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This is Startup Storefront. One in three women have either had their drinks spiked or know someone who has, according to a 2021 UGov survey. It's a serious problem that disproportionately harms college students. That is, until Shira Binar invented Nightcap. By covering the top of the glass, it makes it a lot harder for someone to spike your drink. Since their launch, their company has taken the world by storm. Nightcap has 422,000 followers on TikTok, and while in Shark Tank, they landed a deal with Lori Greiner in record time. In this episode, we speak with Shira Bernard, the co-founder of Nightcap. We discuss going viral on TikTok, their Shark Tank experience, and what it was like going to the Shark Tank reunion in Vegas. So listen in to protect yourself and those around you. Alright, welcome to the podcast on today's show. We're talking to Shira from Nightcap. Thanks for coming on. For people who don't know, what's your company do? Yeah, so Nightcap originated as the drinks biking prevention scrunchie, which is a scrunchie that you can wear on your wrist or in your hair. And when you go out to the bar, you just take the cover out, place it over your cup, and then pop your straw on there. So that's the first product that came to mind. I thought of Nightcap in a dream when I was sleeping at 16 after a friend of mine was Rufid. But yeah, I just thought of it in my sleep. And I woke up and I told my dad, hey, I think I have a good idea here. And he was the first person to like believe in me and we started working on it together. My parents like don't come from an entrepreneurship background. So the first steps we took was just like filing for a provisional patent and creating a logo and finding a seamstress to make the first couple prototypes. And that's how it started. Let's go to the beginning. Is your friend OK? Yeah, yeah, just a bad experience. Yeah, sure. Bad experience. I honestly was thinking to like I'm about to go off to college. I don't want this to happen to me or my friends when we go to college. So let's think of something. When you first started this idea, did you think about it more of like solving a problem for yourself and your friend? Or was it more of like maybe your dad or somebody at one time told you like this could be a company at some point? Or was that never the idea at the beginning? It was primarily so when we went to college, it wouldn't happen to us. And when I thought of it, I was like, this is more than this is definitely more than that. And this is like a life-saving product. And I was 16. I was like, what did I just do here? This is I saw the potential that it had. And just so we're clear, we're focusing on like college parties here. It's not like you go into a bar at 16. Why would you ever do that? Right, right. I have actually not been to a bar yet. Never been to a bar yet. How old are you now? I'm 20. You're 20. Okay. So you started this three, four years ago. Yeah, four years ago. Okay. And then did you have a prototype before you got to college? Yeah. So I actually went on Shark Tank before I got to college, but I couldn't tell anyone. I know. I couldn't tell anyone. Because it didn't air yet? Yeah. It hadn't been announced. So I had filmed, went to college. People just kind of knew me as like that girl with the scrunchie kind of thing. And then the next semester, I got to like announce it. So as a freshman, I got to announce going on Shark Tank. And then I remember people had like Shark Tank party. I had, I went home to go watch the actual episode and people went and had like Shark Tank parties at the entrepreneurship school and like watched me on zoom and stuff. It was cool. How much sales did you have before you went on Shark Tank? So we had $68,000 in sales. And was that over a year? How long of a runway are we talking about? That was probably a year. Okay. Yeah. It was like $68,000 in sales, but it's crazy because I actually made a TikTok like a month before we went on the show. Okay. What year is this? People context. 2019. Sorry. 2019, we started the business. 2020, we filmed Shark Tank. And 2021, Shark Tank aired. So that's a very relatively quick amount of time. I mean, that must have been forefront to your mind. Like, okay, if we're starting this, let's try and get on Shark Tank like ASAP. Was that you and your brother's kind of mentality going in? I mean, I've always wanted to go on that show. Like everyone, that's everyone's dream. I feel like as an entrepreneur, I never thought it actually happened. But when we started the company, it was like COVID had kind of just hit right after. So it's like no one's going out to go party. Why don't we just apply to Shark Tank? So you're sitting in the house and my brother just kind of went online and applied. And apparently 40,000 people applied to that show. Yeah. So it's very... And you got selected. Yeah. Did the product look exactly like this when you were on Shark Tank? Or has it evolved a little? Or maybe a lot? It's pretty similar. Like, the only thing that's changed is the logo. We just changed our logo to make it pop more. Yeah. So you're actually wearing our old logo. Sorry, guys. But it's the original, so we'll never make those again. Love it. And how much would you sell it for? Or how much do you sell it for now? We sell one for $11.99. We have four packs, gift boxes. What I was saying before is I made a TikTok like a month before we went on Shark Tank. And it made us $40,000. You said that was 2019? So that must have been 2020. Okay. I want people to really understand this because there's a lot happening right now as we go into this recession. Entrepreneurs like yourself are always asking, like, what do I do? How do I hedge all this stuff? And everyone gets sort of tight around, like, dollars in marketing. And I just keep telling people, like, TikTok can change your business.  And, you know, Lexi and our team has worked with countless companies that she sees it happening in real time. Yeah. And so we have enough data, right? So we're using logic to say this platform that we just happened to call TikTok in today's society, whatever it ever is, like, just don't shy away from it, but embrace it. And so tell us your story. So you're on TikTok. So we started on TikTok right before Shark Tank because of COVID. We weren't doing anything. We're just like, oh, might as well play with this. So we had $28,000 before we started posting on TikTok. In sales? In sales. Okay. About a year of having the company. And we had it one go viral. I think we had made like five videos and we had one go viral. We made $40,000 off one TikTok. How many views did it have? I think it had six million. Okay. For the listeners, what was the premise of the video? It was like the beginning of TikTok. I'm sure everyone knows the sound like I'm obsessed with it or something like that. It was like... I'm addicted to this? Yeah, that one. And it was just like a seven... I'm addicted to this. Something like that. It was like, I'm obsessed with it. I don't know. But it was just really quick putting it on the cup and just showing the packaging. And people just were like, wow, this is cool. It connected with them. It resonated. Yeah. And I didn't realize we could do that. So we got to go on the show and say, hey, we made $40,000 in the last six weeks. Off of TikTok. Yeah. Off of... Well, so Trump was actually going to ban TikTok, so we said social media. Oh. Smart move. Yeah, smart move. But yeah, we did that. And now our whole entire company is based off of TikTok. The good news about TikTok is like half of the people that pay attention to videos on TikTok will eventually buy, which is way higher than Instagram. And so you have a real like the demo at least is not only are they willing to watch, but they're willing to spend. Yeah. That's how I differentiate the two. But where did your sales come from? Like where did you notice? Was it Indiana? Was it Florida? Was it all over?  We've sold in like over 40 countries now. I mean, besides like the US, like the UK is really bad. So a lot of people have been ordering from there, but that's because the drink spiking situation there is just unbelievable. And people are actually going around using needles to spike people instead of dropping it in their drink. But going back over to TikTok, recently I kind of realized that, I mean, influencers cost a lot of money now. And you're spending so much money on an influencer when you're not getting the return that you want. So I kind of chose like, oh, maybe I should just be our influencer. So like, A, I'm able to like post anything I want for free. And B, I can put my face to the brand. So you kind of have like, instead of just seeing the scrunchie, you have now like someone who's like, oh, doesn't that girl own it? Or kind of like a relatability factor, which is really nice to have on TikTok. And I honestly recommend that to like every brand to create a face. Like have a face. It could be the CEO. It could be Lexi. It could be anyone.  But I chose to do it myself. Yeah, that's amazing. And so, okay. So then you get onto Shark Tank and it's a bunch of Zoom interviews I imagine because you're doing it during COVID, which is kind of unlike how they usually do it. Yeah. And then when they film, are they all sitting like 18 feet apart? Is that, or was it a little back to normal? No, they spread them out. You watch the clip. They are very far apart. People told us that it made it really hard to hear anything.  Kind of. I didn't think of it like that. But yeah, it's kind of just like looking like. Yeah, you're like, where's that voice coming from? Yeah, we had the quarantine season. So we stayed at the Venetian Hotel for 10 days. In Vegas. In Vegas. Couldn't leave. Yeah. Had to stay in there. Isolated. Isolated. Yeah, I was about to turn 18. So I was technically a minor. So my dad had to come with us. So we ended up getting two rooms. So we had a little more space to move around and like practice our pitch and work out on one side of the room. But yeah, it was quarantining and then you just go in there on like the 10th or 11th day, do your thing and leave. How long did you guys practice for? Our pitch, we practiced for like two months. Okay. And we knew it so well. Like we printed out photos of the sharks and put them in front of us. In the room. So you would print out. Yeah, we had printouts. We would blast music. Just in case.   I would do my brother's parts. He would do mine. Like we knew it by heart. That's good. What was your strategy going in? If you had one, did you have a strategy? I mean, not really. Like we kind of just knew our pitch. Had an idea of like what they would ask us. And we wanted Lori. We got Lori, which is great.  Yeah, we got her very fast.  Because I feel like this always happens. If you rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, lights come on. Yeah. And you probably miss a sentence or two. No, it was like. It was exactly. It was better than I could have imagined. That's good. Yeah, I was freaking out. Because you're 17. I mean, I was 17. Like, that's really scary. Yeah, for sure. I can do anything. You could done too. So then, all right.  Why did you want Lori? What was the thing that?  I just feel like as a woman, I know there's Barbara, but like I just felt like Lori kind of like resonated with the brand really well. And I like her as a person. It didn't have anything to do with like QVC or something like that. I just kind of like really like her. Yeah. Like other sharks besides Barbara are all men. So it's like, how do you, it's the same thing as like my brother and I were the co-founders, but if you listen to him talk about it, you're probably not. You're going to, you're going to buy the product because I'm talking about it. It's a woman. You know, you just relate more. There's an emotional component to that. Yeah. And like you, I understand like the issues that women have when they're going out and like the fear that they have sometimes. Because drink spiking, it does affect men, but it's by far in a way, you know, more affecting the female population than the male population. So of course it would resonate more having yourself talk about the problems that you face every time you go out than your brother per se. Did you have deal terms? Like were you like, okay, if this is the offer and this is the equity, we're good. Did you practice that at all? Like even negotiating whether they want a higher percentage. Not really. We just didn't want to go in there and get like made fun of for asking too much money. Okay. So it was valued at like $240,000 at the time. To put it in perspective, I think it's like a little bit under four now. Million. Million. Yeah. But we asked for $60,000 for 20% and got 25. So it wasn't too far off. Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah. And then is, are you and Lori still in good contact? Yeah. Yeah. We just came back from a shark tank reunion in Vegas, which I had never encountered before. I didn't even know they did that. Super cool. But yeah, it was in Vegas. Was this the first one? I think, I heard it was the second one. Okay. But we're newbies.  Is it like, do you guys hang out? Do you have breakout sessions? Is it, what is it? Yeah. Or is it just a big party?  I actually spoke at the TikTok panel. Oh, nice. And it was really cool, but. Tell us about the TikTok panel. What other plans are? So it's funny because I didn't prepare and I barely knew I was, I didn't even know I was speaking at it until like a couple of days before. And I kind of just like was sitting there before and I was like, I was worried about what to talk about. And then I realized everyone over complicates the platform, TikTok. So it's not like you have to be talking about getting verified and all this stuff when like everyone's just like, what do I post? So I just kind of like narrowed it down to like the basics. And I tried to explain it in the most simple way. Like I just tried to give them examples of what I do. And I said, Hey, like you guys are all in this room right now. You've all been on Shark Tank. You can leverage that. Like you can just put a photo behind yourself and say, this is me. And people love storytelling.  Like just tell them what happened. So what do you tell? Like let's say there's a brand who's listening right now who's struggling to get on TikTok. What do you say? Like your post should include these three things. Don't overthink it. What are the things that you tell them? I mean, I would say three things. I would say, what is your product? Who are you? And why is this product better than others? I just think it's like so simple and people overcomplicate it.  And that like we're just so genius about TikTok, but it's like it's, it's supposed to be simple. And that's what I tried to explain because once you start to overthink the platform, that's when you're doing it wrong. And everything that all the videos that I constantly think about, they flop and the ones that I make in three seconds, they go viral. So it's just all about like transparency and like relatability and building a connection with the person watching and just talking to your phone as if it's your friend. Will you ever hire or are you thinking of expanding into new product lines or what is, what is the state of the company today? Oh, we have new products. We have keychains and gift boxes and now we have a product from the UK that we're able to sell in America. I don't know. I think like after the whole Shark Tank thing and the TikTok panel, I had a lot of people asking me for like consulting and stuff like that. So I honestly think that's something that I want to like go into and I might have to like, we might end up having to hire people, but if you can do it and then do it and I like being busy. So yeah, I tell people today like but I think it does come naturally to some extent to the younger generation, because I think like to your point older people are overthinking it for sure, but I do think like the number one hire if you have a product of any kind is a social media team. And if you're doing it yourself, that's great. Most people can't because they're not good at it or they're overthinking it, but if they can, yeah. Does Lori give you any guidance around like new products or like, she must. I can just because that's how she works. That's how her brain operates. She hasn't really been involved in the new products, but like she's done a lot of, she kind of opened my eye to like how important branding is and. In what way? Just like things like need to pop. Like people are not looking, like they're not, you know, if it doesn't catch your eye in the first like three seconds, it's like. Yeah. They're moving on. Yeah. So she really like showed us like that. That is actually pretty powerful about this. This definitely catches your eye. Well, yeah, I think that's also why I'm doing really well on TikTok because I mean, I started kind of just using the product and showing videos of that first. Yeah. And you're like, what, what just happened? What did she just put on the drink? Yeah. It's really eye catching. So that's obviously why like people will interact with it and then we'll see it again. But yeah, you can't really do that for years. You can't just be putting it on the cup and like, it just gets boring. So I've kind of ventured out into doing videos like, what do I do in a day or behind the scenes of Shark Tank? That's smart. And if you're any brand, you could do that. You could do the same. You have to. And it's just simple. Like you can make a 10 second video. What is it made out of? Right. Do you have any, like amazing customer testimonials or like some really like heavy, hard hitting stories? I have two, but we have one Amazon review and the title of it is this like saved my life. So this girl was walking through a bar and she had, I guess the lights were down and she had walked into like a room where it was light. And she found like a pill on top of the nightcap. And so she... Like a crushed up pill? Yeah. I think it was, it was like, it's on our Amazon reviews. I'm not sure if it was crushed up or just like a pill sitting on top, but it was there. Oh, that's got to be terrifying. Yeah. For two reasons.  But it's just crazy. Like I just like to think that like I came up and I actually could have been very different for her that night. And then I had a girl message me and she said, hey, I thought this product was like silly. My boyfriend got it for me. So I like threw it in my closet and I, you know, didn't care about it. But then I got roofied with meth and she's like traumatized and depressed. Couldn't go out and just said like she always brings it with her now. But yeah, it's depressing. I would think most stories are going to end in nothing. Like you're not going to find the crushed up remnants of a pill. It's not going to be anything like that because the preventative measure of that device on top of your cup is enough that most people aren't even going to try. If, if, if the goal of it is to prevent it, then it's probably doing it very well that you don't have a lot of Amazon reviews talking about the residue of some crushed up pill was found on this later on because some creep walking through a bar with pills ready to roofie someone is not going to drop it on a drink with a cover on it. Just not going to happen. But I'm actually curious about the problem as a whole. When you look out at the big picture, do you know if this is more prevalent at bars versus house parties?  It's probably hard to get those to report to report. Like soft reporting. Yeah. Cause like, you know, I talked to like a lot of bar owners about this and they will say, oh, they just drank too much. Right. So there's no like statistics. There's a liability there. Yeah. Like not really. What were you saying about the statistics? Just if it was more prevalent, because I know on your website it says it's designed to fit perfectly over a solo cup. So I didn't know if that's because the statistics had shown that it was much more prevalent to occur at house parties versus a bar because you're not getting solo cups at a bar. So when I heard the solo cup, my mind immediately went to house parties and I wondered if this was a bigger problem there when you're thinking like frat parties or Greek life parties or even just like at your average college party. Yeah. Yeah. So the reason we advertise it for solo cups is because obviously this is like similar size to a solo cup. It's not going to fit really great over like a wine flute. So we just kind of say that it does fit over like buckets though. So like a big. Yeah. It works. But yeah, like we advertise a lot like on college campuses because they have bars and house parties, but. Do you have like reps or anything? Yeah. We just started an affiliate program. I mean, I think for your point earlier or whoever said it, but it's supposed to also act as a deterrent. So it's not just like a safety precaution. Like people are supposed to look at this and be like, OK, I'm not messing with her or him because like, why would you want to? Yeah. It's like a trampoline. Try and drop something in there. It's going to shoot off. Yeah. It's also a reminder though I think probably of like people being ready in some way. I don't do this here almost or like they could be a collective if someone's someone sees multiple of them. Maybe they're like, I don't know. I don't know. It's a hard thing to think about. Yeah. Just don't mess with us. So no ambassador program, but an affiliate program at colleges. I think it is an ambassador program. OK. Like they get they get a commission or something like that. Yeah. We just came out with it. So I'm honestly not. I think it's good. How many universities are you in? We're in I think over hundred, which is super exciting. Yeah. Trying to get into like music festivals and stuff. We have an investor named Julia Michaels. She sings that song issues. So she's connected us with some of those people to get our foot in the door. Yeah. Like hopefully Coachella that's a dream. But. Have you raised more money since since Shark Tank? So she came in after Shark Tank. I think she saw our Shark Tank episode and she DM'd us on Instagram and just said like I want to be a part of this. So she is 10 percent. And that leaves my brother and I 32 and a half. If you want to do the math. Yeah. So colleges, music festivals, bars, liquor companies. We want to license it to like you know different liquor companies put their logo on there. Yeah. You could personalize this super easy. Yeah. Yeah. We just didn't order with Bacardi. There you go. But we do have this product.  You poke your straw in and that's more for like B2B. So they're really cheap to make because you know they're stickers. Probably more single use as well. Yeah. So you could just like throw it out with your cup if you know the only problem is I guess these music festivals don't use straws anymore. So that's like holding us back a little bit. It's so funny. The sea turtle. Yeah. Sea turtle conundrum. Yeah. But Stop Tops is like how we're getting our foot in the door and like it's really great for you know everyone's holding a cup. So it's like you can literally slap anything on there and you're automatically advertising something. So you're preventing people from scary things because it does always it happens a lot of music festivals. There's like viral videos on it happening there. So you're preventing people from this happening. You're also you know advertising something on your cup. You know it helps a lot and helps with spillage. Do you view this as like one of a series of companies that you're going to start or do you really view this as like you'll be with this for a little maybe maybe like five ten more years. How do you view this specific company? I feel like I always want to have like a part of nightcap because I just I feel like letting that like just giving it to someone is just like going to feel weird but as for now I see myself having it for like the next five years. Like working on it for maybe like four to five you know I'm not I'm not too specific but I want to do other things involving like social media and stuff which is why I like started growing my own TikTok and my own brand because I want to like venture out and be able to do other things and leverage my knowledge on what I've done already because before like I started my like social media presence. It was kind of just like everyone knew the product but no one knows you. It's not like I get recognized anywhere because I don't but but but yeah like I think it's very helpful like in case I want to do other things and it's totally no I think consulting podcast. Yes, I want to do a podcast so badly but I don't have equipment and I don't have many of somebody man remember that we were watching a webinar the other day and there's this woman in there who started a podcast just because she wanted to talk to like minded individuals and then at some point kind of what you're saying they were they were like young and prosperous. I forget totally forget but basically she was saying like at some point all these people that would come on would say hey help me with my socials and then she started a social media consulting company and then that company fed her ability to invest more in the podcast. It became like her lead generation. Kind of like what this is like for Lexi and so then oddly like as she was growing but that's that was her passion you know her passion was just fixing social media solving that hard problem for so many companies, brands, founders. And yeah it seems to be going really well for her. That's awesome. The only issue is like I live in Florida and like South Florida so I have like a lot of people that I want to I want to bring on but I don't live in the place where that's like I could move but I like it there. Like I don't know L.A. is very easy.  It is. I mean you could do it if you don't mind it remote. Yeah. I do though.  Yeah. Same. I think starting a podcast I really want to that's something I really want to do. I mean there's a good amount of entrepreneurs in Miami. I don't know them. Yeah. The key is to start once you start I'm sure they'll all emerge. Yeah. I mean there's definitely more than one. Yeah I want to talk about like just like my experience in like young entrepreneurship in general but I feel like having a co-host is really helpful and like honestly having your own podcast studio is nice but. You're in college now right? No I dropped out of college. That's okay. Congratulations. Yeah. I was going to say like I'm sure like there's like a club because you were at Tampa right? University of Tampa. Yeah. Yeah I was going to say there's probably a club at Tampa but if you've already dropped out then don't worry about it. Yeah. What topics would you talk about like what are the things so you mentioned young entrepreneurship like what is something that most people don't have a window into for people like you and sort of what I mean I feel like even dropping out of college is just like something that young entrepreneurs like it's not encouraging it but like it's just like a step that like. I think you should encourage a lot of people do. I do encourage. I mean I encourage people to quit their job or do that all the time. Yeah. I think like it's not that I don't value jobs or it's not that I don't understand why people seek them it's more of you find yourself. That's it. I know. And I and like that's not a capitalism comment. That's a personal like very mental health very very personal journey comment. Yeah. I think I like dropping on school was like the best decision I ever made for myself. I think that people look at it is like such a crazy thing to do but it's like those little things that you do that no one else does is separating you from everything. So what was the impetus behind that decision? Did you see the trajectory of nightcap and you were like if I need to grow this company I can't spend any time on school work. So I definitely like had time to spend on school work. I think I'm sorry on nightcap when I was in school but it's like I didn't want to. Like I was you know you're like you're living with like your best friends and like it's fun. So it was fun there. I love Tampa but I also like the amount of time that I would put into classes that did not benefit me at all the amount of time and money and the professors like the business professors they don't have their own businesses. Speak on. That's it. I'm just like what who are who's teaching me. Yeah it was crazy. I was like this is a scam. No it's not a scam. No but it kind of is. I mean that's how academia works. So academia follows the innovation. And so even people can major in entrepreneurship I found that so weird. I'm like you can't really do that. I get it. I get the things that you learn within those courses are well-intentioned and very valuable to some extent. But you could just go out there for free and start a company. Exactly. And learn on your own. Yeah and I think were your parents mad? They didn't love the idea at first. Yeah. They're very traditional. Traditional sure. Yeah. But yeah. Well I was just like I can't do this. I can't do another semester. I cannot. It's so much time and it's frustrating when you are an entrepreneur and you know you can be using your time differently. It's frustrating to be going to those classes and not you know that you're not going to be using any of it. And like I don't want to say too much but I did have like this. I had a journal that I was using or they made us get these books in one of my classes and I opened the page and the first page said draw lines on this page poke holes in this page tape grass to this page. I was like this is insane. Are you in kindergarten again? This is insane. What was the course? It was called something media. It was a great school besides that class. It was a great school. It's beautiful. Like honestly I recommend you go there. Just I just didn't like college. But I learned so much by dropping out too. Like with the company and with yourself. I feel like when I was in school I had nightcap but I was also kind of just like I wasn't really sure what was going on. And then when I left when I left school and like really focused on it and worked full time I learned so much more and I could tell you like anything about the business now and like now I don't always say yes to my brother you know I make my own decisions which is great. Yeah. Will you ever hire? Who's like will you ever hire a team or grow the team? I think I'd hire a team for myself. Yeah. For your own stuff. Yeah. Yeah. You can use our studio anytime. Thanks. Move to LA. Yeah. Well I definitely want to make this like more of a commute for myself. Yeah. I like it here. It's a good community. It really is. A lot of creatives. A lot of people want to help each other. It's a lot more help. A lot more collaborative than any other place in the world like that like creative people because it makes you think more. Absolutely. And when you're around people that do work you know nine fives. Yeah. It's It's a different radio station. It just is.  Yeah. Something I didn't mention about NYCAP was that the whole point of NYCAP is that it's something that it's something that you're supposed to feel comfortable and not embarrassed to go out and use it which is the beauty of the scrunchie. So we have key chains now too for unisex or if you don't want to wear a scrunchie which just goes on your keys and attaches to that so you can also cover your drink but the scrunchie and the key chain it's like you're already bringing a scrunchie or your keys to the bar. Right. Either way. So now your scrunchie has superpowers. It's less intrusive. So I just want to like slip that in there. Yeah I know of course. Yeah. Tell everyone where they can follow you. You specifically. My TikTok is Shira with two A's so it's S-H-I-R-A-A-H and you could just click my Instagram in there. We'll find it. And then NYCAP it is the NYCAP social medias. Thanks for coming on the podcast. Yeah I really appreciate it. Thanks for having me guys. Appreciate it. 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Welcome, everyone, and thank you all for coming today to this exciting launch of InSpace. Before we start, I'd like to acknowledge and celebrate the first Australians on whose traditional lands we meet this morning and pay my respects to elders past, present, and emerging. I'd like to acknowledge many of the Senators and Members of Parliament who are taking time out of what we know is a very busy schedule here and I'm very pleased to welcome Senator Fawcett, Senator Carr, Senator Pratt, Richard Marles MP, Nick Champion MP, Senator Smith, Senator Patrick, and Susan Templeton MP. Thank you all for joining us. Distinguished guests, colleagues, and friends, special welcome to Minister Karen Andrews, Minister of Industry, Science, and Technology for being here today to officially launch the ANU Institute for Space in Space. Minister Andrews continues to be a strong supporter of everything, science, technology, and research at ANU and indeed across the sector and we very much appreciate your support. I'd also like to welcome our other speakers today, Professor Anna Moore, Director of our new ANU Institute for Space and the Director, she's also the Director of our Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Center, one of the crown jewels of the Australian technology scene which we host up at Mount Stromloom. Mr. James Caruso, the U.S. Chargedy Affairs, great to have you here today. And Mr. Valentin Marino Villeneuve, the Head of Arabus Defense and Spatial Australasia. Thank you, wherever you are. There we go. As Australia's National University, ANU has a unique and important role in policymaking, research, and in innovation. And so we're trying to think outside the box of how to support Australia's agenda. We have had established excellence in space technology, research, and development for decades. And we want to leverage that for the space industry for Australia to grow and prosper in the years and decades to come. Our new institute will be the front door to space activities and capabilities across the university, including technology research, development, science missions, space test facilities, commercial space law, and business and financial initiatives relating to space. Really everything you can imagine. And it's not just for ANU, it is for the nation. It will drive co-investment with industry and government partners and focus on cross-disciplinary projects and initiatives to support the Australian space business development. In space will bring together the best and brightest from ANU and the globe to solve the hard problems that need to be solved if we're going to get a space industry up and going here in Australia. This new institute builds on our commitment to establish institutes of innovation that deliver world-class research outcomes and impact for government, for civil society, and the private sector. Without further ado, I'd like to invite Minister Andrews to speak. Thank you, Kara. Thank you very much, Professor Schmidt, for the opportunity to be here this morning and for your very kind introduction. Can I also acknowledge all of the very distinguished guests who are here today and my parliamentary colleagues and in fact everyone who has come along today to support the ANU, to support the space industry, and of course to support in space. Clearly the space industry in Australia is a growing sector and you can just sense the excitement from not only our young people but from academia, from industry, in the potential that the space industry has to offer to Australia. So I'm delighted with the work that the ANU has done and will continue to do in this sector. Now the coalition government committed $41 million to establish the Australian Space Agency and since that time Professor Megan Clark has certainly hit the ground running to promote all things space here in Australia. But if we are to grow the space sector which currently sits at about $3.9 billion in Australia and employs about 10,000 people to what we are projecting will be a $12 billion industry by 2030 and employing some 20,000 people, it's essential that we engage academia and the business sector jointly work together to make sure that we are innovating, that we are conducting appropriate research and development to build and strengthen that sector. In space has a unique opportunity to be part of the growth of the sector here in Australia and I'm very confident that ANU will continue to take a leading role. I'm very supportive and very appreciative of an industry who has already engaged and I know that together the ANU and business will certainly be kicking some goals into space. Congratulations on the work that you have done so far. I wish you all the very best for the future and I am delighted that I'm part of the journey starting here today. Thank you very much. Thank you Minister Andrews and indeed we look forward to taking this journey together and with many of the great guests here. Without further ado I'd like to invite Professor Anna Moore to speak. We recruited Anna from Caltech, most of you will know that as a home of JPL although she worked in the astronomy department there. She has a long history here in Australia, it is great to have her back leading not just space but all of our instrumentation here at ANU where we are truly a world leader. Thank you everyone. It's a great honour to be director of the ANU Institute for Space. I'm very grateful to Brian and the ANU leadership for their support and vision in setting up this institute. So the goals in space are ambitious. We will be tapping into the talent across the whole university from physics and astronomy, my own area, medicine, engineering, earth sciences, all the way to law, policy and economics in business. The common theme to any of our programs is that they will be transformative. That is the only requirement. We are working with our industrial partners and our international collaborators on a range of exciting projects and they will be announced as they come online during 2019 and onwards. ANU's mission is to be the leader in Australia and to change the world and I'm very confident that in space will enable that vision and that mission in the area of Australian space. Thank you Anna and your intellectual leadership is exactly what we need to help Australia achieve what its goals are and we really appreciate you being prepared to step up to what is incredibly challenging and we hopefully a role with huge opportunities along with the challenges. It is as we have noted an international endeavour and so it's great to have two of our international representatives here and so first I'm going to have Mr. James Caruso charge the affairs of the US Embassy here in Canberra to come up and address us all. Thank you James. Thank you Brian. Great to see so many people out here for something like this. I'm a child of the 60s sitting in my cardboard space capsule watching the launch at 6 in the morning thinking I was there. This was a time that instilled confidence and hope in my generation and now we're in a new generation where companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic are going to inspire the next generation to say what can I do in this new field where launch is cheaper and more possible where CubeSats can do things no one ever dreamed of and I'm so pleased that Australia just in the past year has stood up a space agency and now this great in space effort which is going to take field across human endeavour to see what can we do in space and the United States reaches out and wants to work with Australia across all this. We're having our first bilateral space dialogue at the end of the year which is going to look at this on a government to government basis and I hope university to university we can do more together as well. My embassy here is anxious to work with anyone who wants to about how we can do more together. It's an exciting time. I envy all you people younger than 30 that can see this as a future and I wish you all the best of luck in in space and off we go to the moon. Thank you. Oh and first I have to introduce my colleague Mr. Binu from Airbus, please. Good morning everybody distinguished minister and senators. Thank you for bringing me here as an industry space representative. I have to say there is no a single day when I'm not talking about space, spatial startups, launch with my Australian colleagues, Australian partners, Australian customers. Something is going on in this country. The defense department is investing a billion dollar per year during 10 years. There is a very special Australian space agency created on the 1st of July. It's the fastest growing space startup economy in the world per capita with 85 startups being created in two years. So I think what I always say to my European colleagues is space is not a best word in Australia anymore. Something is happening. We need to be here. So I truly welcome the In Space Institute, Innovation Institute initiative. It is the right thing to do to bring everything under one roof to actually give us a place to go to actually talk with academia and to hopefully create the future of the space sovereign capability of Australia and the one roof together with you. I truly believe we are working to talk when I say that not only we are an industry based on cooperation, but we are cooperating with Australia. We are the first one signing an agreement with the space agency. We are the first one investing in the smarts at CRC. We are going to launch our high altitude satellite here in West Australia at the end of November. We're really trying to find the good connections with you. I'm really excited about what you're doing. Congratulations, Anna. It's been a long process in the last couple of years, but that's going to be, I think, the beginning of a truly great story for Australia. Thank you. Thank you, Valentin, and I can certainly say it's been a pleasure working with Airbus over the last couple of years. Even before we knew we had a space agency, you've really been highly engaged. We have a whole bunch of highly engaged people here. People from all sides of the equation of what the Australian space agency is going to do. I encourage you to take a little bit of time to talk. I'm incredibly encouraged by having both sides of parliament here today. To thrive, we're going to need a decade long plan, and I am really pleased to see that Australia is coming together. And ANU will be there to help deliver. I look forward to hearing everyone's ideas. As Anna said, we need to make sure we're transformative. So think big, and we'll listen. Thank you all for coming. I encourage you to have some refreshments and look forward to seeing around and making the big leaps forward in the years to come. Thank you all.


Oh my God. Try enough to swear on YouTube. You have a lot of packages, as you can see here. So I thought we would take a little cleaning break before we start the living room and open up my packages. I honestly was waiting for you guys to open them, so I'm so happy you're here. Oh, make sure you subscribe if you haven't yet. Please, thank you. I want to get to 500 by the end of the month and right now, I'm at 464, I think. Honestly, I was so sad because I wanted to get to 500 before the end of 2022 and that did not happen. So, subscribe. Please pack y'all up a little bit. All right, so I creep opened everything so it'll go just a little bit sooner there. But let's start with my Amazon packages. Oh. All right, so I got it in with us and it starts with us just because everyone has been reading these books and I wanna see what's so good about them. So I'm really excited to read those. Right now, I think I showed you guys what I was reading earlier on the vlog, but I'm reading this mystery novel. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but I'm only 100 pages in, so. That the jury is still out, we'll see how it ends. And then I also got this, Atomic Habits. Again, because everyone's reading it and I wanna see what the hype is about. But I've also really, really been trying to wake up at six a.m. Today, I woke up at seven a.m., but I'm hoping this book can help me get up at six. So I'm excited to read that as well. My goal for this year is to read like 20 books, so we're off to a good start. I have a reading one and now I have my next three, so we're in good shape there. Oh, I remember what these are. I got these little eyebrow scissors, because I don't know if you guys watch, it's my Rae Rae. I love her and she has these beautiful eyebrows and she uses these scissors just to clean them up.  They're kind of the thin side and so whenever I get them done, people make them just like too thin. I don't like them. So I'm hoping I can use these just to do my eyebrows myself. So I'm excited about that. And I'll put these books and the eyebrow scissors and my Amazon store so you guys can check those out later. All right, do you guys wanna do Urban Outfitters or do you want to do Blooming Fails? I'm asking, because I'm not gonna get your feedback until like whenever I post this video. But let's start with Blooming Fails. Honestly, forgot that I ordered these, but I'm really happy about it. I just got this cute little sweatsuit set. Oh, it says it cost $0 to be a nice person. How cute is that? So I got that and it has like a little barcode on the sleeve. And I believe I got this on sale too. I'll put the price I paid. Oh, they're from Mayfair. I see this brand all the time on Instagram. Pants, it cost $0 to be nice. So happy.  And I did get like a really good deal. So I'm gonna link it below. Hopefully it's still on sale for you guys because I never pay full price for anything. Then I got some Timberland boots. I also got these for a ridiculously cheap price. I'll put them down below. I don't think these are the color that I ordered. Ordered like the classic ones but I like this like darker brown color. Okay, say it's like the original. You guys know what like the classic Timberland boots look like.  Maybe that's why they're on sale.  That's so, so cute. I'm really excited about these. I honestly think I paid like $40 for these, maybe 35. And they had them in gray and I was like, oh no, I don't need to spend that much money. I should have got them in gray. So I believe that's everything I got from Bloomingdale. So let's go to Urban Outfitters. This is honestly kind of long. I'm like, should I just make this a separate video? I don't know, we'll see. Okay, so from Urban, I finally, finally, finally got the five minute journal. I'm absolutely obsessed. And like I wanted to start it on January 1st but obviously that did not happen. I don't know when I'm gonna post this video but today is January 5th, so I'm a few days behind but I really want to start making pretty solid like morning and night routines. And I think this is gonna just help me begin the routine because every day it has like a morning affirmation and then a night affirmation. So I'm really excited to start doing this for the morning. It's named three things you're grateful for, three things that would make today great and then a daily affirmation that you get to write in. And then for the night, it says three highlights of the day and then what did I learn today? And I'm really happy that I got to do this color because I went to my local bookstore when obviously I didn't come on January 1st. And I was like, well, maybe I'll just get it from, you know, McNeely Jackson and call it a day and then return the one I get from Urban whenever it comes. But at my bookstore, they only had it in like yellow and blue and green and I wanted this print. So I'm really happy I got that. Now I have ordered four books. I'm a mess. And then I got these little affirmation cards from Urban Outfitters as well. They're like supposed to be like little shower cards.  I'm just gonna pull out one. It's blank. Pull out another. Don't worry about things I cannot control. So that's really cute. I will see if I like these. I literally just got them and I was like, oh, I feel like that's kind of dumb. Like shower affirmation cards. I'd rather just have regular affirmation cards, but we'll see. I'll check them out and you know, if I like them, I like them if I don't, I don't and I'll just return them. I just got these two little bra tops. I love wearing these just like underneath my sweatsuit. So I just got two more of them. Honestly, I want to try another brand because I feel like Urban's don't last too long. But Urban's are also like only $20. So that's like the little amount. If you guys know of any brands that make like these little bra tops for the same price with better quality or maybe just a little bit more expensive and better quality, let me know in the comments below. Otherwise, I like get these every year. I just, I really love them and they're really great to have like for the summer. Sometimes, sometimes I just wear like them and like some shorts and then I'll go to like the club. It's a cute little look. I don't know. It's like, what is this? Ordered a lot of stuff. So I might make this a separate video. I'm filming this the same day I'm doing my apartment cleaning vlog and I just have so much stuff. I think I might just make it a separate video. Um, I ordered just some turtlenecks from Sheehan because it's winter, so why not? So I got one in black, got one in white and I got one in this like beige camel color as well. They were actually super affordable. They're only $15 each and I figured like, why not? I've never really ordered anything from Sheehan before but I love that they come with these like little bags. Like maybe I can use these to travel and like put my dirty clothes in. Oh my God. Surprisingly, like they're pretty good quality. They're not like, like I'm not blown away by the quality but I'm like, oh. It's like on par with Forever 21 H&M and like definitely less expensive than both of those places. So really happy about that. And then I think the last thing, the last place I ordered stuff from is Sephora. So the first thing I got from Sephora is six cents, like 2000. It's honestly one of my favorite colors. And so when I saw it was on sale, I was like, oh yeah, I'm getting it. So good. I love it. So yeah, 1983. And it just, it's like a creamy matte too. It's so comfortable. Such a great lipstick. So I bought one of those and then I got these makeup erasers sets. They were on sale as well. And I got like, I think I got 12 for like $25. So usually they're six for 25. So I went ahead and just picked these up and I wanted to get these because they have these really great face tiles, towels from Brooklyn and I'm absolutely obsessed. I think I have a discount code. I'll put it below. But like their towels are so nice, so thick that I don't like using them for my makeup because I'm like, oh, like I kind of want to keep them nice. So what I love about these one is that they're actually all like neutral, like beige, brown, gray, black color.  And normally when I do my makeup or when I'm taking my makeup off, I'll just wipe with a paper towel. But I feel like that's not really good for you. So I'm excited to start using these in the year. Hopefully my skin likes it as well. Okay. And then I just got this little Clinique Colony gift set. It's like a little travel eye cream. And then I got a travel take the day off, like cleansing balm. Just because when I was traveling this over Christmas, I realized I didn't have any like cleansing balms or like oil remover in a travel size. So I just got that really quickly. And then it came with an eye moisturizer and I don't have an eye moisturizer either. So I just thought that was really perfect. Okay. And that is everything I got from Bloomingdale, Sheehan, Sephora, Amazon. I got so much stuff. What a haul. I didn't, this is unintentional. I literally was just ordering stuff online when I was out of town. And I feel like when you're not at home and you're not getting the packages in real time, it's like you just order so much because you don't realize how much you're ordering. But yeah, I'm really happy with my lipstick. Do you like it, y'all? Gonna make this a separate video. So thank you guys so much for watching this really impromptu like random haul. I'm currently filming also my clean with me. So if you guys like New York City vlogs, you wanna see more of my face, you can go ahead and pop over to that video. Otherwise, I'll see you guys next time. Blah, blah, blah. Bye.


The religious leaders were trying to refute Jesus' claim to be the Messiah.  Your testimony is not true. They thought they were making a strong point because in a court of law, if you have no witnesses, you have a weak defense. But Jesus responded, In your Lord has written that the testimony of two people is true. I am the one who bears witness about myself and the Father who sent me bears witness about me. Not only was Jesus meeting the requirements of the accusation put forward, but he was unequivocally stating that he was one with God. For the Pharisees though, this didn't make a difference. This teaches us that even when we give evidence to back up Jesus as the Messiah, people still may not believe. But we need to rely on God who opens eyes to see and softens hearts.


This paper proposes a novel technique called Latency Aligning TRCA-LATRCA to improve the accuracy of target recognition in steady-state visual evoked potential SSVPIN based brain computer interfaces, BCI. This technique uses the phase velocities of the visual stimuli to determine the latencies of the visual responses across different channels. These latencies are then used to align the data epochs before applying TRCA to enhance the target recognition performance. Experimental results show that the proposed LATRCA outperforms existing TRCA-based expansions, demonstrating its effectiveness in improving the accuracy of SSVP-based BCI systems. This article was authored by Jian Huang, Pingfei Yang, Bing Xiong, and others.


Hey guys, life is no yoke today. Feeling great. Gonna show you how to make our get out of bed, replace your coffee, help you lose weight and build muscle if that's what you're looking to do. Keep your blood sugar from spiking because it's a whole food juice. Inflammation reducing, bright fresh and tasty, last in the fridge for three days.  Spicy green juice and the Vitamix. Let's make it. We'll start with four cups of water, that's about 32 ounces, then we'll add the fruit. One banana, peeled, one apple, cored, one orange, peeled and then the greens. Today we're using a cup of kale and a cup of spinach and then seeds. We have a tablespoon of flaxseed, we'll take a slice of lemon, peeled, a hunk of ginger about the size of your thumb, peeled or not, either way. And then ice on top, we've got about two cups of ice, then we'll add some frozen mango, that's about half a cup and to give it a little bit of a kick, a tiny slice of jalapeno. We're going to blend on high, variable speed 10 for 90 seconds. Might seem like a long time, but that's how long you have to blend whole food juice. Then we're going to blend for another 10 seconds on variable speed one. This is going to get the bubbles out, make that foam go away, give it that nice consistency that we're looking for. Pour it out, serve it right away guys, you shouldn't need to look up our recipe. It's a formula. Fruit, green seeds, lemon, ginger, ice on top, can use the little wrap song that we made. Stick around for some useful tips and tricks, mistakes to avoid when making green juice in your Vitamix, followed by a nearly zero edit demo of us making this green juice, kind of like you're sitting in our kitchen. And guys, subscribe to our channel if you haven't already, hit that bell to get notified. If you appreciate videos like this, hit that thumbs up. Thank you so much for watching and we'll see you in the next one. A few mistakes to avoid when you're making green juice. I have 20 of them. First of all, ginger. You don't have to peel your ginger. You can just give it a rinse and throw it right in. Same with lemon. Lemon peels don't taste bitter, so you don't have to peel them. You can throw those right in. Don't feel like seeds getting stuck to the outside of the container is an inevitability. To avoid this, take the lid pluck out and add the seeds while it's blending. They'll go right into the middle and get mixed throughout instead of getting stuck on the sats. You have our formula for making green juice, but don't feel like anything is off limits, especially if you have must-go ingredients. If you have stuff in your fridge that you need to get rid of that must-go, here, here, let me show you. Look at this. Does your toddler eat apples like this? Don't throw it away. If someone comes over with orange juice for brunch, put that in your green juice. It's totally okay. The only thing you do want to avoid is red fruit. So cherries and strawberries, that's going to make your green juice brown and even though it might taste good, it's not going to look good and therefore it's not going to taste good. Now, don't think that just because you can't eat it doesn't mean it's not good to blend in your green juice. So pineapple is a great example. The cores of pineapple aren't good to eat. They're kind of hard to chew and you don't eat them. Throw them away usually. Keep those pineapple cores. Freeze them and then throw in your green juice. Don't confuse making green juice with baking. Baking, you need everything. And missing an ingredient is a recipe for disaster. If you're missing something with our green juice formula, don't worry about it. Just omit it and perhaps just add something extra instead. So if you don't have an orange to put into your green juice, add some more mango. Oh, you don't have to drink foamy green juice. Run the blender on variable speed one. The lowest speed it can go for about 30 seconds at the end. That should do the trick for the most part. But also some of the ingredients that have water, soluble fiber, apples, pears, avocado, mango, that's going to help as well as seeds. Add a lot of those and it should be good. If you don't love this green juice right away, that's okay. Your taste buds will change. Well, if you're in that stage where you don't love the taste of green juice, you don't have to sip it. You can chug it, drink it really fast. That's actually going to make you feel really good. Or you can eat it like cereal. Pour it in a cup or bowl, put some granola on top, a hunk of nut butter and have it with a spoon. If you don't love the green juice that you made, it might be because you made a bad batch. It happens. Don't let that discourage you. Keep blending. Green juice is packed with protein. So don't feel like you have to add protein powder to it. I love this one. Don't feel like you have to make green juice with wilted greens. Take your greens and put them in a cup of water and put them in the fridge and they'll perk right back up. Do you wash your dishes right away after you use them? Because cleaning a dirty container after it's been sitting in the sink all day is a hurdle to you making green juice again. So don't let it just sit there in the sink. You definitely should give your blender a blender bath, run a cleaning cycle, right after. You'll be more successful in this green juice habit, adoption process that you're hopefully gonna do after watching this incredibly long and detailed video about making green juice. Don't assume the person you live with isn't gonna like green juice. Do you have a good knife? Don't make it more difficult than it needs to be, prepping oranges and apples. People say your life changes when you get a Vitamix. Your life really changes when you get a real chef's knife. Okay, two more, don't miss a day. You don't have to make green juice every day. In fact, you should just make it every other day. Batch the work, makes it easier. And hey, don't make it difficult on yourself. Have the ingredients on hand. Make it the thing that you always have that's always on your list. That's the ingredients or the supply that triggers a trip to the grocery store. Like underwear triggers the need to do laundry. If you're out of greens or if you're out of apples or bananas, gotta go to the grocery store. And if time is still a crunch for you, batch further. I'm just gonna read this, because this is really cool. Make packs, like freezer packs. I made up several freezer packets of your green juice recipe. So I wouldn't have to go to the store for fresh ingredients. I took one out this morning, let it defrost for a bit, add in my water, and it was fabulous. I got one more mistake that people make way too often. And that's waiting too long, not getting started. No day is perfect to begin, but today is good enough to get started. So you should start making green juice. Go, get in the habit, keep blending. All right, rapid fire frequently asked questions. First of all, green juice in a blender. Isn't this a smoothie? Nope, this is whole food juice. We're using all the ingredients as nature intended, as God intended you to eat the food. Press juice, takes an apple, puts it in, and gives you juice on one end, and the peel and all that stuff on the other end for waste. Whole food juice uses ice and water to make juice. So you're getting all of that fire, all of that nutrients. And what's really key here is the slow, even release of nutrients with whole food juice. It's better for you. At least I think so, it is. How long does this last? It lasts up to three days in the fridge? This is yesterday's batch. So if you make it on a Monday, Tuesday it's still good, Wednesday's the last day. When should I have it?  How much should I have? Have as much as you want. Your body will tell you if it's had too much, and it probably won't, because it's a steady stream of whole food. Ice on top, this serves to push everything down into the blade and also chill the juice, and make it tasty right away. It might seem like you're making a lot, but make a full blend. Each one is gonna get you two of these mason jars worth, maybe a little bit more. What other greens can I use? If we can find collard greens, we love those too. Really, any dark, leafy greens are great. You can also use lettuce. Just don't use arugula. It has a peppery flavor and kind of makes the green juice taste funky. There may be a situation where you say, oh, I feel like I'm always chewing my kale. And we actually heard this from someone who has a Vitamix. Couple tips here. First of all, consider using less kale. Maybe you're using too much. Second thing, you might want to de-stem the kale. You don't have to, especially if you have a Vitamix, but that will help get a more smooth consistency that you're looking for. Use more water. That's gonna increase the ratio of water to kale, so you're not just drinking a finely processed kale. And also you can change the ratio of the greens that you're using. So a little less kale, but if you still want greens, just add more spinach or collard greens or wheatgrass or chard, change the ratio. And of course, you can always blend longer. With green juice, you're gonna be going for a long time, 90 to 120 seconds to really get that juice-like consistency. Can I use this green juice to help me lose weight? Sure can. Green juice is a great way to sort of set your intention for the day. We hear people having a lot of success by saying, okay, I'm gonna have 16 ounces of green juice. First thing I put in my body. My doctor told me to avoid juice because of all the sugar and spikes to my blood sugar. Does this fall into that category? Nope. You gotta double check with your doctor, but this is not in the same category as orange juice or cold pressed juice. This is whole food juice. Can green juice cure my lower back pain? It's debatable. We made a video about that. Click right there to watch it. Can green juice cure cancer? Nobody asks that, but why do you bug me every single week about green juice? I think if everyone had a little bit of green juice every day, our world would be a better place. If you're just getting started, just use spinach. Oh, but do change your greens. Don't use the same greens every time. It's good for your body to change them up. Seeds, we typically use chia seeds and flax seeds. You can buy store-bought ground or grind your own fresh. Keep the flax seeds in the freezer that'll stay fresher and longer. Our friend Tarzan of Blender Babes has a good video about grinding your own flax seeds if you wanna watch it, we'll link to it right here. Hemp seeds are great just like greens. Mix and match your seeds however you like. Okay, let's talk about the lemon for a second. Lemon is going to add brightness to your green juice. Without it, you're gonna know it's not there. The lemon also serves to preserve the juice, to keep it from turning brown. If it separates in the fridge a little bit, depending on what you put in it, it might. Just give it a couple shakes and it should be back to beautiful green juice. We use these mason jars. I'll put a link to them. We pretty much exclusively drink, I exclusively drink out of these mason jars, green juice, water. I guess that's all I really drink. And one coffee mug. Put a lid on it. That helps keep it fresh as well. We like ours cold. A lot better than warm green juice. Warm green juice is pretty gross, but some people, that's what they like. Cold is better. Fresh turmeric, probably really good in green juice. I don't think we've ever done it. Someone suggested that they just did it. It might turn your juice a little bit brown because green and orange makes brown, but worth a try. I have a handful of jobs that I'm responsible for in our house, vacuuming, taking out the garbage and making green juice. It's just kind of become something that I do. It's my job. My point here is that it's something you should get in the habit of doing and it's something that one person should be responsible for. If you're on airport pickup duty and you want to be a hero, make a batch of green juice and bring it with you. The taste and the feeling that you get of having nutrients and just feeling alive again after getting off an airplane and traveling for a long time. I did this for Shavo after her international trip. She told me, she's like, I was hoping that you would bring me green juice. I can't believe you actually did. It was a gift that you can't give any other way. I have one more and I love this one. Bring some green juice with you for your conference calls. The tip is apple. A bite of apple actually changes the sound of your voice to make it sound more appealing. You can do all these technical tricks to get your voice to sound better. Removing the echo, microphone closer, better chords, whatever. But the best trick is to eat a bite of apple. So instead of chewing an apple, green juice. You can have a body like this. Green juice every day. Green juice every day. What have you looking like this? It'll change the color of your eyes. I actually read that somewhere that it would. Look, look at my eye, they're amazing. Snookies, check them out. They used to be brown. Now they're like green with orange flare. My eyes are made of green juice now. I wanna say that. The green juice video that we made like four or five years ago, it's I think 16 minutes long and the number one topic of comment is that it went on and on. There was so much talking and not enough blending. Here we are. Same story. Lot to talk about with green juice. You open the banana by yourself, nice. Okay, we got, oh you opened the banana by yourself. All right, well you put the banana in and I'll cut the apple. Nope, not the peel. Peel goes in the compost. Nice, whoa. Splash. All right, we're just gonna make sure everything's rinsed. Nice, all right. So we got banana. We'll do ice on top. That's right, buddy. All right, so we'll do apple. Feet down. Did you take a couple bites of our apple? All right, will you put these in please? Apple in? Yeah, you could eat it. Apple in, core, compost. What did I say? Yeah, you can eat it. Put that apple in. We'll slice the orange. So we'll take the trick to the slicing the orange, just take an ends off first. And then you go all the way around one time. Please stop doing the lever, okay? The switch, okay? Is that a switch? Yeah, just leave the switch, okay? Is that a machine? That's a, yeah, that is a machine. Is that a blender base? We'll bring it over in a second when we're ready to use it. Is it here? Yeah, we'll blend right here actually, because we're putting it on camera. Is it here? Yeah, for our green juice video. Do you want to tell anybody? Can you tell them how to make green juice? Can you explain? In the blender, what do we put in? What's that? We put ice on top, what do we do first? We do water, orange, yeah, so we do water first and then what? Fruit, do you want a bite? It's a really, it looks like a really good orange. We do fruit, I forgot that I just brushed my teeth, so that's kind of gross. Apple, banana, orange, fruit. Greens are next, right? So we have kale, it's about a cup. What's this? Greens, fruit, greens. Yep, good, okay. And then seeds, we have flax seeds today, we're all out of chia seeds, but that's okay. Can you dump? In, good. Fruit, green seeds, and then we got lemon. So we'll do a nice slice of lemon. Should we leave the peel on or take the peel off? Okay, you can do it either, tiny bit on it. Okay, in, okay, and then ginger, you want to smell the ginger? Okay, smell? Smells so good, okay. You don't have to peel the ginger, buddy, but we'll peel just like a little bit of it. Rinse the rest, okay, in, you put it in, leave the sushi. Lemon, ginger, in, in please, in the blender. Fruit, green seeds, lemon, ginger, ice on top, right? Can you dump the ice on top? Okay, and then maybe some frozen mango. Dad? Yep, put it in. Frozen mango, okay, good. And maybe some jalapeno. We'll do a tiny slice of jalapeno, okay? A jalapeno? Yeah, tiny slice. Dad, I'll put it in. It's a jalapeno. Tiny, jalapeno. What's it called? It's jalapeno. And then, should we put this apple slice in? You wanna eat this one? Can we share? You have half and the half goes in. Okay, you put this half in. Yeah, all right, we'll do a quick, we'll wipe everything down really fast and then bring the blender over. Want to help? Yep. Okay, start, and then ramp it up to 10. So here's what we're gonna do, leave your headphones on. I'm gonna set the timer now for 30 seconds and you're gonna press play, but don't ramp it up, okay? We'll just leave it on variable speed one, okay? Okay, press play, and then don't ramp it up. Yeah, we're getting the bubbles out, exactly. That's your momma? Who's that for? This is right. And who's this one for? Yeah, your daughter too. Perfect. All right, cheers. It's good today, huh, buddy? Good helping, thank you. High five, thank you. Ooh, good one. Mm, it's a tiny, tiny bit. S-P-I-C-Y. You just said it. I know, yes. Thanks, love, it's delicious.


What's up guys, Johnny Q here. In today's video, we're going to unbox and see what you get inside of a brand new staccato 2011. And so as you can see here, this is the staccato 2011 CS. If you guys don't know, staccato comes with this kind of a carrying case, not really a box like a Glock or a SIG, but more so like a Smith and Wesson is like a bag. It's like a carrying bag you can take to the range, put magazines in there, extra stuff, whatever you need, but let's unbox this or unbag it, I guess, and see what's inside. So here is the front, these zippers. So straight off the bat here, we have paperwork from staccato. Obviously this is test shots that were used to zero in this staccato CS specifically. And there's the initials, serial numbers there. And yeah, that's cool to have. And some extra paperwork on the plates and how to take those off. Universal optic plate by new Dawson. We have extra paperwork and a lock and some precision tools from Dawson as well, like an Allen wrench, all that good stuff. We have more information here from staccato, which is nice to have. Then we have this, the ATF Youth Handgun Safety Act notice, which is good to have, but whenever you see the ATF, I'm always like, eh, whatevs. Obviously I took this out of the gun because I've already unboxed it. So, and here is an extra magazine. Let me take that out here. It's a 16 round magazine. And so that's kind of why I like the CS because it's small, it's compact. It's kind of on there with, you know, the size of a Glock 43X. It's a little bit bigger as well as the X-Macro by Sig. Okay, let's go to the main compartment here. We open this up and here is just another extra pocket, you know, with some more paperwork. This staccato is built for heroes. On the back here, quality check completed, which is nice to have. And I think there's another patch. This is, let's see here, pure staccato. Hold on. This one is, I like this patch actually, pure staccato, just smaller. I love that. All right, let's put this away and let me kind of get you into focus. So this is the main pocket built for heroes made in America, also Texas. I love this. This is pretty awesome. So we unzip this here and here comes the staccato CS. Look at that thing. Of course, let's take off the magazine. It's empty, 16 rounds. This is to make sure officially that is empty. And let's look over it really quickly. There's this staccato CS. I mean, that looks pretty awesome. You can also take this off here and put an optic of your choice. Take off that plate and you're good to go. I think that you need to actually buy the plate from staccato, and that could be probably like $120 something, but it comes with a flat trigger and, man, you can put a light here as well. That thing looks really, really cool. I definitely like how it feels in my hands. It's small enough, but also it's not like a micro compact pistol. The grip is just like any other grip of a staccato. It's got that same amazing staccato feel, but it doesn't feel small. And of course, it's hammer. It's a hammer action pistol, but man, I cannot tell you how good this feels in my hands. I love the serrations up front here and in the rear. The safety is super tactile. It gives that punch and definitely holds strong. See that reset. So super short reset. There's barely a wall. You can see that there's the wall here. So here's the take-up and there's the wall. Take-up wall. And it's just really, it's not mushy. It's a nice tactile click when you get to that wall because you can feel it. And man, yeah, that feels really great. So, and it comes again with the 16 round magazine. So 16 plus one, you have 17 total rounds in a super compact pistol and from staccato. So I brought out the six hour and also the Glock 43X. So this is what I would compare the CS2 because let's make sure they're empty. They are empty just so you guys know. And I only say this because look at this. This has a 17 round mag, 17 round mag for the, sorry, for the X macro plus one in the chamber. So total of 18 rounds for this and it has an optic. So it's a good feeling pistol as well, but it's I would say compared to the staccato CS in terms of size, the staccato CS and X macro are pretty close to being similar in size. Same with the Glock 43X. Let's just make sure it's also empty. So if we compare the staccato CS to the Glock 43. So in terms of size, we have the Glock 43X X macro and then the staccato CS. So if you're looking for another everyday carrier for the rotation, the CS might be a good option, but just know it's not as short in barrel length as the Glock 43X or the X macro. But really just kind of depends on what you like to carry and what you're more comfortable with. And kind of here's the side view. And just remember, if you put an optic on the staccato CS, it's going to look probably a little bit larger than something like the X macro. 10 rounds on the Glock, 17 rounds on the X macro and then 16 rounds with the staccato CS. So it really all depends on what you want to carry, how comfortable you are with carrying something like a staccato CS or the X macro. Now I am excited to actually carry this staccato CS and kind of everyday carry to see how comfortable it is is it ergonomical with my body type, with my holster, how it shows or doesn't show as far as printing and overall handling of the CS and just how smooth it can be and how it can carry with my everyday activities. I think for now I'll probably run the CS without an optic just because I want to carry it as I would the Glock 43X. And at some point I'll probably put an optic on there. So, but what do you guys think? Do you guys think the staccato CS is worth that $3,000 mark to everyday carry? Why or why not? Comment down below. Very soon I'll come out with a first mag on the staccato CS and bring that to you guys. So keep an eye out for that. As always, thanks so much for watching and I will catch you in the next Johnny Q video. Peace.


I present to you the best half-back in any Madden that I have ever seen no Exaggeration and he's five foot eight. Now listen. I know I've said that a lot of times I know I may be clearly a little bit biased But there is one insane reason that I actually believe it right now inside one of the mystery Easter eggs was none other than Barry Sanders or berries on the egg. It's Barry Sanders, whatever But on top of having absolutely incredible stats 99 speed 98 excel 99 agility 95 carrying 99 change in direction and even 81 trucking which is a lot higher than usually gets it's his abilities that make this Barry Sanders stand out as the greatest Headback I've ever seen now Barry Sanders is archetype or archetype. I don't know how you say it But in Madden, he's an elusive back elusive backs can get human joystick evasive jukebox All those abilities are pretty cheap AP, but the one thing they cannot get is tank now tank is an insane ability that guarantees You break a hitstick tackle and somehow some way and somebody somehow decided that elusive back Barry Sanders should get tank and for that I love you So I took it upon myself to give this Barry Sanders five abilities for nine AP and if him getting tank wasn't broken enough The tank ability is three AP on all power backs if I want to put tank on Derek Henry, it's three AP It's one AP on Barry. It makes no sense evasive is only two. That's better spin and juke moots a guaranteed Broken hitstick tackle recuperation to recover from fatigue and increased rate He'll enjoy stick for quicker turning and change of direction and then reach for it Honestly players do this a lot on their own I think this just increases the percentage of times they do it the really the reason this is so broken is Because Barry Sanders is usually one of the best running backs in the game always But he's held back by the fact that he's five foot eight and 200 pounds when a 240 pound linebacker comes up with a giant Hitstick, there's a pretty decent chance. He fumbles not super high But a Derek Henry for example is not gonna take that hit as hard and probably won't fumble But with tank he is guaranteed to break hitstick tackles. It's so good.  I got him on my wall I actually have him on my wall twice a lot of you don't know what's over here Not that you ever would but I have a couple of my favorite players in their college unis got a little Oklahoma State Barry Sanders over there. I'll never forget meeting him I was like 19 I think at a Dallas Cowboys versus Lions game It was that vlog with seat geek and I got it on the vlog literally star struck I had no idea what to say. I ran straight out to him. I was like Barry I love you and I was wearing this jersey and he goes. I like your Jersey son. I was like So awesome. All right, whatever that's all up I've got Carson Palmer at QB just cuz I already have him and he's got hot raw master So I can put Barry on the Texas routes backfield master is usually what you would use on Barry since I have hot raw master And I could go with all these other crazy abilities. I just went with it All rest of the team is excellent very solid offensive line You should have seen my Easter egg opening where I got like most of these players We're still using that squad 97 overall amazing team and of course, we've got a little house rules The house rules is like perfect for gameplay too because there's no like ridiculous rules in this house rules You got to score 15 points to win 10 for touchdown five for an interception and five for two-point conversion So best case scenario I start on offense I go down and score and then I score my two-point conversion pop quiz if I said Cedar Citrus what comes to mind birchwood breeze anything if you didn't instantly say those are scents of dr. Squatch soap bars then I have some amazing news for you the partner today's video is dr. Squatch they make the best men's hygiene products in the world such as the bars of soap I'm talking about right now. I promise at the end of this you're gonna want some dr. 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He's one of the spam blitzer guys. It's all good. Let's get Barry cooking There he goes. There's Barry in the passing game good snag. He stayed on his feet. Let's go Let's go Barry. Yes, sir to the edge. We're gonna joke inside and stay on our feet Let's go that could end in real bad Money I'll let Vernon Davis end it. I'm cool with that. Let's let Barry put it away for us Let's go Barry. I see I see gap Oh gotta stop my defense if he goes down the scores gets a two-point. He does win either way I'm happy with our start here.  Oh, he's still passing John T take that to the house. I don't know just how good the slip screen to be Also, they got to get Marcus Allen out of the game, bro I want Barry in here. Let's get inside the blocky up. Look at these shenanigans, bro Look at this. Oh the edge for Barry. It's gonna lock up any stiff arms. Damn. He's fast, bro I think Mike is sick. He throws a good block here. Let's try it right up the middle. No shot We deleted one and he's still on his feet. It's gonna take that whole damn raiders team to pull him down Lion's marathon here. No matter what. I'm throwing it to Barry.   Oh, I'm the Vernon Davis touchdown. All Barry. Oh my god. It's the same guy, right? Isn't this the exact same guy? That's fine. Hey, nothing's open Nothing's open Right back here right back here. All right, here comes minblitz times a hundred though.  Let's see what Vernon Davis looks like here All right, that's cool. Go go watch that playback.     Barry's on his fin. This is so difficult like legitimately so difficult Great catch Cooper cup. I'm gonna try the stretch fourth and three Stretch berry juke inside. I'm scoring on my points at defense.   This man doesn't queue up ever again. Actually, you know what? Let's give him the three p We got a new player in the fray here. I'm gonna start out with an inside zone to barry Oh inside zone. Hopefully he tries to hit stick right here. Oh, he's on the wrong dude He's on the wrong dudes. Get there. Get there barry the juke back three and oh with barry, bro That might be a touchdown Prime time prime time. This is the classic. This is literally madden 20 Can I get a block though? Megatron solid block, but uh, they they came up really fast That wasn't that wasn't going much of anywhere. It's gonna be difficult to pick this one up low key Unless he that's what you quit. How fast did you break your xbox, bro?  I'm gonna go inside zone again. I'm second and 25 That's uh, that's a browns play call right there. Probably not smart But this time we go to slip screen third and 23 We're just pulling plays out of a hat right now But it worked because he's a d-line user.   Let's just reset. Let's get a defensive stop reset. Let's get barry going on the ground again Isiah mr. Simmons I kind of want to reward isiah here for that nasty return I have never tried that with an offensive player. I always go for the swerve first at 25 It's not the same guy. He's also a chief's fan, but not the same guy. Let's get barry cooking Oh, what I'd really like to do is barry on a user playmaker. I think that could go quite well Oh barry with a little block. There's barry God, he bull. He bull rushed like a maniac but palmer puts a perfect ball back there. Oh no Do I have time to make this throw I shouldn't have been staring at barry. I think megatron was open Dude, that's just not open. You're not even gonna audible.  There it is Can we get oh, whoa No shot. He's gonna get that It wouldn't let me choose a aggressive or possession or anything, but it was actually possible Did I just get offsides? He just threw that ball under him Okay, this guy has actual hacks somebody stopped out. I didn't even adjust my d-line, bro He like really wants to throw to his half back, but it has literally never been open Good blocks boys. Oh, he's so open megatron.  Let's go get to the second level. Good blocks a little juke got him Oh, I didn't mean to juke twice. Should just be a little possession catch. Did you get the first? Fourth and one massive play. We're running right at him.  Let's go. It's like a power back barry. It makes literally no sense He's in the goal line set barry can't get stood up now, right? Let's get to the edge great blocks And we keep scoring 20 points. Isn't that just poetic right there 20 for our boy. All right boys I am gonna close it out there. We are killing it. What an awesome video. This very sad.  All right boys. Hey, I love you. Thank you for watching us always and I will see you guys in the next video Peace out


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what's going on guys it's your boy dpj here today with another destiny video and today we have top five sniping plays of the week and damn some of you guys with these snipers are absolutely ridiculous I mean it just makes me jelly it really does I'm not even gonna like you guys seeing these clips makes me sit here just jelly it really does now do show your support by leaving a like as it really does help out submit any badass clip you've got to the email just linked in the top of the video description enjoy the video and I'll catch you guys on that next one isn't it called the matter work zone a neutralized zone B secure zones control targets eliminated nice work three opponents down