So our stories kind of started like, like we lived in parallel universes like we talk about how we like the more we get to know each other like we were just oh my god me too me too me too and then we became super close. So she started in San Jose I started in LA and we both started the practice because our moms changed a lot from it. And then from there we did our own brain education practice and then these two parallel universes kind of converged in the headquarters of change your energy. So people have been asking us how did you meet and how did you start brain education TV. So we decided to sit down and tell you the answers and the behind the scenes story of how this all started. So when was the first time we met? Do you remember? Yeah, it was in September 2018. I came I moved to Arizona and I came to the office and I met you. I met you before that I don't think you remember I met you at Sedona Maga Retrie. Oh, it was like six, seven years ago and you were like a teenager. I remember 14 because I knew your I knew your mom.  And then so I was like, OK, and then we just like gave like this awkward hug. And then we like didn't see each other until September 2018. Yeah. That was the first time I met you. I remember it was very like in passing like we didn't even say anything more than just like a high. Right, right. Yeah. So speaking of moms, our moms were in this practice for a long time. Right. So my mom put me into this practice since I was six years old when we moved to the US. So brain education. Yeah. Brain education. When we moved to California and she started at body and brain centers and then I started there too with power brain kids and also her mom. How old were you when you started? So I I personally started brain education when I was 22. But my mom, I'm not sure exactly when she started because my mom kind of started it discreetly. You know, she didn't tell any of us that she's doing a yoga practice, but I think she started when I was either in like late middle school or early high school.  But what motivated me was my mom changed so much through brain education, you know, before she was like, I shared in my other videos, which I'll link down below. My my years growing up with my mom, but she was like a tiger Asian mom and very demanding and you know, she had a lot of emotions and hardships that she went through. And then I just totally saw her as she was doing something. I didn't know what she was doing because she didn't really tell tell me but she changed a lot. And that's what made me when I was really lost and wondering about where my life is going what I wanted to do. I was in a very tender phase in my life to lots of uncertainties, lots of doubts. That's when I did brain education. So to give you a little bit more of a backstory, maybe you could just interject and add if you like relate to this. But I lived my whole life trying to be happy because since a young age, I didn't really feel truly happy or satisfied with myself. I was doing all the things that you know, society told me to do. But at the end of the day, I felt something was missing and I didn't know what it was and that made me so mad. Because if I knew what it was, at least I could fill it up somehow, right? But I and because of that little bit of lacking that I always felt I was always chasing something because I felt incomplete chasing something. And I tried every avenue. I tried spending a lot of money. I tried going to a lot of parties. I tried having a lot of friends. I tried so many things in so many arenas to try to be happy, but nothing was working.  So at first, of course, I had a lot of resistance because I was like, too cool for that. Like, I don't need that in my life. But was I really too cool for that? Because I was not happy. I was empty. I tried it for the first time by going to a weekend retreat and sit on a model retreat. It was a camp for young people. Young people like me and you were kind of like, is there something more to life than this? And it was at that place where I experienced basically exercise and meditations for my brain to connect with my body. After a weekend of experiencing that, I had the strangest feeling inside of me. I swear to God, I was so shocked. And that was for the first time in my 23 years of life at that time, I felt content. I felt happy. Like I felt like right here was enough. Everything was enough and I was good. And that was such a foreign feeling to me because my whole life I felt like I was not good. I felt like something was missing. I was not good enough. I was just shy of that happiness I was seeking. But it was through brain education, actually experiencing it for the weekend that I was like, whoa, I felt full. I felt happy. I got a taste of the happiness that I was seeking for so long. And that's what I was hooked people hooked. Absolutely hooked. And I said I had to get more of this. So I just took one step at a time.   I want this life. So that's when I decided to dive head in and not only just experience this practice more to see how deeper I can get within myself, how much more healing I can do, but gain enough power that it doesn't just end with me, but I can spread this and influence change in other people too. Because that's something I've always dreamed about. Like I always looked up to like Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa and Gandhi because of their influence to bring positive change on a global massive scale. I always in my heart admired them so much for that. But I always thought that I couldn't do it because I had so many of my doubts and limitations of why I shouldn't or can't do it. But I feel that this YouTube outlet is like a small way that ultimately what I want to do is I want to give hope back to the people. Because I remember when I was so hopeless. Like I said in my story, I was feeling so hopeless because I was searching, searching, searching, searching and finding no answers. So for me, I have a similar story. I think everyone who practices brain education has a similar story of when the time when they kind of found that happiness within. I started when I was really young. So I kind of didn't understand it when I was little. I started in power brain kids. I went to the brain Olympiad in Korea. I trained a lot with my mom, but it didn't really like sink in. What like using my brain this way meant? You take it for granted. I did. And growing up, I saw like the way people deal with their stress and emotions and things in their life differently than I did.  Like I did that and then I talked to my friends and they've never done things like that before. So, you know, implementing those kind of things in my life, I'm really grateful I started that from a young age. And so my mom really changed from this practice.  She used to go to like hospitals, emergency rooms all the time, surgeries all the time. Nowadays after years of practicing and really being diligent about her practice, she has gotten so much better. Like she's unrecognizable from what she used to be years ago. So seeing how much my mom has changed and wanting to find that fulfillment for myself. That's definitely what inspired me to start Brain Education TV and be a part of Brain Education TV with Linda. So our stories kind of started like, like we lived in parallel universes, like we talk about how we like the more we get to know each other. Like we were like, oh my God, me too, me too, me too. And then we became super close. So she started in San Jose. I started in LA and we both started the practice because our moms changed a lot from it. And then from there we did our own Brain Education practice. And then these two parallel universes kind of converged in the headquarters of Change Your Energy. Where we met after we both decided that this is what we want to dedicate our lives to. Teaching Brain Education, as Gabby mentioned, helping other people with the tools of Brain Education. We both made that choice in our own little like parallel universes. And then our lives converged in the office in September last year. We saw the impact that online has and YouTube. We saw there's no platform right now for this, for Brain Education online as much. So we thought, you know, we have expertise online like making videos, things like that. So we thought we'd create a channel to spread this to the general public and just to a wide audiences. Because it's all a big movement we're trying to do beyond just yourself. That our goal ultimately is to deliver hope for the people. But why? So we can cause mass healing. Like healing on a global scale so that everyone can be healthy, happy and peaceful. Because that is our given birthright. We all have a right to be healthy, happy and peaceful. It's not a luxury. It's a right as human beings that we all have. But unfortunately our society doesn't create the environment where everyone is healthy. Everyone is happy, everyone is peaceful. If we just learn how to use our brain properly, which we both experience and our mom's experience and everyone who's experienced Brain Education is learning as well. If you can just experience the true power of your brain to shift the negative into positive. We really think that it could bring so much individual healing, community healing and world global healing. Even politicians and religious leaders and so many enlightened teachers, big names out there I'm sure you guys know the people that I'm talking about. Everyone who is on that mission they say that they want to help people. And help people heal specifically because so much people are in pain. And we thought why not reach out to an audience on YouTube that is looking for that. Not just on national television, our books are in a fun approachable way. Teach people how to use the power of their brains. Just like how we experience. Right. And how we change from it. So Brain Education actually going beyond just a small definition of what we shared is a global movement of raising people's consciousness. The people who are in politics, the people who are leaders raising their consciousness so they'll make more sensible decisions that affect everybody. And also the common people upgrading our consciousness, upgrading our energy, upgrading the way we use our brains so that we can bring health, happiness and peace in our lives. And also health, happiness and peace in our neighbors lives and our friends lives and our relatives lives. Because if it starts with one person and you touch five people around you and those five people touch one more person, that's 10 people. If those 10 people touch one more person, which I'm sure everyone has more influence than just touching one person. It's like exponential, right? And that's how change starts. And that's what we want. That's what this whole movement of Brain Education, that's the whole philosophy of Il-Chili, why he is doing what he's doing. It's the seed and foundation of everything that we do. Il-Chili is the creator of Brain Education and he is our mentor for this channel. And he's the reason that I want to keep going with this channel because his vision is so big to help people awaken to their brain. So for me, it's like taking on his big vision and using what I know to spread it to a lot of people. Yeah, we receive a lot of help on this channel. Maybe in the front end, you just see like me and Gabby. But behind the scenes, we receive so much help. We have like a whole village of people helping us through the Body and Brain Center, the different teachers of Brain Education, but especially Il-Chili who has mentored us from the beginning and actually was the person who even inspired us to create a YouTube channel. He was seriously the one who was like behind it saying like, no, that's not you. Like I really believe in you. Like he believed in me when I didn't believe in myself. And he kind of like pushed me in this direction to find that, you know, I'm so, so grateful that he did because without that little like nudge of support, I would have never done this. I was afraid to express myself because I was so afraid of if I said the wrong thing, then people will judge me. I'm so grateful to Il-Chili for mentoring us and for kind of nudging me when I didn't have the courage to like jump. I have the same exact feeling as you do. I definitely never thought I'd be on YouTube because it's such a place where you can get judged. And I was really afraid to like share my voice because that opens it up for judgment. So yes, that little nudge of like believing in myself and, you know, having more self confidence to speak out and especially about things that could save so many people. I'm very grateful to Il-Chili as well. It's amazing what like a tiny little nudge can just change the trajectory or change the direction and the way of thinking for two people who are influenced by one person. So we really hope that we can be that little nudge for people watching our videos out there who are maybe afraid to come out with anxiety, maybe afraid to come out with depression. They're feeling sick and they don't know what to do and you're feeling hopeless and you don't know where to reach for help. We want to be that little nudge. That's why we are doing what we're doing. We want to be your little nudge that you can do it, that you're worthy, that you deserve it and that you have the power to change. So if you got inspired by this video and would like to get involved with brain education, learn more of what it's about. Or try it yourself. Yeah, or try it yourself. First you can subscribe to this channel to just learn about what we're doing, what the organization's doing.  There's over a hundred locations across the US. So there's probably one in your city. And then there's retreat centers like the one she mentioned earlier, Sedona Moggo Retreat Center. And there's also one in Honors Haven in New York, in upstate New York. And yeah, there's workshops, retreats, all those kind of things every single week. So you can really look into those and we'll leave all the information below. Yes, we'll link them all down below. So if you want to experience brain education and see what dose of vitamin H, vitamin H that you can ingest into your body, we suggest the best ways to just try it. And there's even global retreat centers. So there's one in Korea, there's one in New Zealand. Japan. Japan, Canada. So if you're in any of those places or would like to travel to a retreat center and take a nice meditation retreat, we'll link it all down below. Yes, so try it, that's the key. You have to try it and when you try it, you'll know. All right, thanks for tuning in, guys. If you have any other questions for us, any comments, please leave them down below and we'll answer all the questions, all the comments. You know, we respond to all of them. We love seeing you guys give us feedback for the video. So feel free, let us know. Thank you. Thank you. Bye.


So I got this new M1 MacBook Pro. I ordered it on release day, John, your announcement day, I should say. And I opted, I chose the option on the right when you go to customize, I wanted a 14 inch and you can choose the option on the left, which is an eight core CPU, eight core CPU, 14 core GPU, 16 gig, 512, that's where it starts. And the option on the right on Apple site is the 10 core CPU. I thought, oh, let's go with the 10 core CPU, which meant because I chose the right path, the path on the right, not necessarily the correct path, that I got the 16 core GPU. I didn't really care if I had the 14 core GPU or the 16 core GPU, I wanted the 10 core CPU. I could have, as per Allison's chart that we mentioned just before, I could have chosen the left path and upgraded only the CPU to 10 cores and leaving the GPU on 14 cores and saved myself 200 bucks. I did not take that path. Quite frankly, I didn't know that path existed. So maybe you're right, maybe we are in the performance days of choosing your system on a chip with the M1. It is fast, but for what I do, I cannot tell that it is twice as fast or more as my M1 Air previously. Any difference at all. It starts up super fast. It wakes up super fast, it's just fast. How about the fans? I have not been able to get the fans to turn on even when running Geekbench. Do you like the screen on this? A, the screen is just gorgeous and B, it's bigger, but it has a notch. As we mentioned in the last show, conceptually, the notch really doesn't bother me. I like the fact that we're making use of that previously unused space, right? Because the space that the camera occupies was unused across the entire horizon of the screen. And so now it just raises up. That would all be fine if the things that would spill over into where the notch was could be used. But in, I am at a loss for words. The OS doesn't understand it yet. It sort of understands it, but what it does is it punts. And by that I mean, if you have menu bar items that move into where the notch would be, you don't get to see them. Thank goodness, bartender, they haven't done an update specifically for, oh, they are working on notch supports. I literally just launched it and it says there's notch support. So I don't know what that means because I haven't installed it yet and we're doing the show literally right now. But I did turn on an option in bartender at macbartender.com saying use bartender bar to show hidden items. And so instead of it showing me the hidden items in the menu bar, it drops down a separate bar to see them. So I can at least see all my overflow stuff if I manage things properly. So at least there's that. When I got it, I noticed two interesting things, John. The first was that it identified itself on my network as MBP 14 inch 2021. That was the DHCP client ID that it sent along when it grabbed its IP address for migration assistant to do its job on the network. The other thing which was a pleasant surprise is that my error was on 12.0.1 because that's how you upgrade to Monterey. Even though I was in the beta cycle, I got off of the beta cycle and just did the normal upgrade. My MacBook Pro came with 12.0 on it, which is interesting. And it allowed the migration assistant migration to happen. No Rosetta apps would launch until I did the update to 12.0.1. Don't know what that's about, but if anybody finds themselves in that same scenario, make sure you're on 12.0.1 and then I should say no Intel apps would launch, but it's a really nice machine. The keyboard is like butter. That may be the reason that I keep it is that keyboard. Not that the M1 Air's keyboard is bad, but this is definitely nicer. It's a little more spread out. I found myself initially typing the wrong letters because I was moving quickly like I would have on my Air, but it's a wonderful machine, obviously. And it's pretty and does all the things that it does, but it's got all those ports, which I think is great. I would love to have a USB-A port on it. I know I'm not gonna get one, but if we're gonna have ports, I would like USB-A because it's the thing that we all use the most when we're not using USB-C. Like HDMI is good, but it's not. I get why they put it on here. Totally makes sense for the graphics pros and all that stuff. Like 100% understood. And for the same reason I agree with the SD card slot, like go talk to the photography folks. They want that, great. But I would loved, I think we all would have loved a USB-A port.


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What's the word y'all? Today I wanna talk about the MVP race, man. Because honestly, we're a third of the way through the season. And if I were to have a vote, which I don't, but NBA hook a bra, what do I gotta do to get a vote, man? If I were to have a vote, according to way through the season, I don't know who I would give my vote to. It feels like my personal opinion on who the league's MVP is, is flipping from day to day. So reminder, I am just one dude with an NBA opinion. You may completely disagree, especially on a topic like this, there are so many options, that's completely okay. Use that comment section, let's talk it out, leave a like, but let's get to our sponsor. And listen, y'all know the sponsor of this channel is of course, PricePix, man. Hit that link in the description, download the PricePix app, and use code Kenny because you're matching all the deposits up to $100 for new users. Of course, it is just you versus the numbers. 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And I talked about this on the show and the people in the comment section was like, relax, Kenny, it's the Pistons, who cares? Next game he had a triple double with a bunch of players that were on the court that nobody knew who they were like two weeks ago. And then today a similar thing where they were playing with players like Blake play, Niggas Claxton play, Patty Mills play. But after that we talking rookies or players that you don't even know existed. And Kevin Durant put on the backpack and carried this team to three straight wins. He clutched shots over good defenders today on the 76ers. He continues to make the case. So I saw that happen today and that made me want to talk about it. And then the second thing, and then the second thing was Tim Bon temps of ESPN does this every single year where he talks to a hundred different NBA insiders and ask them, what's your MVP ballad looking like right now? And well, the results were kind of surprising to me. And here they are. Steph Curry has 94 first place votes, which is crazy. Now I'm not saying he don't deserve it, but I definitely look at the way the NBA landscape is right now and would have thought this would have been a lot closer than what it is. Shout out to Steph Curry. He's doing amazing things. I'm not even saying that I wouldn't have him as a front runner right now, but I think it's way closer than saying Steph Curry is by far ahead of everybody. Like I think that all four of the top candidates, I'm talking KD, I'm talking Steph, I'm talking Yanis and I'm talking Yolkich all have cases that if you pleaded it to me, I cannot tell you that you wrong. I might say I disagree with it. I don't know if that person is the MVP, but I cannot tell you that that player does not deserve the MVP award at this point. So let's go through the resumes of these players right now and kind of talk through who could be the vote. Again, I already talked about Kevin Wren's case a little bit, but let's go even more in depth. And the last five, and I know it's been almost 30 games of the season and we don't want to just focus on the last five, but you know Kevin Wren's stats are elite already. But the last five minutes after 35 points per game, eight and a half rebounds, seven and a half assists. He is shooting 50% from the field. He is shooting 38% from three, 95% from the free throw line. He is playmaking more than he's ever done. And a couple of games this season, he has taken the assignment of stepping up against the other team's best player and clamping that guy up. And he is putting on a backpack. And the team is the number one team in the East with a lot of different distractions slash things. This is a 21 and eight team right now. James Harden, who's supposed to be the secondary star, hasn't looked nearly like the James Harden we thought we were gonna get. And Cary Irvin ain't even suited up this season. This is the best team in the East record-wise. And a lot of that majority of that is because Kevin Wren has been a one-man bucket, a one-man point guard playmaker, a one-man defender protecting the paint and guarding the perimeter. His case is amazing. So if you told me right now, Katie is your MVP, I'm gonna say I respect it. So let's talk about the case first step, Cary. You again, Tim Bonzips and his 100 insiders have him as the guy that is in the driving seat. And it is his award to lose at this moment. Again, the total voting, 94 out of the 101st place votes. The argument is for himself, right? They're the best team and illegally tied for the best record with the Phoenix Suns at this moment. He's a big driving force. And I think that majority of people were kind of, and we did really know what they were gonna get for from the Golden State Warriors this season, right? There are a lot of question marks. Clay Thompson, James Wiseman, the other young dudes, none of those dudes have even done anything. It's really been Steph Curry, Dreymond Green and a bunch of very good role players that understand what to do on the court. And Steph Curry has been amazing. But the reason why I was surprised to me that he has 94% of the votes at this moment is that the last couple of weeks haven't been the best play for Steph Curry. Now he did break the record for the all-time three-pointers. So that definitely helps right now. But if we're looking at the last seven games, Steph Curry's average on 24, five and five, which is great counting stats, but he's not shooting at the same efficiency that we're expecting Steph Curry to do. He's shooting at 37% from the field, 36% from three. But again, even though Steph Curry is the greatest shooter of all time, all of his value doesn't come in the counting stats and how much he's hitting from the field or how much he's missing because he has the gravity thing. And I know Steph Curry haters hate when you talk about gravity, but it is a real thing. And I don't think, I know some people have the opinion. And again, I just disagree. I'm not saying that you're crazy for thinking this. Some people think that because of Steph Curry's gravity, even when he's having a terrible shooting night, he's still impacting the game positively and up to the point where you can't say he had a bad game because of his gravity. Because even if Steph Curry is over nine from the field right now, I'm not gonna stop defending him. He's Steph Curry. He can catch fire and hit the next nine. You know what I'm saying? So he hasn't been amazing individually over the last seven, but the team has been able to sustain that and still win close games. In some of these games, it's him closing out. The Steph Curry conversation or the argument doesn't need to be made because most people have him as their MVP right now. So let's talk about some of the other dudes. The third place person on this list was Giannis. And that was surprising to me because honestly, if I were to rank these things, I think that Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, and Jokic are all in the tier as type three and Giannis is beneath them. I think Giannis, for me, if I was going to pick it, Giannis is in fourth place and then the other three, I don't really know the order. But according to Tim Bond Simpson, he's 100 inside as Giannis is number three on the list. Which again, I can't say they're crazy. I'm just saying that I don't agree with him being number three. He had the FVPCs, the Finals MVP season last year and this year he's been just as good, not better. A lot of these people that we're seeing on this case, the other three people that we've talked about had a very good season last year and then elevated it, got even better. The same can't really be said about Giannis. Not saying that he's having a bad year. It's been a very steady year to what we've seen last year. I think that I even made a video on this channel during the off season or during the pre-season because he was taking those shots with confidence. He was hitting them and was like, oh snap, that three point shot is gonna come around. But it's basically the same as it has been any other year. The case for Giannis is this team started off very slowly because they had a lot of injuries and they're still dealing with injuries and then boom, he had his right hand man and his left hand man come back in and they immediately went on a huge run and Giannis had the game winners where he's putting up 40 points and all of that. He's still the greatest help defender in the entire NBA. One of the greatest defenders at all in the entire NBA. So his case still, he still has a case but I don't think his case is as strong at this point a quarter of the way or a third of the way through the season as the other three. And then lastly here is Nicola Jokic. And Zach Lowe and a lot of NBA nerds have Nicola Jokic in an entire tier with the other guys. And I'm a part of that crew man. I guess I'm considered an advanced stat nerd because I don't know how you can have a conversation about the MVP and leave Nicola Jokic off of it. I know in previous seasons, I guess throughout most of the history of the NBA to win the MVP award more than likely you have to be on one of the best teams in the league. And the major knock on Nicola Jokic is, ah, his team is not winning. But if you look at the stats and he passes all of the ITES, they are one of the greatest teams in the history of basketball when he's on the court and then one of the worst teams in the history of basketball when he's not. His point difference was like 30. The team is 30 points better when Nicola Jokic is on the court versus when he's not. That has never been done in the history of basketball before. Now, Kevin O'Connor, shout out to him and Ben Taylor at Thinkin' Basketball had a great podcast where you're talking about all things. They talk stuff, they talk Jokic, they talk about a bunch of different stuff and it was a very good conversation. And some of the stuff that we're mentioning about Jokic in that video, again, I'm not a guy that typically looks at advanced stats, but when I watch basketball, I know that Nicola Jokic should be at MVP conversations and I listen to that podcast and they're throwing numbers at it to prove it. I'm like, yo, get him more love right now. And listen, I've never been a person that agreed with voters fatigue. And I don't even know how you could have voters fatigue after somebody wins one award. Typically, voters fatigue is like, oh man, just won two in a row, three in a row. I'm not giving it to them again. I've never believed in voters fatigue personally. If you have the best individual season for nine years in a row, you deserve that award, nine years in a row. And people are saying that, ah, Jokic won it last year, so let somebody else get it is ludicrous to me. It's just, it's devaluing the award if we're telling somebody that he doesn't qualify because he did it last year. Now, the biggest argument that we mentioned earlier is that the team is not as good and that is a valid argument, but I would argue, what is bro supposed to? He's literally doing everything. He's literally doing everything and he doesn't have his third and his second best player. And again, the reason why I'm talking about this now is because I'm looking back, I'm thinking about previous seasons of me as a basketball fan. It had always been pretty clear who my MVP was, right? Last year, I was in a camp that thought Jokic and if you look at the voting, everybody that voted gave Jokic, Jokic won 91% of the first place votes. Everybody knew Jokic wasn't last year. The year before that it was Yannis, everybody knew that. The year before that it was Yannis, everybody knew that. The year before that it was James Harden. He even beat out everybody. LeBron James was a little bit behind it with 15 out of the 100 votes. And then the only time I could really think about where I was this indecisive about my own personal MVP vote was the 2016-2017 season, Russell Westbrook versus James Harden. And even to this day, I still don't know. I have flip-flopped on that thing so many times, my guy. And that season happened five years ago and I still don't know who I wanted to give my award to. And this season, if everything keeps going the same, might be the same. But again, I mean, things go like this all the time, I guess. Where somebody's probably gonna raise their neck above the others. And my guess is if the Warriors continue to be great and be the best team in the league, Steph Curry will win another MVP award. But I honestly do believe that my opinion on some of these things have been changing, man. Which is cool. I like that my opinions and things aren't as straightforward as they were seven years ago because I'm a different person now. I look at things from a different lens now. I used to be one of the dudes that would say, ah, bro is having an amazing season, but they the 5C. So like, how much does it matter? You know what I'm saying? And I don't think that's how I believe it anymore. I think that Yolkich could win MVP. I mean, I'm not a voter. But Yolkich could get my MVP vote even if they aren't one of the top three seeds in their conference. Very interesting stuff, man. There are definitely some people who listen, I don't wanna sound like a hater but I'm going to sound like a hater in this moment. There are some people that got these voter voting credentials that obviously don't take it serious. Like think about the history of people that be getting votes. Let's just go through some, just real quick. I know I made a whole video about this like two years ago but I just wanna showcase some of them. What about the year back in 2012, 2013 where LeBron James was one vote away from being the first unanimous MVP voter? The one guy gave it to Carmelo Anthony. I always like coming back to articles like this because they talk about this. This is the year. The Knicks won 54 games, the Heat won 66. The Knicks ended up winning 12 straight games that season while the Heat won 27. Who broke that streak? None of them Chicago Bulls. Yeah, I remember that day. The numbers were so tilted and LeBron's favor that he actually lapped Anthony and a number of value stats. James double Carmelo's total win shares, box plus minus and VORP warp. I don't even know what that stands for. Melo won the score title but LeBron beat him in rebounds and since blocks and virtually every metric of offensive efficiency. So that's a Melo. You're in the major season. I'm not discrediting him that. But he had no business getting an MVP vote. First place MVP vote over LeBron. And I guess most of the cases for people not taking a series don't really come up in MVP. It comes up in all NBA. It comes up in all defensive. And you're like, Kenny, why does that matter where a lot of the contracts that people get are incentivized by making all NBA and all defensive? So if you have people in the voting system that aren't taking it seriously that some people missing out on Brad that could have made some Brad, I'm just saying.  And I will take that serious. I will treat that like it's a final exam. If I don't pass, I don't get a degree. I'm telling you, don't mess with me. Either way, let me know in the comment section a quarter of the way through the season or I guess a third of the way through the season. Who would be your league MVP right now? And then we will circle back to this two thirds of the way through the season at the end of the season to figure out how things have changed. My mind is to y'all enjoy basketball and I'll see y'all tomorrow.


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First question is from Nick Hibino. How often should I switch up my lifting exercise for max gains? This is actually a really good question because there's like a bell curve with this, right? So if you switch too soon, then what happens is you lose the ability to get good at an exercise and really reap its benefits. And there's a different learning curve for each exercise like barbell curls. You start to master them very quickly, a barbell squat, much longer. And through that mastery process, once you get to a point where you can really push weight and have good stability, then you really see a lot of gains and that can take a while. So you'll want to stick to that exercise for a while. But if you do an exercise too long without switching things up, risk of injury goes up, plateaus can start to happen. So it's, it's kind of different from exercise to exercise and program to program. So it's a hard, it's a hard one to answer. Well, do you guys have some, some general, cause that's a great point, right? So what you'll see when I'm doing my own programming, right? If I'm not following something specifically, I, I will keep things like the, you know, barbell back squat or standard, you know, barbell overhead press and deadlift in my routine for sometimes months before I phase it out or transition to me. And normally what I do is I just interrupt it with some like, you know, multi-planar lunges or costed squats or Bulgarian split squats, and then I'll be right back at it just to make sure that I'm kind of addressing everything, but I'll, I'll keep a movement like that in my, my programming for months with just like I said, a little bit of intermittent.  I ain't doing that more than maybe four workouts in a row. Yeah. Four workouts in a row and I'm out of it. I'm already transitioning into something different. Yeah. I think those higher skill ones, like they're always going to make it in the rotation. The only thing that's going to change a lot is either the tempo, the intensity, you know, the rep count, like, you know, those variables that you can adjust, but still get some of those same benefits. But now you're getting a new stimulus that your body's reacting to. So I still like to keep them around. But yes, I do incorporate other exercises to kind of fill the needs, especially if I'm just training a lot, like, uh, to the beginning of this podcast, talking about just training in one direction too much. You know, I want to make sure I'm considering a lot of other variables that will benefit my body. That's a great point. Um, very, very good point because you can. So the complex exercises, the gross motor movements ones are the ones that you can keep in for a long time. Just because there's so much you can gain from them. There's so much that's involved.  Um, so long as you do auxiliary movements and some other exercises to address imbalances, but then simple exercises you adapt very quickly and you benefit more from variety, right? So one rule of thumb, or I don't want to say a rule of thumb, but one thing to consider is with the complex, really valuable exercises, you can just modify the exercise itself. And now you've got a little bit of variety. For example, I may do traditional barbell squats for a while. And then notice I'm starting to plateau and say, okay, rather than not doing back squats, what I'll do now is I'll do a pause squat, or a box squat, or I'll change the tempo or a wide stance, narrow stance or heels elevated. Like there's a lot of stuff that you can play within those movements. I will say this though, if I'm training a client and we have been doing a lot of those movements consistently and we've let's say we're in a hard plateau, I may interrupt the program and completely change all the exercises just to try and break a plateau because I find that if they've been training consistently with me, we've been doing some of these movements and and I've maybe I've manipulated some other things in the routine and I'm not I'm not breaking through the plateau fast enough, then I may introduce a whole bunch of new movements completely that that way I know I'm going to get that. Let's give the audience some takeaways. Okay, so let's be more specific. What are some of your favorite, I guess, interrupter movements or exercises for some of the biggest I just named mine, right? Bulgarians put squats or multi-plane, multi-plane or lunges or Cossack squats. Yeah, I agree with you. I like the singles, the like the unilateral stuff for barbell squats, front squats sometimes too. I'll do front squats instead of back squats for deadlifts. Sometimes I'll do trap bar or sumo instead of conventional or a high pull, much more complex, but I notice a high pull has got some good carry over from a deadlift. Bench press that's as easy as going incline in my opinion or using dumbbells in my opinion and then overhead press. I'll go from barbell to behind the neck barbell to dumbbell press or to an Arnold press or even like I saw you doing today bottoms up press. Yeah, bottoms up press. Yeah, I like to do stuff like that to really address like stability issues. If I feel like I'm plateauing or coming close to it. I like to challenge instability. I like to challenge, you know, rotational movements and always constantly looking at that, especially pressing because your shoulder is so complex in its abilities to to move. And so to be able to take it through full range of motion and then challenge it along those ranges of motion is very crucial for me, you know, squatting. You could just place the bar in a different loading position. I like, you know, zircher squats for that, which, you know, are great. It's totally challenges you in a different way. And so you just got to think, you know, other other instances that you'll get, you know, good benefit from it as well. But that totally different stimulus and that interruption looks like what do you guys say, two to four weeks now you have that you're doing that new movement and replace of it.  Yeah, I'll do exactly like three weeks. Yeah, exactly like that, like four. Although I did do unilateral for about three months. But my circumstance was different. I was noticing. Well, yeah, there's exceptions to the pain. I was getting pain, you know, and it was going away. And I and then I noticed that here's a here's a good thing to keep in mind when you change to a new movement that's especially from like a bilateral to unilateral. And you notice a huge discrepancy between the two sides. It's probably sticking there a little longer. Yeah, no, I agree with that. And I want to add the single leg deadlift to your alternatives for deadlifting. That's one of my favorite when I'm going to stop barbell deadlifting for a while as they go into the single leg deadlift with dumbbells for a while before I go back.


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Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you including Brad, Kevin and Paul Teeson Coming up on DTNS. What is Apple's iPad stage-manage feature for exactly plus the US crackdown on Chinese chip making explained We think you might actually understand it after we talk and Bono finally apologizes This is the Daily Tech news for Monday October 24th 2022 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt from lovely Cleveland, Ohio I'm Richard Raffalino From the Atlanta area. I'm Nika Montfort, and I'm the show's producer Roger Chang Serylaine did help produce this show today, but she's had to step away among other things of horizon issue So imagine we'll hear all about that tomorrow However, for now, let's start with a few tech things. You should know the quick hits On Monday, the European Union gave its final approval to require companies to switch to USB-C on a variety of devices. This will make a USB-C port mandatory for devices Including iPhones and AirPods by the end of 2024 20 days after being published in the official journal of the European Union classic journal The rules will apply exactly 24 months later So get all of your calendars in order as we've mentioned on previous coverage all products that go on sale before that date Will be exempt and can continue to be sold after that point. Yeah, then there's the whole laptop thing has a later date And it's it's complex, but you got time. That's the PayPal's rolling out past keys for users in the United States letting them log into their PayPal accounts without having to type in credentials The new option comes to users at first with iPhones iPads and Macs But we'll expand to additional platforms that support other things As they come Google released initial past key support for Android and Chrome earlier this month and says it will launch the stable version with an API for native Android apps before the end of the year PayPal will open up past key support to other countries starting in early 2023 Meta is threatening to keep Canadians from sharing news content in response to Canada's proposed bill C 18 legislation introduced earlier this year as it's known the online news act wants platforms like Meta's Facebook You may have heard of it to enter into revenue sharing partnerships with local news organizations Not unlike Australia's news media bargaining code which passed in early 2021 Meta said last Friday it wanted to be quote Transparent about the possibility that we may be forced to consider whether we continue to allow the sharing of news content in Canada Nothing qualified in that city. Yeah, I think they can only mean on Facebook. Not all the sharing of news One would think the Republican National Committee has filed a lawsuit against Google in the US District Court in California Alleging the company discriminates against it by sending its campaign emails to Gmail users spam folders more often than it does The email messages from other political organizations in September Google launched an opt-in pilot program That lets political parties keep their campaign meals on a campaign meals campaign emails Unaffected by Gmail spam detection, but the RNC has not enrolled in that program instead choosing to file the lawsuit YouTube began rolling out new design and features so be on a look up for these all users are getting pinched to zoom on videos That's been in testing with premium subscribers since August now will be available to all users That's rolling out the Apple also get more precise seeking showing a frame-by-frame view when scrubbing through video a welcome edition The web version and Apple also get a new ambient mode when viewing in dark mode Which will use dynamic color sampling to change the app's background color based on what you're viewing as for UI changes Links and video descriptions will now appear as buttons rather than hypertext The iconic subscribe button is now rounded and is in high contrast color rather than always in red and other buttons have been changed to Minimize distractions. Yeah, I like that pinched to zoom stuff All right, let's talk about Apple Apple refreshed its iPad lineup last week And whenever we get new iPads the question of what are iPads for crops up Well iPad OS 16.1 is out today and one of its features stage manager I is a new way of handling multitasking on the tablet that could change the answer to the question of what iPads are for Yeah, when it's turned on stage manager puts the app You're using at the center what it calls the stage I guess these stages you're managing your foremost recent apps are then put off to the left in Piles and you can add to your pile from apps in your docs It kind of amalgamate everything kind of in workloads there stage manager has faced problems in beta all summer long Hence the iPad OS update coming later than the iOS update. We're at 16.1 after all So I guess was it worth the delay is everything sorted out now the verges David Pierce says no It's not sorted out Pierce found that if you live in a handful of apps the system works well enough But if you use more than a few apps And here's a quote from Pierce trying to figure out how stage manager works turns into a wild puzzle Requiring a wall of Polaroids and a ball of yarn Soon that's metaphorical, but I'm not sure Piles of apps became hidden when using more than four and you don't know which version of an app will open if it's in Multiple piles in other words if let's say you've got the word app in two piles and you tap on the word icon It could open either one of those piles. It's a fun little game. You don't know which one it's going to do This comes on top of software stability with multiple apps either crashing or not offering sufficient views to make half-screen views usable He said it works great if you have three iPhone sized screens on your iPad. That was the one nice thing. He said Basically amongst that the other thing that kind of worked well was just the app switcher in general in stage manager is also Just just kind of nice but not exactly a glowing review and this is since the first beta kind of been a known issue I'm I mean, you know, Anika have you had a chance to to play with this and you know does Does this point to I guess any new functionality that we can expect for the iPad if this ever does get sorted out So I haven't had a chance to play with it I was trying to get it installed before I came on today But surprisingly when I checked the first thing this morning, none of the new software had been released So I was just able to check maybe an hour or so ago and I did see it So I haven't had the chance to play with it yet And I'm getting a new iPad Pro later this week when they launch So we'll see if there's really any difference in the way stage manager works on the new hardware I you know, it's hard to guess possibly it could be better on the new iPad I'm not sure. I'll you know kind of do a little test to see on my old iPad Pro and on my new one how it necessarily works I think what Apple was trying to do was to find another way to multitask That is going to be easier for the user to use and I kind of thought of it as if you think of Microsoft PowerPoint when you're doing a presentation you can go into presentation mode And you have your main slide that you're talking from in the center Then you have all of your other slides on the side so you see what's coming up You can kind of prep that way that's kind of how I look at stage manager But it sounds like some people are not very impressed so far Yeah, it sounds like and Pierce does a good job getting into this piece that Apple's Main focus with the iPad with iPad OS is always on that like single screen immersive Experience it's just like the DNA of an iPad and everything needs to be You know you can build extensions off of to that experience So you can have the app that takes you know your stage and then have your piles that you can kind of move in and out of But it seems like the choice between having kind of windowed chaos That you might have on a desktop operating system and whatever stage manager, you know task switching Plus on a stage manager and it it seems like it's a unhappy medium or maybe it's that we're still figuring out if a if and what a an actual like tablet native Like task switching window management system really looks like I know these aren't easy problems to have but you know, it's A lot of these design principles have been hashed around before I mean this is this is a very web OS kind of style System that they have going on here Did you call uh the the typical operating system interface that we've had since the 90s windowed chaos Yeah windowed chaos. I feel I feel like you have a little little apple kool-aid on your chin there So I will say this. I think part of the also problem is on mac os The window management on there is also trash I say this as I'm on a mac right now and it's hot garbage and it's the worst experience ever compared like windows gets it Windows 100% gets window management a thousand times percent better than mac os I think they just don't know what good window management. It is and they brought this to the eye maybe Steve jobs historically hated the idea of multiple windows He thought it ruined your focus Which is one of the reasons that ios and ipad os particularly do not have windowed management steve wasdyak Was still around when they first added windowed management They took it from xerox park in the 80s and I wonder if jobs regretted that Because he really was about you're like full screen immersive multitasking meant The ability for something to refresh in the background and then when you switch to it. It was up to date. That's what it meant for jobs This is some weird amalgam that doesn't want to give us what we want, which is resizable multiple windows on a tablet and and and some kind of like Compromise to not be full screen But but be kind of still immersive and kind of still giving you focus The thing that really stands out is very unapply to me here is that the minimize Command can mean different things in different situations in stage manager in one case minimize means take it out of the bundle In another case It just means minimize the entire bundle and you have to know as a user Which case you're in which is not the way apple usually does things And also i'll say one thing that is kind of out of the ordinary for apple They usually don't put something out unless it's fully baked and this doesn't seem to be the case Even with the delay so in normal times if something is delayed you expect that when it does roll out It is in the final form And it appears that that's not the case, which is very uncharacteristic of apple. Yeah The most damning thing about this is that it's off by default When have you ever known apple to be like we want to let our users slowly roll into this like apple normally just It would be more apply for apple to be like oh stage manager isn't launching in 16.1 No and give no explanation right that i would expand be like ah typical apple Putting something in that's off by default and that is not working properly Unusual and a marquee feature steep jobs wouldn't be happy Hmm. I imagine there's a lot of people in there that are not happy right now I don't know. I I have a use for a tablet. It is very full screen though It's like oh things. I want to do mobile, but I need a bigger screen for Um, I feel like in a future where we get resizable screens that work somehow whether it's foldable or rollable I don't know that I don't need a tablet because I just need that bigger screen sometimes Often for video watching but sometimes for other things I don't know if I need an ipad or a tablet of any kind as a pc or a laptop replacement Well speaking of things that didn't make people happy It seems like price increases for streaming content is the new adding a plus to your name After we've seen increases from youtube disney plus and hulu apple is raising the price of apple music by $1 a month to $10.99 And apple tv plus by two dollars to six dollars and 99 cents Apple also raised the price of apple one which bundles music and tv plus with other services by two dollars to 16 dollars and 95 cents a month annual and family plans will also increase Apple said music licensing costs have risen and that it raised the price of apple tv plus because of the increased selection There's just so much great content on there. You'll want to pay for more right tom. Oh, yeah Um, I guess I don't know 699 still seems pretty reasonable compared to what the prices are for these other things 499 was a screaming deal Especially with what apple has in there now Uh, and and I get I get the reasoning of we only had a few shows that launched so we kept it cheap now We're raising it.  Oh, that's not that much money Until we get up to 1699 instead of 699, but I think at this point They were smart to keep it low initially because they were a new platform And they didn't have a lot of content now It's some really great content coming out of apple tv plus So, you know in the grand scheme of things with everybody, you know, raising prices by a dollar or two It it makes sense. Yeah And be master has a good question in the chat inflation for digital goods seems so weird It does seem like wait the price you don't need gas to deliver me apple music You know why why are those prices going up? But it's it's a chain of effects, right? The price of gas makes it more expensive to to do business Labor shortages make the wages increase also the price of gas and food going up means that there's pressure to increase The wages to keep up with it which raises your operating costs, which means you have to raise your prices elsewhere Which is how that all ends up happening Yeah, the one thing I think that will uh, there's two things that I think most people won't notice this all that much I don't want to say that a price increases is you know, it's not a big deal It's people's harder money, but a lot of times, especially with apple stuff Their subscriptions are very often rolled into other things by a new iphone You get three months of apple arcade or you get apple tv by some air pods You get some stuff people are upgrading those on multiple cycles And if they're riding those offers they might not actually see these charges all that much And depending on what carrier on they have all sorts of things that are rolled into there As well where you know, if you have you're on a certain Verizon plan or t-mobile plan You get certain of these music services and stuff Yeah, I got apple tv plus as part of my t-mobile. Yeah Yeah, so you so you know depending this this may not impact you now the price of your Verizon bill May go up next year or next month or something like that that may happen down the road As well, but the other thing is the one thing that they didn't say is this is the apple tv plus ad supported tier As opposed to every other service that we talked about which is Clamoring and and thirsting and rushing as headlong fast as possible to throw ads in there so that they can offer a lower price tier And 699 still comes in under Netflix and disney plus with a smaller catalog admittedly. Yeah, uh I think it's interesting that they gave reasons for these these price increases. A lot of times people just raise prices. So, yeah All right, folks, uh, if you have ideas of what you'd like to hear us talk about on the show We'd love to hear a one way to let us know is our subreddit. We look at that every single day I appreciate everybody supporting us in there You can submit stories and vote on them at daily tech news show dot reddit dot com Well, the united states crack down on chip technology in china is having significant effects This fight, of course, isn't new It's more than 10 years old at this point in october 2012 the us house issued a bipartisan report accusing zte and huawei of stealing intellectual property and threatening us national security because of its ties to the chinese government And its military zte made the entity list in 2016 and not to be left out huawei made it in 2019 Those lists require a license to sell them certain tech a license you weren't likely to get in all, you know Probability zte had its restrictions eased But huawei still labors under them having to spin off its compute its consumer phone unit honor in order to survive Although under is doing much better since the spin out at least. Yeah, uh, but the fight with huawei and zte wasn't about phones It was about networking equipment and the fight has now expanded to include Most of china's domestic chip making industry so not just the chips in network routers, but the chips in all the things The us now requires a license in order to export a long list of advanced chip making hardware and software To a long list of entities in china They really are targeting things that could be used for ai or any kind of surveillance technology anything they think might Even if that's not its major use might end up helping the military So the license requirements not only apply to us companies But they also apply to companies outside the us Who are using us owned intellectual property in their chip making so for example if taiwan's tsmc Which is a taiwanese company. It's not based in the us. It doesn't doesn't work within the united states jurisdiction But if that company is using a us designed piece of equipment To build a part it can no longer sell that part to the restricted entities in china without a license Now these rules don't affect everything for example South korea samsung and sk hynix can continue to have their chips made at plants in china Apple can continue to make its iPhones and even sell those phones in china The restrictions are meant really specifically to stop chinese companies that may have connections to the chinese government from using us tech To make and develop its own chips if you are you know primarily serving or you're you're one of these other companies You we've seen it We've seen sk hynix explicitly say they've gotten exemptions from it and it's you know presumed on a lot of other Kind of westward facing organizations. Yeah, there's a little bit of having their cake and eating it too They they want to stop china's domestic industry the wall street journal notes that this works well Because the u.s. Still dominates the design and development end of chip tech So nvidia qualcomm amd and intel those are all us companies and they make up 67 of the logic chip design market So that's that intellectual property they can they can wield about china has a company called high silicon And a few others but they still only make up five percent of that market chip design software Is all also dominated by the u.s. Cadence and synopsis have 74 percent of the market china Has three percent of that market the u.s. Even owns the plants the u.s. Has fabricators like applied materials and kla Making up 41 percent of the fabrication market china has two percent Others come from taiwan, korea, japan and europe china's advantage is Location it's the place where the factories are so china has 14 percent of chip fab locations And 46 percent of assemblers packages and testers where the chips come together into parts The u.s. Has two percent these us regulations are letting companies continue to take advantage of building and assembling things For a cheap price in china But they're hindering the ability of chinese companies domestically developing technologies and making chips for themselves Yeah, and the new rules don't stop at hardware and software either they prevent us persons from supporting china's chip development and production without a license as well Dozens of chinese chip company executives will either have to give up u.s. Citizenship or quit their jobs China's leading domestic chip maker ymtc has asked all u.s. Citizens working for it to resign ymtc chief executive simon yang who has a us passport stepped down to ceo last month And he may give up his remaining role as deputy chair The policies are having an effect too for example a company called byron technologies b i r e n Makes a general purpose gpu That some people are thinking might outperform the invidia a 100 a chip you can no longer legally send to china without a license You'd think that would be a bright spot for china. Oh, hey, we're competitive here. However, taiwan's tsmc Makes the chip for byron and has halted production of the byron gpu While it determines if the chip in deeds performs well enough to fall under us restrictions Yeah, and that's just one example. I mean the numbers are just bad overall This really popped out to me this morning. Put any other daily tech headlines china's chip imports fell 12.4 In september on the year and then domestic chip output also fell 16.4 percent in september So china's bringing in fewer chips and making fewer chips compared to last year. It's like over 90 billion chips I did the math. I've got a calculator. Some of this is economics, of course, but not all of it Yeah, all and but all of it bodes not well for china's aim of chip self-sufficiency Nevertheless, it's not going to dissuade china's president c jim ping Who was just confirmed for a third term as leader of the communist party He is the first person to get a third term since mal He will be elected to a third term as president in march. That's a formality See also created a central committee of loyalists moving anyone from other factions out So don't look for any moderating forces there in his address to the party congress last week Z called for the country to win the battle in core technologies And of course, none of this will help the chip shortage, which is slowly teetering towards something like easing But every time it does something like war shooting or trade seems to complicate matters and further extend the drought just over time Yeah, uh, I think some of the things that surprised me looking at this is I thought more fabrication took place in china 14 percent is still puts it as the leader But fabrication is spread out a lot more across korea japan brazil india Mexico a lot more places than I think people realize. It's the assembly. It's the packaging It's the testing that is most concentrated in china And that is the part of the process that is the easiest under these regulations to let continue Yeah, and and from someone who is not uh, uh, well, like extraordinarily well versed in like international commerce and diplomacy I mean, I remember when 2012 and 2016, you know, when we saw these companies being put on the entity list and thinking This is this is like like Huawei's done like they can't I don't know how they as a company continue and not realizing The the kind of the chess pieces that are on the board internationally for the us and china to continue this Going forward is is really been informative to watch just from somewhere from kind of the outside from just a pure tech background Well, the guardian had a really interesting. Oh, sorry. Nika. Did you have something before we move? No No, I was just gonna say what it kind of, you know Stood out to me is that the fact that we thought we were On the other side of the chip shortage issue and um, it appears as if we're not the chips are still hot Every time we think we're a past it Something else something else comes up uh, all right The guardian had an interesting interview with bono on lots of things related to youtube and and the whole music scene, but he touched on The uh, the fact that youtube's music showed up in an itunes library without you wanting it Bono says blame me. It's my fault He explains how back in 2004 a month before the band single vertigo was released YouTube's manager paul mcginnis jimmy ivyne edge and bono paid a visit to steve jobs in palo alto where they suggested Apple offer a black and red youtube themed ipod which they did 10 years later when tim cook was apple ceo, you two came back and said hey, why don't you give away music for our songs of innocence album and and We'll we'll pay for it. But but people won't have to pay for it as bono describes it on september 9th 2014 we didn't just put our bottle of milk at the door But in every fridge in every house in town in some cases We poured it on to the good people's corn flakes and some people like to pour their own milk and others are lactose intolerant Uh, so he understands that it wasn't that it was free that people objected to it was that it was forced into your library Bono says the band quickly realized they'd opened up a serious discussion about the access of big tech to people's lives As many of you will recall apple provided a way to delete the album and tim cook told bono You talked us into an experiment. We ran with it. It may not have worked But we have to experiment because the music business in its present form is not working for everyone Do you forgive bono nika? I guess it's it's been a while now. It's fine We I survived I survived it so Sure, I forgive you bono There you go. This this is a big moment for bono. I think we've all finally forgiven him Well, I don't know rich I I you know what in my because Somehow in bono describing talking to two CEOs of apple and getting exclusive rights to distribute his album to literally every iPhone user Sounds somehow down to earth also. So just for that I I forgive him for that feat of linguistics I I liked his metaphor. I like that he owned he owned it and said it was my fault I poured the milk in your corn flakes. I shouldn't have done that like that. That's good I also I don't like milk on my corn flakes. So, you know, I wouldn't like it if bono came into my house and Bought me corn flakes, which I don't have and then poured milk on them And who let bottle in the house?  All right. Let's check out the mail bag All right, we had in yang he sent an email regarding last thursday's episode and he said on uber showing ads Will the driver be able to turn off the screen or well Will there be a penalty if the ride is active and the screen is off? I usually across for the radio or music to be turned off anytime I take a taxi or a rideshare Just to have a little bit of silence and for video I get carsick at least when I'm not dry when I'm not doing the driving Which a video within my sight line will make work at worse and he's in legos, nigeria. So in yang Thank you so much for writing it. Yeah, good question I I didn't see any clarification what you'll be able to do to that screen during your ride That's showing you the ad if it's anything like taxis Sarah was telling us in in our pre-show prep that you know, she was out in new york recently for a wedding and The taxis still have those those video players in the seats, but you can turn the volume down You can't turn the screen off, but you can turn the volume down Hopefully the uber ones would would at least give you that much so you don't have to have the noise blaring at you Um, I don't know deke. Have you ever run none those taxis with the things blaring talking at you? Yeah, and honestly because everything is about selling ads everything is about somebody trying to sell you something I would be surprised if uber would Give you those types of accommodations I think at this point they realize that they have a large Chunk of the market share and it's like well, you're gonna get these ads and and like it Yeah, reminds me that netflix series maniac the ad sys the crazy ad system they had in there I know if you've seen that it's just like people yelling ads at you constant You can like you have to be like at the gas and it's like and it's like at the gas station if you're getting gas I know at least here they show like the the five day There's I'm just trying to get some gas I'd pay the three cents more a gallon just to opt out of it like let me pay more for the gas to opt out of that, please I don't know. I used to I might have said that a few months ago I'm not sure anymore Uh, well, thank you nika monford uh for being with us as always lots of apple stuff to talk about today If you like hearing nika talk about apple stuff. Well, there's a whole show of that Absolutely, you can head on over to snubblewest.com to get all of the details We talk all things apple and some other tech as well And this week's show was probably going to be pretty busy because lots of drop things were Dropped today and we'll be dropping on wednesday Excellent go check it out folks. It's a good show Thank you nika and thank you to our brand new boss glenn who just started backing us on patreon glenn Yes, the the hordes of grateful people are all applauding you. 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Hey guys, it's Andy. So in this video, I'm gonna show you my favorite trial closes. We know this outside on the lot You're making people fall in love with the car You come inside and then you're gonna ask for their business and the way you ask for their business is crucial If you ask for it wrong, you can miss a sale if you ask for it, right? You get it every single time. You'll love this video. Don't miss it I'm gonna show you my two or three favorite trial closes of all times. Hey guys, so here we go Let's talk about the first 90% of the time. What are we doing? We're outside on the lot building massive value making the customer fall in love with this, right? Making them love the vehicle showing them how many cool things that it has We're surfacing the dominant buying motive, which is like why they got in the market what they're looking for We're making sure that all these things go right. We know in the first 90% of the time no money Exchanges hands, right? We just know that we have to make sure that they want what we have more than they want The money that they have in their pocket so they will spend it the last 10% of the time That's when we negotiate. We collect a hundred percent of the money this video is about the transition between the first 90% of the time When we're on the lot to walking through those doors and asking for their business and Taking them inside so we can do the last 10% make all the money close the deal up and rock and roll So what do we call that? We call that a trial close Okay, what is a close a close is something that's done actually inside the office when we close the customer up Okay, the trial close is when we ask for the customer's business Basically saying if the deal's right you'll take it home, right and we want to hear them say yes And for the very first time we realize if we do our job, right? Which we have been doing when we come inside if the deal looks right they're going to take it home We are looking for a yes now look there's lots of ways to get to a good trial close number one as a kid people may say Oh, Andy the yes ladder don't work.  Yes Awesome, and it isn't safety important to you since this car is a great safety rating.  So since you have a bad back, it's real easy for you to get comfortable in it. Yes I'm guessing guessing guessing guessing and I'm just telling you Whether you do it or not the yes ladder works and it works your way up to the trial close But now that we're talking about the trial close there are two places to do a trial close I'm gonna go over both of them for you, and then I'll go over exactly how I do them guys I'm about to get right back to the video. I want to tell you number one. Thank you for watching this video Please like this video if you like what you're watching right now click the button Give me a thumbs up on it comment below anything you need. I got you also make sure you're subscribed to the channel Send your notification bell so every single day when I put out brand new cutting edge training videos You can get them so number one When I had a vehicle that I knew that the customer loved and I just like I mean it literally like you know I pulled it up. She's like oh my god. That's so beautiful. Guess what I would do I would say guys. You know what let's go for a drive real quick Let's go check this out touch it fill it smell it make sure that you know I'm saying you love everything about it In the middle of the test drive I would say guys do me a favor I want you to pull this over here. There's something I want to show you and I want to share something with you guys That I haven't shared with many people Whenever I purchased my car myself and obviously I'm a salesperson here at the dealership I actually took my car here and I want to show you the same thing that I did when I purchased my car And do you know what they're like? Oh, wow, that's nice and guess what happens. I pull the car over there I know exactly how I want it angled and I say everybody get out of the car for just a second I want you to see this And have them step back with me and I say guys turn around take a look I Took your car out here for a reason because we're not at the dealership and I don't have all that metal behind it I think it all just kind of blends in together But this is such a nice car. I want to take it out here So for the first time you can envision what it would look like in your driveway. It's a beautiful car, isn't it? And they say yes, and I say awesome Well this at this point as long as the vehicle is Driving great and obviously the things that you've told me that you wanted it has and you can see and envision it sitting in your driveway If I could get the numbers to a hundred and ten percent to your satisfaction It looks like this vehicle is everything you guys wanted, right and guess what they say they say yes That's where I get my trial closed now watches. I could change it around I could say this So I wanted to ask you guys a question now that we're out here and obviously you said you can envision it sitting in your driveway Are you guys going to be titling this car in in just your name ma'am or you're going to be putting it in both of your names and They say No, probably in both our names. I'll say a great guys. Follow me back to the store. Let's rock and roll Let's finish the test drive and guess what when we get back to the store I've already asked them the trial close so then I could take them down Watches if it's just a normal deal and maybe let's say these customers don't have like great credit or something Okay, and I'm just making a point and you go for a normal test drive And you know, they're ready to buy the car. They need a car, but they're not in love with the car Don't do the trial clothes out somewhere do that when you know you have a really hot buyer and you're like man I'm gonna I'm gonna lock this one in strong. I'm gonna really get them emotional and remember The test drive is the first time that the customer envisions himself owning the car So that trial clothes it could be a good time to ask that off a lot if you have somebody in love with the car Big time but normally or back at the dealership when I pull it in I always tell my customers go ahead and pull it right there in the soul plane. That is a trial close Okay. Hey guys, so if you would go ahead and pull the car back around to the side. That's that's the soul plane That's what we park all the sold vehicles Now watch this if they don't say whoa, this isn't sold yet. Yes, what they may say, okay Cool, that means that they know that this car could potentially be sold because they want to buy it Does that make sense pull the car in the soul plane that is a trial close and I'm not actually asking them a question I'm just making a statement and I'm looking for a responsive back That is called a trial close. Okay. Now. Let's move into other trial closes another trial close would be guys Go ahead and pull it around here in the soul plane and I say, oh, Andy, you know, we hadn't purchased it yet So let's wait. Oh, no, I understand. That's just where we put them whenever we're working deal on a vehicle You see how I backed right out of that and then when I get out I step back and I say guys, it's a beautiful car Obviously fits all your needs in once and everything that you're looking for it drove great I love the way the vehicle drives I wish I had a hundred of them cars like are this nice. They don't come in very often What I'd like to ask you is this if I could get the numbers to a hundred and ten percent to your satisfaction There's not a reason in the world why you wouldn't be ready to take it home, right? And I take my head and I shake it. Okay, and they say Okay, and I say great. Follow me inside. Let me show you how easy it is to do business here Now I'm following me Another way you could do it again is going back to how they want their new car titled how they want their new car Titled is my favorite. Okay, watch how sleek this is so I have a husband and a wife here, right? Or let's just say I had a husband here. I have one person here. It doesn't matter. I could say this watch So so certain now are you gonna be titleing this new vehicle in just your name or is there someone else are gonna be adding to the loan And they said no just my name. All right, great. Follow me inside and I just turn around and he follows me inside He didn't say I don't want the car. So I don't know how I want it titled He said in just my name Guess what? That is a trial close. It is a very slight close to get someone to say yes I'm willing to go through the next step. Watch this now, sir ma'am. Obviously. I know that vehicles gonna be for her Are you gonna be titling it in both her names? Are we gonna put it just in her name? Watch this husband says no No, we're gonna be putting it in both of our names Guys think about it if they're telling you how they want their car titled that means they're saying yes I would take it guess what I say beautiful guys follow me inside. Let me show you how easy it is to do business here I want to tell you I could ask again like I said it from the beginning Guys if I could get the numbers a hundred and ten percent your satisfaction There's not a reason in the world why you would be ready to take it home, right? Cool Let me show you how easy it is to do business with us. Come on inside. Guess what? There you go I could say another one Let me try on one more trial close before we in this video And I hope this video helps you a lot to find what you like to say and find out Where's the right place to ask for the trial close and what are the different types of trial closes that you could use? There's a million of them out there. I'm just giving you a couple of my favorite I could give you 10, but I'm here. I'm giving you my top three. I mean, here's another one And hell, maybe I'll share two more of them with you just so you have them So it could be guys. I'm gonna ask you a question Obviously, it seems like we found the right car if there was one thing And I mean just one thing guys that would stop you from driving that new vehicle home right now What would that one thing be? Let's say they say well be the deal switch saying as long as I can get the deal right you guys will be happy to take it home Am I right? Great guys follow me inside. Let me shot easy to do business here That's a trial close if there was one thing. What's the next one the next one is this guys? Let me ask you this if there was from one to ten being one I don't want it at all or ten. I wanted I want it right now. I'll take it right Where do you rate this car one? I wouldn't take it if it was free and ten. I love it Where do you rate it one to ten? They say seven you say, okay, what would make it a ten? The deal so you're saying as long as I get the deal right that would make this a ten great guys follow me inside Let me show easy to do business with me guys. I want to tell you this. I'm giving you some different options Okay for some trial closes, but my favorite My favorite and my go-to nine ninety nine percent of the time trial clothes is How do you want your new vehicle title? Are you going to be titled me and both of your names? Is it just going to be in your name and then I want them to say no, it's just going to be just in my name That's all I needed. I say wonderful. Follow me inside. Let me show easy to do business with this You see they wouldn't tell me how they want to title if they didn't plan on buying it because there'd be nothing to title So that is my magic trial closes So I want to tell you guys if you become deadly at your trial closes, you know where to use them You know how to use them, you know the best places guys the rest is history and guess what? You're gonna make a bunch of money and your customers will love you and you'll make it very easy to transition them inside From outside on the lot for do inside the dealership without changing their state and keeping them nice and calm. Have a great day Hey guys, I just want to thank you for watching the full video I started when I was 18 training just like you no matter where you're at in life I want to say this being committed is all that it takes I put up free training content on YouTube every single day to make sure that I can take you to the next level of life I have over 500 free videos Please make sure that you like the video. Shoot me a comment below and shoot me a text message I'd love to get to know you okay? If I haven't met you yet 918 210 254 take a second guys. Shoot me a text message.  We're gonna go all the way to the top together I appreciate you guys have a blessed day. 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Welcome to the lecture number 8 of the course quantum mechanics and molecular spectroscopy. As we usually do, we will take a quick recap of lecture number 7. The lecture number 7, I told you that we start with a n state perturbation theory, which simply means that you start with a Hamiltonian H naught and for a n state, n state psi n, you get value E n n. This is something that you know and your total wave function psi can be written as sum over n A n of t e to the power of minus i E n t by h bar n. And then you have a time dependent perturbation, which is nothing but h prime of t. So, that the total Hamiltonian will be equal to this and then you propagate using time dependent Schrodinger equation, which is nothing but i h bar t by dt is equal of psi equals to h of psi. Now, we use this to get to equation after some rearrangement and algebra that sigma over n i h bar c n dot t e to the power of minus i E n t by h bar n equals to sigma over n, sorry a n, we call it a n t naught c n t a n t a n of t e to the power of minus i E n t by h bar h prime of t ok. Now, what we did is after that we used multiplied with multiply with psi n star on the left. So, that is nothing but multiplied with an integrate. When you do this what you get is i h bar sum over n a n dot t e to the power of minus i E n t by h bar m this is equal to sum over n a n of t e to the power of minus i E n t by h bar h prime of t. So, that is what you get. So, what we had is i h bar sigma over n a n dot t e to the power of minus i E n t by h bar m n equals to sigma over n a n of t to the power of minus i E n t by h bar m h prime of t. And then we argued that since form complete set these are solutions of h naught they are orthogonal or orthonormal that means m n is equal to del m n that is nothing but is equal to equal to 1 when m is equal to n and is equal to 0 when m is not equal to n. Similarly, on the right hand side we said m h prime of t n is equal to 0 if m equal to n and not 0 or may not be equal to 0 if m is not equal to n ok. This is 0 if m is equal to n because we said that you cannot look at perturbation of the state onto itself or you cannot look at the transition from a state to itself ok. Therefore, these are known as self transitions ok, transitions of a state to itself and which cannot be observed. So, we take it to be 0. So, based on this this equation will turn out to be i h bar. Now, we can drop summation because the left hand side of the equation will only survive when m is equal to n or m is equal to m. In that case, we will get a m dot of t e to the power of minus i e m t by h bar ok and m dot m n this integral will go to 1 and this equal to in the right hand side all the terms survive other than when m is equal to n ok. So, that means, sum over n not equal to m a n of t e to the power of minus i e n t by h bar m prime t ok. So, we arrived at this equation towards the end of the last class. Now, we will continue this equation. So, what do you have? i h bar a m dot of t e to the power of minus i e m t by h bar equals to a n sum over n not equal to m a n of t e to the power of minus i e n t by h bar integral m h prime of t ok. Now, this is what is given. Now, we have one issue that we need to look at or we can just rearrange for before we look into it let us do some rearrangement ok. So, i h bar when if I want to take the other side this will become a m dot t equals to 1 over i h sigma over n not equal to m a n of t e to the power of minus i e n t by h bar into e to the power of i e m t by h bar m h prime of t. So, this is equal to now if I write this 1 over i h bar sum over n not equal to n a n of t e to the power of minus i e n minus e m t by h bar m. Now, I can write e n minus e m e n minus e m is equal to delta e is equal to h bar omega ok. So, if I write that this is equal to 1 over i h bar sigma n not equal to m a n of t e to the power of minus i omega n m because this h bar here and this h bar will get cancelled and you will get m h prime of t ok.  So, the left hand side nothing but d by dt of a m of t because I told you a m dot is nothing but its time derivative is equal to 1 over i h bar sigma over n not equal to m a n of t e to the power of minus i omega n m d prime ok. So, that is the integral that we have to. Now, we will see that the time dependence of a coefficient m will depend on the all the other coefficients a n's where n is not equal to n that means if you have a 3 let us take m is equal to 3 and there are total number of wave functions of 10 then time dependence of a 3 will depend on a 1, a 2, a 4, a 5, a 6, a 7, a 8, a 9, a 10 ok. So, it will depend on the time dependence of all the other rest of the coefficients. What we have is d by dt of a m of t is equal to i h bar 1 over sigma over n a n of t e to the power of minus i omega n m d m h prime of t. Now, I just want to find out a m of t. So, a m of t will be equal to 1 over h bar integral of sum over n a n of t e to the power of minus i omega n m d integral m ok. So, that is the integrated form of this coefficient and this is the most important. Now, to get to this equation I have not made any approximations because all the math that we did was completely rigorous. No approximation was made to get to this equation ok. Unfortunately, this equation involves couple differential equations of you know n n couple differential equations ok. So, if there are n total n coefficients each coefficient m coefficient mth coefficient will depend on rest of all the coefficients. So, we will get a series of couple different total if you have 10 such coefficients or 10 such wave function then you will get 10 couple differential equations ok. If you have 20 of them then you will get 20 different couple differential equations which are going to be very difficult to solve ok. So, then at this point of time let us make a small approximation and that approximation I will call till it as first order approximation. What do I do in the first order approximation? Ok, to begin with when there was no perturbation what did you have when there was no perturbation then we had H naught of n is equal to En. Now, let us suppose there is a initial state i ok. So, which means H naught of i equals to E i i ok. What is this initial state i? Let us state this initial state as a ground state or we can say this is H naught of ground state G is equal to E of ground state into ground state. Now, if you had a ground state all the population would be in the ground state and all the excited states will not be having any population. That means at t equals to 0 without perturbation only the initial state was populated. That means C i of 0 equals to 1 and this will corresponds state H naught i is equal to E i i and C of any other state let us say f of 0 is equal to 0 and this will corresponds to H naught of f is equal to E f of f where f is not equal to 1 ok is 0 that is the initial. So, only the ground state is populated or only the initial state is populated or could we could say initial as ground. So, C i of 0 is equal to 1 and C f of 0 is equal to 0 ok. Of course, here means all the other states other than the colonial states. So, if let us say counter number 1 is i initial state is counter number 1 then H 1 or C 1 is 1 and C 2, C 3, C 4, C 5, etc are 0s ok. If as in the case of you know harmonic oscillator sorry how is the case of harmonic oscillator 0 state is populated as in the case of Patkin's box only n is equal to 1 state is populated ok. Now and anything other than 1 that means states 2, 3, 4, etc they are not populated ok. So, that is the scenario when you switch on the which we do when you do not have the perturbation or without the perturbation. Now, what you want to do is that let us consider a weak perturbation limit. Now what does weak perturbation limit says if you have a weak perturbation limit we will assume that under such limit thus even when you switch on the perturbation the coefficients do not change too much ok. So, weak perturbations what happens is that the coefficients ok this is the approximation that I am using. So, we have using a weak perturbation limit and then we are saying that the coefficients do not change that means C i of t will still be equal to 1 and C f of t will be equal to 0 for f not equal to i ok. Now let us go back to our initial equation what was that I said C m of t equals to 1 over i h bar integral sum over n sorry a n not C a n a n of t to the power of minus i omega n m of now what I am going to say. So, a i is equal to a i of t is equal to 1 and a f of t is equal to 0 as long as or a n of t is equal to 0 if n is not equal to 1 in such an error or not then I can write a a f of t that is what you want to relate is equal to 1 over i h bar integral of all of them will go to 0 because the coefficients will 0 only one coefficient will survive that will be a i of t e to the power of minus i omega f i prime of t a of t this is equal to 1. So, MUL has no meaning in multiplying.  So, that is my coefficient of f state and if I want to consider the probability of f state p of f of t then I will take modulus of a f of t whole square. So, this will become 1 over h bar square integral 0 to t e to the power of minus i omega f i t f h prime of t i. So, this is the probability of finding the fth wave function. So, that allows the transition from i state to the f state and the probability of such transition. So, we will stop it here.