A Biltmore stick allows for quick estimation of diameters to the nearest 1 or 2 inches. The stick is held against the tree at breast height, usually 25 inches from the eye. Manufactured Biltmore sticks can be purchased from forestry equipment suppliers, or personalized Biltmore sticks can be made to match your natural arm reach. To make your own Biltmore stick, first obtain a broom handle or large dowel or other blank that can be used for your Biltmore stick. When holding the blank comfortably against the face of a tree at about 4.5 feet above the ground, have someone carefully measure the distance from your eye to the blank. This is your personal arm reach for creating your Biltmore stick. You will notice on manufactured Biltmore sticks, there are usually graduations of 2 inches used to estimate tree diameter. You can calculate diameter graduations for your personalized Biltmore stick using the following formula. For A equals arm reach in inches and D equals the diameter of the tree being measured. For example, if you have an arm reach of 24 inches and you are trying to determine the graduation for a 4 inch tree, the formula would be 24 times 16 divided by 24 plus 4 all under the square root. When you work that out, it comes to 3.7 inches. You can complete and record the calculations for your personal arm reach. Do this for diameters starting at 4 inches and continue in 1 inch or 2 inch intervals to 20 inches or more depending on the size of trees you will be measuring. Once calculations are complete, you may start crafting your Biltmore stick. To do this, find a starting point that is about 6 to 10 inches from the top of the stick and mark it with a pencil line.  Then measuring an inches and tenths of inches from the starting point mark the appropriate number of inches for your 4 inch tree. For example, if your 4 inch tree calculation was 3.7 inches, you would measure 3.7 inches from the starting point. Then for your 5 inch tree, you would repeat this process marking 4.5 inches from your starting point. Continue this process labeling each mark as you go until all diameter markings are complete. Once you have the graduations marked with a pencil, check them for correctness. Measure several circular trees with a diameter tape and check the Biltmore against these measured trees. Utility poles work well.  This is your chance to be creative. Now you are ready to measure tree diameters using your personalized Biltmore stick.


There you go, right there, there you go! Close it! Exercise Raptor Strike is primarily the 16th Regiment of Royal Australian Artillery. We're utilising the range with a number of other units, namely units from Nine Brigade, which is a nascent manoeuvre brigade within the Australian Army. We, as the 111th Battery as part of the 16th Regiment, have been joined by the Low Altitude Air Defense Platoon from the 3rd Ladd Battalion that is here as part of the Marine Rotational Force Darwin. We've been able to deploy on troop level tasks, which is inclusive of detachments to point out into both missile and sensor sites, and they are able to practice their detachment level skills, improve on their own individual understanding. This is a rare opportunity and noting that the 16th Regiment is single air defense capability in the Australian Army. It provides a great opportunity for the Rotational Force to train on an exercise that is supportive of the objectives of an air defense course on. Working with the Australians, it just allows us to be confident in the fact that we can work side by side with them and that they can rely on us as well as we can rely on them. It just helps us work out these kinks so that when the time comes or they got a call on us or we got a call on them that we're ready. The end goal for Exercise Raptor Strike is to share tactics, techniques, and procedures as well as increasing lethality for us as a Low Altitude Air Defense Detachment and increasing lethality for the Royal Australian Army's Air Defense Corps. Shared struggle increases friendships for a lifetime and I think executing training events that are realistic, difficult, and challenging that's the most important thing that we're getting out here. Angry A-Firm, read back correct, just missed your transmission, try to elevation. Training today we've been doing sustainment training for our M320 and M32 gunners. Today they've actually been able to shoot HEDP or high explosive dual-purpose rounds. Most of the time they're shooting training practice rounds so them getting the actual experience of watching the boom makes them feel a little better, gives them a little bit more buy and it makes them have a little bit fun with their training. This is just proving that we can sustain our skills as light infantry in the field going forward. We've gotten the new weapons, the M320 hasn't been around for the Marine that long so again we're out here making sure that we're proficient with the weapon system or it prepares us for the future fight. We have the new weapon, we have the new gear.


Good morning.  It doesn't matter if we've given birth to children or if we have little furry pets that we care for, we are all mothers because mother not only is a noun it's an adjective and the adjective is I think it's to care for and to protect. So all of us in this that are watching today I want to wish you a happy Mother's Day. Today I'm going to do a quick update on the area that I included using the derma roller on. I think that was the end of October. I want to tell you how I assess if the skincare product is working for me. I want to announce the winner of my last giveaway and that was $125 gift and I'm going to change that up for the better for the winner and since it's Mother's Day you might want to hang around because it just may be something special. Almost five years ago I started using the derma roller on my lips and that's all I used it for was my lips and I did it to maintain or increase the fullness of my lips and also the lines around my lips. I hadn't really been bothered with them yet but I really wanted to make sure that I was a little bit proactive because lipstick is my very favorite thing to wear and I just wanted as much real estate to put my lipstick on as as I could get. Going on three years ago I included my nasal labial folds my marionette lines and I think that was it and that's going on three years ago. Over two years ago I started derma rolling just the top of my head because my hair was getting thinner and it has been very helpful for that. Over a year ago I included the tails of my eyebrows because I wanted to get them back and I did and six months ago I started on this area around here the little bunny line and the two elevens right here and here and I don't have any pictures to show you I tried to find something so I could compare but they have improved. Not a huge improvement but they have improved but it's only been six months and I tell you I'm very patient even on 66 I'm very patient with my skincare. Before I talk about my routine that I do on my forehead if you have any skin conditions any acne or if you're prone to fever blisters I wouldn't attempt derma rolling I would talk to my physician my dermatologist I'm just talking to you like a consumer just anybody who is trying something that wants to keep their skin in the best condition that they possibly can. You know I usually refer to it as derma rolling it's microblading it's collagen induction therapy and they're basically the same thing only this is what I do at home and I will link any videos below if you want more information and I'll try to put a card above so you can click on that or just go to the information below if you want to need more information but I just want to make this as brief as possible. First Sunday of the month I use a 0.5 millimeter derma rolling the rest of the Sundays I do a 0.25 I could do the 0.25 more often but I just want to keep it to Sundays and it takes me I last time I did it which was a week ago it took me four minutes to do it so I am willing to do four minutes to try to help my skin look as good as it possibly can. I have never used anything to numb my skin I don't find it painful at all but you really have to be take care of your derma roller and this is a derma roller of mine and I don't have any makeup on I have on mascara Navy eyeliner my upper waterline and lipstick I haven't even done my skin care yet today but I just want to show you I've had people ask how I hold my derma roller and this isn't right or wrong it's just what works for me I put this part in my hand and my finger right there and then I'll go like this I want to have a little bit of control and I'm not pressing in very far I'll do an area right here I haven't started doing that yet but it's just makes little tiny tiny channels and I do this in the afternoon and I don't put makeup on until the next day also I've been asked so many times how often do I replace my derma roller when it starts to feel differently you have to really protect the little needles and I'm going to put a picture here of real needles and what I call discs I use the discs needles for oh probably two years and once I found the real needles I do like them better when I place it in the holder I'm very careful not to touch the sides I just drop it in there after I've cleaned it and I clean the container and then I let mine dry for several hours and I put the top on it and I store it I really think if you didn't do anything else you would see the results of the collagen and the last in building but what I do I just use the matrixal 3000 probably about I put it all over my face and a few hours later I still use the kakai naturals kakai oil and I use a total of three drops I put it that includes my neck because I use it I only use this on my face once a week and that's on Sunday but I use it on my neck every other night but I don't think those things I don't know I'm not willing to give them up but I have a feeling that it would work without it I had purchased one of those manual derma stamps and I didn't like it and I threw it away and I was sorry I did because I was going to show it to you they're about this big in diameter and what you do you just stamp your face with it well what I've chosen to do when I do my work on my bunny line I go like this move it and go in and I have had good results if you want a more and I'm going to say the word aggressive but I don't mean it in a bad way I'm just kind of muddling through I'm just adding things as I need to which isn't very often but I'm just wanting to do the least amount possible and get the best results I can I'm going to put a link to Penn Smith skincare she has she talks she speaks a lot about the pins that you charge that go in and out I think you get really good results with those but for right now I am just happy with what I'm doing but Penn is a master esthetician and she really knows what she's talking about but so far I've had that question am I going to get one of those pins and I don't think so but you never know and who knows one of these days I met I may start using that derma roller on my other areas of my face but for right now I'm just staying in this area right here I buy my derma rollers from skin diva I like them they're very affordable and I have found them on Amazon but I like the hundred and ninety-two stainless steel needle that are actually real needles I've had quite a few questions recently about that 20% are garylene I think that's how you say it I have only tried the one from skin diva and I'll tell you why it's 20% are garylene it also has hyaluronic acid and matrixal 3000 but the questions I get is how much I use well this one I've dated it's 3 15 20 I went back to look on my orders to the last time when somebody asked me how long it lasted I thought it was about a year but I always try to keep a backup when something when I open one thing I buy a backup so I'm going to know exactly how long this lasts but I'm going to show you how you can use one drop in all the areas that I use I'm going to put one drop right there I take my finger and put it down here just dab it in and I hope it looks wet on TV and I hope it looks wet right there and with then there's still quite a bit left and I just put it in these areas right here and then I've had it in and one drop does cover the areas that I want to and I don't use this after derma rolling I've just gotten in the habit of the Mcplain matrixal 3000 but I wanted to answer those questions for you and it's still wet I don't know if you can see it or not but it is still wet on my face the company did send me the first one I requested it from the company but in everything that I use if if the company sends me the first one I always buy my own with the exception of timeless I have never received an item from timeless I have they sent me something but I gave it to you it's anyway we'll just go on to the next topic now I want to talk about how I assess my skin every morning when I wake up I feel my face I want it to feel normal I don't want it to feel dry I don't want it to feel oily that's the first thing I do in my assessment is I feel my skin the second thing I do after I go into the bathroom I get a cheap nubby washcloth and I go over my face and then I go into my dressing room and I brought this out to show you this is the floc site 15 times magnification mirror and I don't know if I can show you it's six and a half inches in diameter and it has a light here I bought mine over 13 years ago and you can replace the bulbs and I had to replace above once I ordered mine from Bed Bath and Beyond there were four high school friends and we all went to one of our friends vacation home in Santa Fe New Mexico and she had one of these and I tell you what after I looked in it I knew I had to have one it's not anything that you use to put on your makeup but I tell you what you can really assess your skin this is 15 times magnification so it is 50% stronger than a 10 times magnification mirror well when I really want to assess my skin I want to see it there's 20 times magnification mirrors but I've tried those and they are so distorted when I assess my skin a lot of times I don't turn on the light it depends on what time you know I have the sun is coming out and I think since I'm an RN I have really good assessing I have really good assessment skills so I will look at my skin in the morning just to see how it's doing where this has come in handy for several years I just use retina at night and that was all didn't use anything else then I decided I needed more and I started using an eye cream and the one I started using was from timeless it's the hydrating eye cream well I use this absolutely every single night and I used it for probably two years at night and I decided I needed something else so the first thing I tried was the it's secret sauce so the first time I used it I used it on both eyes for like five nights in a row and then I used it for one on one eye five nights in a row and I just would look at my eyes to see if they made any difference and this wasn't enough and I still use the hydrating eye cream on my eyes every night and on my lids and within the last year I've added the it cosmetics confidence in an eye cream I don't know if this is I'm going to finish this up but it's not doing what I had anticipated that it would do I'm patient I'm going to keep using it but but I may switch it up I may use my my bye-bye under eye this is what I use in the morning and I can tell a big difference so what I probably do is I'm going to probably use this on one eye for five nights and have this on the other because both my eyes are about the same in the amount of wrinkles so I just kind of that's how I do things I try something and I keep looking in the mirror I fill my face and then I see how my makeup looks on over my skin and that does tell me a lot I'm going to put in a couple of pictures as I'm talking I found one from 2010 and one from 2014 the one from 2010 I probably weigh 30 pounds more in that photo than I do now and the one from 2014 I probably weigh about the same I had to really look hard to find the photos so I could I know even when I smile really big that my wrinkles aren't as bad as they were six years ago and when I get when I get big wrinkles I'm fine I don't think I look young for my age I think my skin looks good for being 66 years old that's what I think and it's not DNA because I don't know where my DNA was 15 years ago it's just having a routine whether you like it or not and just keep doing it and and I think it's exciting the skin can actually get better in the beginning of April I placed an order to on Amazon and I ordered the new timeless vitamin C plus E plus fruic acid I opened at April 13th and so far so good the packaging hasn't leaked and one pump will do my whole face so I'm going to see how long this lasts I you can't read anything on the packaging I don't like that I just have to wait and see but I do like the delivery system and the reason I ordered it on Amazon is it was $18 I always have a 25% off coupon code in my links below and it was less expensive on Amazon than it was using my own link and I only needed one thing so I missed out on the Mother's Day sale because I did not need anything I've got everything that I need I'll need another one of these but I think I've got everything I need for the rest of the year and since we're speaking about timeless I want to announce this is going to be a giveaway I contacted timeless to see if they would be interested in giving away to two people their Mother's Day gift box and I'm going to show you a picture of that some of the items in there I haven't tried but I probably need to at some point but it has the 20% vitamin C plus E plus fruic acid coenzyme Q10 serum vitamin B serum hyaluronic acid and the squalene oil so two of you are going to win this before I talk about how to enter I want to announce the winner of last week's giveaway and I'm filming this on Monday so I will have this filmed and on Wednesday is when I close my giveaway and I put up the winner but before I so I haven't even chosen any names yet I haven't done random comment picker but I decided after reading the comments what I was going to do is I'm going to keep my points and the winner is going to receive a 125 dollar e-gift card to anywhere they want well it's Wednesday and I just went to random comment picker and I have the winner for my giveaway I did want to tell you I mentioned that we were going to be getting a dollar tree it's not a dollar tree it's a family dollar so in our little town we'll have a family dollar and a dollar general store and also I wanted you to know I did not derma roll the Sunday night before I filmed this on last Monday because that was the first Sunday of the month and I didn't want to derma roll the night before because your face is a little bit more swollen the next day and I just wanted you to see what my skin looked like and now the important thing the winner of the 125 dollar either gift card PayPal whatever you choose is Della Hill or Hile I'm not sure but congratulations Della congratulations to the lucky winner just make sure you leave a comment below so I can let you know how to get in touch with me and we can decide what kind of e-gift card or if you want to have PayPal deposit we'll work out whatever it is that you want so okay this is another giveaway so I won't be able to reply to comments anybody that's entering the giveaway and I think it's a really nice and I think it's a really nice giveaway it's international you just have to be subscribed to this channel before it goes live you have to be 18 years older older and this giveaway will close in three days it closes on Wednesday morning I go in and I put closed on it so I know that you want to be in this giveaway in the comment section below just tell me something you like about the month of May I love we have beautiful dogwood trees it is it's beautiful around here that's my favorite thing about May and I tell you it's gonna be a long one Illinois is still shelter in place through the end of May and it's become very very interesting I want to thank you all for watching for commenting for giving me the thumbs up I appreciate your support more now than ever because it hasn't been the easiest to sit down and film videos it hasn't been for me but I put on some clothes and one there's some things I wanted to talk about some questions that I needed to answer and anyway it is all good you take care and I will see you in my next video but history of my or like I'm you know it's just being just tell me something you like about May


Good morning and welcome to the October seasonal outlook. My name is Moosa Killink from the predictive services at CFA. So we're just going to start off by providing some guidance around the products that you guys might be able to have a look at your own time. So a good link is the Climate Dogs website. So if you Google Climate Dogs you should be able to see some links to that website and it will provide you with some good guidance and interpretation of the products. The other good ones are anything to do with the Bureau of Meteorology. So soil, moisture or climate outlook will also give you some good guidance. So in terms of today what we are going to talk about is the recent rainfall patterns over Victoria and then the current soil moisture conditions and try to relate that to the the fuel conditions on the ground. And then we're going to have a look at some of the forecast climate patterns and then followed by looking at the how that forecast climate relates to past bushfire seasons. So just to start off with the Australian context what we can see from this diagram is firstly that most of eastern and northern Victoria as well as most of eastern Australia as well as western Australia are currently under serious rainfall deficiency which basically means that if bushfires do occur in Victoria over a prolonged period then it's likely that we won't actually be able to rely on other states for firefighting services. And then on the right of the presentation is the AFAC bushfire seasonal outlook which again reflects the current conditions and bushfire seasonal forecast which is pretty dominant along the east coast of Australia. So what we can have see from this diagram is the recent rainfall patterns over Victoria. So starting from the bottom so that's looking at the last six months and as we go to the top of those images that's looking at the last month over September. What we can see from these diagrams is that there's quite a large rainfall deficit over most of Victoria over the last six months which has expanded over the last three months and then into the last month where rainfall patterns have been quite consistently low over most of northern eastern central Victoria. But what we can see is that over the last month that continued dryness has gone over west and south west Victoria as well where essentially showing that over western and southwestern Victoria there are record low rainfall patterns which essentially means that it's at the historical low period. So what the diagram also shows is that September was the second lowest month of rainfall over the last 100 years which is quite significant. If we have a look at the soil moisture conditions over a current period so this is October 4th again it really shows the underlying dryness caused by rainfall deficits over most of Victoria. So the information is presented again as desiles where the red or maroon colour is lowest on record whereas the blue is highest on record. Over Victoria most of the soil moisture deficits are at the very much below to record lows meaning that the soil moisture is quite low which is affecting the vegetation growth especially at the understory meaning that the fuels in the understory vegetation are becoming drier and more available to burn. The other prominent features from this diagram is that the out of Melbourne and Barbon Oatways is showing significant drying trends which is a cause for concern. So in the next diagram we've zoomed into the Oatways region and again looking at the root zone soil moisture which is the depth of soil moisture to 1 metre. What this diagram shows is a comparison between the 2015-16 season at the bottom and the 2018 year and if we remember in 2015 on December 25th there was a wide river fires which was caused by a very sudden shift in drying during the September-October-November period which essentially the root zone moisture collapsed which caused the underlying vegetation to become fully available. Currently the same thing has happened again where there has been a very sudden decline in soil moisture and we'll need to really follow the soil moisture as well as the rainfall patterns over the next couple of months to have a look at the signals to see if the Oatways regions will become available to burn again. In terms of looking at the long range temperature and rainfall patterns so this is the Bureau of Meteorology forecast. Again what we can sort of see from these diagrams so looking at the bottom so that's temperature the forecast is for higher daytime temperatures on average over October as well as November and I guess the chance of this occurring is quite high so there is quite a high model confidence in the temperature forecast. In terms of rainfall again during October where the model confidence is high much drier conditions forecast throughout Victoria especially over the south-west as well as central highlands of Victoria so again a bit of a cause for concern over the Oatways and central highlands especially if these drying trends continue. If we have a look at the El Nino so we're trying to understand or unpack some of those climate signals so what the global climate models have forecast an increasing likelihood of El Nino occurring especially over early summer to late summer period so the El Nino hasn't really activated yet but the forecast is that it will activate with high likelihood with nearly all climate models globally signifying a high chance of El Nino conditions so what El Nino essentially means is that typically it is associated with lower rainfall patterns over south-east Australia In terms of the Indian Ocean Dipole so that's the other large climate influencer in Australia especially south-east Australia and so what's happened over the last month is that the Indian Ocean Dipole has turned positive which again was forecast by the global climate models what this has caused is again a drying trend over much of Victoria which I guess was associated with the low rainfall patterns over Victoria so I guess the reason for that was the change in pressure patterns over interior Australia which has essentially decreased the chance of rainfall triggers over Victoria but with the Indian Ocean Dipole it's not likely to last beyond summer so that's when the subtropical systems will really fire up and decrease any further enhancement of the positive Indian Ocean Dipole when we compare the current season with past season so this graph essentially shows essentially 100 years worth of seasonal data that's been linked with really bad bushfire season so the examples that we have here is really around the severe forest fire season so that's the green dashed line and the black line is essentially where we currently at and the dashed black line is what the forecast is from the Bureau of Meteorology so over the next three months the forecast is in terms of bushfire seasons is that it's likely to be in line with the worst seasons that we've encountered in South East Australia I guess there is still some uncertainty behind this so it really depends on what happens in terms of rainfall patterns over October and November but because the forecast for rainfall is quite low from the Bureau of Meteorology it is likely something like that will eventually which will essentially mean that it will be a major or a serious bushfire season in Victoria in terms of issues or risks to consider over Victoria remembering that in August or early September the bushfire seasonal outlook map had East Gippsland as above average now again depending on what the rainfall patterns look like over October it is likely that the above average forecast for the bushfire seasonal outlook is likely to be extended beyond East Gippsland perhaps to out of Melbourne all the way up to the Otways again just depending on what that rainfall pattern looks like during September again as we observed record low rainfalls over much of Victoria especially Gippsland again so the messaging over Gippsland is that if we do get lightning activity it is likely to cause campaign level fires which were experienced during 2006-07 or 2002-2003 seasons the other considerations is really around the fire danger period because of the low rainfall patterns over that has occurred over September and likely to occur over October really need to start thinking about declaration of fire danger periods and preparation of and around houses by communities so to ensure that the preparedness levels are right as we approach the season that's all from me and next month in November we will be giving another seasonal outlook thanks


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hey hey hey you guys so we are back with story times and so I give you guys a little snippet so I gave you guys a little snippet of a story I've been thinking about for a while here and it is called week sorry for the a bus went by so I do apologize it is called weeping angels okay real quick though before I get started into the story shout out to youtuber excuse me to fellow subscriber the voice she's like honey just make sure that you protect your work and you're absolutely right even though I cannot necessarily copyright an idea I can definitely copyright an idea of my short stories is basically what they are essentially so I am going to be in the process of doing that before the summer definitely do that so you guys this is called weeping angels may give y'all a little bit of background so this is set in the mid to late 70s and it surrounds a family of of sisters so we have the Baker family they were originally from North Carolina but they moved to Chicago okay let's make this the year of 78 78 that sounds like a good year 78 1978 in Chicago they live in a brownstone the Baker family they have four girls yes all girls and I have their names here flowers the name of flowers we have willow who is the oldest to give you a big brief description of each girl before we move into the parents willow is the oldest at 22 years old willow is shy she's quiet she's cute she's okay she's a chocolate sister all the all the daughters are chocolate okay next up we have violet a violet is absolutely stunning when she walks into a room heads turn she's 20 years old violet is also engaged to be married to her high school sweetheart and then lastly we have the twins girl they are 12 year old twins as a big age gap there but they were a little bit of a surprise we have Jasmine and Rose they are twins they are extremely intelligent girls there are also chess players they've been playing chess since they were 10 years old so they've gotten pretty good at it all right the families or the parents on a local neighborhood shop you know your neighborhood little store corner store basically why net is the mother's name and I've been thinking about the father Anthony Anthony they call him Tony yes Tony and these parents are young girls because back then people were having kids when they were when they were kids you know so let's put them let's say 23 24 year difference so the father is 43 let's put the mom really young the mom is 40 yeah the mom is 40 years old they moved from North Carolina when the twins were toddlers by the way okay so the oldest girls were born in North Carolina but they adjusted because it's been a while okay the twins are not 12 years old so everything is going well oh by the way they live it in a brown stone and there are other characters in this building it is owned by an older Jewish couple you have the lion's things good now that's that's so Jewish go the Goldbergs go that's even more Jewish Jewish name but this this people they're in their 70s and the wife is very very sweet now miss why net Baker tries to tell the girls to stay away from no from the wife because rumor is she's a clairvoyant and she does run run a little business out of their apartment apartment excuse me where she does read people's palm but the bakers are devout Christians and they have taught their children and they like you do not go up there to that woman even though they're nice you don't go up there you're not gonna dabble into that darkness is what they try to tell the girls who's else in the house we have a single a single mom that she has two kids and excuse me the brown stone we have a single mom she has two kids and then we have a another family with some kids okay but then the bottom the bottom which is the basement is for rent but rumor is somebody is moving in so that's where this is you know the story is going you guys the person is actually moving in yes girl he gonna be fine too not powerful but so let's go into the characters you guys oh by the way as far as the background goes like I said the parents on a shop willow be in the oldest that's what she does she did not she's not going to college so willow wanted to be a nurse but things got so busy at the store that she put aside her dreams of going to nurse in school and decided to help her parents out in the shop so she works at the shop you guys every day now the mom they've gotten to some depth due to the father girl yes and so he had made some not so smart he had made some not so smart decisions back in North Carolina and they old people so the mom actually has a night job she cleans hotels at night and the father works in the daytime of course along with willow at the shop so all three of them work at the shop the girls are in school the young girls in school now ironically violet I was looking down at the notes violet goes to nursing school so the inside T is that even though violet is extremely beautiful she's insecure because she ate that smart so she tends to copy willow and violet really doesn't want to be a nurse but since willow wanted to be a nurse why not okay so that's how that's how that goes you know what I mean so a little bit of rival a little bit of tension between those two sisters to you guys so anyway just wanted to give that background so this is the weekend where it's a Saturday morning and this is early summer let's make this June okay June and Chicago early summer 1978 this is a Saturday morning and they see a moving truck coming up and so the girls are peeping down you know they live on the second floor no no no yeah they live on the second floor the family on the second floor so they're peering down to see the moving truck and so this these are the twins you know a little girl what are the twins name again Lily and violet no Lily and Jasmine hell girl so these are the twins girl Jasmine and Rose you know hey um hey Jasmine look the movies are here so Jasmine and Rose are looking down at the busy street and they could see a moving truck coming in and so the momma goes walks by the window why not she's like I want to you know why would you need a moving truck if there's only a one bedroom down there I thought and so Rose and now my miss two bedrooms it's two bedrooms down there and why not kind of rose her eyes and she's a girl I'll say and why not walks back to the kitchen to start getting lunch ready all right so the girls are still staring down and that's when willow comes by she's like hey um do y'all see who it is yet and so the twins like they shake their heads no at the same time and so willow thinks to herself they're doing that creepy twang thing that creepy tip twang thing again where they do things and sink they say words they finish each other words girl yeah so anyway the twins just sitting there most of the morning just looking at no peep on the new person that has supposedly is moving in so the mother goes ahead and gets lunch ready willow helps her and apparently the other sister what's her name y'all yeah I gotta get these sisters name Shash and maybe I should it's his man only two Jasmine no no so the other stuff valid is apparently over the parents of her fiance's house she's over there having lunch with them so it's just gonna be the twins and and willow and her parents you know just having a quick lunch nothing nothing about it so this is why now she's like well did I see who moved in yet and willow's like no apparently the twins been you know watching all morning at the windows and no one's moved in and so the husband comes yeah what's the husband's name Tony comes in and he's like yeah maybe he'll come in later on you know it's getting kind of warm so if the brother ain't moved in yet then you know maybe he'll move in the next day so I'll write you guys everything goes okay they have you know lunch and they had just came back from the shop cuz Saturdays are their biggest day so they just closed the shop they all just for a quick quick bite to eat and then we're back to the shop to work the shop stays open until 9 p.m. okay y'all so the next morning shop is still open you know now why that doesn't work down the shops cuz she doesn't believe in working on the Lord's Day but willow and her father does keep the shop going every day basically so apparently the mystery man moved in overnight okay Saturday night he moved in and so willow was like that's kind of I who chooses to move into their apartment at night all right you guys were sorry about that I had to pause in the middle so this is the next day and continue with the first part of weeping angels so I guess the mystery man has moved in overnight but what we're gonna do is back up a little bit it's in the middle of the night jasmine fast tail actually spent the night over her fiance's house and she used the cover that she was gonna be having dinner with the parents but honey she wanted to just spend the night with a fiance now her parents are very traditional so she sneaks in the next morning her and willow the eldest daughter they share a room and the twins share a room right so here's jasmine sneaking in here so here's jasmine sneaking in she makes her way into the room that her and willow share as she starts to take off her her clothes from the night before and put on her pajamas to make it seem like she's been in bed all night willow you know she roses around and she turns on the lamp she turns on a lamp and she looks up at jasmine she's like well it's good to know you finally decided to come home so violet kind of rose her eyes at her she's like look willow now everybody can be like you just stuck up here like an old mate with no man and willows like well considering all these girls being showing up missing it's too dangerous violet for you to be out late like this and so about second I understand I know but guess what you will it's like what she's like it looks like that man moved in downstairs so that really piqued willow's interest is that what do you mean he moved in downstairs what do you mean the man moved in downstairs the twins were watching all day and no one moved in violet cut her off she's like well the lights are on downstairs so that tells me that somebody is already moved in so willow looked at her turns over to her side turns off the lamp and goes to bed next morning willow makes her way to the neighborhood shop her everyone's there at the shop meaning both her parents are there the twins are off at school and violet is that nursing her nursing classes right so she's busy you know checking out the person in front of her and she notices a man walking around which is pacing back and forth and he finally went reaches into one of the coolers and grabs ice water chilled water and he comes up and he gets ready to pay for his food and willow is blonde away this man is absolutely breathtakingly handsome now y'all this brother looks like I try to find someone that y'all can compare them to this brother looks like Brian White Brian White is the actor that played in stump the yard oh y'all sorry that made it worth honey Brian White is the actor that played in stump the yard yes yes looks like that very nice right so anyway he comes in up finally to pay for his water so normally willow wouldn't make conversation with people cuz she's a little shocked she just wants them in and out right but she decides to say something cuz again this brother's handsome so he gets him his change he's like well here should change but by the way I've never seen you before are you new to this neighborhood and that's where he was on his way out the door and he kind of turns around he's like actually yeah I moved in what time is it this bus is late picking up these kids so he turned around walks back up to the cashier he's like actually yes I just moved in a couple of nights ago and will have thought that was kind of odd because the person who moved in supposed to be within last night right so he's like yeah I actually moved in a couple of nights ago over at the brown stone on girl I don't know 94th and Central and she's like really my family lives in that brown stone and he's like he looks at her he's like the flower girls and she kind of rolls her eyes she's like yes the flower girls and so he's like so which one are you itself that's when willow introduces up she's like well my name is willow and I'm the eldest of the sisters of the flower girls I as you say and then my sister is after me violent and then we have twins Jasmine and Rose and he kind of smile he's like wow flower girls he's like wow four girls all flower names that's why you call the flower girls she's like yep that's why we're called the flower girls so he's like well I gotta run off but it was nice to meet you by the way he's like I'm sorry my name is Michael she's like okay nice to meet you too so he walks out and willow it's like oh my god I cannot wait to get home you know and tell a violent about this man and how handsome he is right so willow is just in the willow is a daydreamer y'all so I'm about to choke someone so throughout the entire you know day she's just thinking about this man and how he just moved in a handsome he is and you know she's gonna share it with violent and her her daddy notices that willow is in this phase and he's like willow you okay this is Tony girl Tony the daddy he's like willow what are you doing she's a nothing daddy I'm sorry he's saying he looks at her he's like you've been acting weird all day why don't you go ahead and take off I can do this by myself if you why don't you go ahead and take off I can work you know this laugh you few hours by myself if you ain't gonna get it together she's like no daddy I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry cuz child she's been dropping stuff dropping ice on the ground giving people the wrong change cuz she's just miss mesmerized about this man you know like I said she she often finds herself daydreaming or whatever so the shop closes up at 9 p.m. she goes into the room that her and violet shares and she sees that violet is not home again and she's like I can't keep doing this I can't keep covering for her because you guys what happens is that willow will cover for violet when she stays out all night the parents been telling them even though they're grown but you're still under my roof so you gonna have to listen to my rules that you need to be home by a certain time especially since these especially since these young girls have been coming up missing and they don't know what's happening right so violet is still out willow decides to stay up all the girls have gone to bed the twins are going to bed the daddy's gonna be a mama's is on the bed so willow decides to stay up and she's in the living room watching TV that's when she hears the front door open and she turns around of course is violet sneaking in again and so willow you don't whisper to her she's like violent is that you and by looks like yes willow it's me so what are you doing up so late she's like I'm waiting on you to come you know you know with these girls showing up missing I'm just worried about it's like you don't have any reason to be worried about me because this is what I got and so willow so what do you mean so violets is down on to the love seat next to her and she rummages into her purse and pulls out a knife and willow's like where did you get that from she said drill told me I should have it drill is her the name of fiancee and willow's like I don't know about that by like I mean I feel like you shouldn't really have to you know have a knife just to walk home and violence like look willow we never know what's happening and the cops still don't know what happened to those girls that showed up missing y'all so far there have been two girls that have shown up missing in their neighborhood within the last month again they're presumed dead no bodies nothing the parents haven't heard anything there hasn't been any you know kidnappers calling because these were working middle class people it's not like they have a lot of money anyway so violet has his knife again there her fiancee drill gave to her so she's like what I just need I just feel better having it and Joe said he'll feel better with me and so willow said well if he was really that concerned he will walk you home and make sure you got home safe excuse me she goes ahead and goes to bed and willow decides to stay up a little bit later y'all watching watching TV and she ends up falling asleep on the couch but then willow has his dream and the dream has Michael the guy from downstairs and so y'all she's in this dream she's so in the dream she's working in a shop and all of a sudden whatever she's carrying I don't know girl like a box of chips or something falls on the ground and Michael comes over and he helps her to arrange the chips in the box and when he helps her to get up and that's when he gets closer to her and he starts to kiss her child that's when willow wakes up except from the dream she looks down and sees that it's morning time and she could hear her her mama wine net in the kitchen getting breakfast together and so her mama turns around she's like willow did you sleep on the couch all night she's like yeah mama I was just tired she was your daddy told me that you were acting funny at the shop yesterday and willow so she looked at you know her mama she's like you know how daddy is mama it was okay it was nothing so child willow decides to go ahead and get ready for the day again violet goes ahead and go off to school then that's when they hear a knock at the door so why not the mother she's like willow go ahead and get that why I finish up these eggs so willow goes ahead and she goes through the front door and without even looking at the people she opens it up and guess who should be standing there is the young handsome new mysterious neighbor mr. Michael all right you guys that's it for part one


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Welcome to Barbell Logic Rewind. Welcome to the Barbell Logic Podcast. I am Scott Hamburg. We have Matt Reynolds here as we always do. And today we have Nick Meyers and Miles Taylor. You guys may have seen him on Instagram. You might have seen him with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Powerlifting Meets. He's an athlete that we wanted to have on here very badly and wanted to have him tell his story. How do they find you on Instagram first? How do we find you guys out there? I think it all started with, so he's gone viral a couple of times, but the biggest one has been the most recent one with his 200 pound deadlift, which was double body weight for him because he's like 100, 99, 100 pounds somewhere around there. And then that just took off in the right people's salt and then it just snowballed. So how do they find that? Is that on you guys' Instagram account or where's the easiest way for our listeners to see it? I posted it. Yep. Okay, awesome. Miles, what's the Instagram? My name is SmilesUnscoreTaylor. Smiles, like Miles. Oh, Smiles, that's right, Smiles. Because if it's not clear to you when you look up Miles' Instagram, why they call him Smiles, the guy is just so excited. That's the thing I love about this is that people that will listen to our show, we all know what it feels like to hit a PR. And I don't know that I've ever seen anybody celebrate in a way that's like pure joy and jubilation the way SmilesTaylor does. And so that's a great nickname for you. Yeah, so a little background, if people don't know Smiles, he has cerebral palsy and is 24.  And while you were in the bathroom, Matt, I've said, hey, Miles, you guys, you have any trolls, if you said. Tell him what you told me. We do that job. Yeah. He knows what to do and I do. Yeah, they're mainly like in the cesspools of the region of what you like to call Reddit. That's where we got the most trolling. And it's just kind of like you read them and then ignore them because if you give them that interaction, then that's exactly what they're looking for. Yeah. The Reddit trolls might be worse than the YouTube trolls.   First question, let's start where we're at, which is, what are your PRs? So you weigh about 9,900 pounds, which is amazing. So you think about that. You got a double bodyweight deadlift, which is amazing. What are your other PRs in some of the other lifts? So 110 squat. Yeah, 110, 110, 115-pound squat. Okay, 110 for squat, which is great. 75 for bench. Yeah, he also hit, he had a bench PR, so we were out with Arnold Classic. Our friends, we communicate with Super Trading a lot, Mark Bell and all those guys, and we went and worked out with them after one of the days was all said and done, and he hit a bench PR out there in Ohio when we were training and hanging out with them. Yeah. Overhead press at 50. Yeah, it's like 60 pounds. You're over repressed. I saw that you're starting to play around with some strongman implements, right? Yeah, a couple weeks ago I did a 83-pound stone. Oh, nice, 83-pound stone. That was cool.  So I don't, you guys may not know this, I won my pro card in Strongman in 2006, actually at the same show with Brian Shaw, where I won the light heavies and he won the heavies, and he went on to become the world's strongest man numerous times. I went on to run a podcast called Barbaralogic. And so anyway, for those of you guys that don't know, picking up a stone off the ground to me is one of the most humbling, if you've never done it before, it's one of the most humbling things on the planet because you'll be like, man, I can deadlift, 315, 405, 500 pounds, whatever.  There's nothing to hold onto. It's on the ground. So a Barbell is about nine inches off the floor.  So you pick up a 300-pound stone, you can pick up a 300-pound anything. Like you pick up an 83-pound stone, you're picking up a 83-pound anything. The most, I feel like it's the most primal, functional form of lifting you can do is pick up some sort of stone, concrete, rock, object that you can find. Because you can do that anywhere. Yeah, yeah, I agree. I always wanted to pick up like a 400-pound woman, like Brienne of Tarth. And so that's really why I did stone training because I knew if I could pick up like a 400-pound stone that I could clearly pick up a 400-pound. In her full suit of armor? Or maybe not, because that stone doesn't fight back like she would. That's right, that's right. Well, it's Sir Brienne of Tarth now. That's right, that's right, sir. That's right, Sir Brienne. So I want to know who found who first. So did Miles come to you, Nick? Did you guys know each other ahead of time? And one of the things I think is so cool about this is that, you know, here's what I love about Miles is that even though Miles has CP, he trains.  Everybody thinks they've got their ailment. Everybody has their thing. Everybody has their bad knees or their bad back or they've got fibromyalgia or they've got whatever.  When you think of somebody who has CP, you don't immediately think like, okay, here's a guy or girl who can be a power lifter or somebody who actually does PR. So who had that idea first and decided to start to pursue that? Before the lifting, we were friends since like middle school. We went to high school together. We had a couple of classes together. So we already had that friendship. And he went away to the Army for four years. And we kind of lost touch a little bit. But then he came back from the government and we met up at college. And yeah, I got out of the Army and I was doing my gen eds at the same school. He was taking like graphic design stuff.  You know, I know you like doing sports and stuff. He's always been into sports. Well, that turned into coming out and taking pictures. You came out and did Maryland's strongest man. And then that turned into me and the owner, Brian Aljrew kind of looked at each other and we're like, we were doing stones, actually. And we're like, how about giving one of these medicine balls to see if you can load it? So a 20-pound medicine ball turned into a 40-pound medicine ball. That turned into a 50. Then that turned into a 70-pound stone. And that turned into dead lifts. And here we are. They have standing. How long ago was that? I know it's been helpful. I know it's been helpful. How helpful has it been? What in a year ago? It's over a year. Like maybe a year and some change. Year and a half at this point. And how helpful has it been? Well, you can answer that. It's been super helpful. So the way it's true, my body works is I have a lack of stability in my muscles. So it just has to be the control, my movements, my coordination, my body. So with listeners, I had to focus on every muscle. And it did me like three or four times to get a certain motion balance. But if I focused my body, focused my mind, and get my muscles to do what I want, it's bad on all cylinders. And I'm able to do things that maybe like a year ago wasn't even possible. I wonder, have you seen an increase or things like everyday things, like just walking or running or doing sports or doing physical things? Have those things become not necessarily easier, but have you seen an increase in the efficiency of your motor patterns on nonlifting things because of your lifting? Yeah, so walking, hiking, I become more confident of one of the business that I wanted to do. I wanted to be a ghost. I told him this like a year ago, I wanted to be able to pull back my compound bow. And a couple months later, I was able to pull back because my shoulders were getting stronger, and I was wanting to go then walking. I mean, even just carrying like a pack of water, my mastability, carrying a pack of water was not impossible for me a year ago. It would have been all over the floor and it would just be everywhere. Now that I've learned to like staple my stuff and take a deep breath and wait, I may be able to focus on stabilize my body, I may be able to walk and carry a pack of water to the oven or the stove or the refrigerator. To put it in perspective, when I first started working with him, there wasn't really a barbell movement of any sort that I couldn't step away from or have my hands on because he would fall over like every time. I could have put money on it. And now like he warms up, gets set up, loads his own bar, may take him a little longer, but he does it all of himself. I typically, there may be one or two reps throughout the workout, whether he's squatting or repressing, then I actually have to keep him from falling over. The other time, the only time touching the bar is like anyone else like hitting muscle failure or things like that on the rep ranges, but I don't really have to spot him that much any more than I would a normal person at this point. It's interesting. I've watched, I mean, I've been a fan for a long time, you miles. And I've watched your videos. It's interesting to watch how the CP is very prevalent in the setup of the lift. And then when he actually starts the lift, it's weird that the motor pattern is set so well. So especially like on the concentric phase of something like a deadlift. So I've watched him, he walks up and sets up and you can see he's sort of struggling to try to get everything to work correctly together. And then when he gets everything lined up, boom, he pulls that thing and it's like he pulls the bar in a straight line. It doesn't jump. I mean, I watch a ton of power lifters who don't deadlift in a straight line as well as miles does. He's able to do that and it's interesting. It's funny that you picked that out because I normally had to explain that to everyone, like how we, like him being patient, getting his body where it needs to be. And then once he finds that bar path, he hits. And or it took a long time of me queuing him into that. Like he gets set, he'd get his brace. I wait till he's steady then I'd say hit or lift and he go. And now like he knows what that feels like. And it took months, it took a year.  His knees are gonna cave. His body's gonna do weird things, but you have to work around that. And we recently went down to Hopkins and saw one of the top neurology doctors. Orthopedic doctor in the CP field. And he's like, there's nothing wrong with his body. There's nothing wrong with his spine that he seems healthy as long as you're doing it safe. There's no reason why he can't continue. And he's only gotten stronger. He's only gonna get stronger, but it's refreshing to hear you say that and able to see that. It made me happy at least because he's worked so hard on those little fine-tuned things to get to that point where he can set up on his own without me having to queue him every time. That's the mark of a good lifter, right? Like once you get set, you know that it's right. You know that you're ready, and then you can perform. And you stand in there. And the work of a good coach, right? That you've been able to walk him through that.  What other sort of changes have you had to make for queuing him to get the movement pattern correct or in programming him to be able to continue to make progress, what has been different than what you've done in the past with other people who don't have CP? I do, I incorporate a lot more higher up stuff because I notice that he responds better to the higher ups and it's safer because it's not obviously a heavier load. And through that repetition, I notice is what ingrained that patience and like things like deadlift, I keep him from doing now he can do touch and go stuff because he knows what correct is. But for a long time, there's no touch and go. If he had 10 reps, he was stopping, setting up, re-bracing, pulling, stopping, setting up, re-bracing, pulling and through those high rep ranges, that repetition, I think is what really made things click because whenever you learn a new skill, it takes like, what do they say? Like 4,000 hours or something to be like? 10,000 hours to be an expert. Yeah, like, and I just kind of applied that but with reps. So 10,000 hours, let's do 10,000 reps. Yeah, you got more time under tension that way and to like build that motor pattern highway for him. Yep, and what you said about how when he gets under the load, he steadies out and that's something I noticed right away. Like he explained to me, he's like, I can hold a soda can out here and be fine. As soon as he brings that in here to where there's not as much of a load, he's all over the place. So I tried. You talk about the detentions. Yeah, yep. So I tried incorporating more stuff to keep him under tension throughout the whole movement. Yeah, that's good. So what does the programming look like? He trained three days a week, four days a week. What's up now? Three, it's typically three to four days. It's at least three every single week. And the programming is, so I learned all my programming from Brian Alger. That's who owns the gym. That's kind of, he's kind of been my mentor. Without Brian, there's no me. There's no us at Neverstate. He's been teaching me for the past three years about programming and allowing me to do it to myself and allowing me to program members at the gym. And I noticed that power building, the power build he runs has a lot of high rep stuff. So it'll be like 10, eight, six or 12, 10, eight. So I incorporate a lot of those light and medium days. And I took the base, the skeleton of the power build, tweaked it to have more light and medium days to give him what he needed as far as the rep ranges. And because I don't care about the pace. It doesn't matter how long it takes him to hit a PR, but as long as that progression is still there, I see him improving stability-wise and control-wise. That's honestly what I'm looking for. Sure. Do you think what's occurring there is just practice or do you think that there's an adaptation to those rep ranges that's favorable here? I think it's both. I think the biggest one's practice. Practice like you play. He's getting those reps. And because one thing I noticed, we have a lot of female athletes that never stayed in, and Brian will back this 100%, is that one thing I've noticed the difference between men and women is that men do better on those one rep max testing days. Women do better on the three rep max, the five rep max stuff. Like they do much better. They thrive in that high rep range. And he's kind of the same way. So what I did, I think it's mental for him, because when I stopped telling him what was on the bar on max stuff, like the 200-pound deadlift, he had no idea. Yeah, no idea. And he smashed it. So, but when it comes down to the rep stuff, when I get him doing 10, 12 reps, he's like a machine. That makes perfect sense. By the way, we come from different backgrounds and we've really discovered the same thing that men, obviously, blanketed statement here, that in general, men are gonna have better neuromuscular efficiency than women are, right? Just because they have testosterone, even from like in utero, it's just easier to set that motor pattern highway for men. And it just makes sense that a person with CP is gonna have a lower amount, even significantly lower than a typical female of neuromuscular efficiency. And so you have to work more on establishing that motor pattern efficiency, especially if you think about the other end of the spectrum being like a very genetically gifted athlete. So somebody who's gonna have a 36, 37 inch vertical without testing the thing, the kind of guy that goes to the NFL, they can wire that motor pattern, they can set that highway very, very quickly, right? If I've worked in the past with like people who have been gymnasts and they've done gymnastics since they were two, three years old and now they're 17, they have perfect total body awareness. But the interesting thing about that is, is that those people don't make me a better coach because they can just do it right from the beginning. What we love as coaches is to find the people that make us actually have to work and go, okay, well, if I can coach Miles, by the way, you might have better neuromuscular efficiency than Scott Hamburg does.  So he's on the far left end of the bell curve on the neuromuscular efficiency, athleticism spectrum, and I coach Scott. But no, those guys make me better coaches. And so I think it's clear that you guys have a very symbiotic relationship that Nick, you've helped Miles become a better athlete and a stronger athlete. But I know that you would say that he's helped turn you into a much better coach and not just for him. I'm sure that's carried over into all your other clients as well. Yeah. And people see a gym like ours at Never State and I go, oh, it's just big, strong, big, strong dudes, athletes, like that's not even the case. Like we have a handful of people that are like real competitive in strongman and powerlifting. Everyone else is like, Brian's dad's 64, never really deadlift in his life. And he's like 30 pounds off like a national record. We have soccer moms. We have two people like Katie and Carla who have never done anything in their life. And now they're, they competed in their first strong woman competition last month in the masters and they did amazing. They did amazing, like they set personal records. Like, and it's people like that who make you a better coach that have never done it because you really have to approach it in a different manner than you would with someone who has lifting experience. You have to kind of revamp how you coach because the whole cookie cutter thing does not work. It doesn't. And if that's what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. And I'm not some specialist with CP or some amazing coach, like I just genuinely care. So I try and kind of test the waters. I throw some things out there and see how they respond and adjust accordingly. Like, okay, like kind of process of elimination a little bit. Yeah, I love that the background in your story is that you guys were friends first. That can't be skimmed over, right? Cause I would guess it created an empathy in both of you for each other that you wanted to both, you wanted to see each other succeed. So he wasn't some kid that walked into a gym that you didn't know and you're like, hey, I can capitalize on this and we can become viral. Like that was never, like you're like, this guy's my friend from high school and college and I want to see him succeed. And I'm sure Miles was the same way for you. He watched you probably go through a physical transformation in high school, college, the army and come back and really get into this thing.  Man, that you gotta have that. This is such a long game, you know? And again, you see a lot of the other end of the spectrum these NFL athletes that hire these specialty coaches for six weeks to get them ready for the combine so that they can sign a bigger multimillion dollar deal. There's no empathy there. It's all about money. Even not knowing you from the videos, like the incredible celebrations, like you're just as excited as Miles is. And he runs up and jumps into your arms and you guys, it's such an authentic celebration that I think that's what has resonated with everyone. It's not just that Miles has overcome this neurological disorder, but that he is so truly authentically jubilant about his PR celebration. And you are as well, right? And so they see that connection. I know I saw that, it was a big deal to me. And that's anyone in the gym really, like that's just never safe. And it doesn't matter who's going up for PR, it doesn't matter who is going for what lift. Like when someone's going for their personal best, the entire gym gets involved. And Brian will not miss a lift. I will not miss a lift. We're always there and everyone's attention, that person is the center of attention for the minute that they are attempting this lift. And it doesn't matter if it's a hundred pounds or 700 pounds, like everyone genuinely cares in that moment. Yeah, love it. Your gym is, is it a suburb of Baltimore? Where is it? It's Westminster, it's kind of, it's a world. Oh, it's actually a suburb of Westminster. It's sure over there by Bo and Angie. Okay, so yeah, when you did the Westminster, the USSF meet, the first video that went viral, we're good friends with the owners of- Bo and Angie are awesome. You've been on the podcast. I love Bo and Angie. Yeah, they're great people. So you're actually there in Westminster. So you're about an hour outside of Baltimore. So the downside of that is the vast majority of our listeners probably can't go there. But if you do, you've got a handful of good gyms. I remember when, what was the strongman that used to be out there that died a few years ago? Mike Jenkins. In that area? Yeah, Jenkins. Yeah, his brother used to come to our gym. So, so we're in a very unique situation with how that all worked out. So our gym's on like 19 acres on a farm property. And the owner of the gym was Mike Jenkins' client and Mike Jenkins' first sponsor. So dayfully, he went to America's strongest man with him, went to the Arnold with him. Like that was Mike Jenkins' corner man. And Brian went to high school with them. They're all from the area. Brian went to high school with them. So Brian knew them, they coached. They were personal trainers at Merritt together out here in Eldersburg, I believe. And then Mike Jenkins went on to be Mike Jenkins, you know, one of the fastest rising strongman athletes. And he was on track to be one of the best.  And that's kind of what spurred Brian to getting into strongman. Cause Mike Jenkins was trying to get him to do it, trying to get him to do it and then didn't do it. So he started, never say he got into strongman and became one that like he, he's one, he's such a brilliant programming mind for this sport. And just strength in general, he's just got the mind for it. And he has projected and embodied everything that Mike Jenkins was with the sport because it was a big, fat, strong man. Well, Mike Jenkins was a big dude, but he can move. If you watch videos of him, he can move. And there's still remnants of him in our gym. Like we have his 1,000 pound tire. We have his Slater Belly set the world record on. And there's a big poster of him with rogue with the stone on the shoulder that's at the gym.  We still talk to Kerry and Brian Shaw as a friend of ours. Brian Shaw's coach, Andy actually trains at our gym. And so it's that initial relationship has spurred something so much bigger. What I love about it is that you guys, blue collar, rural Maryland, had just bred these hardworking dudes and women. This atmosphere has given rise to a tremendous amount of athletes and lifters. If this has happened in 30 years ago, nobody knows who you guys are. And the amazing thing about technology today is that your story can be seen and be inspirational to literally the world, all over the world. So I want to know before we, I was gonna say you got a question, Scott. Yeah, I want to know, I want to know what's next. I was gonna say, what's the next competition? I was, it wasn't one of mine. And I've got an even better question after that. So what's the next competition for you? We had that one in April, but we had all that stuff come up with the Arnold and then going out to Nike headquarters, kind of interrupted training a little bit. So we're kind of just playing that by ear. Miles, do you want to do powerlifting or strongman? Do you want to compete in like a strongman competition? Have you thought about doing a strongman comp? I would love to do a strongman competition someday. That'd be awesome. I'm still trying to work some, I haven't done something in a long time, but I would love to do a strongman competition someday. So you got to meet Arnold and I want to know if his hands are sweaty. You shook his hand. You got to shake Arnold's hand. We haven't got to. What did you notice about shaking Arnold's hand? It's big. It's big. I bet. That's a Jack dude for 72. Yeah. Huge circle of breakfast with him. Breakfast, dinner, dinner. I got to meet him a few years ago with the Arnold. I got lucky and we were at the Arnold and of course, he's just surrounded by everything.  And we went and ate lunch one day. I didn't want to go eat lunch really close to the Arnold because I knew it was just every restaurant around the Arnold would just be packed like crazy. And I didn't think about this. I was just, I don't know, I just wasn't thinking. I got on TripAdvisor. I was looking up great restaurants in the area and five miles away from the Arnold, there was a German sausage house. And I was like, yeah, let's go there. So we had sausage and so it would go through and it was like this massive buffet and they had like 18 or 20 different types of sausage and sauerkraut and kinds of cool stuff. And all of a sudden we started seeing army guys and fatigues show up about 10 minutes after we got there. And I was like, wait a minute, what's going on? And the next thing I knew, Arnold comes in and sits down in the next room over and they give him an entire private room all to himself. And I came in and Arnold posed in a selfie with me. We got a spot with Arnold. So it was a blast out there for sure. So here's my last thing I want to know. We asked about the trolls.  I want to know about, do you have the girls knocking the door down, Miles?  Yeah. I've asked you. I've asked people like, will you marry me? Whoa, you got some proposals. You did. Yeah, I did. Yes. I'm choosing wisely. Choose wisely, that's right. You better choose wisely. I've been trying to talk him into a Russian mail order bride, but he's not going for it. Sounds like he can get one without. I know you don't have to. You don't have to buy one. He's got enough suitors. He can just, he can choose wisely. He can duck duck goose. That's right. Well, thank you guys so much for coming on here. You can go find Miles and you should on Instagram at least to go to atsmiles underscore Taylor. He's a T-A-Y-L-O-R kind of Taylor. Also follow their gym, NeverSate, N-E-V-E-R-S-A-T-E. You can follow them on Instagram and they've got YouTube channels and go support these guys in what they do. You can go to theloyalbrand.com and get some smiles swag and support them on what they do. Is there anything else you guys want to promote? I do a YouTube channel as well, whatever we have going on, that's where I put all the content from. So my YouTube channel, my Instagram pretty much the same. My Instagram is at uncle.nick, no K. And then my YouTube channel is just Uncle Nick. It's got that great Russian Eastern block. It's not Nick, it's Nikolai. Yes. Right. My dad was born in Greece actually. So, oh, it's a Greek, it's Greece. Yeah, the spelling's a little different than Russian. My dad was born Nikolai Tantulopolis. And then when he was adopted, it got changed to Michael Myers. So I got Nikolai Tantulopolis. Yeah, yeah. Well, hey, thank you gentlemen so much for the hard work that you do. And I want all of our listeners to go follow these guys.   Hey, what's your excuse? That's my big deal with an episode like this. Like you've got your excuses that you make up for why you can't train, what hurts.  You get in the gym. If you're not a quadriplegic, you should be in the gym doing what you can to hit PRs on a daily basis. There's still quadriplegists out there hitting the gym. That's probably true. That's right. Doing those neck raises. Yeah. So no, no, you're exactly right. It's pretty rare that you should have it. It's used to not train. So guys, thank you so much for being great role models for our listeners and for everybody else. Wish you the best of luck. Thank you so much for having us. I wanna have you back on the show in another year and talk about how much the PRs grow and the neuromuscular efficiency get even cleaner and tighter. I think it'd be really cool. Yeah, absolutely. Stay in touch, guys. Thank you.