Vanessa Van Edwards, founder at Science of People and author of Captivate, The Science of Succeeding with People, surveyed some Twitter followers with the question, Would you rather break an arm or be broken up with? 76% said they would rather break an arm while 24% said they would rather be broken up with. Of course, breaking an arm is more painful than breaking hearts but then it shows without doubt why heart breaks hurt so much. As Vanessa puts it, for most people, the metaphorical breaking of our hearts hurts worse than physical pain and there is a science to back this up. A research authored by Naomi Eisenberger titled The Neurobases of Social Pain, evidence for shared representations with physical pain, discovered that social pain such as being rejected while let down by others and physical pain are felt in the same parts of the brain. This indicates that the brain can tell the difference between the pain of a breakup and the pain of a broken arm. Also, a research published by Ethan Cross and other authors titled Social Rejection Shares Summit of Sensory Representations with Physical Pain found that our bodies sometimes respond to a breakup in the same way it reacts to physical pain. Licensed clinical psychologist Dr. Bianchi told Insider, research has shown that regions of the brain that get activated in response to physical pain also get activated in response to a breakup. Whether we've broken a bone or gotten dumped, many of the same underlying neurological structures are involved. This translates to the conscious experience of being in pain. Our bodies go into fight or flight mode after a breakup. According to a very well mind, when you go through a breakup, especially one that's unexpected, your body may register it as an emergency and go into fight or flight mode. Being in this state triggers the release of hormones that can prepare your body to stay and deal with a threat or to run away to safety. Dr. Kristin Bianchi told Insider, our muscles tense, we lose our appetite, we may experience gastrointestinal disruption and we're likely to have trouble falling asleep. Being in this physically hyper-vigilant state over a period of time can lead to headaches, stomach aches and muscle soreness.  It's normal to fill out of place after a breakup but should the emotional distress heighten, it is advised that you speak with a doctor. When you are going through a breakup, your brain chemistry can change. In an explanation by Dr. Mike Doe, a Hollywood therapist, bestselling author of Heal Your Drain Brain, he revealed that when someone goes through a breakup, they experience a drop in the production of neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin that are associated with fillings of pleasure and happiness. From his clinical experience, Dr. Doe observed that people who have just gone through breakups tend to drink more than usual and are more likely to engage in one night stands. These activities provide a heavy doll-up of dopamine which heats the brain's deprived pleasure centers.  However, Dr. Mike thinks these activities also have a downside. Despite the dopamine heat that draws us to them, they are not the best ways to get over someone in the long term. Dr. Bianchi said, in the immediate aftermath of a breakup, we're going to experience this abrupt chemical changes almost as we would a type of withdrawal, complete with cravings to be reunited with our exes. Also, licensed clinical social worker Meg Josephson said, one reason being broken up with is so painful lies in evolution. Being rejected from a tribe or social group used to quite literally mean people cut off from shelter and food, putting our survival in jeopardy. Breakups hurt young men more than women. It is popularly believed that a woman may appear strong and formidable but when it comes to the issues of love, she's a simple, uncomplicated, sensitive, and can be very tender. Some social scientists also believe that women need their love lives to be happy and healthy while men do not really care much about love and romance. But according to a study published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior on June 2010 titled, Non-marital Romantic Relationships and Mental Health in Early Adulthood, Does the association differ for women and men? Contrary to popular belief, relationships was bother men more than they bother women. In the last few years, scientists who focused on the study took into account the differences in how men and women express emotional distress. They believe that women deal with it by becoming anxious or depressed while men deal with it by abusing alcohol or drugs. Yet, a new study asked if the same might be true in relationships among unmarried young adults. The result was no, it wasn't. According to the New York Times, the study, which surveyed 1,611 men and women aged 18 to 23 in the Miami area, found that thorny relationships take a far greater toll on men. In the report by Robin W. Simon, a sociology professor at Wake Forest University and Anne E. Barrett, a sociologist at Florida State University, it appears that young men benefit more than women from support and that they are more harmed than women by strain in ongoing romantic relationships. Women are much more interested in relationships no matter how awful. It's a little bit pathetic, Ms. Simon allowed. Even though there's been so much social change in this area, women's self-worth is still so much tied up with having a boyfriend. It's unfortunate. Although the anguish of men over heartbreaks have been so overlooked, one hypothesis of the authors suggests that while women have outlets for emotional engagement in the form of intimate friendships, men are adrift without the ongoing care of a female soulmate. But as the New York Times asked, why then do older married men more closely approximate women's responses to relationship discord? It may be that gender differences are stronger in young adulthood and disappear with age or the data may capture broad social change in the making. Biology could also be at work. Helen Fisher, author of Anatomy of Love, said the male brains tend to be more compartmentalized female brains more connected. Women tend to focus more deeply on the here and now, Ms. Fisher said. Women tend to think longer term. She suggested a Darwinian explanation, because women can only reproduce so many times they have dramatic time constraints that men don't have. A breakup means the loss of very valuable reproductive time. Of course it may be tempting to stop your ex, but it is often best to keep your distance while you heal. When you are no longer emotionally attached to your ex, only then are you ready to start building friendship with them, if need be. 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So as I was sitting at my desk this morning eating breakfast pizza at 10 o'clock. Yes, it was cold straight out of the fridge I had a very disconcerting realization You see I knew I was gonna be filming this video today about Different changes that happen in the rest of your body when you lose a limb because there's actually a lot of them Many of which I never would have thought up before the leg chopping occurred for me And then all of a sudden I thought what about life expectancy? So obviously immediately I turned off the Curtis Conner video I was listening to did some googling and realized Life expectancy for amputees as a whole is in fact shorter. So that was a fun existential way to start the day I feel like I'm kind of disappearing into the stairs one second Can you guys see the dog that's lurking above my head now? Come here. Come say hi. This is my puppy Sully He's about seven months old He's from the islands of Turks and Caicos He has a very serious heart condition and he's doing amazing. Hello there my beautiful internet friends after that hectic intro Let's talk a little bit about some of the unexpected changes that have taken place all throughout my body Head to toes since I lost a leg if you didn't know before I actually lost my leg I had a bum ankle for 14 years I had lots of surgeries lots of procedures that always gave me trouble and I thought once I get rid of this this being a Part of my body I can finally be in alignment, right? Like they can make the prosthetic match me perfectly my hips aren't gonna be messed up anymore My neck probably won't hurt as much anymore because they won't be limping all the time and walking off balance It's gonna be amazing. That was by far one of the most naive thoughts I think I ever had because oh goodness the polar opposite is true But not only aches and pains and life expectancy There are also a few other things that you might not think about the change and adjust and grow and shrink When your body loses a part of itself, so let's talk about that But first we have a sponsor today that I'm very excited to introduce to you because I have been playing this game I'd like the past 48 hours. 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It's just so pretty to look at download switchcraft for free and unlock the magical mystery today Thank you so much to switchcraft for entertaining me and also sponsoring today's video You can check them out in the link in the description down below. So you'll lose a limb What happens to the rest of your body? It might not come as a shock to you that there are gonna be cascading Impacts kind of head to toe starting off with something. That's really obvious is the muscle tone changes I noticed within like three or four weeks after Amputation that this leg was getting freaking beefy because I was using it to walk around my crutches I was hopping I was maneuvering and then came the balance especially as I got further into my life as an amputee I realized that I could balance on the left side of my body like nobody's business Like I had my 80 pound German shepherd jump up on me when my crutches were like a few feet away from me Because I was balancing by the counter and I caught her just fine on one leg got her safely back to the ground No problem for me the ability to get up standing from the ground on one leg Doing pistol squats became kind of effortless because it was something that I had to do ignore the dog toys in the messy room So for instance, I've fallen and I can't get up Psych or can I things like this became everyday and super easy for me, which I'm really grateful for for me Anyways, it was a skill that I had to learn But sort of the dark side of that is you know if you've ever worked with a personal trainer or gone to the gym You're always encouraged to work out both sides of your body evenly because you don't want to be lopsided Well turns out if you're only using one side of your body primarily especially while you're waiting for your prosthetic leg to be made You get really lopsided and even now years into exercise and working out, you know working on this leg Let me show you the difference Check that out look at that look at this this tiny little chicken thigh Compared to this beefy guy over here. It's very different It's not just a visual or an aesthetic thing The fact that one side of my body was supporting all of my weight Which it was not accustomed to led to a lot Of pain of lower back pain of neck pain of shoulder pain of hip pain of like foot pain That was really secondary to everything else I was feeling kind of through my spine and to be totally honest with you that is something that to this day I still deal with I had lower back pain before that was kind of annoying But there are some nights that I cannot sleep I cannot get comfortable because of my lower back pain and this especially became clear that once I got a prosthetic Prosthetics are absolutely amazing at making this work for you something that I realized that at the end of the day It's absolutely a science But it's also an art to make sure that your hips are aligned and that this new leg is the same size as your other leg There isn't some highly sophisticated process It's literally your prosthetist having you stand up like feeling both of your hips looking watching you walk and saying that looks good Let me know if it feels bad after a couple weeks of walking that way And so we've gotten to the place with my prosthetic where it feels as balanced as it can be But the way that I walk on an ankle that doesn't bend on a plastic foot that doesn't have flexion like a normal foot might have It has an impact on the rest of my body And I definitely feel that primarily in my hips of my lower back and it kind of spreads way up through the rest Of my body so if I'm standing for a long time if I'm walking a lot the rest of my body Gets really uncomfortable and even if you have a perfect prosthetic fit you're still gonna have problems Obviously phantom pain is a side effect for the majority of amputees not everybody has it I certainly do talked about this at length and other videos Which I'll link down below if you are interested in phantom pain But also stump pain like this part of my leg Continues to have issues as it continues to change and shrink and some days it swells and some days It doesn't and sometimes my prosthetic rubs on it in weird ways And so it's it's always a little bit uncomfortable. It's not painful every day. Some days. It's awful Some days. I don't even notice it next big change that was mind-blowing to me was my energy needs as in like Calorie needs went up so substantially especially like the first six months after amputation in my mind I thought okay. I lost a portion of my body So obviously I won't need to like eat as much to maintain my current weight I'm not gonna be as active as maybe I normally would be so I'm sure what I'll need to exist We'll probably go down and good Lord was I wrong? I remember one situation in particular We were traveling we had like gone to see a cast line walked around for maybe 20 minutes Eating a walking crutch at the time on sort of uneven surfaces and we went to grab dinner And I had an entire steak and potatoes meal like everything consumed the entire thing By the time I got back to where we were staying I like needed to be snacking again Which had never happened to me in my life I was hungry all the time and I came to find out but actually your calorie needs don't generally go down when you lose a limb They go up because the rest of your body is compensating for this There's balance and coordination that goes into walking on a prosthesis that doesn't happen when you're walking with two meat legs So it's kind of normalized now But I definitely eat more than I used to before and because you are expending more energy throughout the day to Exist in the same way that an able-bodied person might as well You're a lot more tired at least I was especially as I sort of made the first two years of a transition Every physical thing you do requires more from you and then it does from an able-bodied person Okay, I'm not sure if you can call this next thing like a body change But it definitely has changed how I use my body in the world Postural changes like how I sit. I used to always sit. I can't even do it now But you know like crisscross applesauce. Oh my god. Oh my god. I'm doing it I didn't actually think I could still do this. It's horribly uncomfortable But apparently I still can I used to sit like that all the time because it was really comfortable to me Obviously can't do that anymore And so like finding comfortable positions to sit whether or not I have my prosthetic on do change like at the end of The day if I'm watching a movie my leg is off I can't cross my right leg over my left because it just flops over because there's nothing to keep it down Because I don't have a foot anymore Also, unfortunately the longer you are an amputee your risk of muscle contractures specifically like in your knee If you're below the knee amputee things like stress fractures in your Remaining foot if you have one because maybe you're hopping when you're not exactly supposed to those risks definitely go up I debated whether or not I was gonna. Oh, I just filled coffee. Oh, no. No, hold on Please hold Anyways, I debated whether or not I was gonna include this next part in the body changes video, right? Don't worry about it. But we tend to forget sometimes that our brain is very much a part of our body There are huge mental changes that take place.  Sometimes a difficult one, but there's actually something really cool that happens to you for many people who experience limb loss Or something similar in a way you're kind of forced to make this change But you realize you've become incredibly creative and incredibly resourceful a little while ago I made sort of a joke video about like why disabled people would survive the zombie apocalypse and the points that I was bringing up like resourcefulness creativity fact that we already live in a world that isn't made for us and we make it work Gosh darn it communication skills that are developed as I was kind of being silly and listing these things It really sank home for me that oftentimes it's honestly really true Like I know so many other people who are amputees or disabled who absolutely blow my mind with their resilience their strength things in The ways that they think to adapt to the world. It's honestly beautiful to watch And I'm not gonna give any power to like the amputation itself for developing those skills in anyone's life But I will say that you are presented with so many opportunities to develop New character traits and gosh darn it could be really painful to get there. It's nothing to be romanticized It's nothing to automatically be labeled as inspiring But oftentimes people in these situations do develop some really cool skills like being able to adapt to gosh darn almost anything Okay, so now for the fun stuff life expectancy This is what I wasn't gonna talk about before I sort of had that realization this morning But the reality is that the mortality rate for amputees is higher. Why though? Why would having a limb chopped off change how long you're gonna live because I mean like look at me living life I can still do things right well the reality is it's a little bit more complicated a lot of Amputations take place because of vascular issues a lot of amputations take place because of prior existing conditions Traumatic injuries even with congenital amputees sometimes there are comorbidities There are other conditions that can all feed into a higher mortality rate the risk of complications infections blood clots things like this He's all higher for us one Lakers or one armors or no legers I mean whatever flavor of amputee you might find yourself as there are definitely some more risks But it also really comes down to the specific situations of your amputation But this mean that I'm gonna die sooner or that an amputee You know is gonna die sooner than someone else not necessarily absolutely not but overall looking at amputees as a People group. Yes, the mortality rate is higher But here's the the reason that I wanted to make this video though There are a lot of changes a lot of additional pain or adjustments you need to make our bodies are so freaking cool the fact that I was walking on a Metal and plastic and carbon fiber thing attached to my body that I was walking a few months after my most recent Amputation is Incredible like did you know that if everything goes smoothly if there aren't Complications you get fit for a prosthetic limb usually six to eight weeks after losing a limb The fact that your body can heal that quickly and adapt to movement again and figure out how to walk like we are Incredible human beings are absolutely incredible And I think that like the balance the way that our muscles all adapt throughout our bodies I'm just like in awe and I honestly do feel that in a small way Seeing how my body is adjusted to this major change has made me have a lot more respect for it and healed Small pieces there are still broken fragments with small pieces of how I kind of view my own body image and seeing it way More as a gift and way less as an aesthetic thing to tweak for whatever gosh darn societal reason body image is a whole Another conversation for another time, but gosh darn it our bodies are really cool So the way that our physical selves adapt after losing a limb is yes It's pretty neat. So some of those things really were a surprise to me as I adjust to life as an amputee I'm curious how many of these things you're like, yeah, that makes sense and how many you never thought of before Let me know in the comment section down below I also do want to note that Everyone as an amputee is a unique individual some people are experienced some of these things Some people might not experience many of them everybody in situation is different There are some similarities across amputees, but we are not the same big Thank you again to switch craft for sponsoring today's video check them out at the link in the description It is honestly a really fun and relaxing game to play. It's just so pretty I found myself playing at some mornings to kind of just chill and sort of get in a zen mind state Mindset, that's the word I was looking for kind of before starting my day So check it out a huge. 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I wanna show you something. Can you turn on the water?  Welcome back to our channel. If this is the first time you guys are seeing my face, make sure to go down and hit that subscribe button. I am Bill, my girlfriend's name is Mariah, and today, as you can see by the video title, yes, I am pranking her with hinting that I'm proposing to her the whole day. Now, this is a surprise little video too. It is Mariah's 29th birthday and- 29th birthday. Mariah's birthday is on the 29th, and yes, that already passed, but this video was taken before her birthday. We are going to an Airbnb, all right? And that's where the surprise is gonna be in.  She's been trying to think what the surprise is. Now, I really wanna tell you guys, but wait through the end of this video because the surprise that I'm surprising her with at the Airbnb is insane. I can't say much, I can't say much, but just watch this video. You guys will be just in shock filming this intro afterwards. And it went freaking amazing. Her reaction was crazy to the surprise and she really did think by the end of this video that I did propose. I even got down on one knee. It was crazy. So, I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Make sure to put hashtag team build in the comments and also please leave a good happy birthday comment for Mariah. Give this video a thumbs up for her 21st birthday. I am so happy for her. So, thank you guys for watching. I will see you when I filmed an intro with Mariah. So, I will see you then. I hope you enjoy it. Peace. What is good Marvel Squad? Welcome back to our channel. How is it going everyone? If this is the first time that you are seeing our faces, make sure to go down below and hit that subscribe button and turn on your post notifications so you get notified every single time we post. Yeah, so I don't know what we're doing today. Guys, we have a big surprise for Mariah. We're staying at an Airbnb. I don't know what it, I don't know what, where, what it was like. What is going down? What are we doing? It is closer to Chicago. So, we might be doing some city things. You are so cute. I just don't know what to say because it's not really my video.  Yes, I've been trying to guess the big surprise, but my whole family is like, you're not gonna guess it, you're not gonna guess it. I know. I'm like, hi. What have been your guesses so far? So, I thought a cat or dog. Cat or dog? She loves animals. And my mom said it's bigger than the helicopter ride trip that I surprised you with for your birthday last year. So, it's like, I'm trying to figure it way bigger. That's what I'm trying to think. Life changing, bigger. Life changing. What are you talking about? Life changing. I'm gonna just see when I get the surprise. I don't wanna guess, I don't know. And I'm just gonna guess and I'm gonna get myself all excited for something that's not even gonna happen. Guys, Pete Mariah's Apple Watch. I just got this for Christmas and she's literally loving it. It's just she's not on top to talk about.  I know, you have bling in here. You're gonna be bling in here pretty soon. Like, you're gonna, it's crazy. Anyways. You're not proposing, you wouldn't give that many hints. What? I didn't give out a hint. Hint to what? Just forget it, keep going. Okay. But guys, yes, I'm surprising Mariah with a huge surprise. Okay, she has no idea what it is and we're gonna be doing it in this video. So, I hope you guys enjoy. Also, before you skip the video and see what the surprise is, I want you to know you're not already entered into this month's iPhone 11 giveaway. This January, we are doing the giveaway. All you have to do to be entered is subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow me and Mariah on Instagram and that is it. That is all you guys need. Just be showing love in the comments. We love you guys. Thank you for being on our channel and watching this video. I am so excited for this video. Sorry if I'm yelling guys. Mariah, you are going to be so shocked. So shocked. You better have a good reaction though because you don't have a good reaction. I'm nervous and I'm excited. I just wanna know, little pee. Good. Mariah, I love you. I love you more. I love you more. Have a good day. Bye. Bye. See you later. Bye. Look at you. Here she comes. Are you still taking us up on a limo or something? No. Because we're taking my car, right? Yeah. We have transportation. Yeah, we're not getting picked up. That would be like way out of the budget, you know? Yeah, I was gonna be like, oh. The thing that I'm surprising with is already gonna be like, you know, breaking our bank accounts. So. But what? Let's just go. I'm too anxious though. I'm waiting all day. Okay, gosh. Mariah, let me just tell you. You rock. You rock. You rock. Fat rock. It's my 21st birthday celebration. Yes. Oh, that's the why we're going out. It's her 21st birthday. I totally forgot to mention that in the beginning of the video. Mariah, you'd be looking like a diamond today. Look at that. Look at your shoes.  I'm not looking that. Doesn't that have a good ring to it? Yeah. Diamond? Ooh, yeah. It has a good ring to it, you know? Diamond, yeah. What? Nothing. Okay, nothing. Why are you still filming?  Let's just go. All right, all right, all right. See you guys in the car. Mariah, where do you want to eat? All right? You can pick anywhere.  Oh, I gotta eat that. Fill up our stomachs. I know, I'm sorry. Don't worry. The surprise is, ooh, I like how your phone rings. Rings. Ring, it's a weird word. Why do you keep saying ring? Just because. Stop, Bill. What? What am I doing? Oh my God, you're irritating. Bill, you're pretty. Well, as long as it's gonna be probably like played for the rest of our lives, like, we'll rewatch this video forever. So, I'm not saying anything, though. I want to keep you on edge. You don't know actually what's going on. Right? I don't know what's going on. Yeah. It's nice when two people come together. You know? Yeah, it's so nice. Two people come together forever.  No, I am not. Okay, stop. I am not. I am literally two people, us, coming together to go on a mini-trip, a life-changing trip. Keep saying stop. Just stop giving it away. You're giving what away? I know you wouldn't propose right now.  I'm gonna say no. What? Yeah. Okay, let's stop talking. Mariah, come on. What do you actually say no? Anyways, we're going to Portillo's enough talking and thinking about stuff. I don't know why you keep, you know, bringing up like proposing or something. Can we just don't make it there? I'm like so anxious right now. I can't even like... Stuff with the hints. Yeah, stuff with you hinting. You can just ring ring. We will see you guys at Portillo's. All right, so the restaurant had loud, loud music. We went to a taco place. I forget the taco place. We went to Mexican. Yeah, it was awesome Mexican food. Honestly, we're sure we are driving to the Airbnb. Mariah is finally like excited because she really did not want to go eat. She just wanted to go straight to the place. I did. I did. So now's the time babe. Night night. Yes, and we will see you guys in a second. Bye. So as you can tell it is nighttime. Mariah's hella nervous right now. We just pulled up next to a couple houses, right? Around the house. You can't really tell because it's night, we're gonna be walking in one of those houses. Ready? Yes. I'm just very anxious.   Yeah.  You're literally perfect. You're just getting kind of nervous right now. Oh my God, you're shaking. I'm shaking. I'm nervous to do this. Just wait, okay? Okay. You'll love it. You'll love it for life. This is it. Okay. Ready? Yes, let's just do it, please. Oh, I can't wait for our honeymoon. What? Our honeymoon shot. I did not, I did not say that. You're not proposing. You wouldn't hint that. Why are you keep thinking I'm hinting at proposing? You're not doing that anyways. All right, let's go. All right, we're gonna bring it on luggage. I'll see you guys inside. All right guys, we made it to the Airbnb. How do you like it? I don't know how I feel. First thoughts. I don't know how I feel. Looks like a creepy haunted house in a movie. Let's go take a look around. Let's do a tour. This looks like a haunted house, though. I know. Why did you choose this one? Because there's a story behind it. All right, so there's a story behind this. This is good in here. It's nice in here. All right guys, so we were in the Airbnb as we said, and it is really nice in here. There's a story behind this. Okay, why? This literally is one of the top haunted houses in Illinois. Seriously, how could you do that? And we've already entered its lair. Why would you do that? This is where most sightings for ghosts are. I'm not even kidding. I did not do that. Babe, did you hear that? It's not funny though. I didn't do that. What? Hey baby, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. It's not, it's not, oh my God, she was about to cry. But it's not. I got a surprise for you though. Here right now? Yes. It's today? Yes. All right. I wanna show you something. What's the big news? I wanna show you something. What's the big news? Can you turn on the water? I'm kidding, I'm proposing on that. Did you really? Okay, come here, come here. I wanna show you something. Come here.  We're gonna take a tour of the house. This was the surprise. We're gonna take a tour of the house now. And I've literally never been here. So first thoughts, the kitchen is amazing, right? Yes. And so you come over here. There's a little like area outside here. It's got a nice mirror when you're getting ready. Why do these doors, these doors to all this? The outside doors are locked. But look at it, let's do a little pose. The decent mirror. Hey, no it does not. You're beautiful. How does a mirror make you look fat? All right, I've never been here. So this is gonna be crazy. Look at all these rooms. There's a lot of rooms in here. Look, you can just tell us an older house. Room number one, let's check it out. What's in here? Snow bedroom. Awesome. All right, go to the left. Room number two. No, other one, other one. This one? Yeah, that one. What's in here? Oh, more beds. Geez, all right, what's in that one? This one? Yeah. A laundry or bathroom? That's awesome. Oh my God, my heart is racing. Why? Oh man. Me too. All right, last room. There's something in here? No, I'm just checking out the rooms. They found a light switch, hold on. Hold on. Where's the lights? Okay, I don't know. Aw. Aw. It's in here too. Oh my God, Stephen. What's up, bro? What's up? Dude, I was so nervous. Y'all were taking forever. I know. Man, man. Oh my gosh. You did a really good transition. Wait, did you see the camera and that's when you were like, wait, what? No, I was like, why is there, it looks like Stephen and Marilyn's camera didn't want to give us. And then I was like, I don't know. I had a weird feeling with the state. I was thinking about it earlier and I was like, I don't know why but I feel like she might be there but then I was like, no, that's not true. Oh my God. We've been planning this for months, literally. Months? Months. It's been a while. Yeah. I'm like getting emotional. Oh wait, you could hear us outside and stuff? Yeah.  I was, the whole time I was outside, I was looking at the window, I was like, that window looks like it's cracked a little bit. They're probably in there, but. Oh my God. Sorry it took so long. I was trying to like have her just, you know, go throughout the whole house and stuff. I'm so excited.  No. Is that awesome? Yeah. So here's a plan.    Like the same time. Oh really?   That's why I kept telling her, pack because you are not gonna wanna pack before. Aren't you glad that you packed more and stuff?  Second of all.  Well, I just, I'm just processing right now. I have my head on the fricking go in here. We've been here for like two days. We've been in this dark room for probably 20 minutes. Oh good. We're taking forever. I know, I'm sorry because like, I just, there's so much luggage and. This is the big surprise that Megan are talking about. Yes. Oh my God. So you guys are gonna meet everyone then? Yeah.  I don't care, it's nude. No, I'm like shaking. The best. The struggle is real. I actually did not know. I'm gonna tell you, she had no clue. I had no idea. I thought he was reposing or something. Yeah. All right, give me a hug. This is, thank you babe. You're welcome. Oh my God. I was not expecting that. And because you guys said that you guys can't come down. And that was all a lot. I'm surprised you guys didn't see our luggage in. Or like we had our luggage. We tried hiding our stuff. Oh good job though on that because literally we went in every room and I knew you guys were in this room. Like we're uploading a video. Oh my God. We're trying to. That is so exciting. Now I'm really excited. Oh my gosh. This is awesome. Now I'm super excited. Thank you guys for coming. Yes. Oh by the way. I've been literally like. This is also, this is gonna be the video title. I've been literally the whole video hinting about proposing to Mariah. Really? The whole video. The whole video. I was expecting you to do something like that because if it was something, you wouldn't be keep hinting to me. Exactly. That would happen. Exactly. Yeah Madeline's phone was right here too. I didn't even notice. I hid it. Honestly. Yeah. You guys did a good job. I was more focused on what was in the room because she said no not that one. Not that one. In fact he had this stall because those people were still here. We got here at three o'clock. That's why we went to eat. They were here since five. Like cleaning up and they had a slumber guy. They were here since three. Three to five. Two to five. Yeah. Three to five. And that's why we went out to eat. She's like I don't wanna eat. I just wanna get there. I was so nervous. I don't wanna, I was even hungry at that point. Oh my God. Yeah and we were like. So why don't you guys fly down here? Today. Today. Oh my God. We got here like 30 or something.  I know. Because Madeleine, I was talking to you every day. It was all a lie. Everything that you guys ever talked about was a lie. Marvel Squad, it is a success. All because of Madeleine and Steven. Steven and Madeleine. I would like to say it was my idea everybody. It was actually. Thank you for putting that thought into my head and thank you Steven for showing up.  You said, oh I'd probably tell you if I knew and I'm like, I was gonna tell you today. I'm like well thank God you didn't tell Madeleine because she would have told me. Exactly.  I almost slipped yesterday during our voice memo because we were talking about the camera bag and I was like oh you'll see it tomorrow. I almost said that and I was like oh my God. I almost asked you so what do I bring? Like is it gonna be cool? And I was like. I know I've almost slipped a few times. Did you guys have your own little group chat then? No. No but we've just been calling and talking. Cause I didn't wanna be texting him or calling him. Who do you think I was texting on the car right here in the whole time? Well that's why we were all like this.  No not that. I was just like that was just like we were am. We got a budget. Come on. I don't know what I was expecting but. Well thank you guys for watching this video and we surprised the crap out of my. Yes you did. And also made her think that I was proposing. So it's like you know a two in one video. I wouldn't have. But this is the thing. Oh. I wouldn't have expected you to marry me right now because I wouldn't see that. Yeah but you thought. I thought. I was hinting. And it made you feel a little queasy inside. You know. I was a little queasy cause I didn't know. I didn't know what it was. Thank you so much for watching this video. Make sure to be subscribed to our channel with the post notification if you guys are new. And post notification. And once again if you don't know Steven and Madeline they're from the channel Madeline Steven and they got some banger videos and they just ended Vlogmas which I'm sure they're happy about. It was crazy. But you guys killed it. The content was cool. It was awesome. It was definitely unique. Oh my god my back. So go check them out and we will see you in the next video. But until then. Peace. Oh put a happy birthday in the comments for Mariah by the way. And we'll pick some of you guys to do shout outs in our next video. So love you Mario Scott. Peace.


This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners thanks to all of you including Dale Mulcahy, Matt Zaglin and Kelly Cook. On this episode of DTNS why Microsoft only cares if the US, UK and Europe approve its acquisition will explain why that is plus your favorite map apps and it's not AI it's the humans replacing the game NPCs turn about his fair play at the seas. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday July 19th 2023 in Los Angeles I'm Tom Merritt and from studio gang gang gang gang I'm Sarah Lane from Salt Lake City I am Scott Johnson and I'm the shows pretty sure if you're laughing hilariously at Sarah Lane right now you're gonna love our main segment today if you're not you will explain in our main segment today you might also know what I'm doing and also not be laughing in which case sorry in advance and then you'll want to comment on today's segment today all right there's no wrong answers here let's start with the gang gang. Bloomberg's Mark Ehrman sources say that Apple is developing a chatbot in its own large language models framework called Ajax Ajax runs on Google Cloud and was built with the Google's JAX machine learning framework apparently internally some engineers call it Apple GPD employees have also used it to do product prototyping reportedly anyway although Apple is not officially commenting and has not a set a set a product strategy yet but may make an AI announcement later this year. Hmm Apple earlier this week Intel announced it would discontinue its small next unit of computing the NUC PC and we were all very sad but it said it would seek a partner to keep them alive and it has Intel announced it gave ASUS a non-exclusive license so there could be others joining this party to use the NUC product designs ASUS can manufacture 10th gen through 13th gen NUC systems develop its own NUC units based on new Intel chip designs and offer NUC system support. The UK's competition and markets authority announced that it has taken an initial view that Broadcom's proposed acquisition of VMware would not substantially reduce competition the CMA will consult on these findings and also issue a final decision on September 12th EU regulators approved the deal last week so the US Federal Trade Commission has yet to decide if it will sue to block the deal. Roblox announced it will soon let developers offer subscriptions on its platform Roblox already offers the ability to sell you stuff but they're all one-time things like a one-time fee one-time virtual item special pass to an experience stuff like that it has not allowed ongoing charges now it will no word on when subscriptions will roll out but if you're looking at who's going to be the metaverse Roblox just took a step forward because fortnight doesn't allow direct sales of anything virtual items or subscriptions not yet anyway uh threads received its first major update for iOS now offering a follows tab in the activity feed to see if you're on it who recently followed your account the app supports translations for post text as well users can also subscribe to unfollowed users to get notifications of new posts maybe you want to just keep track of somebody and some updated numbers on threads are as follows data ai estimates that threads past 150 million downloads and that 32 percent of those came from india followed by brazil the us mexico in japan oh there we go i i think people forget the stuff when they're we're making their snap judgments about social networks so well nobody uses it like oh have you talked to the entire subcontinent of india about that because maybe they have a different idea indeed all right let's talk about microsoft and activision blizzard because you would think perhaps the story could not continue but boy it has legs so microsoft and activision blizzard agree to new terms of their ongoing deal the most significant change is to the deadline to avoid a breakup fee there are actually three deadlines now so let's talk about those the breakup fee is what either side would pay if one walked away from the deal that's a three billion dollars it's a big breakup fee but it rises to 3.5 billion dollars on august 29th and 4.5 billion dollars on september 15th the drop dead deadline for the deal to get done is now october 18th so it has been extended but there's a lot of money at play here the staggered breakup fee schedule is meant to encourage both sides to get the deal done early if possible the extension of the deal also includes new provisions to carve out some businesses in the uk if that's what it takes to get this merger done microsoft really wants to get the merger done so that's what they did tom tell us why they did all of them yeah so again those those fees don't happen if the date passes they they just go up the longer it takes in case the deal fall apart let's take a step back and look at the calendar here microsoft right now is negotiating with the uk competition and markets authority well i don't know if they're doing it right now they might be at the pub but you know they're in the middle of this negotiation to see if they can change the deal in a way that gets the uk to remove its objections it sounds like everybody thinks that's possible but on august second so just a couple weeks from now the united states federal trade commission will be taking its objections to this deal in front of an administrative judge now if it were to win that this whole thing gets a lot more complicated again but given the way the judge ruled against giving a preliminary injunction it's probably going to lose so we're probably not going to see the ftc prevail in august second but august second's worth paying attention to if the ftc loses august 29th is the next important date microsoft wants to settle with the uk by then because the breakup fee goes to goes up if they pass that date and because that is the uk's new deadline to make its final decision on its investigation so everybody would like to get it done that seems to be the new the new end line now if it doesn't settle with the uk by august 29th it could be that the uk would extend its own deadline again they just extended it from july 18th they could extend it again if everybody's very positive and they just need a few more days to do the paperwork or we might start looking at whether microsoft would carve out activision blizzard in the uk as a separate company something the new merger agreement now specifically allows you just heard sarah tell you that but that also becomes very complicated and people would like to avoid that as well scott does this make sense to you it does um we've been covering this pretty extensively on core and also every time i'm on here it feels like a new breaking bit of the news is happening uh so this all makes sense to me it's clear that microsoft and activision both want this to go through and have through the entire process so so they are going to go to whatever length it takes to to separate things out i mean if something catastrophic happened like somebody stock went uh took a dive or took a leap they may have to have additional communication about what that means to the value of the acquisition of the merger but for the most part unless something crazy like that happens i think that they are both sort of in tandem willing to do whatever it takes to get through these hurdles and this feels like the right timeline it all still feels like there's a ticking bomb though and i think that's important i think that's on purpose you know there's there's a reason why they didn't say you know what let's just put it off till october they could probably have done that but they didn't do that well why will they want to keep the heat on the regulatory yeah they want to get it done yeah exactly yeah for sure so this this is both against them and for them in a weird way to have these deadlines and um if they do end up having to segment things out so the uk's happy no one's gonna love that no but i think they could pull that off if they had to so yeah yeah it feels like uh you know the gun and the drawer uh approach they don't want to open that drawer if they don't they don't have to but uh just to summarize for folks on those dates august second is the check-in like is the fdc gonna win no okay and then august 29th is the big one right right well uh for anybody who has been following microsoft stock uh company not doing terribly you thought i was gonna say terribly well didn't you no no it's it's actually stock stock is stock is good for stock holders right now however related to all of this we got an email from daemon um and this i think might echo some sentiments of other people daemon was wondering so why is microsoft only waiting on certain countries to give them approval to purchase activision blizzard before that couldn't complete the purchase so we seem to hear about companies waiting for approval not just microsoft but others from places like the uk eu germany the us but not from places like mexico some countries in south america some countries in africa do other countries not care about such things you know i think daemon sort of says in parentheses although he didn't write it or do we not care about them if we are microsoft daemon says why don't they wait for approval from every country that they sell their product in or do business in uh this is a great question daemon i covered this on an episode of editors desks so some of you patrons already know this answer uh if you're a patron at the five dollar level and up you might have listened to that but here's the short version they have approved at least the countries that have a law requiring approval 40 countries have approved the activision blizzard merger that's not news when they approve it's only news when they don't approve most of the countries that have not approved either don't have a law requiring approval or they're the uk uh the us for example does not have a law requiring a merger to be approved in the us what you do is you have the federal trade commission sue to stop a deal and that's what the ftc is doing with this one in countries that have a law about this it's usually referred to as merger acquisition control uh about 80 to 100 countries depending on how you look at it have some form of merger acquisition control law and if you do business in a country that has a law like that in other words if you're selling stuff to citizens if you've got world of work or after call of duty available uh then you are subject to those rules now some countries the reason you've only seen 40 don't approve until after the deal which seems weird but that's how it works most countries though you have to apply for approval before if they have a law about it and in practice almost all countries approve mergers it's a paperwork thing they just want to have it down on paper what are the terms who's paying what they're not trying to stop mergers they're trying to record them in fact china rarely objects to a merger they have such strict rules about whether you can operate in their country or not that if you meet those rules you're probably fine they're probably going to allow your merger the eu and the us have stricter antitrust laws and have had them for longer so they are more likely to object and a lot of the other countries that might object are perfectly happy to let the us and eu spend their time and money to investigate this stuff and then sort of take their lead they're they're sort of outsourcing the investigation to the us and eu so that's why you hear about the us eu and now the uk that the uk has exited the eu uh because they're the ones that other countries are looking to for investigation although most countries just rubber stamp stuff well you might have also heard that netflix has removed at least one subscription plan for new users in the us and the uk but first removed it in canada and this is the basic ad free plan for a ten dollar in the us uh subscription that lets users watch netflix content on a single screen in 720p quality so it's limited but it was the free non ad supported version the cheapest one rather exist not free ten dollars uh existing users can use this plan going forward so if you're on this plan you say what no it you're probably fine but if you're a new subscriber or perhaps you've lapsed and are coming back to netflix and are are a returning subscriber you no longer have this option when you sign up uk-based website code busters first noticed this change and mused that netflix might discontinue the plan in all countries where it has rolled out an ad supported standard plan because it sounds like that's going pretty well on tom yeah it's worth reminding folks that the ad supported plan first launched in november in canada and mexico a couple days later uh in the us uk france germany italy australia japan korea brazil uh and in april this year netflix updated basic with ads to standard with ads they renamed it and it supported simultaneous streaming on two devices full hd resolution which means 1080p cost you seven dollars a month in the us five pounds a month in the uk and the company said its ad supported tier now has more than five million users worldwide so they consider it a success data from antenna shows that netflix's ad supported plans probably account for around 17 to 20 percent of new signups at least between march and june of their estimation period so scott it sounds like ad supported options are working for netflix was the basic without ads just no longer attractive to the company given the interest elsewhere i think that the the fact that there are so many competing services that come at you with an entry level either no pay or low pay ad supported version of the of their service i think force them into this at least to consider this i think prior prior to all of that when i say success but i guess i just mean the the flooding of market of potential cheaper and less expensive or even free options for people i don't think they had any interest in that at all in fact i feel like they said as much years ago that they just were not interested in ad supported versions of their of their content um but i just think that writing was on the wall the minute other services did it and have seen success with it and now they're seeing that mean those are that's not small numbers you may look at and go well five million in the larger scheme of netflix things isn't that many people but that's a that's still a lot of people but it was it was you know it was a large uptick in a short amount of time yeah that's yeah yeah that's the other thing was fast right really yeah even if netflix was like huh we really didn't think ad supported was the way to go if you have enough users who clearly care about it in a variety of markets i could see the company just saying all right well let's get rid of the tier that doesn't seem to have the most traction and it sounds like that that formerly basic ad-free tier uh just didn't make sense anymore you know again if you're a legacy user you're not getting kicked off of it at least not now but uh you can't sign up for it now uh netflix wants to point you in other directions that might work better for you based on what other people like have anyone has anyone here experience the ad version of things i'm curious at what the i haven't tried it no i've never you know i've never i've never had an ad supported version of netflix but i mean i i have on hulu and a variety of other sources i mean i um sources of content i sometimes apparently the ad load on netflix is very low compared to some of the others is it yeah and i mean even even sometimes when i'm getting ads and maybe they're a little invasive it's like i know why they're there i can't really think of a situation recently where i've paid for something on some level or or maybe not at all um and thought well this is just you know outlandish i think it's i usually i i i kind of you know turn a blind eye i guess it is a little annoying to see that price 699 and remember that we were darn close to that for what netflix was in those early days yeah i think one of the reasons this is getting so much buzz is that it's seven dollars a month in the us for ads and then practically double the price 1549 for the next tier without ads uh i think it's also notable that this happened exactly the same way in canada on june 26th and you didn't see nearly as much outrage then why were you not outraged for the canadiens why i look i'm always looking out for my canadian brothers and sisters but in this particular case i think i just slept on that one uh you pour people up there you struggled through this this transition and i hope you're all okay i can i can hear the canadians yelling right now we told you you just weren't last night and also we're used to you ignoring us uh well canadian are otherwise if you have feedback about anything that gets brought up on the show get in touch with us there's so many ways uh we have at dts show on twitter and masted on mstdn.social at daily tech news show on tiktok i just posted on our s tiktok today i got a question for you go check it out and dts picks on instagram and of course because it's on instagram also on threads find us we're there nice in many modern games non-playable characters and pcs are an integral part of the experience they inhabit the world you're in a lot of times they provide clues or contexts that help you along your journey sometimes just sort of being there to make the world feel more real this could be anything from a character sitting outside a store who tells you how he took an arrow to the knee uh to zelda herself since in the legend of zelda as they point out in the washington post today you're playing as link you're trying to save zelda zelda is technically an npc just a really important one uh you probably think if you haven't listened closely to the t's that we're going to talk about ai and npcs again like we did back in march but no this time we're talking about humans replacing npcs sarah explain please okay i'm gonna do my i'm gonna do my best on this uh because if you're if you're if you're familiar you're going to go oh gosh here we go but if you're not let's start from the beginning so this is an interesting story npcs aren't really designed to do that much in most games besides exist like tom said they might have you know a line of dialogue or maybe two or three but there's not much to them they're they're not really helping your gameplay they're just sort of there so they often get a line that if you continue to interact with them might get repeated over and over or you might get to a point where you go okay yeah this character isn't doing anything anymore i'm gonna go ahead and mosey on my journey enter the world of tiktok live now this is where some creators you have to have a certain amount of followers uh who have a big enough following have streaming live access this is not unlike how you might go live on twitch some of those creators uh a small subset but a subset are acting like npcs non playable characters for views and also sometimes for money a tiktok user named pinky doll made the rounds recently boy has she gotten some attention she's a very popular streamer who acts as an npc based on the gifts that she gets while she is live she's also very good at this now you might say okay well what is she doing how does she act like a non playable character this is in a game right this is just a live stream for example you send her an ice cream and she says hmm ice cream so good you send her a cowboy hat and she says oh you got me feeling like a cowgirl you send her a gg emoji and she says gang gang this is all in real time you have hundreds of gifts pouring in at once so there's a fun aspect to it if i want to send her a gift and i get thanked i you know feel seen and heard as an audience member it's not unlike being thanked in general on any live stream you know scott you might go live and i might you know send you some money over whatever platform where you you're using and you say thank you i am sarah lane dot com you know that sort of thing but this seems to be a little different because it's very specific than what streamers already do no well there it's an interesting bit of performance that sets it apart definitely if you saw saw somebody streaming your favorite game and you sent them some bits on twitch uh you might even get a little animated something pop up on screen it says so and so gave you bits and then the streamer might say hey thanks so and so for those bits think of that as the what we're used to that's like nothing no big deal what this reminds me is is that this bit of rapid fire machine gun style interaction between you and the streamer and all the streamer is doing for some reason gang gang should be gg usually stands for good game so i'm not sure where we got gang gang from but they still they're using it as gang gang but if that's what you want them to say and then they say it immediately you get this immediate thing of oh i've interacted i paid for this i got noticed they said thank you and then they moved on but she doesn't go off and then do other things on her stream she's just going and going and going and taking these requests and taking these requests joe joe has the uh has the example if we want to throw it up you should uh and you're nice be so good take a jackie gang gang gang gang gang gang oh special gang gang gang gang gang gang gang gang galoon it's like a glitched and it's so that was good in a way yeah yeah so you got me feeling like a cowgirl let me run it's huh yeah yeah so you got me feeling like a cowgirl let me run it's huh and it's and it's you know you might go this is insanity i mean she's saying the same thing over and over well it all depends on what she's getting right now there there's a part of me who's like yes this is very silly i don't i have never seen any of these streams actually in live form i've only seen stuff that's been shared on you know first i saw this on twitter and i've seen it on tic tac afterwards you know but these go on for hours yeah i saw her so i saw one live this was her she popped up in my feet don't know why it just happened to because she's super popular probably yeah and it's after i had heard about this so this was kind of i was like oh oh my gosh i'm getting fed her account didn't even know her name prior to this and uh she was actually there for five hours i didn't watch all five hours yeah she'd been there three was going to go for another exhausting and at one point only one time did i see her break character and yell at a dog or a cat or something um and it was well and now that's the thing too and that's that's become the thing of like watching the npc live feed where you you're waiting for them to kind of go like i need a glass of water or like hey dogs stop yelling and that's that's kind of the key here like i was the comparison i can think of is let's say you're playing nintendo dogs on your nintendo ds or you're playing a pokemon game you got to feed your pokemon you got to feed your pets and some of these pet based games um and when you do that you expect the little animated character to go um you fed me um you fed me and if you do it over and over again you get that kind of repetition you get that dopamine rush and we're used to that from inanimate computer generated creatures or people we're used to this when it what makes this different and why i think it's taken off so crazy and gotten so much attention is this we know this is a flesh and blood human on the other side and we know that we are interacting with that person a lot like we are used to in these other ways but i'm getting this real live person to acknowledge me to make the sound to move on and do it again and it's a combination that i think is really alluring for a lot of people and it is easy to judge it and go out this is too weird for me where we're living in cyberpunk town uh and maybe we are maybe these maybe it's early days of cyberpunk conversion but but uh at the end of the day i i think the motivations are very similar it's just kind of hyper realized uh and it is very gamified whether whether we've noticed it or not it's this reminds me of playing games but in a much stranger way i guess i think yeah i mean listen if if this is something appeals to you then you know then it does there are a lot of people um who you know i feel like there's like there's sort of three popular ways that people respond to this either i have no idea what this is the second is i know what this is and i don't like it nobody should be doing this you know this you know feels like a human who's you know in a cage kind of thing and the third is i know what this is and this human is making money and she's really he or she or they are very good at this and this is actually kind of fun and you know this is a way to sort of gamified the gamified things um those first two reactions are the common reactions to everything that happens right in the world on the internet like i don't understand what this is i think it's dumb so throw those out because you're going to get that at every new thing it is interesting to see people engage in this you know and and have fun with it i think it was better when there was more of them standing there bobbing before they got popular and then you send the emoji and you you make that happen that manic presentation that we just saw of pinkie doll is is its own form of manic entertainment but it it's not as much like an mpc anymore is it it's also a sign that she wouldn't be so manic if she didn't get so much attention right yeah no i know if you got if you got a little coin or something you know every 30 seconds then it would be a very different experience yeah it is a reminder to there's some game theory in this but um there there's there's a once in a while you remind yourself that a lot of what i'm doing is about numbers going up when i play a video game when i play diabolo i have the beautiful world that's set in i see these amazing graphics and voiceover and story and then really at the end of the day though what i'm trying to do is get numbers to go up i'm trying to get loot and get numbers up and if you start boiling that down to its most primordial ooze that's what this is yeah dopamine wanting to see yeah dopamine hits watching numbers go up watching things flash on the screen i'm watching a reaction and it's worth your two bucks your three bucks your four bucks one of one of the best uh i i have gone down quite a few internet holes uh over the last week about this because i find it so fascinating what the best response is to someone saying this is so stupid why would anyone do this nobody should be participating they were like this woman is very talented she should be an auctioneer yeah none of us could do what she's doing like there is a talent here we're just you know we're we're we're we're we're making it happen in real time no cap yeah all right let's check out the mailbag let's do it we got a lot of feedback from our conversation yesterday about uh map apps that we use uh specifically we were talking about apple maps potentially being a lot better than they used to be here are a few examples ronard writes in one of the reasons that google maps had always been better because it had years and years of data including the time when iphones were using google maps ever since apple maps came to the phone i chose to use apple maps because i wanted apple to get that data in order for the app to get better if you don't give a data it won't get better matthew wrote in to say he was a big fan of apple maps especially through carplay until he moved to ecuador he writes apple maps is largely able to locate very little around keto ecuador or bogota columbia two cities with populations in the millions i can understand not having great rural data out in the amazon but to not be usable any of the major cities makes it useless this remains true in all the major cities in ecuador as i've explored the country i've largely given up on apple maps for other than learning geography that is that is a that's a good note depends on where you are jordan also wrote in uh saying they prefer apple maps for turn-by-turn directions carplay and transit directions but still give an apple maps the high marks for cross-platform accessibility still gives google maps high marks google maps rather yes thank you cross-platform accessibility and retail and restaurant reviews because there's you know that that google data uh matthew did say oh wait was it matthew no one one person wrote in and said that uh they they like uh ways um but most people were talking about google maps or apple maps as if those were the two options so it feels like those are the two everybody uses yeah well if you are listening saying well no but i still have another option do yeah write in map quest users yeah people are still printing their map quest somewhere someplace open map users let's hear from you remember map blast that was the yahoo map quest alternative oh yeah i wasn't a map blast user i don't really know why uh well uh no matter what kind of map uh service you use scott johnson we sure are glad that you make your way into this show um but you know if we're lucky uh once a week sometimes more let folks know where to keep up with the rest of your work well sure if you're interested in uh all the hot takes around this microsoft activision uh merger business or really anything in the realm of video games coverage i have a show every week that does just that it's called core it happens on thursdays and uh core is me and my two buddies talking about video games and doing it i think the best there is we really like this show i think you'll like it too so check it out that's at frogpants.com slash core or just look for core wherever you get your shows yesterday i had gpt4 write the patreon promotion mm we got zero patrons as a result oh no so today today smell it tom it's a human appeal it's a human appeal if you're listening to the free feed and you support value for value you like what 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It was the best day of my life. I still remember October 13th last year. I got that phone call of yep, we want you to start and Yeah, I felt like it was the start of my brand-new life, which it has been. I hit the ground running and I've made so many new friends and I've been so lucky. My squad has just been brilliant. I served for six years in the Australian Army. I was lucky enough to deploy overseas and serve the country overseas and I'd always wanted to join the police and it just seemed like a great role to to go from the Defence Force into the police where I can serve the community and go from there. I'm actually a mum of six kids. So I was a full-time stay-at-home mum before this.  The plan was with my partner and I that once the kids got off to school, then I could then go on and join police. I've enjoyed one, getting out of the house, two, learning so much, three, having my own life but then still getting to go home at the end of the day to my husband and my kids. Serving the community is something that really drove me towards being in the QPS. With that comes job satisfaction and just knowing that you're making a difference to make you feel good about the role that you're taking within the community. Our facilitators particularly are so knowledgeable and we've learned so much off them. They've been really good. You can't believe how much you're learning in six months. Being a girl you sort of hold on to some things whereas I've learned now to just let the small things go. Not a big deal. Don't have time to worry about the small things and don't sweat it. And I think too being in Queensland police you realise that there is a lot going on out in that big world. Yeah, don't sweat the small stuff and just focus on the bigger things. Something that really sort of attracted me to the QPS was that the teamwork and the bonding and just relying on your mates to get a job done. So that was a good fit from the Defence Force and moving into the QPS and it's something that really attracted me to the job. Can't wait to get out there. It's been a fun six months. It's been a long six months and yeah, ready to get out there on the road and put in to practice all the skills that we've learned here at the Academy. And yeah, the friendships that I've made here. They're a lifetime friendships. Yeah, friends for life, no doubt. Thank you.


I'm Rody and I'm Metis. Most of my friends don't know what that means. Here's what I tell them. The Metis people started when a bunch of guys called the Voyagers came here to the prairies to Torx for our trade. Along the way they met the First Nation people who had lived here for thousands of years. They helped the Voyagers in their travels. Sometimes the Voyagers even married some of the First Nation women. Their babies were a mix of both cultures. By the way, do you know where the babies come from? I do. After the little babies grew up they found it hard to fit in.  And do you know what they called themselves? Metis, which means mixed. These were the founders, the first official generation of the Metis people. The generation of my great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandparents. That's seven generations leading to me. Not all of them were happy to be Metis. Actually, it's kind of in our roller coaster ride. So the founders had babies.  They grew up really happy to be Metis. Sadly, after many years of fighting for the right, Louis Riel and the Metis were defeated at the Battle of Akash. So many things that worked so hard to build were burned to the ground. That made their babies the defeated generation. They had seen their parents, the proud generation lose the fight. Even though they loved being Metis, they stayed pretty quiet about it. Their babies grew up in a world where being Metis is a really bad thing. They were the shamed generation. Everywhere they went, people said mean things just because they were Metis. Not fair. And that's why the shamed generation raised their babies to hide their Metis heritage. And this hidden generation got very good at hiding. Where are you guys? And guess what? They didn't even tell their babies who they were. Could they? Mom, are you hiding anything from me?  Many of these guys didn't even know they were Metis. But thankfully, to my mom's generation, born as lost, became the found. With them digging an excellent detective work, the found generation found out who we were again. Thanks, mom. For the first time in a long time, many Metis kids are growing up proud to be Metis from day one. I love to play in the snow. Do the jig.  Check out these moxins my mom made me. So what's the lesson here? Knowing who we are and why we're proud of it makes us happy people. Happy people are nice to each other. And when we're nice to each other, only good things can happen. So that's the story of the Metis people. Next time where I'll tell you where babies come from, it's really weird.