Hi, and welcome to our session. Let us discuss the following question. The question says proof that the product of the lens of the perpendicular stront from the points squared root of a squared minus b squared 0 and minus squared root of a squared minus b squared 0 to the line x by a cos theta plus y by b sin theta is equal to 1s b squared. Let's now begin with the solution. Let p1 be the length of the perpendicular from the point squared root of a squared minus b squared 0 to the line x by a cos theta plus y by b sin theta is equal to 1. We know that the perpendicular distance of the line a x plus b y plus c is equal to 0 from a point x and y1 is given by mod of a x1 plus b y1 plus c upon square root of a squared plus b squared a is equal to cos theta by a b is equal to sin theta by b and c is equal to minus 1. And point x1 y1 is square root of a squared minus b squared 0. So now, substitute these values in this formula. And this distance is equal to p1. So we have p1 is equal to mod of cos theta by a into square root of a squared minus b squared plus sin theta by b into 0 minus 1 upon square root of cos squared theta by a squared plus sin squared theta by b squared. This is equal to square root of a squared minus b squared by a into cos theta minus 1 upon square root of cos squared theta upon a squared plus sin squared theta upon b squared. Let's name this equation as equation number 1. Now, let p2 be the length of perpendicular point minus square root of a squared minus b squared 0 to the line a cos theta plus y by b sin theta is equal to 1. By using the formula for perpendicular distance, we find that p2 is equal to minus square root of a squared minus b squared upon a into cos theta plus 0 minus 1 upon square root of cos squared theta a squared plus sin squared theta upon b squared. Let's name this equation as equation number 2. We have to show that product of these two perpendicular is b squared, that is, p1 into p2 is equal to b squared.      By taking a square common from these two terms, we get a square into 1 minus cos square theta and this is equal to a square sine square theta. So now we have a square sine square theta plus b square cos square theta upon a square upon b square cos square theta plus a square sine square theta upon a square b square and this is equal to a square b square upon a square and this is equal to b square. Hence, we have proved that product of lengths of perpendicular stront from the point square root of a square minus b square 0 and minus square root of a square minus b square 0 to the line x by a cos theta plus y by b sine theta is equal to 1 s b square. This completes the creation. Bye and take care.


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I tell you what I would love to know this because I have a sweet tooth. I like eating Cornetto ice creams I like eating King Cones from the Chevron gas station down the road Boulevard I like going down to the Bristol farm supermarket and picking up a packet of chips on occasion It's my Achilles heel sometimes I got to tell you I love eating desserts and today we're gonna talk to a Expert in desserts.  How are you Crosby? Good? Good? Hey James? How you doing mate? It's great to great to have you here. We you and I ran into one another well We actually met at the the bulletproof Conference Dave Asprey's bulletproof conference in Pasadena last year And then we ran into one another at the equinox gym on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood last week, didn't we? Yeah, everything you know happens for a reason. It's it's it's really cool to meet somebody and then have it kind of Come back together and in the kind of full form and both of us are doing very very similar things in the health field So it's just you know synchronistic Now I like I said in my intro there I love to eat it like I love it and I've gone and done healthy desserts before I've eaten Like I've done coconut cream based ice creams in my blend I've coconut milk and I've added some cacao powder. I've added a little bit of fruit and I've added You know some vanilla extract and things like that But then I've put some ice in and blended it But it wasn't quite the ice cream flavor and then I actually bought an ice cream making machine But it was too laborious and it didn't really quite work out And I don't really want to sit at home and cook and and bake cookies and healthy cookies I'm a guy on the run right like I don't Before we get into your healthy desserts Is there a way that we can do this quickly and efficiently without having to go like this is a pain in the arse I've got to use a blender. I got to like make I got to turn the oven I've got to learn how to be a chef and all that kind of stuff Yeah, I mean there are a couple simple different ways that you can create Something that's going to satisfy the sweet tooth One being just like like you said before some of these powders that you a lot of a lot of these superfood powders that Us health nerds have at home. You can throw a couple of them into Kind of like almost like a coffee cup like a circular round coffee cup And if you take the right powders like you're saying it could cow powder the right sweetener I really like a lecanto. I use a lot of lecanto and my stuff Which is a blend of monk fruit and erythritol and you know you flavor it right with like a pinch You know little pinch of pink salt and you got some stuff like MCT oil and ghee and these kind of things for the fats And if you can stir up something in a cup That will taste kind of like this kind of like chocolate fudge that's a really really quick and easy way to satisfy a sweet tooth and When like I said when you're somebody that has those kind of things at home It's just boom boom boom you just throw them all together and there you go You're on the couch scooping up a little chocolate dessert, you know reading your favorite book Well, good. That's encouraging then because I always find myself, you know late at night I'm I've got a bit of a you know I'm all of a sudden I want a dessert and I got nothing in the house I got a bunch of supplements Like I'm okay during the day because I've got kale. I got spinach. I've got some supplements. I got I got You know some pretty healthy things there, but not that not enough to satisfy my sweet tooth And so on occasion, you know, I'll leave the leave the apartment and I'll walk down the road And I'll try I'll grab something so that's good That's encouraging that there's an easy way to do this because I'm inherently a lazy bastard Are we all I feel like I feel like I want to cook all the time like lunch and dinner I want to cook and I get done with the gym instead of coming home I'm like well, I can just go straight to air one and get a plate That's gonna be something that would make it home in the first place And then I'm like, oh, let's cook at night and then I'm like well I could just go somewhere like this. I mean LA has so many different health spots that I Can be just as lazy, but when it comes to desserts like I really nowadays I really don't trust A lot of different places. I really don't trust a lot of people and I make my own desserts and yeah And you you just referenced air one there air one is actually probably it's considered one of the healthiest Store shopping stores in Los Angeles. It's right near the Grove Los Angeles. It's kind of off Beverly Boulevard. I was actually just there on Monday night I went and saw a movie at the Grove and then I walked to air one not with anything Not with any buying you thought in mind I just wanted to go and check it out and be amongst all the healthy stuff and I ran into someone I knew there It's like so funny. It's like more of a social scene that it is a shopping scene crazy Yeah, it is it is the social scene for for healthy people.  Just go to a healthy food store in your local city in your whole foods air one Even Trader Joe's. Yeah. All right. Let's get into this. Okay, so we're talking about how to eat dessert and burn fat We're talking to Crosby Taylor who is an health coach chef and a model you can find him on Snapchat and all the other social media is that at Crosby Taylor CR OSBY Taylor TA I And his website which is eat dessert burn fat So let's go over a few after dinner desserts I think we're gonna talk about cookies ice cream and chocolate. So let's do cookies first. Shall we Taylor? Sorry, I'm calling you by your surname there. That's okay. It's a very very Australian thing to do it's Australian thing we call people by their last names like hey swanik over here Yeah, yeah, well well Crosby everybody doesn't think that's my first name because that's usually a last name So I get that a lot people call me Taylor, but um, but yeah cookies So yeah, the cookies I came up with kind of on a whim. I was making a lot of different smoothies and Healthy ice creams and stuff like that but I started baking with the idea that maybe I can throw a lot of these similar powders that I was making in a smoothie into a mix and You know throw some eggs and some stuff to make to bake with and put together some kind of baked good And it took me a little bit I mean I had like three or four tries and I got to a place where I was like, okay I'm really satisfied with this kind of baked good and what happened was I eventually turned it into When now I'm working on as a baking mix And the baking mix is pretty much done and I'm gonna work on packaging in and branding it and everything so that Everybody at home could make pretty much every baked good recipe that I have Off of this one kind of like my Bennett base vanilla mix and I'm using only Liconto like I said before it's my my main sweetener. It's a blend of monk fruit and erythritol Erythritol that has actually been shown to not cause any stomach issues unlike It's counterpart Xylitol which is another sugar alcohol that I that I noticed I was using for a while And I actually had to stop using it because my stomach I was getting all these different stomach issues and I was like Maybe it's the xylitol so I switched over to this and it's just been amazing. So I use this is my main sweetener for everything So it's it's called erythritol and you spell that E R Y T H R I T O L Yeah, erythritol and so erythritol is a is a sweetener correct Sugar but without the calories is that is that the best way of explaining it? Yeah, it's zero glycemic zero calories zero sugar and the amazing part about erythritol is it doesn't go through a wild fermentation which can create fermentation in the gut they do a special fermentation process and Basically have come down to the scientifically proven that that it does not cause any stomach discomfort And it does not digest in a way to where your insulin will spike. So it's the best of both worlds People out there that are freaked out about Candida can use it as well as people that are diabetic and and that have sugar intolerance It's really really amazing and it still tastes so sweet. It tastes just tastes delicious You can put it really in with anything. It's still going to give you curb that sweet tooth that you are missing when you know It it's sweeter than than honey than maple syrup and all these other things coconut nectar that people are using as sugar substitutes That still do spike blood sugar and how do you buy erythritol? Is it coming up in a package of powder? Or is it like what what does it look like? Erythritol, there's only a couple places in LA that are selling it off the shelves, but you can get it online It's lakonto.com. How do you spell lakonto? l-a-k-a-n-t-o Okay, and lakonto.com is what exactly is that that's a place that that's a brand of erythritol That's the blend that's the brand of erythritol. They they sell like some chocolate bars on there as well And they sell a well, but it's the blend. It's the monk fruit and erythritol. So the blend they sell As a regular white sugar type Product as well as a brown sugar and can can people get this anywhere like if someone's listening to this They're not in a health conscious city like LA. Maybe they're I don't know whatever they're yeah Yeah, yeah in Alabama or it's on it's on Amazon. You can get it straight from their website Okay, so you can actually just type in erythritol on Amazon or you can go to lakonto.com And and but did you it's it's a true that only few Supermarket chains across the US actually carry it on their shelves. Right, right, right. It's not it's it's been around for a little bit, but it's just it just wasn't one of those Sweeteners that became as popular as like something like azalea tall or some of these other sugars that are on the shelves So rich which and it comes in a in what kind of form is it? Did you say powder or they're coming out with a powdered version? But it's a granulated version right now But but I have I have the you know beginning powder because they they they're working with me right now So that the powder is a lot better because when you stir it into when you stir it into something as opposed to blending It was something you don't get that like granulated weird Like I only have sugar bites every once in a while It's more of it's blended through and consistent without Within me the dessert. Okay, cool. So we're talking about making cookies here. So we've got so we need erythritol Yep. Yeah. Yeah, so in terms of the baking mix I'm not gonna give you all of my secrets because it's gonna come into a proprietary blend But let's just say it's it's packed full of protein. It's got Certain resistance starches like tiger nut flour. I use I use tiger nut flour and some of my some of my baked goods Coconut flour, which is an amazing substitute for something that normal people would be using whether it's a white flour a wheat flour coconut flour it's got some MCT's and It's full of packed full of fiber and then There's certain proteins that are very very very digestible protein. So this is also a protein packed fiber packed It's a protein packed and it's a good fat packed cookie Very low carbohydrate zero sugar. So in the end of the day, whether you're making whether I'm making you know cutting up Creating my own chocolate cutting up into chunks and the chocolates full of like MCT oil to give you that thermogenic effect that cognitive boosting effect and cutting that up and into chunks after it's frozen throwing it into my batter and making chocolate chunk cookies or making putting a little pumpkin puree and some pumpkin spice and some cinnamon and making some pumpkin spice Bundt cakes to Throw in a little lemon poppy seed in there and making lemon poppy seed cookies or a lemon poppy seed bread There's so many different variations that you can create from this one mix And so that's why I want I wanted it to be like this so that people can look at all the recipes that I've created and be Empowered at home to go. I'm gonna make this cookie tonight. I want to make this brownie this night I'm gonna make and it's just ongoing kind of thing and they could be feeding these things They're kids on a nightly basis. So let's just say well, we'll give them the link to your vanilla baking mix Towards the end of the show, but for now, let's just say they they're not gonna use your mix They want to make a home base cookie. Like what are we putting in there? We've got a rithritol obviously, but like let's just list the foods and how we make a cookie Whether we whether we use your product or we don't right so you're gonna, you know You're gonna need a flour base. There's all different types of flour bases You can use from coconut flour to if you wanted to have some kind of carbohydrate base in there It's a quinoa flour if you want to stay away from gluten and If you if you're trying to stay away from grains, you can use everything from different nut flours like coconut flour to almond flour to a Specific product that just came upon the market tiger nut flour, which is a resistance starch.  So you're getting some health benefits out of it when you do something like that I made a ginger snap like kind of molasses ginger snap cookie the other day with tiger nut flour and it was amazing And so you you're all using me some some eggs Okay, yeah, yeah, so we're using some kind of flour whether it's coconut almond or tiger nut eggs How many eggs we need? Depending upon the the the batch, you know, we're we're looking at anywhere from two eggs four eggs I mean it really just depends on okay How big of a batch you're making I really like to use ghee Okay, as opposed to butter some people are You know sensitive to lactose and so ghee is a lactose casein and salt-free product that Has like a very very rich flavor ancient organic sells a really really amazing tasting bee that I use for pretty much all of my baking and You know in terms of getting it to rise some kind of baking powder Like an aluminum free baking powder is a really really great addition to getting that cookie consistency when you say aluminum free baking powder Does that suggest that some baking powder has aluminum in it?  Okay, which is interesting. Okay I never really realized that either until I found that Bob's red mill one. I was like, oh, I guess this is Okay, so that's coconut flour eggs ghee and aluminum free baking powder anything else we need Yeah, you're You're gonna want to you know have some kind of flavor, you know flavor profile in there So obviously we have the fish the sugar and and you can add stevia if you'd like for certain Different flavors.  There's butterscotch stevia There's different things that you can throw in there as well as you know If you're a chocolate person you want to make some brownies It's it would be really great to throw some cacao powder and some cacao butter in there and stir that up And you can create a nice rich Kind of brownie texture out of or or kind of like a chocolate pure chocolate cookie out of something like that So is that including stevia and erythritol? It just depends on the flavor profile and how big of a sweet tooth the person has but if you Kind of have a nice touch with erythritol and and with with the loconto and the stevia together You can create a really really nice So you can put all that in erythritol and stevia. Can you put stevia in without the erythritol? Yeah, yeah, you can put stevia in without the erythritol, but it's just the balance of flavor a lot of people are sensitive to stevia so when it comes to The metallic some people have like a metallic aftertaste when they have stevia so when you have the more of the Really really tastes like sugar type product like loconto it curbs it takes that away Salt is actually pink salt is actually a really nice addition when you're using stevia as well anything whenever I make any kind of dessert I always will create something that I always throw the pink salt in there to curb any kind of like weird Aftertaste of the stevia. Okay, so just on the ingredients in we're looking at some kind of flour whether it be coconut almond or tiger nut We're looking at eggs preferably pasture-raised eggs We're looking at ghee Ghe we're looking at some aluminum aluminum free baking power powder, which you can get but there's a brand called Bob's red mill erythritol and or stevia and or pink salt and then some cacao powder Is that right? Cacao powder is an additive as well as you know going back to Some of the flowers when it comes to people that want to be completely nut-free as well you can grind up some flaxseed and Have some ground flaxseed as your your main base the cinnamon rolls some of the some of the cinnamon rolls that I make I do that with I just ground up some flax golden flaxseed and that's that's my base for for a cinnamon roll Okay, so the the the ground brown flaxseed is an alternative to the flower Yeah, or or an addition you can you can mix and match these things You kind of really have to play with it at home to get the consistency and the texture that you want because Obviously if you're using all coconut flour, they're gonna be really really dense and a little dry But if you can combine Some of these flowers together you're gonna get you know a product that is way more satisfying Okay, so we've got the ingredients and now I'm starting to get a little bit concerned because you told me that I Wouldn't be doing much baking and I'd be doing like the lazy man's cooking So what do I got to do now now? I've got a like set aside three hours and put it in the put it in the oven Prosby, yeah, I mean it's it's sounding really taxing at this point and so my main suggestion is when Crosby's cookies baking mix is out you just get a baking mix and now you've got it all taken care of all I got to do is add the wet ingredients and You're looking at something. That's gluten sugar grain and dairy-free as a cookie at home A cookie alternative at home on a nightly basis. And so what would you do then? Let's just say you've got your mix that you put all together What do you then how do you then make that like what how does it work? So, you know adding the wet ingredients then Given it given it a nice stir. You can set it in the fridge for a second so that it sets and then I'm just greasing a pan with ghee popping the oven on to about anywhere from 350 to 375 and Ice cream scooping The the the the mix right on and little cookie balls and you throw it in there for I mean my mix is done in eight to nine minutes Okay, so you have to understand here, right? I don't I'm not I don't cook this kind of stuff So when you say put wet ingredients in I'm not following you so we've got your powder What do we do like literally what are the physical steps that I've got your powder or I've got these ingredients What do I do? So you're gonna need ghee Okay, you're gonna need you're gonna need a certain amount of ghee you're gonna need a certain amount of eggs and You're gonna need a certain amount of liquid. I like to use like an unsweetened coconut milk And then depending on the flavor profile You can add like for my butterscotch cookies You know a half-dropper butterscotch stevia We'll give it that kind of flavor if you wanted to create more of like a cinnamon cookie all you need is A tablespoon of cinnamon if you wanted to do Any other variation? You can start Besides the recipes that I'm gonna be throwing up on my website for people to be following along and creating these things You know people can get creative themselves and and you know come up with their own recipes whether they like matcha So we throw it in you know a couple teaspoons of matcha powder and you add a little bit of vanilla stevia and you can create start to create all these different types of cookies and breads and and muffins and it all can come from this one baking mix which is For you know the stay-at-home mom that's got a couple kids I think it's a really really healthy alternative to what else is out there on the market So are we mixing all this stuff together in a bowl and putting it on a tray? What are we doing? Yeah? Yeah, so step by step. We're gonna we got a mix. We got to get a big bowl You know you got to mix that together in a consistent form to where that's nice and smooth It's gonna get kind of like sticky like a cookie would get and you can set it or you could place it right away When it comes to muffins and breads and some of the tins that you'll be using for that you can just put it right in if you are Going to be making a cookie consistency It's better to set it in the fridge for like 10 to 15 minutes and then especially for chocolate chip I like to set it in the fridge Get that let the batter get a little harder and then cookie scoop those on to a pan You'll you'll get out of the mix. You'll get 16 to 18 cookies you can put them all on one pan and pop it in the oven for eight to nine minutes After you pop after you take the cookies out you can set them back in the fridge and I'll have recipes for people to create Amazing little icings to put on top as well.  I have all of these different recipes that will be able that the user will be able to have From my website to mix and match all different types of things Okay, so there's cookies and then how do we make sure we don't overreak because once the healthy cookies are there I might eat 10 of them thinking that they're healthy But then in actual fact because I've eaten 10 I'm unhealthy. So how do you how do you limit yourself to having? Exactly.  It is because they are so delicious I can understand somebody's like first time of wanting to eat all of them but you'll notice after eating about three of them that Because of the amount of fiber and the good fats and the protein It's not like a high carbohydrate-based cookie where you can eat tons of them and your metabolism is just rapidly Speeding through them while you're eating them.   All right, so there's cookies. Let's move on to ice cream. How do we get some healthy ice cream happening? Well, you were saying you were like talking about ice cream maker and all the issues with that and how you can like throw That things together and smoothie and you're like, well, it's not really the consistency So the way that I make ice cream involves the Vitamix which is an amazing way to create ice creams and you do it with Literally ice powders oils and when you have a Vitamix and has that that like plunger You can kind of pound it all together in a consistent form while it's blending to create this texture That I show all the time my snapchat I do a lot of like snapchat ice creams where I show like the process So you'll see the texture and people are always writing me and being like, how did you get it to be exactly like an ice cream? Well, when you put these things together and some of these gradients I'll let you know about it It just it just forms this exact texture that you would get if you went to the store and popped open a regular drier's ice cream so You want to start with a base of like a cup of ice throw that in the Vitamix and Then you're gonna be adding like a lot of your superfood powders different things that Are gonna create your flavor. So everything from tocatrinals, which is a rice bran soluble powder How do you spell? How do you spell that? I've not heard of that before. What is that tocatrinals? It's a toco. Uh-huh T R I E N N O L S Tocatrinals and what are that? What are those things? Tocatrinals are rice bran solubles that are Loaded in vitamin E and it comes in a powdered form you can buy, you know online There's a bunch of different brands from Sun Potion to a couple other ones. I like to use the Sun Potion brand But that's like a kind of a base bottom for a lot of the mixes because it kind of gives it some substance Okay, and and it also scratch the skin. It's loaded with vitamin E and then depending on What kind of you know, whether you're a vegetarian or vegan or or you're working in paleo or whatever it is some kind of Protein powder in there to give it a protein based ice cream So from a whey protein and isolate that people can stomach well to like a grass-fed colostrum powder to both to a collagen powder to what I've been working on lately is Because of just the rehabilitation of the gut and not throwing anything in there that Creates any kind of issues. I really love this new bone broth protein that Dr. Axe has and There is you know, there's a vanilla. There's a chocolate and it's It's really really crazy. Like it's a it's a powdered version of bone broth, but it's loaded with protein hyaluronic acid Bucosamine, conjoin and everything that's great for your skin bones joints tendons as well as the gut lining Rehabilitating the gut which a lot of people have issues in the gut And so now you're creating now you're making at home a an ice cream. That's delicious But you're adding, you know this bone broth protein You're adding something like a collagen protein, which is just going to give you more aid for your ligaments and tendons healthy skin nourishing that providing more collagen for the skin and then The Lakonto always the Lakonto in there. You can add some stevia as well to create different flavors Lakuma, mesquite, some of these are superfoods that you can throw a tablespoon of Some of these things in there depending on what you're creating again with the cacao powder So you're you're kind of putting together in powder form different types of variations and flavors and to be like To kind of just give you one that I would do would be something like You know a scoop of the bone broth protein a couple tablespoons of collagen powder Three tablespoons of toca-trenals a tablespoon of Lakuma a teaspoon of maca a gelatinized maca For hormone balance as well as the flavor you can throw in a tablespoon of Lakonto You can throw in kind of like a half dropper of vanilla or English toffee stevia and a couple tablespoons of cacao nibs Yeah, and then and then you got your fat.  That's just an Amazing ice cream experience. Yeah, it's when you were talking about the the the protein powder I have grass-fed white What the brand is and it's chocolate chocolate favorite So what I could do then is put a scoop, you know one cup of ice in my my blender Put in that protein Powder and then, you know, maybe add a little bit of erythritol or something just just natural to sweet sweet in it And even that would be something better Even that on itself while might be a little bland because obviously you mentioned a lot of ingredients there it would still be Enough presumably to satisfy my sweet tooth and it would be a it would be healthy So it would crave it would help suppress my sugar cravings. Yeah late at night It would create the texture of ice cream. So I would be thinking. Oh, okay. I've got this this Facing thing and it's super healthy. Yeah. Yeah, there's different variations. There's different steps and and Obviously different budgets for these types of ice creams And so like you're saying you could do something as simple as that to something as extravagant as Some of the things that all throw together. I mean you can even at the end of that Mix up that chocolate sauce that you had and drizzle it all on top And if there's some cacao butter in that chocolate sauce It's gonna harden and now you have like a hard shell chocolate on top Yeah, so I when I have tried to make ice cream in my Vitamix before when I it ends up being Too icy like there's some parts of the ice which don't crush down So I've put I've gone through phases where I put too much ice in and it's just too clunky And then I put gone to a phase where I haven't put enough ice in and it's too liquidy I haven't quite found that right texture in between. What what's your secret tip to getting that that texture? Definitely less ice more substance when it comes to the powder and the fat Okay, okay in the fast very important too So if you're only using like powders and ice then you know, it would serve you to throw in like the MCT or the ghee or even coconut oil or Almond butter cashew butter some of these things that vegetarians would want to use. Yeah, okay Even if you wanted to create like a cool If you wanted to super food it up You can throw together some of these different greens powders.  Yeah I grow mint actually. I have a little in my little front balcony. I have been growing some sweet peppers and some mint So I could just go out there and grab a few mint leaves and throw that in that would be cool That'd be really awesome. Yeah Um now you mentioned vitamix. I actually bought a vitamix about 18 months ago. It was the greatest investment that I've made in my Dietary habits, I guess right But I tell you I am an art about it for six months because it was like 400 dollars I mean it can be as much as 500 dollars to get this right And I think it was only the reason that I got it for 400 dollars was because I had a hundred dollar off voucher I think okay, I recall correctly. Um And uh, it's expensive I mean depending on you know, what your budget is but like I think 400 400 to 500 dollars for a machine that just blends foods together is Is a lot right so There's someone who's listening or watching who's on a budget And doesn't want doesn't wander is unable to invest You know a few hundred dollars four hundred dollars on a blender. What's the alternative? well, you know Obviously the other way is to make ice cream when somebody's looking at I want to make ice I want to start making ice cream They're gonna also also look for online like an ice cream maker, which is just as expensive And I think just it's harder to create something It's harder I bought one and you got to like you got to freeze the container and then you got to like put it in with the And then you got to like turn it on and then you've got to check check on it and I mean it's a process It's a whole deal. It's just something that I do not want to spend time on no and and then You know when it comes to just having a different regular blenders at home from even something like the bullet It it's it's it would really be all about for these kind of people I really don't think they're going to get the exact consistency that they're looking for that would be like the Vitamix would do But you can get something close. You just have to use more ice less liquid and uh kind of Put it and put it put it together and just kind of like Throw in a little bit more liquid using fatty liquids too. So like a full fat unsweetened coconut milk would be your best option for Creating something that's going to be kind of like a a dense smoothie more than an ice cream the ice cream thing is You know, it's just it's an investment I think making ice cream is is going to be an investment because you really don't have a lot of alternatives unless you want to go To a health store and get something that's still going to be loaded with If you're really watching your surgery a lot all the ice creams on the market are still Bad in my opinion bad food combination Yeah, no it is. I mean look I've looked at all healthy. So there's this this uh soy free ice cream Is pretty which is I wouldn't say it's healthy, but I'd say it's not as Bad for you.  I mean look you can buy a $20 blender But it's not really going to give you it's not really going to Work for you and excuse me and crushing ice and getting that ice cream texture Yeah, yeah, so if you're really wanting if you're listening to this now or watching this and you really want to um Uh, you know make home my ice cream. Maybe look for a second hand via the mix Totally there's a lot of herb ish ones that are amazing. I think actually I think that's the one that I got I got one uh within like that and now um I'm actually affiliated because of the stuff that I do with Vitamix. I'm actually affiliated with with them now and they have they send me Uh coupon things all the time through my email for Yeah, this has to be way to get it like they're cheaper. Yeah, they've come down. I've had I've I've had I've gotten emails But they're down to like 349 So yeah, it's still a little bit xy. It's still a little bit expensive, isn't it? But I mean, but they're really amazing customer service and if you like they like they're they're the warranty on the product Pretty much forever. I mean if you it is it is a lifetime warranty. It's like it's lifetime, right? But again, if you but again, I mean look If you still really don't want to spend that amount of money on a Vitamix Like even if you don't want to spend a hundred bucks on it I would search and try and find a second hand one like just go on to ebay or uh craigslist or somewhere And just try and get like in my opinion Vitamix is the it's an a wonderful product like it's it's amazing But I know trust me. I I know what I was going through 18 months ago when I was stressing over am I really gonna spend $400 On a On a blender and I'm glad I did because I'd use it all the time best best investment for food ever But at the time it's Uh Should I I took that bed back and beyond coupon there like four times before I finally bought it. I was like, uh, yeah Yeah, that's that's actually that's what you're reminding me now. That's where I got it in fact my 20 off, right? Darren and Mary who live in my apartment complex actually gave you the coupon Yeah for for the for the 20 for the 20 off, which I guess was a hundred bucks. There you go Thank you Darren and Mary you're always Appreciate that. All right. So there's ice cream. I'll just go over the things again. You said, um Is it toco train toss a trick? How am I pronouncing it? Toca trinols toca trinols powder A protein based like powder like you might use if you were bodybuilding in the gym But you can get ones that are like low calories obviously. I like to to get grass-fed ones Yeah, um, I'm sure the grass bird always be suggesting a bone broth Based powder which you can get and then you can add stuff like cacao powder erythritol tablespoon of maca half drop of stevia cacao nibs For oils you might want to put some mct oil or brain octane oil in there Maybe some grass-fed ghee egg eggs maybe almond butter coconut oil You can put green powders cacao nibs mint extra. I mean, there's a lot of things that you can throw in there As long as you got some a good amount of ice and a good blender like a vitamix You don't have to put all of those things in you can just experiment, you know, like I said, I've got a bit of mint outside I could put some yeah You can I mean What what do you think about putting in frozen fruit because I always think, you know frozen fruits Fruits fruit it's yeah, but then I worry like oh if I'm having this every night I'm putting a lot of sugar in my system just an hour before I go to sleep Is that storing fat around my waist? Uh, I mean, yeah, fructose will do that and you know A good amount of fructose on a daily basis all the time is going to eventually, you know Create um problems in your body where you're not as insulin sensitive And you're not going to use that energy like you used to and so you're going to store and it it would benefit you To not use it all the time and instead maybe even if you wanted to get that fruit flavor There's all different types of Different antioxidant powders too. Like if you wanted to do like an acai If you wanted to do a mangosteen if you wanted to do um Like a tart cherry all these things are super beneficial uh antioxidants tons of antinocyanins or All of those capabilities, but obviously yeah, like if you're going to create a fruit smoothie at home Look at all the low glycemic fruits blueberry would be a really really awesome Option if you wanted to make a blueberry ice cream. I've done that before Nope, no issues All the like low glycemic berries from goji berries is an amazing option as well anti-inflammatory it's great for the skin in the eyes and um It's it's also loaded with antioxidants. Okay So yeah, you can do the the ones the things that like I'm not really big on is like throwing like frozen bananas into it Yeah, that's just a lot of sugar mangoes just a lot of sugar. Yeah, love sugar. Yeah but Obviously if that person has You can every once in a while it's not going to kill you especially when especially when you metabolize You know if you're a first step type of person Or if you have the body type to metabolize carbohydrates. Well, you can get away with it but if you're Trying to lose weight and you're you know shorter or compact and you put on You know fat Well, you're not going to want to use a lot of high glycemic type fruits in your diet. All right So we've we've handled cookies with a hand on ice cream. Let's move on to the third one which is chocolate, so how do we How do we make some chocolate? chocolate The chocolate I have I'll have a couple recipes that are going to go up on the the website soon I've actually done some before So I don't mind talking about the chocolate kind of to an exact form chocolates are really really fun really really easy um, you know, you're going to need some type of To begin with some type of like I I like to use a nice rounded coffee cup Because you really don't you really don't need to use a lot of like powder and oil in this You don't need like one of those big when you use one of these big bowls for chocolate It's hard to like stir it all in a very consistent form um People that are doing that in big batches, you know when you're making chocolate and you're selling chocolate They do it like that, but just for yourself at home something like an easy coffee cup um four tablespoons of cacao powder two tablespoons of your Lakonto powder a pinch A little pinch a pinch of a nice pinch of pink salt um, and then you know heat up some cacao butter Throw some cacao butter on a pan on low heat that cacao butter up um, and you can throw a tablespoon of an mct or brain octane into the chocolate with a It's about a tablespoon and a half and then another tablespoon of cacao butter into the chocolate stir it all up You're going to get like a nice consistent liquid chocolate Uh and throw that thing in the in the freezer and that's The base easiest way to make a chocolate when you take it out 25 minutes later You can just get a a knife and kind of like poke around the edges and it'll pop right out Like a little circle and you can cut up cut up that into chunks throw it in the cup and just eat little chocolate chunks If you wanted to get creative You can take that you can take that mix And um, there's these really cool like sur-la-tab and a couple of these other Kitchen aid places sell these like silicone ice molds And I like to use these silicone ice molds and I'll take the chocolate and I'll drizzle, you know about quarter quarter of an inch to a half inch of chocolate in each bottom And I'll stir up on the side. Maybe If you're in the Reese's You can stir up another cup with some almond butter the Lakonto And I mean a little even if you want to just be super simple almond butter Lakonto a little pinch of Pink salt maybe a little bit of MCT Stir that up and you pour that in as you're you know You've already hard it you throw the chocolate in let it harden a little bit Throw the almond butter on top of that and then throw another layer of chocolate And you're going to make these cool kind of like trifecta squares of Little Reese's chocolates, which people I think a lot of people would love Yeah, all right. So that's you that's a lot of that is using similar kind of ingredients Is what we're using that you could be using for the ice cream So you can actually get the same ingredient to create different You know create ice cream or Or chocolate, you know, you're talking about cacao powder cacao butter MCT or brain octane oil Um, that all sounds pretty good. I mean I always if you're going to eat chocolate I always say eat dark chocolate like if you if you're not going to make your own stuff at home you can buy Brands in in decent enough supermarkets. Um, and I always say 85 percent cacao plus So the higher percentage of cacao in it the healthier it is for um The danger or not the day.  So how do we Like is there some I guess it goes back to my question before like how do we make sure that We're all excited about eating healthy and now we're eating healthy desserts But there's that danger That you can overeat thinking that you're that you're healthy. So how do you rein in the the the chocolate eating crossby? Well, I mean I can rein it in pretty well just because I'm not the biggest chocolate I make a lot of chocolate because people want it, but I'm not a huge chocolate fan to start So for me, I can eat a square and be satisfied, but you know when it comes to somebody that's Like I know I have a lot of clients that are just like chocolate fanatics and They have they go through periods where They can't help themselves and they'll eat like four or five pieces and Now they're you know, it's it's rich when you're dealing with these good fats. It's it's very very rich so the best Honestly, the best way is to make sure that You're kind of following a nice balanced diet where you're getting a good amount of protein fiber greens Good fats on a regular basis and you're kind of laying low on a lot of the sugary and starchy foods you're going to create More of a you know balanced approach to food after that and you're going to have you know, you're not going to be like a crazy like sugar fanatic that's like, oh my god I want to eat everything because that's kind of how it is when you when you get close to food And you're you know, your blood sugar is going like this all day long It's really easy to overeat, right?  It's where you're not Your your body you're in charge of your body and your your, you know Candida and certain pathogens aren't in charge of you.    Um, we talked about a lot of ingredients there things like coconut flour eggs ghee aluminum free baking powder erythritol stevia pink salt cacao powder We've got grass-fed Whey protein bone broth base powder liqour mucker cacao nibs mct oil brain octane oil Lotta We've got mints. We've got acai powder tart cherry blueberries goji berries A lot of ingredients there. Um, we'll put out some show notes here. So go to my website James swanick Dot com and you can get a list of all the ingredients that we talked about today um My advice is, you know buy as many of those Are those ingredients as you can in one go put them in your cupboard Get yourself a blender. Um, a viada mix is best even though it is quite costly. Um, Make sure you've got ice on hand.  I gotta walk down to like the the chevron on gas station to get the ice And then it's like I'm gonna carry this big bag of ice on my shoulder home Or I'm just gonna buy the king cone ice cream and be done with it. That's the funniest thing ever yet I got a 7-11. It's like two blocks from my house. I'm like, damn that. I gotta walk It's like 10 at night. I'm like, I gotta walk a 7-11.  We'll do a little snapchat while we're recording the podcast episode here And uh, I'll get you to give me Um, say one healthy tip on how to make Or maybe the ingredients for healthy ice cream. Shall we do that crosby? You do let's see if we can do that in 10 seconds. Yeah, is that a 10 second snap? Right 10 seconds. Here we go. And I'll I'll say I'll say, um Uh, three healthy ingredients for ice cream crosby homemade ice cream and then you rattle them off. Here we go three two one Three healthy homemade ingredients for homemade ice cream crosby go Yeah, you're gonna need protein powder.  There you go Bang. Oh, yeah, look at that. Let's see if you made it. That's I did Let's have a look There you go, you got there Snapchat so if you're listening on the podcast Follow me at snapchat, which is at james swanick. If you're not on snapchat yet get on it. It's huge It's blowing up. It's a great way to see behind the scenes Of my life of other other people's lives as well do little 10 second videos. I do with james Yes, I almost forgot. Um, don't forget. I will be tell you listeners. I will be um on a snapchat show Launching in the middle of august august 12th is a tentative launch date and it's going to be called brother It'll be on the discover tab on the top and I am on there making all my desserts So, um, have people tune into that as well. Nice one. Yeah, all right. There you go.  Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate you Thanks, james Thanks for having me and to the listener and to the viewer. Thanks for watching and listening catch you on the next one See ya


Well, it's my pleasure to welcome Andrew Skeuss, who's an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Adelaide and involved at the conference in a panel that's on human networks and factors influencing effective communication, particularly in conflict or disaster affected areas. Just before we begin that some of the key messages of your paper, how did an anthropologist get involved in this field of civil and military relations? That's a very good question. My history with communication and conflict goes back to work I did in Afghanistan. There I worked for a better or worse on BBC Radio soap opera that was looking at conflict reduction issues, was looking at humanitarian aid delivery. I don't know whether you've ever heard of a program called The Archers. There's a very famous radio for soap opera that's been running for a long time. But it's basically like an Afghan archers that we were looking at. And I did my initial PhD research on the impact of that radio soap opera. And that radio soap opera has been running now since 1994. So continuous production in two different languages, Pashto and Persian. So had an incredible impact on Afghanistan. What an amazing project. In a nutshell, what impact? Well, I think in the various phases of the Afghan conflict, you've had periods where the physical delivery of aid has been very problematic. So in that kind of context where you have maybe an open war, you have a very nasty civil war going on at that time and very little donor commitment to the country, particularly in the post-Soviet period, 89 onwards. Often the only resource that people who were struggling in the countryside would have was information. So the BBC hit on this idea of taking this very famous soap opera and integrating some very kind of hard and contemporary lessons about conflict, things like landmine awareness, things about basic health, for instance. I mean, I can give you an example.  So one of the key storylines in the soap opera was about going to the bazaar to buy a razor, which is wrapped up in, comes in a little sterile packet, and if they can cut the umbilical cord with a sterile implement and then put antiseptic on it, it reduces the incidence of neonatal tetanus. So a lot of basic health information, humanitarian information, a strong emphasis on conflict reduction. An absolutely fascinating example of really innovative communication. You're talking about factors influencing effective communication at the conference. What are the two or three key themes or messages you're going to be exploring in your presentation? The work that we're... And I'm co-presenting with Joe Arson from ABC International Development. But the work that we're presenting on is emerging from an AusAid systematic review. A systematic review is a particular way of dealing with a large body of data and information. We reviewed many, many articles and sources looking for the factors that influence effective communication in fragile states. So AusAid are very interested in fragile states and how they can best harness communication. And just that term, fragile state, that's a term of art, isn't it? What does it mean? Anything that could be or is conflict affected. So in certain countries where you have weak governance, you may have a very weak footprint for services in, say, rural areas. And that would typify a place like Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, the state, as we know it, only really exists in urban areas. And if you go into the countryside, there's almost no presence of the states. So that makes those particular rural areas very fragile and it makes the state fragile. There are many countries, particularly in Central and Western Africa, that fall under the fragile banner. Countries like Sri Lanka, to an extent, Nepal, in Asia as well. But the main majority of them are actually in Africa at the moment, so places like Rwanda, Sierra Leone. So you're going to be giving us some key lessons from an AusAid systemic review about how to communicate effectively in fragile states. Can you give us two or three of the big ones? Yeah, I think really what we're driving towards is the need for donors and implementers to look at a principle-based approach to communication. So if you want to have an impact, there's so many different things you can do in terms of communication. I gave the example of soap opera in Afghanistan. But if you look at the different interventions that occur in different countries across the globe, it's often dependent on what is acceptable in terms of media. It depends on what channels you have available to you. It depends on the type of message you're trying to get across. So rather than pick out particular examples of, say, talk about radio in Nepal or radio drama in Afghanistan or humanitarian information in Rwanda, what we've done is looked at the factors that influence successful outcomes or which constrain the outcomes. And it boils down really to looking at a set of principles associated with intervening in fragile states in the area of communication. So obviously understanding culture is critical. So working to understand things like media uses and preferences, what is acceptable and unacceptable in terms of content. There is the need also to think about participation. So generally, communication interventions that can work with and through communities have more impact than those that are just imposed on high. And that's a traditional contemporary kind of thrust within development more generally. And just one more? Yeah, well, evaluation is critical. I mean, one of the problems with all of this is that working in conflict affected environments is difficult. So it's difficult to develop the formative research to understand what you need to do. It's also difficult to undertake evaluation to find out what impact you've had. Well, this is just what I wanted to come to. I think I understand the idea of principles that can be applied in diverse range of circumstances in different cultures. But it's whether the communication changes behavior. So let's come back to the cutting of the umbilical cord. I think the most moving thing I've ever seen is a little kit that is distributed by UNHC, other United Nations High Commission for Refugees, which is a plastic bag and it has in it a plastic sheet, a tiny cake of soap, some string and a clean razor blade. And then one sheet of paper with no words that explains that if you have your baby on the plastic sheet, wash your hands, cut the cord with the clean blade and tie it off with that string, your baby will survive and so might the mother. And evidently they've saved literally thousands of mothers and babies. But it's getting it out and then getting the result. We struggle in Australia to get doctors and nurses to wash their hands in between beds. So messages go out, but do they change behavior? Any insights into that? Yeah, I mean, it's difficult in any behavior change intervention. If you're advocating, like the example you gave, access to resources or a service, that service has to be there. So you should never advocate a behavior change if there's no, say, commodity. So like in HIV prevention, it's all very well to advocate condom use.  In a sense, it sends a negative message. So making sure there's a service or a commodity to back up the communication that's around behavior change is critical. And that's difficult to do often in a conflict scenario. And I think one of the key examples here at this conference has been Ramsey. Which is the intervention in the Solomon Islands. The intervention in the Solomon's. And they've been very effective at targeting communication to services like the weapons collection services, access to legal services, and the police as well. So they're very well matched with the communication with the actual service provision. I'll just have one last question because I think some of the practical lessons you're going to try and share in terms of action points go to donors and asking them to intervene early, to commit in the long term, and also to invest in methodological tools. I was particularly interested in that because that's the one that's harder to understand. If I give my money to Red Cross or Oxfam or UNHCR, why should they spend some money on methodological tools? What do you mean? Okay, well, if I start at the beginning of those three things, I think the need, obviously conflict can move through different stages. So when we talk about understanding a communications environment, we talk about understanding why conflict occurs. It's much easier to intervene in the period of latent conflict before open conflict begins. So if we think about three types of conflict, we have latent conflict in which there's the potential for conflict. We have open conflict when the conflict is hot and actually taking place, and we have post-conflict scenario. So we want to understand the communications environment and the potential for effective communication and what constraints you might face. It's far easier to intervene in a latent conflict situation than in an open conflict situation. So again, the early commitment to intervene at that point is critical. And again, we need to recognize that conflict does move through different phases and require different kinds of communication in those different phases. So the communication you would engage with in the post-conflict stage is different to the open conflict stage and the latent conflict stage. So again, I think donors often have a history of being in it for the short term. They're in it during the crisis and then they'll pull out. Where are the tools for the end? The tools really is in terms of helping you understand the environment that you're working in. So there's potential to develop rapid assessment methodologies that specifically focus on communications and match those communications to whatever stage you may be in that conflict scenario. So it can point you to certain outcomes and interventions. And could we end with an example of a methodological tool that guides an appropriate intervention at the right time? Yeah, yeah. Okay, there are a number of tools that have been developed for general use in terms of communication and behavior change. One of them is called ethnographic action research. I'm an anthropologist by training. So it's taking some of the methods involved in anthropology which involves what they call it kind of deep hanging out as they call it, which is observing and participating with communities to really understand the pressures and the constraints they face. But that would often occur over a year, 18 months periods of fieldwork. So it's about taking some of the principles involved in those kind of methods, condensing them and working with people to become their own researchers if you like. So you can train people to be participatory researchers and actually have a stake in the decisions that affect them. So importantly, development is about getting communities involved and helping communities to direct where the development goes and because obviously that is about their future and their destiny. I thank you so much. It was so interesting and I love to learn a new term and deep hanging out. Deep hanging out, absolutely. It is something I'll endeavour to do more of. But Andrew Skews from the University of Adelaide, thank you very much. Thank you.


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What's gonna happen now is that we're just gonna give a hundred and sixty dollars in break credit Away, so we're gonna up at ten dollars and give you a hundred and sixty looks like Nick put it in there just now So those are only for customers that bought spots straight up if you want a spot in us in a pack break You're in the break regardless, but just this extra $160 is gonna go towards just customers that bought spots fully So again only these customers here from Aaron Chris Chris Zach Zach Kevin Kevin Smith Joshua Zach Victor Jeremy Chris again James James Zach and Liam So again, that's the only thing and now if you want spots in the sell-out packs or the prison packs the retail packs You're in the break regardless So we sold out 32 just we got forgot to take out the one So that's all it is so dice roll And again, we just added that about an hour into the break because people weren't moving until we wanted to kind of get people To entice to get into it. So you're in six out of three. That's nine times So I'm gonna roll the dice this is gonna be for someone who's gonna win a hundred sixty dollars in break credit And then of course we use the same dice roller for the customer names and the pack numbers between one and thirty two in The way it works. We randomize the customer names randomize the numbers whatever pack number you end up with is what you get We open it up and this is a high risk how reward type of break You're guaranteed a card it can range from as low as thirty dollars guys They can also range as high as three hundred dollars plus across the thirty two pack print run So obviously it's a risk, but it's a pretty cool fun break to get into though So again six and a three nine times is for a hundred sixty dollars in break credit one two three four five six seven eight and nine nine times So six and three nine times Zack Sorenson, so congratulations. You just won sixty dollars and break one hundred sixty dollars in break credit So instead of giving away a spot on the break since we oversold it We're just gonna send you a hundred sixty dollars in break credit and again you can use that You can use that across the website for whatever you'd like and I'll write this down I'll do it at the end of the break Now let's do it for the customer names and the pack numbers. Good luck one two three four five six seven eight And nine nine times Zack Paul and Kevin Sullivan nine times here now on the pack numbers one through thirty two two three four six seven eight And nine six down to twenty three All right, so that probably got packed six Chris with 12 James. You have 29 Daniel 27 Chris with 18 Jared with 32 Matt with 24 you won that in prison 10 Kevin Smith with 16 Liam with seven Zach Sorenson with eight Zach Paulie from prison nine you got 14 Jared from prism nine you got 20 as well as 17 from prison 10 Branson from prison nine you got 21 Chris from prison 10 You got 13 Victor with 26 followed with 30 from prison nine James at 25 Zach with two from prison 10 or prison. Yeah prison tip Zach Sorenson. You have 28 Philip from prison nine You have 15 Charles with prison 10 you got 19 Zach Sorenson with 11 Chris with four Zach with 31 Chris with 22 Jeremy with nine Aaron with five Joshua with three Kevin from prism nine You have pack one Joshua with 10 and Kevin Sullivan with 23.  That makes it a little easier on all of us We'll go alphabetical order. Let's print and let's rip Nice your purchase of ps3 today. Honestly, that's one of the only consoles from like ps3 ps2 to ps3 4 I don't I never had a ps3. I Think from ps2. I skipped to like Xbox 360 and I didn't get a ps3 then I went to ps4 and then I still have a ps4 Alrighty, so good luck. Let's start off with Aaron and Aaron actually started let me print out these labels that makes my life easier too as well and the shipping team's life easier About one second guys and let me tell that Aaron you got pack five pack five Good luck We got a Josh Jacobs and again the card is fine. It's just the magnetic is a little scratched and that is a little silver rookie autograph from prism collegiate So there you go, Aaron. Your first one is right there up next Brenton you got pack 21 21 21 Wow, look at this what look at even as a prover of 22 one illustrious legends autograph from spectra on card That is Jim zorn and it is a two out of two Very nice That's awesome All right, so there you go brenton pack 21 Charles you have 19 Wow, it's at the Sean Watson 10 out of 20 from flawless. It's a three-color patch in the on-card autograph 2018 flawless Very nice. Nice one, Charles. All right, chris. You're up next buddy. Good luck four 12 18 22 and 13 so 412 4 You got 12 You got 13 over here too as well Then you got 18 22 18 22 4 is all in order 4 12 18 22 and end up to 13 All right, good luck. So again force first four We have a immaculate collection ink Peyton Manning 24 out of 25 Very nice, and this is from 2017 immaculate collegiate. Very nice Next one 12 12 Wow, look at this. It's a one of one Looked like the big 12 or big 10 patch Parish Campbell There you go, chris. You're gonna be wide awake now. Sorry. I got you a little confused earlier 18 Wow, you got one of the salshy hits.  All right, next one daniel peterra prism 9 pack 27 No problem chris. Wow, there's a cell sheet here, and it's a rookie collegiate ticket 15 out of 25 to shawn watson Very nice There you go daniel and you won that from prism 9. How about that? Followed from prism 9 as well getting pack 30 We got a keenon allen and that's a rookie from crown royale, and it's a one out of five keenon allen How about that? That's rare right there It's back from i think 2013 pinning the crown royale. How about that? That's nice Followed there you go, man James You got two of them pack 25 and 29 25 29 Good luck, man. This is a graded card. I believe graded card. Oh Hey, oh, what is this? Wow, there's a kyler murray 2019 panini spectra neon greens kyler murray jersey autograph It's a three color patch, and it is a 9 5 10 25 out of 50 There you go Very very nice There you go james I'm excited to ray ray rice um You know because I'm just going to collect a lot of his organ stuff. Not that I don't want the charger stuff, but I'm more of a big organ ducks fan, of course. I'm just going to be following justin On his charges journey. So I just really want to collect anything organ So I want to get like definitely at the orange cracked ice like college ticket and stuff like that and we got a dual Patch autograph of jared goff and cooper cup six out of ten from limited Nice you got arm of danger. That's sweet, man Yeah, I do like those leaf carp for sure. Those are so nice Jared You got a couple as well dogs for life Uh 17 32 and 20 so 17 32 and 20 all right 17 17 And it's ezekiel eliot 2016 rookie die cut autographs mint nine with the 10 autograph 19 out of 25 very nice 32 It's a one of one perning plate autograph of drew breeze Is this from 2000 and wow this is 2006 dawn russ Back when it was his first year as a As a saint that's pretty cool 2006 dawn russ nice Yeah, we can talk about that brian, but what has usc done lately and let's say Well, I guess they did it with sam dawn that one year, but in the last 10 years I remember this one actually There you go three out of three Actually acquired this for us for hit packs Carson wands alshan jeffrey and zacher. It's three out of three. Look at those beautiful patches Jeremy My thing is people's is that how is it that usc always has the best recruiting class almost every year in the pack 12 Maybe not the last two years because organ's been dominating but Yet they still don't win what's up with that Always getting five star recruits and never happening And definitely head to head. I don't think usc's beat organ in a long time Oh, there you go Jerry rice Superbowl champions from spectre, which is a nebula One out of five joshua You got three and ten What are you talking about juan? I'm talking about recruiting classes No, I'm just talking about recruiting classes meaning the players you recruit to come to your school drew lock flash of greatness nine out of 20 and pack three I'm not talking about pack 12 titles. So I mean if that's the case Yes, uw has has won a lot of them in the last 10 years, but Also, uw hasn't been to a national championship two times in the last 10 years Is that correct?  We're kind of we're talking cowboys talking about what you see Brian and we're talking history Kevin m with pack one. I mean we're talking about what you've done lately in the last like 10 years Tony Pollard four to seven But see that's the one thing that you see could just look it. I'm like I'm just talking organ football With usc the last 10 years we're talking about history Of course usc is gonna kill and then we're talking just all over college A big buddy of mine that I actually buy or I sell for I sell cards for He's he went to usc. He always we always joke around with usc um And he always says the same thing like, you know usc and ucla like one of the two best colleges You can go to when it comes to athletics because I remember at one point when I was really studying it Using ucla were like the most national championships across the board in athlete in athletics You had like over a hundred in like all sports You know, but I was talking about football leave That's all I'm talking about and I always tell him I don't care about all that has usc beat oregon in this amount of time And then he knows we have not That's all it is All right, kevin smith And i'm gonna wrong if I can choose to go to usc if I were to get a scholarship to go to usc I would go to usc if I could choose to get a scholarship to go to uscla I would go to uscla I'm not saying I wouldn't go to oregon. I actually would love to go to oregon It's like last year I was actually gonna go to uscb last year, but I remember I had something planned I think I had a break that weekend or something and I couldn't even go To uh to that oregon game here in us in usc And they murdered usc too But I was able to make it up and go to the national jump. Oh, sorry not To the rose ball game, which is pretty fun We got a josh allen 11 out of 20 and that's uh 2018 flawless collegiate. Wow. That's technically a rookie josh allen.  I'm just curious I feel like I'm thinking like you did probably That's sweet, man. All right kevin selva now with 23 That's sweet, man my brother-in-law Actually is an it guy at usc for the medical center kek So he's like technically a usc employee and like he always gets like crazy perks with usc. So cool If my niece gets the good grades enough She can actually get to go to usc tuition free. It's crazy to think kind of one of the perks Or at least they pay for like most of the tuition or something All right, 23 Wow, there you go team signs That's a one out of five baker mayfield and mark andrews Do autograph. Oh you Yeah, like I always tell people when it comes to like eagles I grew up with it because of my my my nephew's dad Like ronald clunningham in the 90s and I kind of grew up with him and my nephew So I always got to watch like um So I always got and like, you know Got him to get into eagles because of that So early mignab is like my favorite quarterback still to this day But when it came to oregon Not that I didn't watch college football, but I didn't really follow it much It wasn't until like 2003. I believe 2004 when I really really got into it and um In long like seven. I really got into with denis dixon I'm trying to help you guys know but denis dixon was a beast in college And he would have won a national championship that year in oaf seven He would have won a heisman if he didn't tear his aco against arizona. They lost they got upset at number two. That was crazy I was so pissed that day It was so good But he tore his aco and that was it Should have busted the carcinox and we got 20 out of 25 dion sanders Well, you never know zack just because it's not in the south. It doesn't mean it's not a good hit We only put up what One two three four five six cars in the cell sheet. We had 32 packs. So there's a so there's some nice stuff in here, man Oh, all right. I'll start to hear about that brand. But yeah, so you guys we've gone to us. You said, so yeah oj actually helped her move into her dorm. No way. That's a cool story oj actually just finished watching the the oj the documentary on ESPN with my wife the other day my wife wanted to know more about oj because she's really into sports, but Crazy crazy crazy crazy All right 24 You go matt Now we got a dak prescott hot rookies From phoenix football to 199 That's a rookie dak prescott I'm sorry about that peoples. I know but it'll be the first thing tomorrow probably I wouldn't doubt it All right, phillip with pack 15 It'll marinate for overnight And you'll get that tautis brine Out of 15 And we got a rookie of the year contenders very nice josh allen That's money right there. That's really nice josh allen is pretty good, man. I actually really like this guy He can run he has a cannon all right victor 26 Damn zack you want all these spots besides your one spot straight up in prism 9 and 10. That's crazy Take that one two three color patch and autograph phoenix football Out of 15. That's a rookie Patch autograph another josh allen. Wow Yeah, yeah, no problem, man. I know man. What about UCLA for sure that has to be You you can get in with joe joe's a big UCLA guy, which I have no idea why but I just think because he need he lives nearby use UCLA. That's why All right, zack 31 2 6 And 14 and then these would be for the rest of Oh, sorry. The last three will be for zack here sorenson So we got 31 2 6 And 14. Oh, that's right. You guys are kind of Spore out was those right Apple Apple modules for you guys Yeah, 31. Wow. Look at that. That's a dan marino Autograph from donner's classics 2005 Old school and look at that five out of 15 Like that zack Like that That was pack 31 That was from your full spot Pack two we got a zika elliott from unparalleled And that is from 2017. It's a five out of five That is a Mega moon lava five out of five. That's pretty cool six and then 14 a james connor raider rookie And it's uh 1923 autograph. I just remember that it's not the card in that scratch is just a magnetic and your last one zack Pack 14 No problem chris. Appreciate it, buddy That is a rookie baker mayfield I believe these are from honors 34 to 35 And again baker stock is kind of fell off and lamar's is just skyrocketed, but honestly You know, I think baker still has a lot of potential on upside And hopefully he can turn it around because I feel like You know, if you were out there buying baker right now You can definitely turn it into a great great profit if you can get back to To being pretty good As he showed flashes in his rookie season when he did play All right zack Last one's buddy eight 11 and 28 and then you're also gonna get 106 dollars and break credit So eight 11 and 28 another jerry rice autograph. How about that two out of 10 from clear vision? very nice 2015 clear vision darno's another one too brian He showed great flashes and I think at towards the end of last season He was just killing it when he finally came back from mono. That's another good one I think If you can pick up on the low this year, he could be another good one to flip over And we've got david sales and will grill do autograph from flawless Collegiate dual signatures nine out of 25 You know, it's just all about people who they fall in love with, you know Next year someone's gonna fall in love with another second-year player and then their stuff is just gonna skyrocket You know and someone's stock will eventually go down which sucks too, but Still there it goes last one Wow, look at that But his eyes are like that Mike singletary one out of five flawless collegiate when he went to baler.  This was the uh jasper's football hit packs That we did today on may 17th. We were guaranteed a card Pretty sure that guys uh one more break left tonight win some spots And the baseball hit packs that we'll be doing tomorrow. Appreciate it


Hello, this is the Greater Lagos Vision and I'm your host, Love Ikuku Oyeduku. Lagos State Governor Babaji Desaoulu has announced a 100% funding increase for the state's employment trust fund. According to the governor, the increase is part of measures to help grow small businesses across the state through soft loans. The governor made this declaration at the second edition of the Lagos Employment Summit, co-convinced by LSEETF and the Ministry of Economic Planning and Budget. Saoulu also noted that the state government had committed over 10 billion Naira in grants in the past three years to strengthen the activities of LSEETF, supported 4,000 micro-small and medium enterprises MSMES. This is the Greater Lagos Vision. I'm your host, Love Ikuku Oyeduku. Welcome once again. This episode features transport sector reform, Saoulu kicks off e-mailing large drive service with 1,000 sports utility vehicles for fresh face. As part of efforts to reduce frequent cases of collapse building and liabilities associated with it, the Lagos State government is set to introduce a mandatory insurance digital solution platform for all property owners in line with the Federal Government's Insurance Act. The house being cases of collapsed buildings across Nigeria and Lagos is not an exception. This results in loss of lives and billions of Naira in investments. The 21-story building in Ikui Lagos, which collapsed on November 2, 2021, was under construction before it caved in. The state government has now taken the bull by the hand to prevent such occurrence. In the last 44 years, there have been over 500, 480 building collapses to be precise, and this is the information that we have, this is the data that we have. Imagine so much more that we didn't even catch them. And this just highlights and goes to strengthen the importance of insurance. To reduce the burdens and losses incurred by victims of collapsed buildings, the state government enters into a collaboration with insurance companies to ensure safety and in the event of liabilities, pay compositions to the persons concerned. We are taking the purchase of occupiers' liability to another level. We want to, first of all, sensitize everyone that this insurance is not about IGR, it's not about what comes to the insurance industry, it's about the safety of all. You know, sometimes we say, God forbid, it will not happen, but many times we have seen it happening. And when it happens, some financial responsibilities come with it. In Loree Oz, the other digital solution platform will provide H3 and transparent activity. Lagos State Governor Baba Jidesawon Loh has reiterated his administration's commitment towards supporting innovative ideas and investment in technology to achieve global solutions. Governor Sawon Loh who stated these are the opening ceremony of the Microsoft facility at Ikoi said it was inspiring to see efforts made by the company in putting up the smart building despite the challenges posed by COVID-19 pandemic. It's incredible to see what an imprint of Microsoft here in Lagos and in Nigeria. I mean, given the level of investment, it's not only encouraging, it's actually very audacious. And most indeed, see that it's going round, it's indeed a smart building and you put a lot of research. I don't expect anything less with a global name like Microsoft, but it's really around how we now, like you said, develop local skills and local talents and local people. We understand what needs to be done to ensure that your investment is safe and secure, but more importantly, the kind of partnership that you require to see grow. As a government directly, we see ourselves working with Microsoft even on the business side, but more importantly, in terms of infrastructure and developing the space so that, you know, growing a lot of people, you know, and the citizens can't utilize the full benefits of what resources are put in here. Lagos State Governor Baba Jidesawulu has sworn in three new permanent secretaries, bringing the total numbers of 50 in its public service in less than three years. The governor charged them to justify the confidence reports on them by adding more value to the service. Almost 70 to 75% of the current crops of permanent secretaries were appointed in administration, and that tells two things. One, the fact that we want to identify, continue to identify, you know, and recognize the brightness of our whole lot in the service of Lagos State, and that's what we're doing. Secondly, it's also to give people that are deserving this position. We know how enviable it is to rise up to the position of permanent secretaries, but if you are deserving of it, we will not deny you or deny you of that. As part of measures to ensure and guarantee the comfort and maximum safety of communities, the Lagos State government has launched a new e-healing taxes scheme. The scheme will complement a multi-modal transport network being developed in Lagos in accordance with the strategic smart supply of the state. That's according to the governor. A partnership agreement for a new e-healing transport scheme was signed in 2021 by Lagos State governor Babajidisawulu N-Chinese CIG Motors Company Limited. The results of that agreement is now manifest with the launch of the new e-healing tax scheme. It is known as Lagos Ride with 1,000 sport utility vehicles for the first phase. The scheme is expected to compete with other e-healing platforms. The driver or operator has a right to own the vehicle after payment is fully made within three to four years. Governor Sawulu said the initiative is to further ensure a seamless transportation system for the commuting populace in the state. Under this arrangement, all beneficiaries will be provided with a brand new car, which over time will become the driver's property after the completion of the payments of the vehicles that have been heavily subsidized. The governor described today as historic. He said it's a step to further drive the development of the transportation master plan to put Lagos on the plan of a safer, comfortable, modern and forward-looking tax scheme. We are starting and we're putting our money down to show to the private sector that we can do it and we all can do it collaboratively. These are no workers of Lagos State. These are Lagosians. These are Nigerians that will be taking over this. So our arms are open to other private sector investors to join us to ensure that we can increase this fleet to 3,000, to 5,000, to 10,000. Commission of transportation, Fredic Oladende highlighted some of the safety features of the scheme. The safety and security of lives and properties are equally as paramount as the pleasure the drivers of the riders will enjoy on the Lagos' ride taxi schemes. Here's the installation of security embedded dashboard camera in each car for real-time activities and monitoring with panic buttons connected to the control command center that can be used by either parties inside the car in case of assault or emergency. Plus, TV News spoke with some of the beneficiaries. It was something that we saw that will be of benefit to drivers, especially to alleviate the challenges and the burdens that drivers have in terms of owning their cars. The modern ride service is one of the state governments to show economic intervention programs. The government promised to get it professionally managed in line with global best practices.  That's a message from the managing director, CEO of Lagos Waste Management Authority, Loma, Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni, to Lagosians. Odumboni said residents comply with get reduction in waste bills and increase for those who don't. He added that Loma was engaging recycling as a veritable tool to tackle the challenge of plastic pollution as a state generated about 13,000 metric tons of waste daily, with plastic materials constituting 17%. Joining me shortly is the managing director, CEO of Lagos Waste Management Authority, Loma, Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni. For more insight into how Loma is complemented by the government's agenda and a dream of a smart mega city. That's after this break. Please stay with us. In terms of waste management, there are various chains in the various steps in the value chain of waste management that we need to ensure that a lot of things are taken about from point of generation, sorting your waste from source, containerization, collection, disposal and treatment and also maybe waste to energy and waste to wealth. We need to ensure that that chain all connects very well. And part of the way we want to connect is to encourage distribution from source so that the end value will be there for everyone to see. Also, if we continue to sort our waste from source, we can tackle things like pollution, plastic pollution and waste pollution in a couple of areas across the states. So if we look at Lagos as about 25 million plus people living there, knowing fully well that each and every one of us will generate about 176 single bottles a year. And with that in mind, we have about 4 billion bottles generated annually. So if those 4 billion has been generated annually and not captured or taken aback to produce new ones, does that really mean that over the next 10 years we're going to do 40 billion bottles? What about the previous 40 billion bottles that we have? So we can continue that vein of that vein. We need to change the way we live. We need to modernize. We are now an emerging economy in Lagos and I know that we are a pace setter for other states in Nigeria.  So for us, we cannot continue to depend on the landfill structure where everything goes to landfill. We should be able to extract all the usable resources from our waste before we consider landfill as an option. And I know that there will be a point from our plan over the next 10 years to ensure that we achieve zero waste in Lagos as an emerging economy in Africa and as a pace setter for other states and other countries around us as well. And for our household, the reason why we initiated that on the 1st of April, all residential estates and companies or private organizations should start is because before we rule it out to everyone across the state we believe those organized environments where it's controllable and achievements are measurable as well. And we've also seen that a lot of these are our communities since the introduction of the Blue Box scheme which gave back to Lagos Recycle, was initiated on the 5th of September 2019. We've seen a couple of estates that are doing one form or the other of recycling, but now we're formalizing it. We're encouraging them to ensure that the waste are not coming out. We also encourage them to use a tubing system where there's a general waste and there's a recyclable waste. And we want to ensure that all our recyclables are also used to generate jobs, a lot of jobs have been generated from recycling over the last 24 months, over 6,000 jobs are encountered. And we believe that there will be effects on our lagoons and shorelines and our drainages. There will be a time where you won't be able to see any single boat in our drainages, in our canal and water will flow easily. And all the marine habitats we have the freedom to develop without having to be also accommodating plastics or floating waste. Paying for waste management is sacrosan. It's not free because the people that are running are the people that are going for you, catering for your domestic waste all across. Loma as an agency and lago state, we cater for the public spaces. And we regulate all the private businesses or private residential properties that they service. But these businesses are there as a business that we are building to grow. We don't want any of them to be a going concern. So if people are resisting to pay to them, it basically, you're denying them the opportunity to give a transact. And I want to also state that we have a enforcement and monitoring team that ensure that when we have cases like that, what do people call woolly woolly? Our health officers are there to support the CDS, the CDCs, to be able to tackle or mitigate against any discourse and manage the situation when we have any tenement or any household that's having the issue of waste management. And in situations whereby it's gone beyond management, then we have a legal system that backs that. So the lago state also backs over 28 magistrates. There's no room for ignorance. There's no room for excuses. We've not gone all the way. We've created a law academy to be able to educate people and create awareness. All our public primary schools in Lagos, through the support we submit, and Mr. Governor and Mr. Rajdeesan, we will be able to educate them on waste management. And they are going to be our ambassadors, our advocates for the parents that they are under to be able to ensure that we turn change from bottom up. Why we continue to use publicity, media outreach, conversation to let our adults understand and also remind them of their responsibility. But all in all, there's no excuse for ignorance in waste management. We do a lot of things across stream and it's always out there and that's why we are lighted for all stakeholders, all interest parties to be able to understand where we are and where we stand at this point in time. We've been very innovative and we've been very proactive about the way we approach waste management in Lagos over the last two years by showcasing ourselves and ensuring that in a lot of ways we're communicating to people with what we're doing. So we have our social media handles, our website, our app and also we collaborate with other agencies to ensure that our message are passed across. There is no day that you will not hear about Loma either in the news or you see us or with our PSPs or with our sweepers down the road. But the key thing that I must stress out there is waste management goes beyond collection and dumping of waste. The only part of it that we need to all work on which is me, you and all our listeners out there is the attitude and change. You can deploy the entire trucks in the old world to Lagos to manage waste. But if we don't change our attitude, if we don't start doing the right thing the first time, if we don't start doing what we know that is proper, if we don't start following what the law says, if we don't start looking after ourselves, if we don't start changing our attitude to what the cleaner environment is, we all know this, we all know the benefit of the environment, we all know the benefit of what the clean environment brings to in terms of health, we all know all these things about why are we still doing the wrong thing. So that's why we continue to advocate. You see Loma, we've started going across all the LCDA this year. We've been to 18 LCDAs after the LCD and LGA after the 57 and we continue to ensure that all that is completed before the first week of June. And what do we do there? We go there, we synthesize them across the chain of waste management from collection, generation, separation, containerization, recycling, treatment, and also the loads of achievements that we made. One of the major ones is you look at COVID-19. Without Loma, where do you think we'll be with COVID-19? Lagos as a very popular, populated state. What do you think we'll be with COVID-19? With the small land mass, also nearby water, everybody conjugating as one. What impact, what role do you think Loma played? So for people out there, a lot of people out there understand that we played a vital role to support our government. We're just ensuring that COVID-19 was mitigated with the risk of COVID-19. We started with integrating all our medical waste during the period of COVID-19 to date. So we take all the medical waste all across the state and ensure that they are all insulated. We move them from traditional treatment of medical waste. We also ensure that we have a dedicated team that trained and specialist in this. And by doing so, we will reduce all the risk across. We've also used that to develop and automate our system in terms of management of waste. We've looked at the need for us to regionalize our operation. So we divide our operation into five different districts and then we manage from there. So if you think of me now, what's going on in a quail, or a pedigree with a click of a finger, I can tell you exactly what's there because I have Loma operatives there. So we've done a lot across, we've reformed some of our legacy programs, like the sweeping program is all being reformed. Our engineering team is now functioning as a solely made in Nigeria engineering team. We make our beans ourselves. We design our trucks ourselves. We assemble our truck ourselves. We fix our truck ourselves. We're making things ourselves, rather than buying and maintaining. So a lot of changes are across for us. I think one of the reflections that we have in waste management is we have a lot of, it goes as a very big advantage over every other state in Nigeria in terms of waste management, in terms of the fact that the human capital and the sector around it are very knowledgeable and passionate about it. Starting from the governor, he understands it very well and he provides a lot of mentorship and leadership and coaching for us on waste management. So he's given. We have a governor that waste management is giving to. Then I have a law of management team or senior executive team in Loma and junior staff in here. We are all very scientific about everything we do and sustainability is very key to us. So a lot of things I've known, a lot of things I've learned, a lot of things I'm learning. There's no end time to learning in waste management. And all these people that have been in this practical over the years are now having the benefit of having someone from the economic side of things, from the technical side, coming in to inject a lot of sustainability into what we're doing. I really appreciate the opportunities it gives. But for legutions, it just basically demonstrates what the future holds for us. Waste management is never going to be the same. Every year, year in year out, there will be changes that we are making for a better living for legals. For legals as a whole. I'm very confident that by the end of this year we have an MOU in place for our first energy facility in Legals. Why must we teach that in Legals? The energy facility that we're going to have in Legals will try and find the best sustainable at a very affordable cost and also strategically placed for the states. We're also going to look at what fits. We are not going to use one-size-fits-all, but we are going to choose the best propellant, the most active propellant, and the more realistic propellant to be able to deliver that to us. We've reached a time whereby 100% of what we have in waste can be put to use. And in putting that to use, it is very important that we understand what our future goals are. Our future goal for waste management is to have an energy plant in Legals which is our immediate goal in this year. And then to ensure that over the next three or four years we start to help to solve some of the energy problems that we have in entirety across the states. And by ten years time, we should be able to have replicated what we've done across a certain part of Nigeria and look at movable energy. If you look at the team's agenda, one of the key agencies that I was mentioning, the team's agenda, if you really digest it, is LOMA. LOMA was mentioned as an agency on the team's agenda when looking at the health and environment. And it shows the importance of what we do here to every part of the agenda. And I believe that with the structure the team agenda creates and the interlink that LOMA has with other agendas we are on course to ensure that a successful delivery is given to all the ultimate goals of the agenda. And I can well assure you that we are giving the opportunity to innovate, develop, evolve, be dynamic and challenge the norm in LOMA. And that's why we are here where we are now. On a daily basis, we challenge the norm. We go to look at status quo. What do we need to change there? What do we need to improve? If it's not broken, sometimes we leave it. But if it needs to be fixed, we go all out and find out the root cause. And how can we make sure that the changes that we are making is sustainable? And I can tell you out there part of the smart city agenda and the team's agenda is to ensure that we are not just doing it and just not coming from some of this head or some of this thought or some of this ideology. We are not professionalising what we are doing. So I'm happy to tell you that even all my management team and my junior management team will be proceeding on a sustainability and circular economic training for them to be satisfied as waste manager for the state. And what that does is increase sustainability for LOMA for the future and also build on from what our government's agenda is in legal states. That's all we have for you in this episode of the Britannicus Vision on PlaceTV Africa. I'm Lovie Kuku Uyiduku. Bye for now.