Couldn't use this the block the block We could use this we could use this we could use this but come on man Run tight tonight. We'll see how it goes. I had two bad passes so far. I'm doing pretty good I ain't play no super comp defense for a full my a button and kind of stuck Cam I'm aware of that side made the run the first tournament sainton and why out and One track So, how are we like why is my my you would have just blitzed in the right spot linebacker would have been cool.  All right, man. I Locked back in dude.    That's my fire. I'll get that ball I had to go get that ball.  I it's just everybody's free. They're not blocking anybody, man Man heck. Thank you like dog man. I'm looking at the field man.  Oh my god. You just have a oh my God, just high ball dubby. What the man? Just high ball man. Why are you trying to fit it in this high ball? Oh My god, man. Oh My god I'm just wide open man. I know it too.  I gotta do that to our monk and that Waller. Oh my god You know what I did there. I didn't high ball that brother.  Just blown the it's sad man Hey guys, he's the best player ever played bro. Look at it. Just just like oh my god, man Just two terrible passes man two terrible passes. I never mess up Sell jobs Dog how man. Oh, it's just no way man. Just absolutely Right there man. Thank you, man should have just high ball in this game is a blowout easy. Come on We're gonna have a pick Medium knockout. What do I have it on the field for dog?  I just I just I can't cover nobody no more I really can't Literally just can't play man coverage anymore.  I really can't I got three picks to and we're losing by this much how two field goals and two picks dog. Oh my god. It's just Nothing Give me mine. Come on man Crap. Well, man, that's why you'll never be that's why you'll know you are absolute dog Just do it again. Why not just do it again, bro Jesus Christ, dude. Oh My god, like what?  I'm the pressure. Just tackle there you go. Good boys. That's good That's our ski. Come here. He over daught it. He should just kept on that deep corner robbers killing me block the block We could use this we could use this we could use this Come on, man Just absolutely bump to hell bump to dog like oh my god Like deon oh knock out under you get smoked like that. I just can't bro. Like he's just like too big He's just too big man. I should have been put in D on there with deep knockout I can't wait to get more deep like he's just chucking the ball, man I don't know. No, you can't you got a kick cuz then you lose on a field goal. I Don't even know what I would run there in those situations Well, we got momentum boys, huh? That was just great blocking their boys I actually love that blocking you that right there, man. These dudes were just so bad Yeah, I want almost pause to put it on conservative, but if I would have fumbled for two it's gold man I'm gonna put the on for that deep that deep pass might be a hell here Just just in disgusting. I just can't get on the right side of bumping. I just can't do it There's just no wet dog like I just I'm just bumping this out of him And I can't do nothing about it, man. I put the on there. I'm just I can't run to him I'm just done.  I just got to have a deep third on both sides I gotta be covered three everybody manned up. I just gotta be but that was my job to cover that That was literally my job and I put every time I bumped. I just ran and bump bump bump bump bump bump bump bump bump I can't lie. These dudes are Bag Like they're about both got to be wide open and the bump is just the bump is literally saving this man I just I he scared me with that runken. He really did. Holy I wasn't ready for that at all. Oh My god boys buckle up, man. That's the game He's why he's at he wanted to throw me the ball, bro He wanted to throw me the ball so bad right now. Oh my god. Thank you. GG's man. Let's go boys Dog just actual dog man. That's why you fight boys. Come on, man Darren waller had him just chuck it to waller, bro Just chuck it to waller. I mean mama. Why waller went off to our monk with off Cooper cup chub Everybody came and got a catch. This was I can't lie This was steamy boom That was a steamer. This was a steamer Meanwhile, nobody else on the field was open Nobody else on the field and my center gets blurred. I Mean dog these dudes are just strapped


And on top of national signing day for football, it was also signing day for women's soccer. And earlier today, BSU women's soccer head coach Jim Stone announced the Beavers have welcomed seven new recruits to their family. The Beavers addressed some needs with the signings and will welcome a goalie, a forward, four midfielders and a defender into their program for next year. I think it's a really good class. I thought we're excited about it. I think we have some really talented players. I think we have some versatile players who can kind of feel some different roles for us and move around a little bit, give us an opportunity to play some different systems if we chose to. And yeah, just generally speaking, we're excited about it and we feel like it's going to help us continue to move forward and continue being an elite program. Stone says they aren't done recruiting just yet and he does hope to add two more players very soon. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Everything I mean he was on the attack early and often and Kind of had that unhittable look to him, you know tonight where You know he you know, obviously he's been throwing the ball really well of late, but I thought tonight Was about as good as he looked that was similar to that Kind of April outing where he was so good against Boston I just thought all three pitches were were dominant pitches for it for him He was getting strikeouts with all of them And and just you know, he usually works quick, but just getting the ball and thrown and it was really good to see him Continue to build on on what's been a lot of momentum for him here in the second half You mentioned the momentum in the second half really the last six seven starts He's pitched extremely well is this kind of what you've come to expect when he takes the mound that he's gonna really set the tone Yeah, absolutely. We know he's capable of that and I feel like he's in a good place Not only physically bless you Susan, but I think and just really being laser focused on what he wants to do going into a game and having his plan airtight and he's He's delivering. I think he's in a really good place, you know in a lot of ways Gary Sanchez another two home runs tonight He had a nice road trip. What's been the difference for him at the plate? He seems like he's really dialed in Yeah, I mean this is what he's capable of, you know, I mean that the Homer to write I mean that's about as good a swing as you'll see from anyone. I mean that's that's as pure as you can hit a ball To where he hit it This is what he's capable of when he's locked in when he's controlling the zone He's as deadly as anyone and it's you know good to see him doing that Dan with Paxton, do you think there was anything to the notion that it might take time to adjust to a new? Environment and and that's what's helped him produce more this part of the season I don't know, you know because you know, I had some really strong outings early You know and then had the knee injury that kind of set them back and you know took them a while to get back and get going You know look, but there's there's always some adjustment to a new team, you know You know new coaches new new environment new teammates new catching, you know all of it. So I Feel like what I've really seen of him of late other than him being physically in a good place and having electric and dominant stuff is I feel like he He really understands what he's gonna go into a game and attack with and I feel like That's that's led to even more confidence in the way he's thrown the ball I was judge just out because of the score. Yeah Justin to the right Gary also set the the single-season Home run record for Yankee catcher meet think about the names the guys that have caught for this organization What does that mean to you for for the body of work? He's already put in at such a young age Again it speaks to what he's capable of You know, it's as good a power as anyone obviously the ability to hit it the other way the way he does So nothing he does Will surprise me, you know, and I expect him to keep getting better, too You know, there's a lot more in the tank as far as him continuing to get better and more consistent And and wherever he goes offensively, you know, it won't surprise me Anyone else Dan And can RC on just taking up where he left off. Do you think yeah? Thought he had good at bats again his first at bat where he just you know flies out It's he might have been o2 gets it back to 3-2 and it felt like he was on pitches That was able to throw the infield hit out there and then and then loses one But yeah more more the same with him where it's you know that that at bat quality That we love and it's good to get him back in the mix mirror Aaron with him is that just impressive considering the fact that he misses 30 games Has eight at bats in the minors comes up gets a single and a home run in his first game back Edwin can hit man and he knows he can hit he knows now as long as he's been in the league I think he has an understanding of obviously other pitchers and what they're trying to do but also What makes him tick and what makes him successful? So I think he he has a real keen understanding of what he needs to be right and You know, I think after a couple days. I think he knew in his mind. He was ready to go and Again, it's just good to have him back in the middle of lineup Okay. Thank you


This is stock number 11113. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2019 GMC Sierra 2500 crew cab short box. This truck has the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel with the L5P motor, which gives you 445 horsepower. This truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. The truck has been gone through mechanically 100% and is 100% ready to go. Ebony Twilight Metallic is the color. I think it's a new color on these GMCs. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the truck before seeing it in person. If you'd like to check out all the photos on this truck in the upper right hand part of your screen as a link right to our website, click that and check us out there. This one comes with the 20 inch chromed alloy rims. No scuffs or scrapes on there and it has Goodyear Wrangler SRA LT26560R20 tires. These front tires look like they probably have about, I'd say, 70 to 80% of the tread left. Very new tires on the front there. Does have the Rancho shocks with the Z71 suspension package. This is a one owner clean title history, clean auto check. This was originally owned in Des Moines, Iowa. Front bumper is in excellent condition, no dents or dings on that. It does have the front bumper parking sensors, factory fog lights. It has the HID headlamps, the LED running lamps, headlight lenses are nice and clear. You get that cowl sport hood there. And you do get the clearance lights up top. The grille is in really nice condition. Passenger side front fender, no dents or dings on that. And the passenger side rim, no scuffs or scrapes. As you go down this side of the truck, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. You can take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the truck, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here so that when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises. Spray-in bed liner, cab's in nice shape. And that's why we offer the Summit Auto Fastpass option in the upper right-hand part of your screen. A link right to our website where you can apply for financing. Get pre-approved. See a payment quote. Even appraise a trade, all from the comfort of your own home. So when you get here all you gotta do is drive the truck, love it, and be all set to go. And see just how nice and clean that frame and under body is. And has all the remaining factory exhaust. Has the nice chrome step bars that are in great shape as well. Back tires look like they have probably about, I'd say, 70% of the tread left, not quite as much as the front. It's still good tread there. And the back rim is in excellent shape as well. As we come to the back of the vehicle, rear bumper is in nice shape. You can see major imperfections on that. Does have the backup parking sensors, full towing package, which includes a receiver hitch, four pin and seven pin wiring. Tailgate is in pretty nice condition as well. Has the locking tailgate, the backup camera. Shocked down assist tailgate so it's never gonna slam on you. And you do get the fifth wheel and goose neck prep package back here. This one also has the LED bed lighting and the seven pin wiring in the back. Spray and bed liner. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly. And as you go down the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger's side. Dense or dings on the box. Looks really good. And for full disclosure, this back rim, no scuffs or scrapes on that. Down the rest of the side looks good. Didn't see any dents on the doors. Has the telescopic tow mirrors, built in directional signals, LED side lights. These do pull out like so and they also fold in. I believe they are power folding. So I'll show you how that works. Always like showing both sides. Make sure that you know that all the options are working nicely on the truck. You get those side lights to go with the cargo lamps. Power windows, power locks, power mirrors. Memory driver's seat, you do get both sound. Wood grain door trim.  There are no rips, there are no tears on those seats there. Really nice condition. Has a set of all-weather floor mats in here. They're in nice shape. Autohead lamps. Turned out four-wheel drive factory brake control. You do get the tilt and telescopic steering wheel, audio controls in the back of the steering wheel. And we'll hop inside here and check everything out. Turn the ignition on so you can see the miles and stuff. See that this one has 23,687 miles digital speedometer. Compass display there. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the heated leather-wrapped steering wheel. Bluetooth and information center controls on the right. Cruise controls, forward collision warning controls and heated steering wheel buttons on the left. Comes with the six-speed Allison transmission with the optional tap shift. Toe Hall mode has the GMC IntelliLink system with AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. If you go to the home here, you've got a projection system as well, where you can project your cell phone via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay to the screen. So if you've got a different navigation system that you like better than the factory one, you can use that, such as Waze or Google Maps.  We'll turn those on so you can see those side lights. Lane departure warning, downhill assist control and that's your factory exhaust brake. Down here you get two USBs, two 12-volt power points and then a 110-volt, 150-watt plug-in. This is also where your backup camera shows up. I don't think it'll go on unless I have the truck started. So when we start that up, I'll show you that. Passengers side floor mat and seat are in excellent condition as well. No rips or tears, smells very clean inside this truck. You get the Denali stitched into the headrest and the headliner is in excellent shape. I don't think this truck's ever been smoked in. Up here you have your map lights. That button right there indicates that you have the snowplow prep package on this truck and then you got on-star and SOS buttons in that room in there. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up and then check out under the hood. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. No rips or tears back here.  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Okay, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello. Got me? Got me in the back there? All right, good. Very cool. All right, welcome back from lunch, everybody. Got the tech set up. Everyone's having their seats there. Good luck having that bean burrito with queso on the side, settle in your stomach. Now, anyhow, coming up here, so far we've talked a little bit about attraction, meeting women and stuff. This next guy coming to the stage all the way from Boston, about to make a move to Texas, is gonna talk about what's going on in the bedroom. Boom, right down to the good stuff. And it's his first time speaking here at the 21 Convention and coming around you'll find a piece of paper where he's gonna give you a special discount distributed by our lovely assistant, Christina. She's gonna be giving you a paper that will pretty much lay out how you get a 50% discount on his book, Sex God Method, if anything, he's humble. Now, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage, Daniel Rose. Give it up. What's up, guys?   And at the end, I would like you to invest in it. But in this one, I'd like to deliver a ton of value to you guys and give you some really, really good stuff which you can take away and build sexual competence with.  I want you to have some written action steps which you guys are gonna take and which are individualized and customized to you. So ideally, as a result of this speech, you guys will be doing a couple things which are gonna directly improve your sexual competence. So in this presentation, we're gonna cover, number one, why I have come to believe that sexual confidence is the number one most important thing for dating, okay, for picking up women, and also obviously for giving women orgasms in the bedroom.  So obviously some really important stuff. Number two, I'm gonna show you my radical new model of how sexual confidence is built. Why I believe that all methods of building sexual confidence in the past were wrong and how they actually make your sexual competence worse. I'm gonna show you the new way which I've used and which some of my students have used which we've gotten some great results from. Number three, we're gonna talk about six counterintuitive strategies to improve your sexual confidence, to make you feel better about yourself in the bedroom and to make you more masculine and more sexually attractive. And finally, kind of as a part of this, I'm gonna work in some hard and fast techniques for giving women orgasms and giving them really incredible pleasure. So, get some good stuff. But first, I'd like to kick this off by asking you guys a question.  Stand up and raise your hand. That was good.  But there were like five guys in this entire room who stood up and raised their hand. But I think we all know that every guy, regardless of how big it actually is, has had insecurities about that at one time or another. And then every guy has thought about it at one time or the other.  But every guy has thought about it at one point or another but we have difficulty even emitting it. We have difficulty even talking about it. And this brings up a really important issue that I think is holding a lot of guys back with sexual confidence. We as men, especially men in America, it's socially unacceptable for us to even begin talking about issues which pertain to our sexual confidence. It's socially unacceptable for us to even think about them or to even admit to ourselves that we might need help in one of these areas. And this creates a big problem because sexual confidence, I believe, is the number one most important thing. And if you can't talk about it with anybody, I mean, if you can't even think about it to yourself, it's a problem because you can never make it better. So the first thing which I would ask of you guys going into this presentation is to come in with a really open mind and to recognize that a lot of men have problems in this area but they have difficulty admitting it. I want you to think about where could I improve my sexual confidence? Where could I improve my sexual skills? And don't just think that you know it all which is the classic mistake that many men make. So that's the first thing I wanted to point out about sexual confidence. Come in with an open mind and realize that every guy can stand the benefit from learning this stuff. So why do I really believe that sexual confidence is so important? Well, when I first started teaching sex, I noticed that when guys were coming to me, what they wanted was the technique. They wanted to know the way to move their fingers. They wanted to know the sex position that's automatically gonna give their orgasms or they wanted to know like 27 different techniques for oral sex. And at the beginning I would teach this stuff because that stuff helps. I mean, it's good to know. It's good to know different ways to give oral sex. It's good to know different sex positions but ultimately, if you're not a sexually attractive guy, it's not gonna make the difference for you.   So this is why I believe that sexual confidence is so important in the bedroom.   It's gonna be really pleasurable experience for you and her.  And another thing which I've noticed is that ever since I started teaching sex, I wasn't really focused on the pickup and dating side so much but I noticed that the more I approved the bed and the more sexual confidence I got, the better my results with women gut. I was a type of guy who before I got into all this stuff, I had a lot of what's called quote, intergame issues where I would get super nervous when I was going to talk to a girl. When I was going to like get her phone number, I would like freeze up and then not go for it. When I was going to kiss her, you know, I would get like super nervous and I knew that was my opportunity but somehow I just couldn't pull the trigger. When I was going to have sex with her and sexually escalate, I would like freeze up, I wouldn't know what to do and I would just have all these quote, intergame problems and for a long time I really wondered what was at the root of this? Why was I always freezing up and why did it seem to not go away even when I got more experience and finally I determined it was because of this.  I knew that ultimately before I learned this stuff, I would disappoint a girl if I succeeded. So a part of me didn't really want the success because I didn't want to experience that type of sexual disappointment and feeling bad about myself. So I was sabotaging myself, all right? And pick up and dating, I was sabotaging myself and many guys are doing this and if you look at your own behavior, you may be doing this to a certain extent too. So by improving your sexual confidence, you may be able to eliminate some self-sabotage.  They're not gonna make the difference.  Affirmations, NLP, EFT, hypnosis, and the old standby, fake it till you make it. What I wanna tell you guys is that these ways are not recommended. I don't think that these ways are gonna build any sexual confidence. In fact, I believe that these are actually gonna make your sexual confidence worse rather than better. Basically, I believe sexual confidence is built through action, not just indiscriminate action, but action on a few specific things.  Action, I think is where it's at, not imagining stuff. And I feel the reason why these ways don't work is that they're based on self-deception. They're basically based on fooling yourself. I did affirmations for years, and affirmations are basically telling yourself something which isn't currently true. And I think that this can be very damaging, first of all, because most guys fail.  So there's a very high failure rate. And also, guys who have built their confidence through self-deception, frequently what happens is they attract women who have also built their confidence from self-deception, who are energy vampires, and who may look good, but who will really damage your life. So frequently, even if you succeed with this type of thing, it's not the type of success that you would really wanna have.  And the keyword is sure. Once you start lying to yourself, though, you can never really be sure about anything.  So it undermines the feeling of being sure, which is why I really don't recommend any of these methods. Another mistake I wanna point out before we go into actually what to do is a lot of guys think of this as inner game. I really feel that you should remove the words inner game from your vocabulary, and there's a couple of reasons for that.  In my experience, it does not. If you're confident in your business skills, if you're confident in your artistic skills, it's good to have that type of confidence, but I know a lot of guys who have great business skills, who have great artistic skills, who are confident in many other areas of their life, who aren't having very much sex, and I know guys whose other aspects of their life are a total failure, and they're having great sex lives. Social skills, social confidence is definitely better than having no confidence at all. It can definitely help to get you in the door, but I know a lot of guys who have fantastic social skills, far better than myself, who are not having very good sex at all, who have a lot of friends, who can do some very impressive stuff and who impress other guys, and they have a lot of girls around them, but at the end of the day, their sex life is not that good.  I mean, if you wanna have a great business, you need confidence in your business skills. You know, if you wanna have a great social life, you need confidence in your social skills.   And the other thing, as we touched on before, inter-game contains the word game, which implies like tricking and self-deception again. Basically using techniques to trick yourself into being confident when there's no real basis for that. So I really feel inter-game is a very bad concept. Remove it from your vocabulary, replace it with sexual confidence.    These are frequently irrational. They're not totally based on what your sexual value in today's society actually is.    They're gonna affect your sexual confidence in the way that they are, whether you want them to or not, whether you think it makes sense or not. Now, this is how guys can develop sexual confidence just through experience and not through doing anything consciously. Basically what's happening is they're getting a lot of positive experience and naturally as a course of that, they're getting a lot of sexual value signals from women and from their social group. However, this can work. I mean, this is definitely far better than trying to get sexual confidence by imagining stuff. But it's a slow process as anybody will tell you.  So, let's talk about kind of a very negative cycle that a lot of guys get trapped in. Kind of like a dry spell. I'm sure everybody has experiences at one point or another.  Maybe it's not a big deal at first, but just kind of makes you feel a little down on yourself and your sexuality.    It is not a cause and effect phenomenon. A lot of people think that they can do one thing and their sexual confidence will go up a little bit and do another thing and it's gonna go up a little bit and do another thing and go up a little bit. Doesn't really work that way. Really it's more like a cycle where you do one thing and at first it's very difficult and you're probably not gonna see any perceptible difference at all. And you do another thing and another thing and another thing. And the first like beginning months are extremely hard. And this is why a lot of guys quit because they don't realize it's not gonna be that hard forever. The first few months are always gonna be the hardest.  I gotta put so much work into it.  I mean, who is, what natural has ever said that? I mean, nobody has because it's not hard once you've gotten there.  So if you're in this place right now, I want you to realize that only the first few months are gonna be really hard. If you can just make it past that, then it gets much easier. So let's talk about how I feel you can develop sexual confidence faster. I feel that ultimately the way to develop sexual confidence is through action, but not just through indiscriminate action, not just through like indiscriminately trying to get more sex.  The key, I think, to developing sexual confidence and getting better in bed faster than a lot of other guys is identifying what these disproportionately impactful parts of the interaction are, and then really focusing on mastering those parts.  So here's a few examples of what I mean by this. I feel that one of the most important parts of sex is after play or building an emotional connection after sex.  And I believe that. I truly do believe that. However, contrast that to mastering oral sex.  But when you master oral sex, I believe it's not as powerful of a skill.  And it's because once you master oral sex, you have a way to give any woman an orgasm basically anytime you want, no matter what. Even if for some reason you couldn't get it up or something went wrong or no matter what, you now have a way to give any woman an orgasm. Is that as important as building a sexual emotional connection after sex? It's actually not.  Another example, emotion. Again, building strong emotions during sex, making her feel strong negative and positive emotions. One of the most important things you can do. However, mastering sexual jujitsu, which is a technique I'm gonna teach you guys to improve your stamina. This is gonna enable you to last longer in bed.  But the feedback that you get from women while you're having intercourse, while you're insider, is really massively disproportionate for your sexual confidence. It feeds into the subconscious caveman mind again. Emotion is a concept which is difficult for our subconscious caveman mind to understand. But the feedback that we're getting while we're having intercourse with her, while we're insider, very easy for the subconscious caveman mind to understand. So it has a very disproportionate effect on improving your sexual confidence. Here's another example outside the bedroom. Now, there's a lot of different ways to get girls and that'll work. You can get girls through a very social and entertaining style of pickup, or you can get girls by being sexually honest and direct right off the bat. They both work for the individual girl. Sometimes the one will work better, sometimes the other one will work better.  If you are direct right from the beginning, then that means she wants you a lot more. Again, not totally rational because in both cases you had sex. But the subconscious caveman mind doesn't understand that it just knows that you were open and she wanted you and that's all that goes in. So, sexual value signals, as we talked about before, can come from her.  But there are sexual value signals which do not come from the girl. Some of them are gonna come from your social group. We'll go into exactly how that happens in a minute and some sexual value signals, some important ones actually come from yourself, from the messages you're sending your subconscious caveman mind. Here's one example of how your social group can affect your sexual confidence. I remember when I first started doing boot camps I would get kinda like nervous about how I was gonna do because I did well when I was with my friends and we were just picking up girls on our own. But I was like, maybe the pressure of the boot camp is gonna cause me to perform a lot worse than I normally do. But what I found is that it's actually the exact opposite. When I was doing boot camps I was actually doing way better than I normally did. And I was really thinking about this for a while because it didn't really make sense because typically I was with a few guys who were very nice guys, very well-intentioned but not very socially skilled yet. But despite that I was doing better on the boot camps than when I was with my friends. And I talked to a lot of other guys who were doing boot camps and a lot of them experienced the same exact thing. And the reason why I feel this boot camp effect exists is because of the value signals that the group was sending me. When you're on a boot camp and the students are looking at you not just as a person but as a guru, you know what I mean? And because they have such high expectations of you because they expect that you're gonna be phenomenally sexually successful beyond any normal human being that expectation makes you more sexually confident and translates into more success. So that's one example of how your social group can affect your sexual confidence and indirectly make your sex life better. Another example, here's another one which I think we've all been through before in which a lot of guys don't even think about. What happened to you guys the last time that you got caught masturbating? I mean, I know what happened to me. This was actually after I wrote the sex on meth, after I figured a lot of the stuff out. Like reflexively I just jumped up and it was really embarrassed right away because I didn't even think about it. It was just a reflex that's conditioned in. But when I thought about this later on, I thought about what sexual value signal does that send yourself? That sends yourself the signal that you should be embarrassed about your sexuality if someone walks in on you masturbating and you just get really embarrassed about it. So these are a few examples of how sexual value signals can be sent from people other than the girl and how they can be very important and affect your sexual confidence.  Number one, a girl having an orgasm during intercourse. Again, not the most important thing in fact, but your subconscious caveman mind thinks that this is the most important thing.  A girl having an orgasm during oral sex, not quite as intense and again, not as important as some kind of non-orgasmic skills. A subconscious caveman mind thinks it is. Another one, if she's really moaning and bucking in really obvious pleasure during foreplay, that's gonna increase your sexual confidence as well.   And we're gonna go into exactly how to maximize all these things in a minute. But you may be thinking if I'm not having a great sex life right now, how can I kind of get the cycle going? And here are some ways where if you're not quite at that level yet, you can get the cycle going so you do get those value signals coming in. Number one, here's a really small one which can actually be surprisingly important. Looking at yourself in the mirror and seeing a sexually attractive guy, looking like what you physically wanna look like, looking like the type of guys who have great sex life. In actual fact, this is not as important as a lot of guys think it is. But for your confidence, it comes at a very strategic time because this is something which can give you confidence even if you're not getting any positive sexual value signals from one. And we're gonna talk about this in a little while but this is why I really feel that you should work on your physique and your appearance because it gives you a very solid foundation for your sexual confidence where even if you lose everything else, you still have that. Expectations, we talked about this before with the boot camp effect. If your friends expect that you're the type of guy who's not gonna be sexually successful, then the reality is you're probably not gonna be. Now, if they're actively bringing you down, obviously that's bad. But even if they're really well intentioned, what's up? Okay, even if they're really well intentioned, then you can tell that even if they're well intentioned and they don't think you're gonna be sexually successful just because of what they've seen from you in the past, then this can really negatively impact your sexual success. So I feel that if you're hanging around with a peer group like this, then they gotta go. I mean, there's no way around this.  Finally, being honest and open about your sexual intent as we talked about before. I wanna skip to some of the strategies which I have for building sexual confidence now. The first strategy which I have for building sexual confidence is to stack the deck. And here's what I mean by this. We as guys, we typically have a tendency to do things which make great war stories because great war stories where we overcome a lot of obstacles and disadvantages. These are what get us props from our friends. Like this is what men think are cool. However, this type of behavior is, first of all, not very good for getting laid.  I feel that you should stack the deck and get every possible advantage in your favor before going in so that it's as easy as possible. One example of this is I'm sure you guys have all heard of stories like this where a pickup artist goes in through a group of 10 girls or 10 steroid-using guys and one girl and he goes in and he disarms all the guys and he does all this crazy stuff to overcome all the obstacles and then he gets a girl's phone number. And that's very impressive sounding that. He could do all that, is that phone number really worth anymore than if he just went up to a girl by herself? It's not really, in fact it's actually worth less. It just makes a more impressive story.  Very impressive, right? But is it really worth anymore than if you just got a girl who was already sexually confident and she had an orgasm without you barely having to do anything? It's not.  So, what I want you to do is to ask yourself, what can I do before sex starts or before the pickup or dating interaction even starts which is going to give me a massive advantage? And I want you to regard everything as being 50% over before it begins. A lot of guys, they trap themselves being only using techniques which work in the moment. But what you have to realize is that before you've even approached a girl, it's 50% over.  So, here's a cool way to stack the deck.  This actually works, 100% guaranteed. And not only that, it's actually healthy. Who'd be interested in learning that? Okay, well, you may be a little bit disappointed because this is what it is. Bodybuilding, fitness.  And I don't think this is the only reason why you should stay in shape, but this is a nice little side benefit. So if you're thinking about extends or the penis extender exercises, this is definitely much more recommended. I feel that the importance of your physique has been drastically underestimated by a lot of the dating gurus out there. First of all, having great physique does have a direct effect to build sexual attraction. Just looking good does turn around a little bit, but it has a much more powerful indirect effect. You're going to get compliments on your looks and if you're not getting any other positive sexual feedback, this can be a very important source of sexual confidence. Another one, as we talked about, you're going to get that social group effect because a lot of guys really drastically overestimate the importance of having an awesome physique and they think that it's everything. They think that if you have a great physique you should be having the best sex life. Not necessarily true, but it can be a very self-fulfilling prophecy. If everybody expects you to be getting laid like that, I've found a lot of the times that's what happens. Another one is that a visual turn on is a huge confidence builder when you first start having sex. If you take off your shirt and she gets turned off, I mean in the grand scheme of things that's a very small amount, but it's very demoralizing because that's the first thing that happens in the bedroom. And if things are going wrong right off the bat, now you have to turn it around and it's much more difficult. Whereas if things are going right off the bat then it's comparatively easy. So I really got to blow through this and I almost hesitate to put the slide in, but I want to give you like my three best tips on bodybuilding to kind of start you guys off. And I want to emphasize, this is the whole field of study and I encourage you guys to devote as much time to this as you do to sex or dating. But here are my three top tips. Number one, I want you to emphasize heavy compound lifts when you're in the gym. This is going to build size a lot more faster than say like bicep curls or crunches which a lot of guys are doing. Number two is I want you to emphasize free weights as much as possible and minimize machines. If you notice that typically a lot of the guys in the machines are not so big, the guys in the free weights tend to have much better physique. Number three is I feel that legs are an important key to success. If you guys have to get us to shout it out, what do you think is the body part that turns women on the most? What do you guys think? Abs? Text? Yeah, I mean typically that's what guys say, abs, pegs, biceps.   They're actually not really affecting her sexual arousal as much as you would think. But if you have a very strong, powerful ass, this is actually a much more of a turn on than you would expect. I'm sorry.  Whereas if you're skinnier, then you're probably gonna be a much weaker, less virile man. So don't neglect your legs. And again, I really wanna emphasize that I basically covered a whole field in 30 seconds. I actually started a business with my own personal trainer, Mike Chang. You may have noticed recently I put on a lot of muscle. I was originally about 130. I'm about 160 right now. And the way I did it was by basically following his advice. So if you wanna learn more, check out sixpackshortcuts.com. We have a bunch of free articles and videos where you can really dive deep into that. So that's bodybuilding. Here's another one which I can feel, I feel really improves your sexual confidence disproportionately. Give her an orgasm before intercourse begins. Now here's why I feel this improves your sexual confidence so much. If you give her an orgasm before intercourse begins through finger stimulation or oral sex, what's gonna happen is, number one, it's gonna make it easier for her to have an orgasm during intercourse. And number two, it's gonna take a lot of the pressure off of you. So you're gonna perform a lot better during intercourse. And as we talked about before, the feedback that you're getting from her during intercourse is not the most important thing in the grand scheme of things, but your subconscious caveman mind thinks it's important. So it has a very disproportionate effect on your sexual confidence. And there are many different ways to do this.  Here's another one, sexual stamina. Again, the caveman mind really, really thinks intercourse is important.   Okay, so here's a few tips to improve your stamina. Number one, a lot of the times during sex, we as guys, we have a tendency to take shallow, rapid breaths. This is very natural, that's a natural thing for men to do, but it's also very bad for your stamina because when you're taking shallow, rapid breaths, something about that makes your body tense. And when your body is tense, it inevitably triggers that ejaculation reflex and you have an orgasm too soon. So the next time that you're having sex, one thing that I'd like you guys consciously focus on is taking very slow, very deep breaths that come from your diaphragm. So your stomach expands when you're breathing in rather than your chest. And this is gonna feel really weird to be consciously thinking about your breathing while you're having sex at first. But just do this like two or three times and before you know it, it's gonna become natural and you'll start naturally breathing that way even when you're very aroused. This is a very simple thing that you can do which is gonna have a small but noticeable effect on your stamina. So that's one thing which you can start off with. Here's another very simple one is the sexual jujitsu technique that we talked about before. One thing which I have noticed is that sex can be kind of difficult for us as men because kind of the nature of sex causes us to thrust into the girls. That's just how it's done.  And again, it triggers your ejaculation reflex. So I feel that one thing which you can do which is really gonna help you out is to have what I call non-thrusting intercourse. This is gonna feel exactly the same as regular intercourse to her but it's gonna help you improve your stamina.  In the missionary position, rather than thrusting into her 100% of the time, 50% of the time actually stay still, stay relaxed and pull her back onto you.   And I think you get the idea. Basically, rather than thrusting 100% of the time, part of the time actually stay relaxed and pull her onto you. There are infinite varieties on this theme which you can use. For example, doggy style, rather than thrusting into her 100% of the time, 50% of the time pull her back and forth onto you. To her, it'll feel very similar to thrusting but the benefit to you is it's gonna allow you to stay relaxed and therefore last much longer. Another good one, if you're really struggling with this, is I recommend you use my blow job meditation technique. Here it is. Most of the time when guys are getting blow jobs, you know, it's really enjoyable for us. So we just try to get as much pleasure out of it as possible and it ends up getting us actually more excited and more tense by the time sex begins. What I feel is a good way to improve your stamina is to actually focus on getting more relaxed as she's going down on you before sex and to almost try to attain a meditative state of consciousness where nothing is going through your head, you have no distractions, you're not tense at all and you're just totally relaxed and present and in the moment. And just focus on that while she's giving you oral sex. I find that this is gonna allow you to last a lot longer once intercourse begins. So these are three kind of like quick and easy techniques which you can use which are gonna have a positive effect on your stamina. But I feel the long term solution is not a technique like this, it's what I call immersion. It's attaining a state of mind where you're totally in the moment and totally comfortable and totally relaxed during sex. Once you have this, then you can do again pretty much any technique and you're gonna have great stamina. So I encourage you to just like try these three out, just see that this stuff works and then once you've seen that it works to step it up and to learn immersion which is gonna be kind of a longer term project but ultimately a lot more rewarding. Okay, here's another one.  If you're with a girl who maybe isn't very sexually confident herself and you're actually doing some good stuff but she's not responding to it but just because of her issues that still affects your sexual confidence even though it shouldn't.  So I feel that one of the most important things that you can do is to select a girl who's gonna be sending you those sexual value signals who is sexually confident herself. So one very important thing which I feel you should concentrate on this is get out of what I call the Madonna horror complex. This is basically a belief that a lot of guys have that women fall into two categories. The good girls who we have relationship with and the bad girls or the whores who we just hook up with. These are imaginary because these two categories don't exist.  There's a good girl and a bad girl side to all women. She's just gonna show you one of the other if you have this belief system depending on what she wants from you. So the first thing I would say is don't consciously select women for relationships who aren't very sexual. This is a big mistake.   Here's another really quick one which you can use.   This is so simple. This is mind-numbingly simple but nobody does it because a lot of guys have too much ego to do it. Here's what you do. After you have great sex, ask her what was one thing your passport friends did which was the best, which was really amazing for you. And a lot of guys don't wanna hear about that so they never ask it. But if you do ask it, if you're sexually confident enough to ask it, then she's gonna tell you and all you have to do is do the same exact thing. All you have to do is do the same exact thing that she told you and it's gonna work great. And that's another thing you can do to really quickly increase your sexual confidence and start having a better sex life. Another strategy which I think is great to use to increase your sexual confidence is to hold the trump card. If you have the ability to handle later situations, I think this is really gonna have a positive effect on your sexual confidence in earlier situations. I had a bunch of more specific examples which I wanted to mention but because of time I'm only gonna mention kind of a one big picture one which is sex and how it can affect your dating success. It's inevitable that you're gonna be thinking what's gonna happen later on down the line early in the interaction. If you feel you're gonna sexually disappoint her, then this is gonna negatively affect your confidence. Not only this but once you've started having sex and if you haven't developed relationship skills yet because a lot of times that's gonna come after sex, this is gonna cause you to kind of sabotage yourself early in the relationship and make mistakes. So one overarching theme which I want you guys to really zero in on is to focus on the later parts of an interaction over the earlier parts. That was a really good one, we'll have to skip. But I really wanted to get to this one because I see this is a very common mistake that a lot of guys make.  And I feel this is a really big mistake because a lot of times it ends up being where they'll quit and they'll quit right away and they'll just give up on themselves. I feel a much smarter way to do things is to start small. Okay, start small, start with something that's impossible to fail.  Then you can do something a little bit bigger and a little bit bigger. But I really wanna urge you guys to not start with something like crazy right off the bat because that's kind of a recipe for failure.  And you're gonna build confidence much faster than you expect with this. So unfortunately I gotta skip a lot of this stuff but one thing which I really wanted to touch on before I close this out is the concept of sexual kaizen. Kaizen is basically a Japanese word which means constant and never-ending improvement. And I feel that this is obviously a good idea but it also gives you a lot of confidence because if you can see that you're gradually improving your sex life a little bit every day and you can see that curve of how it's going up, this is also gonna indirectly increase your sexual confidence and make the curve go even faster because something about that, something about a little bit of improvement every day makes it seem inevitable that we'll eventually get a great sex life in a way where inconsistent but larger improvements do not. So one thing which I would like you guys to do before we close this out is to write down I commit to constant and never-ending improvement in my sex life and to write down one specific way which you're gonna do that.  So real quick just write that down now. Yeah, sure. Okay, great, does everybody have there one thing?  So if you wanna go deeper into this and you wanna learn more about the techniques for giving women orgasms and becoming great in bed, I recommend you pick up a copy of my book The Sex Guy Method.  It's based around my system of the four mental orgasm triggers. Unlike a lot of sex books, it's not based around a lot of different sex positions and physical techniques. It's based around how to turn a woman on psychologically and I feel that once you turn around psychologically with these four orgasm triggers then it's gonna be easier to give orgasms using any technique.  Basically, any sexual technique that you would wanna know, any issue which you may be running into, any sexual limiting beliefs that you may have, this book is gonna be the answer for that. So with The Sex Guy Method, I found that a lot of guys who came in without a lot of sexual experience, they came in and they were able to give women orgasms for the first time. Even guys who had a lot of sexual experience and were having pretty good sex were really able to take it to the next level and start having really great multi-orgasmic sex. One guy came to me and he was already kind of giving women orgasms, but he learned one of my techniques called a continuously orgasmic state where she can be having orgasm continuously for five or 10 or 15 minutes. And he thought that he was already having great sex life so there wouldn't really be too much from there.  So there are a lot of guys like this and you can check out my website for a lot of testimonials. But basically this has worked for me and this has worked for a lot of other guys too. So for you guys at the 21 convention, kind of as a thank you for being here, I'd like to offer you a 50% discount on my book if you'd like to invest in it today. I handed out, there were forms handed out before where if you fill that out, just fill that out with your information if you wanna learn more about my book and you'll get 50% off. You also have a 30 day trial of our VIP membership where you'll start getting feedback from some of my other top students and start getting access to our monthly content. It'll be a 30 day free trial on that and if you decide to keep it, then it will be $67 a month after that. So obviously I love it if you guys would invest and decide to take the next step in improving your sex life and we could really do something great together. So finally, I would like to thank you guys for listening to my talk today and I really encourage you to take that action.  Really commit to doing that one thing and it'll have a lot of positive effect on your sex life. So thank you and thank you for Anthony for hosting this.  How do you escalate quicker? Good question.  Much better to practice with a girl who you're having sex with regularly. In fact, this really wasn't designed for a one night stands because you can only build a lot of the comfort and trust which a lot of the stuff requires over time. So I feel if you wanna become great in bed, long-term relationships, or if you wanna have multiple girls, open relationships are the way to go. So good question. All right, cool. Yeah, give it up for him one more time. Daniel Rose.


Yeah, so we're excited to have Chris Benda aka the Illinois botanizer to present for us. So Chris is the is a botanist and past president of the Illinois native plant society. He's currently a researcher at the Southern Illinois University where he coordinates the plants of concern Southern Illinois program and teaches the flora of Southern Illinois. So besides working at SIU, he conducts botanical fieldwork around the world. I know he's been to Hawaii, many, a couple of times now very jealous of that teaches a variety of classes at the Morden Arboretum and leads nature tours at camp. How do I say this on the song. Okay, thanks. He has research appointments with the University of Illinois and Argonne National Laboratory and is an accomplished photographer and author of several publications about natural areas in Illinois. He has an awesome website. www.illinoisbotanizer.com and I particularly really like your like natural community game that you have on your website. It's pretty awesome where you can connect like different management practices and species to natural communities. It's super cool. Anyways, I'm really excited that Chris is is is going to present to us and I think we could learn a lot from the program that he manages. So I'll let you take it from here Chris. Okay, thank you very much for the introduction I'm actually headed to Hawaii for my sixth trip on Sunday. So, lucky me. But I'm here today to talk about the plants of concern program here in Illinois. So this is a community science rare plant monitoring program. And this is actually the fourth time that I've given a talk on this topic. And on some of the other times I had a little little more time and so I started that I showed the video that's at our website plants of concern.org. It's about six minutes long so I encourage people who are interested to go to plants of concern.org and and watch the very well produced video that explains a little more about the program as well. I have a lot to talk about so I'm going to go pretty fast here. But again my name is Chris Benda work in Southern Illinois. The plants of concern program is a partnership between Chicago Botanic Garden and Southern Illinois University. And about other things that I do there. So as I'm sure most people are aware, Illinois has seen a lot of habitat destruction alteration etc like most of the country. It's estimated that there were 22 million acres of prairie in the prairie state, and about 2200 acres is considered to be in a pristine or nearly pristine natural condition. So one 100% not very much. So, Illinois has seen drastic landscape changes and of course that has implication for our native plants. I think it's good to acknowledge that there have been many people who peoples who have you know, been in North America, and ones that precluded Europeans were loose confederation of tribes here, many different ones here in Southern Illinois. To acknowledge that we do have a lot of public land in Southern Illinois, and this map shows a little bit about that so we have the Shawnee National Forest is about 290,000 acres that's in the brown. We have two national wildlife refuges crab orchard there is to the north and blue, and then the scattered blue to the south is the Cypress Creek. And then the wildlife refuge and then of course we have several large state owned properties like the cash river state natural area. And so collectively there's lots of places to view plants and, you know, honestly for plants to live in the environment so that's, that's one thing that is really enjoyable, I think about living in Southern Illinois. And if you watch the video they will quote this paper that said one third of all plants may be at risk of extinction. It's kind of a big reason for doing plant monitoring and plants concern program. Some of these are fairly obvious but of course there's many threats to native plants, sort of, first of all is plants need places to live. And we look at the landscape around Chicago there's not a lot of places for plants to live in this kind of environment but perhaps you're a tree. So that's sort of obvious thing. We look at fragmentation effects as well. In Jackson County, which is where Carbondale is Southern Illinois University in my home county. We see a fair amount of, you know, dark green, which is our forested blocks so fragmentation in Jackson County is not too terrible.  So we still have, of course, it makes it species concerns that were mentioned, you know, earlier bush honeysuckle is one that is pretty prevalent throughout Illinois and pretty much any place where there are trees is under story of bush honeysuckle Japanese still grass has really been taken off as well. I live in a country club where we collectively have 400 acres.  So that's concerning. There's also climate change effects to take into consideration and what actually is kind of interesting in regard to this with southern Illinois is that our rare plants may benefit from climate change you know that's anticipated the climate is going to warm. And so in southern Illinois we're at the northern extent of a lot of southern species. So as the climate warms those species may be moving farther north and becoming more common in southern Illinois. So that may be beneficial in that regard but of course in the northern part of the state where we have the program occurring as well. Plants are also going to be moving farther north. So that may not be as good for the rare plants in that region. So plants of concern was started 20 years ago actually had our 20 year anniversary. It was it's been run out of the Chicago Botanic Garden in northeast Illinois for those 20 years and just this last year with a large anonymous donation they were able to do a number of things including expand the program to southern Illinois. So I was hired in January to implement the program so we're almost a year into things and what's really. I want to highlight about this is a good example that kind of you know justifies or explains the program is in Cook County. The Cook County Forest Reserve District has over 500 rare plant subpopulations. So if they wanted to annually monitor all of these with their four biologists, it would be impossible. So the idea is to, you know, get the help of community scientists volunteers that will be trained and will annually go out on their own to monitor rare plant populations. This is one of the, the gist of things and I spoke to the Cincinnati wildflower society recently and now Kentucky native plant society and spoken of course to the Illinois native plant society. So this is something that would be interesting to see either, you know, created in other states or perhaps even a larger sort of Midwest plants of concern type of program so it seems like there's lots that to expansion that can happen here. So we monitor rare and listed species listed either as federally threatened or endangered or state threatened or endangered but one of the things that I really enjoyed about the program is. I was given a lot of flexibility when I was hired to design things so I was able to choose what counties to include and I included all the unglaciate any county in southern Illinois that has unglaciated terrain that's 14 counties. And then I developed the list of plants to monitor. So, as I said, we have federally threatened or an endangered in fact in Southern Illinois we only have one federally listed plant species that's Meads milkweed and it occurs at a couple sites it's very rare. But we have a number of Illinois threatening endangered species. I think there's 374 species statewide. So any of those that occur in the southern part of the state are included like the early sacks of fragile my crantees for geniensis. And then some things that are of regional interest, or perhaps are rare and just aren't listed for whatever reason like Leatherwood. And of course we are providing this data for conservation, the natural heritage department natural heritage division at the Illinois Department of Natural Resources they maintain the database of rare plants so that's kind of the central location for all of this information and that's where our data will eventually make it. So that's excellent and sort of a quick little thing about why we do annual monitoring this is the shoreline of Lake Michigan up in Lake County, and Lake Michigan has been experiencing higher than normal lake levels for many years which is causing a lot of erosion. There's actually several dynamics go at play here, but you can see from 2012 on the left to 2018 on the right that we're losing shoreline and those polygons are where rare plant populations once occurred, things that grow on the beach. We don't have a lot of beach in Illinois so a lot of those species are rare and you can see that they're underwater and they're not going to thrive very well there so with annual monitoring. We can keep an eye on the situation and in some cases propagate plants and put them elsewhere you know it's very drastic approach but in some cases that has been done and is needed. So I mentioned we had a there was an anonymous gift that allowed this new Community Science initiative, including expanding the program to southern Illinois this is a two year term position with the hope and expectation. I think that we will find a new funding source to continue it indefinitely, but also this donation was used to make the video which I mentioned is on our website, and to produce a mobile app and online training and update to the website. So the training we used to do in person, which has a lot of value as you can imagine, but it's also limiting and so we moved the training online which obviously was very beneficial for the pandemic period. So people can go on to the website and do the training and get, you know, trained up that way. Now the mobile app is what I'm really excited about. I was a little hesitant. I kind of like paper forms I always have and I would print off these paper forms and fill them out and when I finally embraced the mobile app I thought this is amazing I don't know why I've ever used a paper form in my life. But honestly, this is an app that you download and you go, you can, you can do all the data entry in the field, including your GPS points and do it all on your phone. So it's really amazing and it's something that we've talked about if there are other states that want to have a similar program that they could use the app as well in fact we've even talked about having a biologist at the state level, use the app when you go out and find rare plant populations. So you have to generate the assignment ahead of time, and you have to have a cellular connection to get that assignment to access it on your phone. But once you've done that when you're in the field, even if you don't have a cellular connection, you can do all the data entry, you just can't submit it, you can wait and submit it once you get cellular wifi which you know in Southern Illinois is an issue we don't have strong cell service throughout the region. So I really like the mobile app it's so amazing to get home at the end of a long day and know that the data entry is all taken care of already. And then of course I mentioned we updated the website, and that's really slick as well. So plans of concern, you know we'd love to have it statewide, but that's not possible yet so as I mentioned it's been in Northeast Illinois for 20 years, and then expanded to Southern Illinois starting this last January, and 14 counties there delineated as you know Southern Illinois. So when we go to a rare plant population of course we have the extent where are the plants located us and again we use that GPS on our phone. You count the plants get an idea of how many what percentage of reproductive record the associates species, and any impact impacts like invasives or any management that's known to be done directions on getting to the site etc. What I actually been doing is tracking my path on my phone and then I can upload that to GIS and I can make a map for that can be used on the events app. So if somebody was to go back to the site in another year they can download the PDF map that I created see the tracks that I put on there and just literally follow my footsteps to go to these sites and really access them, you know easily because in Southern Illinois, some of the sites are large or they're far from where you can park and so navigation is really an issue where you know in Cook County, you can pretty much drive right up to whatever you want to look at and have a short walk and be there so. Those are things we're doing there. So quickly here I want to mention some of the highlights of this year so I'm going to just fly through some of the habitat types and rare plants we have in Southern Illinois like limestone glades. We have really small forested openings that of course are becoming encroached with red cedar and you know natural succession. We have meats milkweed. We have material oblique was rare the climbing milkweed, loose age Salvia, Azaria, and my favorite hex electrospecata sandstone cliffs are also common in Southern Illinois, where we have things like high low Telfium telephioides, which is this formerly There are cliff club mods there, Hapuzia, Perophila. Ooh, the filmy fern is one of my favorites, Vanden Boschia Boschianum, and the femuranthus parvo floris, the small flower, fame flower, those all on sandstone. And then of course the wonderful French's shooting star, Primula Frenchii, once thought to be endemic to Southern Illinois but it can be found in several other adjacent states including Alabama. But beautiful one we have the mother load I like to say of the French's shooting star. We have these acid gravel seeps in, you know, extreme Southern Illinois, Pope County and Massac.  The star sedge, we have Plotanthura clavalata, an orchid, and Rexia mariana the meadow beauty. The streams are interesting. We don't have a lot of plants that really grow in the stream but we do have this neat one the Plantago Cordata heartleaf plantain there's maybe 10 locations for that in Southern Illinois it does occur actually in other parts of the state as well. And then the really rare green Trillium I'll tell you about in a second flood plain forest swamps hydraulic Uniflora is rare just four locations I found for that this year. I'll tell you that in a minute and then of course this one here oxalis Illinois answers discovered and described in Illinois by John Schwagman, our former state botanist. Really lovely little sorrel. And then we also have the silver bells hallesia tetraptera, Styrox Americana, Clematis crispa number that this year and Amorfa 910s. We have a couple in forests, some other interesting things but I really want the little bit amount of time I have left want to talk to you about some finds this year so northeast Illinois in 20 years they've got a lot of volunteers involved. A lot of species monitor a lot of sites visited in Southern Illinois just this year we've had 38 volunteers we taken into the field we've monitored 92 species. We've had 68 sites for total 304 EO so one species monitored at one site that is one EO so 304 from this this field season is a number I'm very proud of. So some of the neat things that we found here in the remaining five minutes. And then we also found out that the EO is a rare spleen wart fern. I'd never seen this before it seemed like it was near extirpation in Illinois, very little was known about it or seen in the last 20 years and we went to one site and found hundreds of them, which motivated us to find all five known locations for this plant. Confirm its extant in all of them. So that was really exciting we did that in February when this is really conspicuous and of course the temperatures are nice. And so that was very motivating to do that. I've never seen any other geniuses I'd never seen early saxophage before. And it's only in Hardin County in Illinois and not only only Hardin County but only along the Ohio and Sanstone ravines of Hardin County, very localized but within those habitats. Super common I counted probably 50,000 I mean estimated 50,000 flowering plants I mean all the sandstone exposure had just loads of this. So it really is one that's made me think about what is a rare plan if there's 50,000 flowering stems but only in a small localized area of the whole state is that really endangered or rare. I'm not sure. And so it's been interesting to think about those things. The Agro Marginata was one that was only known at three sites that I visited all three back in 2013. And this is one that I learned well when I worked in Missouri. The periginia are shorter than the leaves. So that excludes a lot of other carex but they flower in April and the periginia fall off very quickly. And so it's one that you can only identify for about a month of the summer. I think that may be why it is so there aren't many occurrences listed so this summer I found 10 potential new locations now I didn't have any periginia so I couldn't be sure I'm going to revisit them in April but I have a search image for this. I am confident and I'm pretty sure we found a good number of new locations for carex agro marginata. The fighting was trillium verity this only occurs in Illinois and Missouri and Missouri is actually doing quite well or well enough in Illinois it's very rare. There were only two extant populations that I was aware of in southern Illinois. One of them was on private land along a drainage and I went there and there was no I think we count about 100 or so. And a friend told me he had worked on a property downstream from there 20 years ago and he thought he saw a plant along the creek where the driveway goes by so I got the whole landowner, and we went there and we counted 300 plants. So that was not known in the database as a location and then I went on started looking on the map and I found a tributary that ran into the same drainage system and I thought well I wonder if it's perhaps on this this tributary and it happened to be public land. So I visited with the volunteer and we counted again several hundred more. So we not only doubled the number of extant populations but we had maybe 110 plants known and now it's more like 500 so this I would still say is very rare deserves to be endangered but it was exciting to find several new locations for it. It is a beautiful trillion. The San Andra Hespidula is really exciting to this was only currently known in Jackson County, Illinois and they're about maybe eight locations for it, and some volunteers work with do a lot of long distance trail running and they cover a lot of territory and so I have them look out for one of them sent me a picture of the San Andra from Union County Illinois where it has not been documented. So I went there and found this scene about 800 blooming San Andra and I thought how did this get overlooked but it was a really remote part deep down in a ravine and so that was really exciting to get a county record for a rare country especially one that's only currently occurring in one county. Now we can say it's to, although I will say that it's, you know, the county adjacent to Jackson and the northern part of the county so it's not to you know county lines are totally arbitrary it's not too too far from the other populations but still exciting. Trifolium reflexum is another rare one just three locations is doing well where fire is on the landscape. In the Philippines I went to all those locations just five. So that's a truly a rare plant. Plexilectus spikata was one. My strategy was to go to all the known locations for any given plant so we can really get a snapshot in time of the full story of a species so we went to eight sites 15 sub populations in five counties and founded at each one. So 487 plants of that beautiful orchid. Alright I know I'm running out of time let me speed up here. Heteranthoraniformis went to all five locations, it was not at any of them and would have been determined, extirpated but I found four new locations and three of them were rotted out ATV, you know, abuse, and that's mud plantain this plant like shallow mud water and it's being created by this local ATV use where this had showed up so that was really kind of cool. And I guess I'll stop here but platanthoroflava also another one we found thousands and thousands of blooming plants, but only in three counties and I thought is this really rare. I don't know orchids are picky. I'm going to wait and see what happens. Next year. And see too much to share with you I'll end with the Keria Aquatica. I'd never seen this tree before such a beautiful one water hickory it's called. And we found 80 mature trees, there seemed to be no recruitment going on but we updated those that currencies for that. And I'll have to end here mention the show the names here of the staff of the Chicago Botanic Garden who involved, and then here staff at Southern Illinois University. So again that was very quick but I hope you learned a lot about the program and are inspired to help us out with monitoring for rare plants.


And yes, we've got a winner everyone. We've got a winner. The Skechers Go Run Peers have a new home. All right, I'll tell you in a little bit, hold on. So I don't know about all of you, but I tend to work right through lunch, meaning I'll eat lunch, but I'll be working at my computer and just pound and ground as fast as I can. And so I'm trying to do better at taking a little midday break. You know what I mean? Just like, pausing, pausing the typing on the computer and just enjoying the lunch. You know what I mean? It's like, ah, so that's what I'm doing right now. That's what I'm doing right now, all right. Ah yes, I'm trying to track down an Adidas AudioS4. Ah yes, I was calling to see if you all carry the Adidas AudioS4. Yes, I was calling to see if you all carry the Adidas Adi Zero AudioS4. Ah yes, I was calling to see if you all carry the Adidas Adi Zero AudioS4. Well, hmm, I probably won't get, I'm probably just gonna have to order online because I don't, I mean, my foot is not that wide but I just don't wanna risk it, I don't think. Well, there you have it, YouTube family. You can't say I did not try to support the local running shoe stores. I probably just called 10 different stores and nobody has my size. And so hey, what are you gonna do? I'm looking for the Adidas Adi Zero AudioS4 as a potential marathon racing shoe. And yes, we're gonna talk about marathon shoes here in a minute out in the studio. But as you know, I love to support local running shoe shops. But I just, it's like, listen, we are all different sizes of runners. We have different feet, different legs, different heights and different sizes.  I'm just gonna call it right now, like if you want my business, I wanna, I'm trying to give you my money, okay? I'm gonna call out all the local running shoe shops in Denver, I just called all of you and the Adidas Outlet Store as well. And nobody has my size. And listen, I'm open to the women's size but of course they usually run narrow and if I'm gonna spend, yeah, they're $140. Like that's not cheap. I want to make sure the shoe fits really, really well.  I wanna give you, where's my wallet? I wanna give you my money but it's really hard to do that when you don't carry my size. So all right, that's my little rant for the week and we'll get these shoes. We'll get these shoes for you guys too, yes. Compared to other marathon training racing shoes. All right. All right, about to take the Pegasus 35s out for a quick jaunt and but not before foot strengthening exercises. Remember we talked about this yesterday and I gotta stay on my A game with it as volume continues to go up and up and up in 2019. And pretty soon, not quite yet but pretty soon the intensity is gonna start to increase with more workouts. Not quite yet but it's coming. And so I just, you know, in college that is how I got injured. I think it was the combination of volume and high intensity workouts. So anyway, before that begins, gotta be on the A game. I'm gonna do six exercises for my feet and I'm gonna put a title below each exercise. So hopefully those titles help create some context as to what I am doing. And there you have it. Did the foot exercises. I'm going out for my run. Starting off with a shout out to Ronan. Ronan, thanks so much for reminding me in the comments about updating all of you on how the body and the legs are reacting to the training. Last week I hit 75 miles for the week. Solid week, about 11 to 12,000 feet of vertical gain. So a big week of vertical gain. And I must say like no major aches and pains. So that's a good sign. But every morning I get out of bed and you're probably the same way.  Like this is, I'm tight, I'm sore. And it usually takes me about 20 to 30 minutes of just walking around the house before I feel like I can walk normally. So I don't know if you experienced that out there but that's my experience. And basically Ronan, I am reacting, I think pretty well to the volume right now. This week is gonna be an 80 mile week. Hopefully that's the goal. And talk to me in a couple of days cause of the next Tuesday and Wednesday, when you're watching this, it's gonna, they're gonna be some big volume days. So come back in a couple of days and I'll give you some more updates. Thank you, Ronan, for that reminder. And another update, if you're interested in some of the running gear that I wear on a regular basis, it is listed down below from Amazon. Listen, again, if you have a local running shoe shop, go support them, but they don't always have your size or the brand that you like.  I like those sunglasses or those winter gloves look really warm or whatever the case may be, all of the links to those products are listed down below. So just a reminder for that and moving on to the winner of the Skechers Go Run Pure Running Shoes. Here we go, ladies and gentlemen, it's Will. That's right. I'm giving these shoes away to Will. Will, and listen to what Will wrote me. You're gonna love this. Listen to this. Yes, actually, these shoes would be for my son who just turned 12 on the 14th. Happy birthday. That's his size and he wants to start running with me to supplement his swimming. But if you have a viewer you feel may get better use, I'm okay with that too. Love the content, Will. No, Will. These are for your son and your son must be tall. If he's 12 years old and he's in his seven and a half, that's awesome. So, Will, I will put these in the mail. Just send me back your address. That'll be awesome. Oh my goodness. I just love it. I love the fact that we can reuse shoes that aren't being used. And what is the game plan for running shoes moving forward? I would love to help connect people who have extra running shoes to people who may need help getting running shoes. And maybe you have extra pairs laying around that are really gently used. And in my opinion, like gently used running shoes, I would put it in the like under 30 mile range, okay? Maybe 40. But like preferably under 30, under 25 miles. Like you maybe wore them twice and you're like, okay, these are not the right fit or I just don't need them anymore. So, here's the game plan. My PO box is listed down below in every video. Down below in the description.  So, what I'm gonna do is once a month, maybe twice a month. We'll see if, and listen, I gotta be a little careful because of like shipping costs. But maybe once or twice a month, I will basically do the giveaway where we connect running shoes from people that just don't need them anymore to people that really do need them. Does that sound good? All right, so again, PO box down below and we'll just do this. We'll see, we'll see. I don't know, it's up to you guys to see how many extra running shoes you have. And again, if you have preferably the running shoe box, I think that would really help people feel like they're getting a new pair of shoes. You know, there's nothing like getting a pair of running shoes with the box. So, and gently used is best. Like under 30 miles, these have 21 miles in them. So yeah, that would be awesome. I'm excited for that. Okay, moving on. And since we talked so much about running shoes and why do we do that? I think it's just that little bridge between sitting on the couch and having so much fun and getting back in shape and exploring the world around us. And by the way, I love getting onto the D'Amore Global Running Strava Group and just looking at all of the maps as to where all of you are running around the world.  And so I kind of dream about like traveling to some of these locations like Greece and Indonesia and Australia and Peru and all these different spots on the D'Amore Global Running. And anyway, it just gets me going. But running shoes is the bridge between the couch and all of these adventures out in the world getting healthy. So anyway, I think that's why that's why I love talking about running shoes. And with that said, the keyword for this vlog has to be P.O. Box even though that's not really a word but that is the keyword down below P.O. Box because guess what? We could be onto something here. I don't even like, we could be onto something where we can connect people together through running shoes. It's kind of amazing. And shout out to my brother. He texted me today a picture of this basically this spray. You can spray into the shoes to help kind of help them smell better and just clean them up a little bit. So I will purchase that spray and basically any shoe that arrives at the P.O. Box, I'll take care of them, clean them up as best I can. You could do that too before you send them but I'll make sure I do that before shipping them off to somebody else. Oh my goodness, this is exciting. Okay, and the question of the day. This also connects to running shoes.  Do you think there will be a new world record at the marathon distance in 2019 for the men or women, okay? And who will set the world record and what shoe will they be wearing? Oh, this is a good one. And on that note, just so you know, I am planning to do a live watch party for the Boston Marathon and the London Marathon, okay? So stay tuned for more details on that.  Oh, I'm excited. I'm very excited. Congrats, Will and to your son. The early bird gets the worm on this fine day, on this fine day. All right, seat beauty, work hard. Love each other, see you tomorrow.