Well, hello and welcome to Understand Men Now. I'm Jonathan Asley of JonathanAsley.com and I'm so excited to be shooting this live stream for you today. Our topic, the three reasons why men are less likely to commit and it has nothing to do with you. We're gonna talk about those three reasons why men over 40 are less likely to commit and has nothing to do with you. Really quickly, if you're new to my YouTube channel, please hit the subscribe button, hit the bell so you can be notified of new content. And if at the end of this video, this content resonates with you, I want you to check out all the links in the description. You can schedule a free discovery call with me. You can join my fantastic group called Midlife Love Mastery. I even have links to my podcast and a pre-gift and so forth. All right. So listen, this is an impromptu video on a Saturday. I'm bored as hell. I'm sitting on my balcony and so please forgive the barking crows, the seals and the noise at the pool where I live. All right. So we're gonna talk about those three reasons why men over 40 are less likely to commit and it really has nothing to do with you. And by the way, before I forget, this is a Q&A so you can ask questions. Give me a chance to share the content first and then post questions. And I wanna say hi to all those that are live streaming right now. Thank you. All right. Reason number one, and I want you to differentiate between men in their 20s and 30s versus men in their 40s, 50s, 60s and even 70s. The vast majority of men in their 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s who are single out there in the dating realm are divorced. In fact, roughly about 75% of singles looking for love after the age of 45, men and women are like, are divorced. And divorce brings a whole set of stuff into the equation that isn't the same for a 20 and 30 year old who has most likely never been married. And one of those differences is that when men in their 20s and 30s, they're oftentimes, if they've been conditioned this way, they've been conditioned to be on the hunt for a wife. Let me repeat that. They're on the hunt for a wife. So one of the differences in men in their 40s, 50s and 60s is that they're less likely to be committal because they're not on that search for a wife.  It's gonna be the person that they build a home with. And when we turn 40, and now when we're in our 40s, 50s and 60s, and since the vast majority of people are divorced, they are actually less likely to get remarried if they've had a stigma around marriage. Let me repeat that. They're less likely to get married if they have a stigma around marriage and they're not on the same biological clock if you will for hunting for a wife. Now I say biological clock. It's not the same as the biological clock for women. It's more the, let me retract the word biological and socialized clock. Let me reframe that to a socialized clock. And what I mean is like when I was growing up and I'm a product of my parents, I'm a baby boomer, I'm a product of that, was my parents the silent generation? Maybe that's what it was.   After getting a job is meet a girl, meet a girl, meet a girl or woman. Get married, buy a house, start a family. I was programmed to be on the hunt for a wife. I was conditioned that way. And a lot of men raised kind of middle class the way I was was raised that way. And not every man was raised that way, but the vast majority have been raised and conditioned that way.  But I think in a long enough timeline, I believe somewhere around 87% of people eventually get married in a long enough timeline. That's anecdotal, I'm gonna ask someone to do some research on that for me. So, if a man isn't on a hunt for a wife, he's less likely to be committal because the concept of a wife comes with it that concept of home. And so all I'm saying is it's not that men are non-committal after age 40, but they don't have the same drive if they're not on the hunt for a wife. Now, men that ride at the age 40 might be on the cusp because nowadays men are waiting longer to marry and start a family, but certainly when we get into midlife, and that's certainly after baby making years and before retirement, is that segment that I'm talking about. And they're just less likely. And again, this has nothing to do with you. I hope this is making sense, okay? So, I haven't read the comments yet because I don't have my glasses on, but I wanna get to number two. And number two is, what did I write down for number two? Oh, this is a very common reason why so many men are non-committal in midlife is that there's chaos going on in their life. There's chaos going on in their life. After my divorce, there was so much trauma and chaos. I was going through a contentious divorce. I had lost my quarter million dollar a year job. The market crash of 2008 wiped me out. I was a train wreck. Oh my God, I was doing drugs. I was doing drinking heavily to numb the pain. I was self-medicating. And all that self-medication made me a terrible potential partner, except, and yet I was out there on the hunt because I wanted companionship. I wanted connection with someone. I wanted sex with someone, but that didn't mean I was ready for commitment. So if a man has chaos going on in his life, maybe it's job issues, maybe it's a contentious divorce, maybe it's medical issues, maybe it's family issues, maybe it's a child issue. Anytime there's an overwhelming amount of chaos, a man is less likely to commit. And this has, again, nothing to do with you. And yet ladies, I know a lot of you are beautiful, wonderful, you know, God, I was gonna say the word enabler, but you're very nurturing to men who are in this state of chaos, hoping that if you stand by them, that they'll actually heal with you, but that's not always the case. And my invitation for you is not to overly invest when someone has a lot of chaos going on in their life. Fixing my camera. Is this sinking in? Is this resonating? I hope so. Okay, and the third reason, the third reason, and this is a predominant reason, again, for those that have, who are divorced, is that they had a very contentious divorce, a very contentious divorce, and they might still be dealing with a contentious wife or spouse. And because of that, they might actually have a fear of future commitment if they had such a bad experience. Now, it could be a divorce, it could be a bad breakup, but if someone's had a bad, previous experience, they're less likely to commit if they haven't healed. In fact, all three of these require a level of healing. But this requires the most deepest of healing if one has literally turned their back on partnership and commitment because of past experiences. I know so many women who react this exact same way. They're less likely to commit because they've been burned in the past and they become oftentimes not always bitter and jaded to the process. And I'm here to say that there's time for a new narrative. Now, I started this video basically saying the why. Now, what's the positive in all of this? What's most important to recognize why this happens is when you understand why something happens, you can predict behavior. I'm gonna repeat that, you can predict behavior and if you can predict behavior, you can begin to make better choices. And that's what I'm really here to shine a light on is to encourage all of you to begin to make better choices when it comes to choosing who you're going to invest time in because our time is ultra precious. Although right now I'm bored as hell, so I'm doing this. I guess my time isn't that precious. It's actually because I wanna give is why I'm doing this. And when I say I'm bored, I'm about, look it, I'm sitting, there, look it, this is the view I'm looking at right now. So if you can see that, I am about to go for a walk along the beach. That's the pool area that I live in. Isn't that awesome? So anyway, I'm not that pathetic, but I am gonna go for a walk. It's a gorgeous day. I did have a COVID test yesterday. I came back negative, so I feel safe now as I was feeling a little under the weather. But my invitation for you is to recognize that most men aren't really, a lot of times we blame ourselves when someone's non-committal. And what my invitation for all of you is to look at his life and to see what could be going on in his life that makes him less committal and then ask yourself, do you wanna invest in that person? All right, I'm gonna start looking at the Q and A right now to answer questions, but I am gonna do a trivia question before we get started. So our first trivia question, oh, this is a good one, is, in the movie, The 500 Days of Summer, which band is Tom listening to when he first meets Summer? I'm gonna repeat that. In The 500 Days of Summer, which band is Tom listening to when he first meets Summer? Let's see if any one of you get this right. All right, now I'm gonna look at the Q and A because it's time to ask questions. Let's see. Leaf writes, right on point, job, toxic, bitter, exes, children, they need to do work on themselves first. Yes, that's true for men and women alike. Everyone's saying hi. Because of my dad in his 70s, he did things you describe, went to school and got married, hunt for a wife, exactly, Artie. You love my Batman t-shirt, thank you so much. Oh my God, check out my new mug.  All right, everyone, please ask questions. This is the Q and A time. Thank you so much, I appreciate you enjoying my view. All right, please jump in. By the way, if this live stream is making a difference, please hit that like button. I want more people, if you hit that like button right now, I want to see that like counter go up so more people can start watching this. Okay, someone said they'd like to join me here. Thank you so much, I really appreciate that. Thank you so much, I really appreciate that. I'm living in Redondo Beach. I welcome anyone who wants to come down to come visit me. Just give me a heads up. Okay, please post a question. Ladies, this is the best part is I get to dig into your questions. I've got the next 30 minutes to jump in. All right, thank you, you love my Batman t-shirt. Thank you, I appreciate that, Artie. All right, please, please, please hit that like button and ask a question. Come on, someone ask a question. What kind of questions can we talk about?   You know, I'm a little bit tired of the coaches out there that make it just seem so beautiful and so wonderful. You can just be in your queen energy and men are gonna earn you because they're just so wonderful because men are just gonna claim you and be chivalrous. Let's get real.  Human beings are dysfunctional.  Men and women alike, this is the vast majority of the population is literally dysfunctional. Maybe that sounds pessimistic, I don't know. It's just how I view the dating realm because I hear complaint after complaint after complaint. It's just such victim consciousness that makes me so sad. This is why when I wrote my book what the heck is self love? Anyway, I want everyone to first focus on the journey of oneself because the best relationship here, if you're gonna commit to anyone, commit to yourself first. Make that the first relationship and that springboard you into every potential relationship out thereafter. So when we work on ourselves, it doesn't matter whether or not we have a life partner in our life. It'd be great to share our lives with someone but you feel fulfilled anyway and that's my invitation for you. Look, I see questions coming in so let me put on my glasses and now answer.  Many women do extensive work on themselves. However, most men are less self aware and less enthusiastic to do the work. Sassy, that is absolutely incorrect. That is incorrect. Men and women by far equally do about the same amount of personal development work. Men tend to do it more centered around their career. Women tend to do it more centered around relationships. Women are more relationship oriented. Men do personal development more on their career. But here's the fantasy. Lesson, 5% of the population does personal development work anyway. So if you happen to be in that 5%, the reality is is 95% of the population does little or no true deep introspective work. And I'm talking about deep diving into doing therapy. Now, by the way, that percentage probably has increased to 10%. And maybe even 15%, but it's a very small percentage. So when you say women do more, yeah. Maybe in that, maybe 8% of women do it and 5% of women men do it. Okay, yes, it's double what the men are doing. Women are doing double. But it's still 90% of women are just as dysfunctional as men. So let's not make this a man or woman thing. Let's just recognize that emotional maturity is lacking in the vast majority of the population, especially in the area of relationship because most people have such poor communication skills. Men and women alike, women, just because they study stuff that doesn't make them any better just because you have a Deepak Chopra book on your nightstand. If it's not highlighted and pages torn and everything, as an example, just because you have it doesn't mean you're really doing the work. This is why I highly recommend reading the book. Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg. Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg. It should have been called Compassionate Communication, but this is what I wanna invite you to do right now is to lean into a more compassionate way to communicate with one another. All right, let's see what else is written so far. So the future last week is sex after... Okay, S of the future last week is sex after six dates too soon.  Sex isn't the precursor whether or not the... Well, actually having a great sex life is gonna be extremely important to the success of the relationship. When you have sex, isn't any... Look, I know people that have had sex on the first date happily married for 30 years. I know people that waited to get married and they got divorced a month later. So I'm not, you know, I don't like to pigeonhole timelines of when to have sex. I certainly believe have sex... Okay, I have an acronym for sex. It's called CARES, C-A-R-E-S, C-A-R-E-S. The C stands for have sex when you feel comfortable. The A stands for be aware of the consequences. In other words, if you attach too quickly with someone, then be aware of that. The R stands for learn their, his real intentions. In other words, is he serious about a committed relationship or have you just known him for 30 minutes and you just jumped in the bed with him? You may wanna learn his real intentions.  And lastly, the S stands for safety. Safety, be safe, whether it's condom, checking, you know, checking STDs, but when you feel safe, it's CARES, C-A-R-E-S, hope that syncs in. Is it, okay, Kim writes, is it wise to be a friend with a man you used to date but you're, you've established there isn't any more than friends between you? You know, is it wise, I mean, what does wise mean? If it really, you have to look at what could be the problems and addressing problems. Does someone want to, if someone is pining for you and you just wanna be friends, that can be an issue. You could have been in a relationship with someone and now it's converted to friends. Like my relationship with Sherry, we're family to one another. We treat each other as friends, but she's in a loving, juicy, delicious relationship with someone. I'm friends with her partner now. I don't know, I don't like making up rules. Here's the rule I want you to make up for yourself. Do what's right for you. That's the most important rule, Kim. Okay, Teresa writes, I'm a caretaker by nature sometimes. Wait, I'm a caretaker by nature as well. Yes, I tend to be an enabler as well. How do I identify our blind spots? Artie, that's what I do in my private coaching. When a woman works with me, my job is to actually date you during my boot camp. I date you literally to see what your blind spots are to identify that. It's hard for me to do this in the vacuum of a YouTube video. It helps if I actually can interview you in real time. Okay, by the way, hit that like button if you're liking this, if you're just joining. The more likes, the more people get to see this. Okay. Shelly writes, I have a flirtatious friendship and I do have a crush on him. He hasn't asked me out yet. Should I make the move? Yes, yes, yes. Let's jump ladies. Don't be afraid to ask a guy out.  Think about the word claiming. Claiming is claiming property. We don't claim a human being. So why not make the effort say, hey, I like you. I'd like us to go out for coffee. I'd like to go out for a drink and develop a connection with them.  If there's no sexual attraction, it's probably not. Make the move.  His balls aren't going to shrink up because you made the move.  Ugh, if a woman asked me out, I'm flattered. Now, if I'm attracted to her, I say yes. If I'm not attracted, I say thank you.  Hope that helps, Shelley. I did therapy for three times a week for eight months. Great, I do therapy every day of my life for at least 15 minutes. My invitation is everybody do a daily regimen of personal development, self-help, and spiritual work. I don't wanna discount the three times a week for eight months, but what I do wanna say is beyond the eight months do have a regular practice of self-love. That's my invitation for you. Artie writes, I heard from an influencer is that when a person does not have money, it's hard to take time to do inner work. What do you think? By the way, books cost 15 bucks. My book's $11.99, you can grade. So if someone doesn't have $15 a month to buy the books that I recommend, to buy the books that I recommend, to invest themselves, then you know what? Do a go fund me and ask for some help. Go to your friends, ask for some help. Spend $15 a month reading one book a month, and I promise you in one year, you're gonna be a different person, and it only cost you $180, and everybody has $180. I don't care what they say.  Emotional maturity is definitely lacking in the way that I do things. I'm lacking in both men and especially women who sometimes expect men to read their minds. Yes, arty, ladies, stop expecting men to read your minds. This is one of your biggest problems. By the way, I talk to women the way I do, and I yell because I just wanna get your attention. But this whole fear around speaking up to men is ruining your chances for a juicy, delicious relationship. Chapter one in my book, Speak Your Truth. Do it with kindness. And then later on in my book, if it's sincere and from the heart, you can never say the wrong thing to the right person. And there's a lot of other juicy, delicious things here in my book, check out the link to my book right below. And I've got all my recommended books there. Do me a favor, please hit this like, the like button so more people can start seeing this. My feet are freezing right now. Oh, by the way, Joy got it right. The song is by the Smiths. Did you look that up? Did you look that up? Be honest, Joy. All right, Sassy, I make this comment because most of the people watching dating coaches are women. Oh, I gotcha. Sassy, now that makes sense. Yeah, you know what? Women dating coaches see everything from the perspective. In my opinion, very few, okay, there's dating coaches out there, most of the women dating coaches are teaching what I call princess energy. This feminine energy is what I call princess energy. In other words, you're such a queen that a man does all the work and you just sit back and receive and let him do all the work. My coaching is a little different. It's more based on what the Buddha, if the Buddha dated, if the Buddha dated, which is a spiritual way to date, which means that there is no penis or vagina. There is no gender. It's how do you date from the heart? This is why recently someone complained about one of my videos where I talked about women investing in the dating process financially at the same rate that men do. She's like, no, I expect men to pay for everything. You know, when you create an expectation that somebody is supposed to do something because you expect it, you're already setting yourself up for failure. And this is why my, I don't wanna call it advice. This is merely my perspective. You take it for what it's worth, okay? If it resonates with you, great. If it doesn't, that's okay too. Take it in and decide for yourself if this is right for you. By the way, really quickly, guess who joined me today? Salty, Salty for those who know my son who passed away Connor, his nickname is Salty. And so I named this stuff animal Salty. And I just wanted to let you know that he said hi. We're gonna take another question from the movie quiz. And our question is, who stars alongside Jennifer Lopez in the wedding planner? Who stars alongside Jennifer Lopez in the wedding planner? Let's see if you can get that one right. All right, let's see what other questions. Let's see. Mia writes, the guy I was dating for four months, ghost and said, sad thing is that I liked him a lot. What's your advice?  So my question is, were you in a relationship where you were seeing each other on a regular basis?  Were you doing social activities, hobbies or mutual interests, spending time with family and friends? Or was this a four month relationship that was mostly spent over the phone with very little physical contact with one another? Most, my guess is it's the latter and what do you do when someone ghost you? You didn't have a real relationship to begin with. So why don't you describe the type of relationship and tell me what happened right before it? He stopped contacting you and I bet you the answer is right there. Okay, Lydia, Leanna writes, how do you know when you've healed enough to date again? Okay, great question. How do you know when you've healed enough to date again? The minute you begin the healing, you can go out there and date. The minute you address your childhood wounds and traumas, you can go out and date. As long as you're addressing your childhood wounds and adult traumas, it's absolutely okay to date because the dating process is going to trigger a lot of stuff and when you're in the mode of working on your stuff, you can do it with someone else. You don't have to have your love cup totally filled to be able to date, just so long as you're beginning to do the work. That's why I highly recommend doing two things. Reading the book, the Hoffman process, the Hoffman process to a death, address childhood wounds and traumas to heal from them and then if you're dating someone, start reading the book together. The minute the penis gets to go inside the vagina, you start reading the book eight dates and say, hey, if we're gonna begin exploring a relationship together, let's find this foundational piece to help us make it a reality, all right? All right, hit that like button. We want more people to be able to join us, yay. Okay, I hope this is sinking in. Please let me know if it is. Okay, Deanna writes, I fell for a guy I was dating for a couple months until he told me that his heart was not into it but he wanted to continue dating because he did not wanna regret not having tried hard enough. You know, here's the challenge with that. He probably absolutely recognizes you're a great woman and so he's having a battle between his possible issues going on in his life and he thinks you're a great woman and he doesn't wanna give it up but he hasn't crossed over and that crossover most likely is because he has stuff going on in his life, as I said before, that makes it difficult for him to commit. My invitation for you is to cut to the quick, be with men who want to explore a relationship with you and if after three months, it's not leaning towards a relationship then my invitation is to move on and let him work on his stuff on his own time or have real conversations reading the book eight dates and see if it shifts the narrative. Try that first, maybe even go to couples therapy and then see about moving on.  Thank you, Rosalind says we need to be proactive in the dating realm, exactly. Leanne, love it. I do a daily learning therapy, great. Stacey writes, yes, I do self love every day, yay. I don't know how to say all these names. Just bought my book, thank you so much. I'm giving you a big check out of the bear hunt. By the way, this is the back cover of the book. Thank you, please write a review as well. Jen Amber, my amazing client. Ah, I hope it's okay, I said that. What to do when you're so confident because you're being coached by John? Oh, it's okay, you said that. Oh my God, Jen is a client.   I know within the next, I know in a short period of time, she's gonna meet a great guy because she's literally put herself in the vortex, put herself in the vortex after going through my proprietary program where she is literally opening the floodgates to great guys coming their life. And let me just say this, I said this earlier, dating is a clusterfuck out there. This is why working with a really good coach and not this princess energy coach shit, you know, a really good coach is gonna help you identify your blind spots, but also it puts the odds in your favor of attracting a great guy. So check out a link to a free discovery call with me to see if working with a coach is right for you. Thanks, Jen, great to see you. Kim writes, did you see my comment yesterday? Kim, no, I did not, I apologize. Matthew McConaughey, correct, you got that right. The answer to the trivia question. Okay, all right. Hell no, I'm not princess. I pull my own weight in relationship. Way to go, Stacy. All right, let's see. No, it was not refined a long time ago. Do you do videos the other way around one time? Do your videos the other way around one time so we can see the beautiful boats in the water? I just showed it before, but I'll turn it before I wrap up today. How do you know when you've reached a healthy self-love level? Okay, great, great, great, great, great question. Oh my God, my hair is a mess right now. Okay, I've been doing a lot of self-love work on myself. I've been doing a ton of personal development work on myself and I'm still just crouching the surface.       So I do a ton of work on myself and I'm still improving. What's most important, begin the process. My book, towards the end. Look it, I'm gonna share something with you all. Towards the end of my book, oh, there's a picture of Connor. In honor of Connor, there's Connor, my son who passed away. Salty. But I list all the journey. The first book I ever read. You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay. The next book, Creative Visualization by Shakti Gwani. The movie, The Secret, the movie, What the Bleak? Return to Love by Marianne Williamson. The Four Agreements, The Untethered Soul. I list the great resources to begin your journey. So it doesn't matter, you don't have to get there, you just have to be doing the work. That's my invitation for you. Okay, Wendy writes, my philosophy on spending money is if I occasionally share some of the expense, we can do more things together. My philosophy on spending money is if I occasionally share some of the expense, we can do more things together.  That's my invitation, take it for what it's worth. Sassy writes, Jonathan, I think you're teaching conscious dating, exactly. Which pulls in spiritual principles and personal evaluations, wait a minute. Personal evaluations, how should we weed them out who we can evolve in relationship? You know what's interesting? This book called The Rules, The Rules is all reverse psychology bullshit that ruins relationships because you temporarily get into a relationship with someone based on reverse psychology and it doesn't work. This is why you have to read the book if you want a long lasting relationship if the Buddha dated and then read the book. You've got to read this book, How to Make Love All the Time by Barbara DeAngeles if you want a juicy, delicious, healthy, happy relationship, that's how you evolve. Thank you, Sassy. Stacy writes, I love your channel. Okay, Jean writes, I'm falling for a 44 year old man but he's married, but we are in a relationship if this man is 44. Okay, I'm married, Jane, I don't understand what you're saying. Are you falling for a married man? If you're falling for a married man, no, no, no, no, stop, stop, stop, stop. Don't fall for a married man. Thank you.  Shelly writes, I appreciate your perspective. Leigh Ann writes, I lost my career because of COVID and I'm applying for new jobs, doing interviews, but it makes me feel like I shouldn't date because of it. How much does that matter to men? I think this could be a big deal. I think what's most important because it's most likely going to make you less confident within yourself and if you're lacking confidence, then it's going to show. Work on your shoring up your life so you can be in a position to join with a partner because my only concern is if you are emotionally beating yourself up because of where you're at in your life, I'm not saying you are, but if you are, it's not a good time to date someone. Shore up your self-love, work on establishing your foundation and then put yourself out there. Greetings from San Diego, thank you. Jennifer writes, some of those princess energy coaches are unrealistic, yes. Learning is a lifetime process, yes. I look awesome in my glasses, thank you. Okay, stick woman writes, I'm 67, he's 70 and one and a half years so, one and a half years so far. He wants to take it very slow. He's committed, he has committed, thank heaven. We are always happy together and believe in investing, but he has a bad experience before me. Well, you're kind of contradicting yourself. He's committed, thank heaven. We are always happy, great. We believe in investing, great, but he had a bad experience, so he had a bad experience. Is he having a good experience with you? That's what matters most. A juicy, delicious relationship together.  Who knows? Enjoy your life in the moment right now, you're 67.  We don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow. He could die tomorrow, you could die tomorrow. Look, I lost my son, everyone. Nothing is guaranteed. Enjoy it, if it's good, enjoy it. All right. Leanna writes, yes, I'm beating up on myself for it, so I'll keep working on things. Yay. Hazel, happy weekend. Okay, Sherry writes, exclusively date a guy for nearly two years and I simply asked him what are his intentions? We're moving forward. He completely ended it with no explanations. Sherry, that's because you made the worst mistake of all. Get to the quick. You don't wait two years to get to it. You talk about this in the first 90 days.  What does commitment, not you, you ask him. What does commitment look like for you? And if he avoids the question, then don't date the guy. It was waiting too long was your issue. Okay, don't wait that long. Get to the, cut to the quick, cut to the quick, ladies. And if you want help learning how to vet men, that's what I teach you how to do. Join my schedule a free discovery call with me. I'll help you, if you hire me, I'll help you with that. Lea writes, how old is too old to date when you're in your 30s? How old is too, well, you're never too old. Well, how old is too old? How old is too old when you date in your 30s? I don't know what that means. Life is short, live life, exactly. Oh my God, my feet are freezing. Are you enjoying this?  Not only everyone, since a few of you asked this, I'm going to do it again. That's the view from my place. All right, all right. Time for one more question or two. Please post a comment. Please hit that like button, share this with your friends. I would love it if more people got a chance to hear what I have to share. It's just my perspective. Oh, let's ask another movie question. Okay, oh, that was that one. Oh, this is a good one. Which 1988 film stars Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey? Which 1988 film stars Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey? All right. Um, if you're in your 30s, what should the age, if you are in your 30s, what should your age cap be? It's socially acceptable man to date in their 50s. Leah, Lee.  Now, could we talk about what issues could come up dating people that are much older? Yes, but I don't want to get into that. The thing is, you get to do whatever you want. This is your journey. Do whatever you want. That's what a self-love practice is. It's your journey. That's my invitation for you. All right, beaches, correct, pretty. Uh-oh, I'm running out of battery. I didn't expect to go this long. I'd have to plug in my computer. Listen, you know what? I think this would be a great time to wrap up today's live stream. I've just had fun, so much fun, just taking a break from my day, jumping in before I go for a walk to share, just to kind of do something different on the weekend. By the way, I'd be honored if you like this, if you like connecting with me and you want to have access to me on a regular basis, check out a link to my group called Midlife Love Mastery. Check out all the links in my description. You can get my book. You can get a free gift from me. You can schedule a discovery call. I'd be honored to work with you. Just like my client mentioned. And listen, go out and have a fantastic weekend if you're watching the replay. Just go make it a fantastic day. Live your life to the fullest. It's your journey. You don't have to follow any rules. You gotta follow what's right in your heart and that's my invitation for you. All right, I'm gonna wrap up this video today as I always do. First, oh, please post a comment. If you're watching the replay, please post a comment with questions. All right, first off, I'm gonna give myself a big check-in at Johnathan Bear Hug of Self Love. I'm gonna reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay. I'm gonna ask you to turn to someone or a pet or a teddy bear or a pillow and give them it or them a hug of love because hugs are a great source of love and we can all use more love in our lives. Thanks a bunch. Bye-bye now.


Major efforts have been underway in Cuba to fight the largest fire in its history. The fire started in the Cuban province of Matanzas on August 5th after the country's main oil facility was struck by lightning. So far, more than 100 people have been injured and one firefighter has died while 17 are missing. As per latest reports, the fire has died down, but 4 out of 8 large fuel tanks have been destroyed already. We will keep the situation as it is now, with the current situation in Cuba. The fire started in Línea, in the forest of Alcavresión, which was destroyed by a friend of mine, who was a friend of mine from Mexico. He was already killed by a friend of mine, who was killed by a friend of mine, who was killed by a friend of mine from Alcavres. and we want to defend all the areas that were permitted to be prepared for the mission. Declaring that Cuba is Matanzas, President Miguel Díaz Canel and his government have been directly involved in addressing the crisis in the port city. Over 4,000 people living in the vicinity of Matanzas Industrial Area have been evacuated. The environmental ministry has confirmed that the fire has caused the emission of polluting substances. However, they have managed to protect the population from danger. Containment operations have been going on in Matanzas with critical on-the-ground assistance and aid provided by Mexico and Venezuela. Venezuela sent a team of specialized firefighters experienced in highly complex operations and technical experts from the state-owned oil company Pedevesa. The Venezuelan government also dispatched 20 tons of supplies including foam and chemical powders to be used to extinguish the fire. Mexico has sent 60 members of the military and 16 technicians and specialists from the state-owned petroleum company Pemex. Cuba has also continued to receive messages of solidarity from countries including Bolivia, Nicaragua, Chile, Argentina, China, Guyana, Barbados, Iran, Russia and the Saharawe Arab Democratic Republic. Guyana has also provided aid consisting of packages of gloves, syringes and other medical supplies. However, amidst all of this, one country has stood apart, the United States. Even though the US government offered technical support for the devastating fire, there is no mention of sending specific material aid to Cuba. It has also made no indication that it would lift the devastating blockade in sanctions it imposed on Cuba nor that it would take Cuba off its state sponsors of terrorism list. These policies make providing humanitarian aid to Cuba extremely difficult for outsiders. Due to Cuba's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism, it is illegal for US banks to process transactions from Cuba. In addition, most payment platforms that are widely used in the United States will not process transactions even loosely related to Cuba due to a fear of the US government's response. To counter this, a group of Cuba solidarity activists in the United States have launched a campaign entitled, Sanctions Fuel the Fire on August 9th. The campaign has three central demands. Lift the 243 sanctions Trump enacted during his administration against Cuba, remove Cuba from the state sponsors of terrorism list and send material aid to the island. Over a year now, the People's Forum along with many different organizations like the Answer Coalition, Code Pink, Puentes AMOR and many others and with the International People's Assembly, we've been talking about Cuba's right to live. We've been calling for the US government to lift the 243 sanctions that actually come from the Trump administration, but that Biden has not just continued but in many ways justified into existence in this point, asking that they remove, in order for Cuba to deal with the multiple challenges that it's dealing with, it's inhumane for Cuba in the middle of a pandemic. In light of the natural disasters it has faced, in light of this fire, how can it actively combat, but how can it actively recover or fully recover from these situations when it has the full boot of the US blockade and Trump sanctions on its neck? If the US were a good neighbor, if the US had any sense of humanity, it would lift these sanctions immediately in order to allow Cuba to confront the fires. That's why our campaign has been saying in many ways that these sanctions are fueling the fire. The fact that Cuba can't access many banks to transfer donations to Cuba at this moment. The fact that organizations in the US are being limited from being able to send aid because of lack of licenses is a sign that this policy has to go. It's cruel and it's humane and doesn't belong in our time, in our century.


What's good everybody Chris from jassescasebrakes.com doing a fun one here the first time we're doing this on the site 2023 fanatics under wraps series one autographed baseball jersey Three box one half case break two random teams each so three jerseys 15 spots sold Everyone gets two random teams in the end will be these are all authenticated by fan fanatics and blind wraps I nor does anyone else in the shop know what's inside of here until we open it So let's do it our fresh dice and our fresh list since there's two random teams each It's Jay down to Jeremy grab the last spot We just took those names and do them twice so it's 30 spots for 30 teams the d-backs down to the Nats Let's roll our dice and random bias two and six eight times. Thanks again y'all good luck one two three four five six seven and eight eighth and final time Steve down to Dale and eight times for the teams one two three four five six seven and eight eighth and final time White socks down to the Yanks. Alright since this is a random team effectively a half case break I'll leave the trade window open if anybody wants to get anything going, but let's see how it shakes out for now in the first half So Steve with the white socks Eugene with the Padres Jeremy with the Dodgers Eugene with the Nationals Jeremy with the Brewers Michael with the Rangers Steve with the Giants Eugene with the Rays Mark with the diamond backs Brian with the Phillies Dale with the Blue Jays Jay with the Mets Brian with the Guardians and Cubs Josh with the Red Sox second half Brian with the Royals Eugene with the Tigers and Braves Ryan with the Twins Eugene with the Cardinals Ryan with the Astros Josh with the Rockies Jeremy with the Reds Michael with the Mariners Steve with the Pirates and Orioles Mark with the Marlins Jeremy with the A's J with the Angels and Dale with the Yankees All right, we'll pause the video. We'll see you in the trade talk I'll let you know about it when we do come back and after that we'll rip open three boxes of fanatics jerseys. Thanks again All right. We are back a couple couple teams up for grabs, but nothing concrete So we're gonna print and we're gonna rip I'm actually working my magic here. Let's call this Udub That's so funny Excuse me on one sec under wraps. We'll call this series one S1 We'll go auto Jersey that might be a little better Much better. There we go We're gonna switch screens You can see this giant case in front of us covers pretty much the back wall as well, but under wraps jerseys 23 This is a six box case the second half of this random team two on the site right now. We'll do it like this mark with the D backs Down to Eugene with the Nats So I'm gonna crack open this case first I'm gonna keep this for my sorting and shooting needs six boxes Do three four five six? We're gonna roll the dice and randomize Make sure you have a word of it the top third It can be top half top three will be one two and three bottom will be four five and six It is five so bottom three I'll grab my marker Big X's one two and three we will use for Random team number two or two or anything or two which is on the side right now Jasties case breaks calm What's uh Let's see what we got here. Yeah What do we got there's a full checklist on here. There's like the regular fanatics jerseys. We've done some giveaways of these in the past That's a nice sort of mystery wrap the mark. Let's see what we got first. I See some pinstripes So first up For the New York Mets It'll be Dominic Smith and the home whites Nice embroidery. These are the I believe the actual authentic game use jerseys what they use on the field It's a nice one hologram at the verification for Dominic Smith. Let's go into the New York Mets and Jay Keep this in here as well New York Mets on the board Box two box two way Wow the mess and Jay double up It's Peter Lonzo polar bear Pete and The nice black unis too. These are so clean Peter Lonzo. Yeah, the Nike authentic for one of these on the field 20 Peter Lonzo That is nice right there Jay tuffles up here You go does he go three for three crazy Eugene have a feeling to it try to get in like the way they they marketed the only Officially licensed MLB mystery jersey program. Who will you unwrap? That's fun All right, and third and final box Yeah, I mean you just got a few teams on here. Let's let's see if we get that try to trade couldn't trade mojo Good luck everyone and he does No one Aaron Otto Well, it calls his shot last one is for Eugene.  They're so nice nice one though. Eugene. It's one more It's one there we go man congrats just for for congrats to Eugene and Jay Thanks again everyone. That's a fun one It's a quick and easy one I'm sure Joe can play some some who am I? Without giving it away too easily, but there we go. That's a wrap for under wraps Fanatic series one out of ground baseball jersey three box half case number one number two on the site at jassescase breaks calm Thanks again. Bye. Bye


We're at about five hours from here in our house on the Chicago. We've lived there for about almost five years now. So that's where we're at. That's where I just said that our home is more connected. See our production. You can see some pictures of our family. We did have two young children on the find three that helped us out and we also had some challenges. And you can just see some pictures of our farm here as well. We grow about a quarter acre of garlic seed right now. And we're looking to double triple that. I work full time off the farm and we kind of rungs the farm basically. And so we just want to share a little bit of our experience and then talk really about the specifics of our production system. Yeah, I know that. I've been working at Pima's for the past five years. I started at age 12 working there through college. So that was the beginning of my farming experience. That was all conventional. But everything's from your transplanting to retail and that was it. I grew up in Maine and ended up in the Midwest. And so I grew up a city kid actually. And now I went on to manage a couple farms. Just small scale vegetable production apprentice on caretaker farm. You may have heard of that in Massachusetts. I believe it's the second oldest organic farm. About 150, 200 member TSA. Went on to Iowa to start a small farm to support Julie. See if we were right for each other while farming. And then for an eye together went on to six, three acres in Oakland, Indiana, down by Muncie. And took a small farm from about 20 TSA members to about 125,150. We had two houses. We've kind of done it all in a lot of different ways. And now we're at our current location, living a small farm dream. And garlic is hopefully a key part of that. So another part of our farm is a winter resorts program. We just started that season. We built a few houses last summer. We used a 7 feet TSA through the house.  And that was really successful. We ended up with a reading list by the end of the season. And also request for more vegetables all the time.  So that's great. And we're planning on doing another trial. We just started thinking and we're hoping to house up in April, depending on what weather it lasts in. So in terms of our specific garlic car production, we were looking for a car with organic hardneck garlic. We have to plant by hand because if you go to a non-partisan garlic, it has to be oriented a certain way. Otherwise, the neck gets bent and then people don't want to buy that. So there's yet to be a machine that can do that efficiently. And so we were looking to scale up production that could do that for us and also ease some of the labor fatigue that goes into planting, molting, those sorts of things. Also, in terms of looking for sustainability, trying to find a system that we didn't have to kill as much. We had vegetable farmers that were guilty of probably older killings. So we're trying to move away from that, especially in our really sandy soils, low organic matter. We need to really work on that. So that was kind of one of our goals. We were kind of hoping the car would help us molt the straw and aid in harvesting as well. One of the products we have so far is a review of parts available. So this is a 34-page document that's available on the SAIR website. That kind of part of our grant was working with Purdue University. So their ag engineering department had a couple of students that came up to the farm, kind of figured out what we needed. And it was their job to see what was out there and see if they could come up with a better system, something that wasn't commercially available. So I'm not, I think, well, but I'm not very well there. So this was a great opportunity to partner and maybe come up with something better. So that document is available. So if you're thinking about wasting, increase your comfort level, whether you have strawberries or any sort of crop, it's a really useful document. So just to give you an idea of how our production system actually looks like as we think about what kind of car, kind of machine that we want to help us on our farm. So you can see it. This is our chair from Cannesville. That's from our toll road. But we're going to start looking at Mitchell Island. So if you stand at our vertical pasture and you spread compost on fields. And then first part of it is that's when we do the cover crop. So we brought a forecast for the cover crop. You can see we've got this. So we're going to be able to use radish and we'd like to display. It's about to be the end of August. Then a month later in October, it was over a tractor with most of the cover crop strips. We created some camping beds and then we should have filled them with some kind of camping and we added the amendments at that point. I'm going to refer to you. This is what we're going to be talking about. And this is specifically what we're looking at for the tarp core. This is where we are doing everything right now and raising each hole in the ground. After we've done that, you're covering all that up and mulching it. And you can see there's some good position there that it gets to be a little bit uncomfortable. Then we have the nine months where the tarp is in the ground and we've had early to mid-July. We've also started a future degradation for the water in the ground in the July harvest and cure. So that's the basic production system that we're looking at. We'll take questions at the end. We're just going to do that for a amount of time. So here's some more pictures of us planting. So we have very little pockets around the lace to carry around to where we need to go. And then there's another picture just kind of trying to adjust for that so that we'll be some attention at the end of the day. So that's what we currently do, our system. We're dropping. A lot of hands and knees work, which over a quarter acre, that doesn't sound like a lot. But by doing that for four days straight, it really adds up where and care on the bottom. So part of the grant was to kind of look at, okay, where do we really spend a lot of our time and where can we maximize the use of equipment? We're going to spend money on it. How are we going to use that efficiently? So one of the things we did is looked at our system and timed it out. Okay, where are we spending our time? And if you add it all up, planting, harvesting, and molding is where we are spending 60% of our time. And then we also kind of looked at, okay, what's the most physically hard? Actually, harvesting and hanging it, we spend a lot of time there, but that's actually somewhat, not easily, but it's more upright work and it's going to be done in different stages. So we kind of looked at planting as kind of the big one that we were trying to address. So how do we eliminate back bending, awkward positions? How do we eliminate unnecessary tillage? So this cart's going to have to be able to drive through this pretty heavy cover crop and we'll show you some pictures here. And then, of course, related to that, in our sandy soils, you know, we have about eight inches of topsoil and it's all yellow. So conserving that moisture is really important to us. And then what's a scale-appropriate machine for us? I'm just going to walk from real quick kind of what the student at Purdue found, available options. Here's a cart you found. And looking further details, this cart didn't end up working that well. A hand crank broke and couldn't really do it along. But maybe it has some merits. This is something that currently exists in the U.S. about $3,500. But we didn't know, you know, we're not doing strawberries, we're doing garlic. Could it drive through that type of heavy biomass? We weren't sure. This is another cart that's quite a bit more expensive. You have to import it in the U.S. to find it as far as we could tell. And then here's kind of the cream of the crop, the most ideal cart, kind of like a small tank on wheels. But again, it's pretty expensive. So if you had a lot of acres, it might work. So here's some of the unique features Yeah, these are unique features of how we do our garlic. So we can't give it all to the main cover crop. It's really important on our farm to build the soil, add those nutrients, create the aeration. Maybe garlic, not strawberries, just you saw some of the carts. Having that to the right height for the crop that you're doing. We need something that's small, medium-scale, appropriate. We went into a new quarter of acre that we'd like to grow back, but it's not a full time thing at this point. And then also something that we want to pass. Planting, weeding, harvesting, and mulching. And then finally, we want something that can be built on farm. We have a welding shop just across the street from us. We did work something, and there was mechanical problems, so it's been always a big strength in our community. So it's really important to us as well. And then how the water rise was preferred, but we'll see what happens. And as with most grant projects, we go into these ideal thinking, ideal goals, and how it ends up is often very different. That's okay. That's part of why Sayer does these types of funding projects. You don't have to necessarily accomplish it. Here's a picture of the tall cover crop. These are our two boys here. And some years, that cover crop can be four feet, depending on how the fall goes. And it really provides probably 80% of our fertility for our garlic. So this is really important that we keep this in our system. Here's what it looks like. I've mowed the strip where our bed is going to be. We do two rows of garlic per bed. Our soils are that four. We can't do that any more intensively.  And so you can see the stick mat right here of cover crop that is going to have to be able to be driven over by some sort of machine if we're going to have to do that. So here it is. It pulls up with our drip tapers of after planting and here too we do some planting. And you can see that we have really a lot of cover crop for garlic area plants. We do that again through our soil. And we're actually moving towards a system that we don't wrote a tilt at all, but we just deep rip a row or a shank on our tractor so that we don't get a tilt at all. And so that's kind of, we were trying to think through how we planted that. So here's just our farm all 100s of the shank ripped through. You can kind of see that there. We do have some video on our YouTube channel that shows us specifically. We won't be trying to play that today, but it is good. This is what the garlic looks like around mid-April. May-June, that's when we started doing the water escape, which we harvest and sell or give to parents depending on where they're at. In July we're looking for about a third of the plant round out and then we know it's time to harvest. So the garlic part, here's the actual cart I'm constructing. It's got a canopy here where our tarp can be put and then it's a lay-down design. And we have, you know, a place where we can here's actually a better picture than some of the new students actually driving it around. And we went through about four engineering students and two professors. So turnover was really high, not because the garlic part was that difficult, but that's just the nature of working with, you know, university students. So that's something we learned. I was hoping to be up to about three-quarter acre garlic production by this time, but oh, their cart never really got done, which actually turned out to be the best thing because maybe family structure time-wise we weren't really ready to go out there. So, yeah, you had to get an extension which, you know, Sarah was gracious to understand. And at this point, you know, the cart, they're having some trouble with the design in terms of how the wheels actually swivel when it's going down the road. So we're almost there. But now it's got a new student, new group student working on it. So it is what it is. Some lessons learned. Keep it simple. I think we tried to put too many things into one cart. Maybe a couple versions down the road we could have done that. But I think we should have acknowledged that up front. And the motor ended up being, you know, that was kind of the problem. Yeah. It's one of the problems with that. So... The students really wanted to know more about it. Yeah. You think you can do it? Yeah. I know. I'm an engineer. You found that the review of the cart options, why is it really valuable? That was part of the grant. That's something that holds you, too. And again, it said that you should report and look at that. So that was a great part of this. Given enough time, I mean, if you think the project is going to take two years, maybe two and a half or three, you know, it's not an ideal world. Don't try to do too much. You kind of said that. And it's about the process. We really kind of refined our growing process and really thinking about mechanizing why we want to do that. And then just the concept of working with students is great. But there are some limits to that. Any questions? We've got a couple minutes for questions. Anything at all? Yeah. A few questions. One about estimated cost in petrified seafood. Seed garlic, you guys were raising this food and selling it as a seed garlic. Yeah. So we have a website where we sell our next seed garlic. And then we also do eating garlic. And so we do eating garlic for about 50 cents of all. And then our seed goes for about anywhere from 10 to 12 dollars an ounce. Because we're not certified organic. And we can't charge quite that high of price. But that's certainly where, yeah. Yeah, we're certified actually grown. And our ethro, basically what we have here is customers telling us you're not charging enough for multiple people. It costs us about 30 cents of linear road foot to produce the garlic. So we thought, oh, 50 cents of all is a pretty good cost to produce that. We should do it more. Can we answer any other questions? One of the questions about the price of where you guys are producing our seed garlic. Yeah. Well, fortunately, one of the great things we're working with for you is that they had the students each have a budget so that they can motor some of the materials they didn't have to pay for. So we did like a 50-50 pot share on that. So that worked. I mean, that worked out great. So we were about three grand into the project. Yeah. Let's say that somebody wants to make that product. And if you have a friend, but if somebody else wants to make the product they can do design, or they design, or they can ask me for that without them. Right. And that's where the students have their final report if they'll have their materials with us. Yeah. Still in five. Yeah. Yeah. Excellent question. Yeah. What do you use as a non-mechanized method for that kind of thing? Well, depending where the students end up with this, I'm thinking we might just take the motor off and pull it with our phone. That might be the simplest. No. They thought about that. But I think the students didn't know enough or didn't have the staff to do that. I don't. But yeah. I think that's a viable. Yeah. Those are good points. Yeah. Yeah. And in that 34-page document, there's kind of an assessment of to be used electric, why or why not. So.  Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I thought you're right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah we have something like. I want my cover top to winter kill because we're not going to. I can't tell. It's oats, radish, and maybe you can feel it. Yeah, we know we burn through that really quick. Any other questions? Yeah. Oh, sorry. Oh, yeah. It's like you're different from others. So part of the reason we do two rows to a bed, and then our beds are 36 inches on center, is because of our soil fertility. Our soil is so poor. Basically sands. And the way our old baby tractors set up, that was kind of the easiest. The cart was then designed for that, yeah, four feet wide. So we could straddle one bed up. And do you consider a cover crop? We could use a roller crimper in the springtime? The question is, have we considered using a roller crimper as a cover crop? Yes. The problem is roller crimping, like, particularly winter peas, it needs to be flowering to actually chill it at crimping. And likewise, the oats didn't have to be at green till. So, yeah, something we could consider. So timing didn't work for us? Yeah. It might, if it winter killed, but again, ripping that narrow shank through, we may not even need to trim it. It's what we're doing. So we're actually trying to not even touch the cover crop. Yeah. Good question. Are we growing more than one side of the garlic? Yes. We have about seven varieties right now. We sell corn. We sell Ukraine, music, German writing and caretaker. And then we have three or four others that we're working on, building soft corn. Are they all generally ones that which were in the early Yeah. Some of our, we'd be like a porcelain, a comb and an asiatic, kind of three categories. Our asiatic is kind of a short stop. The tactic works all at the same time. Is it much stronger? Yes. A wheat straw. We have quite a bit of pasture that I got across for us and it's a wheat strain. Do we need to weed it? Well, we mulch it thick enough so we don't have to. That's our goal. But yeah, if we do need to weed, we are in their life. If there is much difference, if you would cut it around, if there's a little bit of soil? Yeah. I've done a little bit of experiment. We do apply a little bit of nitrogen blood meal because of our safety soil. So I'm starting to try to cut that back a little bit more. We're looking at a soil path. We've only been in the spot for four years. So we haven't seen the record. Increase in the amount of ways we address and access to what benefits will the part that we're trying to increase? Okay, so the question is, what benefit will a part give us in terms of the increase in age? So right now we don't hire anyone for an eye. And so the part will enable us to just, in my thinking, looking at the numbers, to double production and still do that. And also, you know, for a few years we were doing that. To give back problems to the point of even work. And you know, those are fits now, but we don't want that to happen again. So that's the longer time. It's just visible while being exactly. Yeah. And our goal is, hopefully someday, to find the full time, just to take it slow. We're going to do things that are best for our family. Well, the question was, is the part used for the harvest? I don't think it will be. But right now in the harvest, we're able to pull the plants. So it was so light, it's one advantage that it's in. And you pick it right into a wagon, pull by a truck. That's much more efficient. What's your current yield on a quarter acre? The question was, what is your current yield on a quarter acre? So we do, but we plant the bald every six inches. So our rows are about 250 feet long. And so we have, let's just say we have 10 rows. So that's 10 times 250, 5500. And about, probably 640 to 50 percent of that is actual marketable seed garlic in terms of size and breed. And then the rest are in the breed. That's typically what we plant. That varies by variety. Haven't seen it yet. Yeah. It was a few years ago when we had our depth stayed alive. Yes. We do boil your feed. Halcyon particularly, because in San Diego soil, Halcyon, we want the first seed to leach out. And so we, I do a little fish fertilizer and I spray it every month for the end of April. And we found that that makes a significant difference. Do you have business cards? If anyone wants one for contact information? We have a website and a Facebook page. And I'm glad to say a question. I'm always willing to learn and grow from other people trying to grow garlic. It's down. We actually sell out like in October. We do pre-sales. We let our curfew our customers know in June and then they pre-order and it goes moving fast. So that's how we open up our numbers. We like to move it to restaurants and grocery stores. But like we said, it's a slow grow. It just takes a while. Yeah, me and you. And we want to thank Sarah as well. Thanks Sarah. Yeah, thank you.


it's probably a little cliche, but I would say it's the failures that really shape you more than the successes.   Oh, nope, not doing that again. I know what that does now.


Item number, SCP-172, Object Class, Euclid, Special Containment Procedures. Any personnel wishing to access SCP-172 must receive written approval and undergo a one-hour training session. All interaction with SCP-172 must be overseen by at least one Class 4 operative who may end the session at their discretion. Many and all records, drawings, or correspondence produced by SCP-172 are to be submitted immediately to Dr. F*** for review. Reasonable requests made by SCP-172 are to be granted after approval by said doctor. SCP-172 is to be allowed out of its containment area with approval, as long as it is accompanied by an armed Class 4 operative. Armed personnel are to be stationed at the door of SCP-172. After the SCP-172 attempt to escape, it is to first be asked to cease and desist and then led back to its containment area. Containment area is to be kept stocked with paper, pencils, and any additional components requested by SCP-172. Tables, chairs, and any additional furnishings requested by SCP-172 are to be provided pending approval by Dr. F***. When entering its dormant state, SCP-172 should be placed in its transportation box until rewound. Description SCP-172 appears to be a human being 34 years of age, 185 cm or 6 foot 1 inches tall, black hair and moustache, 175.5 kg or 386 pounds, and of Russian descent. SCP-172's personality is very friendly and intelligent, if somewhat dull and repetitive. SCP-172 prefers dress from the 1860s and always wears a large ornate key on a long necklace. SCP-172 has never identified itself by any name and is not upset by being referred to by its designation number. Internally, SCP-172 is a staggeringly complex automaton, possessing over 2 million moving parts and 18 million components at last count. Component parts appear to be made of glass, silk, wood, steel, brass, rubber, and several other substances. Similarity between this construction and that of SCP-2776 suggests a similar creator or creators. SCP-172 also has several modules that can be installed via a hatch in its chest. These appear to alter behavior, speech, movement, and several parameters based on position in the body cavity and module components. SCP-172 has 46 modules at current count, having built three of these while in foundation custody. Currently, SCP-172 is loaded with the engineer module. Modules have been identified by SCP-172 as caretaker, soldier, medic, mother, and king. Though this is by no means a comprehensive list, under no circumstances are modules to be replaced without O5 level authorization. SCP-172 is powered via a mainspring, which is wound with the key in SCP-172's possession after inserting it into a hole at the base of the neck. SCP-172 can operate for eight hours on a single full wind-up. SCP-172 appears wholly human when in operation, and is capable of all basic human functions. SCP-172 has no need to eat, breathe, or sleep, but will perform all these functions if allowed to do so. SCP-172 is extremely obedient, and will follow any instructions given to it to the best of its ability. SCP-172 does not view its existence as strange, and asserts that it is human, even when shown its internal components. SCP-172 is also extremely delicate, and great care must be taken to preserve and maintain its function. SCP-172 has also shown a level of mechanical skill nothing short of miraculous. SCP-172 is capable of analyzing and copying any mechanical device it comes in contact with. This was first shown when it became apparent that lots of any kind cannot contain SCP-172. It has also made several copies or upgraded versions of SCP technology, all based on incredibly complex clockwork. Most notably, data expunged. Document No. 172-4R Notes on recovery of SCP-172 SCP-172 was recovered after the Great War, in a chamber below a former vacation home of the Czars. Exposed due to stray bombing, the chamber and its contents were badly damaged. But SCP-172 was found intact in an iron crate, along with many modules, and its key. Item was removed by operatives, and wound up inside testing facilities. SCP-172 appeared to wake up from a deep sleep, and proceeded to greet everyone present in Russian. When Agent F. shouted in surprise, SCP-172 pushed against its chest, and repeated its greetings in English. SCP-172, when questioned, stated that its last memory was playing with a young boy. The boy left, and SCP-172 began to feel very tired, so it returned to the box. It has no memory of its creation, creator, or name. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-171, collective brain foam, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


What? You want to take electricity and magnetism? Why? It's 150 years old. It's not changing the world like computer science or bioengineering. Plus, it's only an approximate description of the world. It does a terrible job of explaining things at the atomic scale. Inside of an atom, why would that nucleus, all those charged protons, want to stay together? Everything would fly apart. Why does that electron just keep going around the atom? So electricity and magnetism gets a lot of things wrong and is really old. I really wouldn't bother. Now wait a minute. But it does do a really good job of explaining things in our macroscopic world. Large things like power plants or our electrical distribution. All of our electrical power, of course, is based on electricity and magnetism. Motors that convert that electrical power back into motion are based on electricity and magnetism. It's behind other sciences like chemistry and biology. Every time you move your muscles, that's due to an electrical impulse in your cell membrane. And light, don't forget about light. Light is an electromagnetic wave. It's a sinusoidal vibration of the electric field and the magnetic field traveling at the speed of light. So electricity and magnetism actually explains a lot of things. It explains refrigerator magnets and lasers and electrical circuits and computers and compasses. And remember in Star Wars, remember the double sunset of Tatooine? Remember the low sun was kind of red and the higher sun was kind of yellow? It explains that. So yeah, maybe it is important to take a class in electricity and magnetism. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll put Rice Physics 102 online just for you. There may be a few other thousand people involved. But just like the Rice students, you'll be able to see the lectures and watch the demonstrations and do the homework. There'll be camaraderie. There'll be danger. And maybe even a little bit of humor. Now, it's not going to be easy. This course will be your introduction to field theory. And field theory requires three things. It requires vectors. It requires calculus. And it requires their unholy union vector calculus. Now don't worry. You don't need to know vector calculus ahead of time. We'll be covering, taking basic ideas from vector calculus. So I'm officially excited. Click the register button and I will see you in the fall.


Hello boys and girls welcome today, we install some injectors all right for the newcomers in a previous video one of one of the previous videos I Did a conversion these tgvs are from an 07 STI This intake is from an 06 STI The car it's going on is it's an 06 STI So converting from side feed, which is 06 To top feed which is 07 and up so this fuel rail This fuel rail here. That's actually from an 07 but these ID 1050 ccs fuel injector injectors and Had to order them for an 07 here. Let's take a look at the tgvs So if you're interested in this how I've done this basically took the the butterflies out Clean those the tab whatever you call that that was in here cut it out grinded the port to a smooth finish and closed up The hole from the shaft from the bottom from the flap Closed up the hole by doing a cold Aluminum stick welding whatever you want to call it brazing aluminum brazing came out nice These were also cleaned up I'm gonna say it came out pretty nice. All right, so today we're gonna be installing these 1050 ID 1050 fuel injectors As you can see they already have their own o-rings on both sides Got four of them We're also gonna be doing some I guess wiring. I have no idea I did not look at the harness my stock 06 harness yet Okay, so this is the hardest of Them all because it's kind of tough to move the fuel line the fuel rail. I should say out of the way So I already the inside here. It's already been I cleaned it several times so just to make sure and obviously The top here too, that's got to be clean.  Okay There we go pop right in By the way, I got my camera back. I've been using my phone for I don't know one or two Of the previous videos it's been kind of a pain in the ass But this is actually they replaced it because the one that I had before was defective Anyways, it's a little bit of oil. See pops right in without oil It would not be that easy Okay, I don't want to force it We go this one went in Found the bolts Alright, so I did one or two. This is the original one. That's the new one that came with the pack or with injectors This one here. I did not use any of these meaning I didn't Cut the wires at all Let me show you So I took a small flat screwdriver Grinded it down so it's much smaller on both sides So then you can see these are plastic tabs inside this here So slightly pulling Towards my towards me. I'm moving these tabs to the right We'll try and there you go one one see how it just kind of disappeared and another So you're moving these tabs Away from there's a little hole here You're just opening it up Now when you install now, you know you would cut these and Insert these new pins and put it in the new plug, but And the The connection does not matter. It can go this way or this way The polar is polarization doesn't matter injector just just needs a signal and Just power basically. So anyways, you just pick one see one one wire is thicker. The other one is thinner With the way I do it is I put the thicker one closer to the tab Basically what I did the first time I tried fitting it different ways Okay, it doesn't stay in let's flip it this sleeve is In the way Just looking for that click Actually, I'm gonna pop this in this locking tab No, no, let's see There you go Actually, it's a good idea to do them Both at the same time Which I didn't do again. I Gotta move This sleeve back See it's still this one's not coming out. This one's locked in This one's still going to push it in more. I Want to squeeze a wire too much? You know you want to What if I can unlock it? Actually never tried it on the new one. Don't even know where the tab is So because of this sleeve got a blame it on something You know, maybe some lubrication Lubrication makes everything better There we go See not coming off Let's do one more. Hopefully it will take less time. Let's move in the tab Away the plastic tab away There we go. It's gonna push to lock Now looking at the one that I've done. Okay, I'm gonna go like this the other way so these this Side needs to go Here, okay, so we're gonna take the new one Flip these Remember I'm the way I'm doing it. It doesn't really matter, but I want them all to be the same The thicker wire which is red in this case is gonna go closer to this locking tab Which is here and they're not going in what's going on I think some lubrication is in order There we go. That's it. Don't need to cut any wires Okay, without this being on the engine I Don't remember how this went Okay, I'm pretty sure this ground wire was here Looks like it was here. That's really all I can do then this whole thing goes on top of the engine When it's still on the engine stand so you just install the whole thing All right, so I guess we are done for now New injectors are in This was easy We will continue when the in when it's time to put the intake Back, I'm gonna figure out all the vacuum hoses all these different Connections that are different now I don't even remember where These go Got a better visual on the injectors All right, this is it Thanks for watching. I'll see you all soon