This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. Okay, bingo, we're back. I'm Jay Fidel, here we are on Think Tech, but you knew that. We're on Community Matters today, and we're talking about the upcoming Hawaii first robotic tournaments with Maria Tomei, who is deeply engaged in robotics. Yeah. Maria. Hey, how are you doing? What are you doing with robotics? Well, I personally am helping to organize the 10 district tournaments that are going to happen in November. Now, I'm not organizing all of them. I know, I am not ready for this to be the end of October, but it'll be good. And so there are going to be 10 district tournaments, and then the championship is in December, and so each tournament coordinator is pulling together their volunteers. They've got the teams lined up for the event, and so it's been very, very busy and very, very exciting.  Yes. I know this. Yes. So what is your relationship between your interests professionally and these tournaments? There might be.  The optimization process, getting all the right pieces to work together and make sure that it all happens right. OK. So give us the long and long of it. You know, what are these tournaments? How many people are involved? OK. Cool. What happens at them and how they work? Well, if we're going to start from the big, OK. First is for inspiration and recognition of science and technology. It's international volunteer run. So this is an international program. Yes. We're just doing Hawaii chapter. Exactly.  And Hawaii this year has over 100 teams, and each team can have up to 10 kids. And of course, they've got their coaches and their mentors. What's 100 times 10? Well, about 1,000 plus, you know, because it's over 100, you know. But then some teams don't have 10 kids. But you've also got some schools have a lot of interest, but they can only take some of the kids on the team. So there's always more interest in their space. And these are between the fourth and the eighth grades. Yeah, very good. So if you're in kindergarten, no. Well, kindergarteners have junior first-legal day. Oh, is that right? I didn't know that. OK. They do. In fact, they're going to be at the state championship in December is going to have the junior first-legal leaders with their demonstrations at a whole section of the team. I can see it now, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So and the topic this year is water. So it's very civil engineering type focus. Topic is water. Yeah, hydrodynamics. OK, so all the robots involved has something this year to do with water. Well, the LEGO, OK, so here's, I can show you this. The LEGO models have representatives of water. This is the big water. And I think it's symbolic of groundwater or distributed water and your water distribution systems and stuff. Because you use this one to put out the fire. OK, so it's a little house that has a little thing of, looks like fire. They're all LEGO pieces. And then this one is the rain. So LEGO is plastic. Yes, LEGOs. It represents water. So we don't have actual water cannons. It's probably just as well, especially in the studio. Yes. What else you got on the table over here? OK, so this is a sample robot. Now, every team has a different robot, because they build it from the pieces. Let's zoom in if we can on that so we can see the details. Too beautiful. Yeah, and I don't want to break it. I had to kidnap it from an elementary school. And I promised that it would be back before curfew, so I got to get it back to them. It will be in the same condition they lent it. So this is the brick part, about 2 by 4, 1 and 1 1⁄2 or so. And this has the brain in it. And so when you program it, you have the instruction set from the laptop to this. And this will tell the motors to run. You can have up to four motors. This one has three on it at the moment. And it has sensors. And so you've got a couple of color sensors on this one, I think. And so what happens is the kids have to figure out, OK, I need some wheels. So they figure out which wheels are going to use, a variety of types are available. They figure out how to attach them. And then they figure out how to attach the motors and the cables and put the sensors on to do the missions. Now they also have to figure out which missions they're going to attach. First, this one has 18 this year, 18 missions. Let me get a shot of this. See, yeah. That's the listing of all the missions. That's the list of the missions. This is the really short version. But the idea is there's strategy. And you've got to work with your team members and figure out, OK, which ones are we going to go for first? And so they build this and whatever attachments. If you're going to get this to take this over to the flower. Oh, it's supposed to lift it up. It's a canister of water. There you go. Yeah. To get points for the flower mission, you have to use the big water to raise the flower. And you get extra points if there's little rainwater on the flower. I see. So how are you going to get this thing to do? So it's actually quite challenging. There are an infinite number of ways to build it, infinite number of ways to program and get it to do it, infinite number of ways everything can go wrong. Yes, but. OK, I'm making myself a fourth grader now with my other nine, potentially nine, teammates. And first thing I have to, I know the problem. I've got to get the canister of water over from one place to another. And the little one in the flower, I've got to do that. And so I have a, I guess I have a catalog of pieces. I can select my pieces. The problem is pile, generally. Piles. Or boxes. It depends how organized, you know. But, you know, you get a certain number of pieces coming into kit and there's an expansion kit. And then folks can use anything made by LEGO can be used. Ah, OK. So, yeah. So that's for the structure of it. So I can see the LEGO pieces, the total LEGO pieces. But I also see electronic pieces there, which are sort of part LEGO and part electronic. I see wires coming out of them, like Ethernet cable kind wires. Yeah, those are cables, yeah. And you said the brain. So I want to have people understand, Kiska say the brain. What is the brain? The brick is where you actually can plug in your.  Yes, your little USB. And you're programming it on your laptop. And you've got your, this one has three motors. Now, if you're going to steer, let's say, you start in base. It's a 4 foot by 8 foot playing space. Oops, sorry. And you start in base. And you've got to get it to move, right? So if you have your four motors, you've got to use two of them for steering, right? Because one's got to go and the other one goes backwards if you're going to turn right or left. And so they've got to figure all that out. They've got to tell the motors what to do. And then you've got the possibility of two other motors that can move things. Like those arms. Yeah, exactly. So let's say you're brainstorming. You've got your team and you're brainstorming. OK, I want to get the water there. All kinds of ideas. Can we toss it? Do you drop it? If you just drop it, let's put this flat. If you just drop it, will it be enough? No, it won't, right? You've got to push it down. You've got to tap it. Oh, wow, just tap it. Oh, that worked. So yeah, so it's a lot of trial and error and learning and experimentation. And sometimes you get very creative ideas that work one out of every 10 times. And somebody may love that idea. It worked, yeah, but it failed nine times. And so part of this whole robustness and the ability to replicate the success and the patience to test it and the willingness to say, OK, I have to allow that idea to go, start over, the resilience that it takes up with the kids. Inspiration and inspiration and all that. So let's say they got all the points. Let's make the flower happy. There we go. Now you talked about the brain. And I'm interested in the brain because I'm an old fashioned computer programmer. If then statements and case statements. Actually, it's clicking and dragging of blocks. So you say, OK, this is a motor block.  So it's drag and drop. The programming for the brain is drag and drop. It is. And then you tell it, OK, do I want 100% power going to this and for how long? And if you put 100% power on both motors equally and they're attached to the wheels, it'll just go straight, right? We can't have that. Maybe you want it. But it's something that needs to stop, right? So where do you have it stop? Now, this is where they get into the subtleties of, well, when the battery is freshly charged, it might act a little differently. That's very subtle. What if the wheels are dirty? We had one to one time, the wheels were dirty and it just wasn't turning the way it should. It just wasn't gripping. We actually practice so long with one of our robots that the wheels wore out. You know, it's like, wait, it's not working, everyone. You were able to adapt the program, recreate the program so that it could deal with dirty wheels? That's why you got to use sensors, because if you try to do everything with dead reckoning, OK, I'm going to put it, I'm going to make it, aim it directly there. And every table is probably a little different. The competition table is not the one you have in your school that you're practicing on. So you're on the team. Is that what happened? No, well, not me, not this year. Little ideas, you sit with them. No, actually what you do is you allow them to discover stuff. And you brainstorm with them. In fact, one of the core values is we learn together. You ask questions. Yeah, exactly. So if I'm a kid and I want to program the brain, to me that's the most fascinating part of this, I have to connect it up with my laptop. I have to have a laptop. And does it matter if the laptop is a PC or an Apple? Any laptop would work? I think pretty much you use the PCs, I'm not sure. That would be a question for this year's team. OK, and I have to download some kind of program, probably have to download the program so I can send signals to the brain. How is the computer attached to the brain? Yeah, I believe that's the Bluetooth. We really should have the kids here. I haven't been involved in this. We can do the live thing at the school for this type of question. And you ask the kids and they know everything. You're still asking me hard questions. Sorry, you're not really on the front line. You're on the back line. We're just trying to make sure we have the school set up and the volunteers there. And we need our three judges. I guess I compile my program somehow and I send it to the brain. Now the brain has the program. But I decide that I need to do something else with the sensors because the wheels could get dirty or the table could become bumpy. So you upload them, you make changes? So I should do it again. And then you upload it again and then you hit the start button and it'll go off and it'll do what you just did. The new one. It'll run the new program. So that's the whole iterative process. It's all about engineering and invention and perspiration and inspiration and all that stuff. They must love it. They must be so focused on this. It's a well-painted thing actually. It's very good because you're so frustrated. It's not working and then it works and somebody has an idea and so there's that reward. And then you also appreciate your other team members because they're contributing to this. Yeah, and I suppose if you're just a fly on the wall you can see how the team is functioning. You can see the leaders emerge and you can see the level of cooperation from the others. We have a graphic that talks about the different parts of this program, the triangle one. Why don't we look at some graphics, Maria? Why don't you take us for a little tour among the graphics? Okay. Okay, so this is the one that talks about it's more than just robots. The task today might be building the robot. The task tomorrow is maybe the water topics that you're learning. So that's the project, the yellow section. You're learning about a topic of importance and you're imagining a solution. And so they're envisioning that, hey, the stuff they're learning in school can be applied to important things. Ah! Yes. Exactly, right. And then the red part, the core values of teamwork and respect. So it's not just what you build, it's how you're building it. And everybody gets to play. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so it's this whole concept of the community. They have this term gracious professionalism where you have to respect- I hope some of these guys wind up running for office. But that's just a side comment. No, it's very true. You're gracious professionalism. And so when you go, when you have the tournaments that we were talking about these tournaments, they don't just show up and show how their robot can go get the points and complete the missions. That's an important part that has a lot of cheering and excitement and competition. But before that, they also have a chance to explain their project where they did research on water topics. In the tournament now. They get to express themselves. Well, yeah. They're fourth through eighth graders. And so those judged sessions are actually private. So everybody's not watching while you're just- Okay, it's too nerve-wrecking for them to say age, yeah. Are listening and reacting to their project. And then there's a chance for them to explain their robot design and the robot design judging. And then the third one is core values, which is a teamwork. They are given a task to show how they work together. You mean on the spot? Yeah. That's high pressure. So here, here's a game. Go play, you know. You watch them. Exactly. And we wrote them numerically, right? You know, and they have an opportunity to show how they solve problems. How do they work together? Do they include everybody? Do they respect each other's ideas? And so that is a very important part of this that's built into all parts of it. And you're building it into the kids. We'll give them a chance to see the benefit. They're very impressionable and it'll probably have a big long effect on their lives. We like to express ourselves too, usually about 14 minutes after the hour. So we're gonna take a short break and express some public service announcements and then we'll come back and we'll find out how the tournament works itself. Sure. That's Maria Tomei. Thank you. Right back. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. 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There's two kinds of people in the world, the follow-through people and the others. We're the follow-through kind. We come back after every break, yeah. So Maria Tomei, there's a couple of things you wanted to mention about this list of all the possible games you can play. Yeah, well, you know how we were talking about how you can learn stuff by doing? The neat thing about how they've handled the topic part of this, the Lego game piece, is that these mission models are more than just something to have on the board to interact with. They actually tell a story. For example, what story do you think is told by this action here? I love questions like that. Well, could it be that water makes the flower grow? Yeah, I beg it! I could do the fourth story any time, yeah. I think so. And so by learning what the missions require, they're also learning a little bit about the topic of the water. So there's a pipe removal. There's a broken pipe. If you're looking at water systems in communities, broken pipes are a thing. And they need to be replaced. And so there's a whole mission to take the broken piece out and put the other one there. Yeah, they've got pumps and you're adding pumps in the rain that you're supposed to make the rain come out of the rain cloud. Filters, you've got water treatment. These are different possible projects. Yeah, well on the four-foot bike for playing board, all these are the mission models that you get points for doing these things. Fountain, so when you put a big water in the fountain, a fountain, which is clear blue, it's not actual water. Yeah, I was waiting for that. Maybe you got manhole covers. You got a tripod. You have to get the inspection camera to just the right spot. I'm sure this is, you know what I'm saying. He's tricky.  And so your sludge, move the sludge. So it's touching the visible wood of any of the six garden boxes. So I guess you're using the sludge as a fertilizer. But these wouldn't be for the same team. The team would have to select one of these missions or could they do more than one? You've got two and a half minutes to do as much as you can and get as many points as you can. So it's a strategy, right? Yeah. You know, if you're a beginning team and you're just learning how to build and program and the rules of the game, then you're probably gonna figure out, okay, which one of these gives me the most points for the least effort, you're gonna go for that first, right? If you're a sophisticated experience team, you might pick more than one or two. How many could you pick? You can't pick them out. Some do, almost all of them. Really? There's one that's kind of a waste time and anything that they could do if they finished everything else. And so you can't ever get all the points. It's a strategy as well. Exactly. And that's the negotiation piece too. You know, I've been asked to program this and figure out how to do it. And I did and by Golly and it has to get cut from the movie.  And you've got, let's see. The water collection, water wells, fire, slingshot. That's an interesting one. Dirty water and all you have to separate the clean water and the dirty water, which is a thing. Yeah? Yeah, that's a thing too. And the faucet, you're supposed to. Oh, that's, I see, this is the- How much time do they have to, you know, address this and try to wrap around all these things? Well, we started, you know, the season kind of starts in general, in August when school comes back. August and November is on two months. Yeah, the kickoff is the beginning of September. Okay. And that's when you get, you know, that's two months. To details. September, October is all it is. Yep, yep, yep. That's a lot of work. So, I mean, is this during the curriculum day or is this after hours? You know, it depends on the team. You know, some of the teams have, they're part of an after-school program. Some have actually been integrated into the curriculum. You know, some schools have their gifted and talented kids. You encourage that, right? That it be integrated. Well, I encourage. You know, however it works. Yeah, every team is different, you know.  Others are just, you know, or homeschool teams. We've got some homeschool teams and some are just groups of parents who get together and say, hey, let's do this. And they pull together a team and you've got an after, and kind of an after-school weekend type of activity.  In the end, the best system will result in the best, you know, the best meeting the standards and they'll win. So you have to sort of work it back, right? You have to say, who won and what path did they follow? You know, it's not, it's not, one of the core values, it's not about what you win, it's about what you learn. Okay. Yeah. Well, how do you measure that? Well, you measure that by at the end of the season, you think back and say, wow, that was cool. That was fun. Yeah. You know, and then as you go on, next time you have a challenge of either working with people or coming up with a strategy or negotiating or, you know, building stuff with pieces in the three-dimensional realm. Yeah. You can think back, oh, yeah, we tried that, that worked.  And so it's not who wins necessarily. Would you say that the lives of these kids are affected by their experience with this program? I would, yeah, yeah. Carry it forward, yeah. Definitely. Yeah. As I said, you know, kids are very impressionable. Sometimes they learn so quick, it just bottles the mind how they integrate all that information. Yeah, that's why if you want to know about the robot, you've actually got to talk to the kids. Yeah. Got more graphics. We've got some pictures from one of the tournaments last year. Yeah, okay. Just so you can see some of the excitement at the tournament. Yeah. It was last year, the topic of the animal. This is a photograph of the kids out there they are. Yeah, yeah. You can see in the middle is the table and the tall people there are the referees or yep, the head ref and some refs. Who are they? Are they people like you? Or are they some? Yeah, volunteers. Volunteers. Yeah, volunteers. Are they engineers? No. Not necessarily. Not necessarily. I mean, there are some. Engineers do tend to be attracted to events like this. And on the table, I guess I see a lot of these Lego robots, right? Yeah, each table has probably has one somewhere or what happens after the match is actually they put the, they take the robot off and there are some of the kids and the parents. Okay, they're both in the parents and they're taking the pictures. Yeah, yeah. And yeah, I guess this is during the announcement of the awards. So you can see the two tables and nobody's around at that point because it's all over. One of the winners, the champions. Yeah, I don't know why I like the champions from that. Team coming together. From that district tournament. Yeah, another winner. Four values. Another good time or what? 4th through 8th graders and some teams are like a, you know, 5th grade or 6th grade. These kids are so beautiful. They're our most valuable product. They really are.  Yeah, that's, that's, you can see that one. It's got quite a big thing up for it. One of the attachments there. Well, let's spring from, oh, we got a lot of pictures here. And explaining, yeah, yeah. And it's up to the kids also to explain things to the judges. Where was this? This was at UH West O'ahu. Okay, and where's it gonna be this year? Well, the 10 tournaments are all over the place. And there's one at Perl City. There's multiple venues going on at the same time. Yeah, yeah. And then it works up to sort of a pyramid at the top. Well, actually it's just the district tournaments. And so that's, you know, you pick one district tournament for your team to be at. And then a certain number of winners from each of those will be invited to attend the championship. Okay, so the winners are in a final round. Right, and so you have 42 teams in December. And, you know, as I said, over 100 teams throughout the state in November. And suppose, well, let me go through it first. So I'm on a team. I go down to a room like that, at West O'ahu, wherever it is. What's my activity at the competition? So in the morning, you and your team will be going to three different judging sessions. And it's all scheduled, right? So you're like, okay, I gotta be there at 9.15.  It's a project, right. And then maybe at, you know, 9.45, you've got the core values activity. And then maybe at, you know, 10.15, you've got your robot design judging, where you have your robot, they have a mat with all the mission models on, there are about 10 mission models in the whole bunch. And you explain how you designed your robot, what you do strategy-wise, how you programmed it. Yes, and then- Does the judges look at the actual code? They bring, very often, they'll actually have it printed out. Now, there's not always time. This is all five minutes to explain your robot and strategy.  You show it off and then the judges are rating it. They have rating sheets and- Yeah, but it's really, it's a rubric, it's a rubric. Yeah, so, you know, was the robot, for example, there's a robustness category, you know, does it stay together well? There's a thing falling apart every time somebody touches it, you know. The programming side, the strategy side, you know, on the project, they're required to research a problem related to water in Hawaii. You know, did they do research? Did they talk to experts? Did they possibly go on field trips? And letting them tell you how much research they did. Yeah, and then if they had an idea, did they research, is it done yet? What will it cost? What's involved? Do you have to, you know, distillate the laws of physics for the stork, right? SimCity. Exactly. So the entrepreneur, right. Could you develop it? If so, what would it take, you know? Okay, so now these kids go up the pyramid. Oh, well then you get lunch. Don't forget. Don't forget lunch. Okay, so then after that- You can't do a calculation like this without lunch. Yes. It's sort of a gratification thing. The judges too. Okay, so after everybody gets lunch, right, then you start the part of the program that has to do with the robot competition. Actually operate the robots. Yeah. That's really, to me, if I was to judge that, I mean, you know, where the rubber meets the rubber. Can you have to be a referee? Referee. Those are the referees. Yes, so each table has two referees. Okay kids, let me see what you can do here. Teams are all scheduled. Okay, I'm first up, you know, so- Start the bubble machine. Let's see what you can do. Two team, two members of the team will go up to the table and get the robot all set up. They'll check that everything's proper. If there's a model that's built wrong, you know, let's say this thing was built wrong and it, oops, and it wouldn't, or the rain is missing, whatever. The kids actually have to inspect the playing board before they start because they're responsible to make sure everything is in working order because if they don't do it and then something doesn't work, they didn't check it. They had to check- It's possible. Exactly, so that's- It's like a pilot checking out the plane in advance. Yeah, so they check everything, make sure it's all good, and then there's a countdown. Ta-da-da-da-da-da. And then they go ahead and start and the robot moves out of the base area and goes and does its thing and comes back and they manipulate, they take off attachments, they take off pieces, they add things, they send it out again. And then the other teams are watching this, too. Yes, yes, yes. And after two, and parents, it's public in the afternoon. The after lunch part is public. So after two and a half minutes of very high intensity, cheering, groans sometimes. Sometimes it doesn't work, right? Yeah, the one thing you thought would be perfect is didn't do it. Sometimes there was one year where you had to throw the soccer ball into the, anyway, that was one where if it made it in, you'd hear tons of cheers, it was one of those. Yeah, so after two and a half minutes of all that excitement, it's like, okay, it stops me and everybody steps back and then they look at what's, is the flower up or down? Well, you wouldn't get points if it's down, but you get the points if the big water made it go up. This is really interesting because you can make it easily. You can program it on a drag and drop. So you're giving these kids, you're empowering them, you know? I mean, the idea of having machinery respond to you in that way, it's the sense of empowerment that you can actually make peace with the tech world around us and all that and you can become a professional doing it.  Thanks. This is good for you and it's good for energy. I know you care a lot about that. And it's good for these kids and therefore our community. And I want to show you something though, okay? We here at Think Tech, we also are empowered. Oh yeah. And we have systems and machines that will respond to what we ask. So for example, when I say the show is over and we're going out, watch this.


So I was doing this problem on ad coder the other day called many segments and I learned this problem is about overlapping intervals and Through this problem. I actually learned a very cool trick about how to solve overlapping intervals and how to check if something's overlapping Without using any conditionals or just one conditional to be honest. So like let's say we have It's gone paint. Let's say we have some intervals. So what I mean by interval I mean it could be like a time that with a start and end it could be I don't know a line segment with a start and end so essentially anything that's like Like has like a start and an end, right? It could be a time. It could be like Like a start time and end time Anything like this, right? It could be on a number line. So let's say I have like an interval between one and five, right? So let's say we want to check and let's say I have another interval Let's say between two and six, right? So two and six So this would be two and six and this would be one of five Now In like some books to check if something's overlapping, right? So how would you do it if you wanted to check if something's overlapping, right? Well, what some people would do is they would check like the left most the left most boundaries to see if it's between The starting boundary For the one of them if it's greater than the left side of one of the starting boundaries and Smaller than the right side of the starting boundaries, right? And then you could do that that is a that is a way to do it to check for boundaries And I know I know some people they also check if like The right side of this boundaries between these two boundaries, right? Then that means they're overlapping, right? They're between The start and end time right these two intervals are between But here's a trick that you could do that I learned in this Add-coder problem is that all you have to do is just check if the maximum between the left boundaries, so the maximum of these Maximum of this boundary is smaller than or equal to the minimum of this boundary of the right boundary So in this case it would be the maximum. I'll just type it out here. It would be the max Whoops It would be the max between the left boundaries, which would be one and two Is the lesson or equal to the minimum of the right boundary, which would be five and six Okay, and the reason why this works is because if the maximum of one and two which would be two In this case this would be two here if it's smaller than or equal to minimum of the right boundaries The right boundary of the right boundaries of five and six is five. So since two is less than or equal to five That's overlapping and this works in most cases actually If you had like another interval, let's say we had here Let's say we had one and five And then we have another interval like two to three right So this this interval is overlapping, right? so if I were to check the max between The left boundaries, which is one and two so this max of one and two It would be two Right and two is smaller than or equal to the minimum of two and two and five That's between three and five of the right boundaries Right, so then that would be three Right the minimum between three and five is three and that's also overlapping right so that would be an overlapping interval also So yeah, as long as if you check the maximum of the left boundary is less than or equal to the minimum of the right boundaries This trick works regardless Okay, you don't have to do any of these conditionals of if if the left boundaries between left is greater than or equal to the left side of one interval and the Small and equal to the right side and if the right boundary is greater than or equal to the left boundaries and smaller than equal to the right one right the second one and you don't have to check if I don't know if The left boundary is equal to the left boundary and the right boundary is smaller than or equal To the right boundary like you don't need to do all this interval checking Yeah, so all you have to do is if I were to write this rewrite this again There's a cool trick you just have to do minute max of left Boundary bound is while equal to men of right bound. So yeah, that's just a That's it You that's the only if condition you need to check Then it's overlapping the two intervals overlap. Yeah, hope you guys enjoyed this video rate com subscribe This is a cool trick. I'll you see you guys later. Peace


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China hosted the Winter Olympics and simultaneously hosted COVID. Oh, because we're also trying to fit ourselves into an American context because we live in America. All the Asians really had to be on one squad. Oh, that's Andrew, the Chinese one. Tend to judge each other much more as individuals. And my East Asian friends sometimes the more. There are more Southeast Asians in the world than there are Japanese and Korean people in the world combined. Is it okay to use the terms Jungle Asian and Fancy Asian? When referring to Southeast Asians and East Asians, what do you think? He's half Filipino and half Japanese and I'm half Chinese and half Vietnamese. So we're both half Fancy Asian and half Jungle Asian. The Fancy Asians are the Chinese, the Japanese. They get to do fancy things like host Olympics. Jungle Asians host diseases. It's different. He said Jungle Asian. But how do you justify that?  What do you mean? How do I justify it? Don't live in the jungle. All right. So if I go to Vietnam, is there a jungle there? There is a jungle. There's a jungle in plenty of other countries. There's not a jungle in Korea. Welcome everybody to the hot pot boys. David and Andrew here. We got a hot debate on the internet right now and it concerns Asians. Yeah, this one's fresh off Reddit, Andrew. It's about a Southeast Asian guy who started a new job at his new job. All the Southeast Asian pals use the term Jungle Asian as a term of endearment. He did not know how to feel about it. People on Reddit were agreeing, disagreeing, feeling neutral about it. It descended into this whole East Asian versus Southeast Asian thing that Ali Wong and Bobby Lee brought up. It was crazy. And guess what? Hot pot boys, we not scared. All right, everybody. So if you're excited about this conversation and you're ready to hear us take it deep and share some perspective, then please hit that like button. Help us out with the algorithm and let's get into it. Real quick disclaimer, guys. Here's the definition of Jungle Asian. Here's the definition of fancy Asian. We cannot cover this entire expansive topic in one video. Literally, the video would be a thousand minutes long. We could probably make a thousand videos about it. However, we will do our best to give you a 101 introduction into this. And of course, answer the main burning question on Reddit. Even though we are not Southeast Asian, we're going to do our best. We did talk to a lot of Southeast Asians. We did grow up in Ken Washington. There was only Southeast Asians around. Very, very few East Asians. We were the only East Asians around. And number three, and recording the 23 of Mia Ancestry. We are slightly Southeast Asian. Blood ourselves. Not to mention, I know that we are Chinese, but China is actually kind of considered both a fancy Asian country and a jungle Asian country, depending on how South you go. Guys, I'm not making this up. China hosted the Winter Olympics and simultaneously hosted COVID. It broke Ali Wong's metaphor. We got both on banging on 10. Let's talk about the first question, David. And I know that we're not authorities on this. We're not telling anybody they should or should not say it. But do we say the word jungle Asian or fancy Asians? Do we use these terms in our daily life? I personally have never authentically called a Southeast Asian a jungle Asian. I wouldn't do that. I feel like that would be looking down on somebody, especially coming from me. It would be disrespectful. I have so many good Southeast Asian friends from the age of like five years old and onwards. They grew up 10 blocks away from me. We did not grow up in the jungle together. Yes, when I went over to their house, sometimes would their kitchen have a lot bigger leaves than leaves and herbs that were in my kitchen. Absolutely, because there may be more influence from tropical zones in their culture and in their food. However, no, I would never say that. Andrew, would you? Guys, this is a term that to me I only heard of more recently. I heard a whole bunch of other terms describing East Asians and Southeast Asians growing up, which we will get into. But this is just a new term. So I'm not going to introduce a new jokie term into my vocabulary and start springing it up on my Southeast Asian friends. That would be very weird. Now, I would say to East Asians, guys, of course, any word can be offensive, but it's really the context that you're using it in. So maybe if you have that relationship, go ahead and have fun with it. However, I would just say, don't go around calling random Southeast Asian people jungle Asian.  I will say this. In Seattle, when we were growing up, it was basically thought of if you were Korean, you were going to be a Preppy Asian. You were probably going to go to Abercrombie. If you were Chinese, it could go either way. It really depended on what family you were born into. And if you were Southeast Asian, Filipino or Viet, you was more riding the fabulous pinwheel, tall tee, urban Asian thing. So it was like Preppy in the middle. It could go either way with Chinese and Southeast Asian was going more with BET versus the prep look. Personally, I have spent too much time around Southeast Asian culture and friends in order to reduce it down to a jungle. So for me, I can't do it. I can't use the term. Andrew, that brings us to point number two. Basically, people have hyper-reductive, stereotypical ways of portraying it, much like the joke by Ali Wong is. And that's why we're going to get into the controversy later. But I want to explain to people, Andrew, there are actually four layers of Asians in Asia. There's Siberian Asians. That's like Mongolians and Eskimos and that whole bearing straight look. And then you've got mainland Asians, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and even there's a pretty big gradient within Chinese because it's like a really gigantic population, a mix of tribes. And then number three, you've got Thai Khadai, you know, Viet, Mong, Mian, Lao, Thai. And then, of course, you got Austronesian, Malay, Indonesian, Filipino. And then you've even got a fifth layer, Melanesian, which is pretty dark-skinned and has curly hair. So, Andrew, in places like Okinawa, Hawaii, China, Vietnam, you could even be a mix of all five layers of Asian at one time. However, most people are just one or two. Yeah, I mean, I've even seen a lot of scholars, even clump, possibly Northern Vietnamese culture and Southern Chinese culture into one style of culture. It's so like, some people consider Northern Vietnamese culture to be part of East Asian culture. I'm just saying it depends on what you're measuring it by. Also, I do want to note, one thing that does mix things up is there is a ton of Chinese blood in Southeast Asia, a great big Chinese diaspora that started because of commerce and doing business. So, obviously, you have Indonesian people who are essentially Chinese. You have Filipino people who are essentially Chinese. Does that make them a jungle Asian or a fancy Asian? Or maybe they're both, I don't know. That's why it's a funny conversation. Point number three, and we're moving on to answer the Reddit question at hand. Should Southeast Asians treat the term jungle Asian as a term of endearment in some similar ways to the way Black Americans reappropriated the term, you know, the N word? Listen, I understand why in America, amongst Asians, we use the term like White Asians and Black Asians. It's kind of a funny way to use it, but it's very, very reductive and simplifies things to a point where literally it's actually just inaccurate. Well, and people like the one, two binary, don't they? Yes, in America, that's how it is because we're also trying to fit ourselves into an American context because we live in America. So, I understand why we do this. However, it is totally inaccurate because of the White Black dynamic and the history of the N word and where it comes from, the oppression, the deep dark past, right? And the word jungle Asian comes from, like, essentially comedy and it might be a little bit offensive. However, it's not coming from the same background. So, I don't think you always want to apply things from the White Black American dynamic on Asian things when Asia has been around for a thousand of years, right? However, I will say this, Andrew, if Southeast Asians do want to take ownership over that term jungle Asian, whether or not they themselves actually grew up in a jungle-like environment or they're off cousins in it or they're not ashamed of it or they're like, hey man, that's the struggle that we came out of, man. That's why we hustle, we grind every day to get ourselves out of that hole. That's where we came from and it's more of a glorious come up than I totally could see that too. However, Andrew, I will not speak on behalf of Southeast Asians. I asked a bunch of different Southeast Asian people, Andrew, and guess what? Just like the Reddit thread, Andrew, you had a myriad of responses. Some people were against it. They were like, oh man, that's demeaning and that's gonna make people question my ability to navigate advanced global capitalism. Some people were neutral. They said, man, it matters if it comes from one of your own and it also matters your tone and it also matters if you're punching up or you're punching down and some people were like, just use it, man. It's just a word. Well, isn't it funny that how offensive it is to you kind of depends on your aspirations or what world you are trying to be in? Like let's say you're a Vietnamese or Filipino person who's trying to achieve a lot in corporate white America. You're saying you work in a private equity firm, right? Then yes, you might take that jungle Asian joke as a little bit more harsh than our friends who are like entrepreneurs or hustlers or they're running their own small businesses, right? Where they're just like, yeah, man, it's all good. Like I'm doing my own thing. I'm not trying to get the approval of these white people who also come from these tall building countries either. Right, because obviously there is that sense that more northern countries that don't have jungles, they think that people from jungle more or countries that have a higher percentage of jungle foliage that they're not good at computer things or not good at like certain things that are good at the north is good at.   Don't do that. Like that is wrong. I'll take a stand and say that's wrong.  Dude, we are not 70, 80 year old people in Asia right now. And I don't even think people in Asia like I know that yes, there is like some tan skin color and some skin tone stuff going on in Asia, of course, because they have the skin whitening industry. I get it, but it's like, don't just compare it to the white black dichotomy in America. I think it's wrong. And I think it does a disservice. Wow, we can acknowledge that the light skin thing is a trend in Asia though. Andrew, that moves us on to our next big question. And I think there's another reason, Andrew, why there's 50 core of 50 Reddit threads about this zero videos about this. Like we said, we'll be talking about it, bro. Do East Asians, for the most part, generally look down on Southeast Asians? Man, I mean, I would say no, not generally. I think it has happened. I have growing up, me personally, I never thought like that. Our family never said anything bad about Southeast Asia and really any race, to be honest. However, as I grew older and I got to know a lot of Asians and I was in Asian only circles of maybe of only East Asians or particularly Koreans, I did hear some comments back in the day. I don't think as much anymore. I heard some comments that I was like, ooh, I don't know about that, guys. So it happens, but I don't think it's on a widespread scale and I don't think there's any sort of way that they're enforcing it and they're not necessarily treating people very, very different in real life. However, there are side jokes and side comments. I know when people get locked up in prison, Andrew, all the guys at least, whether they're East Asians, Siberians, Southeast Asian, Austronesian, they all on the same team. Yeah, literally. I mean, they're all on the other side. Yeah, it's either called the others or you're with the Asians. If there's enough Asians or if there's not enough Asians, you're just with the non-white or non-black or non-Hispanic. I will say this, for sure, from what I've seen, Andrew, East Asians can be kind of hierarchical though and very classist and due to the income distribution, I believe I looked at the metrics. At least East Asia is anywhere from like on an individual basis, 4X to 10X as rich or powerful as a comparative per capita Southeast Asian metric situation. I do think that that plays into it because Chinese Andrew can even be mean to other Chinese that are not as rich. So of course, if we're looking at income ranges that are more likely to on a percentage basis occur in certain groups, I could see that being perceived as like racial discrimination because it's income discrimination that is highly correlated with what country of origin you come from.  And literally, we're all Asian too. We're all getting punked here and we're all Asian and we're all connected in many ways although we're not exactly the same. So that's why. You know what it is, man? I think growing up where we did, like all the Asians really had to be on one squad and we all had jokes about each other. I remember, man, there was crazy jokes. Like I remember my Lao friends were making Khmer Rouge jokes to my Cambodian friends but we all knew we were all going to be on a squad together if something happened. You know what I mean? So it's like, it really depends on your context, right? If you're growing up in like an Asian Asian context, all the old beasts from the motherland and the hierarchies and the classism and the colorism, whatever, it might more come into play, right? But if you're in a situation like we were in, it's like, yo, guys, we got to set all this aside and we're just going to be hanging out together. Yeah, man. I do miss making those jokes. I feel like, you know, I was a lot of people's like first close Chinese friend and their family, like if they were Filipino, like, oh, that's Andrew, the Chinese one. Okay, yeah, he's coming over. You know, and it's just like, you get labeled as the Chinese one even amongst Asians because we're like one of the few Chinese. So it's like, obviously, we have a lot of background and experience in being friends with Southeast Asians and even standing out amongst our Asian friends growing up. So I don't think everybody has that experience, but I do recommend anybody out there, like if you have a good amount of Asian friends, like you should have some Southeast Asian friends mixed in there. Andrew, moving on to our next point, and I know you got a lot to say about this, is being a quote unquote fancy Asian overrated? Yes, it is. It can be, man. All right. I know that fancy has a positive connotation. Oh, I'm a fancy Asian. First of all, I don't think East Asians are dying to use that term all the time. And if someone did say it seriously, I'd be like, yo, you're kind of corny for that, bro. But anyways, so I think that there's a lot of other things that come along with being a fancy Asian, right? East Asian, like they're ought to kind of be dark. There's a high suicide rate. I think that growing up as a East Asian, there are a lot of other pressures. Sure, oftentimes, stereotypically, we would achieve very high academically, but we would have a very unfun childhood. I saw my Vietnam Filipino friends growing up they just had more fun. They were more free. They were learning like street smarts. They were having like real life experiences. I was more cooped up. And to be honest, man, I think at a time, I just wanted to be more Southeast Asians. And I didn't really, I'll be honest at a time, I felt like I wanted to be more Southeast Asian. I more identified with that way of life or that way of thinking at least, you know, because we're all growing up within 10 blocks or half a mile of each other. So to be honest, no one's really growing up in the jungle and no one's growing up in the city in our case.  Obviously coming from these motherland places that, you know, color it, but to what extent I think it's family to family, person to person, how much they want to take on. I noticed my Southeast Asian friends tend to judge each other much more as individuals. And my East Asian friends, sometimes they're more hierarchical based on what tribe you came from. Are you a city person or are you a known from the village or whatever? And my last point in this is like, our Southeast Asian friends were the first ones to stress like, yo man, we're all Asian. Like, like, we got to team up. And I'm not saying like, we didn't incorporate other people. There was actually other races of people that were incorporated in that group. But they were very, that Southeast Asian group in Kent actually has a very strong identity where it's like anybody who wants to be part of that group has to be down and buy into the culture. And I think that that was the first time I experienced that. So obviously that showed me a sense of ride or die pride for being Asian that I didn't even see amongst East Asians until maybe the way later in my life. Yeah, I think that the Southeast Asian experience, sans maybe Filipino and Thai who didn't come over as refugees, but I think they have their own struggles as well, is really defined by this refugee experience, escaping civil wars, even in Southeast Asia, coming over, building a new life for themselves, not getting too hung up on the semantics and the details of life, but just staying together, hustling and coming up out of that traumatic experience. Whereas the East Asian situation, like I said, there's a myriad of variants, but you could come over as almost an indentured servitude, but you could come over very rich and very established, even from your family in Asia, either owning import, export businesses in Asia or coming over as an educated professional, and you're more almost trying to appease white standards to live a more posh lifestyle. I think that those are the two easy ways to simplify it. Of course, everybody is on a spectrum potentially in between. Long story short, Andrew, if East Asians, statistically on average, come from a more privileged, whether it's economic or educational perspective and they're popping in media now, do they owe it more to Southeast Asians to give them some shine too? Because that's what I know to standard. There was a couple kind of like, I don't want to say ABG, but like ABG type girls on YouTube saying like, hey, my look needs to get some love too. I got fuller lips, I got tanner skin, I got bigger eyes, still look Asian, but they're just bigger. Can I get some love too? Or is it all about Michelle Yeoh and Constance Wu? I'm not going to lie, man. If it was up to me and I could press a button, hell yeah, I would, but it's not up to me. But actually, I will say this, I think East Asians who are in media or have like any sort of platform, I think that they should give Southeast Asians more shine. And I think some do, but some don't. And I think that as an Asian group that gets lumped together that shares a lot of similarities, albeit not the same exact people, but a lot of similarities, we can look out for each other more. And I do think that East Asians could do maybe a better job, but again, I do think East Asians also run a lot of the big organizations that eventually will get around to telling Southeast Asian stories. So I think it's a process, but I will remind always my East Asian friends, like yo, like Southeast Asian, there are more Southeast Asians in the world than there are Japanese and Korean people in the world, combined, FYI. So while, although Korean and Japanese has a certain branding, you know, across the world. The elite branding. I would say the elite branding. By the numbers, there's way more Southeast Asians. So, of course, Southeast Asian is- Shout out to East Asian from Blackpink, who I think is like Chinese Thai, but learned Korean and is a big rapper. I think for me, especially in an American context, there's a ton that we can learn from each other. I mean, I think not just on a food level, but like living freely and just having different philosophies. I mean, it's not that everybody gotta live each other's life or wanna be each other or just even switch places, but you know, you can switch places for like an hour or like a week to have more empathy for each other and see what each other brings to the table. Cause of course all cultures are different. I don't think just because like Korea and Japan are the most developed and then China is a number two more developed, I guess like second tier developed. It's like, oh yeah, they won. They got all the advanced culture. They got all the, you know, K-Pops and the J-Pops and the Animes. I think there's stuff to learn all across the spectrum. And we could all learn to share. I know that I learned to be more street smart and stand up for myself and be, I guess more like masculine or more, you know, stand up for myself from my Southeast Asian friends and the situations that they were coming from. Or hopefully they learned from me too. Like, and not just to see, you know, to be into the more Oriental aspects, I guess, like, you know, I think they could just be in exchange both ways. Yo, Andrew, last but not least, this video could go on for a thousand minutes. I'm sure we could make a thousand videos about it. I'm pretty sure I read a thousand articles in preparation for this. I didn't even get to say like one tenth of what I ended up looking up. But listen guys- I could talk about this for hours. Listen guys, we're all Asian. We're all Mongoloid people. We all got to show love to each other because, you know, the truth is, Andrew, from the outside groups, they're all just perceiving us as one. What are some alternatives to jungle Asian and fancy Asian that still acknowledge the differences but are just like better or funnier to use?  So you don't have to use jungle and fancy Asian if you don't want to. I'm just going to go down the list real quick. Cold Asians versus warm Asians. And we're not just talking about temperature. We're talking about maybe personality and like open-mindedness as well. Cherry blossom Asians versus jackfruit Asians. I like them both. They both look cool to me. I like jackfruits. They're tasty. Conceded Asians versus humble Asians. I'm not going to lie. A lot of my Southeast Asian friends always said that East Asians were conceded. I hung out with a lot of both. And yeah, there's some truth to it. I mean, they got big egos. Cooked veggie Asians versus raw veggie Asians. Both good. Sometimes you need some warmth. Sometimes you need some freshness.  Yes, I do think that some people come from a more Klan-ish refugee experience where they got to ride or die for each other because they got such a harsh situation from their homeland civil wars. And like we said, East Asians, you know, the plan might be to more to appease certain gatekeepers to live a more Piyosh lifestyle and it is what it is. I can't control it. I can't go for it. I think there's pros and cons to each way. Passivist Asians versus passionate Asians. Oh man, the passivist Asian thing kills me, especially for Chinese who are known as being particularly passivist when it comes to in-person, you know, violence and confrontation. We might just get picked on more. Passionate Asians, Andrew. It's not just passionate in terms of you attack me. I'm passionately attacking back, but it could just be like passionate in the way you live your life or even date. Get bullied Asians versus get gully Asians. Oh man. Okay, then we got soy sauce Asian versus fish sauce Asian. I like them both. Everybody uses soy sauce, by the way. Everybody uses fish sauce. I know in Japan it's more like bonito. Both fermented. Yeah, fermented soybeans and fermented fish. Just used differently. Nine, heavy coat Asians versus tank top Asians. Right, it gets hot and humid in Southeast Asia. Here we got, this is a funny one. It's a good rhyme. Don't get mad at us. Compute Asians versus belute Asians. Oh, I like them both, man. I like computers and I like belute. Math Asians versus swag Asians. This is one I definitely heard growing up. Like I said, that's the Freddie W versus Brian Puss post thing. Swagger Pino, Illipino, Lytnamese, Nerdy Chinese. Obviously Koreans, they seem like a better balanced version of Chinese. I don't know. It is what it is. School Asians versus cool Asians. Corny Asians versus horny Asians. Oh, man. I definitely think East Asians became less corny though. 20 years ago, man, it was all nerdy. Yeah, I think the East Asians got more horny lately. Creppy Asians versus urban Asians.  Yeah, I think the lines are blurred in 2022, but definitely 15, 20 years ago that was very true. We got Plastic Surgery Asian versus Plastic Stool Asian. Oh, no. I always thought that was a dope picture of Obama eating Bun Cha Hanoi in Hanoi on a plastic stool using chopsticks, good form. Battle of the Greens. Amacha Asians versus Pandan Asians. Andra, that was Battle of the Green. I got Battle of the Purple. Taro Asians versus Ube Asians.  Ube all day. The Ube Purple Glow is such a vibrant version of Purple. And last but not least, Andra, perhaps the best way to sum it up that I like much more than Jungle Asian versus Fancy Asian, Metropolis Asians versus Paradise Asians. All right, let us know in the comments down below which one of those alternative terms you like the most. Also, let us know what you think about this whole discussion of using Jungle Asian and Fancy Asian. Once again, here's a reminder, everybody, any word can be offensive, given a certain context, intention, and tone. However, things can also just be a bunch of jokes too. So I just think, you guys, let us know in the comments down below, please hit that like button. Tell us what you thought about this conversation. It could continue. Let us know if you wanted us to touch on this topic again. Oh, we got one. I'll go on, make another hundred videos about this if you guys want to see it. Let me know if you guys want us to go like an hour straight streaming about this. All right, thank you everybody for watching. And until next time, we are the Hop Hop Boys. We are out. Peace.


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Now they most commonly hire people for call center positions and you're going to make somewhere around $15 an hour. And they actually have an estimator on their website that shows you approximately how much you're going to make. So if you work about eight hours per day and five days per week, you'll make about $600 per week and you will make more or less depending on the program you work for and the incentives. And by the way, my team and I vetted all of these companies. We scraped information from the internet. We made sure they had positive reviews before we put them on this video. So there's lots of positive reviews for this company on the internet. I'm not going to show all the reviews for every single company because that would take too long. But yeah, this is a really good option. It is $15 an hour, not amazing. But at the same time, if you're just trying to get started working remote, this can be a great option for you. The next one on the list is going to be one that is incredibly easy to start making money with. And that is going to be transcription specifically with go transcript.com. So basically you're going to be listening to audio or watching videos and you're going to be transcribing whatever is set and you'll get paid around 60 cents per minute that you transcribe. Now this one is super easy to get started with. It's another one where you can do it whenever you want. There's no sort of like time clock. There's no boss that's breathing down your neck or anything like that. You basically just take jobs whenever you have free time. And most people do this probably once a month. And that's why the average earnings per month is about $150. But some of the top earning transcribers make $1,200 or more. Now keep in mind people who do transcription professionally usually work for a bunch of different websites. So it's not like they're only making $1,200 per month. They're probably working for like five to 10 different websites. One of the big pros here is they don't have any fees, you know, one kind of red flag. I mean sometimes this works out, but it is a bit of a red flag is when the website will make you pay a fee in order to apply. You don't have to worry about that here. And another pro is if you're multilingual, you're going to have a massive advantage getting the best jobs. The next one on the list is going to be automatic. And it's kind of like a weird spelling of automatic. And this company hires all different types of jobs from engineering to design sales, to business development, to marketing, customer experience, technical support, and business operations. And they hire you for remote jobs and you can work from anywhere. Now one thing you want to look into when it comes to remote jobs is seeing if it's a remote job or a fully remote job. Because if it's fully remote, you can literally work from anywhere as long as you have an internet connection. And a fun fact here is they call their employees automaticians. Now they hire people from 70 different countries and they hire for a ton of different types of jobs. So the pay is going to vary greatly. But from all the reviews that I read online, the pay is very competitive. Now this is one of the companies that does have a little bit more of a rigorous application process compared to most of them on this list. So the first step is application submission, then you would do a Slack interview, then a Zoom interview, then you might do some type of tests. For instance, if you're a software developer, you would do a coding test. And then you would have a short project that you would do basically like a trial period. And then there would be an executive lead chat. And then you'd have a final chat. And then after that, you would get hired. Now the next one on the list actually ranked number one on the most popular remote job website as the best company that actually offers remote positions. And that is going to be LiveOps. Now LiveOps offers a bunch of different types of positions like retail support, healthcare patient support, inbound sales, home delivery support, government support, tax support, on demand entertainment, insurance claims and customer service. They hire people from the US and they typically pay $12 to $17 per hour.  You will have to do a background check, which costs about $24.99. Then you sign an independent contractor agreement. And then you'll have a variety of different programs that are starting every week that you can apply for. And then you can join the LiveOps nation and they typically pay between $12 and $17 per hour. Now the next one on the list is going to be one of the most famous companies in the entire world. And you can actually work remotely for them. And it's a very high paying job. And that is becoming an Apple home care advisor. Now Apple's brand is all about positioning themselves as the premium product. That's why their computers and phones are much more expensive than their competitors. And same thing goes with their customer support. They want to have the best customer support in the world. And so they don't just call themselves a customer service representative. They are Apple home advisors. And in order to have the best customer service representatives, you're going to have to pay them the best as well. So they make around $32 an hour plus incredible benefits. In fact, some estimate that the benefits are worth as much as the salaries. So this position is especially good if you're familiar with Apple products. The next one on the list is going to be Assyrian. And they hire people for corporate customer service and supply chain related jobs. This one has really good ratings online. And they have over 19,000 employees in 26 different countries. So as you can see here, they have a lot of business related jobs like strategy and planning program management.  And they typically pay somewhere between $21 and $32 per hour depending on the position that you're going for. Right. So I think you're starting to see like a lot of companies, even really big ones that have tons of employees are hiring people for remote jobs. And the reason for this is because it's actually good for the company. Having an office building is really expensive. So it's kind of nice to hire people for remote jobs. It's a win-win situation for all parties involved. So it's never been easier than now to get a remote job. And one really good website for doing this, and it's not sponsored or anything like that is Flex jobs. I mentioned them before in the video. At the very least, that's a great place to look for the types of jobs that you can get remote. The next one on the list is going to be concentrics. And this one was formerly known as converges. They hire a lot of people for quality assurance or computer science related jobs. And they have over 300,000 employees and over 40 countries on six different continents. And their employees speak over 70 different languages as well. And it's really easy to search for different jobs that they offer and apply. You basically just go to search and apply. And then you select the country that you're applying from. And you see there's client support specialists in Australia, customer service representatives in Australia, project coordinator, senior UX designer, et cetera. So yeah, a lot of opportunities available. The next one on the list is going to be amazing for you if you are multi-lingual. And that is going to be Gango for translators. And this is going to be a great way for you to start translating as a freelancer. You're going to have a very flexible schedule. It's not something where you have to do a full-time job or show up at certain times. And you can make pretty good money. Now, how much you can make is going to vary based on where you are, what kind of jobs you do, what kind of languages you know, et cetera. But the monthly average to translate something to English is about $417 per month. Now, keep in mind, a lot of freelance translators again, do like, you know, five or 10 different companies. So that might not seem like a lot, but it's actually pretty good. But according to reports online, they make approximately $14 per hour. Now, some languages are going to be more lucrative than others. For instance, translating to Chinese is $526 per month. And Spanish is $435 a month. Now, according to Glassdoor, Gango translators make about $4,451 per month on average. But also, keep in mind, translators typically work with a bunch of different companies, like I said before. And it can often be pretty tough to get jobs when you're first starting. The next one on the list is another transcription service, which is GMR. Transcription is super easy to get into and super easy to start making money. It may not be the highest paying. It may not be super flashy, but it is easy for you to actually make money online. And GMR does transcription as well as some translation. And they say on their websites that their transcriptionists and translators make around $1,000 to $3,000 per month. Now, keep in mind, this is another one where you're probably going to have more opportunities and get paid more if you are bilingual. And also, on the website, it says that you're typically going to make more money over time as you do more jobs and you get more of a reputation for doing good work. So they incentivize people who do a good job over a long period of time. The next one on the list is going to be a very well-known company, which is Enterprise. And you can get hired as a call center representative. They've hired over 2,500 employees and they work literally 24 seven 365 days a year. So there's always opportunities for shifts 24 hours a day. And they typically start off at $34,000 a year with opportunities to advance up to 65,000 when you're a senior level employee. Now, one con here is they are a little bit limited in where they hire. So they only hire from the US and they actually only hire from certain states as well. So right now they're only hiring from these states, which I'll have pop up on the screen. The next one on the list is going to be data stacks. Now, there's a lot of different jobs this company hires for and they pay somewhere between $19 an hour for something like an inventory auditor up to $73.59 per hour for a senior graphic designer. And this is another one of those companies that has really good perks and benefits. So they have great health benefits, retirement, employee stock options, discretionary time off, and they even offer pet insurance. But those benefits pale in comparison to the next one on the list, which is articulate. Yeah, they literally say on the website that they have super benefits. And they actually made it on the list of ink magazines best workplaces for 2022. And you can see with all those benefits, I mean, it's so much that I can't even list all of them, but I'll put them on the screen. Now, they typically hire people for engineering, marketing and communications roles and sales roles. And they hire in many different countries. So the pay does vary greatly. But some numbers that I found on the internet were $134,000 a year for a business development role $92,000 a year for an HR role, a lawyer was making $244,000 a year, and operations was making about 97,000. So this is kind of a high end company to work for. It's probably going to be much more difficult to apply to a company like this and get work right away. But it's one where you should definitely start the process. The next one on the list has a lot of business development and accounting jobs. And that is going to be ABC Fitness. So they hire a bunch of different types of jobs, they hire customer service representatives, and you can see they pay somewhere around like $17, $19 an hour technical support representatives somewhere around $22 an hour data analysts, they pay around $40 an hour bilingual customer support representatives $23 an hour, and you have software development making around $77 an hour. The next one on the list is going to be another very well known company. And that is Dell Technologies.  So right on the homepage, you see India, United States, Mexico, Panama, Malaysia, right? So they're hiring people from all over and the pay is going to vary greatly. The jobs in the United States tend to pay somewhere between $40 and $150 an hour. And Dell is one of those companies that pays really well and has good benefits. The next one on the list is going to be a company called 10 Up and they aim to make the web a better place by finally crafting websites and tools for content creators. And they hire a ton of different creative business and technology related positions. So for instance, account strategists, they're paying about $155,000 a year, advertising operations coordinators, they're paying around $72,000 a year and a recruiting generalist, they're paying about $95,000 a year. So another relatively high end place, probably a little bit harder to get started with this one. So it might be a bit of a long shot, but it's always worth a shot because if you apply to enough of those companies, you'll probably get lucky once in a while. The next one on the list is going to be a company that hires tech related careers. And that is ClevverTech.biz. This is another company that's going to be fully remote. You can literally work from anywhere. That's one of the perks of working in technology related careers is it's very easy to get fully remote jobs. And so you can work in a country like the Philippines or Thailand or something like that, where you can live like a king on $1,000 or $1,500 a month. And they say right on the website, tech talent does not limit itself to the west coast and neither should you. And I totally agree with that. And I actually love the UX and the UI design on their websites. So for instance, when you're looking for a job, you can actually search the jobs by the skills that you already have. So let's say you're really good at react, for instance, you can just click on react and you can apply to those types of jobs. So they make it really easy because a lot of the times companies are just really dumb when it comes to this stuff. And it makes you waste your time applying to positions that you're not even going to have a chance to get into. Now salaries are going to vary greatly, of course, but the average estimated salary at ClevverTech is about $52 an hour. Now the next one on the list is another international company. And that is Telus International. They employ 22,000 work from home or fully remote employees. And Telus International is all about customer experience and optimizing it for digital brands. You can work from anywhere they hire from many different countries. And of course the pay is going to vary depending on the country that you live in. But the pay that I saw online varied from about $7 to $82 per hour. Now it's going to know remote companies that are hiring. But what's even better is to know the skills and the jobs the companies are paying really good money for. And that's why I created a video where I went over the best remote jobs that you can get into at the entry level with no experience required. And you can check that out by clicking right here.


Dodgers are in Colorado. It's top eighth. The game is tied up at four. There's two outs. Zach McKinstry, his first at bat of the day, came in as a defensive replacement. The inning before. No career home runs to his name just yet. He's a young guy. And this one is brought to you by DraftKings. And if you want to make some money, you can go to DraftKings. You can download the app. You can use promo code Johnboy and you can sprinkle some money on the Dodgers because they're going to be very good this year. So McKinstry takes strike one there. Oh, and one, Givens gets him. Then outside the count is one and one and here's where it gets fun. Outside fastball throws it over the left field wall. Tapia, he's a fun player. Look at this. So it's over the wall. So it's a home run, but Tapia is really good defensively. He's able to get there, gets his glove on it, corrals it, but then it slingshots back onto the field. So he technically robbed the over the fence home run, but he doesn't realize that the ball's still on the field. He thinks it went over the fence.  I got my glove on, but now it's over the fence. Although fans are yelling. I'm like, hey, the ball's over there. So he gets up, sprints toward McKinstry's on the run though. Yeah. Let's go. First career home run and it's an exciting one. He's fired up. It's a go ahead shot in the eighth inning. Greets the dugout, oh, Tapia is kind of banged up, but not really banged up. Trainer comes out, does every single neck stretch you can think of. He says, I'm good. I'm good. Don't take me out. I just wish I caught that ball. Would have been a really cool highlight. Second time I had a real cool highlight, then lost it. Give me my hat. Let's do this.    He almost made a great catch, but I mean, I ran it out home run all the same. What a look he's got going on.  And this one's brought to you by DraftKings. Go to DraftKings. Use promo code Johnboy when you do. There's a lot of fun prop bets going on. There's a lot of fun bets. There's a lot of money lines.  There you have it. Thanks for watching. See ya.