lead you to passing the baby bar in the bar the first time if you have any questions and comments post them on Moodle


Operation Sunbird is successful from a number of different angles and building the institutions and the agencies and training them, but that comes with the actual results. What did we achieve? And in this case, we had significant arrests, 24 arrests based on 11 red notices that were issued by Interpol. We also had significant number of fugitives that were identified and located in the region. Lastly, some of those fugitives are suspected terrorist fighters. And that is an important thing for the member countries and the security of the borders to ensure the people do not move freely through there that are suspects. In this particular instance, Project Sunbird is able to continue supporting those member countries by providing additional information, investigative leads, and using Interpol capabilities to the best extent possible.


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I'm Jess Adams. I'm a scientist at Imperial and I work on developing the next generation of solar cells. People spend a lot of time drilling for oil and shoveling coal. We use nuclear, gas, coal and oil for producing electricity. All of these have an effect on the environment and the atmosphere too. These sources of energy are also running out, but there are alternatives. A gigantic renewable power station in the sky, the Sun. Eight minutes and 18 seconds after leaving the Sun, sunlight arrives on Earth and we can use it for generating electricity. Solar cells are called photovoltaic cells. I'm here in Hawaii for the big photovoltaic conference of the year. Hawaii's been spectacular. It's got volcanoes, rainforests, beaches, coasts. There's absolutely loads you can do for adventure junkies. We're having an absolutely fantastic time. When I started my PhD, green energy really appealed to me. I am a vegetarian. Saving the world was definitely something I had in mind. Let's go into the exhibition hall. This is where all the industrial exhibitors have their stands.  There's a lot you can do over the phone and over email, but the best thing of all is to be face-to-face in a room with someone. We're trying to do a new top cell.  Because Jess did A-level physics and went on to do a degree and then a PhD in solar research, she gets to go here. Where she'll talk about her research to 1,000 people at the conference. I was nervous the day before, but when it got to the morning, I felt absolutely fine and it just, it went really well. Thank you for the introduction, Ryan, and thanks very much for having me here to speak today. I'd like to thank all my co-authors and colleagues at Imperial College London first. Also from the University of Sheffield in the UK and from the US Naval Research Laboratory where I did a lot of the measurements I'm going to speak about. I'll start off with an introduction to the Quantum Well solar cell. My speech was very, very important. Thank you. It went really well. I feel like I nailed it. A lot of people came up and said nice talk. That was absolutely brilliant. Thank you. I got a fair few people, you know, saying if you're interested in working for this company or that company, you know, drop me an email. Where would I like to be this time of the year? I would like to be a board. I don't want to live in Britain anymore because the weather's horrible. I'm Robert Walters, conference chairperson. Career chances are absolutely phenomenal. If you specifically talk about females in the sciences, there's still more male scientists than there are females. And so as a young female going into the sciences, there's definitely a very positive place to be and the job opportunities are abundant.  Because solar panels are portable, they can be used almost anywhere in the world. As long as the sun is shining, solar doesn't produce as much power when it's cloudy. But in places with sunny climates, solar cells are often the best option. When a lot of people think about solar, they think of it in context of it being really helpful in the fight against climate change. But there is another really important application for solar. It can really help in villages in, for example, India and sub-Saharan Africa. Solar can be great because it can be absolutely standalone. You can go and install a solar module out in the village. For example, if you can give the village enough power to charge up torch batteries so that they have light in the evening, this can extend people's working hours. Being able to be more productive in the evening can have an absolutely massive impact in fields like education. It can really make a big difference in people's lives. I'm here with Rahul and Albin, who are both from my research group. My name is Rahul Bose. I'm a PhD student at Imperial College London working in solar energy. Light is remitted, typically isotrophically. I'm really happy to have studied physics. With physics, you get a really broad, nice education and you really do understand a lot of stuff. At least you can get your head around a lot of things. The only reason that I am sitting here on the beach in Hawaii now is because I chose to do physics. This is my university where I've been since 2002. It's called Imperial College London and come and have a look around. Welcome! Jess works at Imperial College London where she designs and tests the next generation of solar cells. At the moment, solar cells' efficiency is limited by the amount of sunlight they can actually use so only a fraction of the sun's energy gets converted. This is a collection of four test solar cells that I'm measuring in my lab. These are each one square millimeter, I think. This experiment is one of several different experiments we use to characterize our solar cells. We've got a solar cell, this tiny black square so I can make electrical connections with wires. There's this box which is plugged in so I can measure the current that is generated by my solar cells. At the other end, there's a light source inside this box and the light source passes through this box which is called a monochromator and we use this to separate the white light source into all the different wavelengths or colors. When it passes through this box you will only get one wavelength of light coming out of this slit. It's actually really dim once it's passed through all the optics. Yeah, I've got green coming out at the moment and there's a really dim green beam of light coming out. It comes out, it passes through these two lenses to focus it. What I'm doing, I'm shining one specific wavelength of light onto the solar cell. I'm measuring how much current is produced by the solar cell at that wavelength of light. I do the experiments so I can figure out whether the solar cell that I've just designed is performing in the way it ought to so I model the solar cell, design it and then I see if the experimental results match the modelling results. I am standing outside my office at the moment and this is where lots of the students from my group work this is where we do all our computing and desktop work. This is the modelling software that we use to help us design our solar cells and then once we've had the solar cells made for us then we do some experiments on them so this takes the data from the experiment that I was showing you in the lab earlier and we compare it with the answers that the model gives us and this helps us to really understand the physics that's going on inside the cell. What we're trying to achieve with these solar cells is to be able to make really high efficiency solar cells such that solar energy is a cost competitive way of producing electricity. 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People talk a lot about empowerment, they're asking us to be more like mentors and facilitators. But this mobile internet technology is actually doing exactly that because now, as I said, students are really going outside of the campus doing all kinds of extracurricular activities and one of the most important parts of that in Japan is the internships at the many different kind of companies and factories. Before, they worked like one month or three months including some credit but we really don't know what they are doing actually in the factory line. They do have some kind of comment and they write some town paper to us but just a sheet of paper. Before, all what we gave them, the students, is just final scores. Okay, you get the 95 points on the test so you get A, you have a 60 so you see and that's the only data that in the transcript that the students get. But in addition to that, we have created a system to assess the students as a whole person. Of course, academic parts include all kinds of attributes but also personal attributes are very important. Those company people really don't care too much about how many A's you have, how many C's you have. They rather care about what kind of person you are, what kind of personal attributes, social skills, presentation and what did you do in the school for four years. But before, we didn't have any, that kind of matrix we call it, to evaluate the students from a lot wider perspective and that's what we just started doing. Again, that one really kind of in a sense forced us to develop that kind of different kind of assessment because of this mobile technology. That's probably different. I just want to reiterate, I think you touched on probably what is in my mind the fundamental challenge of mobility to education especially higher education here which is the always present, always present ability of students to get to the world of information in just a moment both in and out of the classroom. Fundamentally has to change the way we thought about classes and lecturing for literally hundreds of years and so the faculty member as a lecturer on the stage dispensing information that's going to be the core basis of an exam to see if you've memorized that information is a model that just doesn't really work anymore when my students say when I talk about criteria for diagnosing a mental health disorder in my psychopathology class and the students say, but wait a minute and question me from Wikipedia in a moment then I've got to think about again about what I'm doing and when my assessments within the course were driven around regurgitating for me those diagnostic criteria that now they're going to carry in their pocket on a device along with all the drug indications and the differential diagnosis decision trees and the drug interaction considerations, it's a different world. It's a different world for them to practice. They won't have to have that stuff memorized anymore. And so we think about then how to re-engineer the classroom to allow the things that really do engage students to take place. Mastery of content has always been I think our criteria and mastery of content still matters at some level but in many cases we were doing that fairly well already and I don't know that mobile devices make us do that any better. I think it makes it in fact a little less important for us to do that right during those class minutes but that class time captured now to engage students with interactive, collaborative, active learning, etc. all probably themed around this idea that instead of dispensing to you information you can't get anywhere else but for me or out of the spoke or these articles now I've got to help you learn how to evaluate the 5.2 million hits you're going to get from Google or maybe it's 100,000 anyway if you search for a term and you're going to get all these hits but they're not all valuable and how do we through all of the thousands of hits when there's a problem with one of my dogs to find the 10 that are there from a vet that probably give me good information about what decision to make and whether to go or stay and what to do. So evaluating information now is probably our biggest challenge teaching students, mentoring students in how to evaluate information and to make efficient use of the technologies around them and in their workplace future is a much different world and so that's the challenge we consistently try to lay out to faculty members is that you are in a sense facing extinction if you don't learn how to play even if you would like to turn off all the Wi-Fi on our campus the students in fact are now bringing their own Wi-Fi with them 3 or 4G comes with them and we can't turn it off so we've got to change or we're facing some real challenges. Yeah I think that's right and when you think about content and think about medical content our students were already going out and looking at YouTube and looking at other resources but the way that the procedures are done at MCG are different than the way procedures are done at other universities and so even though there's a wealth of information that's out there it may not be the way that we want them to learn so by providing them the content in a way in a mobile device which is really their digital Swiss Army knife that they carry with them everywhere we're just facilitating them and that's part of the millennial learner that's what we're really trying to embrace their way of thinking, their way of learning and reaching them that way.


Hey, and welcome to today's Healthy Marriage. I'm your host, Charlene Lammers, Executive Director for Great Marriages for Sheboygan County. Today I'd like to welcome our guest, John Leicht. He's a Chief Operating Officer for Leicht Furniture, a single father raising a family and running a business. Hi, John. Welcome to today's show. Thanks. Thanks for being our guest. Pleasure.  How long have you been doing that? I've been on my own as a single dad for about seven years. It was a period of time, a big transition for us in our company. In work, our business was transitioning over to Asia. The doors were opened up to free trade into the U.S. from wherever. So that was a big change going on, and at that time I had gone through a divorce.  And I guess why I'm sitting here, sharing the story is because I went through a lot. You own your own business. You're working for somebody else. You're left on your own to raise children. How do you balance that all? I've learned some things, and hopefully I can share them. Not always easy, but overall things have really worked out. And I'll tell you that when faith became a more important part of my life, that really made things improve. You know, it's a unique struggle for the man to be the one raising the family. Yes. I don't even know another single father. There's a lot of single mothers, but not another single father that I've met. So that was a lot of unique challenges for you. Yes, but it was okay. My ex-wife and I talked about this. I think the fact that we had three boys, that the boys were better off with me. And I think that would be hard if that role was reversed in having a woman have to take care of three boys. So it's worked out. It was a good decision. The boys are doing well. They're fine. So how old are your boys? 17, 20, and 23. So they were some more teenagers when this began. Yes. I think that's a particularly difficult time to go through a divorce, a separation and divorce during those critical years, especially when they're reaching adolescent age, emotions run high. They saw their world turned upside down. It literally turned overnight for them. They didn't see this coming, and it just blindsided them. And I think the hardest, the one who took it the hardest was my oldest son, Stephen. He was 16 at that time. And that was a challenge because he was going through a period where there were some other neighbors that were going through the same thing that we were right next door to us, and they had children about our age, a son of that same age. And I think they saw what was happening in these perfect little families, and it was all blowing up on them. So I think he took it kind of hard.  So you can make it. It is no matter how difficult it can be, if you have faith and realize that we're not just living in this world, that there's something more and beyond this, anyone can make it, no matter how difficult. How long were you married? 21 years. We see that in our office, 21 years, there are seven stages to marriage, and that's one of the second most times that we start seeing people in the office, it's between 18 and 32 years, as the children start reaching that time when they're considering leaving the nest. It can be very challenging. I never thought of it that way, I just thought after 21 years I'm in this for good. I didn't see it coming. That's why divorce is so much harder with couples who have been married that long, that's a long time, because you think by then you've got it figured out.   It makes it hard, but it's really not about the money and the things that you acquired. In fact, towards the end of the marriage I think we found ourselves consuming more than what we probably should have been. We try to make up for maybe the love lost with things to try to buy you happiness in this world. It doesn't work in a nice shiny new car or maybe having a nice new house, and you find yourself just getting caught up in that cycle trying to replace something that's missing inside. So 21 years, it's kind of a hard time to go through it, but looking back, if there's one thing I could say that could have improved the marriage and certainly on my side too, it takes to what communication. I really didn't understand how important communication is. Life changes. That's the one thing we can count on, and then how do we respond to those changes. And the only way you can with your partner is to be able to talk to one another. Get eye to eye and just share what is going on and how we're changing and the difficulties that we have and how we're going to respond to them. One of the comments that you made was that the voice didn't see it coming and it kind of just happened for them overnight. We find that to be common with a lot of the couples because, like you said, that communication is lacking. So the children are not hearing that dialogue, they're not knowing there's a problem, they're not seeing you work it out, or they're not privy to what's going on. They shouldn't always be either, right? But when you're having that communication, then you have a chance to work on what the problem is and potentially resolve it. And so a lot of what we find ourselves at Great Marriage is teaching communication skills because pretty much every couple who comes into us, even if they have a good marriage, they probably need to brush up on communication skills and make them a little stronger to know when there's some kind of unhappiness or somebody's not feeling loved or there's some kind of issue that needs to be discussed. So what was the biggest challenge that you had to make going from being married dad to a single father running a household? Oh gosh, I had to do everything. Just like that, I was doing all the laundry and the cooking and the cleaning. And Darien, my ex-wife, was an amazing mother from this point of view. She just would really take care of that household. And now I had to do this all.  There was really no me time at all. That all disappeared. So there was no time for the gym. There was no time for hanging out with buddies. There was none of that. I got up in the morning and I had to get kids ready for school and get them out, then get off to work, take care of business, get back home and start it all over again. So just having it all thrown at me very quickly was difficult. But it made me a better cook. Did you find that the end of your relationship in going through the divorce affected you at work? Oh yeah. Yeah, there was a hard time. But I've got a loving family. That was around yet and mom and my brother and sister and my partners in business. They were there and very supportive of me. But could I see that in my performance? Absolutely. You can't get that out of your mind. And it's not just me. I've had so many employees over the years that have gone through a similar situation and we would just talk in my office. And I know what they were going through. You just have to be patient. This too will pass but when you're in the middle of it, it seems like the world is ending and nothing is as it was. And I was just another one going through that. Maybe all the same stories I heard before but now I was living it. So it's just a common thread. There's always some reasons why it happened but it just did happen and you just have to find a way to fight through it. My best advice to my employees and to myself was just despite of what's happening, try to focus on the work. The best you can. Do the best you can with it. Because if you keep your mind occupied, that's okay. Get through the work day and then go home with the children and do the best job you can there. You had mentioned that you were fortunate to have your family with you at work to support you as you were going through the process and to be patient with you and loving with you when you needed it. How much harder or what do you think that's like for a person who has to go to work who does not have that family support, that patience, that love and care that they need? Oh gosh, I can't even imagine, I'm blessed to have, I was born and raised in this area so I have my family but imagine yourself coming from the outside and maybe moving in here where you don't have all that family structure you can lean on. Well you can have your friends, that means a lot and when I went through this I found out who my real friends were. Because a real friend will never judge you, a real friend will be there and listen and help you and guide you. So it's hard for me to imagine not having that family around me but if you don't that makes it all the more difficult and probably all the more reason why they may want a mentoring program like great marriages might be a good starting point. Do you find that perhaps you are a better boss to those couples or those people who are going through this situation at work that it has allowed you to have a different perspective? Because statistics show that when there is a divorce or severe problems in the relationship it can affect work productivity for up to three years. Do you find that this is enabled you to maybe be more patient or understanding or in any way help somebody at work who may be going through this after you went through yourself? Sure, I think you have empathy, you understand what people are going through. Three years though, productivity loss, oh my gosh. I would hope it's not that, but actually my separation was somewhat long, it went on for almost a couple of years so maybe that statistic is not too far off. That's what it's talking about from the time the relationship fails to the time after the divorce. You know, during that time the relationship is failing, you're separating, you're divorcing, you are divorced, you're coping with getting used to your new life after the divorce. So that statistic incorporates all of that. Sure, I can see that, but you have a job to do, you still have to do it. I mean, is it going to pop up in the middle of your day and bother you if it's coming up that frequently, then you probably need to talk to somebody.  I mean, that's what you have to do.  And there may be people that are not that empathetic about your situation, that are very results driven. So you have to do your work. Will you be on your top of your game every day? Of course not. But if you get a couple good days, you know, in there, and then maybe a few good days, it grows. So you have to do it. There's no choice about the matter. A statistic show also that health-related costs, you know, are increased during this time because of stress-related illness. And did you find any of that was the case with you? No, not really. Probably the biggest thing is I didn't get to hit the gym as much as I did and watch my physical health. I had to give that up. That was the first thing that went. I just didn't have that time for myself. But no, health-related. No, and I thought I saw physical, mentally. I suppose we all, you know, get some stress from that. Does it shorten us our life? Probably a little bit. I went during the separation and the war, so I did go through some therapy. And I met a wonderful guy that really helped guide me through, that helped me get my feet on the ground. But, you know, right at the time that I was going through the divorce, you were, you know, founding great marriages. Mentoring program like that could have been really good. But, you know, I gave it a try. And it did help me somewhat because you do feel it. You know, you don't always sleep very well. You do worry. You get scared. You know, what's my life going to be like? You know, for me, it's how am I going to survive this onslaught of foreign goods coming into the country? How am I going to possibly raise these three boys by myself? It's kind of scary. But I just prioritized, put my kids- How did you prioritize? How did you prioritize your time and balance it between the kids and work and everything that you had to do all by yourself? Well, clearly, children come first. Faith comes first. Faith in God and faith in Jesus. That's what's going to strengthen me to do the right things with my children. But I had to balance, you know, the workload. But I'm fortunate, you know, I'm self-employed with a good family structure around me that can work with my strange schedule. You know, I still have to go to soccer games. I still need to be present in all the things in my children's lives. How do I do that? You know, it was just very supportive that I had my family. So, I guess the transition was easier for me than what it might be for someone else. It just was okay. Not easy, but it was okay. Do you think if there, you know, great marriage has been around seven and a half years, do you think if there was an organization or if it was more prevalent and you knew about it at the time, because that was about, we were just kind of starting when you were, you know, divorcing. But if there had been something there that you could have turned to, would you have turned to it? Could it have helped you? Oh, sure. If I would have sold your billboard, you bet I would have been on that. Your billboard's like right across from my business. I'd seen it pop up there. Sure, of course. I would have, you know, looked at any opportunity to get some sort of assistance, guidance, mentoring. Yes, I would certainly have been there and, you know, from what I now know about great marriages, you're really growing and making a difference in many people's lives. There's a big demand out there for help. I think we've got this lost generation, this baby boomer generation. What I have seen in dysfunctional families and divorce, it's beyond anything I would have ever imagined. Raised the way that I was, you know, with mom and dad, loving family, never imagined all this. And, you know, when I was my children's age going through that divorce, I didn't know anybody that was going through divorce. I didn't know anybody that was facing these kind of problems. So we've got this whole generation of boomers that have been unable to make these marriages work for whatever reason. So there's a great challenge, you know, for our kids. You know, it's really going to be up to our kids to turn this around that you really can do this. You don't have to have fear of marriage that you can enter into a lifetime commitment with a partner and it should be beautiful and it should be, it should last. It can happen. And with, I know I keep saying this, but, you know, with faith, anything can happen. Mountains can be moved. You still believe in marriage then? You believe in... Sure. Of course I do. You know, would I love to have it happen to me? Sure. Of course I would.  I want them to find that partner in life that they can go to their deathbeds with. I mean, that's kind of what I had in my mind. I know it can be done. There's a lot of successful marriages that are out there. So sure, I've got great faith for my kids to do that. I want them to do that. That was my question. My next question was, what do you want for your children, for your boys, for their relationships, for their marriages? And how can, and you answered that already, how can you help them? Because all marriages, you will struggle.  All marriages do. So how can you help them, or what advice do you think that you could give them or other people to help their children? Because you're right, our culture is shifting away from it. How do we bring it back? How do we, you know, solidify the importance of the foundation of the family and our society and our community? Good by example, you know, that's pretty much it. I mean, you have to, you can say the right things, but you really need to do the right things. So I try for my boys to try to lead my life with a good example. I have chosen how I live my life, how we conduct ourselves in our home and on the outside. And hopefully that rubs off on them. You know, that, I think that is really it. I mean, just, they're going to see what you do every day, you know. What are the kind of things we talk about when I get them alone and we have dinner together. And they start to have their relationships now, you know. Being 17, my youngest son doesn't have a girlfriend yet. That's okay. But my middle son, Patrick, he has a wonderful girlfriend. And so it's nice to be able to have dialogue, you know, now about their relationships. I want to help, you know. And I see good things going on in all my kids' lives. I'm actually a little surprised how well they have come around after what they've been through just seven years ago. So they're, I think they're pretty balanced, but you really have to set a good example at home. Yeah, be stable. Don't be drifting from one place to another.  You want to be loved again, and you want to love. And so it's, you have this desire for it. So you have to be a little bit careful and be patient and somehow bring stability through this all that you don't take your children through even a further rocky road by jumping into relationships that have not been thought through, that you are not sure of the direction that they're going. So I think patients answering your question is just I try to teach my kids patience and, you know, pay attention, you know. And if they do that, usually the truth is revealed in any kind of relationship that they might be entering into. I think that you can speak to the success with the stability of your kids and how they're adjusted and how they're doing OK now to your conscious effort to make that the case for them. To be that kind of example that they need to be a good decent moral person trying to go about your daily life the best way that you know how. What would it look like if you were to be in a serious relationship? And at what point do you think you would allow the boys to come into that and to know about it and be part of it? That's a really good question. Because our goal is that people would think about that ahead of time. So it wouldn't be reactionary, you know, like I'm in this relationship, you bring the boys and then later on it doesn't work out and you say, well, I probably shouldn't have done that. Or to your point, you do it too soon. You know, it has to be a conscious choice that this is now a good time and this is why I'm going to do it. Yes. I'm going to go back to patience. And sometimes you just have to, you know, guard the children too.  And you have to, you know, kind of keep them guarded from all that stuff.  You know, as much as what you want to, you do have to insulate your children somewhat from what you're going through, the emotional ups and downs of wanting to find love too. Make it clear in your own mind first where you're going before you break that to your kids. Make sure it's worth it. Also, I think I've talked to many people, a lot of women, a lot of women are pretty smart here, is that they know that those children come first and they will put off that relationship till further in life, till the children are old enough, they're mature enough to understand it. Now, that may not be for everybody, but that's kind of the path that I have gone down. I have not jumped into those kind of relationships and brought women into my home or anything like that. It can happen different ways for different people.  But it doesn't hurt to have some patience and protect the kids, and if that means that you have to keep things on the down low for a while, that's what you do until you're sure. We talk about that when you're single after a divorce and you're dating again to date with a purpose, to be purposeful when you're dating and to not just get into a relationship too quickly, too soon, too fast, especially with certain circumstances where you perhaps have a live-in boyfriend or a live-in girlfriend and the children are present in the home to be conscious of that always. Yeah, that would be challenging. I've not gone down that road. That would scare me a little bit. But I came from a different place. Raised a Roman Catholic, you just didn't do that. Okay, and we're going to have to leave it at that for today because we're out of time. But it's been wonderful having you on my show. Thank you so much for joining us today on Healthy Marriages. And thank you, Charlene. I appreciate you having me here to share my story. And thank you for joining us on Healthy Marriage. Check out our website for upcoming events. Remember, marriage, it does matter. ["Hail to the Queen"]


What's up, everybody? Jason here for jaspyscasebrakes.com. Jaspys nine box quick hit basketball mixture just sold out random teams a little multiple years right here 30-spot break random team in the NBA you get no better in common ship pretty simple pretty easy from a 2021 fast break basketball box all the way down to 2020 prison blaster and there's 2018 in here 2016 and 2019 so four different years worth of stuff here So here's a dice where there's a cousin is so from Kenneth down to Gale got those straight up and then from Sean Matic down to Joshua got those in prism sell a 105 There's the teams. There's a dice roll. Let's roll. It is a six and a three for nine times. Good luck one two three four five six seven eight nine nine times Joshua down at the top to Kevin two three four six Seven Golden State Warriors down to the Phoenix Suns So Josh, we have the Warriors David with the Pelicans Robert with the Knicks Tony with the T with Tom Jones You have the Rockets or Bulls are Sean Matic with the Rockets and Brian K with the Hornets Surrand you with the Thunder Matt with the Heat Kings and Nuggets Robert with the Raptors dating with the Blazers Kenneth with the Jazz Eric with the Cavs Robert Ronco with the 76ers Curtis with the Grizzlies J with the Clippers Charles with the Pacers Mike Tower with the Spurs Robert Ronco the Celtics Sean Matic with the Mavericks Nick with the Bucks get with the Lakers Eric with the magic Josh with the Wizards dating with the Hawks John R with the Nets Julian with the Pistons and Kevin with the Phoenix Suns anybody wants to trade Give you guys a quick minute All right guys, it looks like no trades then right I guess nobody wants to trade TWC stick to what you got trade window closed All right, so we'll just start off with the blasters. We'll work our way to the retail recon and then we'll end off with Corkings obsidian and prism That's great go dogs, baby. Wow. We got a relic start us off and it's surge a Baca Toronto Raptors Doka Zabuki. We got a green Rito Kevin loved Aaron Naysmith ready to rip our rookie not ready to rookie John Moran sophomore stars green purple de Miracaro JJ Berea and Langston Galloway All right guys, so let me quickly top of this and we'll continue on to the next one Mosaic blaster Bowl Bowl MVP's will Chamberlain Kendrick Nunn rookie Tristan Thompson green you got Carson Edwards Tim Hardaway, Jr. Jackson Hayes Old school Tim Duncan Matisse Dible and Jerick Holvergreen Let's go at 18 19 chase some Luka Dodge's rookies and Trey young Shea Gildes Alexander Michael Porter, Jr. With that box right there hoops TJ Warren you got a DeAndre Aiden rookie Jaren Jackson, Jr. Miles Bridges had a great game the other day Tim Hardaway, Jr. Blue And Sterling Brown it's a rookie relic And how about a little hollow or a little foil Michael Porter, Jr. Class of 2018? That's nice Collin Sexton rookie Malabamba Trome Robinson Deon Waiters Get out of the way Victor Lodipo Chandler Hutchinson rookie And here's a Luka Donchage. Very nice for a rookie here Little Lulu That is going to go to the Dallas Mavericks and Sean Maddick They go Sean little Lulu rookie Conley Marvin Bagley 16-17 for them Mitch McGarry Lebron J. McSlosin relic Or insert I should say Avery Bradley with a Tyler Ellis relic rookie green relic Wade Baldwin the fourth Dragon Bender next auscus Ramon Sessions All right, let's go to some optic retail 2021 So optic retail does not guarantee autographs, but you can potentially definitely hit them Um, and then you get some nice inserts and I believe purple is still the retail color I actually haven't really ripped too much off the retail to be honest I Nick Richards express lane Obi-Tabin Thomas Bryant optic purple Steph Curry t-minus Devin Dotson that is a splash insert their LeBron James Cassius Winston my house Anthony Davis and a Tyrell Terry purple Joe Engels Call Anthony's been playing really well Niko Manion Isaiah Stewart and a nice onyeka akongu Nice centering on this card as well Sabin Lee Al Horford Onyeka Kongu Tyrus Maxie And a my house purple look at that looks beautiful Yanis onto the combo looks sweet Devon Vaso rookie Lamello little optic raider rookie base PJ Tucker And Desmond Bain optic hollow raider rookie Little some marks on the part right there Little some marks on the part right there All right, so there you go some nice stuff out of there the optic retail Let's go to recon you get two autographs and a lot of inserts about 20 inserts and parallels numbered cards And a very affordable price box too as well to Mario Rosen rock the rim You got kawari and to 199 dame dollar dame for the blazers little numbered card right there to 99 Dante Devin Chenzo And Kieran Lewis jr rookie We got a Josh Jackson Anthony Davis The first autograph is cj ellaby number to 99 for the blazers It's been a Dayton That's the big bay We got a Eric blood so skies the limits stephen curry Very nice answer right there James Wiseman little refractor Wow and la mello ball 34 out of 99 little insert right there Very sweet hit For the charlotte hornets and that's going to brian k Sweet Number 299 fassundo composo Whoa, is that a swirl? I believe those are swirls or her Potentially case hits I want to say Rock the rim anthony edwards Another very nice hit there for the T-wolves and a tonic Your last autograph should be right here And it's Sam Marrow Not the craziest autographs with great inserts and numbered parts And eyes on the prize the brown james heat edition Sweet very nice not too shabby right there All right, so these are your hits here in this box here James Wiseman James all the dame This guy's the limit the anthony edwards and la mello to 99 All right through more boxes guys. We'll go with uh court kings Collin sexton jalen brown fresh our first steps That is number to 149 col anthony Kevin love relic and the autograph Is saven lee? era parent for the detroit pistons number to 49 Kevin love relic Westbrook insert point to the paint wow This was actually a case hit as well la mello ball. What a break Brian with the charlotte hornets If I remember Craig last time these were selling for like three four to five hundred bucks if not more Very nice that is a short print there in this court kings la mello ball very nice break We got a level two jameis ranzi We have sedique bay level one and obi top of the one. They're a nice box obsidian mantra's harrell Number to the 99 and a pitch black die cut of john a wall that is number to 75 jerry colver patrick williams chris boucher Spencer haywood To 149 volcanic autograph That is seattle supersonics, which would be going to the oblong city thunder and Surround you and a jerry colver to 99 matrix patch autograph for the cavaliers Cleveland went a harrick. All right last box of the mixer guys. Let's end it off. You're strong with a prism fast break box. There's one short print one autograph Nice number cards and some disco rookies you could potentially hit I believe we could probably Run one of these back to be honest. I think we have enough boxes to run back But we did hit some nice stuff a couple nice cases in some of these boxes in here You know luke a rookie in the blaster stadium box could have been a little bit better, but again Other boxes did make up for it Trey young little throwback disco colanthony lucovich xion second year running carry jr. Our first color stefan curry number 28 out of 125 Centering on the back is a little off, but So it is on the front nice on there though Woo. Wow. What a break for the charlotte hornets Centering on this card looks pretty darn good And it is the short print la mellow ball Very nice Have yourself a break brine Not only one the mellow short print you got two awesome james harden disco isiah stewart rookie Great break for charlotte and brine won that in a pack filler as well. So You don't have to pay a full spot price for it. He won that in a pack filler All some of the reason why pack fillers are amazing Manu quickly. We got a little derrick rose number to 175 downtown stefan curry disco Naismith matista. Well, we've got a purple coming up And it's a Yanis onto the combo purple Very nice from a walkie going to nick 44 to 75 So the autograph hiding here as well Autograph could be really nice Zion fearless eric gordon Killian in a purple or sorry pink mo bomba. That's number to 50 charlotte. Wow The autograph is going to be james wiseman. What a great box. This would have been a perfect personal right now james wiseman fast break autograph that is going to golden state wars in joshua And what a box Imagine this was a personal for you stefan curry widescreen luke canard Got a blue j crowder to 175 A lot of stuff curry inserts james wiseman base Take that Marquis chris and the last color is a rj barrett nice second year rj barrett as well That's a red number to 125 Great break right there, man. We're a great box There you go guys. Like I said, I think we can run this back I think we have enough boxes to run back another one. I don't know if that's nick's decision I'll text him if he hasn't put it up already if it's already back on the website, then we're running it back But remember we had to do a filler and sell the remaining spots straight up 20 of them so You guys want to do that. Let's do it again But I'll do a quick recap right now of the hits that you guys got here What a great box yeah, so You guys said this stuff will be top loaded some nice colors there. This is from the Recon box. All right, we have this whole stack here penny sleeved To be top loaded by the shipping team, right all the disc goes there co-anthony tyrell terry will be top in right That's from optic from the blaster there a couple blasters here mosaic and prism and then of course we have All the main hits rookies, of course, I'm sitting right there couple base Insert sadeek bay level one germite runs level two. There's a lamella short print That's definitely well worth the spot price of a hundred dollars first steps there Of a pole anthony, right james wiseman in there numbered card Skies of lemon stephen curry Rock the rim anthony edwards and lamella ball numbered to 99 Onyeka kongu my house yana tongue to the kompo Desmond bay and lamella ball rookie luke adan chich rookie michael porter jr All right, and then of course Besides all of these bigger hits Steph curry color wiseman ergie varicolor tray james wiseman yannis and your short print lamella ball There you go best. That was the break jaspy skates breaks.com


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Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of ricksty minutes. It's me. I'm I'm best I'm best and we got dig And we were fucked rich doing the show the only way that you should mm-hmm, which is under the influence of alcohol Good good. I'm keeping it sober.  I am. What can I say? So what do you think of this episode here did you? Um, it's all right. I like the concept and there were a couple of lines of dialogue that were Rewarding to me on a meta level More so than perhaps much of the episode. Yeah Um, I Feel like while I like this as an episode idea. It's weird that they framed this as a replacement for dimensional cable Because I don't think it was really that similar Maybe they just did that to assure us that they weren't going to do one this season, but like oh, so Because I was expecting Because in season two when they did it Rick did a fourth wall break and said like we're doing it again because everyone loved it last right, right, um, I didn't think they'd do it a third time because a they've done it twice already and be the response to the second one was not nearly as favorable as the original um So I was thinking that if like if they addressed it at all There will be another fourth wall break and we got that at the start of the episode, right? That was really gratifying for me on a meta level. Yeah the fact that Rick said we're doing this instead of dimensional cable and I went Oh, like of course, but then I think that Accidentally set me up to expect it to be anything like dimensional cable, which it's really not. Yeah Yeah, instead of like crazy vignettes where they I don't know like they just spitball lines and then animate around them in a very very appealing aesthetic kind of way like with Yeah, what were the the two blur two brothers shit? It's just called two brothers.  That's the one with Jerry. The family, right? Yeah.  That's hilarious But then the bee plot was also really dumb and so it didn't have the impact the original episode had this one though If they had never mentioned dimensional cable, this would have just seemed like an episode of Rick and Morty Like the point is the this idea that Rick has been taking all these memories from Morty Some of them by Morty's request and some of them because Rick got rid of them on purpose for his own reasons Usually which are hilariously petty Like yeah, probably my favorite memory is the one where Rick just says a word wrong and Taking for granted taking for granted everybody. Yeah, as opposed to taking for granted and Morty calls it calls him out on it And he erased that memory from Morty's mind There's also one where Morty beat him at checkers While he was like drunk He wasn't even probably trying any still erased that memory Well, you know I'd be interested to know sort of the creation process for this episode because later on like Rick Repeatedly says several times like yo Morty you stop thinking of this is like a lesson learning thing Stop thinking of this is like a normal like narrative episode.  Mm-hmm That's that's the thing like they're less weird than like a normal Rick and Morty episode a lot of the time Yeah, like yeah, it's just even these are the ones that are supposed to like drive him literally insane That's what we were like promised at the beginning and they did not really Usually it's just that Morty accidentally got someone killed in some kind of horrific way And that's why he had the memory erased. Yeah, and while those stories are are funny and and and fun like they're not so Weird that it doesn't feel like a normal episode of Rick and Morty But I think here's the other line that was deeply satisfied to me on a meta level Which is where at the very end of the episode when?  She says No wonder you're arguing constantly and always behind schedule and they're like would you say it?  Yeah, you know So I think That maybe You know there was disagreement about how the second one had gone Where maybe now I haven't listened to the commentaries on season two yet Which I've been meaning to do this whole fucking time I've never gotten around to but um you know I should and that I want to hear the commentaries on this season because I've kind of followed the production background of Rick and Morty a bit not only through reading having you know Listen to the commentaries, but also when season two was airing and I don't know if any of this has happened for season Three haven't paid enough attention, but when season two was airing for the first episode in the last episode Justin Roiland like Periscoped and live streamed The parties that they threw yeah, yeah, and during those Was during the first one was one of the most fascinating things I've ever watched in my life specifically because of the fact that Half of their people were being poached Actively at the time right like right they were talking about how their lead guy They're like they're they're their lead writer for that season had just been poached by Disney and Justin Roiland was saying like if the show Goes down hill next season. It's because we lost this guy and he said things like Who everyone was saying that like because Justin does so much on the show is why it takes so long to come out and like Just not having enough talent on the show is why it's always behind schedule and Why? You know and like because the talent that is there gets poached by better networks who can pay them or you know And so they all leave so no one stays on the show for long enough So like if Rick and Morty were to go downhill it would be because They couldn't spend two years letting Justin and Dan do everything on the show, you know Now obviously the season has been pretty great So they've they found they must have found someone this straps some shit together.   Yeah, basically Yeah, but he's doing it while trying to make a pitch to Fox or whatever So like they already owned the show like okay, okay, like it was a show that's in Pre-production that may or may not okay Look at me.  I think well I think he saw it as a as a promotional thing like okay Oh, I this show in a very modern way by releasing all this information and just being Transparent about it. Yeah, okay, which is how I think you know, but but the point is that Justin Really doesn't play by the rules and he's insane You know he kind of comes from the internet. He's originally an internet Like he's from Hollywood, but he's from the Hollywood internet, you know, what do you what even is that? What is the Hollywood internet like what sort of things the Hollywood internet people do? Have you ever heard of a channel 101? I am aware of the channel 101 That's that's where Rick and Morty comes from right the original short was on there But channel 101 like was supposed to be The idea of it was that it was like people who work in TV Like it was people who were like sick of the restrictions of what TV made them do I see and so they went and made this other place where they could they could break copyright law without getting punished they could like Basically do whatever the fuck they want it was like a guerrilla filmmaking thing But like everyone involved with it was people like Dan Harmon was involved the channel 101 Like these are all people who worked in TV, but we're like looking for an escape on the internet It just didn't blow up that big the only show that I think anybody really knows is yacht rock and cautionary tales of swords Which are of course of course But that's why those shows have a little bit more production than the average YouTube show because like it was a channel They were trying to launch online Which Dan Harmon tried to do recently like his show Harmon Town Which was the Dungeons and Dragons show do you know about that? Oh, that's right. I know of it in general. I haven't seen any of it Yeah, they just animated like over a done like they played D&D live in front of an audience and then animated the campaign It's all right. It sounded like a terrible.   Well, I mean just I skip them as much as possible All I know about it is that it was on this new like Dan Harmon and a bunch of other people tried to create Like their own Hulu like a subscription service to watch like specific shows But it went as well as title did right you're trying to do the same thing Which is you can't take people away from the websites They want to use and make them pay to watch content that they don't even know what it is, you know Yep, no one's gonna download titles so they can hear the new Kanye West album if they haven't already heard it and confirmed They liked it and they just want to pay for it normally But anyways Like there's a reason I didn't buy 444 Jay-Z.  Who's gonna do that not me Well, not that it matters to him. He has a little money in any case Okay, so that's all cool But I just did want to say about all that whole point basically tied into that meta comment that summer makes at the end of this episode here And okay, so like yes that that is the lampshade hanging sort of explain You know it possibly as you just placed it forward Explaining like why this episode seems to be disjointed and have like a half that's you know Story base that doesn't really go anywhere and then the other freeform thing that also feels kind of awkward So okay, we've got we've got this basically explanation, but that doesn't retroactively make the episode more entertaining or like more good It just gives me sort of a sense of satisfaction like it isn't interesting It's an interesting thought about like why this production is why it took season three so long to come out You know why they released the April 1st episode that took another three months for the episode right after the season, you know like Just the idea that Dan and Justin fight all the time is entertaining to me because I could easily imagine it you know like these guys are insane people and I Don't know if that's why the episode itself is like how it is But it would certainly explain why like I could easily imagine Justin being like why not do Episode like why not do another interdimensional cable? Yeah, why not?  It's just the same idea again I think I think just because I mean the Jerry half of the episode is not that funny.   Okay, I get it. Yeah, it's good. You know, I agree. There was no there was no real massive peak lol He's jacking the dude off when he thinks he's torturing him Kind of funny, but like it's I don't yeah, like that weren't that funny the funniest line in the episode by far to me is immediately after Rick and Morty accidentally mind-wipe themselves and After Morty's first memory he says I guess we're kind of like the men in black Yeah, he asks Rick if he remembers men in black and Rick says I've only got men in black too And he says well then you get the concept that he goes well actually it's mostly random callbacks I lost it at that joke A couple more at the end of the episode all the jokes that really made me laugh weren't even in the memories except for when when Morty beat Rick at checkers and that made me that was good I went back and watch some of those like really fast clip show things that went by yeah like there was some I like when they Can cram the fast ones were better than the long ones. I know they were they were but then again You know, honestly, some of them felt like they were legitimately like rejected ideas from the show.  I don't like that That's just such a Rick moment like that's what I love about his character is the idea that he'd be like, you know what? I am down to kill myself.    We'll just let these scenarios play out like You know, he he openly says this isn't the first time we've done this like we've literally gone down this road before Just because he can write all his memories after it's over, you know And like the fact that he has set ups for even if him and Morty accidentally wiped like even this has happened before Even them forgetting it happened has happened before that's right. That's right And there's preparations for it and I Yeah, that's what I love about Rick and this show. That's good stuff. And you know, and just the idea of Yeah, like it makes sense that it just reinforces the whole thing Like not only is rick able to go to infinite realities and like just if everyone dies here He'll just go somewhere else.   Yeah, it's all just entertaining, you know and Um, I think this episode was helped for me also by the fact that I actually I watched the first 15 minutes and then I had to stop because I had to do other shit And then I watched the last five minutes just now and I really think the last five minutes saved the episode Like I think up till that point. I thought it was okay And I was like, all right, this is there's moments in here. I like but some of it's dumb The very end I thought is the best part like just when when it actually when it stops being just a clip show and becomes about them You know doing the suicide pact and like this meta idea that they've been doing this before was way funnier than any of the actual stories They told That's true. Yeah, I don't know man. I was just pretty disappointed overall in terms of uh, the laugh o meter Yeah, I don't know the stories were not that good They really felt cutting room. They didn't feel original and like They felt like stuff that wasn't supposed to be in the show that you watch and go Oh, that should have been cut like I know why you guys didn't put that in the episode because it wasn't that good, you know Yeah, I don't know maybe maybe that's why she was maybe that's also part of the reference to them being behind schedule is like they Don't have time so they threw in an episode of like, you know Half complete shit who knows? Yeah, who will never know I can't wait for I cannot wait for the commentaries for this episode because I think this episode While by itself is not that great Will be far more interesting to hear it talked about than it will be to have watched it That's a great point. I would love to hear the commentary on this episode. Yeah. Yeah More than any other episodes so far this season Yeah, and I have a very different kind of engagement with this show. I think then This you know, this is I think we should address this Nate. This has been a weirdly controversial podcast a lot of the time On occasion, that's true I think it might just be because Like people watch this who make like maybe there's a lot of people who watch this who just are rick and morty fans Like maybe these episodes get found I have no idea because they do get pretty high view counts for For views shows on this channel they get more views than any other thing on this channel. It's true Yeah, which is really weird. Yeah But the comments are often like aggressively against us and they have bigger dislike bars than our normal videos so I think people come in here just looking for rick and morty reviews and When we for instance of the last episode went on a seven-minute rant about Whether or not dan harman is a liberal cuck.    Yeah No, but that's sometimes it's I mean for one thing like with this episode the whole time watching the episode I thought I'm gonna have nothing to say about this Like I wasn't even sure if I was gonna be able to do a podcast until the meta thing came through and I went Well, I can talk about that for 20 minutes, you know, and that's filled up 90 percent of the time We've been talking right now Yeah Yeah worried for you Uh, I'm never worried. I have developed a level of confidence that can talk for any amount of time about anything I'll find a way. Yeah, that's that's how I felt. Uh, I was just basically gonna reiterate how Unfunny I don't want to like oversell how unfunny this was. It was like I did get some chuckles I got some smiles. There were some goofs in there like the fact that the moon man wings strong six episode Yeah, I think around there around there like I actually I watched it twice actually just because I had time while I was editing some other shit And the first time I I liked it more the first time Because I just let I let it wash over me and just let the memes fall where they may and was like, yeah pretty positive Then the second yeah, I'm I'm imagining watching the whole moon man Section again and like no it wouldn't be worth it. Yeah, it's not that funny like the payoff wasn't that good The idea that he was literally a smudge on the lens doesn't really make sense It makes he moves he moves in like the first thing So like it makes literally no sense, but that was that's kind of what makes it funny that it makes I don't know that makes it funnier to me. No, all right Oh, he he literally was a smudge on the lens. That's Rick Rick and Morty really does a good job of basically explaining everything and never contradicting its own logic And that definitely does contradict its own logic in a way that one could criticize I just think that like it's a wash like who cares if that like doesn't make sense in in this particular case Uh, but you know it's a fair criticism if I was the mysterious mr.  What's the deal? What's the deal here?  I think it's just that they're taking that direction You don't think it's it seems more feminine to be fixated on like one person and and have that kind of Because the men the men sew the field the men sew the field the women. I don't think so at all Whatever man You're like the 90 existence of sluts right now like what are you talking about? We're having the exact debate right now from eyes wide shut between Natalie Portman and Tom Cruise You should but that's exactly the debate we're having right now one of my favorite movies everybody watch it I highly doubt that that is At all involved in the intentions. I think they're trying to make jessica a more important character because she's gonna be relevant She has been getting more scenes. That's true because if you watch if you go back to season one um Jessica we we mentioned this before that she was kind of a non it like she's just a girl who Morty has a crush on every once in a while They feed you a little idea that maybe she could like him in that classic 80s movie kind of way But it's not that important and like in the episode where morty gets a sex spot.   Like you've probably never met someone who who just seems Absolutely perfect. The closest thing that I've ever met is this girl in college who was just super hot That's that's the closest I could get but imagine imagine you met a girl who's so perfect Like so insanely attuned to everything you've ever thought or wanted That after meeting her you think there's no way I can ever be happy with anyone else Because she's just that perfect like like I've seen the top of the mountain How could I settle for sitting on the side of the mountain? Okay, you know what when I when I find myself in a situation like that, here's where my mind goes Okay, I know for a fact that nobody's perfect. So what's wrong with me that I think this person will complete me The what's wrong? What do I need to fix about myself that I need this like addition in my life defense mechanism Yeah, I think for that I think because it's not a good position to be in if they don't love you It leaves you vulnerable. You can't be doing that Some people like my brother get lucky and they eventually do love you back But that's a rare thing man. It's a rare thing.  You know like you're always going to be thinking about the especially if it's within grasp because jessica's kind of Within grasp. That's true. Like I'm sure in morty's mind.  I think that's always been the case in this show Like I think it's it kind of bothered me In season two when some episodes morty was like this hard ass and then other episodes.  He's he's felt pretty consistently woke throughout the season. I haven't really felt like He was just a naive retard Um much this time. It's just the just thing really I guess that stands out to me, you know I think that's why that's why I think she's supposed to be a major character Like I think there's going to be some kind of development in that relationship And that's why they want us to keep us it in mind and if that's not the case it will be weird Like why bring her up so much unless you're going to do something about it Um, I agree. I agree Because I don't remember her coming up that much in season two She definitely did not the most that she ever did was like the most important Jessica has been before this season was like That episode where he like made her fall in love with him and then she you know was just mind controlled to love She was fairly relevant in season one Like she's probably mentioned in more than half the episodes of season one But season two I don't remember being a big deal, but I haven't rewatched season two I've seen season one like four times. So I'm a bigger expert in that. I forget Cronenberg is season two, right? That's one. Fuck. Okay. I can't get that's like episode six. That's where they killed the family and yeah, that's the other universe Okay, well whatever All right. Well good tangent. See see that's the kind of quality you get on ricksty man That's that's the good stuff Yeah, and an episode that neither of us had anything to say about turned into one of the longest episodes of the podcast That's true. That's how that's how we do. Yeah, normally these are under 30 minutes. Oh, that's cool There you go. So there you go. Enjoy your various pills of wokeness and uh Sleepiness and specifically that like you know that shack like asleep and then woke with like the glowing eyes Yeah, that's yeah, that's the one All right, I've had to piss for 25 minutes. Okay sounds good my dude. We'll see you guys next week with a new episode. Bye. Bye