So hello, and welcome to you. Balaganapati Devarakonda. I hope that's an acceptable pronunciation. That's a beautiful Indian name. And thankfully, I am also allowed to call you Bala, which I will do in what follows and we're talking today about philosophical health. Because you are a professor of philosophy at the University of Delhi. And you have also done a lot to introduce and explore philosophical counseling in India, and the idea of philosophical health so I think we would start with that is like I would ask you your perspective on the matter. Why do you think it's important. Yeah, thank you, Lewis for this wonderful invitation to speak on this platform. I really feel honored by this invite. Basic point that I have that was that has been troubling me with regard to health is the question that whether health is only a biological kind of one. And most of the times we also try to understand health in terms of its opposite disease. Okay, is it that it is only with reference to the disease that we talk about the health, or whether health is a natural condition, or disease is a natural condition is a long debate that is going on in various cultures. So let me not enter into that. But along with the biological category which is called health. We also talk about disorders relating it to the psychological component of the individual where we talk about various psychological disorders and then try to address them. Is it that individually is composed of only these two, the biological and psychological, or is there anything more than that that tells us that these two are also a part of the larger or the bigger whole called health. I was trying to understand that I was trying to look at the World Health Organization's definition of health. I thought that would be helpful. No, because we should look at various definitions that have come. And if it is from World Health Organization, which means most of the countries and most of the people have accepted this definition. So when I was looking at it, I'll just read it for the sake of all of you. Health is a state of complete physical, mental, social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Okay, so obviously it is taking the definition of health is going beyond the biological or physical and psychological as well. So in such kind of a situation, what is the social well being or the cultural well being that often we do talk about, and how do we reach that, what is the apparatus that we have to address that. And I'm quite happy when I first saw your website, Luis, and you mentioned that you're advocating philosophical health. Though before that I was, I was into philosophical counseling. But first time when I looked at your website and read more details about philosophical health, I was like, yeah, this is what we are supposed to talk about. Even if we want to advocate philosophical counseling, the first thing is to conceptualize philosophical health, which would be attained through the instrumentality of philosophical counseling. So that's what actually triggered my interest in understanding in depth what philosophical counseling could be. So that's that's how basically when we look at each one of us like all of us know because it's it's not a disease or a disorder that philosophical health philosophical counselor tries to address. So that's how we don't call them as patients and we call them claims, because tomorrow you may come to me and I can also go to you for counseling and seek my philosophical health. So in that particular situation I was trying to understand that it is possible to have cognitive biases and cognitive misreprehensions and wrong conceptions, dilemmas and unreflected presuppositions that all of us carry with us. And these things do create problems in our social well being, and that's where philosophical health I thought would be very helpful to us, and that's how I got interested in it. And I also look at it from India I try to look at it from Indian perspective. I think it's interesting that and we'll talk about the Indian perspective very soon because I'm really curious about it. But you, you have very strategically pointed that at the very heart of the big institution that that is the World Health Organization, there is this stance that distinguishes health from the absence of disease. And that doesn't not seem to be the everyday biomedical view of it right. We've seen a lot of that during COVID times right so there is a huge misunderstanding I think, or we could say a surrendering and a sort of, you know, an impression that health professionals sometimes are giving up on the big questions on the big issues on the, the spiritual and philosophical aspects of the human, because they don't have time for that they don't get rewarded for that because it's cannot be measured as well as for example, a different of weight right oh yeah you should be X kilos you are X minus three kilos therefore you're not in the norm and statistically, you are not healthy right. So, what I'm really curious about as I said is So philosophical counseling is is a practice that is emergent we can say it's it's emergent everywhere it has been identified since the 90s in the Western world USA Germany etc. But still today we could say that people practice it on a regular basis are our small community all over the world and what was very surprising for me is that you are part of the people who are who have introduced it in India, where we are trying to not only observe how it could benefit the Indian society but also how we can learn from India how the say the Indian philosophical Indian tradition can give us new ideas to think about philosophical health. Would you like to expand on this. Yeah, in fact that WHO World Health Organizations definition is very interesting and very useful for all of us to ponder upon and then develop our own conception of philosophical health further. I completely agree with you on that. Yeah, in fact, I am not the one who has introduced philosophical counseling in India. There are people who are working on philosophical counseling in India since last say 20 years there was there is an organization which is established which was established in Jaipur in Rajasthan India, almost 20 years back, but it is doing its work silently. I was surprised when I I spoke to the director of the Institute and we are also planning to work together. But fortunately when I joined Billy University I started giving lectures on philosophical counseling and increasing people to include this in the in their masters program syllabus. Sorry, what's the name of the Institute that you mentioned the one that is working on philosophical health since you said 20 years. It's Indian philosophical counseling. Okay. Exact name of the Institute I don't remember. But if you type. We'll put that in the comments later.  Right, because it's not quite popular in India, and I was worried. Particularly when I was teaching my students here for masters program, we get huge number of students for masters program, and not all of them would continue to do research. And what would happen to the people who stop their education pursuing philosophy after masters. So for such kind of students, there should be some avenues for jobs etc as well right where they can put philosophy practically into use. It's not that it is not available, but we are not teaching them how to put philosophy into practice. So that gave me to include philosophical counseling as one of the papers for masters program and in fact, we are successful in starting the center at Kerala down south in Trivandrum, and they have a center for philosophical counseling. Okay, and then in North we have Punjab University and then Calcutta University, sorry, Mumbai University and Lucknow University. These are various universities, public universities in India, which have started philosophical counseling as one of the papers in the masters program. So that is how we thought we should bring academic acceptance initially so that philosophical counseling as a profession can later on be established as a further step. Because unless the academia, because we get a lot of resistance from academia itself or from our own colleagues or doing agonist philosophical counseling, but luckily so far we are able to overcome such kind of criticism and move forward in making space for philosophical counseling. And now we started arguing for philosophical help as well because of the efforts of many of our friends like Luis and others. Right and but let's not hear a bit because this is very interesting people might ask okay they are doing their thing. Everybody is doing their thing. Why is that important. You said two things that are important. First of all, you said you talked about applying philosophy right that the fact that many philosophical philosophy students do not really know how to apply philosophy in real life because they were not really told about that. Another thing you said is okay so there can be this approach, professionalized approach to philosophical counseling. And people might wonder but why is that important. Well, I think it's important to have a little conversation about that in the sense that, well, first of all, we don't live in a world where thought systems, belief systems, conceptions of life are somewhere stored in books, and we don't really look at them or once in a while. In fact we go on with our lives without thinking no we are in the world, which is a constellation of ideologies right and every interaction we have, whether that's a professional or human interaction is a network of embedding in mesh and sometimes contradictory thought systems right so they are dominant thought systems today, which are ideologies that precisely tend to minimize the thinking aspect of the human experience, the value aspect of the human experience. And they do that by relying on what Alfred Norris Whitehead called the fallacy of misplaced concreteness like they tell us what is real what is hard has a stone and what is fluffy and imaginary. Because what is real is numbers statistics evidence based protocols which, of course, then they forget very quickly to say that they are themselves embedded in biases and perspectives and so when we go about in life. We have experiences as conflicting thought systems that impact our everyday life we are constantly being told what how to think well, and the avenues for cognitive diversity for the fact that we would have a world where we respect different forms not only of life but of thinking those avenues are constantly threatened and and this is why we think it would be nice to take philosophical counseling and philosophical health seriously. And that we institutionalize and of course there's a problem always when we institutionalize something so we'll talk about that right, but yeah we we we try to institutionalize spaces for resistance against dominant ideologies that people might suffer in their very life and that and that might create really a lot of drama we've seen that with with COVID where a a first of all there was a conflict of views but also dominant ideology that dictated what people in certain countries have to do and how to think so do you do you resonate with what I'm saying and and first and foremost. How does that apply to to the geo political she's a big word space of India right what way why is in particular philosophical health and counseling important for within the Indian culture. Yeah, before I get into the Indian culture of talking about India. I completely agree with what you how you have explained know why philosophical counseling is important because of the diversity cognitive diversity that is existing. And there are two things when I when I look at it as a philosopher. Basically, we have metaphysics, and we also have epistemology and philosophical counseling or philosophical health is rooted in epistemology more than metaphysics. Let's say that because, see, for example, the world that reality that exists around you has diversity. And you cannot change it and it is a fact of life for all of us. And that's the reality that is existing. But the point is, how do I as an individual cognize it, see it, understand it, and then articulate it, and then act in the world. For me, the way I learned to interact with the world that is given is very important. And that's where there is a primacy of epistemology or metaphysics, which is very important to be stressed, because even if we are talking about philosophical health to ensure philosophical health. So we intervene in an individual, we have to intervene at the level of epistemology. So the way the individual tries to look at the world and interact with the world and try to learn about the world. And this is this is a very important aspect how do we, how do I look at this diversity which is existing outside. Right. So this is where we have problems in understanding the diversity and in looking at the diversity through my own lens and my own lands are already created or constructed through my learning over a period of time. The process of acquiring acquisition of knowledge has taught me to look at certain things in a certain way. Okay, for example, I may give a crude example but don't mind. Okay. When one of the friends from Europe came to India for a conference that I have invited. He said, he went to your village by chance. And he said, everywhere there is, there was a cow dung. Okay. So he was disturbed by that. Then I, when he raised it, then I told him that see cow dung is not seen as seen to be shipped by most of the villages in India. Okay, because they use it for antiseptic and they use it this that's made the house with cow dung. Okay, so it is it is the cultural way of looking at things. People look at things in different ways. It is cultural side, that is very important. So that's why I say epistemology, the way you're taught to look at things and the way you're taught to react after looking at things is very important. This training is very important. I like to interrupt you here, but I like your metaphor. It's like, if someone asks, okay, so why do we need philosophical health?  You can begin with that. Please go ahead. Because when you change the diaper of your infant, you don't consider it to be really so so and so of the other, right. So you know, an entire phenomenology of excrement that should be written. Yes. And that is how this epistemology, the way we our knowledge system has developed for each one of us. I'm not talking knowledge system in general of the countries and societies and talk about the individuals, because the general one is the one which matches the individuals. Okay, and these individuals are more important to us and only addressing the individual health, individual philosophical health we can achieve something like happiness that we are talking about universal happiness or whatever that is possible only by beginning with the individuals. So, once we understand that it is this knowledge acquisition which has created certain kind of world views because I read somewhere you have written that our thoughts and world views can have generative and performative impact on our lives. Okay, this is what you have written somewhere. I was reading one of your articles it is very true because the way you are asked to look at and react to things is the one which creates your world view and the thoughts thoughts will be based on your world view. And obviously that's what would have an impact on what you're talking and what you're doing. In Indian tradition we talk about three things. Manasa, Vacha, Karma. Manas is thoughts. Okay, and Vak is words and Karmana is deed, the work that you do. Okay, they say honesty doesn't mean anything else but honesty to yourself means there should be uniformity in what you think what you speak and what you act. And if these three things are aligned, then that's what is honesty, individual honesty according to Indian tradition. So, why I'm stating this is that is all the metaphysics, epistemology and logic which helps us to articulate things in a better way and ethics which helps us to act in a certain way or good way in the society. All four of them are situated within us and in fact the alignment of all these four in a proper way is what is called philosophical health. So, instead of talking about ethics as some moral principles which exist somewhere or logic is some advanced logic which doesn't, which exists only in machines or not in human beings. If we can talk about philosophical health we can explain what is philosophy in a better way to younger generations. So, that is how we can make younger generations understand philosophy and philosophical health in a better way by approaching it through how knowledge is acquired, how worldviews are formed and these worldviews in turn reflect on our words and on our actions is the best possible way of reaching out to them. So, this is how I look at these things that that's how we tend to have epistemological biases that you also often refer to, and also metaphysical misconceptions. And these metaphysical misconceptions, though they get created by epistemological biases, it is also to a process in the sense that each one of them try to correct each other, correct the other. And that is possible and the possibility of that ensures philosophical health possibilities or possibility of philosophical health, according to my understanding. So, basically this is how I look at the things. This is important because I mean, even though some people listen my find words like epistemology difficult. I think it's important that, and that's something I'm endeavoring to do also is that there must be more theorization about philosophical health and philosophical counseling. It's not just about deep listening also although deep listening is very important. There's so much in what you were saying but I would like to add two things that are really going in in your direction is that you have shown one way in which the idea of philosophical health can be understood by all. And that integrity, which you define as honesty that sort of structural integrity that combines a acts and thoughts and words in a way that is harmonious. That's something that people can relate to. If epistemology might seem a difficult world for some well, think about the fact that it is the, the way we understand our knowledge of the world, and that knowledge itself is not necessarily something that comes with a complex scientific apparatus of course. But knowledge is also always embedded and in meshed with experience right. It's not like we as it and this is just another way of formulating what you were saying, it's not like we go in the world we have experiences. We sit in a sofa, and we try to process them by reading a book and sort of see okay how does this can be how can this become knowledge that's one aspect of course when we want to theorize but in fact in our very experience of the world as you were saying, there is a projection of notions that are cognitive. And so, I find this very important for the precisely for the matter of cognitive diversity right because we'll be able to, to have a world which I agree with you it's, it's, it's the deepest diversity, the diversity of worldviews and how they can cohabit. And my curiosity is, is that a word because you said that's the Indian tradition and there is this idea of honesty. And I use the term of structural integrity because at one point I realized I was working with a lot of engineers you know I'm working with the multinational veteran file and they're engineers and they're really interested in philosophical health. And I realized well structural integrity that's a good metaphor that they understand because this is also something that a bridge might have. Right, that means that it is robust enough that it won't break. And that includes some form of plasticity to because something when something is too rigid. It breaks that's the also the Lafontaine fable about the oak and the smallest tree who perhaps when there's a tempest is more resilient. There's another term that I sometimes refer to and more so now is the conceptual constellation. So, I think it's important for people to perhaps grabs the fact that philosophical health is not necessarily about having this monomaniac ideal, let's say, let's say it's honesty right and I say oh I'm going to be honest. I'm not so sure what I'm thinking and go the way all the way in or justice right and because life is not like that. Life needs some form of negotiation flexibility etc. We can make ourselves more lucid about our conceptual constellation, that's what we are trying to help people with, such that they understand what are what is the network of notions that are important for that person's destiny and biography. And then this network or constellation of notions form the concept of who you are, right, and they themselves are a dynamic construct, they are not completely rigid such that you would be once and for all crystallized into this constellation. Perhaps some, let's say, one node of this constellation or one star if we want to keep the metaphor is honesty. Well, this needs to be articulated with perhaps another node which would be truth, etc. So, it's a complex process of adjudication, but which helps the person have a better robustness in front of the constant, as we were saying before, imperatives of alien ideologies, this alien ideologies sounds a bit like conspiracy, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, right. No, it's just that, you know, every, every time you do something you have different systems of codes, right, web, web, web of beliefs and sometimes you accept them right there, for example, when you drive, right, it's a code, and you don't challenge that because, you know, you think well, it's probably going to be better for me if I, if I abide by the rules of driving of the place, there are other rules and codes that are much more, you know, impacting our, our psyche, and that is how, and I will finish here and give you the ball but that is how I think philosophical health is articulated with psychological health and physical health. They are correspondences. And a bad philosophical health can lead to a bad physical health. And that's, that's a trope of Greek thought right that's what the Greek said with men's sauna in corporates, so although now I'm speaking Latin but yeah the the healthy body in the healthy mind. Yeah, I completely agree with you on this first thing that you spoke like structural integrity that you said you would be talking to your clients. I think that the structural integrity is not just there in the external world. No, the structural integrity between the individual is what Indian tradition tries to address. That is where I was saying, like thought word and action. One of the major problems is that I find is, when we talk about this virtues and values. Most of the times we don't explain what this virtue is, even if you have to explain what this virtue, for example, honesty is, you would be telling them that you should not. This is a kind of descriptive presentation happens. Instead, if you can help under somebody understand by integrity or honesty. It is something that whatever you think and whatever you say and whatever you do have to correspond and stay in harmony, then it is better understood by the individual, instead of just merely saying that to be honest. So if you go on saying be honest, the person may offer some time like these these terms are taken at their face value and left at the face value, and they will not be taken in and actually it doesn't come out in the sphere of impacting the behavior. So that is the major problem that I find when we talk about most of these values that we teach our younger generations. And in this particular way, in this particular context, it will not be odd to talk about this. People, we do clutter, decluttering of human beings is required. Each one of us philosophical health also has to address this decluttering of mind and decluttering or physically also we get cluttered. And this, this is very important. And when I was talking somewhere about this, people asked me, what are the ways of decluttering the mind? So, can you explain? I said, see, decluttering the mind doesn't mean you have to do some exercises or yoga or something. In the social sphere, you have, you nurture the emotional values that you have toward that you must have towards the other, like priority and being grateful to life is one of the ways of decluttering your mind. And being, having, forgiving the other is one of the ways of decluttering the mind. And in Buddhism, Luis, we find a very interesting concept called the Brahma Viharas, which are, which are stated to be four in number that talk about my three friendship. Through friendship, I consider these four to be Brahma Viharas that they, the word that they use, they are very useful for decluttering. Because once you, once you develop a kind of friendly attitude towards the other, the other could be an animal or a human being or anybody, then the decluttering process of decluttering in your mind automatically starts happening. And in this context, they talk about something called Mudita. And Mudita is understood to be, it is explained this way. Mudita is explained as rejoicing the happiness of others. See, when Luis is happy, and if I can also feel happy that he is happy, it goes to such final states. This is what is decluttering. And it is not that it is not natural to human beings, it is natural to human beings, but somehow we have suppressed them and the greediness or whatever have taken the predominance and started cluttering our mind. So, nurturing these emotional values and virtues itself helps in our, in developing our philosophical health. For example, any of these concepts, Maitri, Karuna, Karuna is a benevolence. And then Mudita, and then Upeksha, equanimity. So these are the four concepts that Mudita tries to help us in understanding. And they are very helpful in developing philosophical health, nurturing philosophical health. So that's very interesting. And I would, I would encourage you once, once I post this video on YouTube, maybe you can go in the comment and just write down these concepts for for people listen to us, such that they can do more research. If you have your idea of a certain relationship to the other, but also this sort of healthy minimalism where indeed we don't load our, our mind with unnecessary baggage. And as I said about Joy, remind me of a counseling, I tend to call them counselors rather than, than clients because I don't do this for a living. And, and sometimes I think client sounds a little bit like this is a full time profession but more interestingly so her she came to me and she said my problem is that I'm too joyful. That's beautiful right I'm too joyful and the problem is is that others the others are not as joyful as me. And, and, and so I don't know how to negotiate that because might be a partner might be colleagues at work mate. She might, she might have felt that well the world around her is constantly putting her down a little bit putting some weight on her shoulders right and in that case we talked about one of the things we talked about is the spinosa right because so this is to give a concrete example of how it feels like a consultation might go so if you love spinosa, but the spinosa who was the, the philosopher that considered that joy was really the basic core emotion and that all other emotion was variations of joy and joy is the feeling that our domain of possibility is increasing right that we can have a coherent action upon the world and sadness is the emotion that goes along with the fact that our domain of possibilities is shrinking, and then you can do different variations with other types of emotions and and just to finish joy connects also with what Nietzsche called the great health right or the joyful science right and and so philosophical health is not only for those who might think so is not only are we going to teach you about how to think logically. It's also about, as you were saying gratitude. What I call the connection with the Creole I want to talk about that with you right because I think this has very be stronger resonances with what we call Eastern philosophies right. So resonance with the fact that the universe is a is a co creative flux of interdependent possibilities that I called Creole simply because it's the real with it's the creative real right. As opposed with this idea that we sometimes have in neoliberalism or, or, or the Anthropocene right industrial age that the world is basically a stone, quite hostile. And we need to produce a lot and build a lot of things such that we have an okay life and in fact we've seen now it destroys everything. So that gratefulness is not just intellectual it's okay so if if at the ontological origins of things that's another way we spoke about epistemology now we can speak about ontology if if at the, the core of being there is this co creative becoming therefore, I can be grateful by default, not to accept the world in a sort of a badly understood stoicism right and adapt and take and accept whatever political abuse there is around me know. But first feel that that creel source and then through a process that I call creolectics through a process of actualization, which can be political ethical existential, then we, we are much more joyfully empowered to act upon the world and make this right according to to our world view or at least try to negotiate. Yeah, that's great. Actually, before I respond to what you said just now. Let me just clarify one thing, whenever is referring to this Buddhist concept to the concept of Brahmavihara's previously when I was talking, it is also called understood translated into English as something for immeasurables. These three, these four that I was referring to one is mitrata or metta in Pali, which is a loving kindness. Okay, or benevolence. The first one is mit, my three or metta in Pali, which is translated into English as loving kindness for the other. One is a corona corona is compassion, compassion for the other. And the third one, this is what is very important to me, which is, which goes as mudita, which means which is often translated as joyfulness but actually it's not joyfulness rejoicing the happiness of others. Okay, that what is mudita. Okay, and the fourth one is a picture which is equanimity, and these four are understood to be immeasurables. Okay, you cannot even measure the kind of impact that would that you would have when you practice these in your own cell, that is all they're explained so I thought should explain them in a proper way. Before you continue because I want to let you continue. You said that equanimity is the what's the term for equanimity. We need to have a conversation about that. Not, not today because this is in, I think it take it will take some time. Because I was actually yesterday. It's about equanimity, which is which is the Latin word I mean it's it's English but it's based on Latin equal equality of soul, let's say it's that you might have ups and downs around you and, but you sort of maintained that equality of soul, whatever it is around you, the Greeks called it at Taraxia right at Taraxie sometimes using, and I think this is wonderful because indeed it is a, it is a forgotten virtue. That is that would be very useful today and that is, I agree. I think that the four elements you're giving are very important for philosophical health but please continue. One that you're talking about is a creolectics when you're talking about co-creativity. So what is it that this co-creativity tries to hint to us is that it tries to minimize the human agency. Okay, often we, we think that we are the doers and we are the ones who are changing the world and doing a lot of things. But once you understand the importance of co-creativity, which means the participation of the other, other than you, who is existent around you in this process of co-creativity. You understand that you are one among many other things that exist around you in co-creating your own conception and also contributing to the conception of the other. So this homogenous understanding or holistic understanding of developing this kind of worldview, you also often talk about multiverse. So talking about this holistic conception is the one which really helps us in maintaining philosophical health because most of the problems that we come across are because we think that we are the only ones who are doing it. And it is only because of me that this is happening. So there's this kind of egoistic attitude that we often tell up would be minimized if we follow, if we have a proper understanding of the creolectics that you're talking about. That's my submission to the other one. You rightly pointed out equanimity towards the end. You're also talking about concept of joy as it is presented by many of these Western philosophers. In fact, if you look at Indian tradition, what it says is this equanimity, it stresses the equanimity because as an individual, how should you look at both joy and sorrow. It says it is not that you have to go on increasing your happiness. If you start go on trying to work out on your happiness alone and try to go further, whenever you get sadness, it affects your philosophical health negatively. So it is not that you have to continuously work on increasing your happiness. It is that wherever you stand, you have to learn and practice by controlling your mind how to look at both of them because after the one the other would follow. So it is not that anybody, whether you're rich or poor, it doesn't matter. Anybody would be oscillating between happiness and sorrow continuously in the life. So if that is the fact of life, how do you look at both of them? And how do you develop your own perception, cognitive structures in such a way that you would be able to balance both of them in a proper way in leading a life of philosophical health. So this is what even the word that Buddhism uses is upeksha and the word that Hinduism or Bhagavad Gita, the sacred text of Hindu tradition, uses the word samatha. Samatha is equanimity and this is very important. The sequence in Bhagavad Gita is, in fact, it is explained in terms of how do I live? Because when each one of us, all of us are living our lives and in the process of living our lives, we have to encounter three things. We have to manage or live with three things. One is the objects that we have in the world. The second one is beings, other human beings and other beings that we have in the world. And the third one is most important, our own experiences. We have to live with these three objects, beings, and our own experiences. So how do you live with these three? Bhagavad Gita stresses that it is by developing an attitude of equanimity that you can possess or continue to nurture your philosophical health. And that possessing that philosophical health is called yoga. So that is how it is called samadhyam yogam ucyate. Yoga is equanimity, possessing equanimity in the mind. According to Bhagavad Gita, I am only talking about Bhagavad Gita. This is an interesting area. In fact, we can have more information. No, and we will certainly. That's also very interesting because it leads us to mention how sometimes occidental recycling of Eastern cultures is, let's say sometimes deficient, right? The anecdote here is that I personally have tried once or twice to go to your yoga class. And we see it in the first thing that I often hear from the instructor. Okay, so don't think. And this is where I stand and I leave the room because for me, there's nothing wrong with thinking the art of breathing is as important as the art of thinking. And this is part of who we are. And this is why I like the fact that you talked about madness before, right? So not forgetting that this experience is also, as you said very well, the way we look at experience, right? So it's not just behaviorism. It's also how do I process that information to use a very bad computer metaphor, right? And so I'd like to finish because I mean, we will have more conversations just to keep it to this sort of arbitrary format of less under one hour. So concretely, why do you think India? I mean, what do you think is the contribution? Not only why is philosophical counseling good for India, but also what can be the contribution? So you think there will be an Indian school of philosophical counseling, or on the country, do you think that philosophical health reveals also a universal experience of what it is to be human, fully human. And therefore, we should learn from different cultures, but also realize that we're talking more or less, we were talking more or less about the same thing without trying to be normative, right? So to go back to the cognitive diversity, it's not about a universal recipe, it's just about potentials, right? For expansion of the domain of possibility in harmony with others. That was actually a question. Obviously we are not trying to say that one culture, inputs from one culture would be, we are not putting any hierarchy among the cultures and any normativity that we are looking at. But otherwise also I would say many cultures, for instance, including Indian culture has this universal human being, conception of universal human being and conception of universal health as well. And this is to be tapped, we have to go to various cultures and have a look at them. And similarly, when we look at Indian conception, India, Indian tradition, classical Indian tradition, we would definitely find hints to universal health. So that is very important and that's where most of the Indian philosophical schools, as we began with cognitive biases, right? And most of the Indian philosophical schools directly or indirectly try to address this particular issue. Okay, it is not that Indian tradition, as sometimes projected, advocates only absolutist perspective. No, for instance, if you look at Buddhism, Buddhism talks about many of the Indian philosophical schools talk about going beyond binaries or looking at within binaries, okay? Which means the cognitive bias is because there are binaries, okay, either this way or that way. And Buddhism talks about Madhya Marga, which is middle path, okay? So it says, don't go with the extremes, stay in the middle because that's what probably would give you a right path. And similarly, Jainism, which is quite popular among people, it talks about the multi-layeredness of the reality and the way, the need for anekantavada, it's called anekantavada. Anekanta is the reality has many-sidedness and that is how you will never be able to comprehensively have an understanding of the reality. And whatever statement that you make about reality that is given to you is only partial. So it always says your statements are only partial. Please do remember that. It tells you that it's not the binary, it is in fact much more than that. And there is another interesting school by name Advaita Vedanta, which is often sometimes misunderstood, which talks about, which says that reality is beyond these binaries. See, these two try to say within binaries and Advaita Vedanta says, you cannot even define it as this or that. Because sometimes it looks to be this and sometimes it looks to be unreal. So that is how you cannot give an absolute assertive statement about what is given to you. So what I'm trying to stress here is with regard to the cognitive structures that we talk about, the Indian conceptions are varied. When we talk about philosophical health, we can use any of these apparatus that are presented that are already available in the Indian philosophical resources and help the client in understanding his own self or his own cognitive biases in a better way. And that is how I feel Indian tradition has rich resources, which can be used by anybody. And just one point before I stop with regard to yoga that you have mentioned, I understand your concern. Basically, yoga now has become a global commodity. And many people have taken it, and they have made it as a commodity to suit certain kinds of needs of the people. In the process, I don't, with all due respect to all the teachers of yoga, I'm not making any derogatory comments here. But in the process, probably the actual, whatever, purport of yoga might be sometimes missing. Because when you pick up a particular part from the conception of holistic yoga and present it to somebody else, obviously it will have only partial impact or effect. So that is how, whenever we talk about yoga, we need to have clarity with regard to whether we are talking about Patanjali yoga or the yoga of Bhagavad Gita. And also further, whether we are within Patanjali yoga, whether we are only piecing out something and presenting it to the people, which may not be really helpful to all. So that's what we have to be very careful with. Yes, I know I suggest that we may conclude on that, if we can play a little bit with words, but the reason why some people are afraid of philosophy is that in order to overcome a world of commodities, you need perhaps as a first stage to accept to be uncomfortable and common. And then, of course, once you have accepted to challenge your routine, certainties and perhaps illusions of security and illusions of injustice, based on on the wrong views, then you can start to recreate and indeed, not in a way where we would have the human at the center in this anthropocentric view of, you know, the protagonist view that the man humans are the measure of all things. But rather, and this is all the more needed today in a dialogue with all forms of life, all form of being and what they might have in common. So but I suggest we, we stop here for the moment. And this is just a, of course, the beginning of a conversation dialogue. And we will certainly, and this is something that I want to live as a little bit of a mystery for the people who are listening to us. But I, from our conversation, I got the feeling that we need to write something together about something. But let's keep that as a, as a teaser. Yeah, thanks a lot. Yeah, thank you so much, Luis. I really enjoyed this conversation and I hope that people would also like it and watch it. And we'll continue the conversation. Thank you.


great run you know that's that's what Corey does great effort all around I'm locating his pitches attack on the zone you know getting to you know leverage counts he's able to kind of sling that slider in there and just kind of have a fall off the table it's pretty pretty impressive but just you know he set the tone for us tonight and you know we kind of fed off his energy and you know kept rolling to home runs for Joey Gallant tonight he told me on the field he's feeling more confident more comfortable let's look different from your vantage point about about the way he's approaching things I'll think just getting pitches to hit you know when you got a guy like Joey Gall a lot of the times you know he's got such a great eye and he works to count really well sometimes doesn't get a lot of pitches to hit and you know as a hitter that's frustrating you know sometimes you try to do a little too much when you're you know walking a lot or not getting pitches to drive so I just think tonight he kept it simple and you know when you got a pitch out over the plate you know he was able to crush it seems like it's been a bit of a roller coaster ride not only for the team but really for the offense in general just what could ignite like this with a lot of home runs a lot of production from the offense do for you guys in the final 14 you know we just take it one day at a time you know I think you know tonight was great you know we were able to produce a lot I was kind of you know just a two-round ball game there for majority of the game and then you know we're able to break out with Guardi's home run but I think of this team just keeps taking it one day at a time and just playing for one game and just kind of keep that mentality I think we're going to be a good position you're down the stretch Brendan Cutty you have the next question and do you take us through your double play what you saw there those are fun ones you know when they're kind of hanging up there and especially Yankee Stadium and so short to ride I can play in you know fairly fairly shallow you know but a lot of teams aren't used to that you know coming from other ballpark so it's pretty big so you know I'm just kind of reading the runner watching where he's at and he's kind of holding up holding up and I try to make it look like you know I'm not going to catch it and then you know a good job staying on the base and gave me a good target and able to get the double play those are I like doing that did you feel pretty confident when you let it go no you never do those are the tricky ones you know it's kind of like a touch pass because you hear the crowd behind you and you want to get it there in time to beat the runner and you know majority of the time you know usually eight out ten times you're going to sail it over the first basins head but you know that was two out of the ten where you know gets right to him and we're able to get the play Max Goodman you have the next question Aaron you mentioned Gardner how much of an impact has he had on this offense not just this week but really all of the second half of the year he's been huge for us you know if it's him betting at the bottom the order and kind of keeping things rolling and kind of turn over that lineup or you know if it's him leading off for us and it's kind of being that spark that fire plug that he is and you know getting this offense going you know he's been been huge offensively coming up with some big hits for us you know he had a couple big hits in Baltimore had some walk-offs earlier this year and then like like tonight you know it's a close ball game just haven't had that one you know one swing to kind of put us pull us apart from the Indians and you know sure enough he comes up and it's that three-run homer and you know kind of calms everybody down you know so now he's he's been you know spark look for us especially in the second half


And ultimately, all I'm doing here today is planting the seed for you all to recognize that the way the Healthy Happy Relationship is to spend regular time together doing things together versus our current model of just spending all our time on ex-messaging and chatting versus actually physically doing things together. is how you build a house. You have to take two by fours and hammer them together physically. You can't build a house over the phone.


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Thanks for checking out this unboxing video. This is for the September BAM box horror box Still don't have any Designs on here to denote that it's BAM box. So I don't know what's going on with that But they had they did do some recent updates on some things one of the big things they're doing is they're changing the naming convention of these so they're going to be doing like Volume number which has to do with the year they're in so like right now any any box This would be volume three because it's their third year doing it and then the number of box it is so this would be like volume three Number nine since it's from October or September, but for me for my naming convention for the For the videos on YouTube. I'm just gonna stick with what it's been with the month so I'm still just gonna say it's the September 2019 BAM horror box because the whole like Volume and box number thing is just confusing and no one's gonna search it that way when they're looking for videos I don't think so anyway. The other thing is they're doing a lot of stuff. Actually, they're gonna be doing a whole another box itself Called the drop. I think if you go to like score the drop comm or something you can see it it's like a Like something game related and then some food and a t-shirt. I think let me fix this light I don't know. It's lighting is being weird Whatever, well, we'll soldier ahead. I'll fix it in post so I don't remember what's gonna be in this box per se I keep forgetting the franchises nowadays. So sorry about that. I'm gonna do the pin first because that's what's on top. Oh It's summer of 84 designed by Nick Cacosa By the way, if I seem a little bit off, I apologize I'd my allergies are killing me right now And it's kind of like really messing with my head where my equilibrium is off and like I'm kind of dizzy So it's it's a pain Yeah, so Nick Cacosa, he's done these before summer of 84 What is the What is it from though? It's what I'm trying to figure out who who is this guy? Definitely looks 80s. Oh, is that lost boys? Would that be it? Maybe Maybe lost boys. We'll have to find out. I mean it looks like random dude with Purple headband. Let's pinkish purple. It's hard to tell in this light purple headband random These dude with purple headband and pierced ear. I don't know We'll find out. So there's something that's wrapped Okay, it's a sign. They actually haven't done a sign in a while. So that's fine Haddonfield Memorial Hospital for anyone who doesn't get this reference. Why are you watching this unboxing? Friday the 13th Yeah, so That's fine. I mean and you can hear Like it's it's metal and actually it's sharp on the edges. So People need to be careful. That's probably why it was actually wrapped in this because otherwise sliding around in there It probably would have pierced the box because these are sharp edges They probably should have rounded those to be honest But yeah, that's cool. I mean people can display this I May or may not. I don't know TVD to be determined folks if you don't know what that means Okay, so let's go to the next thing. I assume it's going to be the art print. Yes The title is Andy Psycho artist is Jill Kimball and It's apparently signed. Okay Number 933 out of 2,000 I mean, it's like an Andy Warhol type of dealie where it looks like they took a Picture that exists and just kind of did something with the computer I Mean I like kind of like the Warhol color change style of it, but I don't want it to Be in a computer altered picture like that's like I want original artwork really and I guess you could argue that this is Original artwork because someone did it on their computer, but I just don't want it where someone legitimately took a Existing photo or like an actual still from a movie and then chain, you know Manipulates it on a computer. I don't consider that art. I consider that more of like a marketing type thing You know Not for me and and if this is a psycho themed piece of art Like people who really know psycho will you know should could get this. I don't know it's kind of non-descript-ish As far as like you you're not necessarily gonna know it's for psycho. I'm not not a big fan Now let's find out the autograph. Autograph is oh, oh, okay This is actually pretty surprising. This is a good. This is a good autograph for this box to be honest Okay, so it's Ashley Lawrence who played Kirstie and Hellraiser and I I Legitimately have this exact photo of her from Hellraiser signed by her From when I met her at a convention, but actually Yeah, the one that I have it's on the wall up there the one that I have is much lighter than this So like the back the background blue isn't so dark It's actually a very light blue so it's actually easier to see her face and to really like see the blood So it's kind of like cleaned up but this is a really cool photo to have signed to be honest and And She's a good autograph. It's like very large and you can tell what it says So and she's a nice person when I met her I met her like ten years ago Maybe more to be honest No, but this is good. This is a really good get for the autographs Yeah, I like that Hellraiser baby Ashley Lawrence. I love the Hellraiser films. I think they're amazing. Okay, so That's it That's it. Okay. That's it All right So This looks different now So the celebrity autograph obviously Ashley Lawrence, there's no variant for the autograph just so people know the Art print it's either the psycho scream as we saw it kind of Warhol style or another one this Warhol style of a picture of Alfred Hitchcock you can see it there and that's only 500 of that done but you know Like I said, it's not really my type of art because I don't really consider it so much art The movie prop with Halloween approach approaching what better sign to display than the head and field Memorial Hospital replica sign that guided Michael Myers I do think that that's a pretty decent prop replica as far as you know I'm not big into the prop replicas with this box But as far as those go like that's when I actually think it's like I could use that like that's a legitimate one I'm okay with so then for the art it is from What is it from? We are so excited for the latest season of American Horror Story, okay That's why I didn't really get it when we pitched the Joker for the pop culture box Artist Nick Cacosa asked to do these also. We are glad we said yes Oh, so it was the artist's idea. Hey, why don't I do some pins from American Horror Story? 1984 okay, I guess that's why it's called summer of 84 it that's that's tricky because there's actually a movie on Shutter called summer of 84 and it's a really good horror movie if you have shudder You should definitely check it out and actually if you don't have sure you should get it for that But um, okay, that makes sense where I was looking at this and I'm like I don't quite get it So there was that one.  So I yeah, I don't know who this woman is over here Because I haven't started watching the show I do plan to watch the show because I've heard really good things, but I'm just not there yet Not there yet I will because this is my crazy time like this is when I watch try to watch at least 31 horror films throughout the month But my other problem is I am kind of on a timeline with some of these films Because I have screener copies and I'm getting from shudder And I also got one from outside of shudder from the company putting this Documentary called in search of darkness together which that review is up So when they send me the screeners I kind of have to get them done within a certain amount of time for my reviews to post So and then the giveaway. Sorry, that was a quick transition over. That's like A James Jude Courtney signed Funko Pop for their monthly giveaway James Jude Courtney people don't know is the most recent person to play Michael Myers in the newest Halloween that was done Which I thought was pretty solid. There you go. That's a cool monthly giveaway to be honest I mean because honestly like his autograph at horror conventions is At least $40 At least might be more. I don't remember because when I see it. I'm not like I want to get his autograph I focus on other people, but okay, um So I'm kind of like I'm half and half on this The pin looks good, but I don't know what it's I didn't know what it was from so the pin looks good as usual Nick cacosa. I think does a good job Not a fan of the art print. Don't really think it's an art Piece of art in my opinion.  Like not taking images and manipulating them Very impressed with the autograph though that actually Lawrence autograph is If I didn't already have it I would probably say that's the best autograph they've ever gotten for this Bambox for Bambox horror, so it's very cool I'm gonna need to find someone to give that to to be honest because since I have my personalized one from her and it's The exact same photo Coincidentally, they didn't give it to my buddy rich. I'll do that and then like I said the sign Not big on the props, but for prop. I think it's a cool prop actually So I'm kind of like half and half on this box, but you know, that's what you get with these mystery boxes So yeah, we'll see what we get next time. I wish they had like teasers because like freight crate I don't know if people know I I also unbox freight crates They always have like a teaser for the franchises for the next month and I kind of like to put that at the end So I know they used to do it with Bambox and I wish they still did it But you know, whatever anyway, thanks people for checking this out I would really appreciate if you could pay me back by hitting the subscribe button. That's all you need to do Just subscribe to the channel cost you nothing. It's literally painless Please do it and put some comments down here if you want to talk horror Are you watching American Horror Story summer of 84 or just 84? I think it's just called 84 American Horror Story 84 are you watching it? Should I watch it? I'm probably going to but you can talk me out of it You have time. Anyway, thanks everyone and until next time keep it brutal


Welcome back to our series on the Fixing a Chest Cave when you're squatting. Last video we talked about teaching the back to round again so that you don't have to crunch so much so that that chest doesn't cave so much. So we need to restore that mobility. Next today, what I want to get into is I want to take that position that you've just gotten from the rock back exercise, the active full exhaling rock back exercise that you did that was challenging, right? I want you to take that and then let's layer on some hamstrings on top of that. So what we're going to do is we're just going to do a traditional glute bridge here.  First thing we're going to do, the exercise is pretty traditional but the way we do it isn't always that traditional. So what I want to do that might be different than you've done in the past is I want you to do that belt buckle thing again. So pretend you're wearing a belt buckle, pull that up into your belly button. Hang on to that position.  I don't want your abs to actually do it. I want you to do it just with your leg muscles and the two leg muscle groups that are doing this are the hamstrings, okay? So I want you to feel, it's not going to feel super tired, it's not going to feel like the end of a set of squats or anything, I just want you to feel a little bit of tension there. Do you feel them? Yes or no?  If you still don't and your abs are totally jello, then bridge up a little bit higher and push a little bit more and see if you can feel it. And if you still can't, just hold the position and we're going to go through these reps. We're going to do 20 reps just like this. So we've got hamstrings and then we've got glutes at the top. Two, and as you go, if you haven't felt them yet, you should be able to start feeling them. That's often what happens. If you don't, leave a comment below and maybe we can kind of troubleshoot through some things even better. Find a coach near you or online because I do online coaching that you can communicate with to have like a little feedback session. Try to figure out why you're not doing it right or why you're not feeling it where it's supposed to be feeling. Not that you're not doing it right. I think that was 10. I go by feel, not by quantitative objective measurement and totally lost count. Say 13. So I'm still feeling some hamstrings. I'm really feeling a lot of glue though and that's okay because those are another set of anti-gravity muscles. We talked about the hamstrings helping us out, but the glutes are going to help us out as well. And let's say this is our last one.  So exercise one was the full rock back. Remember we're teaching our spine how to be mobile. Second exercise, we start to get into this stability holding onto the mobility that we've made. The back rounds out just with the position from the rock back we've done, but then the hamstrings when we're standing upright prevent us from leaning back like this.  We keep that low back in a more mobile position. We keep it away from this let's tighten up, let's steal my mobility position. We keep it out of this locked up position and we get you into a state where you can demonstrate more mobility. And again, we need that mobility above and below that joint that is bending. Remember, talked about the chest cave. The chest cave is usually just a hinge. It's not a nice round curve. So that's our second exercise, the glute bridge, but make sure you set up with your hamstrings.


When I was taking my teacher education I was looking at inquiry and I think a lot of times there's this mentality that it's let the kids go play and they'll learn something. And it's not, it's definitely not something that's just free reigns and go for it. There's a lot of planning that goes into inquiry, but for me it's harvesting and harnessing that natural curiosity that kids have. And it's also, it's true learning. So when you're an adult you don't go to your textbook and you have a curious question. You're thinking of things you want to know and how do you figure out the answer to that and you have a natural learning process. So I think it's really a natural way of learning that we need to facilitate. I think that you need to be strong in classroom management, but often times when there's not opportunities for kids to explore and to be curious about things, that perhaps there's a connection or a correlation between classroom management being difficult. Not always, but they need to have the freedom to explore and to answer those questions. So what I've done is I've set a tone in my classroom that your behavior, there's clear expectations for it and that's regardless of what approach we're using. And because they understand that that's the expectation we have more freedom and they're able to go within the parameters of what's accepted in our classroom. In my own experience what inquiry has allowed me to do, like I said before, was giving me freedom to be inspired and to inspire the kids to learn. So with the new social studies curriculum the approach is I think quite a bit different than perhaps the older social studies curriculum. Something that I focus on is multiple perspectives and something else that we are looking at specifically are histories and stories of the ways of life in Canada. So respecting and honoring that culture is developed through time and that everybody's story is important and unique. So looking and honoring a lot of the values and attitudes that are in the social studies curriculum, when you have inquiry it opens up the process for that and for them to explore and demonstrate those values and attitudes. And that's been the biggest thing for me is that with values and attitudes you don't necessarily teach them. You allow them to engage in things where they're developing those values and attitudes. Well in my classroom there's been quite a few projects that we've undertaken and with those projects there's planning with the end in sight. So looking at what are the curricular outcomes that I need to address and are mandated to address. So understanding by design. Exactly, so working backwards. And so I'm looking at what's the big question, what's the point, why are we learning these things and sharing that with the kids. So that they're aware of why they are engaged in this, why we're learning about this person and this person and their effect. And moving from that big question back to how do we accomplish that. So that would be one of the best practices that I see inquiry as being a really strong fit with is that effective planning. Another best practice that inquiry lends itself to is assessment for learning. The kids are given control over their learning and they are given accountability and responsibility for their learning. So with some of my projects, well actually all of my projects, there's a component for self-evaluation and reflection. And they have to know whether or not they've met the ICANN statements or the curricular outcomes. So the curricular outcomes are often our base for inquiry. How did this person affect Canada's history? What does the story, your own personal story, your history, how does that affect Canada's diverse culture and heritage. And then they go through that process of inquiry and after they've completed that or as they are. And they're thinking critically as well. Yeah, they're thinking critically, they're thinking outside of the box, they're having to justify and explain. But they're reflecting and evaluating on what they've learned. So it's not just we close a textbook and we're done. It's that lasting understanding and that enduring understanding. I'm very excited about this project. It's something that it just goes to show actually how when you choose to engage with your students, it will stick with them. When I was in grade five, I had an awesome teacher and he wanted us to connect to history. So he had actually done a smaller version of what I'm trying to do with my students right now. And he had had us dress up as characters from history. So I have taken that idea and it stuck with me for years afterwards. And I thought, how can I use this? Because it was so influential to me. I still remember who Madeleine de Vercher is and how often do we read about her? It was so authentic. It was so authentic and it was building that understanding. And this was very effective in my own learning. So I thought to myself, how can I do this with my kids? When I look at the new social studies curriculum, I was so excited because in grade five, it's all about stories in that second topic and it's all about explaining how that affects our understanding and what do the stories of these people, how do they contribute to our diversity? So what we've done is created this project where the problem is that there's a case, an epidemic of misunderstood and forgotten history in our nation, which is true in fact. So the kids have been sent on this mission, so it's very mission impossible. They're all agents. They have their own agent numbers. I can hear the music. Yeah, and they... I'm so excited. I have to try and... They all have this mission to bring back a person who is significant to Canada's history. So in integrating language arts and social studies for grades four, five and six, and then differentiating for grade levels, our school is working towards solving this epidemic and preventing it from continuing. So the kids now have chosen their person. They have to persuade headquarters why they are going to bring this person back to life in Canada's history, explain the significance, and in that they're being inquirers. They've chosen an individual. It has to meet the criteria of being Canadian, being significant, being someone that has made an impact on Canada's history. And now they are researching. We're meeting all of the expectations for the research component of language arts and social studies, but they are in control of that, and I'm facilitating. So I'm teaching them ways that they can approach it, but they're driving it. And it's really exciting, and I can't wait for... I can't wait to see what they come up with. Well, again, I go back to it's exciting, and when I'm motivated, that wears off on the kids. People say that. It's contagious. It is. It's very true. When I'm excited and motivated, then I'm modeling what learning should be and what it can be. It's an exciting thing. And I think social studies gets a bad rap sometimes, and it's not just memorizing dates, and it's not just knowing what page in the textbook you get it from. But inquiry has allowed me, and it's a process that I use because I can motivate my kids. It's exciting for me to come and teach them because I'm learning along with them. And it's really neat to see how they develop and to see their ideas, and it's very open-ended, so you get a truer picture of your learners in your classroom when they're allowed to demonstrate it in a way that makes sense to them within parameters, of course.


Well, thanks a lot Chris well when you look at it no team is an automatic win But when the best team in baseball is playing the team with the worst record in baseball You got to do damage and the Yankees did that they did what they had to do They beat the ace three in a row. Yeah, they did they fell behind early in this series But they did a really good job of you know Just taking it one pitch at a time and making sure they take advantage of each and every mistake And you saw some mistakes from a young Oakland athletic teams that allowed the Yankees to come out and and do what they did today And that's get the serious sweep and the Yankees do what they do and they do with home runs I have more home runs Than any team in baseball in fact they have more home runs in the month of June and the a's having the entire season and Today was judging Stanton and as you mentioned during the game cam that is a formula for a win It really is but what they do extremely well is get guys on you know prior to those big homers So, you know, that's the area that they wanted to improve They wanted to get better in the box having better quality at bats and not relying on the Homer But again, they still do you know look forward to lift them and it lifted them in a big way throughout the series Now what's happening with the Yankees is that they continue to win although some of their starters are having So-so outings not terrible, but they certainly persevere and give them some innings, but we've seen it with Nestor Cortez We've seen it with Triune as well But the fact that they can go into a slump which every pitcher is going to do and still pick up victories That's important as well. It is important and the most important thing is in those You know rough starts they're given the bullpen length They're still managing a way to reel it back in find their command and their poise and give The bullpen a little bit of break a little time off So they're doing a good job not pitching like the staff that we saw earlier But they're doing a good job of just fighting battling and getting through that tough that tough stretch All right, so the Yankees have won five in a row So they rebound after they lose those middle two games to the Astros now they go to Houston Tomorrow to begin their longest road trip of the year it's four cities and it's 10 games and 11 days and It always seems like we're looking for some kind of test for the Yankees or litmus test But these 10 games are going to be interesting now They're not against the best teams in the world because you do have Pittsburgh thrown in there for two games But the Guardians have played well. Yeah, you know and they're managed really well by Terry Francona a guy who gets The best out of his ball clubs. They know who they are as a team. They they're scrappy They put together good at bats they play good defense and they pitch well So it'll be another test throughout the season. They'll be tested because they're gonna get everybody's best shot So they know that but the thing that they do so well as they stay poised They take one game at a time one pitch at a time They continue to play together as a group and it's been impressive to see what they're able to do now When I look at this road trip the thing that excites me the most is the final four games The Yankees against the Red Sox the Yankees have played the Red Sox just three times this year just three times So by the time they meet them in Fenway Park It'll be July and it'll be only the second series that they meet This is a four game set and this Red Sox team is not the same Red Sox team for the first two months of the season They've had a great month of June They actually run a lot which is kind of shocking and I think that's gonna be a good test for both of those teams Yeah, and it's gonna be an electric series It's gonna be playoff atmosphere as you say at the offense starting to pick up They're starting pitching and bullpen doing extremely Extremely well pitching a lot better than they were early in the season So look for that series to be intense high energy high-pressured atmosphere And I'm sure the Yankees are looking forward to the challenge All right So the Yankees head to the road and they will go to Houston first and they carry with them the best record and baseball Amazing 36 games over 500 Chris


I'm sitting here at my RV dinette table. I don't use this to have dinner with the husband and the kids. I use this to do many, many hours of work. This space is very cramped. So today my normal RV desk is changing from this to this, thanks to Eric from Wonder Boom. Of everything in my rig, since I've been on the road, having a good desk space has been my biggest challenge and it's the thing that I've needed the most. It's where I spend most of my time. Well, I totally scored y'all because I am camping with Eric Wonder Boom. Look, if you don't know Wonder Boom, go and check out the things that he does. He is an alchemist with wood. He came in here and he asked me specifically what I needed in my space and I told him, if I'm working for long hours, I like to use a monitor but I don't wanna have the monitor up all the time. There is this foldable chair that I've kept here that I could keep in storage under the bed but it's hard to get to. And I was wondering if there was a way to store it out here. I wanted a way to store the monitor while I was traveling. Maybe a more ergonomic keyboard, maybe some storage because right now things like my camera equipment have to go into a really tall shelf over here and I actually have to take these big bins down or these big drawers down. Every time I need to get something, I have to stand on the couch and pull it out just to get a cord or something. So the stuff that I use most of the time is going to go in here. And I cannot wait to show you guys what he came up with. Genius, genius. When he's done, I am going to have a beautiful desk that can work just like it is now except for that it can turn into a dinette table. It can turn into a desk. It has storage for my laptop and devices. It has a hideaway keyboard and a place to store my monitor. I had no idea any of this was even possible and you guys can see he's out there working right now. This dinette came with four chairs, two regular and two collapsible. But for me, it really hurt my back to sit in those chairs for lots of hours. So I went out and got this good chair, but I had to take the arms off of it to even get it to fit back here. And to sit in it like I am now, I actually have to turn the chair out, sit in it and then turn back. I actually can't even get into the chair in this space while it's turned towards the table. You guys can see here that this dinette table that came with the RV doesn't have any legs, which is great. It's mounted on the wall on these two rails. Well, the first thing I thought I would do is literally just unscrew it and move it down the wall towards these chairs, you know, like Walmart style on some milk crates or something. Wow, you already moved it down the wall? Yep. So that is the base the original desk was on. Yep. And this stayed right where it was. The other one was there. So I pulled it out of there, shifted it over here. Cool. Did you need a stud over there? Actually, not so much. This one, there is a fairly decent layer of plywood here, but I'm going to have a big solid piece coming up, you know, on the back here as well. So that's going to create the actual more support out on the end here. So. So what's going on now, Eric? A little preparation for our whitewashing and our polyurethane. Cool. So I'm just protecting the floor, making sure everything's still nice and clean. Really looking forward to what this looks like with the whitewash on it. Yeah. Okay, here we are. It's like day, what, three? About three, yeah. Three. And this is kind of what it's going to look like. He's doing a little kind of mock-up, putting it together before it's whitewashed and stained. It looks good. Look at that, you guys. So my drill under there. Yeah, there's a drill under there. Wow. So when my slide goes in, it'll be just this side. But if I want to work with somebody else or have more room, it pops out into a big old long desk. Looking good, Eric. One of my concerns was while traveling, I wanted to make sure that my monitor that I use when I'm working really long hours was able to store away. So look what he came up with, you guys. The handy-dandy little slot that fits precisely for its... At an angle. Now I can take the base off of there. Yeah, this part comes off. If I just was going to pop it in there to travel, I wouldn't. But if I was going to be storing it in there and doing other work, I would because it would give me more space. But underneath that, he found more storage. And then I also have these other cubbies. It's genius. The whole thing is just genius. Open. And we found these hinges that hold what, 350 pounds? Something like that, yeah. On Amazon. Yeah, that's beautiful. Look at that big desk space. Definitely don't want to sit out here on the ends or anything, but... Oh, well, damn it. But it'll hold plenty of strength for puzzles and your typical office workspace. Yeah, and it's a double workspace. Somebody can be on that side, right? And somebody can be on this side. Perfect. Good job. Wonder boom. Bam. This is maple, right? Yep. And now Eric's just putting a little whitewash on it. So what is the recipe you're using here? Just basically a 50, 50, 50% paint, 50% water. Okay, what kind of paint? Pinch it up. Where is it? It's a latex, just standard latex paint for your typical walls or whatever. Watered it down? Yep, watered it down nice. And then basically you wipe it on and it doesn't have to be pretty when you first put it on. It just, you just want to get it into the grain and then they follow up with the dry rag. Right. Oh, lovely system. Robin just brought this in. I mean, look at that, there it is. This is the exact paint he's using. And we're doing this because this is my countertop. So we're actually getting it to match a little bit. And then after this, what are we doing to it? Then we will be putting two coats of oil-based polyurethane. Cool. Seal it up good and make it nice and tough. This thing is really starting to look beautiful. Eric just put on the second coat of polyurethane. It's a semi-gloss. So it's shinier now than it probably will be because it's drying, but the cubby storage section back there has been taken off. It is out there drying. And tomorrow morning we're going to put final touches on it and put in a little keyboard holder. I'm very excited to get to use this. We're doing the last little bit of installation here. We put some little more polyurethane right there. And he brought back in the little shelves. And he's going to secure it all. And what else? Put on the keyboard holder. Yep, mount the keyboard. And that's it. Unit, and that's it. Guess what's behind us. You're not going to. You'll never guess. Ready? Ready for the chorus of angels to sing? Eric, will you give us a tour? Sure. Of your desk that you built? My custom desk, you guys. Your desk. Your desk. OK, tell us all the little cool stuff you added to it. OK. So we moved the old table set kind of right about here. So it was very tight for this chair to be in the back here against the wall. So we shifted everything down. So we maximized the space between this end and the chairs that had to stay put. And a big aspect of it was to have a little extension here so that she could do additional things with it. So we added this handy top up table so able to do puzzles or just spread out to do additional work and have a nice work area. Also created a nice little bookcase kind of space over on the end over here, which we'll get some close up shortly. And a little place to park the monitor when traveling and also got a hold of this lovely little slide out tray so that very ergonomic and everything for working and writing over here. So helped it with that. And then we also have some additional storage on the other side so that while sitting in the chairs, there's a little more useful space to use on the edge of the seating area over there. OK, here it is from the other side. Look how big that desk is. So I can sit across from somebody if we both sit in the hallway. Thank you, Flight Attendant, for showing us. Yes. So it can actually be a two-person desk if people are sitting across from each other. Three people can sit and have dinner still. And it's got all this cool storage. So what did you do back there, Eric? Well, I'm going to close this up so I have a little easier access to it. So this has the nice heavy duty glides there and our support braces to keep that up and locked in place. But we figured I was thinking of, well, several things. First thing is with this space kind of the end of the table and the chair, I thought, well, if we can't do much else, might as well create a little storage here. Plus, one of the other key factors was the chair that will be used at the end here. Needed a place to live.  That just slides right out from here. Look at that. It stores that whole chair. So that can just sit conveniently on the end here. And it has that really handy little space that would have been just dead space on there.  So I figured that makes sense to have utilized that space. Chair can sit right in here.  Look, you guys, look at all my space. This guy's like a magician. He came up with stuff for this that I never would have thought of. And so if you're looking for ideas or you wanna know how to build stuff out in your own rig, I recommend you go check it out. Anyway, I'm actually gonna be doing a tour of Wonder Boom's shuttle bus shortly. So look out for that as well. But for now, thanks so much. You're very welcome. I love it so much. I'm never gonna leave. You'll be slouched over. I was already slouched over.  This is a dream come true for me. Seriously, thank you. You're very welcome. Okay, you guys, this is Eric from Wonder Boom. And both of us wish you happy travels and be free.


I'm here today with Isolt Ward, the co-founder of a charity called Food Cloud, which is based here in Ireland. Isolt, what is food cloud? We work with businesses across the food supply chain and where there is good, edible surplus food, we will do our best to redistribute that out to charities. Food waste is a big issue. What sort of problems does it cause? Food waste is a massive global problem that we're trying to deal with. And this food can be lost or wasted across the global food supply chain. So it can happen at a farm level, it can happen through manufacturing, distribution, retail and also in our home. So at every stage of food production we lose some of it. And it's a big loss and it hurts the people mostly who can ill afford it. And it hurts our planet. All of this food that's going to waste results in global greenhouse gas emissions. So a lot of this food ends up being dumped. When it's dumped it rots down and releases methane gas which does just awful damage to the atmosphere. Yes, methane is a particularly potent greenhouse gas emission. So really our objective must be that food that is meant for the human food supply chain, we should keep it in that supply chain. What can we do as normal householders to alleviate this issue? Well it is one problem that everybody can do something to solve because everybody eats. And that means that we can all make an effort to reduce our own food waste. There are going to be many more people on this planet by 2050 and we need to find the food to feed them. But we also need to do that in a way that looks after our planet. It's clear that with food going to waste if we reduce this and if we all make an effort to reduce it across the food supply chain that we have a much better chance of feeding people and reducing hunger whilst also fighting climate change.