The last question is, as a Chinese American man, I love, I love pasta. Well, we're about to bust a suit. From the Godfather to Jersey Shore and from garlic bread to Chef Boyardy. Since arriving in the 1900s, Italian Americans have made their mark in American culture. So we're here to ask the real questions today. Is spaghetti and meatballs authentic? Do Italians consider themselves white? Did pasta come from China? Listen, we're going everywhere from Italian American food to dishes straight from Florence.  What's going on, everybody? Welcome to our brand new series called the World NY NYC is filled with so many different cultures that came at so many different times. But perhaps one of the most iconized through media is the Italian American. So today we're here with our friend Marco Lombardi. Hello, everybody. My name is Marco Lombardi from the Lower East Side, 100% Italian, four generation, half an athlete on half Sicilian. This is Emilio Bellato's authentic Italian food. And it reminds a lot of my grandmother's cooking. So we're going to have fun. We're going to feast. Hey, don't worry, guys. We're social distancing. We had masks on. We just took them off of the intro, but, yo, Marco, we got to eat. Let's feast, guys. Aren't you guys?  So Emilio Bellato, it's authentic, but it's also Italian American at the same time, correct? Yes, correct. So I think most of these dishes we have right now, I think they're mostly all Italian American because everything has cheese on it. All right, guys. So we have the appetizers right here. We've got the croccia bread. I usually eat garlic bread, usually with some mozzarella cheese on it. So this is like very Italian like for me to eat. So for the first dish, we got meatballs with spaghetti and we got the marinara sauce with a little basil. And this looks amazing, guys. All right. So we got our lasagna with, I think that's what's it all cheese on there with a nice marinara sauce? This is the chicken palm. It's another like staple of like Italian American tradition right here. This is like what I grew up eating on like Sundays. It's a very light sauce. You have your linguine and your clams, nice seafood sauce. Hell, yeah. So did you got to serve it up with the tongs, too? Oh, of course. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, one day I actually put my fork in there and I got to scream that and hit with a wooden spoon. Oh, I stopped doing that immediately. My grandmother doesn't play no games. Spaghetti meatballs. That's good. Wow. Yo, that is not all of garden. That's not all of garden. That is not all of garden. That's super good, too. Oh, the pasta is really firm. I like it, man. Yes, yes. We're getting into the lasagna now. The layers are really soft. I feel like that's house-made. That's house-made for sure, I ain't no clam. Let's do the linguine with clam, man. That's, yo. That's my favorite. This linguine with clam, I think is the best one we have. This reminds me, honestly, of a Sunday, 4.30 p.m. Sunday, watching football with my whole family, and my grandma's cooking this for most of the day. But, did you guys try the anchovy caesar? Yeah, I don't think we... Yo, the anchovy... I think anchovy caesar, I'm sorry. Anchovy set that off. So, real quick, what's the difference between your two sides? So, you said you're half Sicilian, half Napoli Don. Those are both in southern Italy, but what's the difference between the two? So, Sicily is an island called Italy. Yeah, your waist health. You're, like, close to Africa called different. So, in Sicily, you have more farms, and it's an island off of Italy, and you're right by the Mediterranean Sea. So, you're darker. You're just darker people. And with... More mixed with the North Africans. Exactly, yes, yes. Northern Italy, you share the border, like, by France. You could look pretty different north to south. Exactly, yeah, like, way different. Like, a guy from, like, northern Italy can have blue eyes, curly hair. When a guy from the south, he's more of a dark, dark type of features he has.  Exactly, yes, yes, yes. In context of the Italians, yeah. So, it's funny, because when people ask me, like, are you white, I'm always like, no.  And I'm always like, no, I'm actually an Italian from Sicily. So, yeah, that's really interesting. A lot of people don't know, because I think a lot of times when people come from any region to America, it's just like, oh, you just, you're this. It's just one thing. It's just one thing. But when you go to Italy, they're super provincial, right? They're super like, but where are you from? Where are you from? Which pasta do you eat? Which sauces do you eat? Yeah, which style of dish. Yeah, no, exactly. And it's funny, because whenever I tell people, like, half Sicilian and half Navledon, they're always like, which one do you prefer? Because they don't. I guess they don't like each other. And I believe it's because of Sicily. That's where the mob started. So, people really, they don't like to talk about it at all. And it's like, frowned upon, I guess, to be like Sicilian. So, there's times where I have to, like, fill the person out. And I'm like, oh, I'm Navledon. And then you're like N-Watt of Sicilians. So, you can't even get tribal within Italian-Americans based on where your grandparents are from. When you were with the Sicilians, or are you ever playing up the wise guy, like, identity? And then when you're with the more northern side, you're more like, yeah, of course, the Romans. The Romans, you know, they were cultured guys, you know? They were great people. But yeah, you know, not really all the time, though, honestly. But you're saying back in the day, it was more like that. Yes, absolutely. People cared more. Oh, people cared more. All right, we are wrapping it up here at Emilio Bellado. And we're going to go take a quick walk around little Italy. And then we're going to end off the video at a very, very traditional, authentic Italian spot. Where do you like to go in? I don't like to go in little Italy. To be honest, it's too touristy, but I like to hear. I understand that. Forget about me. Other places. I want to learn too. I want to go to a nice place. I'm looking to learn every f***ing day. Tell me where. Almost. How about you guys? You're going to come in with this. What do you think? What do you like? Close to Italian. It's Italian food, but a little bit Americanized. You know how meatballs started with spaghetti meatballs? It's Sunday in southern Italy. We make meatballs. We fry meatballs in lard. And we eat them because in southern Italy, we don't have much alabor. And it's very expensive.  Once a year, they kill the pig. They take the fat, they make lard. And they make meatballs. And when they made meatballs, the majority is bread. Because a long time ago, meat was a lot of money. So they would put a little percentage of cheese, eggs, and they would fry the meatballs.  The next day, when you get tired of them, they put a little sauce on it, and they make a little tomato with... Oh! So putting the meatballs in the spaghetti was almost like a way to get the leftovers eaten. Yeah, there you go. We make food very simple here. Simple food. Like I said, the best ingredients bring the best product. The money can buy maybe four or five ingredients. That's the key. Right. And it's made with loads. With a lot of love. A lot of love. And you know what? The owner is always got to be there. Okay, so the clam linguine and the chicken parm, those were the best I've ever had. And Emilio, the owner, definitely did live up to the hype, too. It was like a scene out of the Sopranos. It reminded me about how good Italian food can actually be. The portions are huge. The ingredients are great. But bring some friends, because you know, the good stuff ain't cheap. What is a Lower East Side Italian's opinion on Little Italy? It's very nostalgic to me. Even just the smell of like the pastry shops. Even in Little Italy, there was a feast in September. It's old culture and all the time, and all the generation, you know, a lot of them are older now. A lot of them like moved out of the neighborhood. And it's just not really the same anymore. I had barely been into Italian restaurants before, to be honest. And that is definitely one of the more expensive ones. But the higher quality ones. And it gave me that real authentic experience. All right, just like Emilio Bellato said, we got to get an espresso. This is actually my first time getting a true espresso. Did you do this growing up? Yeah, more for like family events, though, more than anything, before we drink it, guys. Salute. Salute. When we walked in there, man, something that you kept talking about was the rainbow cookie. It's my favorite Italian pastry. You know, you got your chocolate on the outside. You got your jelly on the inside. And, you know, the best thing about it is that... It's almost like a PB&J, right? Oh, this is the color of the Italian flag. Yeah, yeah. Rainbow cookie. I feel like that each layer has a different flavor. I'm getting more of the chocolate with the jelly. Cortino. This name, you had to get some clarification on, right? That reminds me what we're eating right now of how our Italian pastry shop smells. That's what you're eating. Oh, it does. All right, let's get in these cannolis real quick, man. That's really good. That, like, cinnamon vibe right now, right? Apparently, this is something from Italy. That's really good for a man. Because it almost tastes fermented, right? It's fermented, yeah, yeah. I guess this is a crazy weird way to put it, but, like, how do you fit in with, like, English whites? Like, more, like, people's opinions. You know what I mean? They're grandparents. Great grandparents. Don't speak another language. It's been English for, like, ten generations. I get along with them pretty good, to be honest. I get along with everybody pretty well, but... Do you feel like they look at you different and you look at them different? I think they look at me different just the way I speak, the way I talk to people, the way my culture is. But for me to look at other people like that, I usually don't tend to do that. I know that I get looked at in a different way for the most part by the English-Saxon whites. For sure. Because how I speak and how I look, especially, you know, they see the watch, the jewelry. They're immediately thinking a lot of things, right? They're immediately going to, like, tropes in their heads and movies. And that's where, like, the stereotypes begins. It begins there, you know? I'll look at this Italian guy from New York City, from Little Italy. Do they ever be like, hey, man, like, you know somebody, Yeah. One day I was driving and somebody asked, like, oh, you're Italian?   Like, they step right on the wheel, like, so I get that a lot, to be honest with you. But I just laugh about it now because I got that for so long that to me it's, like, normal. What do you think about people who I guess are more, like, the situation of GOMOs where they're, like, trying to come up in American society and they feel those stereotypes are holding them back?  You're more in the urban community. You're kind of, like, more multicultural like that. But what about the Italians that are trying to enter high society in America where that WASP background might be something more desired and more trusted than the Italian? Yeah, because I think it's hard, actually, but I also feel that that those guys who make it, they did everything they can, like, to be where they are in society. And you're always going to get your stereotypes. You know, it's just how you go about it. Like, Cuomo's brother didn't go about it in a good way. You know? He kind of confirmed it, right? Yeah, and he kind of confirmed it. But she apologized, which I respect for those Cuomo's so much, both of those brothers. But you have to try to look at those stereotypes and laugh about it if you want to try to be better than I guess you could say, like, your average Italian. Cadoli King, right? Cadoli King, pal. What's happening, man? This is Brent Marko. Hey, Marko. What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you guys mean? He's Italian-American and we always talk about, like, how can the Italian-Americans continue to represent Italian culture? How do they keep doing it? Even though little Italy is shrinking. Let me tell you something. All of them, they were shrinking. Chinatown's shrinking, too. Yeah, that's true.  We were all Italians around here. But as our kids got older and we want to, especially me, I want my kids to go to better schools and move out of New York City. Not literally in particular. Just out of New York City. Right. And we went to Rubu to Jersey and we got better schools for them. That's right. But as an Italian-American, I still live with my wife. Right. I still, you know, I still buy your pastries. I don't speak the language, too. I understand it. But the culture's still there. The people are still there. The food is still there. I believe they're still there. My man, Harry, he's from the Nicaragua. He's from the Nicaragua. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's one of the last Italian kids in this neighborhood. Now, when you say Nicaragua, Nicaragua downtown? Not in Brooklyn. The Nicaragua over here, right here. Right here? Yeah. What's your name? Mark Lombardi. Do you relate to me? Yeah, it's Mark Lombardi. Oh, V. Lombardi? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, it's my man, V. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll tell you the extra. Baby John. Yeah, definitely. Hey, hey, hey. You see that smoke? That's community. Community right here. Yeah. He's the neighborhood. It's not Little Litly. No, it was never. The Chinese invaded them. It's the Chinese that did that. Now, for Little Litly, it's still Little Litly on Mobile Street. For sure. Because we have the restaurants. They got a different group over there. They're locals. Yeah. People residents. Oh, yeah, it's commercialized. Absolutely. His name was not commercialized. Chinatown and Little Litly have been next to each other for many years. We have an organization called Two Bridges. Oh. Sure, you heard that. Right here. I've heard of Two Bridges. Yeah. So that's the organization. After 9-11, we went broke. Chinatown went broke. And when we advertised Chinatown, right, and we just took together two of us. The last question is, as a Chinese-American man, I love pasta. I love ravioli. I love portolini. You know what they say. But I love noodles and dumplings. But they say, what happened? We robbed the buses from the back. What do you think? Or you don't know it doesn't... I wasn't around then. I love Chinese food. But these people know that when they come out of this area, they've got to come to Little Litly and Chinatown together. Yeah. Make that show. Go to boat. Hey, make sure you send them my love. I will. Take care. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I haven't seen them in my baby John. You know, definitely. I haven't seen them in my whole world. Yeah. Like many of the Brazilian foods I've seen, and like a lot of other non-Italian American kids out there, when it comes to ravioli, lasagna, and baked ziti, I've only ever have the Olive Garden version or the microwavable version. So how about this time we just try a Master's version. Art, you guys, we having an Italian American feast at lamello. There's so many different levels between right here. This is what I eat on Sundays. Stuffed mushroom. What's inside is essentially a lot of vegetable and a lot of cheese. It has like that nice butter sauce on top of it. Yes absolutely. That's what makes it American. In Italy mostly they don't usually butter. They use a lot of olive oil. Here we have some well-done garlic bread. Told me it's almost like bruschetta at this point. Wow. Can we dip our garlic bread in the mushroom sauce? It's gonna be a sin if you don't. All right so we're talking to the manager here and he's actually Albanian but he speaks Italian and Spanish. In Albania I just learned because I didn't know anything. It's actually really close to Italy. All right David I have a piece of fresh basil for you and a stuffed mushroom. I feel like it's a 1975 mulberry street. How you doing? The Italian-American-American-Italian piece has arrived. So this is a very American Italian dish.  Well they didn't tell me to get out of the restaurant. Buon appetito a tutti bello. Big ziti. I might have had it at like a hospital cafeteria before. This is good though. This is better. And in Italy you might not find the portions this big. Like we eating for three of us I feel like they should be ten of us eating all this. This is shrimp parmesan. We better drink them. Kind of prawns are these bro. These are like lobsters. Let me serve up this vodka sauce. For me it's like the most basic dish honestly and I actually had this yesterday. What is vodka sauce? Is that a mix? It's a heavy cream sauce. It has a touch of tomato sauce, parmesan cheese and vatmen.  Yeah it doesn't have that much to get you drunk but you'll be like kind of that kind of tipsy. Vodka penne. This one's really good. Wow I gotta say man I'm surprised because you look at it it looks plain because there's no meat but the pasta is cooked perfectly it's still very chewy. Do it. That is a lot of cream. That is dangerous. Alright. In a good way. Yeah I'm an animal so I just going right with the fork and just make a mess. Chicken fettuccine Alfredo. I don't think anybody in the world can hate that except maybe people from Italy. So we got the chicken franchise with the rigatoni. I would say the chicken franchise like kind of lacks some of the conventional appeal. I feel like it's very like light like it's good for for now. After having this meal authenticity does not necessarily directly correlate with deliciousness. John I need to see you eat like two of those shrimps. I don't know why this is my favorite part when so excited. God. We're not at all gone anymore. We had a good discussion off camera because we concluded something. I would choose honestly the Italian American dish. Obviously the real authentic Italian but but if I'm trying to impress a female I'm going to take it to probably Emilio Bellato's show off a little bit teach of the real culture of Italy and then after two or three dates I bring it here and then maybe a dollar pizza the next day. Alright that wraps it up for the Italian American section and our next spot we're heading to is actually a Tuscany spot. Okay so time for some food that's so Italian Marcos never even tried it. Tuscany is a region known as the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance having a major influence on architecture, art, statues and all that high culture. In fact it has a pretty different reputation than Sicily so this is gonna be interesting. How different is the Tuscany cuisine from something that we might be familiar with if we just had the Sicilian? It's more south. They use a lot of the tomato coarse and of course down there in the south they use more seafood. In Tuscany they have the meats. We're here in the south village at Altesi restaurant.  We just spoke to the manager. He's from Italy. He tried to speak Italian to you. Yes I had no clue what he was saying. Did you see his reaction when you're like no I don't speak Italian. No you don't speak Italian. Yeah he got so upset. He goes you don't speak Italian. I think he said don't speak Italian. This is sliced beef from Tuscany with arugula. This is the Vitello Tannato. This is the Carpaccio, the raw beef. Have you ever had that before? Never had it before. It's really good. Yo this is the best Italian food I've had in one day man. Let's try this Berrata. Berrata is a very creamy soft mozzarella cheese over arugula. If you take the camera we get this all for free right? So it's on the house today. Yeah don't you I like that. Enjoy. The Sicilian hustlers. Oh man. Tagliatelle with ragù. This is lamb. Taglioni squint pasta. This is taglioni the squinting pasta. This is definitely something I feel like traditionally is more from Italy versus Italian-American yes. Oh how spicy. Oh I love that spice.  All right the lamb is amazing in this but the spice bro that's what takes it dude. Along with the top notch calamari we could also feel there was some inter-Italian hierarchical shade being thrown between Marco and the manager. You know it was all in good fun but it does go to show you the diversity within Italy. So let's end off at a gelato spot that was just opened by a guy from Milan. Who knows who we'll meet next. I can tell that while we're filming this and walking around a lot of people are looking at you because I don't think that many people your age speak with your type of New York accent in this part of town. So it's either my accent or I'm just really really loud. Right. So we could be a little bit of both. All right we're just looking for just a gelato. All right all right. Sicily specifically it's a melting pot because you have historically you have the Morse conquest that came through about 500 years ago you have the Franco Gala conquest you have Greeks you have a lot of Greek influence.  You have music you have culture and I think that's skirted over a lot when you're talking about when Americans think of Sicilian culture. I think it's unfortunate that's just my own personal opinion. Do you think it's just like a media thing that people found like they could make money off of it so that's the angle they just get to push and push because people think it's like it's cool in a bad way. Yeah I mean you know you have the elements of drama that play in and the elements that you can play up the media obviously it's a lot more interesting to have a saga about crime and you know violence. It's helps. Hollywood loves that because it's helps you know. And it's all simple also. It's a lot simpler story to actually throw. Right. Like why paint it with 20 brushes when you can just take one big brush. Exactly. Unfortunately you know your southern Italian culture your northern Italian culture is very very different. Not only culturally even in the modern sense but historically as well. Your cuisines of southern Italy are completely different from northern Italy. Your music is different. Your art is different. And your level of modernization is also even nowadays when you go to northern Italy mean as far as industries concern but it's more than what we even have here. So what would be your recommendation to like Italian Americans who like like what should they do to maintain Italian culture in your opinion? Study the history. I'm not history. I heard your voice on the history channel. The narrator. I know I did. But clearly you have done some studying. You looked into it. Yes. Italian has been in America for like a hundred years. Yeah. Roughly now in 2020 they're still kind of considered a little bit different than I guess like an Anglo white. They're more melted than they were. Right. What do you think other immigrant groups that are still in their second generation can take away from something like in their fourth of it? I know the best answer to this. Don't lose your language. The Italian Americans as a group have assimilated more than any other group and they lost their language with any other group. And that's the one thing that I can recommend. Yeah he's not talking about Chinese but it applies to me. So don't lose your language. That's the biggest thing that I can tell you. That's it. I'm marrying a girl from China. That's it. We came back to Mojolado. Which one do you like better? Fill it or not believe me? Yeah. You gotta choose. Which one would you choose? Yeah. I think she's feeling the pressure. Oh man. I like that. Good man. That other guy at the other spot didn't like. All right. Here we have a dessert that he kind of made up. This is the chocolate salami. Wow. That's really good. That's interesting.   I don't want to be stereotypical but it kind of did feel like a movie. I love being able to experience this with you. Marco, appreciate it bro. Yo thank you for having me guys. It was great man. It was like man I feel honestly like more American. Thanks for having me guys. It was great. It was great. I learned a lot of things from you guys too today. So I appreciate that man. I appreciate that. Like I said Marco, to me I don't know if you feel comfortable calling yourself you know an up-and-coming like comedic personality or whatever. Yeah maybe one day guys. Maybe one day you'll see me somewhere. I'm predicting it. Hey leave it in the comments below if you would like Marco to go be a comedian sometime. Yeah if you would want to see Marco explain more stuff in a pretty way. Let me know. Let me know baby. All right we're gonna have people vote but yo man that was such a cool video because to be honest it did force us to do a lot of research about Italy to actually look into the story behind all the mob stories and the culture and why they became like this. But also why that that's just a stereotype. That's just a small percentage of people. Thank you so much for watching this Italian American episode of the world and why huge shout out to Marco Lombardi again. Yo man guys we're family now baby. Could your name be more Italian? Lombardi? Lombardi I'm sorry guys. My bad. All right you guys thank you so much for watching. Please let us know your favorite thing that we ate in the comment section below. Please let us know another Italian American fact. Your favorite movie, your favorite tippet. There's so many in popular culture and until next time we out.  He knew your family. Yeah. And then my good friend over here uncle the uncle driving us. He's from the entire Chandon which is the very specific city that my mom is from.  Like look how it just happened you know it's such a small world and it's like I said the Italians and their Asian culture they're so tight knit and that's why I love it. Yeah I love you guys. I love you guys. You guys family. Yeah thank you. We feel the same way man. And you know what's dope?  Everybody knew. Yeah. And then it was just kind of like us with our friend right here saying like oh you're from where my mom is from? Like oh it's lit it's lit. Small world though man it really is. Yeah and like you said that sort of familial almost like back to the old village days. Exactly.


This video turned into a whole different thing. Oh my gosh, my brain hurts I originally wanted to share with you guys how to do a bunch of research so that you can eventually end up in front of casting directors for Netflix shows, but then I got a Email for an open casting call for a an amazing show. I love that show on Netflix for their season 2 and now I'm just like, okay I might as well just say all three ways that I know of so today I'm gonna tell you the three ways that I know you can audition for a Netflix show whether it's a Netflix original or You know something that ends up on Netflix because it was picked up by Netflix to be hosted on their platform and my on Netflix No, I wouldn't say so I'm not in a speaking role on Netflix So I'm going to say no do I want to be on Netflix specifically a Netflix original show duh I'm an actress and I like acting and I have bills to pay My name is Belchika and I'm an actress based in California and I get the question all of the time in my comments of how can I apply to be on Netflix? How can I audition to be on Netflix and I am assuming you mean a Netflix original show the first one of course? And you should already know is Have an agent submit you because they are going to be able to have access to more breakdown to more auditions Most casting calls that are posted online are sent directly to talent representatives So the casting director will have a breakdown of what they're looking for send it to the casting Representatives versus sending it to them and the talent because there are a lot of people that self submit online They don't want to receive 10,000 you know submissions for one character Which is why I did not expect the show that I'm gonna tell you guys about to be on a platform and be Distributed to a bunch of people be an open call I I really didn't think that season two of the show was going to have an open call Which is why I was doing all of this research anyway So of course, that's the first way having an agent will get you the most opportunities to audition and it's for sure a numbers game you have to be right for the The character that they're looking for you have to meet the specs and be talented Of course in order to get cast in those shows and the more audition opportunities You have the more probability it is that you might get cast because if you are self-submitting and you're only able to self submit to Two roles a year It's likely you're never going to end up on Netflix because it's just not enough versus if your agent is sending you a hundred different TV and film auditions in a year then you're more likely to you know You're getting more experience auditioning and people are taking a look at you And if they see you again and again and they like you they might remember you for a future project So of course the more you audition the more shows you will be able to book or hopefully at least book one one day The second way is what I was doing the research that I was doing so You need to be knowledgeable about who is doing what in the industry and You can end up on Netflix in a Netflix original show by auditioning for a big show like stranger things But there are also a lot of other shows that get created that aren't originally You know for Netflix they're creating this independently and then they might be pitching it to Netflix See who is creating really great films and audition for those people learn about filmmakers Learn about casting directors even if you are a marketable actor and you don't know where to market yourself You're not going to be able to get in front of big casting directors For example Carla Hall and you could start your research as simple as looking at the credits of that tv show or that film And then from the credits you can take it to IMDB and learn more about that casting company that casting director or that actor And IMDB pro specifically will show you who people are represented by So you can look on wikipedia and find some of this information But the industry standard is IMDB pro and that's where you're going to be getting so much information example me I am latina. I am based out of california and i'm bilingual my first language was spanish I am an immigrant and I would love to do more shows where my culture is represented where I can Experience more of me through other people's texts all this research is going to help you In figuring out who to even start submitting to because there are so many talent agents and managers representatives in la that it's really overwhelming you want to find resources from different You want to find different places that tell you that this manager or talent agent is good Is legit isn't going to screw you over So it's nice to have an IMDB pro account because then you can go and see Who all of their clients are and the third way to get an audition to be on netflix is of course self-submissions But this is the least likely way that you will be able to get Eventually get on netflix because like I mentioned in the beginning Most of these big auditions are going to be sent directly to the talent reps Because it's just going to be so much easier for everybody But every once in a while there are the rare occasions where they post a bunch of open casting calls for big shows that you can submit to on your own For example today. I actually auditioned for henthified. I self submitted for henthified because they put some sides some breakdowns on Casted talent and they didn't put a deadline and I read the FAQs for casted talent and it says that if they don't put a deadline It's because They're just going to take it away whenever they are ready for it So if you're watching this today in january and you are able to find the site still on there Then that means it's open if you can't find it on casted talent, then that means they're gone Um, but you can create a free profile by going on cast it clicking on the facebook Create a free profile. You can find all of this on then their FAQs But you can also submit for henthified right now as far as I have seen they are looking for A few latinas in their 20s 30s I saw a filipina a filipina role and another male role that I didn't read the sites for But as of today january 28th, which is when I saw all of these casting calls They are accepting people. So that's a way that you can go and submit to which it's crazy to me That show is so big and well known that I'm just really surprised that they're actually doing a big open casting call for it So I suggest that you go and do that right now If you if is so in the right timeline check it out and see if it's there because they are likely to be starting filming really soon Um, I submitted my audition already And I want to just say this to you because if you're a latina like me There's not a lot of shows like these that really represent our culture and are such So much fun to watch and see I don't know like relate to a show so much If you are going to be self submitting I highly highly suggest that you memorize the lines and Do yourself tape today or tomorrow send it in as soon as possible because they're obviously going to be getting a lot of submissions and um You should be one of them I hope you found this helpful And in the future whenever I have some more information for you guys or another open casting call that I can share with you Of course, I will um Make a video about it. If you have any questions about casted talent. They have a great FAQ I also made a video about casted and during my research I found out that annie has a youtube channel So i'm going to feature her today, uh, and if you would like to be featured on my next video Make sure you're subscribed like this video and leave me a comment


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Hey all, John here. I can't wait to upload my second video on FNAF Health Wanted on my phone. Why the f*** am I here? So, this is an interesting situation. I legitimately was about to record episode two for Health Wanted on mobile. And then this f***ing came out just straight up out of nowhere. So, Clickteam did tweet out earlier today a picture of the flumpy cactus and they had the caption of I'm a cactus. Clearly a joke. And a lot of people did not know that Clickteam is working on the ports for the Fazbear Initiative Games. This was confirmed a while back when the initiative was first announced. Clickteam tweeted out the teaser image, actually, for Flumpty's 3, so that kind of gave it away. But now it's official, right? I mean, again, we knew earlier, but now we have a f***ing trailer. So, this totally was not supposed to release at all. It really reminds me of the Health Wanted mobile trailers which we found in Stewell's FNAF playlist, which I don't know how people found this because it only has 51 views and it's unlisted right now. So, I really don't know how people found this, if Clickteam posted it and then super quickly unlisted it, or if it's in a playlist. Oh, hey, would you look at that? It is in a playlist. That is super interesting. So, yeah, anyways, this is the teaser trailer for the One Night at Flumpty's One mobile ports. And based off of the description, we know that it's coming to iOS devices and Android devices, which this is so exciting. I'll be honest, I was not expecting to have fan game ports so dang soon, you know? Then again, Flumpty's is a very simple game, so I doubt this took long at all. So, I quickly skimmed over the trailer. It doesn't seem like there's anything new, though at the very end, it does say available now. So, if we're going off to the same logic as the have wanted mobile trailers, we can expect this game soon, like really soon. And looking back on the Twitter for Clickteam, they replied to Kane Carter's tweet of Fan Afternoons, Clickteam has implied that something is happening with One Night at Flumpty's One soon, port incoming.  So, we should have seen this coming, but I'll be honest, I was not expecting it this soon, especially in the chaos that is this week. You know, like last night, for example, we got news that Help Wanted is coming to mobile that night and then it released and now there's a whole new game mode in it. Also, we got a teaser image for FNAF AR's new update, which is just insane and now we got this. So, this has been a crazy week and we're like two days in. So, I'm gonna watch the trailer. I'm gonna go through it. Again, I have seen it already. Just in case you guys can't access it for some reason, like if they delete it, I'm gonna go over it right now. I'm gonna show it full and then I'll analyze it later. So, here we go. No talking. Let's just watch and then we'll analyze. Okay. Pretty simple for FNAF stuff. Is it an egg? I have seen it, so not much of a reaction. Clown. That's not good. It's coming after you. You can tell they clearly cut that line off. Okay. Yeah. Oh, oh, God. And then, one at a flumpties. Available right now. Part of the Fazbear Fanverse Initiative. Copyright 2020 Jodochrome and published by Clickteam. It's weird that they don't mention Scar and FNAF, but I don't know where I was going to that. It's just weird that it's not mentioned. So anyways, let's go through it now. So you got the phone ringing. Yeah, Jodochrome, of course. Survived till 6 a.m. coming up, right there. We know about this game already, so there's not really much new things to go over. There are a few changes here and there and I'll point them out. So here, on Cam4, we see flumpty. Cam2a. He's an egg. Probably the most important thing is that flumpty-bumpty. He's an egg, so we gotta be careful of that. See, I think we're on Cam1 and I think the red man, yeah, so the red man is in that camera, I think. Cam4 with birthday boy Blam. Then you have Cam6, I believe, with the beaver. There he is. I don't know if they had to get rid of the newspaper, if I'm honest. Again, I know they had to change some things for copyright reasons, and again, we'll see that in the office, but I don't know if the newspaper changed. So we got Cam2b with flumpty down the hallway. Here's the office. Now, let's get a good frame right there. So as you can see, we have Grunkfist, the clown, coming through the black hole there, and you may notice there's some differences in the office. Ronald McDonald is not there. I can't remember who this was. I'm pretty sure it was like Dr. Mario. Donkey Kong is not there anymore. I believe this was Po-Bear, or someone Po-Bear. His name is Po-Bear, not Po-Bear. Jesus, what a song that may. There's a Gatorade bottle that was gone and there's probably a few more things that I'm missing that I just cannot remember right now. So they've had to change a few things because of copyright reasons the game is now being sold across platforms. So that's why some things have changed if you did not know. Everyone's outside the door. He can beyond. He, oh, he is beyond. I thought they said he can beyond time and space. Anyways, I'm done. Flumpty? Yup. Birthday boy blam. Oh no, that's later. I mean to the plot. Flumpty again. There's birthday boy blam. Of course he's coming after you. So it looked like we had more red man that, applause, I don't know if I would call this applause. Yeah, this is the jump scare. Very nice actually. Pretty good. And then we have the reveal for probably like the official artwork that's gonna be on if they get physical copies. God, that would be so goddamn cool. On like cover artwork for digital purchases and hopefully fingers crossed one day physical copies because that would be amazing. Oh my God, that'd be so cool. Honestly, I love this artwork of, I was gonna say birthday boy blam, but really all three of them, they look so goddamn cool. Yeah. I don't know if that is the new newspaper if it just is blank or if that's just the, this art piece in particular. I have no clue. And then we have available now get it on Google Play download on the app store. Part of the FastBare Fanverse. Now, again, I think we can expect this soon because last time we got a trailer like this very similar to the situation actually. Again, Help Wanted Mobile, it came out like a couple of days later. So I hope this comes out soon boys. We're gonna have a lot of mobile videos coming soon because again, we're gonna finish off Help Wanted Mobile and now we have One-Ended Forties Mobile. That's just insane. So the description for the game reads as followed. I already announced the iOS and Android, you know, releases. There was no link to them just yet because they're probably not up boys. And then it says, hi, I'm Flumpty Bumpty, I'm an egg. I'm immune to the plot and can transcend time and space. I brought you to this special place so we can be friends. I hope you are good at hiding because I am coming after you. Have fun from Flumpty. Survive till 6am by avoiding Flumpty and his friends. If you survive the entire night, you will have a new friend. If you don't, well, you'll see. I really do hope we can expect this game soon because it would be so dang cool. I say it will be, it's going to be so dang cool to play all of these fan games on not just mobile, but on official major consoles as well, like the Switch, the PlayStation, and the Xbox. That's gonna be so dang cool. And of course, who can forget about the merchandise coming for these fan games? God, it's gonna be so cool. This is the first step in the initiative, is getting this game out. This is the first initiative game. Now, it should be made very clear that just because ports are releasing doesn't mean that the new games are ready. This, of course, does not mean that Flumpty's 3 is ready. This, of course, doesn't mean that any of the other games are ready, like Candies 4, Popco's Evergreen, and all the other games like that, Druid Creation, Ignited Collection, and FNAF Plus, that's another one. God, I feel like I'm missing one. So it's Candies 4, Ignited Collection for Druid Creation, Popco's Evergreen, Flumpty's 3, and FNAF Plus. So I got it right. That is good because that would have looked poor on my part. So yeah, this doesn't mean that all those games are available soon. In fact, I highly doubt any of them are going to be available very, very soon. It just means that the port for Flumpty's 1, it's gonna say FNAF 1, it's Flumpty's 1, is coming out soon, which again is amazing. I hope they follow up with this with the Flumpty's 2, or maybe other fanverse games. So far, they've only tweeted out about Flumpty, so I'm guessing they're probably working on the Flumpty's games right now, and then they'll move on to another game series. I don't know if that's how they're going to do it. I don't know if they're going to work on Flumpty's 1, then go to Candies 1, then go to Popco's, then go to, you know, Ignited, fricking, what's called, Druid Creation, not Story Mode. I think it's just called the Druid Creation. Reborn, I think that's one of the things. Is it Reborn? I don't fricking know what I'm talking about anymore. It's been a while since I've been at the Initiative post. So yeah, I hope we get more news about the Initiative soon because this is just goddamn amazing, and I really hope that this comes out soon because now I'm excited. I don't know how much it's going to cost. I don't know the official release date, but we can expect it very, very soon, which is so goddamn exciting. So anyways, I'm probably going to go record Help 1 and Part 2. Maybe not, it is kind of late. I don't know. I'll see how I feel after I record and edit this and upload it because this is huge. So yeah, I'll get this out. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you all on the flip side. Gregory, be still. I think she's found us.


Yeah, well, first off, Glaber is, when he came in from summer camp, and I think quarantine was a challenge for so many different people, so I don't think he was up to speed like he was, say, coming into spring training. As far as him being prepared and ready to go, I'm not concerned with that, because I know what he does in the off-season, which has been consistent over the last few years. He's in excellent shape right now. He's working hard right now with his trainer and getting ready to start hitting and doing all his baseball things like he did last off-season and came into spring ready to go. I think he was a little behind, though, when we went into quarantine, coming into summer camp and had to play a little bit of catch up there. But as far as that being something that I expect to continue, I don't. He's got the right frame of mind and the right work ethic in the winter and always has.


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Statistics and Excel. Histograms with different bucket sizes. Get ready taking a deep breath holding it in for 10 seconds and looking forward to a smooth soothing Excel. Here we are in Excel. If you don't have access to this workbook that's okay because we'll basically build this from a blank worksheet so you can start with just a blank worksheet but if you do have access to this workbook there's three tabs down below we got the example practice and blank example answer key practice tab having pre-formatted cells in it so you can get right to the heart of the practice problem blank tab just having the data in it so we can practice formatting cells in Excel as we work the practice problem let's take a look at the example tab in essence looking at the end result we're going to be sorting our data we're going to imagine this is data of wage data for like a corporation for example and then we're going to make multiple histograms from that data set so we can focus in on how to adjust the histograms and mainly on the buckets so we can see what happens if we change the bucket size the bucket size is going to be quite important when you're trying to visualize your data in the format of a histogram so let's go to the tab the blank tab where we just have our data now remember that if you don't have this data you can use some of the methods we talked about before you can look for some data for wages if you so choose you can just type in this data set if you would like to just simply type in the exact numbers we have or you can use some of the methods that we talked about in prior presentations to build a data set so once we have the data in the system I'm going to format the entire worksheet like I do basically every time selecting the triangle to select the entire worksheet right clicking and then I'm going to go to the format cells and I like to go then to the number group we're in the I usually go to currency bracketed numbers are negative numbers are bracketed and read with no dollar sign and then I don't need the decimals at this point because we're dealing with data that's basically whole numbers so I'm going to remove the decimals as the default for my entire worksheet and then say okay so now it formatted it in a numbers type of format with a comma in the thousands position I want to put a header up top and make this into a table and then sort the data from top to bottom so I'll scroll in a little bit I'm currently at 190 holding control scrolling in on the wheel so now I'm at 220 now remember to put a header I need to put a row above this or a cell above this the easiest way to do that is to select the entire row but if I had something over here for example that might not be what I would want to do because it would push this down so let's try the other method of doing that this time I could select one cell right click on that cell and insert and I have an extra step because now it needs to know where which way I want to push the cells and in this case I want to push the cells down and so then I could say okay it pushes these cells down without disturbing the data on the right all right let's go ahead and type in wages that's going to be my header I'm going to tell excel it is a header by say center in it home tab alignment center you might underline it or something like that too I'm also going to select the entire data set and embolden it home tab font group bold it just so it might be easier to see in a screen recording so you may or may not need to do that I'm going to put a table into this like I usually do with my data sets putting my cursor in the data I could put it anywhere in the data because there are no blank areas in it and then go to the insert tab up top go to the tables group and then add the table and the dancing ants are doing their mamba dance around the around the proper area so I'm going to say okay there is our table we now have this nice drop down up top so the next step is often to sort to the data so I'm going to hit the drop down or just tap on it I'm not going to hit it too hard I'm not going to break it or anything it's going to go from let's take it from z to a we're going from z to a and so there is our breakdown of the data so now let's just go ahead and start building our histograms and and then we'll adjust some of our histograms so to select the data one way to do it is I could put my cursor up top and select the data this way and then I'm going to go into the insert tab as we saw in prior presentations the charts and remember we're not looking at the bar column the bar charts we're looking at the histograms here and that will make the buckets right so the whole point of the histogram is it makes these buckets so I'm going to add the histogram we have a default histogram which is usually pretty good I mean they usually they usually you know do the histogram fairly well so if I look at what it gave me here on the default histogram we could say all right uh let's go ahead so here's our buckets down below let's click on the buckets are really the main thing most of the time that we're focused on so let's click on those buckets and then I'm going to go to the uh this symbol and then the access options so we have access by category so we're which doesn't up isn't appropriate for us because we're looking at actual numbers we've got the automatic buckets that are being put in place here and the bucket size then if I if I look here it's kind of hard to see but because it's on automatic and this is grayed out because you're not typing into it but this default is at that 3400 and then nine buckets so you got one two three four five six seven eight nine buckets and the 3400 now we can customize this by changing either the bandwidth or the number of bends either one will will change the the buckets right either either of those will will change the other one right if in other words if I add more bandwidth it's going to change the the number of bends so for example if I go into here and I say I want to make this uh 2000 then it's going to change the number of bends to 15 so now we have 15 bends that went up if on the other hand if I went back down and I say I want the number of bends to go back down to like 10 notice this number up top is at that 1933 it's going to change that to now 2900 and now if I if I want to refresh this to what it was in the automatic I could always just simply go back to the automatic and then it goes back to its default position now you'll recall we talked a little bit about this before with the overflow bend and the underflow bend so we can kind of group together these outliers uh at the far ends so now just note that if I go down here to this number tick mark if we have the categories usually we're looking at our numbers of the categories but if I hit the drop down you can also say if it was a general currency accounting if it's date date time percent function scientific text and so on so in some cases that might be useful you can also take away the comma if you so choose in the buckets if you want the commas gone for whatever reason for formatting purposes but for and then uh negative numbers the formatting of negatives we don't have any formatting uh of the negatives but usually most of your formatting is going to be up top here now you can also adjust this column so this column has been chosen if I click on that column once again I get my information on the right I'm going to go to the tab or this icon on the right for the access options and usually the major options you're looking at are the minimum which is the auto and the maximum so it picked up here from zero uh 230 as as what it's going to be counting up from now then we also said if I close this back out that remember if you're clicked on the chart itself if I click off the chart these two items are going to be gone right so if I remove them they're gone if you're looking for those two tabs you have to be on the chart then you've got those two tabs where we have the add the chart elements so this is one place we can go to kind of add those chart elements the access uh titles and the date labels and so they'll so forth the quick layout options that we have here right so those are pretty nice you know quick adjustments to the chart the formatting of them which you can also kind of do yourself if you want to do your own formatting the colors of the of the graphs up top and then your default formatting this way of the charts which again gives you kind of another formatting you've got your data up top so here's our data if I wanted to edit the data there's our editing of the data closing this back out closing this back out and then you've got your formatting options as well so there's the formatting options for the chart now the other way you can go into that stuff is sometimes you can right click on on a particular item so oftentimes when I want to add the data labels I'll go here and then add data labels so then I can add the data labels like that and I can then format the data labels if we so choose possibly making them a little larger or bolding them or something and then you have your options on the right which once again you've got the axis you've got the axis titles you can see the titles kind of popped up there if you needed those you've got the chart title which is often which you might put into a chart like this because this is usually representing one you know kind of set of data data labels grid lines if you want the grid lines on or off you know you can remove the grid lines and we've got the legend we don't usually need a legend here and this one gives you more more another place to find you know kind of more options so there we have it all right so now let's make another one and let's just do some comparisons and we'll change some of those options the biggest change I want to think about is well if I was presenting this data what would it look like and remember there's two ways you want to think about this one is I want to make the histogram so it represents the data in such a way that I can get an understanding of it and two I want to know how if I start to change the bucket sizes and possibly the heights of these what would that do if someone was trying to manipulate me with or manipulate someone like advertising or something like that using the data to try to get to a certain narrative in other words if someone's trying to argue their point and they're presenting data to argue their point they might manipulate their graphs to more articulate whatever point that they're that they're looking at and if we're trying to be in an honors conversation with in that environment which is often the case we're going to have to be able to see that so that we can so that we can know what's going on so if I select the data again let's go and say we insert another histogram and I'm going to pull this down to the bottom and so now we can say all right let's let's take the title off of this one and let's change the bucket sizes now so I'm going to click on the bucket sizes and say well what would that do if I went into my categories here and if I if I say that I want a very large buckets like 500 or 5000 space between them that's going to change you know the size of the buckets a lot right so now you got from 55 to 60 if I bring that even even larger to like 7000 now it looks it looks quite centered now at this point in time now that might not be a this may not be like a misrepresentation of the data but it certainly kind of gives you a different feel than this chart right because because of the size of the buckets so so you know it you know if you were arguing here that yeah well there's no really if someone was arguing well there's no really outliers here everything is basically kind of everybody most of people fall in the middle you know kind of thing then if you increase the bucket size you know that might give you that kind of sense or or feel you know so that you know that's one thing that they could look different let's make another one and go the other way so I'm going to I'm going to make another one I'm going to insert my data set here again and say let's insert chart and another histogram let's pull this at the bottom and let's say now we're going to make a whole bunch of buckets so now I'm going to say all right let's let's increase the size of the buckets so I'll make this a little wider and so let's go to our data down below on this one and I'll go to my symbol on the right and we'll say well what if I I bring this down this this bend width down to like 500 so now I just have a $500 difference well now the data is getting so spread out that it might not be giving you relevant information it might it's still it's still giving you a kind of a feel of the of where everything is lying here so that gives you a pretty good feel but you can often you could see how you can go too far here right like if I made this $20 then that that's not all that useful right this looks like a mess right if I bring it up to like $30 then then again it's not exactly a useful thing if I bring it up to $100 still not very helpful $200 right now you're getting something that resembles a data set and again that might be useful to some degree but but notice you're getting a whole different kind of feel for the data when I look at it in this format then this format then this format and so you have so you so when you look and this is what leads people to start thinking that the data is just manipulative it's all relative right what's the point but but the point is that you need to look at it from different angles in order to get in order to get a sense of the data so one angle at the data usually isn't isn't the full thing if you're only getting one picture of the data then you might be being deceived right so if I go you know there might be some manipulation going on there should be multiple pictures to try to get a feel of what is going on for the data ideally right so if I select the data again if I insert again and let's insert another one and let's pull this down and let's say that we bring this down here and let's get rid of the title on this one and this time let's let's possibly adjust this side of things so I could say well let's go to double click it on this one and I go to the axis and it's going from zero you know if I brought this up to like a hundred then now you get like kind of a squat type of graph which gives you a kind of a different look and and feel for it there you might say well and again notice that you know like the difference between if I looked at this one you're saying ah that well it's a pretty tall there's a pretty tall difference between you know some of these but if you were to add a larger column size then everything looks a little bit more squat right you're like oh it's not that big of a difference is it I mean it's like that's like only like an inch difference and this was like two inches different right but but that's because the scale is different you have to know what the scale means you know uh on on the left hand side so that's another kind of thing that could happen if I if I was to another one if I insert another one and make another histogram and we'll like we'll pull this one down and pulling it down okay and so now oh I didn't mean to undo undo so now let's get rid of the title on this one and let's click on this side again and let's go over here and say uh if we if we make the minimum let's say we start the minimum at like at like 10 you know so now right so now it started at 10 so now these you know these these ones down here are kind of been wiped out that would be somewhat of an unusual that looks manipulative right to do that looks a little bit funny unless they were really tall uh type of ones right so then but again you can see how that of course would would give a different feel than than this one right you're like oh you know there so now let's try something where they where they we were we removed the outliers so let's add another one let's select the data again select the data uh and then I'm going to scroll down before I insert so hopefully it'll insert kind of down here and then I'm going to go to insert well I still got the data selected but I'm scroll down histogram insert and boom all right so now let's say let's say that I go to this bucket size but I want to get rid of these these outliers right that's another thing that might be useful to do but it also might distort the data a bit right because the outliers you know could skew the data we'll talk more about it kind of later but it could but it also is somewhat misrepresenting the data to some degree as well because they're outliers that's not the norm so let's let's go into the the information on on the right for this for this brackets and I'm going to leave well we could go from from automatic to like let's say we let's say we wanted it at like 2000 as the separation so there's that's a pretty decent separation so you're like all right that looks good but maybe these these are kind of messing it up on the outside and kind of making my graph look a little messy so we could say well what if I will not hear what if I go to my overflow bin and I say that every so it's currently on auto if I make everything that's over like like I'm going to bring it in here like 77000 77000 then then it kind of packs it together right so now you've got this all the stuff that was way on the side is kind of packed in it's kind of nice so on one side because now I've got a now I don't have this data with all these empty buckets in it but at the same time it's a little bit misrepresentative because you're like well how outside were those outliers right and then if I click on this one the other side this one's an outlier on this end let's bring it into like I don't know like 63000 right so we'll say this one 63000 so so now you've got everything over 63000 so you notice that kind of cleans up the data because you're like yeah those are outliers and I just packed them in so that you can actually read the bucket size which makes sense but it also distorts a little bit the look and feel of the outliers so you can see how even when you're trying to be as honest as possible when you're choosing the bucket size it can be difficult and when you're dealing with when you're dealing with people who you know have an agenda meaning they're trying to argue for a particular case you know that going into it then you're going to have to be a little bit skeptical as to how they're going to present the data right so then you got to be like well you know what why did they choose to present the data in this way are they really presenting the data accurately are they giving you multiple pictures of the data or they are or are they trying to kind of distort the data by possibly manipulating things such as the bucket size the outliers and the height of the graph by manipulating the y-axis so these are and this is why again what you really would like to do is say I would like to get a look at the actual data and and do some of this testing on my own so I can make my own you know representations of the data and get an accurate idea of what is what is being said here buy it


Jordius for tonight's Your Health segment is Kim West, a certified registered nurse practitioner at the University of Maryland, St. Joseph Medical Center, Hereford Health Park. Kim, thank you so much for being here. Oh, thank you for having me. We want to talk about chronic conditions. I was surprised to read that half of Americans have a chronic condition, and I guess that's not just like old folks. It's everybody. It's everybody. So in your practice, you see lots of people coming through, lots of chronic conditions. Well, we see a lot of hypertension, a lot of diabetes, obesity, cancer, high cholesterol. Those are the big ones that are leading to... So how do you think, and you treat all those, how people manage that, but how do you think about whether we can prevent some or maybe all of them? Well, I, of course, the glass is half full. I believe that we can definitely do a much better job controlling chronic disease. Specifically, I think if everyone just really focuses on setting a goal, setting just one goal, and then making a plan to achieve that goal. So that's what I do most of the time when I'm in the rooms with my patients is just meet them where they are so that we can set a realistic goal. And it's easy to think about goals in the context of weight because it's easily measurable, nobody has to draw blood, you just step on a scale, and weight feeds into some of the other conditions that we were talking about. So tell me about that conversation with somebody in a clinic room where you say, here's the BMI, and you need to be here and you're there. What do you tell them? Well, first of all, I tell them the hard news of exactly what their BMI is. A lot of times we, in the past, have kind of scurried about it, but now I think it's best to just... It's not a secret, here's the number. Yeah, here's the number, you're obese, or overweight. I think that just helping the patient to realize is just the facts that can help them, such as there's 3,500 calories in a single pound, right? So let's just start with trying to doing a little bit of exercise, 30 minutes every day, or even let's just start at 10 minutes a day. Can you do that? Or meet, like I said, meet them where they are. Sometimes it's just a matter of them trying to find time with busy moms and busy dads and people working and everybody's stressed out, just making themselves and their health a priority. So the idea that the 3,500 calories is one pound, meaning that if you eat an extra 3,500, you're gonna gain a pound. If you can somehow shave that off, maybe exercise a little bit, that'll help too, you could lose a pound. Exactly. And you see it work. Yes. And then into a virtuous cycle. Yes. I think that just staying positive, no matter what the goal is, whether it be, I mean, making a simple list, if a patient perhaps has a barrier, say they are having cravings, they might not know how to deal with a craving. How do you deal with a craving? Well, first off, yes. So educating patients that the craving's only gonna last. Some cravings only last a minute, other cravings can last up to three to five minutes, but that's one of the longest cravings. So just what you can do during that timeframe, whether it be journaling or going for a walk or again, coming up with creative solutions. Glass of water sometimes. Yes, glass of water. So the other thing about chronic conditions is, most people know if they're a bit overweight. There's some things that'll sneak up on you. Early stages of diabetes, high blood pressure, silent, but you want people to know so you can deal with it. Right, right. So I was reading some interesting numbers today and I was amazed that there are, over what their estimate is, 63 million Americans that may not even know that they have diabetes or pre-diabetes. I think that is just mind-boggling to me. So I encourage all patients to get in and see their primary care doctor and be screened for these conditions that can be prevented.  It's insidious, it's sneaky. And so you need to get in, you need to get screened. Before the show we were talking, I was assuming that summertime was a quiet time at the clinic because it's not the cold and flu season yet, but it's not a quiet time, you're busy. Yes, well, another interesting factoid that 73% of our visits throughout the year are to manage chronic conditions and 91% of prescriptions written in this country are to manage a chronic condition. I just find that absolutely amazing. All right, in a couple of seconds, give me the argument for somebody to come in and just get a general checkup to find out what they might have going on. Well, we're always looking at the obvious, the weight and the blood pressure and such, but we also wanna make sure our patients are up to date with all their routine vaccinations. We're gonna leave it right there. We're out of time. Kim West, University of Maryland, San Jose Medical, thanks for the time. Thank you. Your health segments are a co-production of Maryland Public Television and the University of Maryland Medical System.