Communicating with people that you don't know who they are. I mean, that's you're not going to grow unless you're reaching out beyond your sphere Right, your sphere is only going to maintain your business Listen, there's a lot of people who build their businesses that way, right? There's a lot of people who build their business on the back of Facebook and Instagram and YouTube I mean, there's people who literally crush YouTube and like their whole business is built on like YouTube and these different platforms And that's all fine and dandy. Like there's so many different ways to to succeed You know, I will never judge anyone who is doing something that works for them And I'm definitely never gonna say oh the way that I do it is the only way, you know, I'll never hear me say that I mean, you'll you'll you'll actually hear me say quite the opposite like I'll say listen I don't this this, you know, I don't know if this is the best way I just know that this is the way that I did it so like so like my purpose is just to share What worked for me and if somebody can take like little bits and pieces of what I do and Mold it into something that works for them great If they do every single little thing the exact way I do it great If they take one little thing or if they look at the whole thing and decide that's horrible That's never gonna work or they try it and it doesn't work and they go do something else It does work. It doesn't matter to me Even the people that come through and look at my content and coaching program and try it It doesn't work and then they go try something else that does work for them great My little my coaching program was a step in the part of their process trial and error Right to get to the thing that would work Okay, so I helped them get there, you know quicker by giving them something else to try and test out There was this huge Easter egg party or like Easter egg hunt that an agent put on and at the Easter egg hunt The agent did like, you know registered to win something like some big giveaway or something, right? And he asked for their name their phone number their email all this stuff, whatever it was and This new agent, right? She went there. She's like, oh, I'm gonna register for this just to see what happens Just to see what he does with it I'm gonna register for this just to see what he does with this and she said that all he did with that data Was friended her on Facebook. He didn't try to call her. She didn't get any emails. Nothing It's like that guy has names phone numbers emails and all he did was friend her on Facebook He's trying to like automate the business and slide around the fact that you actually have to talk to people to make anything happen I don't care what you do as long as whatever you do is producing enough phone numbers of people in your market to call from 9 to 12 every day That's all I want and if not then just get red X geo leads and get Property owners in any subdivision and then call them all day from 9 to 12. You know what I mean? I don't care if you use Facebook as long as you it keeps you on the phone every morning You're not gonna grow unless you're you're reaching out beyond your sphere, right?    You look at the number of agents There's like 1.5 million agents in the u.s. And there's 350 million people okay What is that like point zero three percent of the population? Come on guys Don't even focus on getting offers accepted focus on one thing How many people you're gonna call every day from 9 to 12 and create relationships with in your market? Thank you I don't care about offers and listings in 2023 you're not gonna care what you made in 2021 You're only gonna care about what you make in 2023 and the amount of money you make in 2023 is only gonna be predicated on What you do now in 2021 to build your database and get your name out there you're planting the seeds now for 2023 But we're sitting here focused on how do we get offers accepted? We're entering into Very uncharted waters because normally at this at this point in the market Builders are and we do we do see an a huge uptick in new home starts right permits to build new homes are up And needs to be up and needs to continue to be up to supply the demand And what's gonna happen there because we have new home starts up is it's gonna create inventory later because we've got people Who are gonna upgrade to these new homes and then they're gonna sell their home So like you know six eight months down the road towards the end of this year You know theoretically we should see a nice little bump in inventory right now, but that's that's just a slight little bump It's not gonna like take care of the the overwhelming demand that we have you know what I mean But we're just in an interesting place because as the market cycles happen when we're at the top of a cycle when a bubble starts to happen, you know One one key sign that we've always been able to look at is the fact of how much money Builders are making on their houses that they're being built right but what's so interesting about this moment right now is lumber Went up 200% since last year right lumber went up 200% since last year You know inflation on lumber is through the roof So we're in very uncharted waters right now plus we have a monetary policy and interest rates look You know they're talking about not doing anything for a couple of years They could change their mind tomorrow, but I mean this is like this is wild man This is like watching a soap opera to me man. I just I really enjoy watching this whole thing go down Right, let's create those relationships so that we can possibly gun on the other side of that equation where We're representing the seller looking at the 15 offers instead of being one of the 15 offers But you are you do get in the position where you have to represent the buyers too So there's no way around that part of it as far as mental toughness there it's like take you got it you got to redefine what your definition of like results are or Succeeding like what is what is your definition of success on a daily basis or a monthly basis or yearly basis? You know you really got to kind of redefine that because for me it's not and I mean it used to be Transactions, but if I could go back that's one thing I think I would really you know switch is the fact that you know I should have been more focused on just building my database and like not care through your journey of saying okay I'm gonna add five new people to my database every day that I've actually talked to through that journey of doing that you close So many deals just by default and the reason why I'm going so deep with that is because That is such a key component to your growth It is such a key component to your growth and actually being able to go from 50 to 100 deals You know without that strong backbone of your business, you know handling all the back-end stuff The way it needs to be handled opens you up to go do more business if you don't have that in place You cannot get to 100 deals. You know what I mean? So as long as that is solid then here's what I would say whenever I hit 600 I wanted to make a million right so it was more dollars for me for you It sounds like it's more transactions like you're at 50 and you want to go to 100 So it was like three more years after I made six that I got to a mill when I wanted to do it that next year And I became frustrated but the thing was is I was doing all the right stuff I just didn't realize that I needed to just keep going and be patient and it would come It is a gradual thing.  It was definitely gradual


Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime. We got a couple stories to talk to you about today. I don't even have loaded up on my computer yet, but that's alright because before we get into these stories, I got to remind you we are giving away a Nintendo Switch OLED. That's right, if you would like to win a Nintendo Switch OLED system, all you have to do is be subscribed to the channel. That's it. We will actually announce the winner in a stream in early October. First up today, we got to be talking about Bayonetta 3. Oh yeah, baby. Bayonetta 3 is supposedly coming out on Switch at some point. It was announced back at the Game Awards in 2017, but we haven't really heard anything about it since outside of the director of the game, Kamiya, coming out and saying, hey, it's going to come. It's developments going well. Well, today they were pressed in an interview by Video Game Chronicle, and here's what Kamiya initially said. He said it was more of a not definitely something will come out this year, and he's referencing when he kind of inferred that it might get announced this year. But if there is a year, then something should happen, right? If you remember last time, I said that even though everyone was asking about Bayonetta 3, maybe you should tell everyone to forget about it for a while. I kind of need to keep to that stance for now because ultimately it's not our decision what to say and when to say it. And this is in reference to when he noted earlier, this is Nintendo's game and Nintendo is in control of all of the marketing and when it's time to talk about it. Studio Head Atushi also chimed in and said, there's no need to worry. Don't worry about it at this time. Everything's okay. Then Kamiya further clarified by saying, as much as everyone is clamoring to see it, we are really, really waiting to release it too. Everyone who is working on the project is of course very proud of what we're doing and wants everyone to see what we're doing. As much as fans are waiting for it, we are waiting for the day when we can show it. We want everyone to cheer us on as we run to the final stretch. We want to show it too. What's interesting here is obviously a couple of things. One, that the Bayonetta 3 team is just, they're getting kind of anxious. They really want this game to be shown. They want to show people what they've been working on and Nintendo hasn't let it happen yet. That's obviously got to be a little bit frustrating as a development studio. Another thing is that he mentions that they are running to the final stretch which means they're in the final stages of finishing up this game. Bayonetta 3 is in the stretch run to be incomplete which obviously heavily suggests this game is coming out next year. Well, that is if Nintendo wants it to come out next year because obviously at this point they're literally waiting on Nintendo now it's possible. Nintendo is going to show this off at the next Nintendo Direct. Maybe they're going to show it off at the Game Awards which is where it was announced back in 2017. So there's still opportunities for them to show it this year but it certainly sounds like at least to my trained ears or my untrained ears whatever you want to say that by the time we're at this point next year the game is done. So yeah, we'll have to wait and see but I have high hopes that Bayonetta 3 is going to come next year. I think it's just a matter of when is Nintendo going to be willing to talk about it and why have they waited so long to show it in the first place. Now Nintendo did wait a long time to show off something like Metroid Dread and reportedly by the time they showed off Metroid Dread at E3 it was already done and had gone gold which is why we've been seeing so much about it all the way up to launch year. So maybe they're waiting for the game to go gold but Nintendo doesn't typically always wait for games to go gold I'm not even sure if I buy that argument that they're just waiting until it's 100% done because they don't usually do that. I mean, Zelda as an example. Shin Megami Tensei 5 when they finally showed that at E3 the game wasn't actually finished yet. So yeah, there's a lot to consider here and the way Nintendo is choosing to market or not market this game at the time but yeah, Bayonetta 3 is coming quite confidently I feel next year. And so the last story or really the only other story in this video is dealing with the fact that there might be a Switch price drop next year. Now, I did talk about this yesterday on the Nintendo Prime Podcast so if you saw that episode there isn't going to be really much new here although I have some direct translations. Bottom line is I don't speak French and all of this information is coming from a French account known as Nintendo's who has actual retail sources and it's quite interesting. So the exact tweet at least translated according to someone on Reddit because again, I don't speak French and Google Translate can be really bad it says Nintendo Alerts Nintendo Switch consoles set to drop from Monday and sell around 270 euros this is the first drop since release in March of 2017 and then further clarification comes from a reset era user who said source is a very reliable deal Twitter account with proven retail sources A price cut of the Switch will be officially announced Monday cutting from 329 euros in France to around 270 euros a price cut this big is unlikely to be tied exclusively to a single region as it would be priced significantly below every other territory so it's likely going to be worldwide this would be about 50 to 60 euros meaning the Switch could be sold at $250 USD starting next week now it's notable that the tweet just says it's set to drop from Monday and sell it doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to drop the price on Monday it could be that they're going to announce the price drop on Monday I have no idea that is just what Nintendo Alerts is saying and this is obviously a massive deal just as looking to the future of the pricing strategy for Switch consoles obviously dropping the price of Switch isn't going to matter for people that already own it when you're looking to buy a Switch now you have a $350 option in Switch OLED $200 light and a $300 in your base model and by the way I've always been of mind that the OLED is going to replace the base model and I almost think this price drop supports that notion because let's say it is $250 this holiday Eric actually brought this up on the Nintendo Prime Pocket and said well why would it be $250 so they can get rid of them so like when they're done when they decide they're done manufacturing the base model Switch they can sell out of it quickly and then drop the price of the Switch OLED to $300 and that just becomes the new base model of Switch and this is a strategy I thought Nintendo was going to implement for a long time I would have been nice if they would have implemented it the day of launch if like Switch OLED was $300 at launch and then $250 for the base model Switch and there was a pricing snuffle with Walmart way back in July like on July 17th or something there was a big issue where Walmart was actually refunding people $50 on Switch OLED pre-orders a lot of people think is it an error in their system is Nintendo going to drop the price well they haven't dropped the price but the point is that it does make sense for Switch OLED to eventually be $300 within the next year and Nintendo has to look to stay price competitive with everything else that's appearing on shelves around them I know Nintendo doesn't always care what their competition is doing and that's true but they also have to care about mindshare and the way their product is perceived by the public when it is around those other competing products which presumably at some point Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 will be readily available on store shelves we hope we think maybe not I have no idea we recently talked about how shortages could be going all the way to 2023 but the bottom line is Nintendo does care about that perception they want to still be that budget family friendly for everyone gaming platform and when other platforms that are for more hardcore people are almost around the same price it does make things look a little wonky for Nintendo's strategy so long story short yeah, I honestly think this is going to be something and it's something that is going to be, I think, a pretty big deal in the grand scheme I know there are some people that mentioned that they might be cancelling their Switch OLED pre-orders because there's a $100 price difference I also could say that those people that are good by the price drop version of the Switch that hey, you could just, I don't know wait for the price drop on Switch OLED next year but again, this obviously presumes this price drop is even happening this is just coming from one person it's a reliable person it technically is only announced for France so we're presuming that it will be a worldwide thing but we don't actually know maybe it's just something special in France again, lots of unknowns here but it does seem pretty likely that a Switch price drop would come at some point here and you have to remember this holiday it would be like the fourth holiday for Switch having a price drop around this time does also make logical sense you could argue because of how well the Switch is selling maybe it doesn't but also if you want to maintain momentum increase momentum having a new model come out to one thing but also decreasing price of old models is another now obviously we want to see price decreases for Switch Lite I will, you know, if you're going to make only a $50 price difference I feel like Switch Lite should be dropping to $150 I always felt like $150 would be a nice spot for the Switch Lite especially since I don't have Nintendo selling a lot of Switch Lite anyways and then you can start to see a nice pricing strategy of $150 you know, $250 and $300 then again, I also think the base model Switcher is going to get out of here and eventually that higher price $350 mark or so will be used for something like a Switch Pro I know, I know even mentioning the word Switch Pro probably got some dislikes but we have to remember the Switch OLED is basically just a Nintendo Switch XL and last time we got an XL model of anything was the 3DS and one year later they dropped the new Nintendo 3DS so it's not unprecedented to still think a pro could happen next year not saying it will not saying we have any new information or any new details and if one is going to come next year the smoke will start flaring up at some point next year in the rumor mill just like it did this year before OLED so again, we'll have to wait and see on that front it's also possible Nintendo says screw it and next gen begins in 2023 and then you can start the question do you even buy a Switch right now because the new gen is going to be out in 2023 and you're just wasting your time and your money and I always say this buy the system if it has enough games that already justify you owning it don't worry about what's coming down the line don't worry about a new model, don't worry about the OLED don't worry about a pro or new gen don't worry about what's already available because if all you worry about is what's already there you're going to be happy with your purchase day one if you worry about what's to come or what's been promised to come and you buy things on future promises I know this is literally how Sony sells PlayStation 5s right they promise you future games but what happens if those games not only get delayed end up not being as good as you hope they are you might end up regretting your purchase don't worry about that if you wait till there's enough games already there to justify you spending your money then it doesn't matter if it was a price drop it doesn't matter if new models come because you should already be happy because the same reasons you bought that system still exist just because a new model is out just because there's new games coming that doesn't change why you bought the system I don't know that's just my free advice to all of you guys thank you so much for tuning in I am Nintendo Rubber Jants from Nintendo Prime oh by the way I know I got some feedback during the podcast but I'm actually curious how the audio is and if you guys can notice the difference from this compared to prior videos we do have these new lavalier microphones here's one that Eric would use it's got a lot thicker cord and obviously see the size of that mic this thing is massive maybe I'll hold it up against the screen this thing is huge this mic is not turned on right now but the one that clipped to me is I'm just curious if it was worth the investment these were not cheap lavalier mics these are some of the most expensive ones on the market actually to be inexpensive doesn't necessarily mean better we did a lot of research before we bought these they seem to at least review really really well in comparison to the ones we were using but obviously you guys are the ones that had to listen to me in your ear so I mean especially you guys running headphones let me know I care very much about providing quality audio that's why we invest the money we do in our setup in the set and everything because we want to provide excellent video and excellent audio especially we always want our listening experience to be as good as it can be alright folks that's it bye


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Please stay on because we're about to come to the award presentation of the McLean Prize and I'd like to take this opportunity then to introduce Kenneth Polanski, who is the President of the UChicago Medical Health Systems and Dean of the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine and the Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs who will be introducing Dr. Bernie Lowe, our this year's well-deserved McLean Prize winner. So thank you all very much for a great panel. Good morning. Thank you all for joining us for the University of Chicago's 33rd Annual Dorothy J. McLean Fellows Conference on Clinical Medical Ethics. The conference is named after Mrs. Dorothy Jean McLean, the matriarch of the McLean family and a great supporter of education programs at this university and at many other universities around the United States including Colorado College, Smith College, Yale University and Dartmouth University. Dorothy McLean always believed that education was the best way to improve the world. Today marks the tenth time that the McLean Prize will be awarded. This $50,000 prize is one of the largest prizes in the field of ethics in the United States and was established in 2010 by the McLean family to recognize physician scholars who have made transformative contributions to clinical medical ethics and to healthcare in general. Previous winners of the prize include the foremost scholars who have made clinical medical ethics the robust field that it is today including doctors John Wenberg, Peter Singer, Susan Toll, Laura Roberts, Norman Fost, Paul Farmer, William Foggy, Stephen Miles and Mark Siegler. I now have the great honor of introducing the recipient of the 2021 McLean Center Prize in Clinical Medical Ethics, Dr. Bernard Lowe. Dr. Lowe is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Director Emeritus of the Program in Medical Ethics at the University of California, San Francisco. He is also the President Emeritus of the Greenwell Foundation which funds medical ethics research. He has received many recognitions for his scholarly contributions and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Lowe and his colleagues have made fundamental contributions in several areas of bioethics. They conducted empirical studies of decisions regarding life-sustaining interventions and showed that patients with serious progressive chronic illness wanted to talk to physicians about their preferences for life-sustaining interventions if they became unable to make decisions for themselves. These studies provided justification for advanced directives and advanced care planning. Dr. Lowe and his colleagues have also studied ethical issues in research. In basic research they made recommendations regarding consent for derivation of human embryonic stem cell lines, consent for future research with induced pluripotent stem cells so-called IPSCs, prohibitions of reproductive cloning using IPSCs, and broad consent for research with biological materials. In clinical research Dr. Lowe and colleagues have made recommendations for responsible sharing of clinical trial data and regarding informed consent in randomized quality improvement trials carried out with electronic medical records. In public health Dr. Lowe and his colleagues have analyzed how to balance respect for individual liberty with protecting others from harm during public health crises. During the HIV epidemic Dr. Lowe and colleagues made recommendations on practice restrictions on HIV-infected health care workers, parental refusal of interventions to reduce postnatal HIV transmission and the legal issues regarding routine universal prenatal HIV testing. During the COVID pandemic Dr. Lowe and colleagues analyzed the allocation of scarce resources under crisis standards of care in the context of triage of critically ill patients, allocation of remdesivir and modifications of cardiopulmonary resuscitation policies. Dr. Lowe is the author of Resolving Ethical Dilemmas, a Guide for Clinicians, which released its sixth edition in 2019. It is a comprehensive textbook on ethical issues in clinical practice. Dr. Lowe continues to care for a panel of primary care general internal medicine patients. We are honored to present Dr. Bernard Lowe with the McLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics Annual Prize. Dr. Lowe's lecture today is entitled Clinical Medical Ethics. How did we start? Where are we headed? Please join me in welcoming Dr. Bernard Lowe and in congratulating him on his outstanding career accomplishments. Thank you. Thank you very much, Dean Polanski. Thank you also to McLean family and to Barry McLean and to Rachel Kohler, the chair of the McLean Center Advisory Committee. And most of all, thanks to Dr. Mark Siegler, a good friend and a towering inspirational figure in medical ethics and academic medicine. In terms of conflicts of interest, I'm a member of the Ethics Advisory Committee for Takeda Pharmaceuticals. I want to start by just celebrating the accomplishments of the McLean Center under the visionary leadership of Dr. Mark Siegler. McLean Center identified clinical medical ethics as an integral and essential part of medicine. And for decades, it's kept in the forefront of the field. It's set up a world-leading training program for over 600 fellows, the audience today, the speakers today, who in their own right become real leaders in the field. So the outline of my talk is first, I'm going to discuss how did clinical medical ethics start. And then secondly, where's bioethics heading? I'm going to talk about empirical research on medical ethics, institutional ethics, ethical issues in research and public policy. How did I get started? Mark Siegler and I, I think, have had similar parallel careers and minds a little bit different. So as a resident in 1976, I was paged one night to the bedside of a 17-year-old with pulmonary fibrosis, progressive hypoxemia, and restlessness. He had graft-versus-host disease after a bone marrow transplant, and he was worsening on 100% oxygen and maximal ventilator support. When I walked into the room and after I'd read the chart and chatted with the nurse, his father came and grabbed me by the arm and said, pointing to the ventilator, I keep telling them to stop. He does not want this. I called my attending physician, an eminent, distinguished wise professor at home, and asked whether he'd be willing to withdraw the ventilator. He said that the bone marrow transplant team did not want to do so, and although he personally thought that was a reasonable option, he didn't feel comfortable countermanding the wishes of the bone marrow transplant team. So I gave the patient some diazepam to try and settle in down a bit, but later that night he died still on maximal ventilator support and still very uncomfortable. The next morning my attending took me aside and said, he wished he had called me back that night to withdraw the ventilator and concentrate on making the patient comfortable. So this is the kind of case that keeps you up for many nights. I think we've all had such cases. And at the time, ethical dilemmas were not discussed on rounds or at conferences. There wasn't the teaching that many of you are doing in your home institutions. And I couldn't find any publications at that time that gave practical, useful advice in the particular situation. As a result of this case and others that I kept collecting during my training, I decided to try and go into a career in medical ethics and to write the articles that would get read, distributed, cited on rounds and discussed at conferences. I wanted to publish these articles in the journals that physicians subscribed to, routinely read and respected. I didn't know Dr. Stigler-Mark at the time. I wish I did. I think it would have been fun to learn from him and interact with him. So to jump ahead to 1984, this was one of the articles I wrote with a colleague that I think really was a successful use of a case presentation. This involved an elderly patient with severe dementia who was cared for at home rather than being put into custodial care. And her family very patiently fed her by hand with a spoon.  I wanted to just read a bit from one of the paragraphs. There are no easy solutions to these dilemmas, speaking of inserting a feeding tube. Difficult trade-offs among conflicting values and goals must be made, and reasonable, well-intentioned people may disagree. During a clinical crisis, there's often no opportunity to discuss issues fully. Unanalyzed assumptions, generalizations and slogans may pervade discussions.  And there's also an ace writer and editor. And this case taught me, this article taught me a useful criterion for when a work is successful. Over the years, when physicians have faced this dilemma in their own family, many have told me that the specific practical advice in this article is useful, both to them, their families, and often the physicians in the case. This is years later, 2005, an article titled Palli Dissidation and Dying Patients. This is the follow-up to that case of the young teenager after a bone marrow transplant about ventilator withdrawal. Over the years, I realized that it wasn't just weather and why to withdraw a ventilator, but also how to alleviate the distress that patients experience as mechanical inhalations withdraw. How to distinguish palliative sedation from killing a patient, and how to write specific orders to the nurses for sedation. Moreover, we found that it was important to address physicians and nurses' reluctance to provide adequate palliative sedation in this setting. So, I think there are many advantages to an analysis of rich cases. I noticed many of the speakers yesterday and today have started their presentation with a case that really grabbed attention. Narratives, stories do tend to capture the attention of readers or listeners. And in ethics, a rich case can show how to resolve cases in real-world settings. It illustrates the importance of context and complexity. It gives a chance to discuss practical strategies that a physician could try. And it also enables the writer to suggest words to say to try with patients and with families. And the rest of the talk, I think you'll hear that trying to suggest words that physicians can use in discussions is a theme that we think is important. So I want to now switch from how clinical medical ethics develop to where is bioethics heading. And I use bioethics to say that it's more than just clinical medical ethics. And I think the McLean Center and many of you today have expanded the scope of issues you've discussed. One area is empirical research on ethics. Important empirical research questions can be suggested by the clinical dilemmas that you grapple with as physicians and discuss as ethics case consultants. This is early in the AIDS epidemic before there were antiretrovirals. Patients often presented with full-blown AIDS. This gentleman has wasting syndromes, you can see. And patients commonly presented with opportunistic infections such as respiratory failure due to pneumocystic security pneumonia and an unresponsive due to CNS and central nervous system infections such as cryptococcal meningitis, toxoplasmosis. Often patients got so sick they couldn't participate in decisions when they were hospitalized. Now many of these patients in San Francisco were knowledgeable about opportunistic infections because they had seen friends contract these infections and many died. Many patients clinically wanted their partners or friends to make decisions particularly if they were strange from family members and didn't want family members who were often in the dial about AIDS to make decisions for them. So this to us suggested a research question. Was it feasible to discuss these predictable situations as opportunistic infections with AIDS patients in advance to get some idea of what they would want done in that situation? So this is an article that we published in 1986. We administered questionnaires to consecutive patients in the AIDS clinics at UCSF in San Francisco, January. And to go right to the findings, we found that patients had thought a lot about life-sustaining interventions in the context of scenarios I mentioned. They had preferences about what care they wanted in these scenarios and who they wanted to make decisions for them. And third, they wanted to talk to their physicians about these issues. And even though they had very mixed feelings about thinking about talking about these issues, they still wanted to talk to physicians even if they felt sad or depressed thinking about these issues. So 1995, about a decade later, we continued research on empirical research on actual commerce omission. It's now on actual conversations between doctors and patients in this case about do not resuscitate orders on hospital admission. And it was an innovation at this time, and Dr. Talski was really important in this, to record actual discussions between patients and physicians and to then analyze them in a rigorous way. Again, just to state the major findings, we found major shortcomings, deficiencies, and health physicians did these DNR discussions. But these also allowed us to identify missed opportunities to improve these discussions. And in future and further years, others I've worked with have done more studies of actual physician or staff conversations between patients and family members. I'm not going to cite, but there's a series of articles on conversations, actual conversations between physicians and family members of patients who are intubated, sedated in intensive care on mechanical ventilation. I think this has had a great impact thanks to the work with Doug White on ICU care and conversations. Now, to emphasize the usefulness of empirical research, it can demonstrate the need for better approaches to resolving dilemmas in clinical medical ethics. And also empirical research findings can serve as the justification for randomized trials of interventions to better address ethical difficulties. And several of my former trainees and colleagues have conducted, led randomized controlled trials of interventions to improve end of life discussions between patients and physicians or families and physicians and improve decision making. So second area in which bioethics I think is headed is what I call institutional ethics. And I'm sure the majority of you in the audience have been involved at your home institutions with policies and practices on such issues as do not resuscitate orders, family meetings in intensive care units, and in the past year and a half on COVID policies. And again, I think that almost all of you have been involved in ethics education for students, residents and researchers. I will spend a few minutes talking about requests from colleagues and institutional leaders for help with the dilemmas they are responsible for. And we're going to talk about a request that I received in 2003 from the Chancellor at UCSF. And at the time, stem cell research was really just starting to flourish. And he wanted to establish a cutting edge stem cell research program at UCSF, but to make sure it was done under the highest ethical standards. So he asked me to chair an interdisciplinary committee that included basic translational and clinical scientists involved with various aspects of doing stem cell research. Our remit was to recommend and actually to set institutional policy. And the committee decided to do more than that, but to publish our recommendations and the reasoning for those recommendations. This is an article from Science in 2010 on the derivation of human embryonic stem cell lines from frozen embryos that were no longer needed for reproductive purposes. And a major dilemma in this is that even if frozen embryos are de-identified and therefore fall under a permissive category of research under federal research guidelines, the embryo and gamete donors might not want them used for human embryonic stem cell research. Our group recommended and published a recommendation that there should be explicit consent from both embryo and gamete donors for the use of the frozen embryos for stem cell research, as opposed to used by other couples for reproduction. This actually became an ethical and regulatory standard, both in NIH guidelines for eligibility for NIH funding and also for Institute of Medicine guidelines, which had an international scope in setting professional standards. The lesson here was that research on bioethics can strengthen cutting edge innovative science by putting it on a firm or ethical foundation. And I think as somebody mentioned earlier today, the ethics and the cutting edge science should proceed hand in hand. And how to do this, I think, is a challenge, but also a tremendous opportunity for those who are working in bioethics. So the final area I want to talk about in terms of where bioethics is headed is public policy. So in 2005, the public health crisis at the time was SARS and anthrax bioterrorism. And this is an article I wrote with Mitch Katz, who is, at the time, was the director of public health in San Francisco. He's now the head of New York City Health and Hospitals. There are several lessons I learned from doing this work and I continue to use. One is that when writing about policies for public health, particularly pandemics, it's really useful to work with a frontline public health official. Ratchy lives through, takes responsibility for these decisions. Secondly, I learned that it's really important to keep working on a topic even after the particular public health crisis has passed. And beyond that, to be open to changing one's mind as new evidence comes forth. And other people think and publish good ideas that you can learn from. Finally, research can have unanticipated impact and significance many years later. So this is a line of research. I've tried to keep up it. This is an article on allocation of scarce resources during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, which luckily didn't happen. But thinking about how to prepare for it as an example of how to allocate scarce resources during a public health crisis was useful because it was grounded in an actual situation. Jump ahead a little more than a decade later. With COVID, obviously, as the pandemic emerged, there were scarcities or projected scarcities of important resources such as ventilators or actually critical care staff. And there's a real issue of how do you develop crisis standards of care? And I think one lesson we learned, unfortunately, from Hurricane Katrina is unless crisis standards of care are worked out in advance, it's really impossible to develop them on the fly in an affair. So just to acknowledge that this work has been done with Doug White, really taking the lead here on a series of articles, which we wrote and then revised as new ideas emerge, new data, and we actually changed your minds in some ways. So I want to say a little bit more about public policy beyond just publishing articles. I mean, we all like to publish. It's the currency and academic promotion. But I think there's a great value to serving on policy recommending bodies. So just a few examples where I was privileged to serve. With regard to regulations for human stem cell research, California passed the initiative to fund, to give public funding to stem cell research under the California Institute for Gender Medicine. And I was asked to co-chair committee that would set the medical and ethical standards for funding such research, and our recommendations were adopted as statewide regulations for publicly funded stem cell research. As a member of the Institute of Medicine, which is now called National Academies of Medicine, I've been asked to chair another number of consensus development committees. And two that I think looking back, I was very, very glad I served on, even though they're very difficult at the time, was a report in 2009 on conflicts of interest in clinical practice, practice guidelines, medical information, medical, clinical practice and medical research, which has really had, I think, important impact in many ways. And then later in 2015, another committee on sharing of clinical trial data, and recently I think many of us have been following that. The NIH now is requiring that NIH funded clinical trials need to publish their results, make them available in a timely manner. And finally, the allocation of scarce resources during this unprecedented COVID crisis. I served on some local committee, state and local committees, which I think was important to do. I served on a COVID vaccine recommendation committee in the state of California that really made recommendations on who should get priority early on when there wasn't enough vaccine for all. And then subsequently on another committee by the University of California, which has 11 campuses statewide, on what would be the vaccination policy for students to come back to campus and really have an in-person learning experience, and also for faculty and staff in terms of vaccination. So I want to finally turn to future topics and bioethics. These are some suggestions, and some of you have already started to do this work. It was really wonderful to hear some of the presentations over the last two days. So one is artificial intelligence in clinical care. And I think some of the challenges are to develop actionable consensus standards for the validity of AI algorithms, and also standards for clinical effectiveness of predictive algorithms. Particularly the case with machine learning algorithms, which are often not explainable, not transparent. Second question is, will a particular algorithm improve or worsen health disparities and structural injustice? I think the code is earlier on alluded to how predictive algorithms in the real world in terms of setting bail, suggesting sentences, screening job applicants, loan applicants, really works to the disadvantage of people who are already disadvantaged. I'm also interested, I think it's also important to think about the long-term and indirect impact of artificial intelligence, and particularly on provider workflow. We've all seen how healthcare providers are stressed to the breaking point due to COVID. What does the introduction of that AI do to workflow, roles, and responsibilities? I think it's a real challenge for ethics scholars to collaborate proactively with real-world AI researchers who are actually developing the algorithms. I think it would be better to try and address the efficacious upfront as the AI develops, rather than to try and correct them after the AI's program has been developed. The future top is to get more difficult. I think many of you have addressed the issue of health disparities in real-world clinical care and practice, and how the U.S. really lags behind many other countries in terms of health disparities. So how can scientific breakthroughs be translated into equitable implementation that reduces health disparities? And as we've seen, the wonderful breakthroughs in COVID science with vaccines antivirals, how will they, they haven't yet been translated into equitable distribution and implementation? And finally, I think perhaps the biggest challenge is how do we explain recommendations in bioethics or clinical medical ethics and the reasoning for those recommendations persuasively? I think what we really have seen, not just in the U.S., but worldwide, has been a rejection of evidence in the sense that we've all studied it in clinical epidemiology and public health, and evidence-based public policy, particularly public health policy. There are many people in this country and around the world who reject those approaches, and how do we interact with them and deal with them? Because they are part of, we are part of the same society as they are the same communities. So just a couple of summary slides. Strategies for medical ethics. First, to focus on important real-world dilemmas and to provide practical advice to people who have responsibility for making decisions on the frontline and in real-time. Secondly, to collaborate with other specialties and disciplines. And third, to be strategic, opportunistic, to be open to new topics and to serendipity. And I would add to that, as a bullet I didn't put in, also to have continuity in your work, because your prior work may be ripe for impact years later. So take home message, ethical issues keep us up at night. But they're also a core part of finding meaning, satisfaction, and joy in our work. There's a creative interplay between trying to think about and resolve or make recommendations in specific cases and broader ethical frameworks, principles, and policies. And it's important to become adept at moving between the case and the broader framework. And finally, I want to end with best wishes to many, many more successful and productive years at the McLean Center. You folks have a tremendous track record, and it's only going to grow in years to come. And I know many of you are regretting not being able to have this meeting in person. I personally regret not being able to see many of you who I've known over the years. Next year in Chicago, I hope that comes to pass. So thank you very much, and it's been a pleasure and an honor to be here with you all the way it works. Thank you.


Hello everyone, my name is Vanessa Delisrias and I am a recipient of the special session scholarship for new students. I will be starting the MLIS program in the fall and I am actually very excited about it because I have been waiting for this for a very long time. Sometimes just life has other plans for you and that's okay because I'm finally here and I just wanted to send a big big thank you to Dr. Harlan, Dr. Bolin, the student award and scholarship committee, Dr. Chow and the School of Information Faculty for awarding me this scholarship. I am so honored to represent the school and the university and you're just bringing me one step closer, getting me one step closer to fulfilling my dream. I'm just so thankful for that. Thank you so much. I just wanted to tell you a little bit about myself. So I completed a PhD in 2017 with a focus on race and gender in 20th century US popular culture. So diversity, inclusion and accessibility are very important issues to me and I want to carry that passion into the archival space. I want to make sure that people have access to the archives and that the stories of underrepresented populations are being told. So I want to make the archives a more inclusive and accessible place. Again, thank you for the generosity of this scholarship and it will finally help me fulfill my dream in working in the archives. Thank you.


WIP allows me to model different river basins and entire water resources systems for research and propose strategies to improve water resources management in Peru. WIP helps me understand the complexity and provides solutions to solve water resources management problems in river basins. My favorite features are the hydrological modeling using the soil moisture method and the reservoir management. The idea is how we can analyze the behavior of the basins under climate change. How is it going to change the hydrological dynamics of the basins, for example, under climate change, under non-stationary conditions, and what kind of policies we need to implement to manage the reservoirs, the water resources system in general. Thank you very much, Yad, for the invitation to give this work for everybody. I chose WIP because it includes modules for snow and particularly for glacier representation, which is not so common in water resources systems modeling tools. This work allowed me to provide recommendations on adaptation measures to improve the provision of freshwater ecosystem services and the conservation of endangered aquatic species in mountain environments. The things that I like more about WIP, one has to be the advanced programming interface that has allowed me to explore the benefits of considering additional processes, for example, glacier processes through the incorporation of new calculations. So congratulations, WIP team. We organized a small water parliament with around 100 seats, which brings together the decision makers, the water users, and the state services. And my job is to make sure that these people have the technical key to take the best decision for water management today and in the future. We decided to make a WIP model to make easier the discussion in this parliament and to bring scientific matter to the discussion. I can say that there is a real gain to use a WIP model. The most important gain is I think the improvement of collective knowledge. The understanding of water resources uses infrastructure, derivation, and the management and the water allocation today. And the best way to discuss what has to be the water allocation in the future. I think the second advantage to have a WIP model is the credibility because it's a scientific approach. We have a numeric model that brings together a lot of data related to water management. And as we are a neutral organization, it's important and it gives us a good credibility. Thank you. WIP has transformed my work as well as the work at my organization for Valley Water's long-term water supply planning. I've seen WIP be most effective in a recent effort by Valley Water to evaluate proposed reservoir operating rules in three main watersheds in our area that are intended to mainly benefit anonymous fish in our local streams while balancing our water supply needs. We worked with SEI to add custom parameters that calculate dozens of fish habitat metrics through various life stages that are based on flow and channel geometry at key points of interest downstream of several reservoirs. This WIP daily model allowed Valley Water to evaluate multiple proposed operating rules scenarios and select a preferred scenario that is now moving to actual implementation. For me, this is the most valuable thing that WIP has provided for us a way to evaluate scenarios and provide a basis for the selection of a preferred set of operating rules. I honestly don't know how we would have been able to move forward without WIP. I always appreciate that SEI is working to add functionality to WIP and for me personally I just want to thank everyone at SEI for the great support over more than 10 years. Our experience of using WIP goes back to around 15 years ago during our master's program at the University of Tehran. Back then we were using WIP in our class projects trying to understand its different capabilities. When we moved to US to do our fellowship at UC Davis we had a chance to work at SEI. That's when we better understood how powerful this tool is, how it can be used to address sector conflicts, how it can be used to do the decision making and support the decision making and how it helps cross-sectoral communication. Using WIP has really helped us to shape our mind around integrated water system analysis, how different components are connected and how they affect each other. Working in SEI gave us the opportunity to get to know the developer team of this powerful program and we realized how lovely and nice people they are who are constantly trying to work on improving and upgrading this tool. Our collaboration and relationship continued even after leaving Davis to the time that we were in Sweden for a postdoc or now that we are in Australia and they have been great mentors, colleagues and friends for us.


Hi, beautiful. I'm feeling so gay. Pride Month does something to me. It changes me into somebody that I love. I mean, I always love myself, but like even more so, if that's even possible, you guys probably know by now that I like to have painted nails. I usually always have painted nails. It makes me feel complete. It makes me feel clean. When I don't have my nails painted, I feel like I look lazy. It's like a weird thing that happens. I feel like to a lot of people when they start painting their nails, it's like when you don't have them painted, you're like, mm, I'm f***ing gross. Like this is disgusting. So I'm feeling disgusting right now. And this weekend I have a bunch of pride events. I want to look cute and I want it to be rainbow. Have I ever done anything like this before? No. Have I done gel polish on myself before and done a lot of creative f***ing? Yeah. Does it come out that great? Sometimes no, sometimes yeah. Today we're hoping for the yeah. Like it's gonna come out great. I'm gonna be doing something I've never tried before. And listen, even when I'm doing just like one color of gel polish on my nails, it's hard already. I don't know what this is gonna be like doing this f***ing ombre sh***, especially on these nails, they're tiny. There's not a lot of space here. So I'm gonna try and do it.  But what else is new? Whenever I try things, I usually go crazy. So if you wanna see me in pain today, come to the right video. So why don't we just do it? I'm gonna follow a tutorial on how to do like ombre Rambo nails and hopefully it comes out cute cause I need to wear these tomorrow and I'm not gonna have any time to soak them off. So let's do it. Welcome to Brad's nail salon. I got way too many polishes over here. I'm gonna lamp over here, brushes over here, a little bit of polish remover kind of stuff. A little fun fact about me is I watch nail videos all the time. I find them fascinating and it's just really like therapeutic for me to like watch people do nails well. Let's talk about a little bit about my nails again. So as you can see, they're not the cutest, but they'll do, you know? They're gonna be way cuter when we're done. I wanna do a good job. I wanna impress you guys, I really do. That's always my goal. I want people to think I'm good at like every beauty thing in the world, which isn't true, but I like to think that sometimes I can be good at things, you know? This video is by Lizette Cruz and this is called Hard Gel Rainbow Nails. Watch me do my nails, Builder Gel Nails Tutorial Pride Nails. Let's just watch some of this video together. I skimmed through it earlier and kind of saw the finished result and I really liked it. Okay, right off the bat, I don't have what she has. I have just polishes. I am going to do a vertical ombre, so I'm adding the green to the left side and then I will be adding the blue before I pick up the next color. What is this? A brush. You said gel polishes. What are these? I go back and forth adding greens and blues. So she is using this stuff that I don't really even know what it is, but I guess it's gel polish and I guess this is going to have to suffice for that. I also have makeup brushes, which I feel like, you know what? They're the same thing, right? Like it'll be fine. I think I can use these. Like look at them, they're cute. How do I blend it? Tell me. So she's putting green and blue together, which is like scary because I feel like I don't know how to blend nail polishes. How it looks, I cure it for 60 seconds and move. She made that look way too easy. There's absolutely no way it's gonna be that easy. Building up this product because I am going to be encapsulating it with clear in the end. And I'm going to be- I feel like it's definitely not gonna work the same way it's working for her because I don't have the stuff she's using, but it's fine. It's fine. So we got green first. I feel like I don't have green. They look sort of green, it's like turquoise. And that's green, right? That's something. That's definitely greenish. Um, okay. Not doing great here. This is what happens when you don't plan your videos in advance. What? Where? What? Where are all the colors? I don't exactly have green, so we're gonna mix these two colors.  And then we have a turquoise. So hopefully that makes a green. Well, actually, I'm just gonna mix the yellow and the turquoise together to make green. We need blue. I got one of them. That's a pretty blue. Purple. I feel like I want this one. Coral. Coral, I need coral. Yellow. Got that. Orange. Orange. That took me like 60 minutes to just pick out the colors. This is going swimmingly so far. Okay, so I'll show you what I got here. The green. I'm mixing this blue with yellow. Okay, to make green. We have purple. We have pink. That one's so pretty. I'm excited about that. And we have coral and yellow. Ooh, that's fun. Dude, my nails are gonna look sick. I'm sorry. I'm already calling it. All right, if I can do this, I can do anything. All right, so she basically takes the color, puts it on the nail, and then blends in between. She makes it look so easy. And I'm mad about it. Put that to the side here. I'll come back to her if I need her. What girl for now? You scare me. Let me just clean off my nails with some alcohol. Put on a clear coat, and I'll be back. Okay, now that my nails look super dry, hee hee, I love it. If anybody knows anything about nails out there, it's all about really, really thin coats of polish. That's what I've learned over my time of doing gel. I'm sorry. Where's the rest of it? Off to a good start. Off to a great start. I'm gonna look like a psycho at these parties tomorrow. Or I'm gonna look cool. I don't know, either one. All right, so it's all about doing extremely thin coats of everything you do.  See? Ah, it's beautiful.  Fun fact about me too, when I was in hair school, I was like the only one who loved doing nails. I would take all the nail clients. I thought it was so fun, and I still do. I still love it. I don't know what it is, but it's like a good time. Okay, we have been cured of all of our illnesses. Now I have to do the hard things. I've never done this before. That's for sure. I've never tried to mix my own polish color. Good luck to me, I don't know. That seems like enough. Okay, that looks green. Not green enough, though. No, it's green enough, my kid, my mate. All right, I think I'm gonna use this brush actually. Why do I never do this? Why do I never use a brush like this? This is so much easier. All right, so she starts with the green on this side. Oh my God, this is so hard already.  Some little doo-doo right on the edge here.  I will be here all day and all night. That looks good. And now we go in with the blue. Just grab a little bit of that blue. Okay, now how the f*** am I supposed to blend this? Wait, what? Are you guys seeing this? Oh my God, that looks so good. That looks really good. Holy s***, why does that look perfect? I'm so happy and I'm so excited now. Okay, now let's go back with the blue and now we're gonna travel on to the next nail. Now, a little fun fact about me.  That's a great comment, Jennifer. Thank you for asking. The reason I don't get my nails done, I don't like making an appointment and I don't like sitting there. I just don't like going to the nail salon. I just don't. And I also feel like when people do it at your house, it just never looks great. Maybe I just haven't gone to the right people. I just feel like I can't justify spending like hundreds of dollars on my nails.   You know what I mean? I prefer not to pay that much for my nails. Even if I can afford it, like I just don't. You gotta beat the nail polish a little bit. You gotta give it a little slap. All right, we're going in with the purple. So far, guys, this is actually going too well. Like, I don't know what's gonna happen. It is very light. I will say like all these colors are very, very light and are gonna need a little bit of work when it comes to layering. But if that's all, I will take that. Let me tell you also, I've never tried painting with a brush this small, but this is working out really well. Way better than anything I've ever used to paint my nails. Like the thing that comes in the thing, it doesn't work well. This purple's too light. I need to do a different one. Here we go. We're bringing out the big guns now. We got this dark purple here. Ooh, she's pretty. She has arrived. The purple came to the show, finally. I thought this would be like funny to watch me do this and it'd be like me freaking out the whole time. But honestly, so far, I'm not freaking out. This is gonna pop so much when I do the next coat. We have made a bit of progress. This is so therapeutic for me. I'm like in my zone. This is what I was meant to do. Screw hair, I'm doing a nail channel from now on. This is probably one of the most fun videos I've made in a while. As much as I love doing hair, it's nice taking a break from it. Now, the gradient has gotten a little bit blurry, but I think it'll be fine once I do the next coats. I think it's just a little bit too light. This one in particular, the purple to pink, you can't really see much. This one's really pretty though, the purple to coral. Gorgeous. So we gotta do coral now over to the thumb. What I was saying was I love doing hair, but sometimes when your whole life has been hair, hair, sometimes you just want a little bit of a break from it. These little breaks I take from doing the hair content really make me happy. Honestly though, it's really hard to talk right now. Yo, YouTubers don't get enough credit sometimes for like being able to entertain while doing extremely hard tasks. Like when people are doing crazy makeup things and they're like talking throughout the whole thing. I don't know, girl, that's a lot. Bam! Onto the yellow, which is my last color on my thumb. I hope this isn't boring, but I feel like it's not.  Maybe that's just me. I don't know, maybe nobody's gonna relate to this. Nobody's gonna like it, but that's totally fine. That won't be the first time that's happened. So this is one coat complete. It obviously doesn't look perfect yet because it is still see-through as f***. We're gonna cure this and do it all over again. We're on to the last coat and oh my God. Why do these look so good? We've run into one problem, I will say. It's not like I was gonna get through this whole video without having an issue. Like, you know what I mean? Like how is that gonna happen? And the issue is that I was using a paper towel to wipe my brush off. Paper towels have a lot of fuzz on them and so the fuzz has been getting on my nails, but it's okay, we're doing one last coat, I think. Maybe four coats, I don't know. We'll see how many we need here, but I could not be any more proud of myself. This came out way better than I thought it was gonna be. I should stop saying that because like I'm not done. And what if it doesn't look good? Whatever, I'll wear it anyways. You know, I don't really care. As long as they don't come off, like that has happened where I have done them wrong and the next day they're like off my thing. Like the gel just all falls off and I'm like, ah, okay, totally, let's not do that anymore, thank you. Anyways, besides that, my life has been really nice lately. I have been really busy lately and I like that, I do. I like being needed. Sometimes though, Brad gets a little bit cranky when he's overworked and I've been focusing more on myself and my health, doing more, working out more, eating better. Also, I mean like I said before, just doing videos that I wanna do and not being scared of like not getting views. As a YouTuber, like that's a scary thing.  So I've been doing a lot better at that, like not caring so much about if people care about what I'm doing. Because it's not about them, well it is, it's about you guys as well, but this is my job and I do take that into consideration as well, but I also just wanna have fun with my content and I just refuse to make my job feel like work, which it has recently. But it's feeling like work and it's a bit draining. So we're doing better with that and just giving myself a little more freedom to do what I wanna do.  Me. This is my second favorite nail by the way. The pink to orange is spectacular. The gradient is so pretty. All my nail techs out there are f***ing quaking right now. Like sorry, sorry that I took your job. You know what's my favorite part about doing nails is too? At the end when I put the oil on my nails, I feel like it just brings it to life, you know what I mean?  Thank you. This one's my least favorite. I'm gonna be honest with you. It's not really working out great for me. This yellow, it's tough. It's gonna need like 10 f***ing coats. Girl, can you show up or what? It's also so hard to blend this one. All right, I'm gonna do another.  Dude, look how good they look. Okay, wait, but there's one final thing that I just told you before. It's my favorite part. I'm gonna put some oil on these phalanges of mine because they look dry and this just brings the whole look together. I don't know, it just makes me so happy. I honestly can't believe this came out so good. Except for this one. This one's kind of ugly, but it's fine. I'm gonna get that all in there. Oh, you're gonna put that oil in there. Yo. Oh my goodness. Hi. Oh my God, why? Who did my nails? So funny you ask. I actually did them myself.  No, I mean like, I feel like they look good.  Like how good the colors are blended. Like it doesn't make any sense to me. Like how does that work? I'm obsessed, but now is the sad part. I have to do my whole other f***ing hand now. I mean like I did like 1700 coats in this nail. Oh my gosh, it's time. That were never baby. I'll tell you, I have just about had it. I was really enjoying myself. My energy levels have been depleted completely. Like I wanna cry. This has been so difficult. I forgot that I had like an opposite hand. Like I'm a righty and like when I do things with the left hand it doesn't work out as well. So I've just had a very hard time perfecting this and it doesn't look that perfect. It looks fine, I'm not mad about it but I'm exhausted and I wanna be done with this.  You're crazy. I also lost count of how many layers I did. So I think we're just gonna do one more and hope for the best. Don't do this. Seems like fun but then you do it. There's definitely like a fun element to it. I don't know how. I'm gonna stick with not doing ombres. Cause this has been really hard. It honestly takes like that one little little flick of the brush to get the colors to blend. If you do too many flicks, you're f***. Will I make it out alive? I don't know. I would like to go work out and enjoy the rest of my night but I have a feeling I'm gonna be stuck here. Let me just tell you guys also, this is a random side note. I am so much happier now that I get to like leave my house. Everything in New York is open back up. It's been really cool like not wearing a mask. It's been so freeing. Your vaccines you guys. Oh my God, I get to put a clear coat on now. Oh, I'm so happy. My back is broken. What's the secret? Am I supposed to not be leaning over? How does this work? I don't know what the secret is here but my nails look sick. I did it. Now time for my favorite part. A little bit of that on there. Look at me holding this thing. I can't even hold it with my left hand. It's so confusing. I'm not ampy dexterous, y'all. Beautiful. Wow. I think I love them. I'm done. Oh, I'm obsessed with them. However, I'm not sure because I'm so tired. I just want to be done filming. I love my nails. I am quite obsessed with them. They look so cool in person and I know these are gonna last like at least two weeks. So that makes me happy. They could have been a little bit more perfect. I will admit it, but we're working on it. This is the first time I've ever done anything like this and I think they look pretty damn cool. So I'm proud of myself. If you guys are not already subscribed, make sure you do that down below. You can also click the like button and the bell icon to be notified every time I post a new video. Thank you so much. You can follow me everywhere else. Here you go. Boom. You can also check out my haircare brand and my hair color line at xmonohair.com. You can get all these colors that I have in my head today. They're so f***ing burning. Obsessed. Or you can head to our Instagram for hair inspo at xmonohairforhaircare and at xmonohcolorforcolor.com. If you guys text me, this number is really connected to my phone and I do see some of your messages. So text me, do it up. And I'll be replying to a few of you guys if you text me right now. Today's Instagram shout out goes to Jackie and she says, hi Brad, I want wavy hair, but it's very short. I want to get that blowout wave look on my hair sometimes. Also want a brush that can take out frizz but let my curls, waves remain intact. What should I buy? I'm not really understanding the question fully but if you want more of like a wavy look, I would just use a very small, like three quarter of an inch curling iron and wrap the hair around it and release it and it'll give you like nice waves. And before the wave sets in place, brush it through and you'll get a nice wavy defined look. I hope that helps you Jackie. That's all for today guys. Thank you so much for watching.  I'll see you next time. Bye guys.


Proudly, we hail. New York City, where the American stage begins. Here is another program with a cast of outstanding players. Public Service Time has been made available by this station to bring you this story, as proudly we hail the United States Army. One man's loss. There's much to tell about the life and world of an army, especially an army at war. Most of what we remember deals naturally with fighting courage and victory. There is, however, woven into this history of violence another kind of story, a softer, warmer type, one that concerns itself with tenderness and devotion. This is such a story. Our first act curtain will rise in just a moment. But first, here's the special message for the young man listening. Now, you can choose your own Army specialist training from more than 100 technical courses and have a class space reserved in your name before you enlist. 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Well, there's a part of it here, only a small part. I'll take a look at this. Yeah. Uh-uh. The obituary column is sure sign of old age. As soon as a guy starts treating you... Not the obituary, as you clown that little piece at the bottom of the page. Oh, this one? Uh-uh. Yeah. Yeah, I see. Very nice. Very nice. You finish it? Sure. Now, let's see. What are we going to eat? What do I think of it? What do I think? Nothing. Steve, look, the world is full of screwballs. This is nothing.  Can you imagine that? You don't understand, Joe. I know this guy. All you do? We were in the same outfit during the war. We were in the 7th transportation. Headquarters company. Right outside of Shelburne. Frank and I were both. You checked that oil filler, Steve? Yeah, it's okay. You about finished? Almost. I'm going to have another look at that right rear fender. I think I can tap that dent out. I'll give you a hand with it, Frank. Ah, you can take off, Steve. I'll finish it. Only take a couple of minutes. Come on. You'll miss the six o'clock truck to town if you hang around. I'm not going anyplace, so it doesn't matter to me. All right. If you say so. Thanks, Frank. I got six pants. Jelly, jelly, six pants. I got six pants to last me all my life. I got six pants to... Hey, what's going on? Who's there? It's me. I'm sorry, Corporal. Come on out of there before I... I'm sorry, Corporal. I was only...  All right, Shorty. What do you think you're doing? You know you're not allowed to hang around here. No, I'm not, sir. I just enjoy watching the men work on the vehicles. The vehicles?  I do know a lot about automobile, sir. I could help if you'd let me. Nothing, though, and bait it. I could polish them up a bit. I'd not be in the way, Corporal. What's the matter, Shorty? You don't understand English so good I said bait it. Yes, sir. I'm going. The body was back the next day. And the day after that, and the day after that. And finally, Frank got tired of chasing him. Hand me that wrench, Shorty. Yes, Corporal. I'm going. What? The wrench. The wrench. Let's go. I ain't got all day. Yes, sir. Is this the one, Corporal? Yeah, that's a ticket. Oh, just tighten this... Wait. Yeah, how's it look? Smashing. Very good indeed. Smashing, eh? Yes, sir. What's your name, Shorty? Tommy. Okay, Tommy. My name is Frank. Hey, that's a bus bomb. What's a doodle bug, all right? Cut up a one here, it cut out. Babies. It must have landed in Barringham. They're getting closer all the time. They were inseparable after that. The American couple and the skinny little English kid with ears that stood away from his head like two great question marks. We got kind of used to seeing them eating, laughing, or working together. All right, Tommy, that wheel's cleaning up. Let's sit down for a while. I'm not tired, Franky. I'll finish it. You're scratching all the good stuff off of it. That's enough. Boy, I'm beat. It's really clean now, isn't it, Franky? I don't know. I can't see in this miserable weather. Look at that fog roll in with you. A bit mucky, isn't it? Lousy soup. It is lousy. Watch your language. But, Franky... Just watch your language, that's all. Yes, Franky. We have weather like this in New York. Come on, Tommy, do we? Well, I don't know. Not even for a joke. We don't have this kind of miserable soup where I come from. No. No, I'm sure you don't. Yeah. Come, chum. Thank you very much. Yeah, get fat. Take two pieces. All right, then. I will. That's the stuff. Yeah, I always just... Yeah, let me open it for you. How's that, huh? It's delicious, Franky. I really do like it. A great beer.  You're going to be the death of me. Franky, what's the matter? Did I do something wrong? I'm sorry, Franky. Oh, where you at, you? You look like my grandfather. Try and eat a porterhouse steak without teeth. On his gum chewin' racket, you got to take it easy. Smooth and easy. Yeah, watch. See? Easy enough. Like this? That's it. Yeah, chew, chew. That's his stuff. Good. Am I doing it right now? Perfect. Chew, chew. Up, two, three, four. Up, two, three, four. Tommy fell into the GI routine as though he was born to it. He was friendly to most of us, but it was plain to see that it was Frankie idolized. And it was Frank whose company he enjoyed most. Franky boy is here. How've you been, Frank? It's kind of late. It's nice out. I thought I'd take a little ride on the bicycle. You ride the kid home? Yeah, I rode him home in a handlebars. He only lives a couple of miles down the road. Yeah, you ought to hear him. He hangs around at those bars for dear life, with Steve chattering like 60. Every time I make a turn, he says, Good go, Frankie. Charlie, good go.  You really took a shine to him, didn't you, Frankie? Oh, he's a terrific kid. You know something, Steve? I never saw such a smart kid. Oh, he's bright all right. Bright? That kid can turn a motor as good as any mechanic on this base. Let me know about that. Come on, you're exaggerating. I'd like to bet you a month's pay on it. I was telling you, Steve, the kids are genius. If he listens, you can tell you what's wrong. I'm sick and tired of hearing about that little limey of yours. Sit down and listen. Like I was telling you, Steve, this command car came in yesterday with a boner.  Why don't you mind your own business, Chuck? I'm not bothering you. I don't like limey. And I don't like limey lovers. So what am I supposed to do, following a tent?  You're asking for it?  I'm going to hit you so fast. You think I'm rubbing you? Any time at all, Fatso. Just say the word, and I'll take you apart like a cheap wife.  You're getting all worked up up enough. No, no, just keep out of it, Steve. This blimp thinks he's going to tell me what they're doing. He's got another thing coming. I don't have to take that from him. You take anything I feel like this, you know? And if I hear another crack out of you, I'm going to belt you once, so watch your step. Oh, you're so rough. That's it. Put them up. All right. It wasn't much of a fight. They threw a few punches, and while Frank was game, he was out of his class. He had to spot Chuck four inches in height and about 60 pounds. We separated them as fast as we could, but not before Chuck had landed a nice right hook to Frank's eye. In no time at all, it blossomed into a real shiner. It wasn't a very serious injury, but it did make it necessary for Frank to do a lot of explaining. You see that, Tommy? You see those two little scratches under my eye? I do. That's where they switch at a flashlight. I mean the torch. Hit me. You see them, huh? It is a nasty bruise, all right.  I'm telling you some bunch. No consideration whatsoever. No sir. What happened? Well, I don't get me wrong. I'm not telling them when to go or when to come back. That ain't any of my business. And I don't care if they come back drunk or sober. But when they tip my bed over and drop their flashlight, I mean my torch right on my eye at 3.30 in the morning. Ah, it's too much. I mean, how far can you go? I am sorry, Franky. Say you like that, Tommy, my boy. It takes all kinds to make an army, I always say. It will take but a couple of days before it gets better. I know. I had a Shiner once myself. You did, eh? Well, I hope the other guy had two of them. Okay, Tommy, enough chatter. It's chow time. Let's go chow-chow. Chow-chow?  And we're off. And you'll look sweet upon us. Today, Tommy, we're going to catch one of those things. Yes, sir, they can't keep missing forever. They're blind, Franky. Hey, where were we? Oh, yeah. Upon the seat of our bicycle belt for two. And so we became part of our life. The English kid with a little blue cap and the big ears. And while he became a sort of mascot to the whole outfit, there was a special devotion that existed between him and Frank. An odd attraction that none of us understood or bothered to analyze. It was just there, that's all. You are listening to the proud that we hail production One Man's Laws. We'll return in just a moment for the second act. But first, as I promised at the beginning of the program, complete details on the new Reserve for You training program. Now, if you're a young man of service age and you expect to serve a tour of duty in the near future, I'd like to tell you about this wonderful training program that can help you a great deal in planning for military life called Reserve for You. Completely realistic and up-to-date, it gives you an opportunity to choose your own technical training before you enlist. You make a written application choosing from over a hundred different courses. Then if you qualify and a vacancy exists, you receive a letter telling you that you have a reserved seat in the course of your choice. And this letter is a written guarantee that you will attend the course. Of course, the decision must be made by you. To give you the complete facts, we've prepared a booklet called Reserve for You and it's yours for the asking. Pick it up at your local United States Army Recruiting Station. You're listening to Proudly We Hail. And now we present the second act of One Man's Laws. Well, I suppose you've heard many stories like this, haven't you, Joe? Yeah, it's a nice yarn, Steve. But you know, soldiers, they were always getting involved in situations like that. Look, come on, what do you say we order something to eat? I got $2.30 a point. Wait a minute, wait a minute. I'm not finished yet.  The BuzzFarm attack got much worse after that. Uh-huh. But we learned to live with it. They came over mostly at night and in the morning. Aside from that, life went on pretty much as usual. Frankie. Yeah, that looks pretty good. Now just a few more licks, it'll be as good as nothing. Frankie. What'd you say? Well, Frankie, my mother told me to ask you if you could... What are you yelling for? You think I'm deaf?  But Frankie, the amulet... Not another word, no excuses. I got ears, you know. Yes, Frankie. Not then. Like a little gentleman. But wasn't you wanted to tell me? Mother told me to ask you the tea tomorrow evening. Tea is tea indeed. What do you know about that? Frankie Valentino invited to tea. You will come, Frankie. Why, uh, you tell Mater that I will be delighted. Now let me see, what am I gonna wear? Well, Frankie got all shined up and went to tea. He joked a great deal about it, but we all knew he was very happy to go. Did you care for another cup of tea, Corporal? Ah, thank you, Mrs. Findlay. I would, yes. I am sorry we don't have any coffee. The Americans prefer it to our tea. Oh, no, Mrs. Findlay, this tea is delicious. I mean, I really like it. Here you are then. Thank you very much. I, um, want to thank you, Corporal. I want you to know how much I appreciate your interest in Tommy. Oh, don't thank me. Tommy does a terrific job for us out at the base. Don't you, Tommy? Oh, I tell Mom that I do lots and lots of work, but she thinks I hang around and get in the way and all. Not at all. As a matter of fact, we were talking just the other day about how Tommy ought to have some kind of rank and pay for what he's doing. He never gets in the way. It is nice of you to say so. He does love to go out to the camp. I'm afraid he's a lot like his brother was. He was very fond of motorists, too. Brother? I didn't know he had a brother. Tell me how come you never mentioned your brother? Jack was killed in Burma last year. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, they were always tinkering with some kind of motor, Arthur. I remember when they had Mr. Hutchison's lawyer dismantled right behind the garage. I'd been growth of here in Shelburne. Well, they worked on it and worked on it till it ran as good as new. Mr. Hutchison was delighted. Oh, that's why Tommy knows so much about motorists, runs in the family. You know, when I was a kid, I was exactly the same. I could tell you every detail about any car on the road. Jack was the best mechanic in the whole army. I'm sure he was, Tommy. Jack wanted to be an engineer. That was his ambition. I expected he would have been quite good at it too. What about you, Tommy? I shall be an engineer, too. And a good one, too. I'd bet my last dollar on that. Corporal, I must say I feel much better now that I've spoken to you. I did rather worry that he was under foot most of the time and, well, pretty much of a nuisance. Ah, don't give it another thought, Mrs. Finley. You want to know what the boys really think of Tommy's work? Yes, I would like to know. They were horsing around, talking about it. One guy finally came up with the right description. He said Tommy was England's answer to our land lease program. How about that? I think I'll stop fretting about him. He seems to be in good hands. You know, to be truthful about it in the beginning, I thought he was going to be a pest. And I used to chase him off the base myself, right, Tommy? You did indeed. Then I got used to him. Now, just about everybody's gotten so they like to have him around. And it was true. Tommy had a way of getting under your skin and working his way into your affection. A shy, quiet way to be sure, but it sure was effective. I remember one day we were cutting down a set of fatigues for him to wear. That's still, will you, Tommy? But it takes so long. I got a fit. What do you want to do? Trip and break your neck? They fit very nicely. Quiet. I'm in charge of this detail. What do you think, Steve? That's long enough. Yeah, they look fine. OK, I'll mark them. So, there. And there. All right, I'll take them off and I'll sew them up. Off a mow. Off a mow. Hey, what about Stripe? He's got a whole some kind of rank. Make him a sergeant. How about a master sergeant? Oh, no, not to do one. I never met one yet who was human. Oh, please, Frankie. I'd like very much to be a master sergeant. Please. Well, have it your way.  All right, you guys. I want this cereal pleased up, and I mean now. You get it? You see what I mean? A born first sergeant, just like I told you. On the double. On the double. The stripes look OK about here, Frankie. Ah, maybe a little... You've made those stripes, will you? I've been watching you guys long enough. You keep out of this, Chuck. You're not going to push me around again. You're holding them crooked in the first place and they're too low. I don't know what's the matter with you guys. Hey, hey, come here. Tommy, give me Tommy. Hold still a minute, will you? I thought you... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's better. Sure. Look how you're sewing a pants with Pete's sink. If you don't know how to do it, say so. Don't botch up the job. A doodle bug. It's a dusty trail and those caissons go rolling along. Oh, no. The bombs I can take with that singing. That's too much. What are they doing? Putting pilots and those things? Now they're getting closer all the time. They're beginning to irritate me. All right, let's go, you guys. Let's go. It was like a welcome home. Frank never mentioned Chuck's former attitude or his change of heart, but he seemed to rejoice in it. That's for Chuck. He became as fond of Tommy as the rest of us were. And when it happened, it was he who told Frank the news. We were at breakfast in the mess hall. Oh, boy, did you hear that one go off this morning? I swear, I tell you, I thought it was right in my footlock. Yeah, it was a beaut, all right. What time would you say it was? Well, about 8.30. I watched him out of it and knocked you out of the sack. I was up before you, white guy.  Yes, sir, that's what it was. Oh, there was a cranky. Chuck, Chuck, you're green around the gills again. How many times do I have to tell you that six bowls of oatmeal, a mess kit full of powdered eggs, nine pieces of toast, and eight cups of coffee is too much for breakfast, huh? Frankie, listen, you know that bomb? Don't talk to me about it. I want to enjoy my breakfast. No, thanks. It hit that little tool shed behind headquarters garage. That means we're going to have plenty to do today. Listen to me, Frank. Somebody was in the shed. Something? No, no, no, none of the boys.  It was Tommy. Tommy? But it couldn't. You were out of your mind, Chuck. It couldn't be Tommy. I mean, no, no, no, no mistake, Frank. I went out myself. I saw him. It was Tommy, all right. But that's crazy. Tommy? Yeah. I guess he heard it cut out and he thought he'd be safer there. Gee, I'm sorry, Frank. I don't get it. Don't make sense. I just don't understand. It all took a pretty bad time. Tommy was a wonderful kid. But on Frank, it had a different effect. He didn't grieve outwardly. It was a small, subtle change. As though a part of his spirit had died. I decided to have a talk with him about it. Hello, Steve. Hi, Frank. What do you say we go into town tonight? Oh, thanks. I think I'll hang around a barrack. I've got a few things I want to do. Ah, come on. We'll have us a couple laughs. They got a dance on to Red Cross. Ah, some other time, Steve. Look at Frankie. You can't keep this up. You have to snap out of it. Why do you break on my back? Why'd you snap out of it? It's because I don't feel like going on a crummy dance. No reason you've got to give me a big speech about it. Now, come on, Frankie. There you are, Steve. It's four months, Frankie. It's enough. Yeah, I guess you're right, Steve. I don't know what it is.  Can't believe it. Even now. Well, things like that happen in a war. You've got to get used to it. That's all. I think of it. I get all mixed up. Don't understand it. What do you mean? Well, I like the kid. You know that. Well, okay. But I don't think I like them more than some of the guys I grew up with. Some of them died too. Even my family. Remember when my uncle Pete got sick and died? I sure did love that guy, and I'm ashamed to say it, but they didn't feel as bad then as I do now. Yeah, I don't know the answer. Maybe because it's so crazy. Maybe that's why I can't accept it. No, I know it's hard. Can't think of it enough. Maybe if he was older, do you think that would have made a difference? I guess so. What I mean is with the older ones, you know, all the friends and relatives, it was a pattern, a reason to get older. Things happen.  You'll understand that. But this, this is what gets me.  So I set it up on a ramp, launch it. It flies a path of smoke, fire, and terror right across the channel. Ah, Frank. Frank, what's the use of rehashing? No, no, no, wait, no, wait. And then it lands. Explosion shakes the earth. It's terrific. Now what's the big deal? What did they accomplish?  Tommy. I mean, does that make any sense? None at all. I guess that's what throws me. Sounds so crazy. Now you'll get over it, Frank. It may take a while. Six months, maybe a little more. You'll forget all about it. Maybe so. Who knows? He seemed to forget about it after a while. Maybe he was just a little quieter than he was before it happened. I can't be sure. For purposes, though, he was a nice friendly guy. One of the nicest guys I met in the Army, as a matter of fact. We were discharged from Dix together. Now, whenever I drive through, I stop at the garage he owns, and we shoot the breeze for an hour or so. Yeah, I'm sure he forgot about it. You know, we had the same kind of a deal now, but when we were in France. We had a kid we called Xiaohan. Well, this kid he used to... Hey, hey, Steve, wait a minute. Let me see that newspaper again, will you? Yeah, I should. Read it. Yeah, let me see. Where was it, sir? Yeah, here it is. Mr. Frank Valentino of Ozone Park, New York has donated $10,000 to an English college. The Portsmouth Academy for Scientific Studies for the purpose of establishing the Thomas Findlay Scholarships in the School of Engineering. Well, I'll be... You see, Joe? Frankie never did for you. High school seniors, here's an important message for you. The United States Army's Reserve for You program will guarantee you a classroom seat in an exciting Army technical career course before you enlist. You'll get top-notch training on the job experience while serving side-by-side with America's finest young men. The choice is wide open and it's yours to make. High school graduates can choose from more than 100 interesting career courses that range from atomic technician through welding. A fact-filled booklet called Reserve for You tells you about the entire program. Get in on the swing. 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