Let me restart this real quick. And welcome to the show that we like to call Lillian's Vegan World, where we talk about the fascinating, wonderful world of the plant-based diet and veganism. Huge welcome to all of you who tune in every second Friday. I'm coming to you live from the beautiful studio at Hawaii Think Tech, which is downtown Honolulu. It's a beautiful day here. Thank you for joining the show. This month is the second month for our funding. We do ask that anyone who enjoys the shows please donate. It's tax-deductible. Think Tech Hawaii is, we do run these shows on donations. So we'd appreciate anything that you were able to give. Aloha Friday today. I have a wonderful guest that I would love to introduce you to. My dear friend, Terri Ledgerwood. Happy Friday. Happy Aloha Friday. Welcome, Terri. Thank you. What are you doing here? I'm here because you asked me here. Just felt like coming over for a chat. Terri's a beautiful friend of mine. I'm hanging out with you. Yeah, well, awesome. I see that you haven't brought any goodies for me. I mentioned everyone. Oh, I forgot the champagne. Well, there's always time for that after the show. I have asked Terri to come on the show today because we have something very important to talk about that. I have actually, I knew nothing about, and I'm here looking forward to hearing what you have to say about acid reflux. Now, the program I have named today, dropping acid the vegan way, not the other naughty way, no. So, Terri, before we go on, please tell us about yourself. How long have you been here in Hawaii? I've been in Hawaii for 28 years. Wow. And very spoiled. Yes, totally spoiled. No, it's been great. We just love living here and married. And we've just had a great life. We run our own business. We have a small business. We sell accounting software, mostly for property managers and construction companies. Wonderful. And yeah, so it's been good. You're also a very talented jewelry designer and maker. It's my hobby. These little beauties that I'm wearing on my ears, Terri actually made for me. They're gorgeous. I love them. And the jewelry that you're wearing, you've actually put together two of the black pearls. Gorgeous. Not this. I don't do cast. Cast jewelry is just fun. Yeah, well, they're also acceptable donations if you prefer the gift side. We could definitely do that. Now, it's just my hobby. I wonder when I retire, maybe I'll be able to do more of it. It's just super fun. Awesome.  So, Terri, let's get to today's program, which is about acid reflux. I did do some research into this as it's all new for me. I mean, I think all of us have no people or have people around us who eat. And you can see they have sort of heartburn or a little bit of awkwardness, discomfortness after eating. So can I first just tell you or tell the viewers a little bit about what acid reflux is? So the technical term for this is gastroesophageal reflux disease, otherwise known as GERD. I have to be careful when I speak, because some people can't hear the R's in my words. It's GERD, G-E-R-D. So gastroesophageal reflux disease. It's a long-term condition where stomach acid persistently and regularly flows up into the esophagus. Is that correct? Yes, definitely. I've had all of that over my course of eight years dealing with it. That's a long time. Yeah. It's about eight years ago I was diagnosed. And I remember the doctor saying, this is a disease for life. And I was just kind of happy to walk out the door. And here it was just that, because it just really makes you feel awful. I thought there was something horrible, like with my heart or something like that. But yeah, it's been a long time. And I've had a couple of, we were talking before, endoscopies. And everything is OK. Just to make sure that everything is OK, very important. And I do want to do a quick disclaimer that today's show, neither of us are a professional medical in the medical field. So be sure to consult with your doctor or physician or medical expert before making any huge changes to your diet. So Terry, eight years of this. Acid reflux is also known as heart burn, acid indigestion, or pyrosis, which is another term for heart burn. What are the symptoms that you have when you're feeling this discomfort? I think it varies for a lot of people, but for me, I would get extremely uncomfortable. It just feels like it's burning all the way up your esophagus. Sometimes at night, you can actually taste it.  Really? Yeah, and I've had. So it's definitely coming up in refluxing, I guess, is what they call. But yeah, so over the course of the years, I've had sort of asthmatic type of symptoms. I've had where the nasal passages get inflamed. I had once where I had an infection in my lungs. It was just small. It wasn't a major thing. But I had to get antibiotics. And the doctor thought that it's probably, sometimes it comes up through the lungs and gets into the lungs somehow. Really?  And it's just very uncomfortable and hard to sleep at night. It must be, yes. Well, I did read a lot about the symptoms and the occasional acid reflux is quite common. A lot of studies are saying between 10% to 20% of Westerners, American Westerners, are suffering from this. That's quite a huge amount of the population who have this discomfort. It is. And it often occurs as a result of overeating.   Definitely. And it occurs when the sphincter, the opening at the bottom of the esophagus, becomes weak or opens when it shouldn't. So this is how it's. I've been told it's a muscle. And that, items like if you eat things with fats in them, the muscle will relax. And this is what I've been told by my doctor. Again, I'm not a physician.  And so in that words, more acid comes up. So that's one thing. And then it gets stretched out if you overeat.  But I just, my doctor did tell me that some people simply overproduce acid. And that could also be it, too. I don't eat big cheeseburgers at steaks every night. But there are, I just get to the point where there are small things, even like occasionally I'll have a cracker in it. I can feel it. It sets it off. It sets it off. Little things that'll set it off. Gosh. So the reason why I've asked you to come on the show is because you've had a bit of an epiphany somehow. So a few months ago, I'm trying to think when it was that you and I, you first sat at my dining table. Yes, that was, I think it was around Christmas. Yeah, or just after January. I'm thinking January.  And I do seven course vegan dining lunches and dinners, private dining dinners and lunches here, too. And you were a guest at my table for one of these seven course vegan dinners. Now, what happened after you, well, first of all, tell us how it was. Well, I was lucky enough to come for one of your, if you haven't been, you have to go. Fabulous seven course meals. It was excellent. And it's just, wow, a different way to look at vegan food, just fine dining, beautiful food. Thank you. And yeah, I really enjoyed it. I ate almost everything on my plate. And then later on, I thought, even as I was driving home, I kind of thought, I am going to be so uncomfortable because I ate all this food. I tried to eat smaller amounts and so forth. And in fact, what happened after this huge meal because seven courses is a lot of food. Seven courses is a lot of food. And I felt fine. It was amazing. And I was like, man, there just has to be something to the vegan diet in helping with acid reflux. Was this the first time that you ate a vegan meal? Like in that sort of structure, so much at one time or plant-based? Was it the first time? Yeah, I mean, on purpose. Yeah.  And I eat like the veggie sushi occasionally, which I really love. And a salad. And of course, you know, roasted veggies, stuff that you would see in a normal American diet, I guess. But I never purposely went to eat just a vegan meal. Okay. So it was kind of my first eating a full vegan meal on purpose, you know? And it felt okay. I did. And you know, okay, also I have an adjustable bed. So that helps and that definitely helps, but it's never made it go away. And it was a marked difference from the way I typically would have felt after eating that much food. Really, I felt almost perfectly fine. Interesting. So that's pretty huge when you consider that you have been dealing with this for eight years. That's a very long time. And then suddenly you have one meal and you feel okay after it. So this is quite huge. Yeah.  Since then, you have been. Yeah. So since then, I've been vegan by night. Vegan at evening. Vegan at the evening. It's like joy to my ears when I hear that someone's going vegan at evening. But you're doing this because it makes you feel better. Yeah. So when I go to sleep at night, I sleep better. I'm just more comfortable because that's the thing a lot. You know, in the day when you have a meal, walking around, things wear off. And at night, you tend to be more, you know, you're sitting around a lot more. Okay. So for me, if I eat vegan at night, I feel fine when I go to bed. You know, I wake up in the morning without that.  Yes. Sometimes I don't have that. Okay. And you know, even I have the adjustable bed, you know, all that kind of stuff. And I would still even feel that after eating a normal meal. Awesome. So yeah, I've just, like you said, it's kind of a bit of an epiphany. It is an epiphany and I hope that anyone who's watching this show, like, really takes this into consideration that perhaps making some changes to your diet really may help with this unfortunate, you know, acid reflux. That's what you're suffering from. Definitely something that has helped. Yes.  It's just, and he even told me, and I don't, I haven't seen much of this on the internet, but he said even if your mom or dad didn't have it, someone in your line did, he seems to think that it was, and I don't know, it's one doctor's opinion, but he seemed to think it had some component of genetics. Well, we are gonna go to a break soon, Terry, but we do have to talk about ways you can prevent this. Like any health problem you have, it's not about popping a pill and fixing the pain. I think this is one thing that people like myself who live on a vegan diet, on a plant-based diet, really do take into consideration that, you know, popping pills, it's not the magical, you know. It covers it up. It covers it up, but the problem's still there. So we will after the break talk about, you know, some ways you can relieve this and some things to incorporate into your diet that may help, again, you know, becoming vegan or entering onto a plant-based diet isn't a magical thing either. It doesn't fix everything by any means.  So everything takes time, but I'm glad to hear that in only a short few months, like five months, I guess, you're already feeling better, so yes. Definitely, yeah, I have definitely felt a lot better doing that.  And who doesn't like a cup of coffee, you know? Well, Terri, let's talk about that. Yeah, go to a quick break. Stay tuned, see you in a bit. Hi, I'm Rusty Komori, host of Beyond the Lines on Think Tech, Hawaii. My show is based on my book, also titled Beyond the Lines, and it's about creating a superior culture of excellence. Leadership, and finding greatness. I interview guests who are successful in business, sports, and life, which is sure to inspire you in finding your greatness. Join me every Monday as we go Beyond the Lines at 11 a.m., aloha. Hi, I'm Mabuhay. My name is Amy Ortega Anderson, inviting you to join us every Tuesday here on Pinoy Power, Hawaii. With Think Tech, Hawaii, we come to your home at 12 noon every Tuesday. We invite you to listen, watch, for our mission of empowerment. We aim to enrich, enlighten, educate, entertain, and we hope to empower. Again, maraming, salamat po, Mabuhay, and aloha. Welcome back to Lillian's Vegan World. Today, we are talking about dropping acid the vegan way and how adopting or adding more of a plant-based diet to your lifestyle can actually relieve some of the symptoms involved with acid reflux. My guest here, Terri Ledgerwood, is talking to us about her journey. Well, not journey, but say the past five months you have adopted a somewhat of a vegan diet, especially at night. And to sum it up quickly, it has helped. Definitely has helped me. It's just helped me every day, it really has. Awesome. So Terri, here is how a vegan diet can relieve acid reflux according to some professionals. There was an article in One Green Planet where they talk about fiber and how it is important for those suffering from GERD, from acid reflux, because it promotes intestinal health and it protects the esophagus from acid exposure. Consuming a vegan diet is an option for fighting GERD because it's, now here's an important point, because it is rich in anti-inflammatory foods and the plant foods contain phytonutrients that possess antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties that can counteract gut inflammation caused by GERD. So the anti-inflammation, that's a huge thing too. You were talking about before the show about how... how your esophagus gets just inflamed, basically, and it's amazingly painful, you know, and it takes a while of eating just... I mean, I've gone on rice and bananas and just to...  Yeah, that's sad because you don't want to be forced to eat stuff. Yeah, that's no fun. You have to enjoy what you're eating. It's a huge part of the joy of life. Well, here are some things that you can eat to reduce acid reflux again. I'm not a professional, but just, you know, researching and listening to what people who have been suffering with acid reflux do and what some of the experts are saying. So Sonja Angelone, a registered dietitian and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics also recommends a largely plant-based diet for managing acid reflux. A diet high in healthy foods like beans, vegetables, and nuts tend to calm inflammation in the body, whereas a diet heavy in processed foods does the opposite. She goes on to say that there has been a growing understanding of acid reflux as an inflammatory disorder and that the acid itself might not do the real damage. The body's inflammatory response may. So there's another aspect, another key that you might have to... The inflammation. Think about it, the inflammation. So, sorry, Sonja Angelone does say, quote, unquote, make healthy changes to your diet that you can live with for the long haul. Your diet choices matter. They matter in your risk of chronic diseases down the road and in more immediate symptoms like acid reflux.  Because it's not a diet, yeah, it's not a diet. Diets don't work, veganism is not a diet. The plant-based diet is not a diet. It's a lifestyle and the more changes you can make that are sustainable and you're happy with living with do you make those changes? Yeah, absolutely. Terry, what to eat to reduce acid reflux? Here we go. So here's one thing that I do every single morning before when I break the fast for breakfast, take a shot of raw, unfiltered apple cider vinegar. Just mix it with warm water. It has alkaline pH which helps the body from becoming too acidic. Now, the people that I saw on YouTube that are suffering from acid reflux, a lot of people talked about this, shot of raw apple cider vinegar. Mix with water, warm water. So adding whole grains, high in fiber obviously because fiber keeps you regular. It helps move stuff through. It doesn't sit there and... Yes, exactly, so... More acid. Foods like oatmeal are great for an anti, sorry, for acid-reducing diet.  I do. Okay. Does that, it helps? It does help, especially, yeah, it does.  He likes eggs and sausage. Yes. If I have oatmeal, I'm good. If I have that, then I suffer a little bit. Just starting out in the morning, you know? Yeah. So, yeah, so I... Not the best thing to have in the morning. I think oatmeal's another thing that's very soothing for them. Yeah, so they do recommend that. Obviously, add more non-citrus fruits and vegetables that don't trigger the heartburn flare-ups. Bananas, melons, apples, pears, leafy greens, cucumbers, asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, and potatoes. I noticed there was no champagne in that list. No champagne. None of that. Cutting out soda, cutting out sodas also helpful in relieving the symptoms. You mentioned as well, soda doesn't work for you. That triggers the acid reflux. Yeah, anything with carbonation. It bothers carbonation. Really kind of ratchets up the acid production, I think. It doesn't, me, anyway. Also, coconut water helps. Coconut water, for me, really helps as a drink, something to drink during the day. And it's also delicious, really refreshing. Coconut, also another anti-inflammatory. And I think it's alkaline. There's something to do with the alkalinity of it as pH of it. And I've noticed that's something that's always helped me or kind of has over. My journey of eight years with it. I'm so glad that you are feeling better and just adding more of a plant-based diet to your lifestyle is helping. So, Terri, a lot of my friends and people who watch the show, all the 10 million people of you who watch the show, thank you so much, do ask why I don't talk about what I'm doing here on the island in Honolulu. And as this is Lillian's vegan world, I would like to tell you a bit about what I do. And Terri, when you are adding a plant-based diet to your lifestyle, here are some things you can eat. So, I'm going to show the first video. And the video is of food that I have cooked in the past two weeks at some of my events. So, I love Japanese food. Lots of whole grains, lots of whole foods. That's all of the food. That is barley, miso soup, fermented foods, very good for you. I love that one. Some tofu scramble. That's a gyoza. What do you call gyoza in English here? There's Chinese dumplings. Yeah, I guess we call it a dumpling. Some orzo with orchini mushroom, lemon cake. I've had several of those and I love every one of them. They've been really good. Thank you. I did a cooking demo at Down to Earth two weeks ago. Two cooking classes, which were really fun. You came to one of them, thank you. Yep, got some great recipes, they were awesome. Thank you. And this is at one of my cooking classes that I teach here. There's my famous cheese sauce. Scramble tofu, pancakes for brekkie. Sandwiches, those are good. Yeah. And that's something that my fiance asked me to make. He wasn't feeling well last week, and he was craving chicken noodle soup. So I made him some noodles with plant-based meatballs. Yum. That tasted pretty close to it, but plant-based. I was just watching on TV this morning. There was a news report on one of the financial shows about that company of the burgers. Beyond burgers. Burgers, and how well they're doing. Yep, they're doing incredibly well. It's amazing. So there's more people getting on. Yeah, and a lot of people that eat those burgers aren't vegans. Yeah, probably. Because I'm a vegan and I don't eat those burgers because they look too similar to the real thing. They do. And it just, for me psychologically, something that looks like meat, I can't. It just doesn't work for you. It just doesn't work for me. But I support any of those products out there that are giving people like myself and people like yourself the option to choose between plant-based and non-veg-based. And my husband just, he thought they were great. And so he's, this is someone who grew up on a farm. And he loves his meat. He'll probably never, never, he will probably, he'll always be, you know, have meat. It's not everyone's journey to be vegan. And you don't have to, you just have to take care of yourself, make sure that you're healthy and happy and satisfied in the lifestyle that you are, you know, too. So let's have a look at another slide. I did bring some pictures with me this time. Crave Magazine, which is in the Star Advisor, did an article on my cheeses. I don't know if you saw that, it was two weeks ago. So they did a really great article for me. Thank you so much, Joel Lean for the article. I loved it. This one is one of my seven course fine dining vegan dinners, which I am holding tonight and tomorrow night. Tickets are on sale at Eventbrite. This is a lunch, a lunch that I made just a little bento for some friends scrambled tofu. Some of my cheeses, the vegan cashew cheeses. Delicious. A little platter there. Very good. I love that. My cheese sauce that goes so much with it. Yeah, this is so good. You can just like, swim in it. There's, yeah, that chicken noodle soup, but the vegan version, which is just, I used kombu dashi, the kombu seaweed broth, and some vegetable stock. So flavorful. Yeah. And the meatballs were frozen. I wanted to say huge mahalo to Down to Earth. I really enjoyed the two cooking demos that I did there. They were really fun, met a lot of nice people. I did basic Japanese food, so. Yeah, it was great. And that's all stuff you can find. That's a good thing. Some girls from Japan who came over to take for a holiday and then took my class, one of my cooking classes. So that's what I've been up to on the island. I'm getting around. So I'm a vegan chef, cooking instructor, and lifestyle coach. So I hope that you do see me somewhere on the island if you do, reach out and say aloha. Oh yeah. And if you have a chance, go to one of your dinners are just fabulous. Thank you, Terry. It really was. And I'm not just saying that. That's why you put friends on the show because they say nice things about you. They have to, they're friends.  And again, it makes you look at vegan food in a whole new light, you know. And having you on the show has been awesome, Terry. I thank you so much. And it has, honestly, I've learned something from this and something that I didn't know, that there is somewhat of a connection between acid reflux and the plant-based diet. So if you are suffering from that, do your research, ask your physician or doctor, you know, if they recommend you eating more plant-based foods. And I did ask my, by the way, just, he did say that the last time I was in, I said, I went to this vegan dinner and you know, I felt great afterwards. And he said, it's just a matter of fact, it takes less acid to break down all that food. Well, there you go. Another reason to go vegan, live levita vegan and be healthy. Always take care of yourself. Thank you so much, Terry. Thank you. Appreciate you coming on the show. No problem. Have a wonderful weekend, everyone. Aloha.


Because I'm studying the limbic system, the amygdala and all these emotion-related areas, it was a natural outgrowth of that to start talking about disorders in these models. So it's not just about successful filtering, but also what can go wrong. There's many ways that things can go wrong. And that allows us to not just ask what are the correlates, like which area is involved, but why. So in the case of schizophrenia, it's again this circuit involving the TR and this thin layer of inhibitory neurons and the thalamus and the cortex. So we were just focusing on what else we could say about this three-area circuit. It's a generic circuit, so for different systems you have the same kind of motif. We call it a circuit motif. So schizophrenia is a very complicated disorder and no one has really found a definitive cause or even a definitive correlate. But in recent years, one line of research experimentalists have uncovered is dysfunctional inhibition. So there's local inhibition in the cortex and tamping things down. Then there's the TR in itself, which has been linked with schizophrenia. So we thought let's look at this circuit and see what it can do and what can go wrong. So when you're making a computational model, you need to fix a behavior that is tractable. Modeling hallucinations would be cool, but it's very difficult because we really don't understand how language is generated. So getting to that is too complicated. So what we found, I was quite intrigued to learn that a few years ago that one of the most readily identifiable symptoms of schizophrenia is disordered eye movements. So schizophrenia patients and sometimes their close relatives have an inability to fix their eyes on a target. And for instance, you could have a dot on a screen that's moving around and healthy controls. They can follow along that dot just fine, going in a figure of eight, for instance. Whereas with a schizophrenia patient, their eyes will often be quite erratic. And there was a paper showing that a machine learning method involving a couple of eye movement tasks just using those could tell schizophrenia patients and their close relatives from controls with something like above 95% accuracy. So it's a diagnostic symptom, very useful for at-risk populations and for the patients themselves. And so the question is, well, what's producing this symptom and might that shed light on other symptoms? So I set up a circuit involving a simplified version of the three brain agents, Cortex, TRN, Thalamus. And I made a simple eye tracking model that uses this kind of circuit to maintain a target at the center of attention. And what we saw is that disrupting a couple of different classes of inhibition could produce this erratic behavior. And so that's something that experimentalists can now maybe work with. We showed that different disruptions could look vaguely similar but also have differences. So this ties into the idea that schizophrenia and potentially other disorders may not just be one disorder. They may be a family of disorders with different causes that seem outwardly similar. And I think this is very important going forward for the field. And I think the field is more and more acknowledging this. So apart from that diversity of causes story, one idea that we elaborate in the discussion section is the idea that going off track is maybe a feature of other symptoms of schizophrenia. So one symptom is having disordered thoughts. So it may be that if you can't track a dot, if that similar disruption is going on elsewhere, you're not able to follow the context-relevant set of thoughts. So the same disruption going on in an analogous circuit might prevent someone from holding on to the line of thinking and sort of jumping from one thing to the other. So it's an interesting way of looking at how a simple local circuit disruption can have these widespread effects in different systems. Okay, this example was, now I'm thinking my imagination is roaring about all these other potential diagnostic methods that don't yet exist, that we're going to be able to figure out and leverage machine learning to be able to more effectively figure it out. And then also when you're explaining this potential that something as complex as a schizophrenia could potentially be a myriad of different involvement in different brain regions. Exactly. This is very complicated. And this is all the way to when humans are even in the womb and then they're born and there's foundational infrastructures that get laid out during that time period and how that interplays with their adolescent and adult life then. Okay, I have a question as we get into depression, I want to ask about schizophrenia. I've had several conversations with people about how we may all be the spectrum of schizophrenia, potentially from a good schizophrenia to a bad, potentially schizophrenia, and what we've created with hyper realities where like a Santa Claus is kind of like a hyper reality. We've made up a story and we call it real and then some people tell their kids that that's real and there's cookies and stuff and sliding down the chimney with presents and all this kind of stuff, reindeer, etc.  And some people even say one of the greatest measurements of intelligence is one's ability to abstractly reason multiple perspectives, multiple variables on a given issue. And so when you're doing that, what you're doing is you're trying to see how like a low socioeconomic status person sees the world, how a rich person sees the world, how someone from India, how someone from Pakistan, how someone from different countries, also different genders, different religions, how people see the world, right? So if you're trying to balance all these perspectives and see them all, so do you see kind of where I'm coming in this term and how do you feel about all of that? So I just started reading a book sort of from left field compared to the neuroscience side. It's called The Sublime Object of Psychiatry. It's a kind of a more humanities approach to schizophrenia. So it describes schizophrenia as a sublime object and what they mean by that is it, schizophrenia has been defined by various fields including biological psychiatry and psychoanalysis as sort of beyond understanding, meaning that you could maybe study it, but you could never empathize with a schizophrenia patient. It's a very strange book but very interesting because I have, you know, people can relate to this. They're like, yeah, the person when the schizophrenia patient is describing their hallucinations or their overarching world theory, you can kind of make sense of parts of it, but the whole thing you just, it's very hard to understand what's going on with that person. So if I understood what you're saying correctly, perhaps some of these people are kind of torn between so many perspectives that they end up with this mosaic idea that is a product of perspectives that don't even sit well together. It's a fun speculation, but you know when you're talking about disorders, you have to remember there's a lot of suffering involved in this. And so you wouldn't wish this on anyone, especially the psychosis side of things in catatonia. And then there's also a way to, as one potentially experiences a psychosis from this mosaic of worldviews let's say, there is a way to live with that in a gentle way, in a way that creates almost a deeper degree of empathy for different worldviews in that sense. And so although it can at times feel like it's a big taking on the burden to be able to relate to all these different worldviews, at the same time it makes one super well-rounded in that sense. So it's a good, another way to view this is just the way that we use the social media culture. Because when you take a look at people's profiles, it's only almost exclusively their best selves. And so then that becomes, you know, what's real in this sense? What is actually you? Because is you really only your photos of you looking your absolute best, traveling, having the best meals, the best people? Is it real? Yeah. So because you're definitely not posting when you feel anxiety, when you feel depressed, or when you're feeling a lack of love. So here's again this idea of what is reality and how can, how do hyper realities, how do balancing different worldviews into a large mosaic, how do these things relate to schizophrenia? It's a fascinating question if we're in a simulation or not. Yeah, these are very, very hard questions. But what you said about empathy I think can help maybe ground this in something. So I read a few years ago a fascinating paper on schizophrenia in different cultures. So I believe it was called Hearing Voices in Africa, in Ghana and China. It was an African city and an Indian city. Excuse me. And the, I discovered it through a blog called Neuroanthropology. So the point of the paper was that it's widely believed that schizophrenia is a fairly universal disorder affecting around 1% of people worldwide. But the specific manifestations of it can be quite different. So meaning the content of the hallucinations is different. So in different parts of the world, like for instance, apparently in the West and in America, a lot of the voices are potentially giving sort of violent instructions of some sort. Whereas apparently in India, the voices sometimes are a motherly voice telling you to clean up your room. So there's that difference. Then there's also the way in which society responds to the person having hallucinations. So the paper talked about how in certain tribes, they frame this having of hallucinatory voices in terms of possession. So a spirit is possessing you. And interestingly, you might think, wow, that's unscientific, it's nonsense. But this may actually help reintegrate people into society because when the person is not hearing voices or acting weird, their belief is well, they can come join work because the spirit isn't with them today. And allowing people to be in society and be a productive member of society is really important. And one of the things you read, for instance, in that book I mentioned earlier, is that schizophrenia is sometimes defined in terms of inability to contribute to useful work. So there's a capitalist element to who we decide is incapable of being useful. So the way that society responds... And in one sense, because if you give them a big paint kit. I often wonder if, this is a popular idea, that in earlier generations people who were prophets or maybe shaman might have been what we would now call schizophrenia patients. So how the culture responds is important. And also how they tell people, so for a long time in America, there was an instruction to patients to ignore the hallucinations. Whereas what you said about empathy is very relevant because some places they instruct patients to listen to their... not act on everything that the voice tells them to do if they're telling them to do things. But you could, in the spirit of empathy towards people outside, these constructed people that may exist in you are in a sense perspectives. They might not be correct or accurate, but as with most people, people just want to be heard and given some kind of consideration. You don't have to act on every piece of advice you receive, but giving them the time to be heard is a great way to diffuse frustration and tension, rather than ignoring people. So empathy towards oneself may be important too. Or one's selves. Yeah, yeah. This has been such a fascinating back and forth on schizophrenia. I really am so interested in it.


Alright, here we go. So we have a totally awesome understanding of how badges work, how the tech of it works, right? We have an understanding of the concept of badges and what the idea is behind it. Now all we want to do is we want to use them, right?  We generally have control over what happens in our classrooms. We can have some control over the tech in our classrooms. We don't need to ask anybody's permission. We just need to go for it, right? Okay, let's do that. I mean, badges are great. Why would you want to go for it? So, you need to brainstorm some ideas. Come up with some ways that you can use badges in the classroom. Again, here are some we use in Concordia. PE teachers use it for running the mile, for doing push-ups, for doing sit-ups, for reaching some sort of objective number. The Grade 8 team uses it. They do a lot of filming. And if somebody becomes an expert at camera angles, let's say, for example, they get a badge for that. The Grade 5 team uses badges to get kids motivated with typing. Pretty cool. They hit 40 words per minute, 25 words per minute, they get a badge. Fifth graders love this stuff. Also, if they work in a service organization or if they get 100% on their math facts or something like that, we created a badge for that. Great. The elementary school has a bunch of tech coaches. They have a professional development program going on. And if teachers, and I think you've seen these badges, pass some of the classes, finish classes, put in various efforts, whatever, they get a badge. It's funny to watch teachers. They really like badges. Kind of remind me of fifth graders. And that's okay. That's what we love about teaching. It's fun. We have a Mandarin program here. And so they award badges for kids to read certain numbers of books, achieve certain levels within tests, et cetera, know certain numbers of words, whatever. And the list can go on and on. The idea behind badges is issuing a badge is actually pretty simple. If you're making it all happen, that's a little more complex. Here's my suggestion. Start with one badge, something simple, something easy. It can even be member of my classroom, whatever you can think of. Or maybe something objective, again, like passing a certain number of daily or language tests or math tests or whatever you want to do. Something that kids can aim for and shoot for. If they have a clear understanding of how to earn the badge, it's much more likely they'll attain it. And you can encourage people along the way. Test the process. Maybe award a badge to two students in the beginning who can be your testers. Because when you first start any technological program, and you probably already know this, things fail all the time. That's just part of technology. And while the nerds of the world, we really enjoy that and figure out what it is, normal people, they'd rather go read a good book or talk to their friend than deal with all these tech issues. So rather than rolling it out for your entire classroom at one time, perhaps you'll want to test the process, test the badge with just a couple kids to work through it. And then once you're confident, you can move on from there. Then you can always add more badges later. Here's some more of the badges that we have at Concordia. You can see the ones from the PE department here, Sit and Reach. You can see the ones from the Mandarin department here. And these are the ones that we award to teachers. We have a lot more badges than this, I just threw some up. It's pretty easy to use badges, to create badges, to put badges up. It's hard to encourage people to award them, strangely, to make that part of their classroom. And that would be something you would do as an individual in your classroom. Here's some suggestions. You ready? Write this stuff down. Actually, don't because it's right here and you don't have to and you can always grab the keynote from my website, MichaelBowl.me. Don't forget about that. Everything's available there. First thing, and we talked about this already, badge awards are objective. If you're going to make them objective, then subjective. It's easier to say, if you show up on time to class 400 times or 20 times or what have you, you get a badge. It's harder to say, if you're good in class, you get a badge. That's difficult for kids to understand. Actually, it's even harder for adults to understand. Make it a valuable currency. So, you know, the dollar, or for example here, so I'm in China, let me pull out my wallet here. So, in China, we use something called the RMB, the RenminB, and this is it here. And if you think about it, it's just a piece of paper, same with the U.S. dollar.  But we have faith that this currency, that this has some currency, that this has some value. So, since so many people have faith, I'm able to use this for transactions, right? It's the same thing with badges.  That getting the badge is a big deal. If you make it too easy for everybody to get every single badge, then it's not as valuable and people won't want to jump to get it. In high school, they give lettermen, letters like letterman jackets, right, for if you're on a varsity sport. It's not that easy to get one. And therefore, the people who get it, they wear that varsity or letterman jacket around and show off and say, look at me, look at these awards that I got. I am cool. And then everybody else looks at it and says, yeah, that person's cool. I do suggest making it easy to get the first one. It's sort of a gaming technique that everybody can get it pretty easily to get them excited and let them know that it is possible to get badges. But make sure it's harder to get future ones. And you'll want some also that are way at the top that very few kids can achieve. Those will be the ultimate ones for people to strive for. Those will be the ones everybody will want to show off. Think about the military. The Congressional Medal of Honor, number one badge, right? You have to do an incredible number of things to get there. Very few people get it. Most people get it posthumously after dying. So that sort of one, when it's given, is a big deal. It makes the news, et cetera. Same thing with your badges. If you have one or two that are really hard to get, in addition to easier ones, as kids level up, it'll make it that much more interesting for them. Ensure that the badges are easily displayed. So we've talked about that in some of the tech. But the kids have to be able to display their badges. You can then print up the certificate, the badge, whatever, so that they can display it directly in the classroom and also have it digitally. That's not like it's mutually exclusive. You have to have one or the other. But people need to be able to show off what they've earned. Otherwise, that currency area here isn't as valuable because you can't tell anybody about it. Introduce new badges. New badges on a regular basis to keep excitement up. Sometimes kids will feel like they can't achieve a badge and they just sort of give up. It's a great time to throw in some new badges that are achievable. Put your tech coach to work. If you need help with this sort of stuff, find your tech coach, your tech support person or whatever. Have them help you. Get them involved. Don't let them say no. That's not what tech coaches are supposed to do. They're supposed to say, yeah, let's do it. That's exciting. I'm so thrilled by it.


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hi guys welcome to whenever you see this vlog i'm just kidding happy friday it is friday when i'm filming this and i'm going to this hotel because my friend is gonna stay in a hotel because she lives kind of far so she wants to go out downtown which i'm always like about just because like it's me but um yeah we're staying at the embassy suites so i don't know if i'm going to actually do like a hotel room tour because it's probably not going to be that exciting because it's like just a generic hotel um but maybe maybe but i'm glad i didn't forget my camera because i typically always forget to take my camera anyway i'm really tired i went on a shoot with our retail production crew and just one of those things where like i'm tired and stuff so i don't even know if i'm going to like put on any makeup i did bring a change of clothes which is good so yeah um i do have a change of clothes and i will change like before we go out and stuff but i kind of just want to like chillax or maybe i don't know i'm also hungry well no actually i'm not really hungry right now but yeah just wanted to start this vlog and give you guys like the four one one tomorrow is a nail appointment which is desperately needed because it's like all my nails popped off and i'm also my goal is to go to a spin class because like i'm already down here so hopefully i won't be too tired i didn't schedule one because like i don't want to get charged ten dollars if i don't like show up yeah that's a whole other thing so yeah that's pretty much the deal right now tired i just want to like have a moment hopefully it'll be pretty chill tonight i don't know but we'll see okay so it's slight change of plans because i'm just walking now because it costs like 18 to park and i'm like no it's a 10 minute walk so i might as well just get some steps in and walk to the hotel because it's like literally three minutes from my work your dog is so cute oh my gosh it's a husky oh my gosh what's his name oh my gosh slightly distracted from my walk because of this beautiful husky sorry guys minor distraction because i saw a dog and you guys know i want a dog so anyway yeah it's only like a 10 minute walk so might as well just walk from work to here i was gonna drive but then i'm like no i'm not i don't want to pay 18 dollars to park my car when i can literally just use the parking lot at work so yeah i'm heading there now construction going on and yeah now i'm eight minutes away okay so this is actually better than i thought i thought it was going to be like just a room with two beds but there's a living area here a desk we have a tv here a little kitchenette then the bathroom obviously yes oh my gosh this is like bigger than i thought it was going to be and then in here just like don't mind stuff but there's just like one bed so i just want to show you guys because i didn't realize it was going to be this this extravagant of a room all right guys so being myself i got brusso sprouts and fries because that's just so me also i got this really fun drink it is a Moscow mule it is an espresso Moscow mule and i can't wait to try it i'm gonna send a picture to my aunt because she needs to come here if we ever like go out again she never comes to downtown Orlando but anyway i'm gonna try this okay so i'm gonna try the drink now because i'm so excited my friend's husband was like you need to try this and as you guys know i love Moscow mules and i love coffee so i'm gonna give it a try do you like this do you guys like it never i'm gonna wait really yeah they said they really it's really good it's like a really good mixture of both of it good job lance it's really good it's really cool okay yes i'll give you my card i'm so weird sorry guys she's putting a little oh my gosh i'm gonna have to like take a picture of this she's gonna be little coffee beans an espresso martini i've been wanting to try these for so long um i've just heard like really good things about this right now oh my god i think this is the best drink i've ever had in my entire life and i love how the TikTok song with like chorus is playing right now this is the best night ever okay so it's the next day and i am going to um go to a cycle or class i didn't know if i was going to make a class because i didn't know if i was gonna be like hung over or too tired or anything like that so um i'm not i made the class and it's about like 15 minutes till the class starts i'm just in my car chilling out and then it's a nail time so let me show you guys oh what type of nails i want so i booked for no design this time because like i don't know what i'm gonna do but these nails like the hailey beaver nails are really in um but if this is considered design i will be like okay then i just want like white nails so i'll show you guys that too but this is the nails that i'm gonna like ask for because they're really cute or like metallic clearish and i really really like that but if she's like hey i don't have time for that or something then i'm going to ask for like these nails and they look like a milky white and i really like that i don't know but i didn't know what design to get and since the hailey beaver nails are in style that's what i'm gonna do um hopefully it works out but yeah um gonna ride today i think i'm gonna just take it easy like i will stand but i probably won't put a lot of gear on just because i am still a little tired or whatever but i wanted to make the class i want to get my money's worth um i only went to cycle bar two times this week and i normally go four times this will be like time number three so that's why i wanted to make a point to get out here because gotta get your money's worth so uh yeah and i know on monday i probably will not go because um we're gonna go out to drinks with a like family friend um like i've known her like ever since i was like really little so me and her daughter like danced and we were neighbors and stuff so i know i'm not gonna like want to do that so anyway i'm gonna go in now and get some water i'm still like pretty thirsty from last night and i'm gonna get base coat okay guys i want to show you guys my nails because they are so cute every time i leave ellas well embellished by mariam i like i think this is my favorite thing you've done like i leave that i leave feeling that way every time and i'm just like obsessed with these nails like it's simple but yet like has a touch of pizzazz so i don't know i'm just living for it so thank you hailey b but i guess we're setting this trend and it was so cool because she puts like she dips this little sponge thing and then wipes on the this like glitter stuff to this gel and then she puts obviously like the top coat but it's so interesting like watching her like press on like this powder glitter stuff to make it like this so perfect nails for the month of august um i didn't really know like what design to do or whatever i was gonna do like a neutral like pink color and then i was like gonna just do white um but then i saw you know on it on instagram this like new trend so i'm like you know what that's perfect for august so i needed something so now i'm gonna go to the grocery store probably not gonna vlog in there because i'm only picking up some salad stuff um because i'm probably just gonna eat i'm gonna shower when i get home and then probably like take a nap i mean so tired i got up at 7 30 because my body's just used to it and i couldn't really like go back to sleep so i might take a nap this video is probably gonna go up sunday sorry not gonna edit a video today probably gonna start a new video when i get home so i think this is gonna be it for this vlog i don't know how much footage i got but there was some different activities it wasn't just me like sitting here talking to the camera most of the time maybe who knows but give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it don't forget to subscribe and i'll see you guys in my next video bye


Do you guys hear us? Okay Pardon all the movement. We're just getting set up here.  You know why I know it's Tuesday Because it is two o'clock and we're here on a Tuesday so today During this You're going to be doing Coasters, we're gonna keep it simple Going back to the old Old days We had no clue what we were doing We had a little bit of clues. No, maybe one or two clues Thank you, I heard it appreciate it And so Clara, how are you feeling? How are you doing? Hello Heidi and JJ well Everyone that is tuning in right now so Let us Just show you What we got right now today right now? Okay, well We got We got a little bit of everything. We got our MDF Which everyone knows is the og of Our shop So this is just an MDF coaster.   Oh Here you go. Look at that. There's one with paper on it. Oh, and there's a couple Look at that. Look how good these little charms would make in the sunlight Look at the colors. I don't know if you can see the colors on the table You can see the colors when you have them that way just hold them closer down. Oh, yeah So Here you go We got some here now see when This is MDF here.  I would have to get that Scratch the top of that because Look at that now that looks dull Flood coat it then sand it again Because the flood coat went over and under So the benefit of ours pour your take one side off as so paper on no paper and Peel I have a problem. I have a problem peeling these because I don't have fingernails So you can just take another one or just so you know something with a hard edge Peel this baby off and you have No cleanup But I mean by the boom It's so convenient because I'm telling you I have so much artwork here that I I Don't know if it will ever be done just because I don't want to clean it up And if you like what you could do now is take this bottom side and Maybe spray paint it a different color so you could have You know spray painted it even a darker pink or a lighter pink and maybe put some sand here So it's kind of a double double whammy coaster or or I think that's an ornament ornament But then if you if it is a coaster then you could put your Little bumpers on the back and have a nice little Coaster Look at that like there's zero cleanup with these like it's such a Very convenient very convenient very fast No sanding in the homestead And yeah I'm not a very good talker when it comes to this stuff like this There you go made a lot of very good points She's mixing up some resin I've been wanting to do some coasters For a little bit to show off the stir sticks that we have all right, so These are good. I'm not saying these are bad. It's just the cleanup is a little a little more Not and it's not fun But we do sell these also so You can buy these if you like there's not a problem with those We just like no cleanup So like I said what you do? scrape one side Have you guys tried our clear coasters or MDF coasters? Let me know in the comments Slash chat. I don't know if people are talking or Yeah, you have a whole chapter out right there So what I want to do with these two I want to do a smush Smush smushes like my favorite besides Just kind of a you like tree a tree ring and then blow it with either your mouth or your heat gun or our little Sweeper we got And what and how we suggest to store these when you're done when you're done pouring them You could put them you could put them on the little cups.  What is this Bondi? Bondi I'm gonna say you weren't gonna do that many clear coasters, but there you go. So the colors we're using today are Then I black by lures cotton candy pink by just resin Spearmint by just resin Lures angel white color passion old gold and And Bondi tint so that you can see some of the transparent look of the D's My problem is always picking colors Well, I did the hard part all these colors will look just fine together hmm So typically when we do clear coasters the the cool thing about them is Putting clear pigment, but that's not to say that that's the only way you can use these clear coasters For example, Jeff is currently working with an opaque white and it'll still look pretty rad you can also just kind of Not Overload your pigments so that they're a little bit translucent, but sometimes when you just don't overload your pigments To make them translucent, they're a kind of duller shade. That's why we like to use Tints this one is Bondi from color obsession beautiful color Always see-through so you're gonna go with a smush I'm gonna do a smush he's so Purposeful with his application in Contrast to my application which is just put color on there to work out. I don't know why I just have been like that That pink is by rent. It's super bright careful with that gold. It will take over. It's like me wrong hmm Too much it might be well, we'll see it doesn't look like there's enough resin on But on the backside of these but then that's why I don't like to put a lot because you always put so much here Mm-hmm. All right, so what you do just take these two Smush it Nice little push on all the edges if you like you can give it a twist if you like I Like dude just want so then you could grab these corners and pick it up. Oh my god Look how fun that is. I think they're cute. There's some fire Kim Adams says I Just looked at them on your website. I didn't know they were so reasonable I need some I have a big crap hair coming up in November We are happy to send them to you Linda says I just ordered some can't wait to try them and JJ calls them Oreo cookie coasters Oreo cookie coasters Yeah, you did a good amount of resin on yours. I always end up with double stuff, I guess There way to turn your flash on No Wait till he hits them with heat It'll change the look of them. Oh They're so nice and simple Well, I don't want to use fire. I just put all that alcohol all over me Hmm how light just gave you guys a glare Apologies. Oh Man, I love these these colors Very nice very nice And if you put just enough, I mean, I guess it's just How many colors you want? You don't have to worry about losing a lot of resin or resin going over the sides These are cut with the laser so the edges are really nice and clean so normally the resin will just stop right at that edge Which is super fun It looks very 80s Miami. I agree. Look at how that The old gold Flex we call that yeah, mini truck colors right there mini truck colors mini trucking I don't know what that means. Oh my guys will know what mini truck is Possibly the lady 50 and older All right, we're gonna do what resin are we using JJ said yep Um We are using Stone coat art coats. We are currently out of it But if you would like some of your very own you can go to stone coat countertops calm and use the code y'all YAL all caps no punctuation And that'll give you I can't remember if it's 13 or 15 percent off, but It's good little chunk of percent off So it helps us it helps the channel when you use our code So please do so just a question for the newbies. I'm gonna ask you If we did this black should we use this color on the black? So you're not asking me. Yeah, I am. Oh, no just in case of the newbies like oh, I love that color would I Would put down right? Yeah, you would have to put down white So it would have some something to bounce off of because it's translucent. Yeah Also, I forgot to tell you guys that My mixing stand is now available on Amazon. So I will link that in our Amazon right below this video Um, hi everyone from the UK. What's up cloudy art in the UK? How's the weather over there today? Beautiful awesome. Yeah, that could be finished all on its own That's not it is a little difficult. So don't be afraid to Whoo, look at that. That is super fun right there rain as per you. I love that Sorry, you guys hear the trucks outside that started at 645 a.m. This morning It did start pretty early. Look at that. Oh, look at the cells coming in Holy Kamoli. See you just you make a design without doing any work really, you know The smush does it all all all itself Yep, you're in camera. All right, let's do Let's do a butterfly This has already been taken off. So Let's see here Linda white dash I heart Cowboys says beautiful Linda.  It's do you guys hear that?  It's underneath all of that like Walkway scaffolding basically what what you walk on up there. It's underneath there And I think what that's for is for like insulation for people that live under there Hmm Yes, ma'am 26 year season ticket holder that is Way to go That's impressive Every dog in America is doing this side to side look right at the sound Apologies to all the dogs Where did this come from Right there, but I wipe my hand off. But what color? How does that? How is that dark pink on there? It was on the bottom of All right Cloudy art says I would like to experience an American football game. They are next level Especially the one at Texas Stadium Love football are you gonna smash that one too?  It'll do some awesome stuff. It looks so tie-dye. Oh Forsy. Yes Yay These blank coasters can be found on your Amazon link. Um, no, they're on our website artists till death comm Clara Probably has a link that goes directly to our clear coasters And after this video is posted I'll make sure to have them also in the description box under this video Thanks, Clara Hope you try them out tamp it Tampa to the Tampa to Tampa Tuesday So if you have problems getting the plastic off, I just use one You can also hit it with a little bit of heat from a heat gun and it'll soften that adhesive paper Thank you, Clara the pink in that aqua really are very Retro Miami's colors for sure JJ Clara is Always quick drama girl. So in my head I listed the Crime and craft for a week from Wednesday Like not this Wednesday like tomorrow, but a week from I'm really hoping I didn't post somewhere that it is tomorrow Wednesday because I Do not have that at all reported quite yet But I think it's a really fun concept and I'm very excited for my crime and craft No idea yet. What our first case will be or What our first project will be So I'm open for any and all requests and suggestions You that's the most beautiful Pop art fried egg. I've ever seen pop art fried egg See Robin. How are you doing? How have you been the circles? Are definitely the more difficult Smush fried egg To get apart so be cautious of that those colors look good together Are you gonna re-smash that was no, I'm just gonna blow on a little bit All right, I was just wondering We are doing amazing. I'm glad you are doing great. I'm glad those People outside are not too loud anymore. It was Quite loud earlier. We haven't done any tilts yet. There's not a lot of Not a lot of resin on these Bottoms here You saw the black Dahlia suggestion someone gave him thought it was pretty brilliant Yeah, we could do the black Dahlia Initially, I was thinking about doing something that's current but I'm not opposed to doing the Dahlia Which I feel like should have been very solved by now This black is kind of Put a lot of heat on that coaster Yeah Robin said we went through Dallas three weeks ago and man the construction is horrible So it's a never-ending Job security in Dallas Be en-road construction because here's what they do very ready here. Go they start over here and Start on this road and then they work on it till the end of it And then they just go back to one and just do and then they add over and over on ramp or a fit of Complete highway underneath another highway that you can go like 150 miles an hour on I Went on that under highway the other day Going back from wherever we were Are you on accident? It was off 635 and I went like under the other one I was following the directions on the phone I didn't see a speed limit, but so we oftentimes only make coasters with our leftover resin Because it's just a great thing to do because you can always go back and sell it for five dollars a piece and Make a fair amount of money on just coasters alone and so we always recommend to do it But today we are just creating coasters Yeah I know that laugh you want me to take those yeah But it's so fun. I don't mind They're cute though. Well what no matter what you say? So let's do let's do a swipe You know swipe There's some swiping paper right there None of these are base cells so don't worry about laying it out Based on cells alone Thank You Clara for the link You can get these coasters and all these colors on our website artistilldebt.com Supporting small business supports our dream of living off of our artwork. Hope you did well on your fire sale Can't wait to get mine. We did okay, and I appreciate your purchases I will be going through and shaping them up for shipments You could tomorrow the next day I'm gonna assembly line finish them. Maybe I'll make it a video You guys can see that process. Let me know if that's something you'd be interested in seeing or is that relatively boring? Would you rather watch Jeff chase around a star stick? I can't pick it up That's a beautiful rainbow We'll do it all those colors work really well together So this some of our Super awesome swiping paper. It's easier to be swiped for you Towards me. Yeah, like turn that way. You don't risk dribbling over your piece, which I've done on my own pieces So if you've never seen a swipe, what he's gonna do is a lay the paper down horizontally and let about a pencil with a product attached to The swiping paper and he was a little bit fast on the end So it skipped a little bit which could have been a design choice on his part And you'll notice wherever he lays his swiping paper down is what color he's gonna pick up So this one is gonna be mostly presenting white on top while it would but He's moving a little fast Just a little bit I don't hate that. I don't either. I don't Know if I would add to that. It looks good. What's up Evelyn? How are you doing today? Sorry you guys. Oh Sorry Yeah, that blue just kind of disappears. I think I'm just gonna put some white on this and smush that Okay, can I do it? Can I do one? Yeah, I didn't know you wanted to do one. I just decided Trying to show me off, huh? I always try to show you off But I think you meant show me up Show me up Are you gonna are you smushing this? Oh I think it looks good. I don't know what you're talking about that old gold flaking up Looks nice Oh he doki pokies We're just gonna pour on these. I think doing coasters is something you can do when you you're okay with just Not thinking too much about what you're working on zoomed in, isn't it? Yeah, sorry y'all That you either zoom in or you don't zoom in on an android like It's so yeah What is your table made from from mica? Uh, no, it's a table with a Paper over it. It's a regular folding plastic table With butcher paper. Yeah, she's going to old school. Maybe just a little bit Yeah, I'm just gonna use my face That's so fun Look at that It looks good I wish I hadn't had this black bar over here, but You see that old gold floating around Well Trying to make it hit the light Oh, it's tilting Surprise tilt job. I'm gonna do one more and let you have it back Geez sorry I literally just pinch and it and it just It's crazy Y'all ever had just a coaster day? I think having a coaster day is a good day to have I think it's fun because If you have a bunch of different colors like this and you're using stone coat art coat you have Such a good amount of time Just to kind of take it easy You're not rushing and if if your desk free zone or wherever you put them is kind of out of the way So you don't see them You don't repeat certain stuff unless you like a certain way then you know, that's gonna be finish all on its own We could I said so so I could see that as a countertop marble gold solid Okay It would work. Okay We you can't even know but it would quick question. It's very thin shipment of jr ocean coat today. Have you used it before? um Yeah, we use ocean coat. I typically have some available in my shop And it's a great resin to use It does have a shorter working time Then for example, the resin we're working with right now. I'm just doing this last smush and I'm giving you everything back to me Um It has a shorter working time, but it's still a really good resin and you can get some really interesting effects with it as well Evelyn Warner's college colors are black gold. Oh, you put nice resin on here, didn't you?  That's probably true All right I'm gonna smush them We And they're gonna look I mean In theory, they're gonna look amazing I was right That's crazy how it just stayed over there It looks great. Oh, I love that little edge Oh Anything I'm back yens Let me take a glove off and I can see what you guys are talking about They say my high school colors are black white and gold because I meant to MDF border is really dangerous if you sand it Please use a respirator. Um, yes Do not breathe in MDF dust or any dust Just if you're sanding anything where a respirator we only weren't because anyone'd be able to hear us However, definitely Definitely Do take control of your health and Take all proper percussion Oh, you're gonna get designy with it. Love. Love All right for all movement y'all I'm trying to Unresin You got in DF with band in the United States Love those colors same Heidi That's fun So we started out with only eight ounces of resin and we have 12 coasters done and so much resin left And we've been using this resin for 41 minutes. It's not even warm yet So if you're interested in getting your own stone coat art coat hit up Stonecoat countertops calm and use our code y'all y a l l all caps no punctuation for your area own 15 Possibly 13.  Are you listening to us from work? What's happening in your lives today? Oh, I like that parts of Black in the middle. Are you doing it? It's fun. Yeah. I love that our dust free zone is now Instead of yeah having to pack a lunch So that's already been taken off. So Do you remember that one time that someone called us and was so upset because They didn't peel Yeah, the stuff off And I was like, I don't know What you want? I don't It says on the website. What am I supposed to? How can I help after? Saying it. Oh, it's 10 o'clock over there. Heidi Thank you claire for the link Kim's taking an extended break to watch you guys. Oh, thank you. Thank you Alpa is From work on a lunch break watching. Thank you guys so much for tuning in If you haven't subscribed don't forget to do so so that you know when we go live Even though YouTube's getting a youtube and sometimes They're like, you'll find out that they went live later Love you claire You always explain so thoroughly. I really try To explain things As full and completely as possible because I know when I started doing resin originally Uh, nobody was trying to help and if they did it was very vague So I'm just trying to do my part to help you guys Do the kind of arts that you want to do as successfully as possible Because I think that's ultimately why we're here, right to help everybody Create art by knowing the secrets that we've Been told or figured out on our own. No the secrets See what what bowie What do you want?  So robin. I don't have any actual green The mixed up but I will do one next time. I have green mixed up Evelyn says you should do a trial swipe Love watching you do coasters and for sure you always explain the helpful questions. Well, thank you so much Heidi Darla says day in these colors question. Can I use parchment paper to swipe? You can you can absolutely use parchment paper I prefer honestly any paper you have that's not absorbent like just regular um Like the butcher paper we have down is absorbent and Um, that could be a finish all of its own. It really could I'm like printer paper. It's not like wax coated So it'll kind of soak up some of your product but the shiny stuff like parchment paper Um, just glad to cross it. So you absolutely can use Hand I think that looks great.  Yeah, so if Jeff didn't like that he could take an alcohol rag and just clean it right off It won't stand. I mean a stain or anything. Look at that. I love that Oh I love that It's like when you pull them apart Don't worry about it moving or shifting Um, even if you have to kind of slide it so you can get an edge Just pull them apart and what then when you pull it apart. Look at that. I that's just accidental basically Like the pull apart did that I love that you even got some cute little cells over here on that wing See that's such a good looking coaster Let's do it a little what do you call it? Hmm, I got nothing. Do you want me to get you some regular coaster so you don't have to worry about peeling them? Okay Beautiful so cool the turtles look so cool Those are great colors together true. So if you want your very own these colors, I'm using Midnight black from lures, but you can also use I know I have the color passion black Base cell is in stock great option very deep dark. Okay black I am using also the color that he's on right now is cotton candy by This is a metallic, right? It is a shimmer shimmer. Got it. So those like a slight. Yeah, like shimmery. It's such a It's like just a pearlescent. Yeah And then it looks like strawberry frosting on film The other color we're using is spearmint by just resin. It is also a pearlescent satiny Very subtle color. We don't have any more white We are using lures Angel white and color passion old gold as well Clara has linked all of them in the chat feed If you guys want direct links to those colors Things I'll listen to my fear that I'll waste material. It's been keeping me from even trying So Kim, let me tell you in the beginning we were very Timid about mixing resin and wasting it or using like mixing too much and so we would mix up Not exactly enough product and that would give us problems because the resin would be too thin on the surface and that would cause Divots and pitting and a whole bunch of not cute looks and so The kind of solution that we came up with is to just make a little bit extra resin and then create actually ironically coasters with the extra and with our clear Substrates like Jeff is using if you don't like it you can Scrape it off and then wipe it clean with an alcohol rag scared You can do a tree ring Oh man If you're doing a tree ring all that's getting covered up anyway, so don't be upset My tree rings never turn out in resin This blue is just disappearing The transparent. Yeah, of course it is. It's transparent What's your media acrylic paint and resin? Oh, no, man, miss Jeanette. I Used to use acrylics in resin and then I ended up wasting a little bit of a lot of product because I would put accidentally too much paint into my resin and resin does not like water or water-based things and We did some research and we found that paste was the best thing to use in resin. It's made specifically for resin and they are very beautiful vibrant colors and so we went almost exclusively to pigments made for resin at this point And since at the time we couldn't find any in the states we decided to import and Be a stock list for these brands that are international The low res the color passion and color obsession The just resin are all from australia No And um Yeah, we carry them in our shop artistsledat.com You can also even pour over it later if you don't want to that is correct Evelyn Your bonda blue is on backorder bonda is on backorder. I expect that shipment in actually this coming week I thought it would be here this week, but imports are still moving really slow into the states So I hope to have it soon, but I opened it up for back order because people were really interested in taking it Um, no going ahead and ordering it so that they don't forget and so ultimately if you put an order in it has a backup Backordered color, then I'll just ship everything else and Um, your name goes on a sheet for when the backordered color comes in and then I ship that whenever it comes in That way you don't have to wait for all the rest of your everything Kind of like a balloon effect pretty yes exactly janet ATD is multimedia. That is also true. We do airbrush watercolor inks alcohol inks resin pottery body paint acrylic paint gouache swarovski glitter Foil we're very mixed media here So be what's going on with your butt fly? You're gonna get fancy So jeff is also I would say a calligrapher essentially, but he would not say that So he does beautiful filigree and lettering That almost looks like paisley from here Because of the pattern of that overflow from your tree ring Pro tip if you do any design elements like jeff just did don't add as much heat as jeff is adding Because it's just going to melt away I think we've you we've used this for long enough that I think that it's You know, it's a little set. Wow. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, I love this when you add heat you're sending your resin back out Doesn't it read of paisley? Don't leave me hanging. I know I'm not crazy sure He I wish I could get you guys more overhead of what he's doing I guess I could Take you guys not too much down This is just a waste You never know what it's gonna look like when it sets. Just leave it. Yeah, it looks like a shell from here What do we got left? We've got some pink Didn't it look like a seashell Down it. Let's see here. All right.  He is just essentially Lubricating The surface so that whatever it is that he's about to put on the surface moves more easily over said surface Otherwise it would go skirt skirt skirt That pink with that black is just Kind of amazing It is That's the most vibrant Okay, I don't know how to say this without sounding crazy. So it's like it's a pastel pink, but that's also neon Does that make sense like a little bit of shimmer That shimmer is just I love it. It's so subtle Every time someone blows their resin. I think about ronda She has the hardest time Darla says your sound effects crack me up We do our best miss darla usually I have problems with words And so we just We just jump straight to sound effects I love it Bowie enough and we have our Lee that looks great You love it so we're gonna do more to it No, I just whenever you blow on it. There's gonna be air bubbles. Yeah, I was just making sure But then again, you can always go what like Well, I guess we've been doing this. So maybe now you could go over there and just kind of hit them with a heat gun So that if there is any bubbles because the smush I'm sure locks in some Are we done? No, you have resin left Start doing some of the Not those why? Because you're using opaque colors. So you may as well But there's a lot of this like Let's just see what this looks like This might turn green on this wood Uh, well be I was talking about because you were using opaque colors and then you put the transparent one on there Uh-huh because I want to see what it looked like Okay Everyone said you still haven't swiped one Yeah, we did Um, I think she was requesting the travel swipe Oh I wouldn't do that with translucent colors because it's just gonna get lost. So The next one he does. Where's it? Let's just try it on this.  I know so you have to glide it. You can't Just scoop it That looks interesting though I still like it. It looks like um Oh my goodness What is the thing the movie the fifth element? Oh, yeah We'll do pass I know it's Pretty cool It looks like that and a venus flytrap. Okay So you guys can see because it is opaque on the base The depth under the pink where that translucent blue is it's casting a bit of a shadow. So that's why that Dark kind of frame is around each one of these indentations Ooh $100 word right there indentations Starbucks vibes Slippery little slicker Are you gonna do a cell wipe on that one? Yeah, you still fancy, right?  Who ohy Oh, no I can't like huffing.  I would respect that. Yeah You can play around with how much pressure you put by like Putting all the pressure and then lifting it And then it'll deposit the color that you were moving That's terrible I'm telling you I was doing those swipes the other day and do that and then tilt it around It actually looks like the dragon swan Our boss is calling us Acrylic paint is much easier on those and Then resin is as a coat so Sure, you could put um You can use acrylics on these absolutely. I personally just don't have that much success with acrylic paints so, um That's why I don't use them I'd like to thank you for all those beach tutorials people out here on long island are loving them Well, thank you john you guys speaking of the ocean tutorials. I was gonna I was gonna be like tell them tell them tell them the story So I was on the phone with go daddy who hosts our website for I don't even since I woke up today I've been trying to talk to them about fixing our I don't hate it Only there our chat issues on our websites You guys can have easier ways of getting in touch with me to check on your order status ask about different colors, etc and After about an hour of being on hold the guy that was helping me came on the line and was like Hey, we're I'm still holding but I just want you to know that you're the first person That has ever called in that I knew who they were before You called and apparently he talks to a lot of youtube people apparently a lot of youtube uses Um go daddy for their web hosting and so he was like I Know that on numerous occasions I sat and watched three hour long tutorials on how to do oceans on your channel And I just wanted to let you know that you taught me how to do oceans and so thank you and I was like sweet Do I get a discount? I didn't say that but you know So anyways, thank you John for letting me know that people on long island love the oceans and also If you find a location for me to teach a class I'll come up there and do it in person. Yeah. I've never been in long I've been in new york never been to long island Is that a thing there's long island new york? That's like probably not in new york. I've been in new york city. I should say I don't want to do that black in there, right? When you have it down there, you may as well pour it out and just use it There's like hardly any as needed. What's up tish? What are you doing in texas? She said how do y'all I feel? Um appropriate saying that now that I have landed in texas Where are you going in texas miss ma'am? um, if you do this Maybe don't heat your paper like we just did I just want it to be I know I'm telling them at home So that if they do it like we did they can't be like they're just do they didn't call my whole house on fire So don't do what he just did But if you do you didn't see here And just pop the bubbles after they end up on your surface Or just use a heat gun. That's so nice Yeah, put more black in there. Oh mergers Just you gotta tap it That may be the prettiest thing of seeing in days I just want to kind of get that little blob off there Are you coming to dallas? Why don't you have fun? Let me know if you have free time You can come to my shop. I live and work and breathe downtown So yeah, how fun is that coaster? Look at all that soft pearl Sheen All right. I think the black looked really cute In that last one You'd have to find a way to get there So where in dallas are you going to be? I know you're in paris right now, but like when you get to dallas where where in dallas Is there a clear plastic that peels off of the back of those? So Yeah I'll show you So here you have this is already peeled. This is I've already peeled the plastic off of this So our clear surfaces have um a paper backing on them that I can't peel with my gloves on And you peel one side It's just a paper.  It's amazing Also, don't torch with anything in your hand like he's doing. Yeah. I'm Staying away from my hand. What do we got here? We got like an edge So fun Got a lot of this area and some over here We'll do a circle because that's a little smaller What's that sam? Our shell is a lot smaller than that too Your motorhome might not like it downtown. Um True. So what part of Dallas is your thing? Is it in the burbs? I've been doing RV tables full of countertop extensions. My profile picture is one I created for a friend Oh, that's beautiful East of new york city surrounded by the ocean would definitely attend the class Fantastic These are gonna be like a great set Nice that you have the plastic on both sides. So the plastic is actually in the middle and it's paper coated on both sides But I assume that's what you meant, but I just I don't want any like lapses in communication. So Just wanted to say that. Oh, you're in Irving What's up robin? I was way too much heat. Mm-hmm Hope that doesn't give it Oh, it'll be fine Very nice. I think that's it. It's all chevroni It might be some if we turn it Just take a stir stick and scrape everything inwards Way to go tish That's so exciting. I'm so glad That you got all the way down here safe Make sure that you pour on the side that you pull the tape from I got paper from because we have gotten Angry emails that I don't know what they expect me to do about it, but That's so much fun Why don't we just do a big Like just drop a whole bunch of resin On a big tarp right just and drop canvases in it Y'all at home. Don't steal my content idea I'm watching you Hey karry. Thank you so much. I appreciate it sam. How have you been? They're floater in there. Yeah, there's something in there I'll get it If you don't want to I'm glad she's adapting well There are definitely a lot of trucks here Have you ever tried the coasters where you spin on a wheel or the other thing? I can't think the name of so We have with I don't know but you know There's just so much garbage in here now We have tried it with um acrylics but I feel like i'm gonna love that idea and I want to Maybe a couple more It's all muddy now. It is mud, but it's nice um I don't know what I was saying but So now once you've used our sticks This is the thing we normally take the paper off of these because there's paper on these as well one second darla Um, you can just wipe these off And reuse every single one of them. I would definitely take the paper off If you do leave them with the paper on And resin just wait like two or three days and that will peel right off so Darla um She had a question about Putting our coasters on the spinning wheel to make it kind of bloom and splatter out I don't think I've ever tried that not with resin because resin is so much thicker You'd have to thin it down a lot to get it to yeah Um, but we can do it on the channel if you guys want to see We need a spinner though A lazy susan we'd have to like no we just need a we need a weighted spinner Like the big heavy ones Oh, here's one that's been dried Just pops right off. We'll have a good day at work carry And add that to the mystery crimes scene thing It's so nice to hear jeff smiling and laughing with his art agreed Have an rv spot for a week Near the convention center In Irving I would love to meet y'all maybe we can make it out that way How long are you going to be in town? I was wondering if it will work with resin lazy susan. That's the thing So it could work with resin This the thing is you're going to have to really really thin down your epoxy And when you do that your colors are at a higher risk of mixing together and making not cute secondary colors It's not impossible. Just make sure you're working with colors that should they mix Uh, they would look right for example the colors that I used today I knew that jeff likes to do tree rings and that a lot of times will Mix your colors And so I chose all colors That should they Mix completely and make a secondary it would still be a good color. So Any form of pinks any form of blue or aqua and any form Of like a gold or yellow Will make you really nice Colors And there you go all those can be reused And yeah I'll be in my spot from the saturday to next saturday then i'm on my way to elvin. Oh, you're gonna go see clara That's awesome. All right, you guys it's been an hour and 15 minutes doesn't even seem like it but We are going to go. I have to make sure our chat feature on the website works Bo's been bothering me for a long time for some reason. We got to figure out what her deal is this ma'am is On a little bit of medication because of the craziness outside Is it still outside? Yeah, they're they've got They're just emptying out all them. Let's see. Look, we'll see you guys What's going on? Give us you can make you see Very crazy. All right All that ruckus makes her real nervous. We should check that So you guys we have a lot of work to do. I hope you guys have an awesome day Thank you for coming in and watching if you haven't subscribed. Please do so Do it. It's free. Why don't I do it? You're already here.  Anyways, y'all have an awesome Tuesday Be kind of one another because you never know what someone's going through and always remember We do the tests But we don't have to and so you don't have to either and we'll see you guys next time tomorrow 6 p.m. Central Yeah, see you then. Bye We might be a little early because we have to go to a comedy show Oh, yeah We're gonna be early tomorrow. I'm sorry. We're gonna go see Hans kim This is Hans kim. This is Hans kim. All right. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Bye. I said bye


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