5 Best Ways to Succeed at a Lifestyle Business in 2022. Hey, welcome everybody. In this video, I'm going to show you how to start and run a lifestyle business, exactly what you need to do, what the businesses look like, and how you can succeed. Don't forget if you haven't subscribed, hit that subscribe button down there right now. And don't forget, bring the bell, turn on all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I go live, or if I upload a video. Okay, so we've seen it, right? We've seen the person sitting on the beach, playing on their laptop, but there's a little bit more to it than that. That's why in this video, I want to walk you through all the steps and give you the businesses that you can actually do without experience and make money online and live that laptop lifestyle. Now, first off, why do we want to do this? Why do we want to live this lifestyle where we could travel around the world? Well, it's mostly because of freedom. I know I do it myself. I work from a laptop.  And if that interests you, you're going to want to watch this video to the very end because I'm going to not only give you ways to do it, but a lot of these ways I've done myself and I'm currently doing, and I want to share those with you. Now the first way is to create and sell digital products. Now, I've done a lot of these myself, and they can include anything from ebooks to software to whatever you want to create and sell it online. I have courses, I have memberships, and all these are digital products. So let's dig into this a little bit more. You can create Instagram photo filters and presets. Now I had a friend who was teaching photography online, and he has since sold his business for millions of dollars, but he started off selling presets so that people could buy these presets and apply it to the photos that they've already taken, and they don't have to do all the adjustments. The next thing is website and store themes. A lot of people start a website, but they need a theme for that particular store, and a lot of people are going out there now creating these themes and actually selling it to other people. The next thing is digital courses.  As a matter of fact, you'll find the links to those below in the description. Digital courses are great because you can sell them over and over again. You spend the time and effort and maybe a little bit of money to create it up front, but then you can sell it to a multitude of different people. Then of course, I've already mentioned eBooks. EBooks are amazing because you do it one time and you can sell it over and over again, and there's no cost to deliver it to a person. You just send them a link. The next thing, number two, is to work as a consultant or a freelancer. Now there are a ton of sites. If you're worried about getting business, you don't have to worry about that. There's sites like Upwork and Freelancer.com, and you could go to one of these sites and just put your services there and start going to work. It's a great business, and especially if you have skills, maybe you're good at accounting. Maybe you're good at sales. Maybe you're good at building websites or SEO or whatever your talent is. You can put those talents in one of these marketplaces and people will hire you. Here's the cool thing. If you don't have the talents, you can get them. You can go on YouTube or you can take a course and you can learn these talents. Anybody can do this stuff. There's no reason nowadays for you to go to a job when you can just work online. When people were surveyed on Upwork and they asked these freelancers, why do you do it? 78% of them said flexibility. They could work when they wanted. They could adjust their work schedule around their friends and family and really get more out of life. Another fully 73% said geographic flexibility. In other words, they could work from wherever they want. I've done this too. That could mean the deck of a cruise ship if you want. Another 73% said that the reason they do it is it gives them work that they actually feel passionate about. They can work on things that they want to work on, not on what somebody else wants them to work on. Of course, consulting, and I've done that too, where you have a talent in a particular area and you charge for a Zoom call or you charge for a phone call or you charge to give them information about their business and analyze it for them. Consulting is a great business. Number three is becoming an influencer or a creator, which I am right now. I'm creating this video for you and you're watching this video and you're getting information out of it. I actually get paid to do this because ads run on my channel and I have affiliate links below. People click on those links and I make money. There's a lot of ways you can make money as an influencer or a creator. Maybe you actually want to do commercials for other people's products on your channel. I see a lot of creators doing that too. It's another way to make money and it really doesn't matter where you live. The next one, number four, is create an e-commerce business. E-commerce is great and it's just growing and growing. I think we've all been kind of trained to sell online in the last, I don't know, maybe eight or ten years. But the past couple years with the world illness, we've all found out that buying online is the way to go. So many people were all worried about their privacy and credit cards before, but the fact is if somebody gets your credit card and uses it online, nine times out of ten, your bank's going to go ahead and take it off your bill anyhow. People just don't worry about that anymore and they are buying more and more online and that's something you can take advantage of. Now I actually own an e-commerce business called survivalkfood.com and we sell survival foods. We've been selling survival foods for gosh, going on 12 years now and it's been incredibly profitable for me and it's allowed me to travel where I want, when I want. I've built up that brand. I have other websites now that buy that product from me and sell it to their customers and if you were to Google survivalkfood, you'd find millions and millions of hits for it and it all started from just an idea. You can come up with an idea like that too. You can start any kind of business you want. The point is you've got to get started though, if you're watching this video and you're going to put it off again, don't do that. You want to get started. That's the biggest thing that holds people back and the funny thing is like an e-commerce, I started off selling cell phone cases initially and that did very poorly. I didn't make any money but I learned how to sell online. I learned the steps of what to do. Now that I have those talents, I could apply those to any product. It wouldn't matter and I could actually make money. You can do this too. e-commerce is a great way to go. Now if you're thinking at this point, well JR, if I do e-commerce, I have products and I've got to pack them up and I've got to ship them out and I've got to give them to a post office and I've got to send them all around the world. No you don't. I'm actually a drop shipper and I drop ship our products for other companies. A lot of these companies online that buy and sell our products, never touch them because they send us the order and we actually ship them out. Drop shipping is a great way to go. All you have to do is list that product on your site, find somebody who's willing to drop ship it and then when you sell it, you collect the money, you buy it from them and they ship it out. This can be done with a multitude of different products including t-shirts and mugs and blankets and whatever you want to do. There is a drop shipper that's willing to send out products for you. And my last idea for you is number five and that is create a book. A book. I'm working on another book now and I've got several books, but books are great because they can be digitized, okay? So maybe your book is going to be printed out. Now I have a book that's on Amazon called The Great American Food Shortage. You're welcome to check that out. It's a great book. I predicted that we could have a food shortage if there was a worldwide event like a pandemic or something like that. They thought I was crazy when I wrote it, but it did very well in the past couple years as you would imagine. But that's one book and that book still sells every single day. I have a print on demand version of that on Amazon where when an order goes through on Amazon, they actually print it and ship it out to the customer so I don't have to touch it. Now we do have a physical office so I do have books in the office and we will ship out books from the office too. But I also have audio versions of that book. And people can actually download the book and listen to it that way. And don't stop at one book, okay? A lot of people say, well, I'm going to write a book and I'm going to get rich.  I have a friend who does e-books and they're all short books, maybe 20, 30 pages. He has hundreds of them on different subjects and he makes a really good living selling them on Amazon and through his own website. So selling an e-book is a great way to make money. So let's walk you through the steps real quick. If you haven't taken notes, you want to go back to the beginning of this video and look at all the ideas I've given you. Now, a lot of people think, well, I've got to pick one idea and hope that idea works. When you don't, you may want to create an e-book and you may want to do some freelance stuff and you may want to do some consulting and you may also want to do some dropshipping. And there's nothing to stop you from doing several of these. I've given you five different ways to make money online in this video. And I'll tell you, they all work. It's really a matter of what you want to do, what really interests you. Select the ideas that you think are really good for you and just move forward. This is the biggest thing that prevents people from succeeding online is they don't move forward. Or when they do move forward and they have a couple obstacles, they just quit and they back up and they go back to their job or whatever. Don't do that. No, don't do that.  And I think the thing that will keep you going more than anything else is the fact that other people have already done this. Okay? I've done it. When I started my business in 2009, it's getting to be a long time now. When I started in 2009, I couldn't type. And truth be told, I still can't type. But I didn't know anything about selling online. I didn't know anything about sending emails. I didn't know anything about websites. And I just learned it. And you can learn any of this stuff too. I hear people say, well, I didn't grow up with technology.  If you were alive during technology, you grew up with it, okay? Because they're older and the technology wasn't there when they were a kid that it wasn't there when they were growing up. And it was. It's just that maybe you chose not to adapt it or embrace it. Now is the time to do that. Doesn't matter what age you are. I've met people in their 70s and 80s working online. I've met teenagers working online. And everybody in between, they're all doing really well. At least the ones I know. I don't know the ones that aren't doing well. I don't know those people. But anyhow, if they can do it, you can do it. And I think that's the mindset that you have to grasp. Because you've got to look all around you. You've got to see all these people making money. And if you see them doing it, you can probably do it too. Now don't compare yourself. I see people compare themselves. I have a lot of videos on this channel. Over 1200 videos. Some people have 200 videos and they have 20 times the audience I do. But some people just do one or two videos. And they expect to succeed. And it doesn't work that way. You just got to keep trying and trying and making mistakes and making mistakes. Oh my gosh, that's great. If you make mistakes, you're going to figure out what doesn't work. Figuring out what doesn't work is almost as valuable as figuring out what does work. Because if you figure out what doesn't work, you know not to do it in the future. And that's very valuable.  So embrace the mistakes and keep going. 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The Mysterious Traveller. This is the Mysterious Traveller, inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little. So settle back and get a good grip on your nerves. If you can. Where are we going? Are we going to call on Edward Farrington and his three sisters?  Edward Farrington and his sisters live by themselves in a large gloomy old house on the outskirts of Boston. It is evening and Edward is on his way home when his attention is attracted by a small establishment which is advertising a close-out sale. An economical and foresighted man, Edward stops his car and enters the dimly lighted shop. Good evening, sir. May I serve you? I'm not sure. I saw your sign and it occurred to me that by purchasing now something I'm sure to need sooner or later I might save a substantial sum. You are very foresighted, sir. Now here is a design I can recommend unreservedly. A simple white column, yet cut from the finest Carara marble. I see. The angel on top is of a single piece with a shaft. It can never be dislodged or separated. In every inch, in every line, it expresses dignified grief. Yes, I agree with you, but I'm afraid it's too expensive. What are these stones here in the corner? These. They are our simplest designs, polished granite cubes with just enough room for the name and the date. They are excellent memorials, but I am sure in the long run you will get greater satisfaction from something more appealing to the eye. No, no, I think these will do excellently. Yes, they're just what I had in mind. I'm particularly pleased by the fact that they're all alike. I see. You wish all four of them, then? No, not four, just three. Three will quite prepare me for all eventualities. Will you be able to store them for me until they're needed? Yes, we can store them at our main warehouse, if you wish. Excellent. I suppose I might as well give you the inscriptions to be carved on them while I'm here. You can leave room for the dates to be added. Of course, sir. Then if you'll just take this down. In loving memory of Florence, sister of Edward Farrington. Yes, sir. In loving memory of Martha, sister of Edward Farrington. In loving memory of Emily, sister of Edward Farrington. Yes, Emily. You're all wet. Yes, it's beginning to rain. Let me help you with your coat, Edward. I'll hang it up for you. Now, Emily, please don't fuss over me this way. It makes me nervous to be poor, that. But I just want to help you with your coat. I can hang it up by myself. Emily, is that Edward? Oh, Edward, you're late. We were worried about you. I'm here, and I'm perfectly all right, Florence, as you can see. Now, is dinner ready? Oh, yes, Edward. Martha has everything ready. Martha, Edward told us.  We were worried about you. Martha, I've told you not to worry if I'm a few minutes late. Well, I suppose we just can't help it, Edward. Now, we'll eat. And perhaps after dinner, you will play the piano for us. Oh, will you, Edward? Please, say yes. Please, Edward. Well, we'll see. I really should work on my symphony tonight, but perhaps I can play for a few minutes after dinner. And so, after dinner, Edward played for his sisters on the great piano in the library. Emily and Florence crowded close to him as he played, and Martha, busy with her knitting, sat and watched them with fond gaze. That would lovely, Edward. Would you like to play some more? Yes, something we can sing. Well, all right, just one more, and that's all. It's just thunder. You mustn't jump like that. It can't hurt you. I know, but I can't help it. I like thunderstorms. I like to watch the lightning. I think that's enough for tonight. Now off to bed, both of you. All right. Good night, Edward. Good night, Edward. Good night, Emily, Florence. Well, I suppose I might as well go to bed myself. No, Martha, don't go yet. I want to talk to you. To me? Yes. What about Edward? How old are you? How old? I'm 35. No, why be silly about it? I'm 37. You want to get married?  I shall never marry Edward. I promised father that I'd look after things and keep the four of us together as long as we live. And I will. As long as we live. But perhaps we'd be better off if we weren't together. You can't mean that. But I do. I need solitude in which to finish my book and my symphony. It's very distracting, you know, to have the three of you constantly hovering about me. You're just feeling blue tonight. I wouldn't be happy without us any more than we would be without you. No, we'll all be together, the four of us, as long as we all live. Now, now I'm going to bed. Good night, Edward dear. Good night, Martha. We'll all be together, the four of us, as long as we live. As long as we all live. In the morning, Edward was still raiding. After breakfast, Edward shut himself in the library to continue work on his symphony. And Edward played well, Emily. Edward, you're a wonderful player. Let's listen a minute before we go upstairs. Do you think he'd really mind if we went in? If we just sat very quiet. I don't think so. We'll be very quiet. It's you two. We're sorry, Edward. We didn't mean to disturb you. We'll go right away. No, you don't have to go. You mean we can stay, Edward? For a minute. I'm going to stop for a smoke. I'll bring you the cigarette. Oh, the cigar box is empty. Empty? Why, I was positive. I had plenty of cigarettes. That's why I didn't buy any yesterday. You did have a lot yesterday. I saw them. Well, they're gone now. Then I suppose I'll have to drive down the hill to the drugstore and get some more. And that will mean I'll get nothing done this morning, nothing whatever. I wish I had someone I could send for them. Edward, let me go for you. In this rain, why, you'd get soaking wet Florence. Well, I could take the car. Take the car and weather like this. But I'm a good driver, Edward. You once said so yourself. And I have a driver's license. You know I have you help me get it. Yes, that's true. Be very careful, Edward. Well, you must promise to drive very slowly down the hill to town. Oh, I will, Edward. All right then, Florence. Here's the key to the car, the old car car. Now be very careful. Oh, I will. I promise I will. May I stay and listen until Florence comes back? Well, I suppose so, seeing you're here already. You don't like us to be around, do you? Sometimes I think you don't like us at all anymore. Oh, that's nonsense. It's just that I'm trying to get a great piece of music written, and you keep disturbing me. Oh, there goes Florence in the car now. She's going fast. Florence likes to go fast, and then step on the brakes. She promised to be careful. I know, but she forgets. Well, I'm sure she'll be all right. Now I must get to work. Well, I'm perfectly comfortable, Martha. I don't need a jacket. You mustn't take chances. Here, put it on. Oh, all right. Emily, where's Florence? Is she up there? Oh, no. She's gone to get Edward some cigarettes. Gone out? In this rain? Edward, let her take the car. Edward, you didn't. Martha, please don't get excited. She can drive, and she promised to be careful. But you promised never to let her drive alone. You know how she drives, and there's someone with her. Really, she's a better driver than you think. There's nothing to be alarmed about. She'll be back any minute, and then... I'll answer it. No, it's probably for me. I'll answer it. Hello? Yes, this is Mr. Farrington. The police. Edward, what is it? Hush, Martha. What about my sister? She did what? All right. Yes. Yes, of course. I'll be right down. Edward, what is it? What's happened to Florence? Martha, we must all be very calm. Florence has had a terrible accident. Oh, no! The brakes of the car apparently gave way at the bottom of the hill. Florence ran off the curve and crashed into the rocks there. She was killed instantly. The official investigation into poor Florence's death established only the fact that the brakes had failed. But the brakes had only been checked the day before, as Edward proved to the police.  Edward, however, could not dismiss it from his mind so easily. Edward, you can't go on like this day after day, brooding about poor Florence's death. Oh, my dear, I blame myself for if I hadn't ever taken the car. I know, Edward. Why don't you try to work on your symphony? It'll help take your mind off Florence. No, no, I can't possibly do any work on that yet for a while. No, but I have another notion. I think I'd like to write our family history. Oh, family history? Yes, and it seems to me that once in Mother's old trunk in the attic, I saw a lot of letters that were written to her by relatives. Are they still there? Why, yes, they are. I'd like to look them over. They might help me get started on my history. Will you show me where they are, Martha? Why, yes, of course. We'll go up to the attic and I'll get them out for you right after lunch. Here are the letters, Edward. I wrote a lot of letters those last few years. After the doctor said she must never leave the house. Yes, I remember. How quiet and dark it is up here in the attic. We used to play hide-and-go-seek here, the four of us. Yes, until Mother died. I've often wondered about that. She fell from one of these attic windows, I remember. She was leaning out, looking at the river, and she slipped. Yes, it was that window there. The one looking down into the courtyard. I'd like to look at it. The catch is stuck. Will you help me open it, Martha? Well, all right. There. It's almost 50 feet down to the courtyard. She was killed instantly, wasn't she? Yes, but let's close it now. In a moment. Martha, did Mother really slip and fall, or did she throw herself out? What makes you ask that? I was only eight at the time, but it seems to me Mother was wondering badly in her mind there at the end. And then I recollect hearing Father say something about an asylum to Uncle Jordan. Edward, you mustn't say that ever again. It would terrify Emily. But it's true, isn't it? Yes, it's true. Poor Mother. It's strange you calling her Mother because she wasn't really your Mother. No, but I always think of her as Mother. I was only two when Father married her. Let's believe that she slipped. It would be easy to slip from this window, wouldn't it? Well, the sill isn't very low. Yes, but lean out a little farther and see how easy it would be. No, a little farther. You see how overbalanced one becomes? Yes, yes, you're right. Now, help me back, Edward. Of course. Martha, catch yourself. Martha! Poor Martha. Well, tragic death, coming so soon after Florence's, was a great shock to Emily and Edward. But Edward recovered from the tragedy somehow after a few weeks, and as though determined not to let it upset him, spent many hours a day at his beloved piano, working on his projected masterpiece. That was wonderful. You played just like you used to before Florence and Martha died. Yes, I'm getting my old touch back. You don't mind my coming in to listen, do you? Not today, but Emily, you have been disturbing me these last few weeks. Must you follow me around all the time?  And now that Florence and Martha are gone, I haven't anyone else to talk to. Yes, I know that, but I can't get any work done unless I'm left in peace. I can't bother you any more, I promise. You know, I do miss Florence and Martha. Of course you do. But just the same, it's been awfully nice having you all do myself as they went. I'm afraid it's very lonely for you. Oh, no, it isn't. I like it. Yes, but I think we'll have to get a housekeeper. She'd be company for you and she'd look after things. In fact, I'm going into town to interview a housekeeper today, a Mrs. McDonald. You'd like to go with me, wouldn't you? Yes, Edward. We'll take the car and have a nice drive at the same time.  Now, how would you like to go out and get the car started for me? Get the car started. Yes, I have to tend to a few things before we go and the motor needs to warm up. It's not working very well. Oh, Edward, do you think I could start it? Of course you could. Just turn on the switch and step on the starter and then let it run until it's good and warm. All right, Edward, may I have the key? Yes, here you are. Now, this is the ignition key. And use the little side door to get in. I'll unlock the big doors when I come out. I can pretend I'm driving it. Will you belong? No, just sit in the car and wait until I come. All right. I am Emily. I took longer than I expected. I hope you hadn't been sitting here with a motor running all this time. Emily! Emily! With Emily's unfortunate death from carbon monoxide poisoning, Edward Farrington was left quite alone in the great old house. His neighbors saw little of him, though they could hear him at his channel for many hours each day. They knew, however, that a week after Emily's funeral, he hired a housekeeper, Mrs. McDonald, to take charge of the house for him. Now, Mrs. McDonald, this is your first day and before you start, I'd like to explain a few things to you. Of course, Mr. Farrington. As you know, I've suffered the tragic loss of all my sisters in the past few months. Oh, yes, sir. A great sorrow it must have been. But they do say tragedy has come in threes. Indeed they seem to. But I'm sure I'll be quite comfortable now with you to look after me. I surely hope so, sir. I'm certain of it. Now, I'm a rather moody man, and I'm working upon some music for which I have great hopes. Yes, sir. Above all else, I wish to be left alone. I do not want to be disturbed. Is that understood? Quite, Mr. Farrington. You may call me at mealtimes. At all other times, I prefer that you do not even enter this part of the house. I understand. Good. That's all I think. Just put up with my little oddities, and we'll get along very well. Yes, sir. Then I'll see about the ordering for dinner now, sir, if you'll excuse me. Now let me see if the second movement needs touching up, so perhaps I'd better... What is it, Mrs. McDonald? I thought I said I was never to be disturbed. I'm very sorry, sir, but there's a gentleman come to see you at Detective Barnes, sir, from the police. From the police?  Well, show him in, I suppose I must see him. Yes, sir. Will you go in, sir? Thank you. Good morning, Mr. Farrington. You remember me, I think? Yes, yes, Mr. Barnes, I remember you. In view of the number of ridiculous and unnecessary questions you asked me after the death of my poor sisters, I have good reason to remember you. I've come to ask you more questions, Mr. Farrington. Tell me, did your sister Emily have a driver's license? I really don't know, and I don't care. You should care. Listen to me. First, your sister Florence died in an auto accident when brakes that had just been inspected failed to work. Even modern automobiles aren't proof against mechanical failure. Then Martha died in a fall from an attic window. Her body landed in the courtyard, a full six feet from the wall of her house. Well, what of that? It was much too far away for her to strike, unless she leaped or was pushed. And you have said she didn't leap. I repeated she did not leap, she fell. Perhaps. Now we come to Emily. She died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a closed garage. Well? You have said it happened because she went to get the car out to drive you downtown. That was your statement under oath. And a perfectly accurate statement. But I have just learned from the neighbors that Emily didn't know how to drive a car. Well, of course she could. Furthermore, they say her mental condition was such she could never learn to drive. Well, perfectly absurd. Did she have a driver's license? I repeat, I do not know. Because if she didn't, your statement is false. And if any part of your statement proves false, Mr. Farrington, I trust I make my meaning clear. Mr. Barnes, you can't show one jot of evidence to back up your ridiculous suspicions. Any court in the land would laugh at you for them. I can show no direct evidence. But there is such a thing as circumstantial evidence. You haven't even any circumstantial evidence. I have a world of it.  Well? Martha's body falling so far from the building that she must have been pushed. Mere conjecture. Finally, Emily dying in a car she couldn't drive. Though you have said she was going to drive you downtown. And she was. You've done nothing but build a tissue of fantastic suspicions. A jury will take them more seriously. Especially when they learn that just before the first death, you bought three tombstones, one for each of your sisters. That shows what you were planning. It shows nothing. It was a sale. I was merely being foresighted. Then, Mr. Farrington, why didn't you buy four stones? One for each of you. I refuse to discuss the point.  No normal reason, perhaps. Though now that you are alone, you are living very comfortably on the income from your father's estate. Indeed. Furthermore, Mr. Farrington, I have checked on your family history. I know the truth about your unfortunate mother. Well? The fact concerning her might cause the jury to look differently upon you. It might influence the jury to bring in a verdict of murder while of unsound mind. Get out. Get out of this house, you here. You can prove nothing. Nothing whatsoever. All right, Mr. Farrington. I'm going. But I'll be back. No. No. Wait. I'm ill. Help me. I... Here. Here. Sit here. It's my heart. There's medicine in my desk drawer. There. But a small bottle. The desk here? Yes. Here's the blue bottle, is this it? Yes. Hurry. There's water in the thermos jug. Yes, I have it. Here's the water and a pill. Swallow it. Yes. Thank you. That's better. The pain is going away. Then, Mr. Farrington, I'll be on my way. I warn you I'm going to check as to whether Emily had a driver's license. Today is Sunday, so it may take me a few hours. But if I find she had no license, I'm going to return with a warrant for your arrest. No. There's no need for that. Of course the poor simpleton had no driver's license. I should have thought of that. I should have thought of that.  Certainly I did. Why shouldn't I? She annoyed me. Me. A genius. I'm afraid a jury won't care whether you're a genius or not, Mr. Farrington.  A genius is not answerable to the laws that bind other people? The law does not agree with you. The law? What do I care for the law? You think you've trapped me, don't you? But you haven't. You hear you haven't. I think I have, Mr. Farrington.  No one is going to put Edward Farrington in an asylum. No one. In a minute I'll be beyond your reach. What do you mean? I mean that tablet you so obligingly got for me is a deadly poison. Poison that I bought months ago. You and your circumstantial evidence. You're never going to get a chance to use. Never get a chance to blacken my name but Detective Barnes. Yes. What is it? Promise me one thing.  This is the mysterious traveler again.  You know perhaps Edward made a mistake after all when he didn't buy a fourth tombstone. By the way, did you live in a gloomy old house with three sisters who love you so much you can't bear to have them near you? Well, if you do, I'd advise you not to be too drastic with them. You might find yourself buried right beside them as Edward was. I know another man. Oh, you're getting off here. I'm sorry, but I'm sure we'll meet again. I take this same train every week at this same time. You've just heard the mysterious traveler, a series of dramas of the strange and terrifying. But before we tell you of next week's exciting story, here is Maurice Tarplin, the mysterious traveler himself with a brief but vital message from your government. You all know that the stories we tell on this program are just stories designed to entertain you, but not to be taken too seriously. Or what I have to say now, however, is not a story and is deadly serious. All over the world, people are starving. The United States and other food producing nations are fighting a battle against famine. To win, food stocks must be conserved. You can help conserve them by canning and preserving food for your own use. If you have a victory garden, put up as much as possible from it. When your local markets feature an abundance of fruits or vegetables suitable for home preservation, can or preserve a winter supply and release that much commercially canned food for the starving. You can serve your sugar for canning purposes. Follow the wartime rule of one pound of sugar to four quarts of finished fruit. And be sure to use only safe, tested methods. If you want information on any phase of home food preservation, write to the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington 25 D.C. Thank you, Maurice Tarplin. In addition to Maurice Tarplin, today's cast included Eric Gressler, John DeGarde, Anne Teeman, Inga Adams, and Martin Wilson. Original music was played by Doc Whipple. The Mysterious Traveller is written and directed by Bob Arthur and David Cogan. Listen next week over most of these mutual stations to a tale titled, As I Lie Dying, Another Tale of the Mysterious Traveller. The Mysterious Traveller is presented by the mutual network from our New York studios, Russ Dunbar speaking. We're tuned to this station for another exciting crime drama, True Detective Mysteries, which immediately follows station identification. 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Ukrainian army ready to break flank, Prigozin said that counter-offensive would begin on May 2nd. Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozin threw a real tantrum over the fact that the Ukrainian soldiers are about to go on a counter-offensive and there is no one to cover his mercenaries. According to Prigozin's press service, he believes that the armed forces of Ukraine will go on a counter-offensive after May 2nd when the rainy season ends and the wind dries up the soil. Today is raining. The last rain is due on May 2nd. It takes another week for the wind to dry the soil. After that, the Ukrainian army will be ready to move. Will they do it on May 9th to ruin the holiday? Maybe yes. Maybe not. Maybe not so. It's only here in Russia that everything is done on holidays on March 8th and May 9th. The armed forces of Ukraine are ready to completely go and cut the flanks. No one covered our flanks, Prigozin said. He stated that all these talks of the RF Ministry of Defense about supposedly covering Wagner's flanks are completely nonsense. Moreover, neither the Wagner nor the regular troops of the Russian Federation are given ammunition. Prigozin considers this a decision of the criminal command. In addition, Prigozin complained that Wagner's human resources were allegedly drying up due to losses and the release of mercenaries. The information space was filled with news about the expected counter-offenses of the armed forces of Ukraine. However, a limited circle of people knows about the true plans of the army. Recently, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced events that will give the Ukrainian armed forces more weapons. Zelensky said that Ukraine is actively preparing new military brigades and units. Ukrainian intelligence said that Ukraine would never agree to give someone part of its land and the war would end with a return to the 1991 borders. According to the forecast of intelligence chief Kirill Budanov, the armed forces of Ukraine will enter the Crimea in the spring.


Tech-A-Wai, civil engagement lives here. And welcome to likeable science here on Think Tech-A-Wai, I'm your host Ethan Allen, glad to have you with us. Join me by phone and some video, well not video, picture today is going to be Dr. Oswath Rahman. Oswath has joined me again, he had been on the show a few years ago with the most amazing discovery I thought at the time that I had ever heard of. Dr. Rahman is a professor or assistant professor at University of Pennsylvania, also the co-founder and chief science officer of a group called SkyCool Systems, and we'll see what SkyCool is all about. Welcome Oswath. Thanks, happy to be here again. Excellent, excellent. So Oswath's background, why don't you tell us a little bit about your background and how you got started in this whole business? Sure, well I, academically at least, I became very concerned about climate change and the energy challenge that we were all facing about a decade ago now, and I decided to go get a PhD and I did my graduate school in applied physics at Stanford, which is on the west coast of the US, with a particular focus on thinking about the question of how we can better make use of light and heat, and that was sort of my entry point into this whole topic area. The research area I actually pursued is a topic known as nanoscale botanics or optics, but simply it's the idea that we can make things with features on very small length scales, so much smaller than a human hair or the wavelength of light itself, and in doing so we can induce some very unusual interactions between these artificial materials and light, and it turns out heat as well, so that was kind of my entry point into all of this, you know, in a larger sense. Right, and it was amazing what he has come up with, it almost seems like a violation of the laws of physics, although of course it isn't, but the idea is that he, Oswath has developed a surface that is highly reflective, but in a very limited band, and Oswath recently did a nice TED Talk and explains this extremely well, and in TED Talk it's well worth watching for anyone who wants to see this, but basically just as we all, anything that is visible is reflecting light, everything reflects light and reflects heat too, and Oswath cleverly manipulated matter to have that reflection just as we can paint something in a different color and it looks different, he painted as it were a surface with a structured substance such that it reflects light out in a very narrow band of I believe the near infrared that our atmosphere is very very transparent to, right, so none of this comes back in, right? Yeah, and so we can actually see that in the first slide I have, so people should be able to pull that up, it's actually not part of the spectrum that's known as the mid or far infrared, and to, yeah, to really understand this, you know, maybe just kind of stepping back, all objects, including you and I and the walls around us and the buildings, the earth itself, we all radiate heat as a kind of light that we can't see.  Now, what's interesting about our atmosphere is that if you were a surface pointing yourself up towards the sky, you would send up some of you this heat as infrared light because you naturally do that because you're at a certain temperature, it's kind of a basic physical law. However, some of that heat escapes as you pointed out, and we can see that in this slide because in what we plotted is what's called a transmission window. This transmission window effectively allows some of that heat to escape and it's between 8 and 13 microns at wavelength, so this is a much longer wavelength than visible light, the light that we can see. Now, what makes all of this very exciting and interesting is that what's outside the atmosphere, so what this transmission window leads us to, is space, and if you go to the next slide, you'll see that the fundamentally enabling component of the technology I'll describe is the fact that what's outside our atmosphere is very cold and minus 270°C or minus 454°F, so that's a very cold temperature. It's the ultimate cold thing, it's the ultimate place to send heat, but what people don't realize is that we can actually access this in some way and it's as simple as literally just stepping outside and pointing yourself up towards the sky. So if you, as an individual, were to step outside right now, the top of your head is actually radiating some of its heat to space and that's just something that naturally happens all the time. Right, but the difference is at the same time during the day, of course, sunlight is pouring energy down onto the top of your head, right? And that counterbalances it. Right, exactly, and this concept, because of that, people used to call this concept night sky cooling, meaning you would only observe it at night when the sun isn't there. So this happens naturally, especially on clear night. So if you were to go and measure the temperature of your roof at night for some reason, you would see that it's actually below the air temperature because of this effect. Now, during the day, as you rightly point out, during the day, the complication is that the sun usually completely overwhelms this cooling effect so that people had traditionally thought that it was not a useful idea during the day. And technologically, this is, of course, problematic because during the day is when we need something coldest the most. Right, and this is really not, it's not brand new science. You describe in that TED talk that you do that some of the folks in the Middle East, in ancient times, would actually put out shallow pools of water on clear nights and actually be able to harvest ice from that. Yeah, it's kind of remarkable. It's, you know, before the advent of modern ice making machines, people used to have these dedicated facilities or building just to make ice. In northern parts of our world, these ice houses usually would involve just getting natural ice that formed in the winter and storing it through the summer months. Now, in many parts of the Middle East, it rarely actually got below freezing. But they were actually able to take advantage of this effect to make ice, usually during the winter still at night. And the way they did it, as you described, is you'd have these shallow pools of water and you would basically pour the water out as the sun set. And at night, you would actually, that water would freeze. And the early morning hours, the people who would run these facilities would collect the ice, chop it up into pieces, and then store it in kind of underground in these facilities that would stay relatively cool all the way into the summer months. So you could, you know, have ice cream in the summer in ancient Persia. So people were pretty ingenious. And, you know, I have to emphasize, it's very unlikely that folks that were building these necessarily understood the science behind it, but they understood the effect. They saw it happen. Someone really observed it naturally happening and said, Hey, why don't we, you know, I see frost form on the ground. Why don't we use this to make a lot more ice, you know, more systematically. Yeah. And it's, I love the story also that you told building your first nanostructured surface and putting it out on the roof of building in Stanford. You talk about that in that in that TED talk, and realizing when you when you touched it after it had been out there for a while, that it was cooler than the surrounding air. Exactly. So the, you know, when I started working on this is around 2012 or 2013. And the whole idea was that, well, I actually kind of started from a basic question, which was, why, you know, why wasn't this actually being used as a technology? Like, what was the fundamental kind of scientific roadblock here? And one thing I realized was an issue immediately was that it didn't work during the day. And so that kind of led to the advent of the school project. And we eventually came up with a design of an artificial material or structure that we could use conventional technologies that already exist to actually deposit and fabricate. And the funny thing about this kind of lab experiment is that you can't actually do it in a lab, you actually have to go outside and, you know, face the sky to see if it's actually doing what it's supposed to do. So these kinds of experiments are pretty funny, because you basically go on a rooftop somewhere, and you know, put your material out there to face the sky, and then you see what its temperature is. So that's very first time, you know, I was, it was the first time I was actually running the experiment. So I wasn't sure it was actually going to work. I figured there'd be some problem or thing I hadn't thought about. But amazingly enough, the, you know, I just left it for half an hour, I came back up on the roof. And here, as a scientist, you're probably not supposed to do this, but I decided to just touch it. And it was, you know, very cool to the touch immediately. And I figured, Hey, this is probably working. So that was pretty exciting. It was probably one of the best, you know, research moments I've ever had in my career. Yeah, because because that does does seem up to break in a common sense, sense. The basic, everything that sits in the sun gets warm. I mean, we know this from our common experience. There is nothing that gets cold when it sits in the sun, right? Yeah, so it was, it was really counterintuitive. And, you know, I would do this, I would do this demo for people where I would essentially, you know, shade it. And you would think, Hey, it'll get cooler, but it would actually start warming up. Counterintuitive. Amazing. Yeah. And yeah, it's one way to think about what we did was we essentially, it's like we took the sun out of the picture. And it was like we were basically returning to what would happen at night, because we were reflecting almost all the sun's incident energy. So we avoid this getting heated up by the sun. So that was kind of the, you know, the moment of insight and the kind of the thing I think that we thought made this technology really compelling, because now we had something that got cold below the air temperature throughout the day. And there's very few things out there like that. This is utterly amazing technology indeed. Oswath, we're gonna have to take a short break here, one minute break. And for our viewers out there, I'm Ethan Allen, host of think of likeable science here on thick tech. My guest is Dr. Oswath Rahman from the University of Pennsylvania and sky cool systems. And we'll be back in one minute. Are you tired of sleep walking through life? Are you dreaming of a healthier, wealthier, happier you? You're not alone. And that's why thousands of people tune in each week to watch RB Kelly on out of the comfort zone Tuesdays at 1pm. Make a change, get the help you need and stop sucking at life. The army were going to go live. Hello, it's 1pm on a Tuesday afternoon. 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Another episode of a likeable science with your host, me, Ethan Allen, and my guest joining us from the University of Pennsylvania today is Dr. Aswath Rahman, who has developed this utterly astounding coating or material that reflects so much of the incoming radiation from the sun that it actually gets cooler than the surrounding air when it sits in the sun. And we want to now look a little more deeply into sort of how it does this, why it does this, but even more importantly, where does this lead us, Aswath? Where do we're going to go with this? Yeah, that's a great question. And it's actually something we thought a lot about many years ago as well, especially once, you know, we got it to work. I think there's there are a few kind of interesting observations. You know, just thinking about it from the technological perspective, what is this technology strength? Well, it works 24 hours a day, it can get passively cooler than the air temperature. And it doesn't require any water. So it's non evaporative. And, you know, to the extent that people care about this, it's it's also silent. So it's not a noisy machine. It just is just sits there and it gets cold. When we when we saw the kind of the advantages of the technology, we started thinking about how we might actually use it to tackle the specific problem of air conditioning and refrigeration. And that became the focus of a lot of our efforts. Right, because you point out that air conditioning and refrigeration systems involve a huge amount of energy expenditure from our country and from the world around us, something like 15, 18% of the energy current that we currently use is goes into cooling things. Yeah, it's around that. And I guess, specifically, it's electricity, I think, maybe not energy in total. But globally, yeah, it's about that. And I think what's, what's kind of scary about it is that our energy use for cooling is expected to grow about six fold by the year 2050, which is which is only about 30, 32 years away. So it's not that far away. And most of this growth right now is not coming from, you know, Western industrialized countries, but it's really coming from Asia and then many African countries as well. You know, a lot of them, a lot of equatorial countries and countries in East Asia, get very warm in the summer, folks want to have the benefits of air conditioning and certainly refrigeration for, you know, their food system. So it's completely understandable that this kind of this is like one of the first technologies that someone arriving in the middle class wants to purchase. Now, the problem from a kind of system level, however, is that right now these systems contribute to about 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. And if this trend goes, that's a that's a big increase in greenhouse gases. And some people have pointed out that if our planet gets warmer, which is widely expected to get and has been getting, you know, the warmer it gets, the more we're going to run those air conditioners and the more they're going to put greenhouse gases at the atmosphere. So there's this nasty feedback loop that we might initiate and perhaps we've already initiated it.  And so this technology that you have developed has the capacity to cut into that one, sort of several different ways, right? Yeah, I think there's there's a lot of different potential ways we can we can tackle the problem. We realized that one of the most important things that we needed to do first was figure out how we could couple this to today's air conditioning refrigeration systems. In the long run, there may be ways of designing buildings to really take advantage of these kinds of materials that we're making. However, in the short run, you know, we have a large amount of cooling systems that exist already. And, and it's not likely that there's going to be a dramatic shift in how we use these systems within the next 10 or 15 years. So we wanted to be able to tackle the problem that exists today and right away. The strategy we went about is to actually build what we call fluid cooling panels using our materials. And if you go to the next slide, you'll actually see some pictures of these panels in operation at a field field trial in Davis, California. So these panels, essentially, you should think of them as being analogous to solar water heaters, flat plate kind of solar water heaters, not the evacuated tube variety, if you're familiar with the different kinds. However, we use our specialized films to cool the water instead of heat it up. So that's what you're actually seeing in the picture. Exactly. So you, so you essentially have a sky water cooler, if you want to think about it that way. I mean, just to emphasize, we're not using the sun at all, where the sun is actually a bad thing. We're typically, actually, we're typically tilting our panels slightly to the north away from the sun. The, so the really remarkable thing about this that, you know, we, there, that we realized was that we could actually scale the film pretty quickly using existing processes, manufacturing processes. And that we were able to kind of rapidly go from something that was very lap scale to the prototype products you see right there with our startup sky cool systems. And the the panels you see there, for example, about three by six feet in size, so they're fairly large. And that means they can actually reject a meaningful amount of heat. Right. So then now you've got this cool water, which you can then use in any sort of a cooling system, right? Right. So you've now got essentially, you know, a closed loop way of rejecting heat and keeping something colder than the air temperatures. And that makes it entirely unique in the space of existing cooling technologies. So it's been, it's a very kind of compelling ability that technology has. We think the most direct way to use it is as an add on to today's HVAC and refrigeration systems. So the main way to I think, think about this is that that every cooling system has, which is called a condenser. Right. And if you if you the basic idea in a cooling system is that you're actually taking away heat from somewhere else, heat flows from hot to cold. Right. So in a cooling system, there's an inside part, which is called an evaporator, which draws the heat in. The heat is then and there's a refrigerant, which is then compressed, and then taken up to a higher pressure, which then allows us to reject that heat outside. Now typically this condenser, to be able to reject its heat to its ambient environment, needs to sit at, you know, 10, 20, even 30 degrees Fahrenheit above the air temperature to be able to efficiently get that heat out. Our panels connect in on that side to keep that condenser at a lower temperature. And what that means is then that that compressor has to do less work. It uses less electricity to deliver the same amount of cooling for the person who's sitting inside. Okay. Okay. I see. So you've got sort of an assistive device then for existing air conditioning systems. Right? Yeah. And I think the it's perhaps one way to think about it is this is probably the way to immediately get this idea into its most widely applicable use case and to really tackle the largest variety of systems that exist today.  All the way up to the commercial and industrial scale. So the cooling systems that are used to data centers in supermarkets and cold storage warehouses, these industrial scale systems, they all work under essentially the same principle. So any of these systems can have an efficiency boost with our panels and interfacing with them as an add-on. So, you know, no, you don't have to completely change your system. We can just serve as this efficiency boost. And what's remarkable is that efficiency boost can be 10, even 20 percent. And for folks that work in this industry, that's a huge number. We often face a lot of skepticism when you say something like 10 or 20 percent because, you know, usually there's not any technologies, if any, that can deliver that kind of that boost. So there's, I think there's been a tremendous amount of interest we've seen from people across the whole kind of spectrum of use cases cooling systems. Right. And then the nice thing that is, that gets your technology out into a broader public. More people will come aware of it, right, and will understand that there is this sort of odd exception to the universal rule that everything that sits in the sun warms up, right? Everything that sits in the sun except for the sky cool systems warms up. And then you can really begin to play with that system in other ways, right? Potentially. Yeah, definitely. I think there's there's a lot of potential directions you can take it from there. You know, there there have been third party studies that have been done by national labs in the United States, which have showed that if you use panels like ours in conjunction with higher efficiency internal cooling systems inside a building, you can actually boost or better phrased, you can reduce the electricity used for air conditioning in particular in a commercial office building by two thirds. So that's that's a huge number on it on that space. And it's not only our system, but you also want to take advantage of a lot of other efficiency technologies that have come into the market in the last few decades.  So these are you can think of them as sort of the indoor version of what we're doing, where instead of radiating the heat to the sky, you're drawing the heat from the people and objects inside the room to a ceiling tile where there's essentially water flowing through it. And that water can then be pumped directly to our panels, which then cool it back down and recirculate it back into the system. So that's, you know, that's a it's actually a well understood technology. It's been around for decades. It doesn't have a huge amount of market penetration in the US yet, but it's increasingly finding its way into a lot of high efficiency buildings. So there's a really neat opportunity for us to pair with these kinds of panels to perhaps go entirely passive, so zero electricity. Right. This is the beauty of this whole thing is that ultimate sort of here it is zero zero power AC, basically. And suddenly you don't need to be burning fossil fuel contributing to greenhouse gases. You're getting air conditioning for free from the sun, right? From the sky, the sky, right? Sorry. Right.  I was just going to wrap this up here by saying what you've done is really taking you're taking advantage of this tremendous temperature difference between the warm surface of the earth and the utter cold in the depth of space. And you are channeling heat very efficiently away from the earth into that sort of infinite cold sink, right? Yeah, exactly. And I just wanted to mention if you go to that very last slide, you can actually see the full deployment we had in Davis last summer, where we actually hooked up our panels, both with commercial scale refrigeration systems, as well as air conditioners where we were that's where we were demonstrating the 10 to 15 percent efficiency improvements that I mentioned. So, you know, that's just a plug to say that this is just kind of a pie in this kind of idea. It's, you know, something we've managed to reduce to something that is pretty much a product and ready to test out in the market. And yes, the ultimate way this is enabled is that we're taking advantage of the fact that what's outside our atmosphere space and it's very cold. This is this is amazing. This is to me it's sort of mind-boggling that you've done been able to do this and that you've taken it here just a relatively few years ago from when I first spoke with you to now and scale this up gotten out into commercial format that's practical, that's being applied. I can graduate you for that. I'm I'm in awe of your of your capacities and your abilities to do that. And I look forward to getting back here maybe another two or three years and seeing what's what you've done with it after that. Thanks so much. I really appreciate it. And, you know, the thing that excites me the most is that as much as you know, weird technologies going out there now into the marketplace there's there's just a lot more science here as well. There's so little we understand at this point about how to really leverage this phenomenon, what its limits are and what if other use cases might be there might be opportunities for water conservation power generation that we don't quite understand. So I think there's on both fronts a lot of exciting things to come. Excellent. Well, thank you so much. Dr. Aswath Rahman from University of Pennsylvania and Sky Cola Systems was our guest today on Think Tech. And I hope you'll come back next week and join us again. Till then.


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