Hey everyone and welcome in the Formula One Baku debrief with five key points! Mamma Mia! To finish first, first you need to finish Ferrari, after they already lost the title, I don't know but they have got a fast car, after two seasons a little bit complicated they've got a very fast car and the reliability issue were more on the red bruce side early in the year but as three races in a row well Leclerc should have Charles Leclerc should have won and it did not, that's a tough one for Ferrari as the red bull capitalized first and second they were very much in control of the race once Ferrari was out there no much fight from Paris or when he was asked not to fight Verstappen to let him buy you know the first and second in championship red bulls got scored a lot of points in the constructor championship and as I said Charles Leclerc over the last three races really not what he wanted so as to bounce back I think they're gonna be fast again in Canada but definitely those reliability issues have to be sorted you could even see on the Alfa Romeo on the Haas that they're also issues so something there that needs to be addressed it's always hard to you know push the performance but keep the reliability going so that's definitely a hard one for Leclerc to digest and for Ferrari Russell Mr consistency Russell always in the top five third podium for him, quad race no much going on in front of him no much going on behind him good qualifying good pace in the race but just in the middle of kind of nowhere it looked easy from the outside it's never easy the Mercedes is definitely a tough car to drive and we saw much proposing bouncing that were going on with with Lewis Hamilton so that was a very good race from from Russell very good race from Hamilton getting p4 that is very very strong from Mercedes knowing that they don't have a super fast car yet proposing or bouncing I mean every Formula one driver is a back issue you have had back issue for the last few years just because you sit in a carbon seat which is put on on a carbon chassis and you want to run the chassis as low as you can so it's bouncing and hitting the ground quite a bit and when it hits the ground all those vibrations and the heat goes straight into your spinal it's not definitely driving from one car is not ideal for for the back but with that poor boys things look really bad obviously some team know that are struggling a little bit more with it than others are gonna try to talk more about it in hope that maybe the FIA Formula one would change the rules or do something you can already see Red Bull going in the media saying well you know they can run the car high if they want to we don't want any rules because we control the proper thing we don't have the issue so it's gonna be kind of a political fight that we see very often in in Formula one in the past it was pretty much always against Mercedes the front and rear connected to suspension was bad because everyone thought Mercedes had an advantage on that wasn't really the case the engine mode in the race was was bad because everything from Mercedes had an advantage but wasn't really the case so you know it's always always a case and obviously Red Bull and Ferrari controlled the body better than than Mercedes and that's why we hear Mercedes quite quite vocal about it but also they keep working you know they keep working on their hand and as I say it's not the fastest car they have there third and fourth in the race pretty pretty impressive so good job to them we want the driver to be healthy that's for sure we don't want to see that bouncing going on so it's a hard one to um to decide what to do on Pierre Gasly really good weekend Pierre Gasly qualified six finished fifth say it was even running fourth when his engineer told him not to fight Hamilton because there were key points for the championship alphatorie if we look at 2021 versus 2022 if score much less points the car has been a little bit less good this year but Gasly has been doing a very good race in Baku he's always been strong in Baku and sooner that was good Yuki Tsuna was very good until he's had his DRS issue that's uh that's that for him so only one side the rear wing would open he had the black and orange flag means meaning you've got a technical issue and you need to box to to sort that out they went with with tape to sort it out was it necessary to give him black and white orange flag I don't know because you know at this point he kind of knew that he wasn't going to use his DRS anymore because because he knew he had a problem and and the wing seems to be closed but on the other hand if the wings open when you don't expect it and very high speed corner it's it's a big crash so just felt it was very hard for him because he was doing good race he was he was going to finish sixth that was some other good points for alphatorie but um they had that issue we have to know that alphatorie and Red Bull are like sister team Red Bull had some some warning with the DRS in practice so definitely some somewhere to look at for alphatorie and Red Bull to make sure that they uh they don't have those issues and they don't lose a very important point with that Baku has always been a super exciting race but this year it was quite boring the new rules are great for the Formula 1 they can follow each other much better but the race almost no yellow flag almost no safety car nothing you know we we used to see we used to see Baku as a crazy race and this year just it just wasn't so honestly wasn't the most exciting going pre to watch this year they've been pretty good I've been enjoying watching the races this one just felt like you know not much was happening Red Bull clearly decided best happens number one and pairs number two so they asked not to fight that could have been a nice fight on track for the win it did not happen so yeah a bit a bit disappointing that Grand Prix in that aspect I think uh you know some years or like that maybe next year it's gonna be a crazy one but definitely Baku wasn't wasn't a perfect one and now we jump straight on to Montréal Canada I'm gonna be there on site so it's gonna be good to get some insights for the videos for the futures one of my favorite Grand Prix love the city of Montréal Montréal in English love going there exciting track not easy a lot can happen I think Ferreira is gonna be strong Red Bull is gonna be strong it's gonna be it's gonna be very interesting to see if Ferreira can get some points back because they do need some points back they do need both drivers to be at the front and and take away points from Red Bull that's for sure so yes I'll see you next week in the meantime make sure you like subscribe give me a comment and I'll see you very soon


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Hey guys, it's Chad here from the Electric Academy. I just thought I'd do a quick question for you Just to see where you guys are out on this I posted a picture or a picture video yesterday from another Facebook page That had a lot of arcing going on a receptacle just go back to the Electric Academy fan page there and take a look at that thing It is arcing and sparking like crazy and if you guys have made some comments about how backstabbing the receptacle is probably the cause for that and it causes an issue My question is this and I've talked to a couple of Christians yesterday about this Some are all for the backstabbing because when you are doing a residence in a house It's just quick and easy and it gets the job done and you have no time to do the little hooks and then do it They screw it around there Whereas others say that you should take the time and screwed around there because the whole reason why that receptacle was arcing and sparking now I've done both. I any student of mine knows that I am a fan of the hook not that backstab But I'm not gonna lie to you. I have backstabbed in the bed. I sound so bad. I have backstab people I have not backstab people but I have backstab receptacles before so I really want to know what you guys think about this Can you put a comment in the comment section down below there and let me know where you stand on the backstab I'd like to get a little bit going on this one But let's try to keep it clean Do we backstab the receptacles and just whip through those things because you know It does take a time to put the hook on there and to screw it down on the screw But we do I think we can all agree that it probably is safer and gives you a better connection anyways So I would love to hear all your thoughts Do we backstab receptacles or not? Harry Van Beest. I know where you stand on this one So I'm not saying sit this one out, but I would love to hear your reasons why we should not backstab All right guys, I will see you this afternoon. I'm thinking around 6 p.m. For the first Facebook live show the Electric Academy I am pumped for it. I'm looking forward to it and I got a little freebie for you guys too It's a little e-book I've written so you want to check in on this one Make sure you get your apprentices to check in on this one six o'clock. Share the heck out of it Go to the Facebook page. There's an event Set up there. So if you could share that I'd appreciate it and We'll get the inaugural one going. All right back to the question though to backstab or not. Peace. We'll see you later


SEGA DRUNK Here's a really strange and hilarious game for the Mega Drive that never left Japan. It's called Renta Hero, released in September 1991 and developed by Sega AM2, the same dev team responsible for arcade classics like Afterburner, Outruns, Space Harrier, and Virtual Racing. Renta Hero, however, is much, much different. It's a goofy, top-down adventure game that uses the same engine as, sort of, Vermillion. So, if you've played that game, then you should be familiar with the structure and the gameplay here. But the tone of this game is as different as it gets for the time, and I should mention quickly that you'll need an English patch to play this one, and there's a link in the description where you can find that. So, the way this game starts has your character at a party with friends and family. You just moved into town, so this is kind of a get-to-know-you-get-together.  Meanwhile, dad got wasted and dressed up in a Godzilla costume, and he wants to fight you. Yeah, typical Tuesday night.  Okay, that's pretty dang funny. That really sets the tone for the entire game. It's a funny and self-aware game with lots of slapstick humor, both in the dialogue and in scenes like that. You meet all sorts of weirdos throughout this playthrough, like this guy here who makes a book float around the room.  There's also tons of tongue-in-cheek references to Sega throughout this game. Whoa, 16 bits of power! Genesis does, man! There's even an arcade you can visit that plays little snippets of music from games like Outrun and Power Drift. Since your character is now a superhero somehow, you decide, hey, what the heck, let's go do some superhero things. You start out doing very basic and easy stuff like delivering letters, but eventually you work your way up to thwarting robberies and Yakuza scans. You check for new missions over the internet, and yeah, this dude has a PC and the internet in 1991. I guess there was a superhero Usenet group or something.  You look for clues for how to complete some of these missions by talking to townspeople, and this is one of those games where you have to talk to everyone and do every little thing the game tells you to do, like even right at the beginning of the game, when you're told to call a restaurant to order food, the game doesn't do it for you, you actually have to go stand by the phone. Stuff like this can make this playthrough kind of tedious, but the sense of humor demonstrated throughout the script makes it worthwhile. Some typical adventure game stuff is here as well, like eventually you use the money you earn to upgrade your weapons and armor, but there's no experience points here, just money. You also have to manage your suit's energy meter, since it's draining automatically as you wear it while walking around. You do have the option of taking it off to preserve energy, but you get sucked into random battles here, and if you get stuck in combat without your suit, then you're as good as dead. Not only that, you have to pay a rental fee to keep the suit, otherwise the SECA will take it back. The combat transitions from this overworld here to a side-scrolling beat-em-up, similar to a game like Dragon View, but this is probably the most polarizing part of this game. The combat is not great, it's very limited, and the hit detection can be wonky. You can punch, jump kick, or use a special attack that you can purchase, but the latter drains your battery, so it's usually not worth it. The combat just feels unpolished. Again, it uses the same engine as Sort of Vermillion, so it has the same issues that that game has. Some bosses in this game can kill you in a matter of seconds. It can be pretty ridiculous, and when you die, you restart from your hometown's hospital, with half your money gone. At least there's eventually a battery save here that allows you to save at any point during the game. Rent-A-Hero did get remade 10 years later in 2001, called Rent-A-Hero No. 1 for the Dreamcast, and it's pretty much the same game with the same missions, only with an over-the-shoulder third-person viewpoint. This one also stayed in Japan, but there was an Xbox version in English that was almost finished in 2003, but it was never released. You can find that game online with some digging, and it's a much more polished game as you might expect. The combat is actually pretty good, and the game maintains its style of humor throughout. But yeah, as far as the original Mega Drive game goes, it's an uneven experience. The story is what carries the game, as I found myself playing through missions just to see what would happen next, and the game does a good job of keeping you on your toes. The story eventually takes a surprisingly serious turn toward the end, which is pretty cool. It just sucks that, while there's not a lot of combat here, what's here is really clunky. If you're a very patient person, this game can be a good experience, but if you're not, then you're not gonna like this one. Despite how frustrating this game can get, I still liked it if only because it's so thematically different from anything else from the same timeframe. All right, I wanna thank you for watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your day.


Hi, I'm Tyler Jones and I recover loud. Hi and welcome to another episode of Recover Loud, brought to you by Recovery on the Road, a TV talk show dedicated to ending the stigma of substance use disorder. I'm Mike Paddleford and I recover loud. Tonight's episode, we're going to speak with Tyler Jones of Holton, Maine. Tyler started Purpose Pups as a way to give back to his community. He's got an interesting program that he's going to tell us about, bringing service animals into the courts in Aristote County. This is a piloted program I'm very happy to hear about and I'm sure you will be too. Let's listen to what Tyler has to say. Hey guys, how are you? We're great. Thanks for joining us tonight. I think you have a very interesting story to share with us all and I want to get right into it. But first, can you tell us what your life looks like today? What it is you do for work and how you're interacting with the community? Sure. So I run Purpose Pups LLC, a dog training outfit out of Holton, Maine.  And I also provide service dog training. We're actually introducing the very first service dog into the Aristote County court system. Working hand in hand with Todd Collins, the DA of Aristote County. And we are actually training Holiday, a beautiful yellow lab from Northern Woods Labs. And she's going to help witnesses and other victim impact people that have had like domestic violence or otherwise been betrayed for trust that for people that they thought that they could trust. So she's going to play a pivotal role in not only the investigation process, but also during the trial and just offering endless love and compassion to those in need. Are there any other programs in the state that you know of that are doing something similar? We are the very first program that has ever been approved in the state of Maine for a service dog in the court system or in a working environment period. So it's going to be a big program. I think it's going to gain a lot of traction. I think when courts and other businesses see the benefit and what Holiday actually provides to those children and those domestic violence victims, it's going to take off. And that's my sincere hope because that's what I love to do. I love to get back to the community. When did you start getting involved with dogs? You know, I actually went to prison for eight years and I had to learn a trade in there where I didn't have to. I took the advantage of learning a trade by the needs program at Western Massachusetts Outfit called the prison program and in there they taught us how to train service dogs. And I also got Department of Labor certified while I was in there. And I really took the most of that program and really applied myself, learned everything I could about dogs. And the last dog that I placed before I left prison, his name was Philip. He was 19 months when I got him. I trained him 86 commands in five months and eight days. And then he ended up going to a child with autism, a child that had never had any friends or been able to talk to anybody or have any type of social outlet. And Philip actually makes it so he can go to sporting events and things like that. And so I think I definitely played my role in what I was supposed to do. As a result, I started Purpose Pups and that's kind of, you know, why I do what I do because I love to provide useful, reliable partnerships that our society employs. And that's what Purpose Pups stands for. Wow. You know, what brought you to the point where you started working with the dogs? What brought you to prison? What was life like before? Life like for me before getting involved with the dogs and all of that was chaotic. I ran a recording studio in Bitterford, Maine, and that stemmed from my marijuana trafficking, which started when I was 18 years old. Just, you know, I was smoking recreationally. And then I realized that I could make money off it and I've always been a salesman my whole life. And then as soon as I figured out that that was what was going to make me money, I took the ball and ran with it.  And to the point where I was getting, you know, tons of marijuana in the mail and also bringing in U-Haul trucks and also RVs full of marijuana. And it made my life crazy. I mean, I was always on the go. I never had a chance to just kind of hang out. I was always on edge, couldn't trust anybody. I don't even think I trusted myself then because I was literally responsible for millions and millions of dollars of other people's money in the beginning until I could get my own money. And it created a lot of stress. It created stress between my friends, my family who was non-existent at that point because I didn't put them first. I put my drug empire and my drug use above everything else and everyone else. All I cared about was making that next million. And I think that it's important for people to see that even though I was at the top of my game, I was at my lowest point in life and I didn't even know it because as I was going, I just did everything that everybody else would want to do.  I had partnership with a nightclub and an investment firm with a lawyer in Portland.  But what I think I lacked the most was true friendship. At that point, I don't think I knew what a real friend was. I think that everybody was a chess piece to me. I was moving them on the board of life. If you didn't make me money, you weren't my friend. You weren't even around me. And now I realize that that not only was wrong, but it was detrimental to me being who I am today because I literally sacrificed everything and everyone just to make that next dollar. And I think that people that idolize or glorify being at the top of the game, it's not where you want to be. You know, you want to be able to have what's important in life. And that's moments with your family, like Christmas and things like that. And when you do what I was doing, all of those things are taken away from not only yourself, but from the people that love you. And that was a big problem for me. And it wasn't until 2013 when I got indicted by the FBI that I realized that, hey, what I was doing was not only wrong, but it was wrong on so many levels. My mom, my dad, my son didn't have me in their life because I chose selling drugs and using drugs over them. And I really, when I sit back and I think about it today, I look at everybody that I came in contact with and I say to myself, I don't have any regrets, just lessons learned, but I do have a lot of angst in the fact that I looked at life like, hey, if you're not doing something for me, I'm not doing nothing for you. I never had a real friendship where I was generally like, you know, I would go and rescue somebody from their lowest point until I went to prison. And when I went to prison, it was dark every day. And I don't mean in the sense of just light. I mean, in the sense of spiritual enlightenment, you know, I have no self worth. I thought about it all the time. I thought about, you know, what was I doing in my life that led me to this point where I'm down on my knees in my sweatsuit, you know, asking God for forgiveness for choosing the lifestyle that I did. But at the time when I was doing it, that's what I wanted. I didn't care about anything else. I wanted to do all the things that I was doing so that I could be at the point where I was at. But it's funny, because when the shoe hits the ground, you say to yourself, is this really what I want to do? Absolutely not. Because when the federal government comes into your life, they take over. They take everything you have, you know, I lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in jewelry, millions of dollars in cash, all kinds of assets. But the thing I lost the most was respect for myself because I realized that everything that I was doing was frivolous. There was no point to it. On October 4th, 2013, I was rated by the FBI, the ATF, all the main state police in Portland, P.D. And I never got out, you know, the judge said that I was a flight risk and I was a threat to society. And it was at that point that I realized I was literally at the end. Of my rope, OK, I realized that as I was sitting there in the county jail. Going, oh, my God, like everything just changed in a matter of a second, you know, like I had everything. I had the world by the skinnies and then boom, nothing. I was at my lowest point. So I was at a fork in the road. I had a choice at that moment. I said, I'm never going back to prison. I'm never going back to that lifestyle. And I'm going to change from here until all 200, you know, 2,160 days that I did inside.  And so when I realized that I took advantage of every single program inside and I started out medium security. So it wasn't nothing that is fun at all. And I was in South Carolina. So I was thousands of miles away from my family. I didn't see any of my family members for the first five years. And it was scary, you know, because I didn't know anybody there. I was not king type of the weed world. I was nobody. I was the same guy in khakis that was right to my left and my right. And there was black people, Spanish people, white people. And we were all in the same struggle. And at that moment, I realized I was on an even playing field for the first time in my life, because even if you had all the millions of dollars left, you still had $360 a month you could pay. You could still only go to the laundry and get khakis and clothes three times a month, and that was it. And so everybody that was there felt the same struggle. Sir, some people had relationships that they tried to hold on to. Some people had family connections that they tried to fix and try to rebuild. And other people like myself literally had nothing. You know, I clean people's cells. I clean laundry by hand with buckets and rented out cells and hung lines just to be able to make money to survive in there because I'm naturally a hustler. I'm a producer. I'm not a consumer. And so I used my intuition in my whole like aspect of being a hustler that I used illegally before to survive inside. And I realized that this is not the life that I want. This is not the life that anybody should have. And I think that when you make that choice, it's just like when you're in recovery, you know, it's a lifelong journey. And so when you take that bull by the horns, you better hold on because there's going to be a lot of ups and downs. There's going to be a lot of Mount Everest that you climb. And there's going to be a lot of concrete that you hit your face off and hope that you can bounce back and heal because it's very difficult to make it through federal prison in eight years to go from a medium all the way down to the camp where I ended up working my way to get to so I could take the advantage of the dog training program. And that's why I have such affinity for what I do and why I give back to the community that has embraced me because without that, what does that say for what you just did with all that time of your life? Is it wasted time or is it something that you can say? Hey, you know what prison was probably the thing that saved me in my life because without it, who knows if I'd even be alive today to tell you this story? Because I didn't have any compass. I didn't have any moral compass. I didn't have any sensor to say, hey, you should probably put on the brakes and stop doing what you're doing. You should stop going to strip clubs all the time and doing cocaine and ecstasy and just being completely in a cloudy fog every day of your life because everything around you that's going on, you probably would have seen what was coming.  And that's the part I really want to illustrate here to you guys as I recover loud is it's not what you want to do. You want to take time to love yourself first. Then you can love somebody else or something else. But until you can love yourself and realize that sobriety is truly a beautiful thing, then what are you doing in your life? You know, take back the moment that you can pause and take that as a blessing because not everybody wakes up tomorrow. You know, and so what you do today inspires the youth and the people around you for tomorrow and for centuries after. So the mark that you leave on earth, what do you want it to be? That's what you have to ask yourself. I remember back when I was a kid and I first started, you know, it was it was about money and power and status, wanting to be the person that everybody liked.   So, thankfully, when I got out, I actually had a friend that put me to work working for his solar company as a telemarketing sales agent. He helped me get on my feet and by the grace of God and my family. They're the ones that gave me the initial startup money to start the LLC, Purpose Pups LLC. And then I also had friends that, you know, I was training for like Jim Brown from Brown Construction here at Holton and Josh McLaughlin from McLaughlin Construction that really believed in me and they gave me, you know, Jim gave me a location to run Purpose Pups out of. So it was about a month after I got out that I started Purpose Pups. And originally I had started going to people's homes and I was training dogs and homes and that lasted about a month until I met Jim. And he helped me a lot by giving me my location and, you know, a lot of friends and family. Sarah Heath, I want to mention her because she was very helpful. Jen McGarry, they all came in and did all the painting for me. You know, for free, you know, they were like, hey, this is a new business. We want to help you. And it was at that moment that I was like, wow, a Rooster County does matter. Rooster County is awesome because people like see the initiative that you have and they don't just push you aside. Now, I have to also say being an outsider of Rooster County was very difficult, too. But I was very forthright. I said, hey, you know, I went to federal prison for marijuana trafficking. I learned to train dogs inside and became Department of Labor Certified. I got over 8000 hours of dog training experience. And I just put it all out there. I didn't hold it back. You know, I didn't want people to be like, oh, you didn't tell us that. No, no, I'm going to tell you everything because that's who I am, right? And if you don't choose to embrace that, that's your choice. Because everybody has a choice and everybody has an opinion. But because I worked so hard to build my reputation and my work ethic in my drive and the same things that I put into nefarious things like selling drugs has propelled me to be able to run this business successfully. And now I have the first ever contract for the state of Maine for a service dog in court and I've only been open 11 months. Definitely the drive is apparent.  But did you did you run into any stigma when you first got up there and telling and recovering loud and telling people who you were and what happened to you? I'll be honest with you, I didn't. I didn't have any pushback.  Boom, right here.  I can't tell anybody I'm a felon or I can't tell anybody I'm a recovering addict because then they're going to judge me. You know what? God is going to judge you. Whoever your higher power is going to judge you. It's up to you to be open and honest, let people accept you or not and still move forward because not everybody's going to like you and that's OK because I don't like everybody, right?  You're not going to rise, right? When I was in prison, I took a program by T.D. Jake's famous pastor in the South that said, in order to fly, you need to jump. And so that's what I did. I put my wings out and I jumped off the cliff and I said, this is me. This is what I do. If you want me to train your dog, I will. If not, that's fine. And you know what's funny is in the beginning, I hid my ankle monitor. I always wore pants, even in the middle of the summer. Hot sweat all the time. And then one day I said to myself, what am I doing? You know what? Because if these people don't like me, that's OK. Because I'm going to prove to them that they can trust me and that I'm reputable in what I do and I'm going to stand behind my work. So I one day just went out and bought 10 pairs of khaki shorts. And that's what I wore every time when I went to people's houses and people would look and they'd be like, they, you know, they were surprised, right? Because I was just so bold.  And I think that that's really what has made me who I am today is because I was just like, you know what? I'm going to embrace what happened to me instead of fighting because prison saved me in so many different ways. People say, hey, you were in a bad situation or you were in something that wasn't good, right? But was I really? Because I was I was led to the to the light, right? At the fork in the road, I chose to take the right. And then when I got out, I took the path less traveled and look where I am today, you know, because I took the chance. I was not scared to say, oh, OK, this is what happened. This is what I can do. Or I can go this way and I can create a better man that I work so hard to create while I was inside and then let people say, hey, this is this guy. He went to prison, but he's a fantastic dog trainer. Oh, and by the way, he always gives back to the community with with holiday oil drives right now. We're running a special where if you buy one box of Girl Scout cookies, Purpose Pups will match you a box of Girl Scout cookies. Then we give it to either a homeless person or somebody less fortunate that could use that little to say, hey, life isn't so bad. Let's have a carnal delight or let's have a peanut butter tag along, you know, and just give somebody a reason to smile. You know, one of my big campaigns that I do is called Three Smiles.  I went above and beyond to find out who was shoveling my walkway for me during these storms and I called them up after I found them out and I said, hey, I recognize what you're doing for me. I really appreciate it. What do you like to eat? And he said pizza. And I said, well, come buy the shop later after you get out of school. Sixteen year old kid comes by the shop. I give him 20 bucks. I said, thank you very much. I very much appreciate what you did for me. And I hope that you have an excellent day and you enjoy your pizza, right?  Nobody ever wants to like bring their hand back and then extend it to somebody else. And I think that as a recovering addict, we have what we have because we share it with others.  So when you're using the steps, I don't say working steps.  That maybe I can do something like that. And those people are the ones that I say, here's my hand. I'm your helping angel.   But not every time can I catch you because you have to make the choice to get clean and sober and stay that way. I can always lead you to the light, but if you're not willing to embrace it, that's your choice. My Purpose Pups LLC on Facebook. I also have PurposePups.com. That's P-U-R-P-O-S-E-P-U-P-S.com or LLC on Facebook. My YouTube page, I don't really do as many of that because I post lives every day on Facebook. I've worked with I've done 626 dogs in 11 months. Right now I'm doing 71 dogs a week. So, you know, if you want to see me in action, you want to see what I'm about as a dog trainer and as a good person, you can check us out on Purpose Pups LLC. I'm on there every single day. I post lives. If you want to just reach out and say, hey, Tyler, I appreciate what you're doing and I appreciate the message that you gave on Recover Loud. I'm going to say thank you very much. And I want you to Recover Loud. And what do I need to do to help you Recover Loud? And so that's what my mission is now that I've partnered with you guys is I'm going to employ people all over the place to Recover Loud because I see people struggling every day with addiction that are hiding in the shadows and not willing to come to the light because they're scared of judgment. And so when I see somebody like that, I pull them off to the side and I say, hey, I know you're struggling right now, but there's always a better way. It's up to you to take it. But hey, look, here's a recovery community. Come over to the meetings on Wednesday. It's seven o'clock, you know, take the initiative. Even if you just sit in back and you don't say anything, that's fine. Just come, see the fellowship, embrace the new change, get away from the people, places and things that are your triggers, because that's the only way you're going to ever change. If you think that you're going to go back to where you came from, that's thinking thinking and that's a roadblock to change. And so if you're going to continue to do that, that's your choice. But know that there's always a better and more beautiful way of life than using drugs and stealing from your family members and stealing from your friends and doing everything that is in your power to get high when there's no reason for it. Find a purpose in your own life to embrace and be a better person. Thank you for what you're doing up there in Holton. It's important to me that there's people up there in the county where I'm from doing what needs to be done to help the people that, you know, that I my friends, you know, my family are up there. So thank you, Tyler. And, you know, just I appreciate you and keep recovering loud. I want to thank everybody for watching this episode of Recover Loud. Remember, if you or someone you know is struggling, please reach out. No one has to die. Recover Loud.


Welcome to my home YouTube studio tour, 2022. Whoa, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I thought about spicing up my intro a little bit. And yes, this is not a cat, this is a drone, meow. So welcome to my home YouTube studio tour, 2022. I thought it would be a great idea to show you guys around so that you can see what I use to create my YouTube videos. I enjoy working from home and it's important for me to have a workspace where I feel comfortable. When I wake up in the morning, I want to feel excited and inspired to work on my next video project and having a nice studio setup really helps. Now, as some of you might know, the home studio is in my living room. It's a small setup, nothing crazy. Unfortunately, I don't have a separate room to use as an office. I basically have this corner right here available that I use to record all of my YouTube videos and compared to my last setup that I showed you a while ago, I pretty much downsized everything and I'm quite happy with it as I don't really need much. I'm still selling some of my stuff that I don't need as I want to keep it as minimal as possible. Now, everybody has their own unique setup and hopefully with this video, you can get some ideas for yourself that you could use for your small home studio setup. And if you're interested in the products that I've mentioned, I will leave a link in the video description below. So we're gonna start with the main area. I'm using the wooden kitchen table from Ikea which is supported by two Alex drawers right here. The computer I'm using is the iMac Pro from 2019. For those interested, here are the specs. Now this computer has an old Intel chip but it does the job for most of my editing needs. I wouldn't recommend buying it though as the newer M1 chips are way more efficient. Now my favorite accessory for the iMac Pro is the high-rise pro right here by 12 South. This is a monitor stand and raises my iMac to my preferred height. I love the fact that it has plenty of space by just removing this door right here and I can also switch between the metal side or wooden side. Now the mouse I'm using is the MX Master 2. I had this for quite a long time and still does the job. I also configured it so that I can edit faster which I recommend you do if you edit a lot. Now I actually have two external hard drives which are hidden behind the curtain. An eight terabyte GTEC drive and a 24 terabyte GTEC drive. Current projects are edited on my eight terabyte drive and finished projects are then stored on my 24 terabyte drive which I can also edit from if I need to. Now over here you can see my charging station for my Apple devices such as my iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods Pro. Super convenient to have everything in one place. I also got this cute little small cactus. A living cactus, this is no plastic and I also have this pen over here that was given to me as a gift. Now the headphones I'm using are from Bose. These are the QuietComfort 45 which I use when I edit audio. Of course I don't use the Bluetooth, I have to use the wired connection but the sound quality is really great. Now the chair I'm using is the Noble Chair Epic. This is more of a gaming chair. It does look nice and I can just like lean back and chill but I would go for a more ergonomic chair as it can get uncomfortable over time especially when editing. Wasn't a good decision really but it looks nice. Now moving over to my shelf, this one and all the other ones that you're seeing later are all from Ikea. They are from the same designer called Fajaboo. Probably didn't say that right. I really like the dark wood.  Now they are expensive though and I got these from a friend of mine but you can get used one certainly for cheaper. Now let's move to this framing up here. I don't have anybody to help me film today so okay. So this nice handmade framing over here that I stole from the Apple Museum, just joking. I got this as a gift from Grid Studio and inside it has an iPhone X. I picked that one since it's the first iPhone in which I actually started making a mobile videos with it. You can see that it has been taken apart to create this unique cool design. Now this framing is really awesome. I think it really fits well with my YouTube studio. If you guys are interested, Grid Studio has provided me with a promo code where you can get 15% off. I will leave the code in the video description below for those interested. Moving on to the light bulb over here. I also got this one from Ikea. I just love Ikea, Ikea is my life. And I use this as a practical light for my YouTube videos. So I can say, Alexa, turn on light bulb. Boom! Then we have the YouTube 100K Silver Button Award over here. Just feels nice looking at it and seeing the achievements I've made. So, and obviously we have here a fake plan that I also got from Ikea to add a little bit more atmosphere. And over here we have, of course, our smartphone filmmaking hat. It looks super cool. And for all mobile aspiring filmmakers out there, if you're interested, you can order one for yourself on my website that would, of course, support this channel. And we can all wear the same hats, right? So one level low is the Xayun Libel S that I use for all my client projects together with the Sony a7S III that I'm using right now. I enjoy using this gimbal as it's small but still powerful enough to carry a heavy camera setup. Most of the time I go with the Sigma 24-270 F2.8 as it's a great all-round lens and works for most shooting scenarios. I also have a 55 millimeter lens that I never use and a ultra-wide angle lens, a 16 to 35 millimeter F4 which I'm using right now. I also have a drone that you've seen at the beginning of my video. I don't fly with it that often but here and then for travel videos it can offer a unique perspective. I would probably go for a more smaller drone the next time, such as the DJI Mini 3 Pro that was just released because it's just smaller and easier to carry around. And then we have the Gorilla Pod which I use with the iPhone to wrap around things and get unique POV perspectives. It's also great as a vlogging setup because you can bend it and really mount it almost everywhere. So this is the laptop table. I bought this myself. Again, I got this from IKEA and the reason why I picked this up is because it has wheels on the bottom and allows me to change the position to create a second setup. And I use it especially for reviews or editing tutorials. The microphone I'm using is the NTG4 Plus with the Zoom H5 over here. And having these two combined the audio quality is just fantastic. Now when I'm recording outside or need to move around a lot I like to use the Rode Wireless Go that I'm using right now. This is the best investment I've ever made. It's just super easy to use and is a plug and play microphone really. Now, like I mentioned before I use the MacBook Pro and one Max for editing on the Go. This is a beast of a laptop and will last for a long time. And over here I have my trusted DJI OM4 great gimbal that I use almost for every mobile shoot I have. If you guys don't have a gimbal and are starting out, this is the gimbal I would recommend. So below the laptop table I have the Lobe Pro camera backpack. It's inexpensive, looks great and fits all the gear that I generally bring with me when I use larger cameras. And when it comes to lighting I used to use the Aperture 120D as my key light but Aperture has sent me the 300D over here which I'm using right now. It's just a way more powerful light source. I just wanted to give a shout out to Aperture for sending me the 300D. You guys are awesome, thank you so much again. So let me show you the lighting setup that I have going on over here. The diffuser I'm using is the Lightdome Mark II by Aperture and the stand I'm using that are holding the lights are by Manfrotto. A great light to have but you don't need it to get started making videos. Remember that natural sunlight works great too. So we're almost there. Just one thing, this is the TV table that I also use from IKEA. And I basically use this to store all of my other gear such as lights, stands, tripods. As you can see, I have a bunch of stuff over here and I can just open this door and then grab out the things I need. Oh, and something else I forgot to mention in terms of lighting, I also use these tube lights right here where I'm able to change the color of the light to create a moodier look or more separation in my video. So these are the Godox tube lights. Super cool, very nice. None lights also have something similar as you can be totally creative with lighting yourself or your subject. So yeah guys, that was a quick tour of my small YouTube studio setup. I hope you guys enjoyed it and maybe you got some ideas for yourself that you can use for your YouTube studio setup. Now, if you have any questions, let me know in the comments below. You guys take care, thank you for watching and I will see you in the next video.


So today we're going to talk about a different technique, which we haven't mentioned before. This is the reward-induced lucid dream, the riled. Now, what this involves is you're going to give yourself small rewards or treats every time you have lucid dream. Okay, and you might be thinking, well, why would I do that?   So you may have noticed that when you've finished a meal, you feel really satisfied and you get a small release of sort of happy hormones in your brain, which means you'll want to do it more again. Okay, and this is the same thing for eating, drinking, having sex, and unfortunately for some drugs as well, but that's a different matter. So what we're going to do with this is we're going to use small rewards, sweets, chocolates, whatever it is, something watching an episode of your favourite show, that sort of thing, to reinforce the idea of lucid dreaming and to make yourself, you're almost training your own brain to do it more in the future. So that's the basics of it, and so here's how to do it. So what you do is this, I should say this one's alongside any other technique you're going to use, so you could use this along with the way back to bed, the wild, the miles, whatever. It works with all of them and it sort of makes them all more effective.  Now this reward can be something small, it can be like a sweet, you could have a tub of chocolates or sweets by a bed, or it can be something else that you enjoy, it could be you booking a session of rock climbing It should ideally be something small and inexpensive so that you can do it a lot, but also something that you do enjoy and that you will look forward to getting. So you may have seen this when we were kids in school, they would give us some sort of sticker or treat or like a sweet or something, every time we were well behaved, every time we was able to do good behaviour. And the idea behind that was that it was to reinforce that good behaviour. I believe the psychological term is conditional programming or conditioning or something like that, where you reinforce a behaviour by linking it with something positive, with something good, with a reward. And it actually does work. So what I've found from my own experiences is that when I've linked lucid dreaming with a reward, I've rewarded myself for doing it.  And this brings me on to my next point. This only works if you only have the reward when you have lucid dream. If you just have this reward throughout the day or whenever you want, or it's not only linked to lucid dreaming, it's not going to work. So it needs to be something that you only use for lucid dreams, something that you won't have at any other time. So it could be a particular type of sweet, or you could decide that you're going to allocate your favourite TV show to this, and you're going to say to yourself, I will only watch an episode of my favourite show when I have had a lucid dream. And that way it might actually be quite annoying. You might be thinking, oh, I really need a lucid dream so that I can watch the TV show. Then when you finally do have a lucid dream and you reward yourself by letting yourself watch it, then it's going to strengthen the idea in your mind and it's going to become more likely in the future. So that's it, guys. That's basically the technique. The only warning I'll give you on this one is that you shouldn't do it for a long period of time. So you shouldn't do this for, I would say, over four months at a time. This is something you should do maybe for a month or two in a row, max, and then reset it. The reason for this is you don't want to get too dependent on this. You don't want to make the link too strong, because then you're only lucid dreaming to get the reward. If you stop having the reward you might stop lucid dreaming, which is not good.  This is a really good way of breaking through that. But yeah, just be aware that if you do it too often, the link will become weaker and you'll find that it's actually slowing you down and not helping you to lucid dream. So yeah, be aware of that. And that's it guys, let me know how you get on, leave a comment, and please subscribe, and I'll see you next time.


The next one has to do with zoning. How does the zoning board regulate and monitor a billion in the county? Who does this and goes to the film? And there's a second part that I won't wait to ask that one. Funding zoning, they're actually established by statute and each county has its own zoning regulations. We control the zoning industry while building programs come through my office that are under law in the county. All applications for zoning changes come through the zoning board. And the big thing is the enforcement. And the enforcement is that we use our cease and desist orders. We're closely with the state's attorney's office and we do issue cease and desist orders. In fact, we have a problem in place now. Some of them will probably end up going to court. The biggest issue that you have to deal with in zoning is make sure your rules are fair, treat everybody the same, and no one will enforce it. We enforce it fairly on everyone. And don't be afraid to go all the way to the face and the suit will see it in court. And I'll say that's good to be with that attorney. Don's on everybody's Christmas card list. Okay, in the second part, have there been a mancam set up for the county without the ability to ruin it? What does the penalty there? Yes, if we can find out. There are attempts that have been made for that. We actually do the cease and desist order, a cease and desist order, get law enforcement involved. We have a physical rule. We had it, fortunately, in Montreal County. Everybody is aware of our plan in zoning that we didn't come through with a proper step procedure. But our procedures are changing. There's going to be even more teeth in there. I can't emphasize enough. Now is the time to get your temporary housing ordinance solidified and then make sure that it's enforced. Because one of the biggest problems we'll see is, like some of my slides show, the small camps where a local producer wants to let 20, 30, 40, 50 cameras set up is filled. And there's health regulations that need to be followed, safety regulations. And the smaller camps, you need to treat that the same. I know when our water department is off, the rules that are going to have to be in place are going to be said that they're trying to force out the small operators. No, we're just trying to treat everybody the same.  Very good. I'm going to talk to you. Airports. These four airports, those most bad and home-built hangers, any ideas on that? I have a question because I can say because now it wasn't done before, we're going to ask our airport, if you think about some east side of the office all the way through, the plans that we see right now have all our developments going on in the airport. And there's been two hotel developments that actually had an extra purchase problem that we don't have there. So yeah, the airport's been in the factory with developments going on, I don't know if that's the question being put, but if we hadn't moved over again, we wouldn't have our airports moved off. We're going again, many times the jet traffic we ever would and that's going to be hard to explain for if you don't want to have an aircraft now, but working out there in the city, building on that, most of the time, most of the problem now is to move to the airport. Not all of us families are going to want to move to the airport. Airport, if you're doing something, or as a kid, it's far more easy to possibly manage every single flight through the airport. We haven't had that, but we should move it. I doubt that will happen without development. I hope we'll be along. I've got a part of the development that's always been the airport working basically. I was going to say probably 50, 50 years ago, the airport right close to the city was going to happen. And there's a lot of room in our airport. The general was kind of saying, we're going to come in there every day. It's good to have a room. It's good to support your local airport. We'll build the east of the airport. Nobody's talked about that, that any of you haven't heard about it. So, out at the airport, they couldn't, but that RC doesn't know all that. They haven't heard about it. They haven't heard about it before. They can still, the airlines would love to, but that's one of the jobs that we're just doing that doesn't go out in the hand of the airport. Yeah. And I already asked for another on the top of the airport, and I've had three of them to say, we'll put the hands in the bottom of the airport, but it's 95. But if we're on this one flight, all the land is on the right of the airport. So, it's a priority study. We're just planning on that. If I can, I'll just respond in a little bit of a stand-in. We had a meeting with the airport already, and we have the same problem there. We're looking at a truck pass by the airport, and I guess, Gene, but very many of them are gone. You can only build so tall of a structure around the airport, you know, and all this kind of stuff, and if you've got a town around it, it's going to have to be Halsey or get it on the floor. We have the same problem in Stanley, where, with that truck, life has to go in there, and then it's like, well, what if they want to expand the airport? One of our discussions was, and our airport authorities said, in order to expand in the size of the planes they would have landed there, they just didn't feel whatever would be justified, unless they had, you know, somewhere where they could add on. You got to add on a lot of women to land these big jets and stuff. And so, they didn't figure in Stanley that it would ever get to that point. But if it did, they have to move the airport because they can't expand where they're at now. It's just not there. He's like, I need a couple minutes. I like this, this thing's coming to my mind. I want to tell you guys what a good county commissioner is. Okay? And then I'm going to sound like I'm bragging about it. Good county commissioners, I told you earlier that you guys are in for a treat, because these guys don't know what they're talking about. The best thing you can do in your county is a county commissioner. I know there's a couple of them here. Higher, good people who know what they're doing because of that long cost. Pay them well. Pay them well. And let me tell you, they're going to ask, and if you don't, they leave. Pay in the good ones. You can't imagine what a difference it makes. And it also makes your county commissioner job a lot easier. That was not where I wanted to go. Exactly where I had to put it in the plug-in. But good people are great, and they do cost you a lot. Don, I don't know if you remember this, and I don't know how to call it. And I don't remember the figures, but will we update as percent raises and ensure you're in your county commission too? You know, a lot of people think it's three percent raises because you're a county employee and a lot of it's three percent raises. I think we update as high as 10 plus bones just to keep good people. So that's where you're going with what I'm talking about. The one thing I have to share is what I want to tell you. I'm not going to take it on half that much. I just wanted to know. I just wanted to tell you how life changes for when you're driving into Lansford and I think I said this down in Glen Olive, you know, cheese, I don't know, not Glen Olive, I was heading here in Glen Olive. Sure, I'm about 70 miles, met 13 vehicles. I'm like, wow, went to McCluskey. Met two from Hunter, went to McCluskey, I'm like, wow, you guys don't realize what they have until it's gone.  Remember that. And it will really make you appreciate where you live today and the life you have, and the life you might think it's not so great.  And with that, I want to tell you a little story. How many of you are farmers? Okay, a great big cherry. How many of you have a flight car to move your drill down the road? How many of you have a flight car to move your company down the road? They live in a real rural community that will change when we give what we're going to tell you this. I live seven miles southwest from partial. We are on the edge. Highway 37 in partial is kind of the west of there and pretty slimmies. And that's where we live seven miles southwest on the Township Road. My Township Road has five to seven hundred vehicles a day on. 40% of them have four trucks. My wife is sitting in the back and I get to use her once a month. After me, she tells me if I should say something wrong or not, so I probably can help her get something in the paper or retracting anything I say. And we farm. I can move my drill faster, not in my field, than I can on 7600 which goes by my place. It's my main model. Probably worse than the interest on that. But you can not go fast. Farming equipment does not handle rough roads. You have to go slow. I can go faster down my field. The other part is hardest last year. I shouldn't say probably the year before because the last year was the year before. Last year was since the credit cards. Anyway, she sat in the field while we were on our way on a rural Township Road and, of course, you know if you're going on a field, you'll see the farm. It isn't like the on-ramp on the interstate, right? It's a road that's got a straight steam up and it's this wide and you've got to go slow so your truck don't tip. My wife sat there and waited for 14 oil field semis to go by before she could pull out of the field. Let alone when you're driving down the road on a township road, there isn't really room for two trucks on this year going three miles an hour. So like I said, enjoy your serenity that you have and realize that your farming will be a lot slower so hopefully you'll make a lot of money for your life. Okay, thanks. Next one, there was a comment on Manifest which is what we covered and just another comment that says don't pass any laws you're not willing to do by yourself. Instead of no cell phones I wanted to write the first one for you to find. So that's just a good suggestion. Next one would be please address the cooperation between the city governments and your county governments. The number 12 key is that cooperation. It's huge. You can't get anything to go without working together very efficiently. We have all the cities in Montreal and we try to do everything to gather some of them. So we're all on the same page and understand what's happening. I just can't emphasize enough that cooperation needs to coincide. I think it might be more difficult in some communities because the county has an SC2 or an SC2. If you're a county and a city you're another county you can't do without you can't get that figure out but you can't go to state when the vets have to figure it out. Next is property taxes. What type of property taxes do the temporary other developers pay and what value are they worth? No one gets out. Property taxes on land accounts are taxed at the land being zoned commercially. The buildings on top of the land are not taxed because they're taxed when they're purchased as temporary. So the state in the last session of the past was called the two-hand ordinance which allows for taxing at the land camps. Montreal County will be enacting an ordinance that will be $1,000 a year base cost for a land camp and for every vet above 10 vets $1,000 a year per vet. So Montreal County's proposing to deal with those funds it's 40% of those funds that are raised will go to the fire district that serves the land camp area 40% of the funds raised will go to the county that serves the land camp area and 40% will go to the county that covers some of the costs for the roads, law enforcement and things such as that. That's something you need to be aware of because you have to act upon that separately as a kind of information to be able to cover that. That's measure number two. Actually it's in the greater it's considered a fee but if measure two passes they're not so sure that this might not be included as being banned by the district. Yes, the legislature and their wisdom exempted out mobile homes mobile homes and RVs. Well, you saw some of my pictures while I was at the camps of RVs. Now according to our state's attorney what we're going to be doing in Montreal County is we're going to enact an impact fee an impact fee will go on against RVs and mobile homes that would be used for temporary housing. So that's kind of the way that we're addressing it because you can't imagine the impact this has on the emergency services at the end of the speed route just feels so right for it. The scale of the animal is I think its record is six rounds in a day the new town animal service that we was nine rounds in a day and that pulls pretty much not stopped. And then the other issue that comes with that well, companies do a little well with care to feed their people but a lot of these people are self-contractors and insurance and they don't. So the animal is kept on the bill even though those people they can get money or self-contractors throughout. The $1,000 base and $100 per bed in the RVs are in the camps and who gets in there, that's what we're talking about. And the other thing about these impact fees there are two up front and we'll do a two-year conditional for our changes and both years fees are due and available up front. I believe we can only do that and we can't do it because we're nine years old. So there's an example of nine years old and we can't do it as long as we can. So we hope you do that. Yeah, lots of different questions and we're not going to get to all of you before the break but perhaps during this, you know, you guys would be wrong for a while after this because address maybe one approach and ask that before you leave today. But we'll do this one before we go for lunch water issues, where does the water come from what about the amount of water and how does that have been developed? I'll just throw a little bit out. It's getting partial, you know, non-valentously. They still aren't going to appeal. They didn't have a well system.  Now they can move 16 miles south and partial on our suck water out of the least category at tremendous cost to build in 16 miles of pipe and water towers and there we'll get in real water. But what I want to say about that is what this retains a lot of water and in city partial has made most of their money you know, like a lot of leaks got and treated water was going for treated water and, you know, they're doing well. The problem with that is their cities have to have I'm going to call it a minimum amount of water for fire protection and stuff. The oil fields sucks water out of partial and I mean there's trucks lined up all day and all night when they can and then the city partial shuts them off because they're water that will be too long with their towers and they have to from a safety stand don't say the guys are done until we to the towers fill up. So water is a huge issue and I think the core of these you know, in there if you haven't already got your pipe in the Lake Sacacabia it's going to take you a while quite a while. Some are going off west and this is one of those things that the city values them, the Kansas City and the vibe and, you know, all those communities have a consortium called the Western Area Watch Supply or actually buying water from treatment lines in Boston and doing a delivery system through all those counties to get to the cities. In the southern part of the counties the Kansas economy just can't go much up the level and you can't farm because you're really concerned about the completion of aquifers or all these aquifers. So actually that's an example of communities coming together, legislature rent us $150 million to build this system off. And I said, well this is all said and done and what I want is to find each pipe coming to all of our communities and all of our rural systems and I'm asking some guys about the water which we think will be getting for through the sale of the water to the local stream and they have to do that. So that's the project I ran all in and it's been controversial for some different reasons but we think we're doing about 20 years of water project in three years. So again, I'm standing and we did build the legislature that our people bought water for us across the county way. It's everything. And so we're asking the institute again, you know, that's what I would recommend. If you think you're going to be restricted if you're restricted to a couple of water and sewer that's going to be comfortable. If you right now in Kinsley County it's actually zoned by the water. People are behind it. They're being 30 or 40 down in the anchor by 20 to 30 times in front of the water basically. And we've got a two inch line coming to us and it's coming out. Well, it's well filled up. We're not going to go to the foxholes because it's so loud. We have a little better case probably to get this done. And I'll be more proud of that than anything I've done and I've committed to getting water to that dry area this way. I'm glad we're not that good. I can almost help. Just one comment about the youth. As a city if you're going to sell water to other companies, be careful. There's a city in western North Dakota that oversold their water. The state water commission, they've lost the ability to sell water and they've also received money from the companies. And I believe it's going to be two years before they can start selling water again. That's how much they oversold their water from the state water commission. Okay, with that okay, Clint. We really have to get going on lunch here. I'll walk you around in a minute. That was the recognition of the sites, right? One minute only, please. One of the issues that I brought up is we have these production water trucks that are only available to tend to over they pick up production water at a lot of sites. They take it to a salt water that's supposed to go up to $3.5 cents each. That's what we've got put it down. But they figure they'll want to respect and write it down in a roll by the time they get to the salt water that's supposed to go up to $12. It costs us $10,000 in the last one that could help you to be responsible for before you get to the summit. We'll have a driver drink his into the milk and just go down the road. Okay, with that, let's give our presenters a round of applause. Thank you.


Our next presenter, Alejandro, who's going to speak about cheapness and democracy. Cheapness. Cheapness. We'll let Alejandro's fix the question. Okay. Knowing that I was going after Richard, I decided not to talk too much about sustainable cities, because I cannot compete. So I tried to find a kind of deviant argument, which is this cheapness and democracy, which in a way is a discussion or a series of questions about the possibility of whether this city that is growing out there in Istanbul is sustainable as a democracy, whether those urban growths that we have witnessed happening in the city in the last few years can sustain a democratic practice. And what does this mean for architecture, for design, for things that perhaps have to do more with getting close to the making of these objects? So some of these photographs were sent to me actually by Omer, who kindly sent me some examples of what is happening around Istanbul. Let me see if I can find out how to do this. So this is how the city is growing. And the question, which is a question that very rightly Saskia has put, I remember, in the first session of Urban Age, are these things urbanizations, or do they have a certain level of cheapness, as she called it? Are these, this is actually not Istanbul, but it could be. Maybe it's a little bit more dense, it's Korea. This type of city is growing everywhere. And I think the question that Saskia was putting forward is, are these structures that would sustain a democratic practice, a democratic life, or on the contrary, they are just machines to accumulate population and engage this population in this kind of capitalist machine. So at the same time, we have to admit that these things, and this is one of the reasons why I'm interested in them, are making available to increasingly larger population possibly the most desired good that we can provide, which is the access to the life in the city. We've seen during these past sessions how people in the city are wealthier than people in other areas, and therefore it is very important that we are able to grow the city. The question is, when we grow it, or once we grow it, can we actually make it sustainable as a community location where decisions are made in a more or less democratic manner? So why cheapness? Let me first go into the reason why I choose the argument for the talk. The reason why Istanbul is growing so fast, or one of the reasons as many of these other cities is because it's still cheap. It has a large market, and like most of these other emerging economies, it's a place for people to invest, to make business. And I think it is likely that this will be the way in which Istanbul will keep growing for the next few years. So it's worth thinking what are the aesthetic, what are the architectural implications that this type of development may trigger? What can we do as architects to ensure that democracy, if not enabled because probably that exceeds the expertise of architects and the capacity of architects, it is communicated, presented as an experience in this new urban landscape. So now that we inhabit the hangover of late capitalism and globalization, I thought it was worth reflecting on the opportunity that is opening before us to regain a certain level of political agency for material practices, to stop perhaps being subservient to political discourses. Now that ideology is losing currency and there is a massive drift to swing voters worldwide. If we look at the discourses that shaped the current notions of democracy in the second half of the 20th century, and this is not a kind of exhaustive list of visionaries, but there are some of these visionaries. So the main theme that you see across these visions is equality, equalization. Now after these guys, we have now these other guys. Starting from Alan Greenspan, who basically made available cheap money to Stelio Saggiano, who made available cheap flights, we see a shift from a kind of ideological performance to another type of performance made by a number of agents that are no longer occupying political and elected offices, but are operating from a business perspective and producing things that are cheap, and therefore, I mean, cheapness in the sense is a kind of surrogate for democratic in the market economy. And that's also the reason why I thought that cheapness was an interesting thing to look into, because I think if we were able to understand, because I don't think these people, I mean, these people have, even if they are not operating from a political office, they have an enormous effect in the politics of the contemporary city. And so if we were able to understand how do they operate, how do they produce goods, and what are the politics behind this type of operation, probably we would be in a better position to put ourselves in a more, to basically re-empower the discipline and material practices as an activity. So from the practices of these guys, I was most attracted to those that are more related or that affect more directly to the construction of a social body, that is cheap clothing manufacturing and cheap flights. Those are products that in a way shape the way the social body is organized. And when we see, I mean, I did this diagram to show, I mean, it was a kind of also metaphor for architecture. Architects are still educated and trying to operate in the kind of higher level of the visionaries, who are supposed to put forward a new vision of the world, where I believe that the most effective political actions are happening on the other side, on the kind of low-cost side, which is what everybody wears. Let me see if I can. And the same thing happens with airlines. So there are the kind of glamorous TWA, which doesn't exist anymore, Air France, British Airways, and there are the kind of low-cost, no-frills airlines, which I think is interesting because those airlines have managed, for example, to the class, the aircraft cabins, so classes have been abolished. And therefore, there are certain potentials that make me think, hopefully, about all these developments that are happening around Istanbul, even if customers are treated like livestock. And actually, thinking about ECJET, I remember the discourse of Giorgio Agamben and his description of what he calls bare life as a kind of status of diminished citizenship, where citizens have been deprived of rights by a state of exception, and yet that situation of bare life is maybe, in Agamben's words, a potential for resistance, a potential for political action. So this Homo Sacher, which is the way he refers to a kind of old legal figure, can be actually a way of utilizing cheapness in order to produce certain new political effects, which perhaps can be enacted in all these peripheral developments. So politicians have immediately capitalized on this, and now we know David Cameron proposing the EC Council, and likewise, Ryanair is using the political discourse as a way of advertising, so there is a kind of fluid relationship between these two worlds of producing cheap goods and making politics. And thinking further on what may be the aesthetic potentials or the aesthetic consequences of this no frills production, I thought that the kind of the lingo of the low-cost airlines, the idea of the frills, could perhaps give us a handle on how to address the aesthetic potentials of these cheapness strategies. So frills are epithelial excursions that are contingent, that are not structural, that are there in order to seduce or to produce a certain sensual effect. And I thought that the word gives us a very interesting entry into perhaps the aesthetics of low-cost. And so I tried to think about the history of frills in architecture and found out that modernism, police frills out of architecture as being superfluous, regressive, and ineffective on the grounds of economy, on the grounds of costs. Not on the grounds of style, because no style in modernism became style. And that produced already some problems. For example, Mies van der Rohe deciding to make the seagram bronze because the client asked him to make it more expensive looking. So postmodernists came in and kind of redeemed frills on the grounds that even if their use value is negligible, their exchange value offers a surplus in respect to their production costs. And therefore in the late capitalist economy, style becomes a free-floating commodity without any attachment to structural values.  So this puts us now, after this kind of brief history of frills in architecture into a situation where we have to choose certain options in order to operate and to exploit aesthetically this idea of frills or no frills, one of them will be cheap frills. And this is something that we can identify, for example, with manufacturers like Sara, where the idea is not to remove the frills, but on the contrary, be able to produce them at a lower cost by tampering with the kind of procurement of these clothes, etc. And these, of course, these frills are heavily structured and grounded on a very powerful infrastructure. This is the logistics depot of Sara in Coruña, which is one of the largest in the world. And there is a number of architects that have been practicing frills on a kind of cheap level. Probably the most important one is Frank Gehry, who from a very early stage was interested in cheapness and the proof of that is his own very own house. And that out of that early interest in cheapness developed something a little bit more expensive, which basically what Gehry does always is to detach the rain screen from the waterproofing. And so therefore the structure, the enclosure of the building is detached from the expression of the building. And by accepting that contradiction and that lack of integrity of the product, he's able to deliver things that are quite astonishing at relatively modest prices. You see here the two layers of structure and that kind of contradiction that is embedded into the detail of the building. The other option is what I call the no frills cool, in which the removal of the frills, the kind of going back to modernism but not as no style, becoming style, but as a new cool style in which cheapness becomes the origin of this new style. New aesthetic of the cheap emerges from a careful consideration of how to eliminate excess, the exceptional, the precious, the overpriced and the exclusive. A certain acceptance of the generic is, in a way, embedded into this possibility. Muji, for example, will be an example of this approach to design. This is not Muji, this is a Japanese fabricator that is called Final Home that makes clothes almost for homeless life, where you can fill the garments with newspapers. So it's a kind of new Rusonian inhabitation of the city that I think is very much part of this aesthetic of the bare life. I mean, that goes back to that proposal from Agamben. Rem Kulhas is also an early pioneer in cheapness with the famous motto of no money, no detail, and maybe the use of low-grade concrete systematically to produce a certain aesthetics in Lille. So I think I'm running out of time. Let me show you one more example of this. Pali di Tokyo from Lakaton Vassal, who are architects that explore extremely, interestingly, the possibilities of recycling, for example, a building, stripping it bare, introducing... I mean, this is how these buildings look like. Clearly trying to make a new style out of... cheap materials, industrial materials, introducing nature. Nature, again, with this kind of neo-Rusonian approach of the no frills Kul is something that is, again, fashionable. And I actually had a few examples that I'm not going to have time to explain of our own work, but maybe what I would like to end up by going back to the issue of sustainability and saying that what is interesting about the problem that is posed upon us architects when having to address this issue of sustainability is the possibility of using it, and sustainability, again, goes back to this idea of nature, the kind of re-addressing of nature or incorporation of nature into architecture. So there is a possibility of going back to these no frills now that we are trying to incorporate all these technologies of sustainability as a kind of new aesthetic of explicitation. This is a kind of slaughter-like term that implies that perhaps this economy, this chibness, that sustainability is going to force upon us, can be used rather than using all these lead-labeling afterwards as a way of justifying certain architectural decisions. I think the great potential that these technologies have for us is precisely to make expressive from the beginning of the project these new economies that are going to be imposed upon us in the very near future. That's what I believe the territories to be explored lie ahead of us. Thank you very much.