Good morning, everybody. We'd like to welcome you to the first HLAA Diablo Valley chapter meeting of the new year. So we see some people who are chatting out here, they're saying hello to their friends. We understand how important that is. We're happy that you were able to complete our conversation. So I'd like to introduce myself for those of you who don't know me. My name is Ann Thomas, and I'm the president of the Hearing Loss Association of America, the Diablo Valley chapter. Yes. It's been a year and a half going through a hearing loop. So I should have done that first. This room has a hearing loop, which is an assistant listening system that is required by law in places of public accommodation that have public address systems. You need to look for this sign everywhere. Rossmore has the largest number of hearing loops of anywhere in Contra Costa County, maybe in Northern California. We've created a list here for you so that you know which rooms have hearing loops. So if you have a telecoil in your hearing instrument, and I'm using the word instrument because hearing aids, cochlear implants, and bone conductive devices all have telecoils. And rather than saying those three words a million times, we're calling them hearing instruments. If your hearing instrument has a telecoil, all you need to do is press the button on your device, or possibly it might be in an auxiliary device like a mini mic, and you will automatically connect to the hearing loop in this room. And how a hearing loop is different than the PA, the effective range of hearing aids is only about six feet. So everybody sitting in this room is further away than six feet from the loudspeakers. So that means you're past the range of the effectiveness of your hearing instrument. The hearing loop takes the sound directly to your hearing instrument. It's like the sound is in the middle of your head. Any of you, if this is your first time attending one of our meetings, may not have any idea whether your hearing instrument has a telecoil or not. And that's because, unfortunately, most audiologists don't tell their patients about that. So we have a card right here, this one is created, so that you don't really have to worry about what to say, because based on our experience, we found that it was really confusing to many of the consumers. So we created a card for you that explains to your audiologist everything that you would like to know about your instrument. It says, audiologists and hearing aid provider, please advise me if my hearing instruments have telecoils. If they do, please activate and program them for a hearing loop. On the back, we've left space for them to write in for you so that you know how to find that. So most hearing instruments have the ability of having multiple programs. So you know, if you don't know what program your telecoil is, it's problematic, you're pressing the buttons, you don't know what's happening. So this potentially could say the third program, the third beak, the second beak depends on where it is. And it's written there for you. So once you leave their office, you don't have to really think about, oh no, what did they say to me? I didn't really quite understand them, because you can look at your card. So if there's anybody here who would like some more information about that, please talk to me later. When we use a hearing loop, every single person needs to talk through a microphone. And so we'll have people who are runners. So I introduced myself as Alan Thomas. This is Alan Kotsura, our tech person, all around person who helps with everything. This is Zohar Chippa, our vice president. Alan wants to say something to me just now. I need to raise or tilt your. That's good. Thank you. See, you need additional helpers because I can't look behind me and look ahead of me as well. So I saw a woman right there who has her hand raised. So Zohar, this microphone, Zohar, the microphone right there, you're going to have to turn it on. Press the, no, it's on the side. Press the button. And how we explain to people to use a microphone with a tea coil. It's not like on television where you see it's down here. Those microphones cost thousands and thousands of dollars. Pretend it's like an ice cream cone that you're going to lip. So it's right about here. And you hold it just below your lips so people could lip read. What did you want to know? I was just trying to inform you that the video is not showing you. It is showing your chest mainly. And is the camera only on the computer? So the camera here is for people who are zooming in. Okay, so all of you can see me, but you need to look here to see the captions. So Alan came by to tell me that it wasn't positioned very well.  It's hard for me to stay really still. Okay, and so the camera on my laptop is what's getting me. Okay. And so if that's distracting, I'm sorry. This is only our second hybrid meeting. We feel grateful beyond the moon that everybody's, we think hearing on zoom and all of you are hearing in this room as well. And we should be able to hear them too. It's really a feat that we were able to accomplish this. So if something happens, see when I turn around, that looks really weird. Right. So just let me know what's happening out here. Okay. So I'm going to do something so it looks better or it's more appealing to you. Okay. So Kathy, did I say everything that I needed to say at the beginning? Yeah. Okay. Thank you. And thank you for reminding me. So most people don't realize that hearing loss is a disability covered under a variety of federal. State and local laws. So the symbol that you need to look for. This symbol on the top without a T is the generic symbol. That indicates that there is an assisted listening system in the room. If there is the symbol with the T. And can everybody see it? It's this one here and everybody on zoom. That means that there's a hearing loop. It's confusing to people frequently. Because the T stands for telecoil. So sometimes the telecoil is actually in your hearing instrument. It's not in the hearing loop. So what's in the room is a hearing loop. So all technologies need to be available. What is the two features there? One has to be one doesn't. One that doesn't, what does that mean? Okay. So the ADA band standards. Have specifications for assistive listening systems. There are three kinds of assistive listening systems. One is an FM, which is radio frequency. It's just like your FM radio, but they designated a certain frequency for assistive listening systems. The other one is an infrared and an infrared is line of sight. And you might be familiar with that because most of your remote control guns are infrared. Okay. Both FM and infrared. One single person is required to get a receiver. And if you had a telecoil in your hearing instrument, you would use a neck loop with that receiver. One of the things that makes hearing loops so wonderful for all of us is if you have a telephone, you don't need anything. You walk into the space. You press the button on your hearing instrument or you use your remote control, which is on your smartphone frequently today. And go to the telecoil program. You're all set for the other things most venues require you to either leave your driver's license or they have a whole myriad of things.  You have to remember to turn it back in to get your driver's license. It's so easy to forget that. Yes, ma'am. Okay. All hearing aids do not have the telecoil function. You need to make sure to ask for one. Okay. So everybody needs telecoils. And Bluetooth. Bluetooth is at this point in time, it's one to one. And it's one to one. And it's one to one. And expanded version of Bluetooth is on the horizon. For most of us with hearing loss. We're probably not going to see the benefits of that. For probably 10 years. And the reason for that is we only buy hearing aids every five years. So by the time there's a critical mass of us. It's going to be 10 years. So those are the three systems. So for the hearing loop, you don't have to identify yourself. You don't have to do anything. You personally don't have to worry about whether they charge the batteries. I can't tell you how many times I've ever used an FM system. And I'm very knowledgeable about technology. I'm not ashamed of my hearing loss. I self identify everywhere I go. I call three, four times ahead of time to make sure the batteries are charged in the devices. And here I'm going to play on that something and write it. The most important part of why I went to whatever location. I did with it was a play or a meeting or a lecture. The battery dies. So you don't have any of those problems with the hearing. That answer your question. Oh, wait a minute. So here. I'm talking to you. See, and I can understand. During the pandemic, I got two cochlear implants, two very successful cochlear implants. So I'm carrying better than I've heard in 20 years. And so I keep forgetting. We passed around. It needs to be passed on weekends. Would you like to help? I couldn't hear that baby over there. Yeah. So then you continue with what you were saying. That was on this. Everybody in the audience. To be heard has to speak into the microphone. So we. So here is the designated runner. If he's over here, take this side because we have two microphones. Would you like to distribute them on this side? Would you like to be a runner on this side?  So everybody has to speak through microphone. So is there any other question right now before we move on to what our program may or may not be here about. Our book discussion. So everybody's good. Okay. So. Jerry e birds and Gail. Hannah have written. What I consider to be the seminal book on hearing loss and. Okay. Is that good hearing loss and how to create your best life with it. All parts of your life. Physically, emotionally, socially, and especially with your relationships with other people. And your audiologist probably is not giving you the assistance that you need to be able to function well. You need to be able to work with all of the things going on about that. And that's why the hearing loss association of America was formed in 1934 to help all of us with those things. I know that my life would have been radically radically different. If I hadn't found HLA and 2009. I might have been a cloistered person. I can understand how that happens to people. I can understand how they feel to be in a room. Even at a close range with somebody and absolutely not understand it. Even with your best devices. So. With all of us. We're all in the same boat. You don't have to say, I'm sorry because I can't understand. You don't have to make excuses. You don't have to feel bad because all of us. Are here with your mates. Frequently. Before people start coming to HLA a. They didn't, they don't realize what they need to tell their mates so that they can understand well. And a variety of situations. And the biggest one of all. Is please face me. As I said, if the effective range of hearing aids is only about six That's not very far. If I put my arm out, a person there puts their arm out, that's six feet, that's not very far. Theoretically, if I was standing on this side, and this is an information table and you're standing over there, if you have more than a mile to moderate hearing loss, there's a great likelihood that you won't be able to understand. So with your mates, you need to tell them. If you're not facing me, I can't understand you. You need to face me also so I can live free. So before this book by Sherry and Gail, there was really no documented information all in one place. Both of them are my friends, my fellow advocates. I know them personally. Sherry lives in New York and Gail lives in Canada. And we all get together at the HLA Convention every year. So they gave a presentation about their book at our last chapter meeting. And if you weren't able to attend that meeting, we have a YouTube channel. And you can watch all of our previous meetings on our YouTube channel. Now, originally at the beginning of the pandemic, we started including all of the directions for Zoom, which eventually I'm gonna get to in this presentation for people who are participating in Zoom on the other side, all over the United States, which is the wonderful golden silver lining of the pandemic that that venue has been created for us. So at that time, before our last meeting, we asked everybody if they would like to have a book discussion for this meeting. And the majority of people said yes. But I would like to know in this room, can you please just raise your hand how many people have actually read the book? Okay, so the majority of people in this room haven't read the book, which is perfectly fine because in my mind when I was thinking about this meeting, I was thinking about how could we orchestrate it so that it wasn't limited to just the book? There are lots of things though in the book club discussion that we all can relate to. So we printed out the list of the book club questions. Does everybody have one? So far, nobody has, but I forgot to have them out. Well, that's okay. It's nice to receive something from somebody. Okay, while Zoher is handing those out, I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen and I'm gonna go ahead and we already talked about so now we're gonna go ahead and move toward why everybody may have come to this meeting today. So I think because we have more people who haven't read the book, then maybe we should go around and just quickly say what drew you to come to this meeting if you haven't already read the book? And why don't we start over here? When welcome. I just wanted to share what was found. Perfect, thank you. Marlene. I partially read the book and it's wonderful. Unwalt Bateman, I came to the meeting to see him. Thanks, Walt. I attended many of the meetings prior to the pandemic. This was the first time that. And primarily because I am very unhappy with the hearing aids I have now that are probably less than a year old. And so I just need to find nature. Thank you. Make sure that we're gonna get together after our meeting. I'm always open to talk to people. Maybe they just need to be adjusted. Hi there. I'm Cindy and I've come to the meeting because I felt like there must be help out there more help that I didn't realize. Advices I've never heard of. And people who are experiencing life like I am that I could connect with. Perfect, thank you. We're happy you're here. Hi, my name is Catherine. I'm a union of Ross Ward. I just learned about this group and I'm very interested in becoming a part of it. I do have a good view of it. Hi, I'm Kathy. I belong to HLAA in different cities all over before I moved here to Walnut Creek. I have a cochlear implant in the hearing aid and I still struggle especially in rooms where there's a lot of active noise. Thank you. Before you say something, I just want to let you know many, many, many of our chapter members have cochlear implants. And I think that I know personally over 10 people who've gotten implants since the pandemic started. So since they, in two years ago they lowered the criteria for Medicare for cochlear implants to lots of people who previously weren't flocking to get them or now are losing them. Go ahead. Oh, wait a minute. One parameter. I just wanted to respond to that quickly because I got mine during the pandemic 21 and then Zoom did not have closed caption as an option which I use for training or retraining my brain. And at that time I had used Google.com and that worked perfectly fine. So it's interesting Zoom has progressed in that respect. Yeah, so Zoom actually had captions for a lot longer than you actually were aware of but it was only if you had a professional account. Yeah, I did not. And so when they then they opened it up after that to if you were a person with hearing loss and you didn't have a professional account if you wrote them a note then they activated it for you. But so that's long over, right? Go ahead, it's your turn now. Yes, I'm Rita and I have severe hearing problems and I come because I feel that I may get some insights into what I can do to improve my hearing. Thank you. I've never had a hearing aid and I'm about to buy my first because from my own experience and also from the hearing test I know I get views of that in certain situations. I'm very glad you're a little bit about the null foil and that system which is in the rooms in many of the rooms I lost more than I could use them. Yeah, something that we didn't really go into and I don't know how I'm supposed to go on a side track.  Meaning you have a telecoil that's a hearing loop that's a no-brainer. If it's an anthem or an infrared you get a neck loop instead of headphones for a connector and we have receivers to give out to people who might not have a telecoil in their hearing device. Is there anybody here who would like to try a receiver who doesn't have a telecoil? Here's one.  You need to go to custodial which is in the building with fireside, right? Administration, I think. And originally they were giving them to residents for three months at a time. It may be longer than that now. They thought that that was much easier than at every single meeting to distribute them. Now we have them because I couldn't host a meeting without providing accessibility to everybody. So what it is, is it's a box about the size of a cigarette, old cigarette packet. And that receives the hearing loop signal. There's a port on this box that you plug. If you don't have a telecoil, you plug a hearing headphone into that and then you would wear a headphone. And that's coming here. Okay, so while Zoho here is doing the yes, please. It's time, Carol, I haven't even heard about some of these devices I can go and put it in. I mean, we need help, I can't hear. And absolutely it is affecting my life in lots of ways. Excuse me, do you have hearing aids? I do. Okay, so perfect. So please contact me later. Maybe there are things that are available to you within your current hearing instruments, hearing aids that you don't know about. We can talk about that. I'm always open to everybody. Where is the box? Right on the other side of the table. I think it's on the floor. I'm telling you, putting all these things together to bring over here. It's like, I thought, oh my gosh, how do I even remember all these things? So all of these receivers, you have to remember to plug them all in because they're all rechargeable batteries. Do you have a hearing aid to use that? No. So if I, I don't have a hearing aid. So if I go into the fires, when I go into the fireside room, which has a logo, I can use one of these and hear the lecture better than not. We created a document for everybody in Rossmore that lists the rooms with hearing loops. So this applies everywhere. You can try a receiver here and a headphone and Zoher will get to you shortly. It's just the one. You're like what? Oh, I'm Cherry and we belong to the Golden Nation even though we live on Farming Beach. While I came here, my hearing was really the cherry breeding. And then I mentioned to a couple of the zoologies and not to talk here and talk about our experiences. And through these, through the one year that we've been here, we can both bring our COVID in fast and it's paying my whole entire life. And I really appreciate it. Thank you. Hi, I'm my husband, Lane, and I just came to support it, but I have hearing loss as well. My name is Elaine. I have severe hearing loss.  And I wonder whether it's the hearing aid or my own hearing that has deteriorated. And so I have to determine that. I have scheduled a new audiologist that I've never seen before. And I'm hoping that he can clarify that and be of help. I'm Gloria. I am suffering from some hearing loss. I currently have no device at home. One of my biggest issues for not hearing is the tinnitus that just drives me crazy some days. So I am looking for information on how I can address those problems. The woman who was sitting next to you and everybody else, we for a very long time have had this as part of our teaching tools. And I don't know if they can see this on. Yeah, I can see that now. It's a teaching zoom. So what happens is that all of us go to our audiologist, right? And we have a hearing test and the results of those tests are accorded on a document that's called an audiogram. And encourage everybody to always take, ask for their audiogram because over time this allows you to be able to track your own hearing. Your hearing loss, what's going on with that? Also, when somebody says to you, oh, you have mild to moderate hearing loss, you don't have any idea what that means. So it's not adequately explained to people in a way that they can really understand what that means. So we use this form and what I encourage people to do is to take their audiogram and mark directly on here. These are the frequencies and this is the volume. So you mark on here exactly what was on your personal audiogram. And then you're able to look at this document and on the side you can see, okay. So from zero to 20 decibels is considered normal. So if you don't have anything in there, there's no doubt in your mind you don't have normal hearing, right? So, and the most common hearing loss, this age related is high frequency. So the chances are really great that people in this room have high frequency hearing loss. And that's in this area here. And depending on what your personal audiogram says, when you mark it on here, you can see exactly what kind of hearing loss you have and what you can understand. So this is called the speech banana. That's where all the consonants and the sounds are. So for the high frequency sounds, the things that you can hear are K, T, F, S and T H. Well, those are lots of words that really designates a lot of the parts of speech. So if you took your audiogram and you marked on here what was going on, you would have a good idea about, oh, what level of hearing loss do I have? Oh, it's moved into the severe to profound range. So there's a rule of thumb and it's that when you're, the volume is at around 70 decibels or helped really well by hearing aids.  So it doesn't make any difference how much additional volume you give to them. You can't make them stand up and be good soldiers so that they can understand. So what you're looking at for most of us is balancing out how long to keep your hearing aids before you think about looking at another option, which would be a cochlear implant. So when you're no longer benefit, well from your hearing aids, then it's time to explore a cochlear implant. And so that you know different than hearing instruments although in our county, our health insurance is all starting to include hearing aids for the senior advantage plans, but all Medicare programs actually cover cochlear implants. Yes. There's the question here. You had to make it through that for us though. Oh, you're just loving the mic. Yeah. My name is Tina and I'm here, I've had hearing aids for 12, 15 years, I guess it's happened for 15, 20 years. Now it's cochlear implants. And after Florence, I am very frustrated with the cochlear implant. So I'd like to talk to you about the meeting also. Hi, I'm Leslie and I'm here to find out ways to be a better neighbor to my friend here. That's really lovely of you. So the biggest thing for you to remember, oh, and above the board, just make sure you're facing her because if you're not, there's very little chance probably that she's gonna be able to understand you. And today we may talk about some other technologies. It's actually part of the book. One of the things that is really wonderful if you have a smartphone is their speech-to-text app now. During the pandemic, I don't know what I would have done without that. So I would take my smartphone, turn on my speech-to-text app and let's see if I can get it out here. My favorite. So I would turn on my app and I would start talking. And so you're in the grocery store, you can't understand the checker. So I would, the microphones at the top, I would reach out. So the microphone was closer to the checker and it would caption everything that person said. I can, you need the microphone. You need to put your telephone on the computer so I can see it. You can't see your telephone, right? Can't see. Well, so you can see my telephone and you can see the captions on it. Oh, here. We see, oh, wait a minute. There we go. Does that help? Yeah. That's what you meant. Okay, and with this particular one, you can spread the captions.  We have caption. Telephone call services also that are apps and that's different than a speech-to-text app. So if somebody would call you, it could go directly by forwarding the call to your smartphone, to one of the programs. Two of the most popular ones are EnoCaption and Olelo and both of them forward. So when the phone, and since I have my cochlear implants, my whole language around hearing loss has changed. So I was realizing when I was engaging with people, how could I explain to them in a way that they could understand that sometimes you're with me and I can understand every single thing. I don't have any issues. And then one other person comes into the conversation and they have an accent or they don't articulate well. So what I started saying is, and it applies to all of us. People with hearing loss live uncertain lives. We never know when we're gonna be able to hear and understand and when we won't. So you need to be prepared and make sure to ask for the accommodations that you need beforehand. Because if you don't and you get to a situation that you're going to and you can't understand, then it's too late to get the accommodation. So you need to look at her. I don't know what things that you're using and telling people if you couldn't understand somebody did you know beforehand to say, oh, could you please face me so I can read your lips? Can you please hand her the microphone? Yes, I can do that. Perfect. And so you're just being this wonderful, nice person. You don't want, and I can't see your name from here. And if I leave, somebody's gonna tell me they can't see me on there. So that she doesn't have to tell you that to make things easier. That's really wonderful. You have trouble communicating by either the cell phone which it does have the program for closed captions or that might be the right term. But she also has a telephone that has a screen that also, but it doesn't always work for how I communicate with her or try to handle plans that we're trying to make. And lucky enough, I live close enough that it's a short walk, so I'm often walking over there to make plans. Okay, so from my personal experience, when my hearing got profound, like pretty much quit using the telephone. And texting became my good friend. So if there was something I wanted to know, I was texting somebody about something and I didn't really have those lengthy conversations that I had beforehand that I can now have. For me, it's like, oh, it's like, you know, I'm a kid and I can't just do it. Now, on the telephones, there are landline telephones that can have captions. And some of them are better than others. And it depends on how long you've had your phone. You might wanna think about upgrading the phone.  Well, after you're using it for a long time, sometimes it can't read those things very well. So the common thing for everybody to know about is to reset your device. Doesn't matter whether it's your phone using the internet, whether it's your smartphone, whether it's your iPad, tablet, laptop, or computer. And to reset it means either you restart it or for your phone, unplug it, usually let it sit for a minute and then plug it back in. And lots of times that clears out glitches that may happen in the phone. So I'm understanding that you're using a landline telephone with captions. We're using cell phones to try to text each other. Well, do you have a app on the cell phone so that when somebody, the captions, so they're the two ones that most people like the best are Inu caption and Olelo. And so when somebody calls me, generally I'm connected via Bluetooth to my phone. And most of the time I can understand everybody. See, I'm never sure. And so I always have them go through my caption telephone and it's captioning everything that everybody says. And I think that the captions on my cell phone are better than the captions on my landline phone. So are you using an app with captions on your smartphones? Oh, so let's work on that. Let's have the, after this meeting, contact me and either I'll come over here or we can meet someplace else, the library and all that create, we'll set that up for you. And then you can see how that works. And something that I'd like to mention to you as the friend, caring loss is not just the physical ability of not being able to hear that sound any longer. It also takes longer to process the sound and it's exhausting. So it's a reminder to everybody that you just need to talk a little slower, a little bit louder and a little slower.  Okay, so then you can't relapse. So then you're stuck. A speech app? Okay, so you need to take that microphone and let me tilt it towards you and then drop it a little, they're perfect. Okay, you mentioned a speech app that you use on your cell phone. Which app do you use? I happen to use Ava, A-V-A. A-V-A. But there are many apps. The reason I use Ava is because I know all of the founders of the company, they were two, three people from UC Berkeley, I know them when they graduated when they were developing this app. And the person whose idea it was comes from a family where everybody's deaf and he's called with a coda, which means a child of a deaf adult. And his whole life, he was always their interpreter and he's French. And he likens the likelihood that it's greater, the likelihood is greater that he would have been struck by lightning than that he can hear in his family. Nobody has ever heard. And so he wanted to direct his fine, wonderful intellect toward helping his family and all of us. And Ava was born. Today of all of the speech to text apps, it is the most robust. So it works on your smart phone. It works on your tablet. It works on your computer. And something that it does, which is different than all of the other apps is it allows multiple people to connect to the same conversation at the same time. And so what that means is, especially during the pandemic where we had to have a six foot distance, right? So all of a sudden none of us could hear because it's past six feet, then you have a mask. So if Kathy, you had Ava on your phone and I had Ava on my phone, it doesn't matter where we are. It shows up as two separate icons where individual people having full conversations. So you can have conversation over distance which you can't do with anything else. So that's why, so some of the other ones are otter. And I just gave a presentation to HLAA Albuquerque on using your smart phone. There's another one called Simply, something that somebody else preferred. And if anybody's interested in that and want to learn how to put that on your phone, just contact me. We'll figure out what works for you and just keep moving forward. So is there another question out there? So, Zoher, I think somebody's trying to give you the microphone back. So this started with the audiogram that started in the back. So what might happen for you is that if you, oh, and if you didn't ask for your audiograms before, lots of people don't think about that. If you're going to the same person, tell them you'd like a copy of your last three audiograms and they have to give it to you if you ask for them. You know who the person is and you're not seeing them, still ask for that. Tell them you'd like to try for hearing loss. So if you're looking there and you're seeing all of a sudden, hey, these major sounds are all down in here. Time to think about something else because more than likely, you're not benefiting from your hearing instrument in a camp. I'd like to know if there's anything you can do about an age related hearing loss. I've been asked to see an MD and I've been told there's nothing they can do so you don't need to see an MD. I thought maybe there was some help I could get so it doesn't just get worse or maybe there's something wrong or is this just the way it is? Okay, so that's a really, really great question. And what I'm hearing is what's the best way, what's the golden rule about how to engage with your hearing loss? So there are two types of people, two categories of people that can prescribe hearing instruments. One is an audiologist and they have the largest amount of training and in the state of California you have to have a doctorate in audiology today. Now you may run into some people who still have a master's that's because they were grandfathered in when the law change didn't require them to update. So the audiologist, the hearing health, oh, excuse me and then you have a hearing aid provider and a hearing aid provider does not have the same training as an audiologist but they're licensed by the state of California to be able to sell hearing instruments.  So they'll look in your ears, you'll have the conversation with them and they're much more the ENT really knows about the structural things. So in their language when they specialize in actually ears is otolaryngologist. Okay, so in your situation, have you been to see an audiologist? Yes. Okay, so the audiologist said, oh, you have hearing loss and the solution we have for you is hearing aids. He also said it's getting worse fast. Okay, so in this place, see where I'm talking about being able to track what's happening to you. So this is an nebulous place. So how do we believe what somebody says is fast? So potentially you could have a progressive hearing loss that's changing really fast and I'm sorry that that would be happening to you, but it is what it is. And at this point in time, no one knows how to regenerate ourselves. We don't know how to do anything to, quote, repair our physiology. So the technology that's available to you, and I don't know right now, but there is conductive hearing loss and then there is sensual neural hearing loss and there could be a degenerative malformation of your ear, which is a whole nother thing. And there's also a disorder where you have a tumor. Okay, so if you were having something out of the ordinary, start your own hearing loss. It's time for you to see an EMT, doesn't that make sense? Yeah, so here you want to give her a microphone a minute because she's still, yeah. I think you said see an EMT, but they don't have it allowed by you, so I need to insist. When you say allow, what kind of, when I go to the EMT office, there's a nurse there that looks at me and when I said, I don't want to see you, I want to see a doctor, she always says, you just have it, no, you don't see doctors, you just see me. So she looks at my ears and cleans it out. I have something wrong that's growing into my earwax is growing into the bone. And I don't know why she doesn't seem to know why. I don't know what, let's talk about this afterwards.  Okay, so everybody needs to remember that, you can get a second opinion. Okay, and so I don't know who you have or what. After we talk privately, I probably can give you some more input. Yes, thank you. Okay, yeah, so here. And if you have otosclerosis, then an EMT can help you actually with an operation, the small operation to restore the conductive hearing loss. But the EMT will determine whether you have a conductive hearing loss or there's something wrong with the poke here. So I'm gonna make a jump here that maybe there are people in this room who don't really know what's the difference between what Zoher's talking about and your cochlear. And I don't have a slide here, but I can probably demonstrate with my hands. So you have the outside part of your ear, which we all see, right? Then it goes and you have your eardrum. So behind the eardrum, before you go into the space that has the cochlea, which would be the inner ear, you have what's called the middle ear. And the middle ear has little bones in them. And the bones go like this. And what they do is they help propel the sound forward to the inner ear. Well, you can, and if you have a problem in this middle ear, it's called a conductive problem. So see, the sound is not being able to conduct, be conducted further into the inner ear. And frequently what happens in that middle ear is that the bones calcify.  And so Zoher was two years ago, you got that? Yeah, so Zoher, in addition to having a sensoroneural hearing loss, also had a conductive hearing loss. And the name of the surgery, if you have a conductive hearing loss with otosclerosis is called a stateectomy. And what they do is they give you little, the little metal components, right, to replace the calcified bones, yeah. And can you tell people how successful that was for you? Who has the microphone? I just want to ask a really quick simple question, what is ENT standard? Oh, ear, nose and throat. And the specialty for ENT for ear, nose and throat that is focused on hearing is otolaryngologist. So I have both, I have a problem in my cochlear and I also had a problem with otosclerosis. So with my operation, now I can hear part of the sounds, the lower frequency sounds. I still have problems with higher frequencies and of course I use hearing aids. But my hearing has improved dramatically after the operation. But otosclerosis is not sensual neural hearing loss related to aging, okay. Okay, so, does anybody have another question, something they want to say right now? But you've got a proper age-related, does that mean it's a genetic problem? Sensual neural hearing loss is the single most common hearing loss associated with aging. Like in case of cell loss. No, Zohair had two. He had sensual neural hearing loss and otosclerosis. So when they fixed the otosclerosis with a prosthesis, it allowed more sound to be transmitted, conducted to the inner ear, yeah, the inner ear. But otosclerosis is genetic. Many people in my family have this issue. And apparently, where I come from in South Asia, it's very common. Okay, so I want everybody to know that we're really, really fortunate to live in a wonderful progressive state called California. And we have California Connect, which ensures that all people who have the disability of hearing loss and poor other disorders as well, can use the telephone the best as possible and you're entitled to a free telephone from this pre-amplified or captioned telephone from the state. Now, all states do not have that. And as part of that program, connected to that program, the California Relay Service, that's what we get our captions, the live captions here today through. So it's something to be really, feel grateful for about our tax dollars. Now, in addition to the telephones, you're entitled to an accessory of each kind that they have. And one that I really would like to bring to everybody's attention is everybody who has hearing loss needs to know that in an emergency, fire, carbon monoxide, the chances are slim, you will get out in enough time to save your life. So the reason is it's so hard to imagine that that shrill, awful sound that you can remember potentially when you could hear better than what you're hearing now, that you cannot hear that in enough time and quickly enough to save yourself. Now, I know that one of the things that many of us might do, right, is stand right under the smoke detector and you press it. Oh, I can still hear that. I've done all these things so I can tell you that I'm not that different than the rest of you.  The pillow covers your habit. Okay, so how would you be alerted? So one of the devices that the state has is, it's a hub. It's called, what's the first word, aware, something aware? Sonical arm, thank you. And it's a hub and they provide that from the state because you can plug your telephone in and if the telephone rang in the middle of the night, it would flash this device. But this device also has accessories and one of the accessories is for smoke and carbon monoxide detector. So I got my Sonic aware from the state and then I purchased, I think for $99, the accessory item for smoke and carbon monoxide alerting and how this works is it's plugged into the device and it's not only smoke with carbon monoxide. The first time this happened, I thought, oh, this is weird but now I'm just, any time it hears unusual sound, it flashes and says alert. So that made me feel great. So if I run my vacuum cleaner in my bedroom, it's going alert, alert, alert. So I know that it's working and you can feel pretty good about it. Kathy. Yeah, I don't know about that. So we have, as part of our outreach, oh, where are they? No, here it is. A driving force from our chapter members and from people who we would talk to in the community when people would ask things. We developed additional brochures. One of them is asked for communication access when you're out, excuse me. Another one is safety for carbon monoxide and smoke.  So please feel free to take these brochures because there's information in there for you. Kathy. I'm sorry. I had a home where I bought it myself. I didn't know you'd get one free. And the lights that went in the outside bought the accessory that fits into the pillowcase that vibrates. So everything vibrates when the carbon monoxide or the smoke from our alarm goes off. Yeah, well, so the one with the state, that's this piece that Kathy's talking about. That is really a funny name. Sometimes it's really even hard to say it. It's called a bed shaker. And so what it is is it's a little puck, like a little hockey puck here. And the one from the state that's free comes with the bed shaker. And that bed shaker happens to be the most stringent. I mean, it really shakes. Some of them aren't the same, yeah. Do you get this free one from the state using the California Access Program? It's called, it used to be called California Telephone Access Program. The acronym was CTAP. They changed names and rebranded. It's now called California Connect. And to become certified, it has to be done by like five different people.  And once you're certified, you can actually have them send things to your house. Now, I personally like to go there. We have an office in Berkeley. And when I was trying out originally, when I had maybe moderate hearing loss, you can, all the phones are for the same level of hearing loss. So you could try the devices to find out which one worked the best for you. So you're entitled to this device. You're entitled to a neck loop. And the neck loops are either a regular neck loop or a blue tooth neck loop. Everybody needs a neck loop, especially if you have a T-coil in your hearing device. Yeah. What do you do if you have hearing aids or a cochlear implant, what do you do with the neck loop around your neck? So let's say you went to Berkeley WRAP and they had FM receivers to give you and they didn't have a neck loop. If you had your own neck loop, you could, it's okay. Oh, I'm gonna take one of these. So all of the receivers are pretty similar. I mean, basically at the box, right? And they all have ports. So what you would do is, and in this case, because this is for a hearing loop, everybody who wears a T-coil doesn't need to plug a neck loop into here because they just activate their T-coil. If you use an FM, everybody needs a connector. So rather than plugging in a headphone here, if you plug in the neck loop there and turn on the T-coil in your hearing instrument, it would stream directly to your hearing instrument. Does that make sense to you? And thank you. Okay. Another reason to have a neck loop is an emergency. You know, if we're in an earthquake, we're in a fire and you can't go to your house and you're in some facility and everything and the chances are they may have some kind of additional communication access for you could be a pocket talker, but they might not have a neck loop. So everybody needs a neck loop in here to go back. You just need to have one. It's okay. Buying my tickets to the Berkeley Red. Do I just show up for it and ask for one of those things or do I tell them somehow ahead of time, I will be coming and we'll meet it? Okay. So I'm a died in the wool advocate. This is for everybody who wants to join me. These were what we made last year. I sit on the national get in the hearing loop committee. I would like things to be better in Contra Costa County. I would like things to be better in Alameda County. Berkeley Rep is not so straightforward about what their requirements really are and it should it be easier. If I were in your shoes, I would call up the ticket office. So sometimes they say first come, first serve. Somebody said first come, first serve to me. I don't wanna pay for a ticket and not be able to hear. Tell them that.  I'm gonna say, oh, what would you like for me to come to this event? I can't attend this event unless and be able to understand unless I can do this. If they have something first come first serve, say, oh, well good. Can you make an exception for me? And then after you've enjoyed what you did, then we could direct time if there were people who were interested in specific venues, improving their accessibility for people with hearing loss. So on their website, they shouldn't have, and I'm not saying they do, what's available. Okay. So we're getting close to the bewitching hour here. And I just like to add, but some places, if you add them in advance, if you are bang up job in providing you with accommodation. So be sure to ask. So next month, we're having a very special presenter and he's a medical student in otolarygology from UCSF and he's conducting a research project on new algorithms for advanced bionics cochlear implants. And they're looking for participants who would like to participate in the research study. And I've already signed up. So I have advanced bionic hearing aids and I'm really curious to help everybody else as much as I can as well as myself. And so this is called a hackathon. And so what it amounts to is you're gonna have one day where you would spend with him and he's gonna try and make other adjustments and then gauge how well you could possibly hear music, to this improve your ability for music and so forth. And I believe they're paying a $200 stipend. And so after our meeting today, I'll send out the flyer for that for all of you. So he's gonna come and talk to us about that. And even though you may not have a cochlear implant or you may even have a different manufacturer's implant, I think it's really valuable for all of us to realize all the work that goes on behind the scenes to make improvements for all of us going forward. So we have that next month. And in May, we're hoping to be able to have one of our chapter members who's written a book. Her book is supposed to be released in June. So we're kind of fence sitting about, we committed to May and we don't know whether it would be better if we had her give the presentation after her book was released or right before. We have the HLAA convention, which is in June. And this year we're fortunate enough that it's gonna be in Phoenix. So we're not having to pay like $800 for our airplane ticket to go back East or somewhere else. So this past year was in New Orleans. Well, we have no direct flights to New Orleans. So it's nice to look at a Southwest airplane ticket for a couple hundred bucks instead of 700 bucks. In May this year, we're having our walk for hearing. And if you haven't come, I'd really love for you to join us. There are hundreds of people throughout. We have three very active chapters in Northern California. One is in Marin, and it's called the North Bay chapter. One is the East Bay chapter, which is in Oakland and the Peninsula chapter that's on the Peninsula. And all of us come together and have a huge walk. And so I believe this year it's, and I have a slide. Like my slides don't want to advance right now. I don't really know why. So then I can't get out of sharing either. So anyway, I think it's May 17th. And so just kind of put that out there and don't worry. I won't let you forget when that day is. We'll keep talking about it every single meeting between now and then. So for all of, for Zoher and Allen and I, we need to know from you is it really beneficial? Did you really like meeting in person? Because for us, and just for us, it's so much more work. And so we want to make sure that, you know, it's something that people value. So if you really liked the in-person meeting, could you just raise your hand? No, never mind. That was hands down a positive response. Okay, so then this worked pretty well. And I'd like everybody in this room to extend our gratitude to our captioner who captioned for us today. And as you can see, the captions must have been fabulous in the state of California for paying for it. And please know that you can contact me at any time. I will do anything within my power to assist you or direct you to somebody who may be able to assist you. And please take any of our literature, including one of our paddles that we have left from the convention that, of course, I afforded. And we'll see you next month. Go out here, you're available to purchase. So didn't you get the meeting announcement?


Hello, hello everybody It takes lots of energy to build a company It all starts with the founders like and their energy Then you have investors and with their money you hire employees and you get their energy But it's not all I mean like there are so many people Like beside you like your neighbor like doing your first intro your buddies doing your first testing So there is so much energy around you that you could use to build a company and you use it you say thank you and You actually form a true fan base who support you and like want to go with you with this journey But they get tired because like if you use them and you just say thank you Why should I help you through the years like? so Every company has a huge team behind it, but in it that energy. It's not properly used It's not properly captured. It's not properly guided So but if you do that you get actually you can actually achieve enormous success It's all it's called community like growth When people around your company help you drive a growth And there are many examples of the companies who have actually successfully did that like Airbnb Figma is a good example at lesion Like they all have focused to build the communities to engage them and grow and if you look at outcome the tons of value have been great it and I mean good examples But What those communities get in return? if you have hell of a good products itself explaining like being Let's say supplier for Airbnb like you are host you get business and that's good enough and Like it's understandable to everybody when you already in the hockey stick face But when you just have started when you are in the beginning before the hockey stick How to get your community engaged in that face? And if you look what happens at the moment why the companies don't use communities enough. It's just because For them you're asking you always asking free lunches What can I get in return if I help you? Usually thank you or Bottle of wine or if it's better thing than a lunch So but yeah, I don't help you for money. I don't need that. It would be like it would be say Inconvenient, let's say after a meeting you hand me a 50 euro But what if after the meeting that important the usual feeling meaning for me I actually give you a share in my company By telling you that like I truly appreciate that you helped me. I truly appreciate this connection I truly appreciate this feedback you give by about my product and in return. I give you a share and If my company will be successful I Have recorded your contribution in history and if my company successful. I will pay you And if I fail No Then your advice wasn't good enough. So you shouldn't get anything like anyway If I'm succeeding I share if I fail zero I mean sounds reasonable But why the hell we don't do that Why there's so few companies who actually give Communities skin in the game Why don't we do that? Because it has been easy Legal it's complicated. I mean what do you feel like? Like all the community members have sharing my community So what you mean like thousands of people in a cap table?  It's legally not allowed to have thousands of people in a cap table There is a solution You can capture it in a way that you can have a contract between you and the stakeholder stating that Become my community member help me and every action is recorded And it's all in the contract and if we are successful we pay and if we fail We don't pay to do that. You can use cause It's a like committee management community engagement tool Which allows you also not only to sign and create those contracts and like share those virtual shares with the community But also helps to engage it like you can define different tasks Bounties whatever you need to get from a community because the community out there actually wants to help you They truly want to help you you just need to give them a chance and you don't need to give them like Understanding what you need so you can turn this picture like all these people around you to this Give them skin in the game and if you give them skin in the game like great things happen There will be more motivation for example our own community every day writes us about our product gives us new leads Gives us more feedback Becomes our testers etc You can try customer loyalty with this Even more we have customers Especially marketplaces who give 30% of the company a way to supply If you think about taxi companies for example, if I'm a driver Why should I drive your company and not Uber or Bolt? If I'm like an artist, why should I put my art in your platform not to another platform? I Think in the near future you can't build a marketplace without giving skin in the game and the action share To the people who are your suppliers So there are great things that you can build like and do together with the community There are great tools out there that can be used to engage your community more But it's not only for startups like what you can also do is Like if you're a bank or telco something big like You can start asking them like how can community help more? Like local governments like you can play build playgrounds together. You can invest in green technologies together so as a community The energy you can get and if it's guided properly the outcome is huge The only problem is that It's not happening with one day. It's not happening with that Like if you start building a community it takes three four months to achieve the first results But I can promise you and like in the name of my customers also It's worth it like having true fans supporting you having let's say 50 up to 100 people To whom you can every day call and ask extra. It's a good feeling so We already have more than one million good events recorded in our system And if you want to read more and if you want to hear more Please visit our web page and join with our community. Thank you


Hey everybody, this is Brett with Summit Auto in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and today I'm excited to show you one of our only Wranglers on the lot right now because they are just selling as fast as we get them in, but we just got this one in yesterday and it's not sold yet, so I was able to get a video. This is a 2021 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon. It's in Sting Gray clear coat, which the paint coat is PDN if you were curious. It's one of the hottest colors on the Wranglers that we've had for the past couple of years now and this particular Wrangler is powered by the 3-liter V6 diesel, which pumps out 260 horsepower. It's going to get you 442 foot-pounds of torque. It's going to get you 26 miles per gallon on the highway, 21 city for a combined total of 23 miles per gallon on this full four-door Wrangler. It is the Rubicon package. It has the LED lighting group, the metal grills, or I'm sorry the metal bumpers on here as well, the metal bumper group, has the color-match fenders, the hard top is an option, has the Nav 8.4 and premium audio group, and we're just going to walk around it here. We're going to get up close and personal check out all the options on it, but just a really good-looking Wrangler all the way around. I like the EcoDiesel logo on the back and it does have the trailer tow group on it, so you get the four-pin, seven-pin wiring, as well as the receiver hitch. Let's go check out the rims and tires. The Rubicon comes with the painted and polished aluminum rims. You get the little red Jeep logo on there and it has Falcon Wild Peak MT tires, so a mud-terrain tire, and these are LT28570R17s on all the Wranglers. You get four-wheel disc brakes. You can see the tread pattern on those tires right there and pretty aggressive tread pattern, which you would expect on a mud-terrain tire. Now the LED lighting group, you get the LED running lights in the fenders. You also get the LED headlamps as well as the LED halo ring around those headlamps. You also get the LED fog lamps down here as well. Now the metal bumper. It's a solid metal all the way across here. Now you can take these side pieces off. That's why they have all the bolts on there. You can take those off so that you get better clearance with your tires when you're going off-road and doing the extreme off-roading. You get the air ducts, which pull the heat out of the engine bay. Air extractors, I should say. You get the Rubicon lettering on the hood. You also get the rock rails on here, which help keep your body on your Wrangler looking good. If you go over any rocks that might damage it, it's going to damage the rail and not your actual body of the vehicle. You can take all these doors off. We'll take a look at the original window sticker. Feel free to pause it. At any point. This is a 2021 Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon 4x4, the 3.0-liter V6 turbo diesel, 8-speed automatic transmission. This one has everything on the left there is your standard equipment. Feel free to pause this. Like I said, Stingray clear coat is 245. The leather trim bucket seats are $15.95. This one has cold weather group, which gives you the remote start, heated seats, and heated steering wheel. The trailer tow and heavy-duty electrical group is $7.95. It gives you the auxiliary switches on the dash, which we'll check out. 240 amp alternated to 700 amp maintenance free battery, the receiver hitch, and the four-and-seven pin wiring. LED lighting group gives you the LED tail lamps in addition to all those LED lights in front, and that's $12.95. The 8.4 radio and premium audio group is $18.95. You get a lot with that group. You get the NAV system with the 8.4. You also get the five-year Sirius XM traveling service, Sirius Guardian for a year, Sirius Traffic Plus for five years, and you get a 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspot. And then you also of course get the navigation for the duration that you own the vehicle. The safety group gives you the park sense and rear park assist system as well as the blind spot monitoring in the mirrors. It has the steel bumper group, which is $16.45. The 8-speed automatic transmission is $1,500. The turbo diesel is a $4,500 upgrade, and then with that you get the 18.3 gallon fuel tank. It has the black three-piece hardtop, which is $13.95, and then the color-matched fender flares are $6.95. Total MSRP on this one is $61.160, and if you want to get your summit price in the upper right-hand part of the screen, there's a link to our website to get all the rebates and incentives on this particular Wrangler through your 36 bumper to bumper. And the other thing that you get with the diesel over the gas is that you get the five-year 100,000 mile powertrain warranty. Now, if this was a gas motor, you'd only get five-year 60,000 mile powertrain, so you're getting an extra 40,000 miles of powertrain limited warranty. So if you put on a lot of miles, that's a nice coverage to have over the gas, and it might be worth it just for that extra warranty on there. So there you're miles per gallon, 21 city 26 highway and 23 average, and front crash test rains are four-star rollovers, three-star, it's not rated for the rest. We're going to get into the interior on this vehicle in just a little bit. I just wanted to point out it has this like mineral gray almost gold bronze finish to the dash. Now, sometimes they have the red dash on them. Now, this is an example of one that does not have that red dash. It has that mineral gray, and that's the other color that the Rubicon has come in. So really a good look on that particular dash. The other thing I like when you get the color-matched fender flares is you get the 3M rock guard on there, which keeps your fenders looking good from rocks hitting up, and it's not going to damage your paint. So it's nice that Jeep is thinking of the consumer and your investment in their product, so that's always going to be nice as long as you own it. Adding to the resale value and just overall value of the vehicle. There are those backup parking sensors. You get LED license plate lights, and then the red tow hook and back. We'll take a quick look at the back seats. Also note those LED tail lamps. We're going to do a walk around at the end of the video with all the lights on, so stick around for that. Here's your subwoofer that comes with the premium audio group. You also get storage space under here, and I like that they did that. The old subwoofers came right in here, and you lost all that storage space underneath there. But now they put them on the side here. It doesn't take up too much space on the side because you still have these bars here, so you get that and you get the space under here. There's your holders for your door hinges, roof, and windshield bolts. Your jack tools are underneath there. You get the painted bars on here as well. Those seats fold down. This is for your hardtop pieces in the front. That's a case for them. To get these hardtops off, there's four bolts on each side, and then two quick disconnects. Those quick disconnects store right there, which is pretty sweet.  You definitely need two people to lift that off that are fairly strong, so keep that in mind. There's a JL badge. You get the two-door, four-door wheelbase and overall length, water-forting, and then it tells you where it's made in Toledo, Ohio. All the people in Toledo, Ohio keep making more. We need them. Make as many as you can and send them our way. Summit Auto and Fond du Lac. We appreciate it.  Heated mirrors, blind spot monitoring.  You get the light tan stitching with the Rubicon stitched into the backrest. You get lumbar on here. They do have side airbags on the seats now, and that is standard. That used to be an option on the JKs. Auto headlamps, telescopic steering wheel, power mirrors, power locks. We'll hop inside so that you can check out the instrument cluster and then the radio. And then we'll take a look under the hood. This one does have the 7-inch LCD display. It does have 517 miles. This was a dealer trade to us. Compass display, outside temp display. This is also, you can see this one's getting 23 miles per gallon, which is right where it was supposed to be for the average fuel economy. So that's a pretty cool that it's just like that. You got a digital spinometer there as well, and you can go through that instrument cluster. There's a million things that you can do on there. You get the leather wrapped steering wheel. Now keep in mind this one is heated because of the cold weather group. Cruise controls on the right. Bluetooth and information center controls on the left. Audio controls on the back. This one has the 8.4 touchscreen radio. It does have the factory navigation system on it, which is right there. You also have your media where you have AM, FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities. Remember you get that serious traveling and traffic service for five years with this vehicle as well as Sirius Guardian for a year. So that's part of this premium audio and 8.4 group.  You also have your heated steering wheel, heated seat buttons, and then you have your backup camera here. And the backup cameras on these are phenomenal. They are crystal clear. Those are dynamic grid lines. So as you can see, as I turn that steering wheel, they turn so you can kind of see where the vehicle is going to go in the future. That center line lines right up with your receiver hitch so you can get hooked up to your boat camper trailer the first time every time without any problems. Then you have all your different apps here, including your off-road pages, which we'll check those out first. They do take a second to load, but there's always a neat little animation that goes with that. And then a sane, maybe lost, but never stuck in a wrangler.  It doesn't work because we're in the picture studio right now, so it doesn't get the satellite, but you can see it also has pitch and roll there, which is pretty cool.  So as I turn that steering wheel, you can see that that changes as well. It tells you if your sway bar is connected, if your front axle is unlocked or locked, and if the rear axle is unlocked or locked. So a lot of cool stuff that you can do with this particular radio when it comes to that. And then finally, it does have the projection manager. You can project your cell phone to the screen via android.oreapplecarplay. We actually did a demo with android.ore if you'd like to check that out. It's in the upper right-hand part of the screen. So after you're done watching the video, rewind back to that part, and you can go check out that video. Heated seat buttons, more tactile climate controls you can do down here.  That's a crawl control. And then down here is your power window button. Now this stuff right here is what makes a Rubicon a Rubicon.   And you can select that. It's just a toggle switch right there. This is part of the towing group. You get the auxiliary switches right there. Then you do get a media center with an AUGS USB and USB-C jack. You get the eight-speed automatic transmission. You get the little jeep on the top there. You have your keyless entry. I do like the new Jeep keys. They're heavy duty. They got the switchblade key fob and it does have remote start on it part of that cold weather group. It says Jeep. It's a big chunky heavy key chain or heavy key fob I should say. So you always know which key you're grabbing in your pocket if you have multiple keys.  You have your home link buttons for your garage door security system, lane systems, auto dimming mirror, and then you get the assist and SOS buttons in the ceiling there which is part of that serious guardian system I do believe. So we'll take a quick look under the hood and then I'm gonna actually I'm gonna start it up right now. We get all the lights on and then we'll do a walk around. We'll start it up, check out under the hood. So I'm gonna start it up right now so you can hear it start and then we'll look under the hood. All right we'll take a quick look under the hood.  You can definitely tell it's a diesel but it is quiet. Everything that you need to take care of is in yellow. You got the washer fluid power steering fluid. Actually that's your power steering fluid. That's your brake fluid right there. That's your coolant. The battery's obviously right there and everything's laid out nicely. The yellow tabs for checking your oil and definitely fits in there nicely. 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History is on the march So the man that brought you to Lucy in the fifth element a classic to me is now back My name is brandy Keith Avery, and this is just my opinion Valerian in the city of a thousand planets. I remember when I first saw this trailer I was like, oh my gosh, this looks amazing. I was like man This is kind of reminds me of the fifth element and then like a few seconds after that a subtitle came up I'm a Luke Besan the director of the fifth element. Oh my gosh I'm on board with this because I love the fifth element and I remember back when I was I think I was in junior high when Yeah, junior high when this movie not this movie, but the fifth element came out and I was listening to K1 on 4 Because I'm here in Dallas or whatever and it was a radio contest and those like Like the radio jockey was like the DJ was like, yeah, you win You won a new tickets to go see Chris Tucker in the fifth element or whatever. Aren't you excited in? He was like, yeah, you know, I'm glad I'm excited because back then no black people were interested in seeing the fifth element Or at least of my world But when the movie came out and everybody saw it it kind of became a cult classic And it's like everybody loved it. Everybody slept on that movie and had you know Their expectations, but the movie ended up being amazing and I love Luke Besan, you know for that movie Also did like Lucy a lot of people didn't like that movie, but I actually had some fun with it So, you know now we're back for Valyrian and the city of a thousand planets when I first heard that title I was like how the hell do you fit a thousand planets in the city? but early on in the film they explained that you know what that means and I like it or whatever and You know what this movie is about is? Just like the title suggests is there is a city that is being built in space and it started in the 70s And what it is is a thousand different civilizations and different species from all four corners of the universe are coming You are bringing represent or rip are bringing people that represent their race and their species over and sharing their infinite knowledge with everybody Everybody's are sharing all their knowledge all their technology Science whatever in one large community and it's just peaceful and just you know imagine, you know How how fruitful that would be or whatever? So they did that early on the film and I really did like that. It's very easy to follow very easy to understand and some mysterious force some this Crazy character from around the way is just trying to destroy all that and that is the base basic premise of this movie The two leads in this movie are Dane Dahan and Cara Deleving I you know, I'm a fan of both of them Carla Deleving. She was in suicide squad I didn't like that movie, but she was also in paper towns Dane Dahan he first popped up on my radar were Chronicle They came out a number of years ago and he was also the hobgoblin or the green goblin or Harry Osborn in the Spider-Man franchise with Andrew Garfield and I'm not Andrew Garfield And what was director's name mark mark way up or whatever and they're the two leads and now I like them There isn't really too much of their character. They do have a cute relationship I do like that. They are a couple Luke. I'm not looking for son Dane Dahan's character a major Valerian he's very confident But a little clueless when it comes to the emotion of women and I like that not because he's cool It's just because they kind of you know makes his character more human when we're watching these people fly around in space You know, that's just something to ground you and give you something to relate to as far as all the effects Concerned this is some of the best that I've ever seen. Well, it's in the league of the best It's not the best, but it's up there if you want to see this movie I recommend you do on the biggest screen possible And I really want to give it to Luke Bassar with his creativity and how he designed all the different aliens and in their Landscape and where they come from and their biology was really creative I mean you will see seven or eight different aliens and species that are just so Abstract and abnormal to anything that we've seen before here on earth and then you know He will give you double that and should be that even more I mean it was a true testament of how you know vast his imagination is Especially in the beginning when he they're showing all these species, you know work together, you know And I really did like that. So the visuals were great. The story itself was pretty good, too You can kind of tell that this is an ongoing series I don't know if this is a comic or a book or both But I can tell if there are more chapters to be told within this franchise And you know if there are more stories to be told hey bring it on because I really did enjoy this One thing that I did not like is this movie was far too long It came in in two hours and 17 minutes and they could have easily shoved off 30 minutes of this There was one scene in particular where one character had to rescue the other and it was fine But it didn't add anything to there was no, you know No new revelation to be had there was no new character development or they found some secret power over here I mean they're just you know flying down the highway, you know looking beautiful on the highway with their wings out so and this is the movie I'm speaking of but then they just pull over to the side of the road You know to make a little pit stop and that pit stop was come Unnecessary there was nothing at that pit stop that was beneficial to keep them going, you know back on the road So, you know, they could have at least shaved 30 minutes off At one point in the film I kind of was like, okay, we're world-building now and they've built the world But what is the plot of this film? What is the point besides who is trying to destroy? The city of a thousand planets because they did not reveal who the villain was until the very end of the movie And they can work sometimes and they can't work in this film. It would have worked better in my opinion if they would have Let you know more early on in the film because there was a point So I was kind of like, okay, we're just kind of sitting here, you know watching the characters, you know Go on about their day, but I really can't grab on to anything. I don't know what the point is I don't know what we're going but overall guys. I really did enjoy the film It is a great nice little at side science fiction action adventure It did give you a great example of future technology and what can be accomplished There was one part where they towards the beginning where they were doing shopping in a different dimension And the contraptions and the devices they use, you know, that spoke volumes to me and I really did enjoy that So it is a it looks great visually I did like the characters for the most part of the story was pretty good too But there were some parts to where I was like, okay, you know, why are we here? What's going on? But overall, I did enjoy the film if I had to rate this out of a one out of ten I would give it an eight out of ten. Yes an eight out of ten But guys that is just my opinion. Have you seen Valerian in the city of a thousand planets? You know, do you want to do not do that? I'll tell you one that I'll tell you off Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know in the comment section below Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing. If you liked this video Go ahead and give me that thumbs up and if you don't like this video, that's fine Just leave me a comment below why and still give me the thumbs up since you wanted to this video on YouTube Go ahead and subscribe to my YouTube channel so you get all the content that I have to buy You can also click that bill so you can be notified when I make uploads and go to my website book market Check me out there and also look me up on social media and guys. It's Friday And I cannot wait on for tomorrow to where the Black Panther trailer will be released via Marvel and Disney on their Hall of H panel the first teaser trailer drop doing Game was in January not January jewel knife doing game for the NBA finals. I was blown away and it was just a teaser So I'm like super duper excited for new footage coming tomorrow. Like I mean, this is my most anticipated movie in life I'm a black guy that movie comes out in Black History Month. This has never been done before. I love Marvel I love comics. I love Black Panther. I mean like seriously, this is my most anticipated movie in life Like I mean, I'm I'm probably gonna cry in the theater or whatever Just be from there my level of excitement if I had a chance. I would love to be on the red carpet with all the fans I mean, who wouldn't you know, whether I'm on the on the red carpet on the side with the fans either Okay, with me But of course, I'd rather be there with the stars And why am I bringing this up because you can help me get there by sharing this video 1,000 times This is a long shot. Yeah, but hey, I'm going for it guys I just want to thank you again for tuning in for my opinion slash review for Valerian in the city of a thousand planets And before you go, don't forget that my name is Brennan Keith Avery. And that's just my opinion peace


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What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here She's talking about Jeepers Creepers 4 in this video here again today Jeepers Creepers reborn now What I wanted to talk about was this idea because I was trying to go back to it in my DM shout out to the person Who had brought it to my attention about this idea of Stu actually being Stu the character from Jeepers Creepers 4 who we know is being played by Peter Brook a movie again I still don't think we'll get to see but let's just talk about this really quick So we can have a discussion in the comment section So what if Stu because I've touched on this like briefly in the past I think like him being a relative of Jack Taggart What if he is actually just a third son of Jack Taggart that we didn't hear about in the second movie now I know many people would jump in the comment section and say oh well How come no one talked about him in the second movie? Well, of course that again is because it wasn't a thing Just like how if you're watching my screen videos, you know Billy Loomis didn't have a daughter So how it's written is what is good of course make it believable. Why wasn't he mentioned? Where's he been? What's what's the relationship going on there between him and his father if Stu ends up being someone? That's a tagger and he's not Jack junior and of course. He can't be Billy He's just a third son not some other type of relative But a third son that Jack senior has that went on to do his own thing He wasn't present in the second movie because of something maybe that went on with a with a marital split Where the wife got custody of this one and he got to keep his other two sons I don't know. You could address something like that and why he stuck around in this town I'm assuming he caught wind of what happened with Billy and maybe he could have developed an interest in Hunting the thing that killed his brother like that because we know the character based off of Peter Brooks Cast interview has stated that he's gonna be hunting those creeper throwing stars in the movie so if there's something that went on where He was with his other parent during the events of the second movie, but still learned about what happened to his brother 23 years later. He's been doing the same thing that his other brother and his father have been doing He's been trying to investigate this thing. He's been obsessed with it He's been obsessed with trying to avenge the death of his brother. He's been hunting the thing that killed his brother He's been collecting the stuff that he can find of the traces of this thing in this area Waiting for it to wake up. He knows it's in his father's barn He just uses these things as a way to profit off of it like collecting the throwing stars Because at one point in the in the interview from Peter Brooke, he does say that He seems to be using it's alluded to from what I got off from what I gathered that he's using the creeper lore to kind of Get his own game from it. So I'm thinking of a financial game That's just speculation of course where he's going around collecting these shurikens and he's doing a lot more than collecting them He's he's profiting off of the creeper lore and he's gonna be forced to confront this legend face to face and find out He's biting off a lot more than he can chew but the idea of Jack Taggart having a third son I think would be something a lot of people will be open to Much people I mean many people probably of course would rather prefer we find out that one of these new cast members in this younger group are Actually the son or daughter of Tricia Jenner or someone else because I know that people still would love to see Aspects of the Cathedral script brought to life in this movie. I just don't think at this point. We're gonna get that I think that There is a strong chance We have something more with the Taggart since we know that the Taggart barn will be present in this fourth movie and that it seems the creeper will indeed get to escape from the barn and He will go on into stalking chase and laying at the whore hound event They'll end up at his new house of pain and we know that's where it looks like a large chunk of this movie will unfold The other thing I want to talk about really quick before I get back to stew There is another court date or some type of conference date That's taking place regarding this hearing for this or garden is lawsuit with myriad pictures versus infinity films taking place in September now it's taking place in September I don't know really what it's in relation to and I'm gonna keep monitoring the link Regarding this filing for this lawsuit because it gets updated every other day or so So this will definitely give us a sign of what we should expect I think when it comes to these releases or maybe just give us some more juicy details about what is going on about The settlement and how this all comes down because it's just very fascinating to go out of The hands of someone who we thought would be giving us a breath of fresh air to finding out Okay, you're you're you're actually holding it down just as bad as the last person So going back to stew when it comes to stew if he is indeed a third Taggart son I'm not saying I would like or dislike it, but I do want to say I'm indifferent to it I would have to be how I have to first this one of those things that I just feel like I need to see how It's done on screen first only because of the fact that we already know Taggart has two sons I think two two sons is more than enough if he has a third and you're able to write a Compelling narrative about it as to why we didn't know about him in the second again the easiest out I'm thinking of it is the fact that we'd also know that of course it takes two to tango when you have when you have kids so with that and that in mind, maybe there was something that happened between Jack and his wife and He has just decided to Let that one son go off with the wife during a divorce or something like that And that's why we didn't hear about him in the second movie. That's a easy fix I think that's the easiest thing you could write to try to rationalize why no one brought him up in the second movie Why would you bring him up when there's something much more important going on that relates to another son that was still in your custody? But now you have this other son who you can say 20 years later after finding out about Billy He grew up obsessing about avenging his brother just like those two did he's been in cahoots Collaborating with his father. He's gotten a relationship rekindled with his brother And he is just trying to help them take out the creeper when it awakens all these years later in that barn on the Taggart wall and he could of course be helping them profit off of it by collecting these throwing stars and taking the profits to his father Maybe the maybe dividing the profits between his father and his mother if that's who Peter Brooks character turns out being Would you want to see something like that? Do you think that this is actually Jack Taggart's third son that is going to be involved in this movie? Do you think the movie is even gonna come out? That's another thing I want to hear about in the comment section If you do think the movies are gonna come out I do want to say this Do you think this is the end of the franchise at this point or do you think there is still a chance? We'll get that fifth movie and if we get a fifth movie, who would you want to see it from would you? I know none of you want to see it from this same team. None of you any of you I would say within your right mind don't want to see it from Victor You don't want to see it from the same team You want to see it from someone who's gonna do it the right way and make sure they are able to actually, you know Make this movie the appropriate way without having to face or worry about potentially facing Lawsuits because there's this is ridiculous But let me know what you guys think about that down the comment section below the idea of Stu being a Son to Jack Taggart his third son that we never knew about part of a mist part of a misfire marriage But let me know all that down in the comment section below if you haven't of course make sure you subscribe turn on post a case You're in this video in your script I have links for social media accounts on Facebook Twitter and Instagram you can message me there Of course limiters any movies news or views let me to cover in the future with all that in my guys I will see you in the next video