Chill, like, like, go get a frickin' chill pill. Like, smoke or jillian? Yeah, I got a blunt.  I'm not stoned. And you can follow us on Instagram, Twitter for more juicy content. It's so juicy. Twitter account, Ring the Bell, be part of the location. Score, bang! Also, follow us on our own personal YouTube channels. Link's always down there in the description below. Today, we are reacting to some Kenny Sebastian. Kenny Sebastian, that name rings a bell. Yes, we've rekt to some of his stand-up before. It's been a while. But this one's called Music Can Make Anything Sexy. Depends on the kind of music, my friend. There's nothing weird Alejankovic has ever put out that can make it feel sexy. I bet he begs to differ. So I don't think we've seen, like, a song thing. We've only seen stand-up from him. So this looks like kind of like a sing-song-y type thing. If you want some recommendations for that type of comedy, go watch Fly to the Concords on HBO. They are geniuses. Anyway. Geniuses. Alright, ready? Three. Yes. Two. One. There are only two types of songs that do well now, which is positive songs and sensual. And that's how we get on the top ten, right? We'll go top ten. It's going to be positive. Like, we're going to live forever. No, you're going to definitely die. This is my new subset, which is negative. Which is, I love you so much, I want to kill myself. I can't feel my face when I'm with you. Wait, what? But it's not good to have two genres, right? You need to have more. Because what if you have an event and you need a singer, right? What if you have a bakery opening? And the positive fellow is not free.  Hey, Nathaniel, thank you for coming today. Today's our bakery opening and it's been ten years and we've renovated it. So you just want some music music, some guy playing guitar. And you introduce the cake to the customers. It's Sunday afternoon, people are walking in. Music will be lovely here. Sure, man. You just sing them a cake. Okay, a number one product. Lump cake. Lump cake. That's not the intention. One family walked in with a grandmother now. She's looking at you and smiling. It's making all of us very uncomfortable. Can you not do that? Can you just sing a cake? On a pic. Sure, man. Sing about... Sing about parceling cake. If you don't like what I'm singing, why do you keep asking me to sing? Because it's important for the joke. Lump cake, nothing more. I was not expecting it. I knew it was like... That's funny. That's some of my favorite style of comedy. Comedy that goes with like music and song. Bo Burnham does that geniusly. Fly to the Concords. Fly to the Concords. Is I think the best at doing it. Their musical genius is not enough for one. And then they're just comic geniuses. I've seen them twice now in concert. They're fantastic. Anyways. Oh, man. That was funny. That was funny. Very, very funny. That was very funny. Give us more of that, man. Give us more Kenny Sebastian. I mean, he's funny in general, but more stuff like that where he's using his guitar and playing. Some of his stuff has gotten blocked before. And so I've reached out. I haven't been able to get a hold of Kenny Sebastian. So if anybody knows him or something like that, I would like to get his permission to react to his stuff. Because we like his stuff because he has like this whole thing called Chi Time as well, which is a really popular series he does. That we haven't been able to react to yet because some of it, I don't know if this will get blocked. We'll see if this gets blocked. Who knows? But yeah, some of his stuff just gets blocked. I don't know why. That was really good. Everything we've seen of Kenny Sebastian has been quite funny. His is obviously very different than Vier Das in terms of style. Vier Das is very intellectual, kind of like John Oliver. He's going to spit some facts at you and put in some funny stuff here and there and make you laugh that way. He's like an innocent kind of funny. He's like taking you into a situation with him. He looks innocent. He looks really young. He has a young looking face. I don't know how old the man is. I'm sure he's probably in his 30s, I would suppose. But yeah, everything I've seen of him has been really, really funny. If you have more from him and also if you know him, please let him know that we would love to get in contact with him. One, just be best friends with him and hang out. Maybe look some cake together. Oh, in Rithik's underwear. The cake would be made in Rithik's underwear. Nice. I would eat it out with my tongue. Thanks for clarifying that that's what you would use because I don't know what other parts of your body you would use to eat anything with, but that's okay. Don't go there.


What's up everybody, Jason here with Jasper's Case Breaks.com, 2020 Panini Immaculate Soccer, 1 box break, random number block number 7 sold out, guys. Again, every spot gets a random number for the break from 0 through 9. Remember, please know that all of these bots will be coming from the same case as the random number block breaks, of course. And again, if you get randomized block 3, you will get all cards with 3 bringing the first number next to the dash on the left side of the dash. So for example, we pull a hit, 13 out of 99, that'll be going to block 3. 3 out of 25, 43 out of 49, 93 out of 99, and so on. Number 3 block would get that. All redemption cards go to spot 0, even if we know it's a 1 on 1, it'll still go to spot 0. And of course, if there is any unnumbered cards, it'll be randomized to the group of customers in this break. So here you go, here's the dice roll, here's the customer names from Michael, down to Will, and we got 0 through 9. Let's roll the dice and we got ourselves a 6 out of 1, 7 times, good luck. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. 7 times, 6, 1, 7, Robert at the top, down to Colin. Alright, 6, 1, 7, here, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. 7 times, 4 down to 2, 7. So Robert with 4, Brandon with 8, Michael with 6, Robert Runko with 3 and 7, Brian Heyman with 5, Will with 0, Indian Arboretum, any 1 on 1s will be yours as well, and 9, and Colin with 2. So I don't know if people want to trade numbers, I hardly ever see that happen, but I'll give you guys a quick 30 seconds to a minute if anybody wants to. I'll go through some orders really quick. I think we're going to fill another revolution, guys, it should be selling fast. Selling really fast. People love those 2 box revolutions, 3 random teams. Love it.  Alright, let's close the guys. Power play, power play. Michael with soccer. Alright, first one we got is Sandro. Tonali. Number 65 out of 99. Not sure, Brandon. Well, if you wanted to buy out the whole break, which would be whatever it is, 189 times 10, but I don't know if we have any available on the personal side. Check it out, manjaskis.com. Alright, so 65 will be going to Brian Heyman. And then we got a rookie here, that is James Madison, 20 out of 50. I'm not big on soccer too much, don't really watch it much, but I do know that there's a lot of value in this soccer. Only know some of the bigger names of course. There you go, so zero, that's going to will. And we have a little relic here, is Felipe Pardo.  Three is going to Robert Rumpel. How about a little one of one, Wesley Snyder. One of one. A little patch right here. Going to will, spot one. That's heralded materials. Another beautiful patch, look at this. Remarkable patches here from Crystal Palace, Christian Benteke. Two out of 10. Look at that. Two, going to Colin. Wow, we were getting some amazing patches in this one, guys. Look at that. Carlos Baca. Premium patch autograph, six out of seven. It would have been beautiful if it was on-card, but kind of hard to get all these guys' signatures on-card since they're all around the world. Look at this. Spot six, going to Michael P. That is an awesome patch. And last but not least, we got an autograph here of Roberto Baggio. Two out of 25 from Juvenentes. And that's 20 league goals for the first time. This was back in the day, 92, 93. Spot two again, Colin. There you go. And just like that, guys, just a quick little one-box break of a maggot soccer. This was a very, very solid box, guys. Beautiful patch, another beautiful patch. A one-of-one. Very, very nice, guys. So there you go. I did post up another one. If you guys want to run it back, quick break, number eight in the storage, askyscasebreaks.com.


Hey everyone, this is Grant your friendly neighborhood OpenShift team member in today's video I wanted to show you the new OpenShift plug-in that we've been working on for IntelliJ So I have a brand new IntelliJ 2018.3.5 installed so I'm going to go ahead and start that up and we'll look at how to install and use the plug-in and As you can see, I don't have any current projects right now So I'm going to check out from version control and I'm going to use git and let me pop over to my Get Hub account and I'll pull down the project real quick I'll go to github.com slash gshipply and I'm going to go over to the OpenShift evangelist Organization to get a project that I've been working on I'm going to be using the Wild West back-end project today So I'm going to clone that one Go back to IntelliJ, paste that URL And I want to open this project allow access and We'll close the tip there and we can see that I have my Wild West back-end checked out So now that I have a project locally. I want to actually Download and install the OpenShift plug-in. So I'm going to click on file and then settings And then I'm going to go to the plug-ins and what I want to do is actually search the Marketplace for the OpenShift plug-in. We can see OpenShift connector by Red Hat So I'm going to go ahead and install that and accept the warning there and You can see this is hot off the press here. This was released March 8th So I'll go ahead and let that install and I'll restart the IDE and We'll start coding here and take a look at the plug-in Now that the plug-in has been installed we'll go over to IntelliJ and we'll notice a new OpenShift tab in the top left hand corner So here's my project source code We can drill down and look at the Various methods here and classes. I'll open up the API controller and Let me make the font a little bit bigger here. Okay, so let's go over to the OpenShift plug-in tab and We can see that it's going to pull in All of the clusters that I've been working on and so by default it pulled in the console.techdote.io Which is the local cluster that I use it in most of my videos So what we want to do is actually deploy this back-end code out So let me go ahead and click on new project and we'll just call this grant back in And that's going to create a new project on the OpenShift cluster and we can see that it's listed there So now we want to create a new application and we'll just call the application back-end hit okay And that's going to configure the application now. We need to create a component So if I right-click on back-end I can select on new component and it's going to pop open a Dialogue for me. So I'm going to call this back-end again the source type I can do local or get so I'm going to use local for source if I click on browse It's going to allow me to select my project and then I need to select the component type We want to use Java and we'll use Java 8. I'll click on okay And we can see in the bottom that it opened up a new Odo Window and it's giving me the status of my project and My application so it's going to go ahead and copy those over if we go over to our OpenShift instance Let me log in to OpenShift on TechDope And we should see a grant back-end project that IntelliJ created and we can see that the back-end has been deployed So let's go back to IntelliJ And we can see this currently building the component so we could do a lot of things at this point We could right-click on our or expand our back-end and look at our actual component We can create a URL for it. We can add storage. We can describe it Show the logs follow the logs. We can link components and services together We can open the component up in a browser. We can push we can watch and we can delete Okay, the component has been pushed So let's go ahead and create a URL for this and it's going to ask me which service port I want to expose now. This is a spring boot application. So I know that it's using port 8080 I'll click okay on that and now we have a URL Okay, so let's go ahead and push our source code out The way we do that is we right-click on the back-end component and click on push and this is going to take these source code files From my local IDE Push those up to OpenShift and go through the source to image process to build and deploy that application We can see that happening down in the window below Okay, our application is set up and running So now we can right-click on it and open in browser and this will open up in the default browser on your system Which is Chrome now we get a white label error page here. Why is that? Well, this is because this is a back-end Controller, it's a rest API. So I've defined one rest API here called slash egg Which just says every game needs an Easter egg So if we go back over to our URL and put in slash egg We can see that from the IntelliJ IDE I was able to quickly deploy this application to OpenShift So let's go back and make a change and actually walk through the process on how to do that So I'm going to just change this egg endpoint URL to say the change from inside of My IDE We'll save that and then I'm going to build my project just to make sure that I don't have any compilation errors or anything Okay, that looks good now. We just want to push this new version out so we can just run push again Which by just clicking on the component name and running push it's going to go through that same process and build that component out for us again and We can see that the spring boot application has been started back up and everything should be good So let's go back to our web browser Refresh the page and we can see a change from inside of my IDE. So that's pretty awesome everything from right inside my IDE I didn't have to install any command line tools just using the IntelliJ plug-in the other thing we can do on the backing component is actually watch for changes and so then I can just start coding and Maybe add some exclamation points here save that build my project and the plug-in is going to look for any changes On my local system and when it notices changes or a new build It's going to push that up to the OpenShift cluster All right That's just a quick look at the new OpenShift connector plug-in that we've written for IntelliJ. Hope everyone enjoyed the video


Hi guys and welcome back to my video. Today I want to talk about my top three tips for going into nursing school. Hands down the most asked question I get in general is I'm going to nursing school. What advice do you have for me? What tips do you have? What do you recommend? And so these are gonna be my top three tips for everyone. So everyone that asks me this question in the future I'm just gonna refer them to this video. Anyways let's get started. So my number one tip for nursing school is to be organized. And I know that sounds super silly and like obvious to a lot of people but you'd be surprised how unorganized so many people are going into nursing school. So when you get your nursing schedule write it out on a planner or a calendar for the entire semester so you know what days you have class, what days you have clinical, what times they are from. And then when you start your classes and you get your syllabus of what dates your tests are going to be on, when assignments are due, write every single one of those due dates and test dates in your calendar, in your planner.  I honestly don't know how I would survive life without a planner. Actually a little funny story, one of my co-workers that I work with so she also has a planner that she writes you know her work days and her life schedule in and she wrote on the inside cover of it, please call and she wrote her phone number if found because she was like I can I can never lose this thing and if I do lose it I hope someone finds it and calls me and I will go pick it up from them because she is that dependent upon her calendar but I think that's a totally normal and fine thing because that's how she stays organized and that's what works for her and I know it works for a lot of people but just find a method be organized and stick with it. My next nursing school tip is to have a routine and I know again you guys are gonna be like that's so obvious but hear me out. So many people try to make these big drastic changes to their routine while they're going through nursing school which is already a stressful enough event in and of itself. My mom used to say to me one big life change at a time basically meaning like don't try and change all these things in your life all at once do one at a time and then move on and do the next thing because else you're just gonna get overwhelmed. So nursing school is a big change it's already overwhelming in and of itself and so have a good routine and a healthy life balance. Now I'm not saying that if you're like a total lazy bum and you're just eating fast food all the time and not exercising not drinking water not sleeping that you shouldn't make some changes in your life because that's your routine probably should make some healthy alternative choices but have healthy life balance so yes school's gonna take up a lot of your life and maybe works taking up a lot of your life make sure you have a routine of other things that you do to balance your life whether it's take a nap maybe cook dinner maybe hang out with friends go to a movie make sure you're taking that time for yourself in your routine. People used to think I was crazy in nursing school because I would get up before nursing school and like workout go on a run and then I'd come to class in a class would start at 7 a.m. and it was like a 45 minute drive so I was up really early but that was my routine that's what I was used to and that's how I function better was to get up work out and go on my merry way and I felt more set and ready for the day and not everyone's like that and that's totally fine but whatever you do stick with your routine. My third and final tip for nursing school is to have a solid study foundation routine schedule whatever you do and stick with it find resources that work for you and stick with it. My favorite resource for nurses and nursing students is the NRS and G Academy which I will have linked down below and I love it because it's a comprehensive resource for nursing school so you can use it for your pharmacology course you can use it for your labor delivery course you can use it for your fundamentals of nursing course and you can use it even after nursing school as well as a resource. So that has to be my number one resource but find resources and study methods that work for you and stick with it and if it's not working for you don't be afraid to make adjustments. If you're the type of person that reads the textbook goes to class takes notes comes home and rereads your notes rewrites your notes and then maybe makes flashcards from them and you're doing well on the tests in nursing school then stick with that if that's not working for you then change it up but if you are not a flashcard person then don't force yourself to make flashcards if that's not gonna work for you. Anyways those are my three nursing school tips for you guys I hope you enjoy. If you did give this video a thumbs up if you have any other tips which I know there's a lot of other tips leave them in the comments below and I'll see you guys next time.


Welcome to this episode of the Sunday English Show. I'm here with a very, very special guest. He is one of the best English teachers in the world, a good friend of mine. He has taught me so much. Here is Teacher Mike. Hello, Teacher Mike. Hello. Hey, Robin. Hey, everybody out in YouTube land is so good to see you. And thanks for inviting me to this live stream tonight. We are both in Korea right now. So we do not live in the same city. I live closer to Seoul. Where are you right now, Mike? I live in Incheon. So just a little bit further out from Seoul. All right. Okay. Yeah. It's west of Seoul. I guess the other day. If you have any questions for Mike, please get them into the chat as soon as you can. I imagine there's going to be a lot of questions. Let's take a look at who's in the chat right now. We have Pilavi who says hello, Teacher Mike. Let's put it on the screen here. You're my favorite teacher. Pilavi says you're my favorite teacher. I love all your lessons. I love you teaching. How long have you been teaching English, Mike? Oh, wow. So I will say I have been teaching now for since about 2010. It's about 12 years. 12 years now. And what age groups have you taught the most? The groups I've taught the most were upper elementary middle school. So around 12 to about 14 years old. And then I've also worked with high schoolers. Okay. We have Layla. Hello, Layla. Suresh Kumar. I learned English speaking. Yes. Nice. And Yasmine is here. We have Riksmi, Ali Abdi, Lisa. I'm going to probably miss a few names. Sorry about that. Sleepwalker, Stacy John. Nice to see you again. And Layla comes in. Mike, you have a great sense of humor. Is that true? Are you a funny guy? I think I'm a funny guy. I used to always get in trouble in school because I would always tell jokes when I was a kid. And so ever since being a kid, I've always tried to be funny because a good sense of humor takes you a long way. It really helps out in life. Yes. I think Mike has a great sense of humor. We have Lolli Lolli. Hello from France. Hello, Lolli Lolli. Lolli Lolli is a loyal viewer. She goes to almost every live stream and I'm sure she will watch your live stream. Nice. I used to learn French for about two years in high school. I wish I would have gotten better though. I'm Canadian. So French is second language in Kitwer. Sorry, French is an official language, not second language. So I learned French in middle school and university. But after coming to Korea... Oh, yeah. I understand that. Did you live in Japan? I did. I did live in Japan. I lived in Japan for about one year as a college student. I was studying Japanese every day for three to four hours a day. How's your Japanese? My Japanese... I can still speak Japanese. I even still have my textbooks with me. My Japanese is not as good as my Korean now, because once I came to Korea, but when I go back to Japan and use it, then my Japanese comes back. Hello, Dewey. All right. If you have any questions for Mike, get them in. Anna Marie is here. Hello, Anna Marie. And some people we have Juwon Incheon. Yes. Necky is here. Harry, 300. Welcome. English with folk ulcer. Hi, Mark. Mike, what is the difference between simple past tets and past perfect tets using a conversation? Don't answer that, Mike. Right now we are not going to answer tense questions like this. Sorry, English with folk ulcer. That's a little heavy for Mike's first live stream. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. Another time. Yeah, maybe next week. All right. We have lots of people. I do want to mention at this point that Mike has his own new English channel called Mike's English Lab. Can you tell us about that? Yes. So I recently, within the last couple of months, started an English channel just because I enjoy teaching. And I really wanted to teach English. As you know, I always, well, not always, but as you know, I speak different languages. So I love language and I love working with other people who love language as well. And so English is something I'm kind of good at. And I say that with sarcasm. I speak English fairly well. So I said, let me help other people with their English also. And so, yes. Are you pointing at your muscle here? Yes, I am pointing at my muscle. Why? Why are you doing that? You have big muscles. Because I'm kind of a dork for taking that post. But I also like the exercise. All right. So yeah, I see you have a lot of shorts there. How would you describe these shorts? So I would describe these shorts. A lot of them are used to kind of, I like to encourage people to shorts and studying English. So I have some encouraging, some encouraging English videos. So for example, this is why you should learn English. That was more of a video to encourage you to learn English. And for those who are, it's just saying, keep going. And then some of the other ones, some of my earlier ones, it's just information, letting you know, different ways that Americans say certain words in English. And then you see my longer videos. So far I'm doing, in my longer video. Are you American? Because you wear that American shirt there. Yes, I am American. I bought that shirt recently. And so every time I wear it, it makes me laugh. Because I normally don't wear American shirts or American pants. But I thought for the video, just to show that I speak English and teach English. I said, hey, let's wear an American shirt. Which part of America are you from? I am from the Southeast. And I talked to a lot of people even over here in Korea. And they're like, where exactly is that? So I live in North Carolina, which is in the Southeast. So if you have the US map here, then I live all the way down here. So only a few states north of Florida at the very bottom. So it's very hot and humid over there. You also have another channel called Michael. Yes. What's that channel about? So Michael is, was my main channel, which I've been growing for about five years. But I talk about what is like being a foreign guy living in Korea. And so I've done a lot of videos on Korean, some stuff on Korean history, Korean culture. Also, I think one of my most popular videos was I tried on skin whitening cream, which just, I just wanted to try it on just see what it was like. That sounds very interesting. Yeah. So it was a fun channel, but right now I'm focusing a little bit more on my English channel for all of you. And you also do Twitch. And I also do Twitch. So yeah, I love playing, I love playing games. And so I have my PlayStation five over here. And I play a lot of, of these days I'm playing a lot of Star Wars. And I do a lot of like, like resident evil types, things that people are afraid to play. But so I play it for them. Okay. You have, you seem to have a lot of energy to do all this stuff. I have a lot of energy, a lot of energy. All right. I'd like to tell the audience that we're also in WhatsApp. Please join our WhatsApp group. I'm going to put, you can find the link below the video, but I'm also going to put the link in the chat here. Please join the group. You can talk to me, Mike, and other teachers at any time. It's a good group. Please join it. We are there. You can talk to us today. All right. I got to go back to the chat here because there's questions coming in and I'd like to get to the different questions. Give me a moment. Not a problem. Not a problem. And again, thank you for the invite. And thanks everybody else for showing up to the live stream. You know, taking time out of your day to come and just chat with us. Thank you. All right. There was where are you from? We got that America. Lots of people want to speak English. Yeah. We're here to help you with your English. It's your nationality. Good morning from Honduras. Have you traveled a lot? I've traveled a lot since living in Korea. And I would say since I moved to Korea, I've been back to Japan through China, Australia, Taiwan. I love Taiwan. Where else? Where else? Where else? Malaysia. No, Myanmar. I haven't gone to Malaysia yet, but I want to. Actually, no, I'm wrong. I haven't been to Myanmar. I've been to Malaysia because basketball tournament. And I didn't play, but I coached. And so, yeah, love it. And then when I was a kid, I used to live in Panama because my dad was in the military. Oh, really? How long were you in Panama? For three years. So did you visit Honduras? I go to the Panama Costa Rica, Honduras. I wish I did. I didn't. My dad went for like a military training. But like he left me in Panama. I really wanted to go, but you just let him stay home. Well, Arturo, I've been to Honduras. I've been to a lovely place. Layla's coming in. Mike, could you please let us know about the main reason you that made you leave the United States of America? Sure. Sure. Sure. Good question. The main reason why I left the U.S. is because I really love living overseas. I love meeting people from different countries. And I like speaking different languages. And when I live in the U.S., I found it kind of hard to be able to do that. And I think because I lived in Japan for one year, I, I guess I got what we call the travel bug and living overseas and trying a different life. I really wanted to go back to that life. And so when I talked about Japan or I talked about Asia to many Americans, they couldn't understand. Or I could speak more than one language then and many Americans couldn't understand. So I said, I think I should go back to Asia. And so I came back over here and, and I love it. And I'm pretty sure you understand that too. Robin just is different when you live overseas. It's hard to talk to being back home who don't understand you. It's great living overseas. Yes. So happy to see you, Mike from Anna Maria. Excuse me. Sorry to see you too. Roger online Academy. How can I improve my speaking in English, Mike? I'll tell you. So this is something because I'm studying Korean. I have tons of Korean textbooks behind me. So one way that I'm working on my speaking for Korean, and I think it will help you as well with your English is I like to look at some shows on Netflix that I like. But on Google, the like Google extensions, there's something called, oh man, what's it called? Learn English with Netflix. And you can, it's a free download. You can just add it to your Google Chrome extension. And what it do is if you look at Netflix on your computer, it has two sets of subtitles. So it could be your home, your mother tongue. And then it could be the language you want to learn. So I will look at a Korean drama and then I'll have the English. And then I'll have Korean. So that way if I look at it, I can see what they're saying in Korean and see what it is in English. And this is helped out a lot. That's it. That's it. Learn. I've never heard of this until you mentioned it. Learn English with Netflix. So this helps you a lot. It helps me a lot. And what I will do, my personal way of learning is whatever I want to see. I'll watch it first. So if you want to see a movie, let's say you want to see a Marvel movie, but you want to learn what some of the phrases are, watch the movie first in your language so that way you can enjoy it. You can enjoy the story and then watch it a second time. So that way you can learn the actual phrases and the language. So if you want to be an English teacher, please tell me something about that. I think Mike and I both have a lot of education in, in education. So RF, I would suggest you get a lot of education about teaching, especially you can get a university education, but if at least you can get a certificate like a T-cell certificate or a CELTA certificate, anything to add? Anything to add, Mike? No, I think, I think you've said it. Everything needs to be said. I think just that the education is a big part because if you want to, I guess, get into education, it's important to also get receive education. All right. Another WhatsApp group. Yeah, we have the WhatsApp group. I'll post it again. Please join. Talk to you later. English with, please explain that he's still asking the grant. We are not going to teach grammar today. So I'm sorry. All right. We have a lot of people from around the world. Awesome. Dewey. Hello, Robin and Mike. This is the first time I see you in live stream. Mike, Mike's going to be at a lot of live streams. So get used to him. He will be back here next week teaching. I will. Mike, do you have some background noise in your room there? What did it sound like? Some radio or. I don't, but I'm curious if it's a little bit of feedback from the audio going back into the microphone. Okay. I think it is. Can you turn off the. Do you have any headphones? I do. Excuse me for one second. Let me grab them. All right. Take care of the chat. Hello. I want to be fluent in English. That's good. What were the hardest part of learning other language? Oh, that's going to be for Mike. Emily from South Korea. Hello, Emily. Don't we get many Korean fans? Are you both teaching in university? Yes. I teach at a university. Mike teaches at a international school. Safari. Thanks. We got the people from India, Ethiopia. And Mike teaches at an international school. I am back. I am back. Hello. Can you hear me? Can you hear me? It's funny. I cannot hear you. All right. It's not that. It's not that loud, Mike. So. You don't have to worry about it. We can continue. No worries. I just turned down my volume on my computer. So it won't go back into Mike. Okay. Mike, what were the hardest? What was the hardest part of learning another language for you? I think the hardest part about learning other languages. I would say is definitely the speaking, but more specifically is gaining the confidence to speak. I think that is, you know, with speaking, we know that you're kind of mixing different grammar with different words all the time, but to get to the point to where you can do that, you have to build the confidence to speak with native speakers. And I think that is really, really, really, that's really hard. I think you can do it. You just have to take a risk. You have to have courage. And you have to want to make mistakes. Because the more mistakes you make, the more, I'm not going to say perfect, not perfect, but the more closer you'll get to your goal, the more mistakes you make, the closer you get. All right. Now we have a serious question. Nice. What are those stickers on your laptop? Mike seems like you like anime so much. Great. So the stickers for those who like Street Fighter, these are a lot of Street Fighter stickers. So there's backwards for me. So let me see. So of course there's Ryu. Everybody knows Ryu. That guy, Evil Ryu. There's Ken way over here. And then there's Violent Ken, who's from another series of the same character. And of course I have the Korean flag. It's because I'm in Korea. So these stickers are, these stickers are my exclusives from my channel. Had a maid, but never sent them to anybody. So I actually have stickers from my Korean channel. And then I have all my figures back here.  I am. You have to be sometimes. So many questions are, are you teaching at a university to Mike? Are you teaching at an international school? That's correct. That is correct. That is correct. And what is your favorite anime? Why do you like it? Oh man. That's a really good question. I know Mike loves anime. So I might keep it a short answer. I know you want to talk an hour, an hour about that. We'll keep it short. My favorite anime is probably Cowboy Bebop. Because it has a really good story. It's only 24 episodes.  Good characters, a great plot. And you see characters, the characters change throughout the story and become better. So. Now that's funny because I don't know anything about Japanese anime, but I did watch Cowboy Bebop, the animation. Then recently I watched the live action version on Netflix. Do you see the live action version? I saw the first episode and wanted to finish it. Just because I love Bebop. I heard very negative things about it. But I did like the way it looked. Visually, it looked really good. I like the live action version more than the anime. Really? Which puts me in the very small minority probably. But I do like the actors. The actors on the show, I really like the actors. So I understand. Omar, hello. I have an English discussion next week about American literature. Can you advise me please? My name is Omar from Iraq, Baghdad. He has a discussion. What kind of discussion? In a class discussion or club discussion about American literature? Well, read. Do you read a lot, Mike? I should read more. I don't read enough. But I did buy some books in America. And I'm hoping to sit down and read them a lot more. Are you homesick sometimes from Lolli Lolli? I used to be Lolli Lolli because I haven't been home because of COVID in about two and a half years. But I just came back from America and seeing my family. So I am no longer homesick. I feel great. All right. I'm going through the questions. I'm very sorry, everyone. I'm not going to answer every question. I'm going to choose the questions I think are interesting. Although there are some good questions, I also have to consider how long it will take to answer that question. Harry 300 again. How to live overseas actually. Can you share some tips about it? Sure. That's a really good question. I think one of the most important things about being overseas is be ready to try different foods.  Eat different foods. But when you live overseas, sometimes you don't have access to your own cultural foods. And so you have to learn to adjust or you'll eat out with a group of people. You have to learn to eat a certain thing. So in Korea, if we go and eat, everybody likes Korean barbecue just because it's just grilled meat. But if you go and eat other things, then it's good to learn to adjust and try new foods out. And then also just learn the language because language opens up the world. When you learn a language, you can communicate with different people and more opportunities happen. Harry, 300. I'm going to give you the real tips.  Get out of the airplane. Go to another country.  You're not homesick. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Mike, do you connect a lot with your family in the US? I talk to my mom every other day or maybe every couple of days, every couple of days. Oh, good. Good for you. Please, sir. Tell me how I could learn Korean. Probably the same way you learn English. Actually, almost the same exact way. Just practice, practice, watch TV, write stuff down and practice more. Short answer. Okay. Hello, teacher Mike, teacher Robin. Have a nice day. Thank you very much. Thank you. Hello. We have. Hello, Robin and hi, Mike from Salome. Salime. Salime. Hey, Almei. Hey, I know that all English skills are important when it comes to learning English. What is most important skill we need to focus on more? Hmm. I will say there's the four main skills, reading, writing, listening, speaking. I would say balance, always balance between the four skills. A lot of people, they usually ignore writing, but writing helps, you know, all the four skills help each other. So by writing, you're improving your, your knowledge of English, you're improving your vocabulary, which will help your speaking. So how do I would say none of them are more important. You consider them all important and balance them. I completely, completely agree. This is an English teaching live new here. Welcome. I cannot read your name. It looks like it says, I know the first two characters is heaven. Oh, it's like sky sky, but I can't read the last one. There's just from learning Japanese and kanji sky sky. All right. I'm going to try to catch up on the comments. I have a lot of good questions here that I'm skipping. I think you very much for your kind answer, Mike earlier. Anytime happily happily Mike such a nice guy. I'm not right. This is one reason I'm not famous. I try to be nice. I try. It's hard. What's your favorite game? Oh, favorite game is probably resident evil. Just cause I like being, I don't like being scared, but I like playing games like that. That kind of horror games. But at the same time I'm too afraid to play them. That's why I streamed them cause other people like to watch. Now I didn't play the game, but I just watched the new Netflix series resident evil. Did you see that? You like it? Yeah. I didn't. I didn't even touch it. Yeah. What are we learning in this live stream? You play too many games and watch too much anime and I watched too much Netflix. There's some here from Salome. Mike, how do you start your day? Do you have any routine? Lately. This is kind of a newer routine for me is I typically start my day. Let's say when I finally wake up and actually wake up, then I have like a little planner. So I look in my planner and see what's happening for the day. Just because I'm. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I'll put it up. Show us a page. So I got to go all the way to the very beginning. It's because it's like, for example, like that. Okay.  You keep organized. So it's, it's, it's, when I get it all done, I don't know if I do everything, but I try to write stuff down because for me, my attention span, I, it's hard for me to pay attention to a lot of things. And so when I write it down and then I go back and check, then I can make sure it happened. So it's, it's a skill that I'm trying to grow in. What was the most stuff that you shocked about most? Layla, I told you never use the word stuff. You got to be specific because we don't know what you mean by stuff. That could be food or that could be sports. That could be people. How would you interpret the most stuff? Well, here, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll fill in a word. So something that shocked me the most when, when it comes to food in Korea. I did a YouTube video a while back for a long time ago for my channel where we ate something called Bundegi. And Ra, you know Bundegi. No, what's that? It's a Bundegi is a silkworm. And so we, on my channel, we were eating silkworms. And it's canned silkworms. It's not even cooked. It's canned. So I bit into it and it, like when you bite into it, it kind of pops.  And then it tastes like, yeah, I'll stop there. It wasn't, it wasn't. I never had that. I never will. All right. I put the WhatsApp link again. Come into the WhatsApp. Join us. Talk to us at any time. Anytime. But follow the rules, please. She's asking about Korea when you move to Korea. Okay. Yes. So the food is the first thing. Getting knocked around on the bus in the subway. That was a little shocking. Just cause in America, typically we like to have our space between people. Or if you bump somebody, then well, where I'm from, if you bump somebody, then people say like, sorry or excuse me. I'm not from New York in New York. They bump each other all the time in the streets. But in Korea, in the subways and the buses, like I've been hit on the arms in the back and people, they keep, they keep going. And that surprised me a lot. One punch. One punch man, one piece Naruto. How do you pronounce that? I've heard of these. I've heard of everything here, but I've never seen this content. What have you seen? I've seen, let's see. I've seen all of one punch, man. Watch most of Naruto. I haven't seen one piece because one piece is like 14, 15 years old. And they still come out with new episodes and everything. So it's just too much to catch up on. It's too much to read. And not, and bleach. I've seen a little bit of bleach. I've seen a little bit. Hi guys. Can you write? How can I write perfect English is very hard for in writing. Perfect English. I can't write perfect English sometimes. Yeah. Nobody can write in perfect English. So if you're doing, why, what are you writing for? Whatever you're writing, if it's email or academic writing, you have to write it, but you also have to edit it. You have to, there's programs to help with editing, like Google docs or MS word. They will tell you your mistakes.  So writing and of course you're balancing it with the other skills. So reading will certainly help your writing. The more you read, you can see sentence structure and you can practice those sentence structures and improve your writing. So tech less send bet. Please start writing every day. Do what you can. How long does it take you to master English? What do you think? Me 35 years.  You know, some people are one hour a week. Some people are one hour a day. Some people are five hours a day or more. Also, are you in an English speaking country right now? Or are you not in an English speaking country? There's so many factors that determine how long it'll take.  If you're over 40, it's going to be a struggle. So I think with two years of consistent study, you would be in a good place, not master it, but you would be in a good place. Hi, Mike, what kind of vehicles you mostly used to travel? Well, do you have a car? Have a car. It's a BMW, right? I wish it was. It's a Kia. I drive a Kia. One day BMW. Are you materialistic like that? No, you're not. No, not really. My favorite car is a Mustang. So I kind of want a Mustang because I just like the car, but I don't need to drive like, I don't have to drive a really nice car. Do they still produce Mustangs? They do. I thought they stopped making those. What are your plans for the future? Future plans, stay in Korea? As of now, stay in Korea. I thought about going to Japan, but for a while, I think Korea is perfect for me. No plans to go anywhere else, right? I have to tell everyone, Korea is a great country to live. It is safe. The people for the most part are kind and going to help you if they can. I just love the transportation system. The weather is not too bad. What else could you say that's good about Korea? I find that Korea, I do enjoy the food. I like the food a lot. The location of Korea is great when it comes to traveling as well. Because of COVID, things are a little different now, but it's easy normally if I want to go to Southeast Asia. Incheon Airport has easy flights there. Japan, easy flights. It's a really nice country overall. It's really good. A lot of teachers come to Japan and Korea. The main reason is they pay well compared to other countries. That's probably the primary reason we come over. Once we're here, we fall in love with the place. Stay a long time. How long have you been in Korea? Eight years now. Eight years.  As I said, I'm not caught up to you. I've been here 23 years.  I don't know if I'll be here that long, but I know I still have some time left. I have a good amount of time left in me. 23. What's your favorite soda? Maybe they're talking to me because I've been drinking some Pepsi Zero. Pepsi Zero does not sponsor this. Do you drink any soda? Orange Fanta and Sprite. Here's a question. When you were a kid, what did you call soda? I don't think you said soda. What did you call it? We called it soda. Oh, because in the South we call it soda. In my region, we call it pop. Yeah, in mine we'll say soda, but then some people will call soda Coke. So like when you order a Coke, it's a Coke, but if you order a Sprite, they call it a Coke. That's like Korea, where they just say cola. Cola. Where they don't really care if it's Coke or Pepsi. That battle didn't come here. No, it did. But I used to call it pop, but when I left Canada, I never called it pop again. There's regional differences even in North America. Yeah. What do you call, I'm just curious, Robin, when you go shopping, the thing on the wheels that you push and you put stuff inside, what do you call it? Shopping cart. You call it shopping cart. Where I'm from, we call it a buggy. A buggy. A buggy. I never heard of that and I would never use that, but of course that is just as valid as a shopping cart. That's the American Southeast for you. Do you have any plans to travel to the Middle East countries to Saudi Arabia says Layla, who is from Saudi Arabia? Wow. I've never thought about it actually to be honest with you Layla. I'm not against it. I'm not against it. I just never thought about it, but I can imagine it has to be really nice and pretty in Saudi Arabia. I'm sure I think it's a lot of sand. They were in the news this week because they want to build that new superstructure call. I think it's called the line. Have you heard about that? I haven't heard about it. The big city. Okay. Only I've heard about it. Trolley. Trolley. Did you ever use trolley? No, but I know people who say trolley. Do you consider yourself? Do you speak Korean fluently? No, I would say no. I don't practice Korean enough. I'm sure all of you practice English enough. For me, I practice Korean. I want to start practicing Korean every day. So at least an hour every day. Starting off and that could be reading, writing. Definitely listening. I think listening is probably my biggest weakness. Just from listening to full speed speakers. Like when speakers speak native. Lee. Then I get lost. But I would say right now I'm not fluent. But I speak well enough. All right. Adam Maria, of course, is always thinking in a negative way. What don't, what don't you like about Korea? She's trying to, if there's any Koreans in the chat. She's trying to get us in trouble. And she's trying to get us out of Korea. So we're not going to tell the truth. What's the safe answer, Mike? That's a safe answer. Something I don't, that I wish Korea had more or differently. I don't, I don't know. AC air conditioning, air conditioning within the, within the walls, like central AC. So like in America, we have vents. And are in the house. So air conditioning comes in from the ceiling or the camera, the ceiling or the floor. But in Korea, you know, like some other parts of Asia, also you have a big thing that blows air, like an AC, right? But my current room does not have an AC in it. And so I'm feeling very hot. I wish Korea was a little more English friendly. Now, Koreans spend a lot of time and money to learn English, but the country itself is you still need to speak a lot of Korean. I wish it was English friendly, more English friendly. They don't have to be. They don't have to be, you know, they never have to adjust to foreigners, but I wish they did. Sometimes it's difficult. Even when you're speaking Korean for the person you're speaking to, to, I guess, be comfortable around you and really listen to what you're saying. Right, right, right. Japan is, that's a tough one. When I go to Japan, like in my Japanese, it's not as good anymore. And their English, almost none, almost not much English at all in Japan. And then you come to Korea and it's like, oh, wow, there's a lot of English here compared to Japan. But when you go to other countries that might have worse English or they don't study English formally, there's more attempts of the general population to try and engage in English conversation, not so much in Korea. But again, they don't have to do that. It's their country. It's up to us to learn their language. And that's, did you learn to sing? I sing in the car. Don't sing now, please. Okay. I don't want to get a copyright strike or anything. Why your guests laugh a lot. Mike's a funny guy. I like to live happily. Here you go. Which one do you both prefer, Korea or Japan? Choose now. Three, two, one. Oh, the pins on what? You're thinking. Choose now. Choose Korea twice. There you go. Cheaper. Korea is nice on the pocket. It's nice on the pocket. It's a lot cheaper than Japan. So that I, that I do like, that I do like. I've never lived in Japan, but I have traveled to Japan about 10 times. I've been all over the country. I love Japan. There's so many awesome things about Japan. Yeah. But it is expensive. It's very expensive. Even if you're working there as a teacher, you're not going to save as much as you can in Korea. So it's, I would choose Korea. Of course, we're both in Korea right now. We made that choice for whatever reason, but that doesn't mean Japan's bad. Japan is an awesome place to be. It is. If you have the money. There's a lot of money. That's a cool place. Oh, it's, it's interesting. You know, in Tokyo, it's just so interesting. You know, Korea is interesting too, but we live here and we're used to it. Yeah. Whenever I traveled to Tokyo. Wow. Hello. Thank you very much for this live. I'll be happy if you do more live broadcast like this. Mike will be here next week alone without me. I will. You'll be with me everybody. Teaching you English or talking about anime. I don't know what he's going to do, but that's up to him. Do you consider Korea is, do you consider Korea cheaper? No, he is and spelling on cheaper. Do you consider Korea cheaper than the US? When it comes to not fruit, America fruit and meat is cheaper in Korea. Transportation is cheaper. So it's just some things are cheaper. Some things are more expensive. Overall, I like Korea though. Anna Maria says not negative. It's just a way to know how good it is. Yes, Anna Maria. I'm just teasing you. Okay. Do you know, do you know? I don't know. Do you know? Okay. Because usually I don't get any Korean viewers. So I was wondering if you brought in somebody. Maybe we can get some more. It's hard. It's what about your Michael channel? Do you get a lot of Korean viewers on that? I do have some Korean viewers. A lot of them, because my channel is in English, a lot of them speak English or they're learning English. And they know my channel through just knowing me, but they come back and watch. Because the Shaw English channel, less than 1% would be Korean. That's interesting. I never marketed in Korea, but although the teachers are from here and they're always talking about Korea, I'm surprised they don't get more Koreans. Yeah. Mike, which app do you learn Korean from? I use more books and TV, but if I do use an app, I use Talk to Me in Korean. They have pretty good resources for learning Korean. And I know the guy who runs the channel as well. And so he's a really nice guy, a really cool guy. And so, yeah, Talk to Me in Korean. Why don't you introduce me to that nice cool guy? Yeah, I'll have you meet Hyunwoo.  What did you want to become when you were a child? An actor or stuntman, more of an actor. Now, there is an acting modeling community in Korea. Did you or still doing going out to auditions or trying to get into some Netflix Korea? No, but Netflix Korea, I thought I have considered Netflix Korea, but my acting is very underdeveloped. It's not as good. I have to really work on it. I'm hoping that on the YouTube channel, I could be doing more acting. And that kind of builds up my acting abilities by being on camera. But I do know that there is a smaller film group in Korea. Like I forgot Soul Film Club. And I know they do small stuff, but yeah, I would love to be on Netflix. I think you can do it, man. Where's your confidence? I will love to do it. I can do it. You can do it. Certainly I would love to. You just have that charisma that I think people enjoy watching you.  No, we haven't tapped into it yet. You haven't tapped in it the right, exact right way. But when you do, wow. Everyone will see what I see. Thank you, Robin. Teacher Mike, are you seeing my comments? Yes, we see every comment, but we cannot answer everything. Do you watch the Japanese anime without subtitles? I used to. I used to now. Not as much, but I can still listen. It's not much talking in the Japanese anime. Oh, they do a lot of, they do a lot of, they do a lot of talking. I would say I pick up percentage wise, maybe 40% now. Hey, Kavinu. Hey, Kavinu. What is up? Mike, I need to understand people from Tennessee. I thought I knew English, but their accent is complicated. Any advice? Tennessee. Oh my gosh. I mean, I'm from North Carolina, Georgia. So that's right next to Tennessee. I don't understand them sometimes. So if you don't understand them, don't feel bad. That's a, that is the Southern accent. It's hard. Everybody, they taught like this with, or their words going really long and. Words don't even, I said long, but it comes out long. I think a lot of students don't realize that, you know, in their view, there's American and British accent, but they don't realize that when you go to America, and we'll just tack on Canada to this, that there's so many regions. This is a big place with so many different regions and subcultures and different ways of living. And yeah, when you go, when you travel down to Tennessee, I would be like, what? Yeah. And I imagine if they traveled up to Northern Canada, they would be what? I was born in Louisiana. I never went back, but I do know of people who have the, I guess like the Creole kind of accent, because it's, you know, Louisiana, which is in the United States, in the very South, right next to Texas, it used to be owned by the French a long time ago. All right. I'm going to say New Orleans. How would you say it? I, because I know folks from Louisiana, they'll say New Orleans. All right. So yeah, New Orleans, New Orleans, I would say New Orleans, because I haven't been there. That's how I read it, New Orleans, but it's New Orleans, New Orleans. Even, even Louisiana, like I say Louisiana, but I know many people who just say Louisiana. I was at some teacher conference and they're asking where everyone's from and this teacher said, I'm from Illinois. I was like, Illinois, isn't it? Illinois, isn't it Illinois? But he said Illinois and I was, what? Is that, is that a thing? Illinois, like I'm talking about the state. Illinois. Never heard of that one. But he said Illinois and I was like, should I correct the person from his own country? So even in this individual state, there might be variations of how they, how they speak. Are you a coffee person? I'm not. I'm a tea person because if I have coffee, I mean, I have a lot of energy already. If I have coffee, then. But tea has caffeine too, doesn't it? It does. I think from my experience, we have a saying everyone is called bouncing off the walls. Means that you're just really high energy and kind of crazy. If I have coffee, I will bounce off the walls. Literally. Bounce off the walls. What does that mean again? I would say it's you're very high energy. It's a little crazy. Not crazy and like you're actually crazy, but just like maybe just with the amount of energy you have. It's very spontaneous. So an idiom, someone with a lot of energy, we're saying they're bouncing off the walls. Maybe they have so much energy. Mike, do you sometimes misunderstand Robin when you talk to him? I think teachers, teachers can talk to teachers wherever they are in the world. We have this, we know how to talk to people to be understood and we have to talk to our students. Yep. And certainly Mike's not using his regional accent that probably it's cleaned up a bit. Oh yeah, it's cleaned up. You know, when I was up until age 12, I say one, two, three. Really? Because my city had a lot of Eastern Canadians. And Eastern Canada, they speak really wacky. If they're watching, they're going to hate me. But anyway, they speak, to me, it sounds more like Irish. Uh-huh. So they say one, two, three. So a lot of my friends are from Eastern Canada. So I said one, two, three, like them. But I had a stepdad that can know that's unacceptable. And also the step, because my stepdad was from England. So he, if I said, if I said ain't, he would go crazy. He would not allow me to say ain't. What's your feeling about ain't? Um, I don't use it normally. But it wouldn't surprise me if I'm with my family and it comes out. So it's, it's one of those words that I feel like I would use it with a small group of people who maybe have a similar dialect than ain't without, but I would never use it for anything. If you had a student who started using it, would you say keep using it or stop using it? I would say be aware when and how you use it. It's kind of like the whole idea of code switching. I would say most of the time you won't use it. But if you ever do use it, just understand who you're using it with, but it isn't the best English to use. Does that make, if that makes sense? Because a lot of students listen to American music and ain't is all through American songs. I don't allow my students to use it. So I naturally they'll pick it up if they're in America. So I, but I want to, I want to be, I want to try to train them not to use it. But if they're in America, they use it. It's fine wherever they are. Right. So I try to focus them on more stricter speaking rules. Right. Right.  Who was I talking to? I thought, I thought it was you, but I would say like whenever you're learning a language, like fluent speakers like native speakers, we know the language. So that way we can bend it. We can bend the rules. We don't break it per se, but we can bend it. And I think it's the same whenever you're learning a new language, when you start to really understand it, then there's some, then you can go back and kind of bend the rules for the language. Yeah. I love, I love Layla's question of, I understand all the English accents. British and Australia. Yeah. She's practicing a lot. She's in the group. Layla. They're in the group talking with you. I see Layla all the time, her and Anna Maria always talking. Mike, have you visited? Oh, she came in late. Mike lived in Panama. She's Anna Maria is from Columbia. Not also Columbia. Columbia.  I don't, I don't remember because I was young because Panama's right north of Columbia. But there's no road. I don't think that there's no road connecting that. You got to really cool. Yeah. You can't drive from North from Central America to South America because there's that jungle area where the drug cartel doesn't allow any development. Oh, well in that case, no, I've never been from Panama. You would have to take a ferry to Columbia. Oh, well then no, I've never been. Are you, are you guys using idioms a lot whenever you have a convo conversation? Yeah. Yeah. Certainly if you're not now, but certainly if two native speakers are speaking, there's going to be a lot more slang idioms and cultural references. They would be hard for you to understand everything. Yes, I use a lot of idioms whenever I talk to people. Some idioms are regional idioms, idioms that you would normally hear back from where I'm from and then sometime they're idioms that most English speakers use. Yes. Hi, Robin. Hi, Mike. The lesson about passive voice was amazing. Thanks. Thank you. What was your feeling when Robin asked you to do an interview with you? I was like, oh, yes, I am there. As soon as Robin asked me if I want to do an interview, immediately I was like, yes, absolutely.  We're going to wrap this up in a minute or two. So get any final comments into everyone. Reminder, Mike has his YouTube channel. Links are below this video. Mike's English lab. He's starting his own stuff there and he's a funny guy. So please go subscribe and watch his videos. Also, we have our WhatsApp group. Links are below this video. Join the WhatsApp group and you can talk to Mike, me and other teachers anytime. Of course, WhatsApp group has a lot of rules, so please keep the rules or you will be kicked out. Mike, do you have any final comments? I really just enjoyed being here with you all. It was great. I'm in the WhatsApp group. So if you're not in it, you have to join them. But I'm in there and kind of chatting with everyone there. And it's just overall such a great community. And I love that. Oh, and Steve Walker wants to know if I have streams on my channel. On my old channel, I did streams. I will do streams on my new channel. Steve Walker also asked if I have any funny stories that's happened to me as a teacher. And I think that's a great thing to do for a stream is even to have story time. And so I think that would be great. All right. All right. Thanks a lot, Chad. Everyone's here and we'll be in the group to talk to you. Yeah. Anyway, Mike will be here next week with his own live stream. So please come back next week and learn something for Mike. So thanks for watching everyone. Thank you. Thanks for being here, Mike. Thank you anytime. All right.


from University of Bordeaux, and he's going to talk about first passage times of non-Markovian Gaussian random walkers. OK, thank you. So yeah, today I want to tell you a story about first passage times for non-Markovian Gaussian random walkers. So it's not the first time that we speak about first passage times. So basically, first passage problems characterize the first time needed by a stochastic variable to reach some target value. So we can define first passage time distribution and its moments, for example, mean first passage time. They are involved in a lot of interesting problems. So for example, transport influence reactions for the simple reasons that tractants have to meet before they react together, or search processes, for example, with this very nice historical example of searching a sequence on DNA. Today, I would like to speak about three paradigmatic first passage problems. So the first one is this one. So I have a random walker which diffuses in some confining volume and who is looking for some target region. In this case, the average first passage time is usually infinite and needs to be quantified. The second class of problem is the first passage in infinite space. So usually, in this kind of problem, the mean first passage time is infinite. And a third one would be the search for an energetically costly configuration. So in this case, it's a rare event kinetics. We obtain usually arenas kinetics. So the idea is that these problems are relatively well understood for Markovian random walks. We ask what happens when we add memory. So as you know, memory appears when the random walker interacts with other variables in its environment. So we have the choice between Markovian description with n degrees of freedom and can be large in statistical physics or some effective projected dynamics for the reactant only, which becomes non-Markovian. So as an example of models that we have in mind, motion is non-Markovian in all these cases. So if I take a reactant, which is attached to a polymer, or some bead moving with other beads in narrow channels, or tracer beads in complex fluids, such as pneumatics, viscoelastic fluids, or the examples that we saw yesterday with protein dynamics. And in all these examples, we have experiments or models that tell us that in some limits, at least, we have approximately Gaussian dynamics. So how could we predict mean first passage times for these kind of situations? Maybe so I will tell some existing results for these first passage times with memory. So from now on, I assume that I have a Gaussian unbiased random walk continuous at long times, which goes as a power low for the mean square displacement. So I can have sub-diffusion, sub-diffusion, or diffusion with a first exponent h here. And so now I assume that I put this random walker in confinement or in a potential in the ways that we respect statistical mechanics at a temperature t. So for example, with a generalized long-range equation. So there are some exact results to quantify first passage with memory. For example, in this model, so if I have a random walk with telegraphic noise or a random acceleration process, for the case without confinement, so here I also say that I have a stationary dynamic. So I don't care about coincides from height to from some temperature to another temperature. So I just look at a process with stationary increments. So in this case, we know what is the persistent exponent. So in infinite space, the survival probability will decay as a power low. But we don't know the pre-factor, which is hidden anyway here. So we will try to quantify that. And for relevant kinetics, in fact, there are a lot of theories. And some of them include memory because they give the results in the limit of weak noise for an arbitrarily large number of degrees of freedom. So this seems to be solved. But we will talk about this again. There are also general approaches. So for example, pseudo-Markovian approximations, which at some point assumes that the propagator for a non-Markovian process has the same properties as a Markovian one, but it can give wrong scaling. And also in the last decade, there have been a lot of works to obtain perturbative results by looking at an expansion about Brownian motion. So it's usually in 1D. And here our goal is to propose a non-exact, but also non-perturbative, formalism to catch memory effects, the impact of memory on first-passage kinetics, also in dimension, not only one, but higher. So the outline of this talk will be the following. So I will speak about these three problems one by one. So first, I look about the first passage time in confinement. So the hypotheses of this theory are the following. So I consider a Gaussian random worker, which is continuous in time, which is Gaussian with stationary increments. So this means that there is no aging, basically. So it is unbiased. So it's a symmetric work. I also assume that it is non-smooth. So at short times, basically, the trajectories are non-differentiable, as in Brownian motion. I assume that the MSD function is known. So I call it psi of t. That is a neat input from the model. I also assume that the MSD diverges at long times. So as I said, as t to the 2h. So this is to ensure that the random worker will explore the available space and not being trapped around some position. And I place it in a large confining volume. So now we want to predict the mean first passage time. So the first equation is a renewal equation. So it's a tautology. So I just consider the property to be on the target at t. And I said, if it is on the target, it has reached the target before at some time tau. So I obtain the integral of the first passage density at tau times the probability to come back on the target at t, given that the first passage was equal to tau. So if it is Markovian, then we can solve this equation, which becomes a convolution equation. But in the non-Markovian case, it's more difficult. But we can still manipulate that to obtain an equation for the average first passage time. So it goes as a volume multiplied by this integral. And here qp of t is a probability density to be on the target at a time t after the first passage. So we should focus on what happens in the future on the first of the first passage. So to do that, for example, let's consider several trajectories, so several runs. For each trajectory, we look at the value of the first passage time. We take this value as the origin of the times. So now I have rescaled times. And for example, if I take the average of these green trajectories, what I see is a shift, which I call mu of t, and which is not 0. Whereas the random walker at the beginning was a symmetric random walk. So this means, basically, that the first passage moment at the first passage, the system is not at equilibrium. And we also observe that the probability distribution functions of these future trajectories are almost Gaussian and that the variance is almost exactly the same as the variance of the initial process. So assuming that these properties are true, we derive the following results for the mean first passage time. So in the large-volume limit, it can be calculated with this integral, where there is psi of t, so the msd, mu of t, which is the average future trajectory, which we don't know yet, and the initial position, x0. And we can derive a self-consistent equation to calculate mu of t. So it's a little bit ugly, but it's quite compact also. So just by solving this equation here, we can predict mu of t as a function of psi, report here, and then have predictions for the mean first passage time. An important thing also is that if I do a pseudo-marquivir approximation, so I will just say that at the first passage, the system is at equilibrium, so it gives me mu of t equals 0. And I will obtain some transition at h equals 1 over 3, which is not seen in simulations. We can derive the asymptotic behavior of these trajectories for large time, so it goes like this. So it's a very simple formula. x0 minus some power law with the exponent which changes at h equals 1 half. So basically, we should see these qualitative things. If the work is sub-diffusive, then after the first passage, it will come back slowly to the initial position of the random worker. If it is diffusive at long times, but not at all times, then it will tend to a constant. And if it is sub-diffusive, it will cross the target and go away. So the initial condition is never forgotten, and mu is not small, so we can expect a large memory effect. And that's what we see. For example, I take the fractional Bernoulli motion. Here I plot the first passage time divided by volume as function of the initial distance to the target. Blue is simulation. Red is a theory. And green is the pseudo-Marcovian approximation, which quantitatively is not quantitatively correct. And we can also check that the value of these average trajectories are correctly predicted by the theory. And we can extend the theory. Here I have explained the theory in 1D. We can extend it to several dimensions. And I show the results also for non-scale invariant processes. So this is a result in 2D for motion of a bead looking for a target in some Maxwell fluid. Here a fractional Bernoulli motion in 2D. And here an example in 3D again with a Maxwell fluid. So we have quantitative and non-perturbative results in these cases. So now I will speak about this second problem of what happens when we have no confinement. So then the mean first passage time is infinite. But then we realized that in free space, the survival probability goes as S0 over some power low. So we know the exponent. And in confinement, we have a mean first passage time, which is finite. And what we have derived is the relation between this pre-factor S0 in this case and the limit of the mean first passage time over the volume in the other case under some decoupling approximation, which tells you what happens in the future of the first passage time, does not depend on the value of the first passage time. But it's not a very important approximation. So then we have this quantity from our formalism. So we have the pre-factor also in unconfined random works. So we have tested that our theory gives correct results in a lot of cases, again, in one or several dimensions for scale invariant or non-scale invariant processes. And now I want to spend a few minutes that are left to the case of rare events. So just to be specific, I want to take this very simple example. So I have a polymer chain.  And I ask now, what's the time that the extension in some direction reaches the value z, which is much larger than the duration radius? So this is obviously a relevant problem because to reach a large extension, then you have to overcome an energy barrier. So I have a spring in series. And at the end, we see that the beta times the energy is z over the duration radius squared. But as I told you, we know how to solve this kind of problems in the weak noise limit for any number of degrees of freedom in the system. So in principle, the problem is already solved. So here I show the results of simulations, which I have taken from this reference. So this is the time rescaled by the exponential factor, which appears in the Arrhenius law, versus the number of degrees of monomers. And I fix here that delta E is 18 kT. So it's already pretty large. So very, very rare events. And what I see is that there is a discrepancy between simulations and predictions of the rigorous weak noise theory, which increases with n. So the weak noise results will not predict the correct behavior for large n. And in fact, you have a problem of limitation of limit. Basically, the weak noise limit kT equals to 0 cannot be inverted with a large n limit in the polymer model. So we want to catch collective effects. So we adapted the theory by saying that, OK. Now we have to compute the trajectory in the future of a first passage event to this elongation set. And then we will see, after the first passage, we will see some retraction dynamics with a trajectory mu of t. And so we adapted the equation. So we have an expression of the mean first passage time as this reactive trajectory. And mu of t is, again, determined by some equation. So in this equation, there is the MSD. And the initial position as it disappears appears because it's a relevant problem. It doesn't matter. But here, what is important is the force. So this is the slope of the potential at the target configuration. M was done. And this is the result for a long change. So this is the dynamics in the future of the first passage. And this is the equilibrium dynamics, which is not vanishing this time. Because if I release an equilibrium polymer at some fixed elongation set, I will see it retract. But much more slowly than after a first passage. And what we see is that we have predictions for scaling laws in the non-Markovian theory, in the Sodomarkovian theory. So we have a factor of 10 of difference. And in the rec noise, we have even different scaling laws with the number of monomers. And we can check our results with simulations. So this is the prediction. And it works perfectly. And here are also existing theories that attempted to go beyond the rec noise limit. And we see that those are still discrepancies with them. And that's it. And the conclusion is that the state of a system at first passage is not a stationary state. So basically, even if we look at equilibrium processes, which are non-Markovian, we get a non-equilibrium state at the first passage. And if we analyze the trajectory in the future, we get information for the kinetics of first passage times for these three situations. We can generalize it to imperfect reactions. So if you want to have information of that, go to the poster by Tony Mendez. And I didn't speak about any stationary initial conditions, in which case, where the persistent exponents that appear. And Nicola told you about it yesterday. So thanks for your attention. Are there questions? Students. Nobody is up. Benjamin, you have a question? Yes. In principle, yes. But then you have to do all the theory again. And I think the second moment does not just depend on you. So you have to compute other. Yeah, yeah. Somehow other things have been up here. I chose this. I was very much told, by the way, very challenging. So when you showed those fractional Brownian motions, so how do I understand that? You put a fractional Brownian motion in a confiner. Yeah. When the FPM hits the boundary and continues, it doesn't know that it hit the boundary. Or how do I make it? No, no. So what we did, in fact, so we have done two things. Because at the time, we didn't know how to put confinement in for the FPM. It was done by Metzler two years ago. Yeah, so what we did is that we have done the same as in 1D. So we said, if we have a reflecting boundary here, maybe it's just the same as hitting a second target here. So we analyzed this first-passage problem. And then we did another thing that we produced an algorithm which is with the Husking algorithm. Then we generate x8 plus 1 from the previous positions. And then we rejected the positions that went beyond this wall. But what we saw is that with these two algorithms, if the volume is large, we got more or less the same results. So basically what you were saying, that the problem with this boundary is basically fully contained in the ensemble of dots. It's just a change of measure algorithm. I don't know. Otherwise, we cannot have the same. No, this is a variance.  Yeah, of course. That was the basis, the ultimate question. That would be, in fact, we also have done simulations with a generalized range of equations with the power of the kernel inside some harmonic potential. And harmonic potential can be seen as a confinement, too. And we obtained the same results as here. Thank you. Andrea, you have a question? Yes. I mean, in the past, a long ago, there was exactly for this kind of processes, and Klaus and Omarkov, and there was this perturbative approach to calculate the persistence exponent by Klaus and Omarkov. Yes. So I don't know what they mean now. You're thinking of others. So I was wondering whether you checked out this. Yeah, yeah. In fact, so all the theory, so the theory is definitely not exact in the general case. But we think it's, we have strong arguments to say that it's exact at first order of perturbation. And then we recover all exact results that are known in the return. Actually, that's one of my questions. Actually, there's one model we know that's a random acceleration process for which you can actually calculate analytically. It's a non-Markov process. OK, so is this one we cannot? Because now it's not in the initial hypothesis. OK, all right. If there is no other question, let's thank Tomah again. I mean, this is good.