guys crypto grounds here. Welcome back to another auto game tutorial video this episode 29. Today we're going to be doing engineering notation. So this should be a pretty quick video because we have our notation set up already. So all we need to do is just hop into our script. We don't need to do anything in unity. This is all just code related. Okay. Okay. So we have our notation method here. Now right now this is scientific notation. So we're going to have to split this up to numerous ones. Or yeah, we're going to do that. Since this is we're trying to access a non static class into a static method. It's not going to we can't do public idle tutorial game game because it's non static. So what we're going to do instead is completely add a new thing to our notation method which means we have to replace everything. Okay. So we're going to do int index. Actually, I have an idea. So let's add a public static int notation settings. Okay, so what we're going to do with this is go to our settings. And we're going to set notation settings equals to note. Okay. And then we put methods. Okay. That looks like that should work. Lovely. Okay. Okay. So now what I'm going to do with this is bring this inside. So now it updates every time we change our notation. We also need to have this at the start as well. Okay. So we do methods on notation settings equals data notation type. Okay. So now we're changing the static version. So it should be global and we don't have to do anything with the actual method itself. We don't have to add any parameters. So that should work just fine. Now we need a switch case statement. Okay. So we're going to switch and we're going to do notation settings. And for our first one, it's scientific notation. If it's zero, we have this and we add a break to it. Actually, we don't need a break because we have this return right here. Okay. So then we have we need our engineering. So let's develop the engineering. Okay. So this is pretty similar. But basically, we're just trying to have three numbers instead of one. So basically, the exponent increases every three set of one. If the same thing, actually, we might as well just add this to the beginning. Okay. We don't need we don't need to do that once. So we're gonna have our exponent bar exponent. And that's gonna be equal to three times math. No, this is just floor. So this is floor because we're using big double that floor. Okay. So we're using floor. And then we have another floor in here. And we divide this by three. Okay. And then oops, and then inside the floor, we do math dot log times 10x. Okay. So what's the difference between this one and this one? Basically, we're trying to round up the exponents up to every three. So how a floor works is that it rounds the number down to the round to the the previous integer number. So if we have 4.5 floor will be four right floor 4.5 will be four. Okay. So now what we're doing here in order Oh, we don't need math log oops, it's just log 10. So now what we're doing here is that we are dividing this by three. And we are logging it and multiplying it back by three. So we're rounding it down three steps. So if it's five, it'll be three. Okay. And those six, it'll be six if it's seven, it'll be six. So that's how that works. And also these need to be, we can also add curly braces in here to be able to use the same. Let me see if this works, I think it does. Yep, it works. So in order to be able to use the same variable name, you can just add curly braces here, otherwise, it will not encapsulate. That means we can't use the same name we have to do like exponent two or something like that. Something quite learned someone gave me that in the comments. So I really appreciate that. And next is going to be our mantisa. And this will be similar kind of this we have the three numbers as well, except and now actually, yeah, this is it. So now we have our exponent here. And yeah, that should be good. Okay. And returning is the same as usual, like this. Perfect. So this should be it. We can save. You have an error. Where's our error? It's just somewhere. Oh, I see. Okay. And if it's two, they will return nothing for now, because we still got to develop that. Okay. Hopefully it'll work. I'm guessing it will. And if we have to make this non static, I'm going to cry. Okay, looks good so far. Oh, we're gone for two days now. So also really sorry for the slow uploads this week. I'm going to start playing I'm going to try to start spacing videos out because I want the series to long quite a bit of time. And I don't want to run out of ideas, even though I have a really long list right now. I just it's just for the long term. I want to have quite a bit of ideas. But once I've started thinking more things, I will pick up the pace, of course. So there won't be another video till next Thursday or this Thursday. That's why I plan on doing another one of these. And hopefully I'll pick up the pace too. Because I need to catch up. Okay, so what's going on here? Settings. Where's our settings? Why is our settings not working? This is like not working at all. Why is this not working? Okay, so let's go to settings should be working, but it's not. That's like ginormous. Is it like doing anything at all? Why? Okay, that was weird. Okay, I'm guessing what I'm guessing it's the setting screen. It's the canvas group that's screwing up. And why I still have a canvas screen. I don't know. Let's get rid of that. Because this should just be a graphic recaster. Yeah, okay. So yeah, these, this is a game object. So we can just get rid of this. Okay, save that last demotification. Go away, please. Okay, so now it's just not coming back. Why is it not working? Like, I'm guessing it's because it's behind some text. Okay, that was the reason why. Okay. Well, that fixes our issue. Just make sure the the buttons that need to be on top of the text are dragged at the bottom. Because these things are the higher objects. Alright, so now if we go to settings, change to engineering notation should work. Okay, I think this is it. Let's get to, let's prestige. It's main right here. The prestige is not working either. What? Why is wrong? What? All my buttons are just broken now all of a sudden. Let's see what's up. Oh, it's missing prestige. Okay. Well, that's kind of an issue. I think we moved our prestige to earth prestige manager. Okay, I totally forgot about that. So hopefully it didn't screw any of you guys up. If it did, I'm sure you guys have commented by now. Okay, well, now we should be able to prestige. Okay. So it looks like it's working so far. I need more upgrades though. It's simply not enough. Can I rebirth yet? Oh, that's not supposed to show. I think I, I think I'm going to put this on top of the buttons like that. Or not. It's supposed to look like this. So I don't know what went wrong with that. Okay, let's rebirth. I don't know how much better they really are. Oh, that was kind of a waste. I got wasted. Okay, but anyways, I let's pick up the game paste. So basically we can go here. Let's test it. So 123456. And it's one. Does that work? So now if it's 525, it's 103. Perfect. We got ourselves an engineering notation.  If you didn't make sure you smash a like comment your suggestions on below. If you have any questions, let me know and I'll be sure answer them pretty fast. Anyways, if you're new, subscribe to my channel, turn on notifications, check out my other videos in that corner. Have a good day. Thank you for watching. Peace.


grain boy is back because today we are making oatmeal and in my recent day meetings you guys have been seeing me like the oatmeal packets that you just put some hot water in and they're ready in a few minutes even though they're organic there's still a lot of negatives about that whether it's the chemicals the added flavorings or how the oats are processed because the oats they use in those packet oatmeal are quick oats that need to be steamed and rolled and pressed and we know these big corporations aren't using like high-quality well water to prepare the oats and the modern tap water has fluoride chlorine antibiotics chemicals all of these things you don't want to be consuming especially if the rest of your diet is organic and you're only drinking really high quality water you know why do you want to start your day off with something filled with modern tap water so here we have organic steel cut oats and this is just the whole oat aka groat chopped into a few pieces and you can tell that you know these are really a grain they have not been steamed processed so that's what we're using as the base of our oatmeal and the flavor we're going to do today is kind of apple vanilla so you could really do whatever you want you get creative with this for the sweetener we're using flexed strokes from Frankie's here in food this is pure glucose or as sugar honey maple syrup also has fruit toast in it which is a little bit harder on the liver but this isn't as sweet so you could try this you could do other stuff we just have this today we have a whole apple we're going to dice up put it in there stew it a little bit with the oatmeal of course some salt to season it a little bit of vanilla extract we have some coconut cream to make it creamier and also add a little bit of fat because even though oats have a small amount of fat and protein you still want something to kind of slow down the digestion just a little bit just a tiny amount of fat to balance the macronutrients you could use macadamia nut butter different nut butters but coconut cream is the highest saturated fat and also anti-fungal and I can't eat it and we have some apple juice here organic biodynamic just make sure if you're going to add a juice that they don't have water as an ingredient in it because that would defy the purpose of having the oats you know you don't want to add any tap water with this too we're going to add this at some point in the recipe just to add more of that apple flavor I guess this isn't that necessary this is something that might be really really nice don't make it a little special yeah so if we take a look at the the regular apple cinnamon oatmeal they have oats sugar apples natural flavors cinnamon and sea salt so basically the same thing except we're adding much higher quality ingredients we're making sure there's no chemicals in it and maybe a few culinary tips that'll make this really special so we're starting off here guys with three cups of water that I've brought to a boil of course we are using high quality glass bottle mineral water this is really the reason I'm showing you guys this recipe is to be mindful of the water source that companies used to prepare this stuff so we have that in here and since we already have it at a boil we're ready to add one cup of our oats so we got one cup of oats here which is four servings a little under 800 calories so this is probably more than enough for one meal for me but if I was you I would make a batch of like two or three of this because you don't want to be sitting here cooking breakfast 20 minutes every morning so if you do a few batches you'll have it for a few days with a breakfast and we add our pinch of salt I will mention now we also have Himalayan pink salt now on Frankie's here inage meat and Frankie's here inage foods if you guys want to try that so we'll lower the heat to medium now since this is gonna take 15 20 minutes we're gonna do a little bit of prep I mean we don't really have anything to do besides peel and slice the apple and the reason you want to peel an apple is because you guys can see this is very colorful that indicates a high flavoured content anti-nutrients and whenever was on the skin when it was grown it's just better to peel your apples now I want to get a pretty small dice on this apple so I'm gonna slice it kind of vertically like that flip it over slice it vertically again and then we're gonna go down then we have nice little tiny squares of apple so that's that we got our apple chopped up real nice yeah just make sure to kind of scrape the bottom of this to make sure the oats aren't you know burning or sticking which they are a little bit so just be careful so after about 10 minutes you guys can see a lot of the liquid has been absorbed into the oats we're gonna add about one cup of apple juice so this is gonna add a bit more liquid to be absorbed and of course some sugar and some flavor okay so now that it's hot again we're gonna put in our diced apples now normal oatmeal recipe you just cook good for 15 20 minutes but since we want to add all this other stuff you know you got to do it in the middle of the cooking process again just stirring scraping the bottom making sure this doesn't stick I think you can do this in the slow cooker too or the Instant Pot just throw everything in there and let it go might not be as good but a whole lot less than standing at your stove for half an hour so we're about the 15 minute mark and since we're using a powder dry sweetener we want to make sure that we have enough liquid in this so we'll add it before it's finished cooking I don't have much of this left so I'm gonna do about a quarter cup of the Flexrose and normally like a quarter cup of sugar would be plenty to sweeten this but as I mentioned earlier the Flexrose is not as sweet so you might need a little more than that alright for a final ingredient we're gonna finish this off with a tablespoon of coconut cream I try to be careful with this because I actually don't like the coconut flavor but I really do like the creaminess it adds so if you put just enough you don't taste that much of the coconut flavor and as with all the ingredients you don't really want to add anything at the very very end you want the flavors to kind of melt together and the heat to extract those flavors even more outside of the coconut cream that is probably a thousand calories total you know between the added apple juice and the coconut cream and stuff the Flexrose still a little bit of moisture left here but we're gonna taste the oats to see if they're finished cooking so the oats definitely need a few more minutes and the flavors getting there I think I want to add a little bit more sugar and coconut because it's not as creamy as I like I don't exactly taste the coconut yet and it's it's not sweet enough so I'll do maybe another tablespoon of the coconut cream and then I just have like a little bit of honey left in this jar so we'll use that as the other sweetener you know bro we might as well go United Nations at this point we're adding all these different sweeteners so we'll do like a teaspoon of maple syrup too and each sweetener lends its own flavor so you get a little bit of the complexity from the honey a little bit from the maple syrup a little bit of that fruitiness from the Flexrose and I mean if you wanted to add a little bit of sugar here too you'll get a unique flavor from each one it's been about 20 minutes we turn the heat off we're gonna cover this let it sit all right guys now that it's time for lunch hopefully our oatmeal is ready so this is definitely not something I would do if you don't have time in the morning you know you actually have to work like I do I should be at work right now but instead we're here making oatmeal for you guys very creamy looks good some moisture left still but keep in mind as if you let this sit for a few hours or overnight it will definitely absorb the rest of the moisture so hopefully this is cooked otherwise we're gonna pretend it's cooked as I'm done filming this video all right it's done so we can do an official taste test you guys I'm losing my mind honestly I'm really losing it what kind of crazy person wakes up in the morning buys like $30 worth of organic ingredients and spends an hour cooking oatmeal like you have to be pretty deranged like maybe even vegan to do that I rather not eat it's very appley a lot of apples and what I don't really like is the sweetness is separated from the oats so you get all the honey the maple syrup of flexrose to get those flavors separately from the oats which means this is gonna be much better after it sits for a few hours so you know maybe not the best first thing you make it but still pretty good I'm still gonna eat it this morning you get the the chunks of fresh apple in there and add some moisture overall 7.5 out of 10 I think after this sits for a little bit it's gonna be good definitely make a head meal the fresh apples are so pleasant in here it's just you know the grotes need some time to really sit and soften up I think I think you can soak oats overnight or something that's probably what we should have done so someone in the comments that's probably made this a lot let us know down below if you can soak these overnight how long to soak them for that'll probably soften the maybe even soak them in like the apple juice just to make sure it has some flavor but guys I gotta like honestly just find some like nasty vegan girl with just like huge huge like get her over one night even if my peepee doesn't work from my liver damage if I make her this in the morning bro it's over it's over it's I'm set you know I'm set so smooth sailing from there but that shows you guys where my brain is at today so before any more garbage comes out of my mouth I want to thank you guys for joining me you can go to Frank dash the founder comm if you like to support me through any of my creative and 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All right, let's cut to the chase here guys The real story about plateaus, you know, this is one of the most calming problems I see in all of health and wellness. I actually just did it a day.  I'd love to know where you're from We're in the world. This is really cool to be a people all over the world. It's up Jason out of Vegas But where are you from and then also? Have you ever been into plateau before now? Remember plateaus? I'm talking about health and wellness and fitness plateaus, right? Most people will give a plateau and weight loss um and I want to clear the air on it really the significance of it and What most people do and why it's wrong why what most people do is completely wrong And so if you take a moment and you listen to this, it'll change your life forever I'm just gonna tell you you'll change your life forever. Where am I from? I'm from from my mother Well, I guess that's true But the also the thing is is um This applies to everything in your life. It applies to relationships It replies to uh, I gotta turn that bot off That's funny. This is gonna be fun on facebook um And uh, Minnesota in the house. I hope you're cold. I'm plateaued right now. Okay, listen to this I'm gonna I'm gonna give you the whole thing but this applies to everything in your life UK in the house super excited as you come on just say where you're from If you don't mind and uh, if you've ever been in a plateau because we're gonna dig into it here in about 10 seconds But I was I was I'm gonna tell you a story. So I'm sitting there with a lady. I'm gonna call her We'll call her Karen. Uh, that's not her name, but we're gonna call her Karen And she looks amazing. She looks great from when she started she looked amazing And if I would have told her one year ago if I would have said hey, listen in one year You're gonna be at 180 pounds You're gonna be able to not have to work out every day because she likes to work out But yet life happened and she's only able to work out maybe once or twice a week Um, but you're not gonna have to follow a crazy strict diet You're gonna be able to have a drink every once in a while once or twice a week You're gonna have some drinks and you're gonna be able to maintain 185 I go, what would you have said a year ago if I would have told you that and she goes I would have been stoked that'd be I mean she's like I would that'd be the greatest thing But here she's at 185 She's looked great. She looked completely different. She's super active vibrant full of life Yet disappointed. She's not 165 Right and not appreciating anything that she's accomplished. She's in a plateau And the biggest plateau she's in is is her expectations that she needs to be further ahead faster I go, but here's the thing and this is what I want you to think of it That's why when you look read my read my statement. I said it's it's 60 percent mindset This is the secret that people don't talk about they think it's about nutrition and exercise I work with a lot of coaches and doctors worldwide and I just listen to a podcast with Ed Mylet and then a young lady and they I know Ed doesn't think this way but she thinks because she's a scientist It's about the gut bacteria and that and it's not it's a huge factor But it's not the key. It's not the thing that matters the most Right people's thoughts and behaviors make the biggest impact because I said to her I go. Hey Karen I go if you in one year you weigh 165. I go. Why is it going to change? What why are you going to be in the same mindset? Disappointed that you're not 155 or you're not doing able to run faster or whatever that is I go. You have no joy of what you've created already, which you've already done amazing things So we're hard on ourselves, right? Okay, so let's get to the plateau plateau is the first thing I want you to keep in mind Is that a plateau and I'm going to give you all the reasons on how to break through a plateau But what I found is the people that break through a plateau and maintain success do something different than everybody else They do something completely different than everybody else Okay, and I'm going to tell you what that difference is But I'm going to give you the tips of what you can do to make it different this time. Okay, so what happens is When you're in a plateau Basically, your body's creating a new normal if you read a book There's a book called mastery and talked about plateaus plateaus Ironically are the new normal they they become the new you So it's the time to celebrate It's the new it think about it this way is if you're climbing a mountain And as you're going through and you're you're making life changes, right? You're eating better. You're drinking ketones. You're dieting. You're exercising. You're sleeping trying to sleep But you're doing all these things, right? There's a lot of uncertainty. You don't know what's going to work at how well it's going to work You're on a soft surface You're on a soft it's like you're dig climbing a mountain and every step you take you slide down a half an inch Or every step you take you slide down six inches, right? That's that's the that's the health journey When you get to a plateau basically what you've done is establish a strong platform or or a stable place That you're now able to stand on The problem is is most people feel deprived or disappointment or or disgust it by where they're at So what happens is they end up going back down the mountain?  I'm just I'm gonna start eating negative I'm gonna start doing this. I don't doesn't matter anymore. They start going back down the mountain All they done is had re-established a new normal and remember this what you don't know is the human body All it cares about is staying alive and reproduction. It doesn't care about your weight Your weight is a variable as a factor of survival I hope this makes sense your body gains body fat for 100 survival reasons primitive survival reasons That's why I did what it did Right and it's in your people go. Why did I get sick? It did it because it's trying to survive Right. I have an autoimmune condition, right? And I could be like the victim of like, why did I get sick? What's wrong blah blah blah? My body responded to keep me alive Now I don't necessarily like the the the the experience of that but its goal was for me to stay alive, right? When you get sick people don't realize this most of the time when you get sick It's not the the the thing that got you feeling bad.  It's not a bad thing It's actually what is supposed to be doing to help you feel better when you sprain your ankle It swells it makes it hard to walk That's because it's trying to help you. So when you're in a plateau, you're creating a new normal This is the time to celebrate This is the time to appreciate that you've done this far. That's the 60 percent mindset shift Because when you do that you don't go back down What you do is you re-establish a mission forward people I have people come on I don't need to lose 100 pounds. Okay, awesome Well, it's not gonna be a straight line to 100 pounds. They're gonna lose 30 plateau. I told I told Karen I wish I could just say a real name, but I told Karen. I go I keep having to remember Karen I go the really master way of getting healthy is basically go on a journey for a one to two months And then maintain it for a month go on a journey for one to two months and maintain That's the psychology side of it. That's the best part to do psychologically Because then when your goal is you're almost like trying not to get better But you're trying to enjoy your life while you're there. It's the same thing. You walk up a mountain Stop and look at the view, right Appreciate the process. Okay But it's hard for us to do that because we all we can focus on the end and the end gets further away The more that you don't appreciate The plateaus or where you get where you're you're kind of hovering at last thing I want to say is that what people don't realize is when they're not well or not healthy Your body has to go through a lot of shifts and changes hormonally detoxing Like lady she was talking about gut bacteria, which is important And if that changes your body is going to go through shifts and changes too And that's part of the plateau is part of the understanding. So What do you do about it? I'm going to give you the one tip the people that have the most success in plateaus I'm going to give you that one tip what it is Is anybody get a smell on what I'm stepping in here is this it's just making sense for you all It's so important For us to understand this because nothing nothing hurts me more Then I watch people start their health journey and they quit so fast And what they don't realize when you look at the foundation of health and wellness the foundation of life and survival And and flourishment and excitement and enjoy life Right, it's very simple. It's very found fundamentally basic and what these what people don't realize is that There isn't a better option What we're doing is something that's groundbreaking never been done in history before It's the first time in ever in history where we've combined the primitive nature of human existence and human survival and human thriving With modern-day reality and technology and life the first time ever There's so many products out there that I have to I have to people call me up. Dustin. Should I take this? Dustin, can I do this? Hey Dustin, what about this?  This scares the heck out of me And so I just really I really really really want people to understand that like when you're starting this journey It will be the last thing you ever have to do as long as you're willing to go through the whole journey It's not just about nutrition. It's not just about supplementation. It's not just about exercise. It's not just about Um, uh toxins and vaccinations and all this other stuff like people make way too much of that stuff It's a factor, but it's not the factors The the determination that you're going to go in your journey and learn how your journey works And this is in everything in your life. You'll change forever. So here's here's the tips of breaking a plateau One of the number one things I'm finding is I find that people number one is they start their journey Oh, I gotta say this first if you're on a weight loss transformation and you lose 30 40 50 pounds of your plateau Well, guess what? You're not the same person as you were when you started So what you did at the beginning can't be the same thing you do now Got it what you did at the beginning cannot be the same thing you do. You're not the same person If you've lost 50 pounds every step you take you're working less hard So let's say that you're you're you're 50 pounds overweight And 100 pounds overweight you lose 50 pounds at 100 pounds overweight You're walking and let's say you decide i'm gonna walk 10 000 steps a day You burn more calories walking 10 000 steps when you're 100 pounds overweight than when you are only 50 pounds It's different it changed you have to change something to get the same experience and result So that's one factor the other factor is is that people will start and I'll go low carb Let's say and they're drinking ketones, of course and then what happens they plateau But they start to see him, you know somebody eating carbohydrates or you got I got a bodybuilder eating 300 Carbohydrates and they're eating higher fat Healthier foods and they didn't realize that they started adding things back in and then they didn't realize what they did they changed So the first thing I want you to do is your plateau is really assess Are you on are you doing the things that are going to lead you towards your goal number one? Okay, because sometimes people just have to re-recognize it.  I ran for hours on that one But here's the reality is that you've got to make some changes The biggest one that I find isn't actually food. I'm going to give you some tips on that in a second The biggest one I find of changes is people don't exercise enough And I've been really hard on this because As somebody that's had multiple surgeries and a lot of injuries. I'm I love exercise. It makes me feel good But it's we have to exercise is a supplement to these days The only way because our ancestors naturally moved more my car door shut themselves. I don't really have to do that Everything is easier in our life today, which is great. I'm not I'm not bagging that I don't necessarily want to walk to work uphill both ways in the middle of snowstorm. I don't want that I don't know if you do Miguel does but we got to start moving our body more We got to set a standard for ourselves What is your standard? What's your minimum? My minimum is 10,000 steps a day I'm not going to go below it. Has there been days where I have? Yes, there has been. I've had sort of reason I had some things go on. I didn't make it. I just made it up on another day Miguel we're in a little challenge group and and I'm like, let's just make up what we couldn't do We didn't hit all of our goals for the week I go, let's just make it up over the weekend because the weekends are kind of free days Just just enjoy your weekends Set a standard that you can live by And know that your standard is going to change and has to change For you to keep moving forward I use this example. I go I walk people go to the gym the first three months at the gym They're sore. They're sweating. They're tired. They're fatigued And then the next nine months They're not sore tired fatigued or anything So that went from an exercise where it fatigued your body where your body broke down and repaired to an activity An activity is something that you can do every single day and continues to do it I encourage activities, but if you're looking to change your body An activity is going to help you stay the same. It's not going to help you change Let me say that again. An activity is going to help you stay the same But it's not going to actually help you change an exercise based on definition applied force It's going to require your body to adapt to is going to allow you to change So if you're doing the same physical activities you were when you started your your journey and you're not doing You've lost weight or lost you got healthier and you plateaued It's because you're still doing the same thing. It's become an activity I couldn't ask a world-class athlete To start training to get to a certain level and they plateau on their performance We have to do more to get more out of them. Same thing for us. It's just a different level or a different standard Okay, that's that's I hope that's good. I thank you Appreciate it. Okay. So first thing is we got to get activity and we got to get exercise in It's too vital for metabolism for health for gut health for brain health And ideally you can get exercise outside. It'd be great. I know you guys is all you men midwestern Minnesotans Move just move. Just leave. That's what I gotta say leave come to california. It's way better Uh, but get outside. It's super important to do that. Okay Food we already addressed for the most part for food. It's this is the simple one for food Be cautious of nuts salamis cheeses And eating too late.  I'm a huge fan of intermittent fasting But I eat at nine o'clock sometimes nine o'clock in the morning. I might eat at one o'clock It's it's gonna vary for me and guess what it changes week to week month to month I've I've learned how to allow it to adapt if I wake up and I'm just really hungry I'm I'm not gonna I'm not I'll drink my ketones and I'll delay a little bit But I'm not gonna try to fight to the end of the day. I'm not gonna do it I'm gonna fuel my body with good high-quality foods. Okay. I am a huge fan of things like Kim chi. I'm a huge fan of things like sauerkraut or fermented type foods That are relatively low-carb. I'm a huge fan of that. I'm a huge fan of just fresh fruits and vegetables I do eat fruit now. I don't I used to not but now that we have ketones. I eat fruit regularly I eat fruit probably now. I would say once a day, but probably five to seven times a week in some days They eat more than others. That's what I do. This is what works for me Okay, and then I eat a lot of high-quality protein But try to stop eating the sooner you can stop eating before bed the better at least three hours But three to five hours is even better Anytime you put food in your system It's messing up some rhythms in your in your gi track and some health in your gi track So those are just some tips around that Okay The other thing about food that and I always say cautious like the salamis the processed stuff and the nuts and seeds The reason why that matters is that the more of that you're eating The more that you're not eating the other stuff, which is what your body really wants High quality proteins high quality vegetables if you're eating fruit then high quality fruit And if you're on a fat loss journey, just choose the lower carb fruits choose the berries the berries the berries avocados things like that that are lower carb and and then enjoy them Don't feel guilty that you had a freaking strawberry if that makes any sense I'll be right My wife said I gotta go. Uh, we got some work to do Yeah, right matt. I mean, yeah the the just the the processing of processing itself is an ideal Now I do eat some salamis from time to time, but it's a small portion of what I'm actually currently doing So that's when it comes to food. Okay Here's the other biggest ones that I'm going to give you as a tip that mess people up Okay alcohol isn't your friend And I like it. I like it. I tell you I like it alcohol is a tricky one alcohol design to slow your system down So you have to be aware of that you may some of you that aren't going to get results You're going to have to cut it down or minimize it very little and it's not about the carbohydrates of alcohol It's about the empty calories and about what it does to your system So a plateau could often be an alcohol related plateau And it's easy to I live in one country like alcohol is just like a normal thing here in minnesota And it's like alcohol is a regular thing there and people want to get caught up into the carbohydrate side of it all No, it's actually the alcohol itself. That's a bigger factor Right one serving of alcohol is 90 calories ish 90 calories if you have two to three Yeah, this is a stick to bourbon. Uh, but the reality is is you have three bourbons, right? I don't do a little I mean, I do a bourbon, right? We're doing manhattan's and we're doing old fashioned But you're you're drinking three or 400 calories and your body's going to use those calories first But also alcohol itself is a depressant. It slows down the body's natural system. It's technically kind of a toxin Right, but I enjoy it. I I'm not against it I'm just I want to be aware that if if you're doing these things in your body's plateauing Well, then there's reasons why right? So don't stop your plan adjust your plan Adjust your approach to the plan So I hope this helps. Um, last thing is you got to get rid of the scale. Um, I told Karen.   I'm like, what should we talk about? I could talk about all these things and she goes the most important thing about mindset is that you can always start again now You can always start again now listen New Year's resolutions almost everybody quits by now within the next two months 97 of people quit their New Year's resolutions. They gave up on them. They don't even tell you they gave up They don't even know that they gave up or they already gave up Don't stop just go in Persistence is one of the most powerful things in the world And if you know that you're on a journey stay on that journey A couple factors of staying on that journey is surround yourself with people on a similar journey Right get away from people that are if you if you hang out with people that drink more You're gonna drink more right. I moved to wine country and I drink more here than I ever have Why because everybody around here drinks wine. It's very social. It's very normal But it's like I'm exposed to it more and guess what I naturally I naturally gravitated towards that I have to choose if that's something that's not serving my life I have to choose to move away from it or be conscious that I'm doing it and make another alternative choices. Okay But get rid of that scale. It's not serving you to your longer go long long term results Know that you're on a journey. And so here's a few last little tips and this is the most important thing Is that the people that bust through plateaus the best are the first ones the people that recognize they're in it And are not disappointed. They're proud of how they've gotten there. They're proud of their accomplishment At the same time instead of measuring their food and measuring You know all their clothes and their weight what they're doing is saying listen I need to go out and perform better. I need to raise my standard So I use walking as example if you can walk a mile in 20 minutes And you go on a journey and you get down to 19 minutes and your plateaued Set a new journey I'm going to go walk a mile in 18 minutes and work towards that goal Because that's the life you're going to want to create when you get when you're up to 50 pounds You're going to want to see that walk time. It's a performance goal You have another metric and this could be in many ways, right? You could use clothing is one option You could use walking fitness exercise biking burpees push-ups All you really want to see is can you raise your standards if who you are when you do that? You'll maintain it forever. Jeff's on here right now And this is one of the things that we've been working with him on and he's doing this He's that you lose it. I mean he wants to lose 200 pounds like he's on this huge transformation And every time we nudge him I'm always like, where's your standard? Like where you at? Like what are you standing now? He's gone through a knee replacement. I went to my hip replacement Right, so we we both got some stuff working on but think about this if you go through a knee replacement or hip replacement You're automatically back. My leg got so tired snowboarding. I could barely do it Like two runs in the morning two runs in the afternoon. That was it, right? My standard is low right now But if I if I want to do this for the rest of my life of my kids and my family I got to raise my standard. I got to get in shape I got to push my leg a little bit more so that it can get to five runs in the morning five runs in the afternoon And I want to set the highest standard that I can that seemed appropriate for me I don't want to just be satisfied with one or two runs Guess what when I'm not as in good shape, which I'm not in great shape now But if my shape's gonna go worse, guess what? That's gonna be one run and then I'm never gonna do it again That's not acceptable for me. Not at all So set the standard Set your standard Set your standard and raise it to something that you're appreciative and proud of and I don't care where you're starting I don't care if you can't walk around the block start and you got to start somewhere Okay, so we obviously know that this is a secret weapon So most people that are following me already drink ketone. So You got to add your ketones every day because it's going to be your insurance policy to sustain Fulfilled energy and help feel your brain help feel your muscles help feel your heart After that it's once or twice a day after that. It's really about You know finding a diet that you can sustain and work towards don't eat solely that night Especially if you're plateaued watch the processed foods to eat more real food Right and then from there you got to start moving your body and you got to start appreciating your progress So with that said and done I had to weigh myself every day with my personal trainer not anymore. Uh, yeah, I would fire that trainer I Actually when I did it I did it once a week and I was I'd never allowed my clients to see the scale They weren't allowed to see it She accidentally saw she wasn't supposed to she peaked and it's like a change of mindset It was like it was horrific and I don't do it anymore now There's a small number of people that can see the number and it motivates them and that's a psychological thing Um, so that person you might motivate, right? I might motivate them I'm my wife's kind of that way. It's like hey look what happened. Oh, okay It doesn't she doesn't feel bad about it as much as she does. She feels determined by it It's a small number of people like five to ten percent people that you can use up to your advantage most people it's a negative so Um, you're no way jeff jeff's at 14 minute miles jeff wouldn't be I was at 20 minutes before four months from now It's been four months now. I'm just walking further now. So jeff was at 20 minute miles now He's at 14 minute miles so he said in a standard for himself and that to me is what's exciting about it. So Yeah, I have to go. I appreciate you all for uh for listening in given your feedback. Share this out Let's try to help people live better It's just so hard for me because when you it's kind of like when you know when you know when you know, right? And you know when you know, you know, there's always going to be things that are missing I'm working on a new little project that we're going to be doing and And it's going to be a way to help get clarity to help people even go further faster And I'm excited about that, but I want to keep in mind that it's it's it's a one percenter. It's a two percenter the foundation of all of this is Drink your ketones Eat high quality foods even smaller windows, right move your body And appreciate where you're at in the journey that you're on and be patient on the process That is as simple as that. Yes, I can add in earthen. I can add in sunlight, which I think are extremely important But they they won't make the deal breaker combine them together It's amazing because yes the sun makes you happier when you're happier your mindset shifts and you appreciate things more So yes, all those things are important And they're not the thing that's going to change everything if that makes sense, right? You still have to make the choices with the mindset being changed so or the mood being changed Peace out Do I end my day with ketones? I do most days. Um, I have one afternoon. I probably Three or four or five times a week. I have a one in the evening non caffeine of course So I do that for sleep and I do that for my brain So I'm a huge fan. I don't follow ketogenic diet anymore. I follow a real hybrid I'm I probably I wake up in ketosis every day, but I don't file like extremely extremely low carb I have a very much a hybrid diet Mine's more of an anti-inflammatory paleo diet that I follow. So with that I I because I don't restrict carbs as much I drink a little bit more ketones because the therapeutic effects are so important Keter chills great. I use I use the ampules also and keto pro So I variety all those kind of depends if I'm maybe a little hungrier I might have a keto pro Because it helps tamp it down appetite a little bit, but doesn't impact the sleep component. It actually enhances it and improves it So yeah, do that. Uh, do you uh, do you end your day with protein? Um, I eat protein for dinner I don't necessarily eat protein before bed. Same thing. I want my body resting GI check resting often we've got date nights. Um, it's it's it's it's not every day I I will have something later at night than than usual. It's like I'm not a robot But there's a there's a consistency of the norm and remember health is kind of boring. It's basic It's not complicated and right now in the world. Everybody's complicating it I work with a tons of naturopathic holistic functional doctors around the world And the reality is they don't realize that I model my chiropractor not all of them But a lot of them they're doing the same thing. They're almost freaking people out and overwhelming them with the fundamental basics of what this really is and in most of the time is because They're learning something new and they and they get excited about it and then they make that the new big deal Right And so like I learned about vitamin d 1999 in college, right? We already knew that it was a huge issue Now it's becoming this big thing, right? Well, you can correct it really easy. It's not a it's it's a problem But it's not a really big deal to correct, right? So it's like we're making and now the gut is like this big thing and people are making like my guts Wrapped you can fix it like don't worry about it. We can take care of it Just understand it. It's something we can get better just like your muscle mass being lost Like that's that's a freaking real big problem. But guess what?   We just got to enhance it a little bit. We got to improve it a little bit So that psychology of of these things really, you know, I'm a cautious thing people be careful with the information you're looking for At the same time the information is probably valid. It's just your reaction to it Probably shouldn't be over too extreme outside of the extreme situation. So Cheers y'all


My name is Andrea Milan and I work for IOM's Global Migration Data Analysis Centre in Berlin, Germany, and in fact in its most beautiful square, Gendarmerie Marte. The data center helps governments all over the world collect, analyze and use migration data for effective and evidence-based policies. So at GIMDAC I'm learning every day how data is not only a technical matter, but it's really what enables governments and even IOM itself to achieve its objectives. I love it when we receive a question from a government or from colleagues all over the world that they have to solve a data-related problem and we manage to help them. Sometimes we help them directly, we provide advice. Sometimes we help them discuss with other colleagues in other countries worldwide and maybe find the best practice that they can replicate in their own country and that helps them solve the problem. The main challenge I face is really the breadth of the work that we cover. So for example in my main project, the Migration Governance Indicators, we cover all aspects of migration governance so we always have to be up-to-date on developments in all migration-related fields. IOM is a great organization because it gives space for young persons to grow because IOM has a very wide array of activities from data research to the more operational work. One can really grow over many, many years and learn many different types of skills in this organization.


On November 4th, 300,000 people marched in Washington DC from the Freedom Plaza to the White House in the largest Palestine solidarity march in U.S. history. This unprecedented demonstration comes in the wake of Israel's ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, which has just surpassed 10,000 casualties. This march was organized by a wide range of Palestinian, Arab and anti-imperialist groups, including the Palestinian youth movement, the Answer Coalition, the People's Forum, and national students for justice in Palestine. Hundreds of thousands rallied and then marched to the White House, demanding an end to U.S. funding for Israel and a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. This 300,000 strong march occurred in the heart of Israel's most significant backer, the United States, despite the fact that people in this country have been faced with various forms of repression for supporting Palestine. To speak more about the Palestine solidarity movement in North America, people's dispatch spoke to Yara Shufani of the Palestinian youth movement, a Palestinian living in Toronto who has been organizing around the Palestine solidarity movement for 10 years. I'm wondering if you could start off by just telling me a bit about yourself, you know, how long you've been organizing in solidarity with Palestine and what drove you to be involved in that first place? I've been organizing around Palestine for over 10 years now and I'm originally Palestinian. My grandfather was exiled in 1948 from Palestine and what Palestinians call the catastrophe or the Nakba and he was 16 years old, removed from his village and spent the rest of his life as a refugee and, you know, for all his life he waited to return to Palestine and unfortunately was, you know, was never able to return in the course of his life and so organizing around Palestine for me is very much something that's reflected in my family and I think that's the story of all or so many Palestinians right who are in the far diaspora in North America and Europe and other parts of the world who come to this because they grow up hearing stories of exile, stories of dispossession, some of us still have family in Palestine and so for many Palestinians it really is a carrying forward of a multi-generational struggle, a 75-year long struggle for freedom and to return to our homeland, you know, on behalf of for many of us grandparents who've never been able to return. You attended D.C. as you spoke about before. Could you speak about some of your reflections from the march? The march that took place on November 4th in Washington D.C. which the Palestinian youth movement and other co-convening organizations helped together was a historic day I think for the Palestinian struggle. It was the largest march in U.S. history focused on Palestine with hundreds of thousands of people in attendance and really the march had three central demands. One was the demand for an immediate ceasefire. The second is a demand to end U.S. military aid to Israel and the third was a calling to lift the siege on Gaza which has been ongoing for 17 years whereby the Zionist state controls Gaza's air, land and water effectively making the Gaza strip an open air prison and all of these demands really are reflective of a movement that is interested in the question of Palestinian liberation that is fighting for Palestinian liberation and what makes it so critical and so historic I think is that we were really it was a show of power in the heart of U.S. empire. We were able to bring together a historic number of people and the determination that people had to march to the White House and not with the interest of appealing to the American government which we know has been the Zionist state's biggest ally. We know Zionism to be the child of Western imperialism, a reflection of Western imperialism in the Middle East and so the march was not about appealing to the United States government but to mobilize the masses to show that the United States government that this pressure is going to continue and we're going to continue to organize and continue to place pressure until the ceasefire is called and until military aid to Israel stops and what was critical about it was the fact that just a few days prior to the march the Biden administration voted to send an additional $14.3 billion to the Zionist state effectively rewarding it for its genocide. This $14.3 billion is on top of a $3.8 billion that the United States sends each year to the Zionist state to massacre Palestinians. This is in a country where healthcare and education are crying for funding where people are demanding and have been demanding good jobs, public investment in infrastructure, in the environment and so really what the United States is affirming and is telling the American public by choosing to instead send $14.3 billion to a country committing genocide is that its interests are not with the American people, with the American working class, with the public but rather its interests are in service of empire and what makes this march so historic in the backdrop of the United States government ignoring the masses, ignoring the fact that 66% of the American people want to see a ceasefire is also the heightened level of repression that we have seen on Palestinian and Arab and Muslim organizing since the beginning of October. We have seen a major crackdown on Palestinian organizing. We have seen the President of the United States engage effectively in hate speech against the Palestinian people and we know that this is because in order to justify and create public support for Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people, the United States must engage in both media and political propaganda in order to deceive the American public and really dismiss silence and delegitimize the mass movement of people in the United States and across the world that is fighting for Palestinian liberation and we know that the impacts of this kind of rhetoric, this kind of repression surveillance against the Palestinian movement is not only going to result in violence against the Palestinian people in Gaza and in Palestine but also has implications for Palestinians living in the United States. We saw just a few weeks ago the murder of a six-year-old Palestinian boy in Chicago which one of the speakers at the march was very clear to say that this is a direct outcome of Joe Biden's hate speech against the Palestinian people and the landlord who murdered the six-year-old Palestinian boy said that he was motivated by what he was seeing on his TV, the rhetoric that he was seeing on his TV and so in this backdrop, in this amidst these conditions of surveillance, of repression, of hate speech against the Palestinian people, against Palestinian movement to have a collection or a gathering of over 300,000 people essentially saying we are not afraid, we refuse to be afraid and we are going to make our voices heard, we are going to organize in a show of power and we are going to make sure that the people of Gaza know that they are not alone and we are going to make sure that the US government knows that its funding for Zionist genocide is not going to go unchallenged, truly makes this a historical moment and you could feel that energy in the crowd, the energy of anger that we were gathering at a time where there were 10,000 Palestinians in the last month that had been murdered by the Zionist state, nearly half of whom were children so there was anger and outrage and sadness but it was paired with determination, with the refusal to be afraid and with determination to organize and continue to organize in service of Palestinian national liberation. Yeah, you definitely mentioned the fact that it was historic, the sheer amount of people and energy, I'm wondering if you could just describe also what it was like to be in the midst of that, marching among 300,000 people, obviously I think something pretty notable is that the speeches and the people that were put forward to speak were actually very openly anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist, something that you don't see in a march of this size so could you describe a little bit about what that was like for you? Over 75 years the Palestinian national liberation struggle has been very clear that it is an anti-imperialist struggle. This dates all the way back to actually before the creation of the Zionist state in the 1936 Palestinian revolution where the Palestinian peasantry engaged in a historic three-year-long struggle against not only Zionist settlement and settlers who were removing the peasantry from the land but also against the British Empire during a time when the British were colonizing Palestine and so from its earliest days the Palestinian national liberation struggle has understood itself to be an anti-imperialist struggle and has aligned itself with other anti-imperialist struggles and movements for national liberation in the global south and it was critical for us that a march of this size and this kind of historic march respected and stayed true to the 75-year-long Palestinian tradition of anti-colonialism, anti-Zionism and anti-imperialism and while also being able to bring together a broad coalition of people of organizations, hundreds of endorsing organizations and people from all walks of life under our demands and you could definitely see the level of alliances and solidarity and internationalism and joint struggle in the speakers. We had speakers from a variety of different organizations, indigenous organizations, black organizations and many others and the thought process here for us was really based in a understanding of Zionism as a reflection of Western colonialism and Western imperialism, understanding that Zionism is a threat to the global south and has always been a threat to the global south, not only the Arab region where it serves as an outpost for US-led empire but across the world. We've seen Zionism's reactionary impacts in Latin America all across Asia through its partnership with the United States and we've also seen Zionism's repressive impacts in the United States where the Zionist state has trained American police officers and so we know that Zionism is a reactionary movement, it is a movement that is grounded in sort of this fascistic drive to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people and to serve as an outpost for Western empire in the in the Arab world and all across the global south and so the speakers and the chance and the signage that we saw the banners all across the march really reflected the anti-imperialist and anti-colonial nature of the Palestinian national liberation struggle because ultimately the number that we saw the you know over 300,000 people that came to the march it was not only a reflection of a few weeks of tireless organizing for this march and it was also not only a reflection of the anger and outrage that we're seeing over the Zionist state's current genocide on Gaza which we've seen unfold over the last month although of course these two things are critical but it was a reflection and a culmination of 75 years longer for people's struggle and so what was critical that our messaging and our demands balanced both the need for broad coalitions and a mass movement while also staying true to a 75 year long struggle of our people. You know I think that coming out of a 300,000 strong march in DC you see how popular the issue is you know among people all across North America it's really like somewhat of a no-brainer at this point in our political moment that there's genocide in Gaza that it needs to stop. I think that you know sometimes like after seeing such a historic march it can be easy to forget that pro-Palestinian organizing is actually heavily repressed in North America and I'm wondering if you could speak to that a little bit because you alluded to it as well you know the difficulties of Palestine solidarity organizing in the U.S. and Canada and if you personally or through your organizing have experienced repression state repression you know any sort of repercussions that you want to speak about. Palestinian organizing is heavily repressed in in the imperial core and that's really a reflection of just how intertwined Zionism and imperialism are whereby imperialist nations like Canada like the United States and European nations see Palestinian organizing as something that they need to shut down in order to continue to support the Zionist state's genocide against our people and the way that this repression unfolds has all kinds of faces and really reflects a strong relationship between Zionist institutions in the imperial core and the states that and the respective western states like America, Canada, Britain and what we've seen historically is severe repression on college campuses and university campuses. Campuses have been a major site of struggle where you know Palestinian organizing is repressed, is shut down, is come down on by university administrations. We've also seen in the last few years the push in Canada, the United States and other parts of the world for the adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism which Zionist institutions have been pushing for and what this definition basically does is it equates anti-Zionism, so organizing against the Zionist state's ideology to anti-Semitism and we've seen this definition taken up not only on university campuses but at the state level and this has represented a critical site of repression for our people basically conflating fighting for Palestinian national liberation and freedom with hate speech and we've seen this kind of direction and the push for this kind of direction unfolding over the last couple of weeks. So for example we've seen rhetoric around deportation where in Canada just recently a few really central media figures and public figures have gone and said publicly that those who are joining the protests who are participating in these protests should be investigated and deported. So we're seeing really a level of rhetoric that we know is going to lead to high levels of repression particularly against organizers of these movements whereby threats are being made and discourses being put forward around deportation and criminal charges. And when you really think about it we're talking about hundreds of thousands in cities and millions across these countries of people who are refusing to power to this repression and this rhetoric but historically we've also seen really atrocious forms of repression that is not only confined to this moment so for example there is the case of the Holy Land Five where Palestinian leaders in the United States are still being held by the United States government in prison and there has been a movement that has been going on for years trying to call for the release of the Holy Land Five and this is reflective of a history of the repression against movements that are fighting for Palestinian liberation and I think one of the things that really stood out to me at the march was Mohammad Al-Kurd's speech where he basically said to the crowd ask the crowd are you afraid and the crowd chanted back no and he said this there was this back and forth between him and the crowd a few times where he was essentially getting the crowd to get to a point where we're both acknowledging that we are going to see mass levels of repression that we are already seeing mass levels of repression and surveillance of our movements while also affirming that we will not be silent even if this repression even as this repression reaches its peaks whether that be on university campuses people losing jobs so employers coming down on them for speaking up about Palestine whether that be a state-based repression that there is a whole movement of hundreds of thousands of millions of people who will stand behind us when we face this level of repression you know I thought that was really remarkable too and you know there were so many speakers I think who referred to this idea that you know people may be afraid people may I mean even Nakamura fred up you know people may want to be afraid of losing their careers or what have you but this is like a moment a unique moment to be brave so I think you know obviously the march was a testament to that but you know I think also on that same vein we've definitely touched on it here and there but this is obviously a very unique moment in Palestine solidarity organizing it's very unprecedented you know not only is there this genocide going on in Gaza but there's also like historic levels of resistance too and all of that that's happening in Palestine filters into the movements here and I'm wondering if you you know could speak to like the uniqueness of the moment and what that warrants in terms of the organizing it's becoming very clear that the facade of Zionism as something that is here to stay is slowly being ripped off we are seeing definitely a historic moment across the world you know and we are seeing for example workers refuse to transport weapons to the Zionist state we are seeing mass strikes we are seeing student walkouts that are going all the way down to high schools so not even just university campuses but high school students are walking out in protest of this genocide we are seeing mass movements but in the and in the global south we're even seeing nations who are cutting ties to the Zionist state who are recalling ambassadors and so we're really talking about a global movement and it is clear that the masses of the world support the Palestinian struggle for liberation and that is historic and and a reflection of 75 years long of our people's struggle and really I think this is the moment for us to continue to stretch and push and drive the movement forward we need people to join organizations to get out on the streets and to really take up their role as people who are fighting for our people's struggle so we are calling on people to get organized this is the moment where we can build a movement and really kind of build mass organizations so that we make sure that what happened on November 4th is not just a moment but is actually being directed towards a mass movement that we could continue to build on and I think what this really indicates is that colonial colonial regimes will fall all colonial regimes all colonial empires you know have to we'll have to reckon with the power of people the power of the organized masses the revolutionary the revolutionaries who are leading these movements who are refusing to to buckle in the face of repression in the face of genocide and really in the context of the Palestinian national liberation struggle we are talking about a people who for 75 years have been resisting occupation colonization and imperialism and they have had the most powerful and brutal nations conspiring against them the United States European nations the Zionist state and yet the Palestinian people refuse to stop abandon their national liberation struggle refuse to capitulate and refuse to allow for our people's struggle to be abandoned and in the context of North America and the context of Europe the Palestinian people refuse to turn our backs on our people in our homeland we see our struggle as interconnected we believe we have a historic role to play in the imperial core in the heart of empire and confronting Zionism and confronting imperialism that we are not only in solidarity with the Palestinian people but that their struggle and our struggle are the same struggle and this is the what we're calling on people to take up is a form of internationalism that really understands that the Palestinian struggle is at the center of anti-imperialist struggle that Gaza in particular is a critical part of the anti-imperialist struggle and for all people who care about the Palestinian or who care about revolution who care about progressive movements Palestine should be a central to that and think often of the words of Palestinian revolutionary Resan Kenafani who said that the Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only but a cause for every revolutionary wherever he is a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era and I think that this is the kind of outlook to the Palestinian national liberation struggle that we need everyone to take up in this moment to see that the struggle for Palestine that the the struggle that the people of Gaza have been waging is one that is central to the challenging of imperialism and the advancing of revolution across the world. Thank you so much Yara.


we just made these quick cricket crafts for cash and we'll show you how we did it right now what is up a welcome back do you like to do it build it or make it sooner we and we have a new video each week this week we're creating cricket crafts for cash something like that we thought this week that we would make some cricket crafts for our farmers market so not everyone has a glow forage and there's still plenty of things that you can make and sell with a cricket so we're gonna make a couple of projects this week and take them to the farmers market with us mine's going to pop yeah he's super stoked about his and I think mine is super cute as well it's another summer theme both of these are something yours is gonna flop mine's gonna pop kind of kind of it's flip flops one we're gonna gather all of our supplies I just needed some oremask 813 for my stencil vinyl an 18 inch round some paint my secret weapon unicorn spit he's so excited about this unicorn spit my secret weapon and some divers and paint stuff and for mine I'm gonna be doing a farmhouse sign now we usually make our farmhouse signs but for this time if you didn't have your pockets all yet or you don't have your nail gun yet you can purchase these we picked up this one at Hobby Lobby and this one at Michaels so you can make your own or you can just purchase them and I needed for my flip flop so we can cut this on the cricket we're gonna do a little scrapbooking little mixed media I'll be using some scrapbook paper some card stock some heavy chipboard and then I have some glitter accents that I'm going to use for some flowers some yes a mod pod these dots are dots and I think that's it for mine you're gonna use pop dots on your flip flops I am gonna use pop dots on the flip flops and that is it step two we're gonna make all of our cuts really just cutting out our designs I'm gonna bring my or a cow 813 over the cricket almost said you did I saw it on your face over the cricket and cut out my design and while he's doing that we have a first step on mine so this is just paper and I did want to use this pattern look I don't know if you joined our lives or seen our Facebook group but we've seen some folks do some reimagining of our pieces using some scrapbook paper so I'm gonna try that technique today I think it looks great so I'm gonna take this thin paper and I'm gonna stiffen it up with this chip board so I'm gonna mod podge our paper down to our chipboard and then I can take it over to the cricket and cut it I'm gonna cut it all together you've got to be careful not to get this too wet because it will try and curl up on you ever tries to curl up on you just use a book or something to hold it down while it dries it will dry flat again all right I have that completely covered we're gonna set this let this set and dry won't take very long what would you say 15 15 minutes so minutes or so and then we're gonna cut it out on the cricket this way we're trying we're still trying to give this piece a 3d effect so this chipboard is gonna give it a little bit of elevation and then like I said I'm when I attach it I'm gonna add these pop dots to give it another 3d like another three foot yeah it's real real steep elevation on that one 20 minutes later I've attached everything to chipboard I did I used for the patterns that we're doing we're doing patterned flip flops one of them so welcome is seven letters so I can only do three pairs of flip flops and then one single flip flop somebody lost the flop yeah I've lost one flop and then I'm going to use the flip flop straps in the solid color so I did two pieces of card stock this one actually isn't paper this card stock so it's a slightly thicker but I still mounted them to the chipboard still give it that depth all right so now we can go cut ours our chipboard is smaller than our card stock so I'm gonna go ahead and trim this down doesn't have to be neat so that I can attach it to our cricket mat so unless you have a brand new strong grip mat and even then I would recommend just adding some painter's tape here to make sure this thing doesn't slip and slide while it's cutting in the cricket because you will be using your knife blade okay here we are in design space we're gonna go ahead and click make on our projects gonna prompt us for our materials we're gonna browse and select chipboard we're using the 1.5 millimeter and it prompts you to load your knife blade alright and 12 passes later we have ourselves a flip flop ungroup my image hide the background hide the seeds attach the top pieces attach the bottom pieces and I'm gonna hit make it I'm gonna adjust it just a smidge I'm gonna look for some stencil vinyl and that means I have to put the fine point blade back in and now we paint I'm gonna paint my 18 inch round I'm gonna use this a crinoline country sheet one coat and then while he's doing that we have our flip flops and our I don't know what is that toe straps to straps I'll cut on the chipboard now my flops are looking a little flat got a case of the flat flops I got a flat flop it's just looking boring and I need some dimension so I'm gonna pop all right so we're gonna add a little antiquing wax our country chic antiquing wax you see it's very dark in color but I think if we put a little of this on the edges it's gonna give it that 3d dimension pop pop flop yeah we'll have a pop flop yes and you can find this in our store it is called antiquing wax that's what it's called and you can see it's got that real dark color to it so I tried a couple of techniques I already tested this out on a fake flop and I use the the antiquing wax brush here but this was too much this was too big too much so I'm just going to apply it with a little bit of a paper towel a couple layers of a paper towel a little dab in there and then I'm just going to brush the edges oh my finger yeah I'm just gonna smudge it around now so I'm just brushing it around the edges here again I'm just trying to give it a little bit of dimension for and now we're gonna put the designs on the board my 18 inch round is all dry my stencils all weeded I have my transfer tape on it and I got my secret weapon in the chamber super stoked we'll see how it turns out so I'm just going to add my stencil to my 18 inch round that's stencil looks big is that gonna fit yeah it's off the round you're off your round and bring this down then it fits it fits it's how I designed it okay let's do it I'm going in speaking of fitting my flop array is a little bit wider floppy bow my flop array flop array is a little wider than my farmhouse size so I am going to have to squeeze them in a little like it fits on the bigger sign that I had but then they look too small and this one I guess I've misjudged the so we're just gonna make it work you'll see now the other thing I'm going to do is I'm gonna also add some 3d dimension here and I'm going to apply these with pop dots yep I'm going to make them kind of double dimensioned well it's actually going to be like quadruple quadruple dimension the most dimensions ever done on a sign pop dot the flip flops pop dot the toe strap and then I just found these in my collection of scrapbook materials so you might you'll find something similar your own flowers but these are already glitter chipboard cut out flowers and I layered them stack three on there and I have them in several different color sets and like I said I already had them so I'm gonna put them right on here and I'm going to well they're also three stacks so they're triple dimensions well on top of the already dimensions yep you just went all out with all dimensions huh yes all right so I'm gonna go ahead and start that while you put my stuff yeah continue what you've got going on over there you need to wrestle with this thing glue dot I can't see if I can pull this one off now that's all mangled I'm gonna have to redo my entire jam because jam all right the stencil got all stuck to everything it was like fly paper we respect to it it was stuck to itself it was stuck to the watermelon it was a mess and then I am using the oracle stuff but it's peeling the paint so I'm gonna have to paint the board again see I just feel the paint the white paint came right off so I'm gonna lay another coat of paint down and recut my stencil meanwhile mine's going great just taking it one step at a time swimming way everything is glued down and dry so now I'm going to attach them to the board and I think for this step I debated on glue dots but I have just the foam version there is a like a jelly gluey version but I don't have any of those right now so I'm gonna use our glue gun here I write will be glue gun let me just go ahead and get to it mine is pretty much looking sweet that thing man it looks like a real it's a drama with that real water melon right yeah but in the end you know this is the second second time to charm I need some help it's really just some ribbon doing a ribbon and then I'm making a bow a tiny bow because I don't want to take away from my a giant watermelon and Kim's trying to figure out a hanger yeah so mine does have a little hanger right here in the center on the back but I think this ribbon this but this yeah ribbon is gonna give it a little pop so I'm going to staple this onto the back of it actually here it's going to do it for you hold it do not get my fingers I'll try not to get your fingers whoa that worked perfectly faked all right just let me let me double check the spacing on that so it doesn't look wonky three and a half oh dead eye gosh that's so perfect this staple gun never works this perfectly stable gun always jams it's always jamming up I will jam you up alright I need how much ribbon so good you have to tie a little knot in the back so yeah yes yeah about right there be good let me share how long that is just so it goes to my armpit all right could you just like my sleeve length 20 so 24 cool 24 inches right I have little slots on top of my board I'm just gonna poke my ribbon through I'm just making a quick bow all I'm going to do is stack a few pieces of ribbon just contrasting contrasting yet coordinating maybe I want them to be different colors but I want them to be in the same like summer theme like family maybe family I don't think that's it either anyway they're about eight inches long and I'm just going to kind of put them in an X stack them one on top of the other scrunch them up together and add a little of this wire ribbon ribbon wire say that backwards to its opposite day yeah I know what I'm trying to say oh your third hand good is that my ribbon no oh I have to make my tears okay it's a bow so bad news here is I don't have any I don't have any wire ribbon with summer colors so we're gonna do it with this just cartoon colors well circus colors yeah well it's not even that it's just the fact that that's this draw screen yeah it doesn't really say but doesn't have a wire and but I don't have a wire so I'm just going to go with what I've got what I've got I've got it's getting crazy whoo whoo two slow oh I didn't get my finger in there he has a shot too slow too slow all right now just tie your bow right there and I'm going to tie the same place on mine mm-hmm yeah yeah that's the ticket doing good Kim doing good all right yeah that's how you do it yeah now give it another not yep teaching her how to do ribbons ribbons that's what he's calling it the old ribbons teaching her how to do ribbons teaching her how to do ribbons all right I'm just gonna take these both outside and hit it with some crystal clear by a rustle Liam he's always asking this is our stuff right there we noticed some of the other stuff gets a little hazy what do you guys think quick easy cricket crafts for cash I couldn't couldn't fit any more sounds in there what do you guys think I think they're cute what do you guys think of this unicorn spit it's a stain but I just tried to use it as a paint because I knew it'd be translucent and kind of make it look like a real watermelon yeah I love I love this stuff I love how sparkly it is I mean who wouldn't love it all sparkly yeah that's gonna be a cute it's gonna be a hot seller hot summer sellers and our little flip-flops here again we sell this SVG in our store so you can use this SVG to cut it on your glow forage or cut it on your cricket get does try and create files yep for both cricket and glow forage because you might want to do different things so you know yeah so use it make whichever whichever method or there's a layered version and it's all separate so whatever you need I got you and if it doesn't work on your machine hit me up I'll fix it that time so if you're not gonna join us for the patron after show we will see you next week we'll do it build and make it again and that patron after show is gonna be a good one this week it's a drama I'm gonna talk about some of our drama well that and some patrons ask questions and we're gonna answer them little Q&A yep little AMA Q&A and is it gonna hit me is it gonna hit me