Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another one. If you are new to the channel, I am Bullpony, I do new car truck SCV reviews on YouTube. And today we are in the brand new 2024 Hyundai Tucson, courtesy of Jack J. Ambulvo Hyundai and York PA for more information on their inventory. Please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. So we are in this one today because there actually are several changes for the 2024 model year, including a bunch of new safety actually as well. You do get America's best warranty being five year, 60,000 mile bumper to bumper, 10 years, 100,000 miles on the powertrain, gotta love that. And you also get three years or 36,000 miles of complimentary maintenance.  So ultimately in this video, we will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking, steering fuel, ride quality, sound system, exhaust clip, all that fun stuff. So having said all of that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. And so as you can imagine, there are a few different trim levels for the 2024 Tucson. First one being the SE and actually the one we are in today starting at $27,250. Then you got the SEL for 29,400. And lastly, the limited starting at $36,510. And yes, that does mean two trim levels have been eliminated for the 2024 model year. But that was all pricing for the front wheel drive configuration though. If you wanted to add all wheel drive, you can do that. Simply add $1,500 then to any of those prices. But regardless of trim level that you go with the power plant is going to be the same. Powering the Tucson is a 2.5 liter direct injected inline four cylinder putting out 187 horsepower at 6,100 RPM. 178 pound feet of torque coming in at 4,000 RPM. Power sent to front wheels or all wheels through an eight speed automatic with power shifters for the limited trim level only. Did want to mention that zero to 60 time approximately 7.1 seconds with MPG numbers coming into 25 in the city 32 on the highway for the front wheel drive 23 city 29 then on the highway for the all wheel drive taking regular unleaded fuel. But so before we do any kind of fun acceleration test here in our Tucson wanting to mention to you guys there are some drive modes. There's actually a nice toggle switch located directly behind the shifter. If you were to press that up and down you will get normal sports smart and snow adjusting things like the shift points the throttle response and the steering sensitivity actually as well. So now I haven't got all of that out of the way. What do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find a straightaway. Let's put this acceleration here to the test and let's see how quickly we can get our new 2024 Tucson here up to speed. All right, a bit of an uphill acceleration here but three, two, one, go. It's okay. I guess it was uphill a little bit, but yeah, it's okay. It's certainly not going to have any issues emerging onto the highway. Not the very quickest SUV but that's not to be expected in the Hyundai Tucson to be quite hot as so. Anyways, I don't have any issues with the acceleration but anyways, to go along with that acceleration as always, braking is equally important.  As far as that six easier stopping distance goes it's going to come in at a respectable 124 feet as far as the braking feel good since there's nobody behind us. It's fine. Honestly, it's perfectly fine. I don't have any issues with the braking feel whatsoever, not super firm but not a soft braking feel either. So it's just right for what the Tucson is and that 124 number with SUVs it can range from like 115 to 139. So 124 right in the middle of the pack. So absolutely no issues with that.  As far as ride quality goes it's been perfectly fine on my short test drive here today but we'll say it looks like these roads are freshly paved. So yeah, it's pretty smooth for one reason or the other. So I don't have any issues there. As far as steering feel goes like I said it does adjust depending upon the drive mode that you put it in. So in the sport driving mode that I still have it in right now it is a noticeably way to your steering feel. So it more instantly points you in the direction that you want to go. Let's do a little experiment here for what to take it out and put it in smart definitely loosens up the steering feel. So it's really got something for everybody there. If you like a loose steering feel you got it. If you like a heavier of like a sport sedan steering feel you got that too with the sport driving mode honestly. So either way you're perfectly fine there. Then touching on cabin noise this is a good experiment. I were going approximately 45 miles per hour I'll let you guys be the judge of that. I got the road mic on here. So I don't have any issues personally with any kind of road noise or wind noise coming into the cabin. It's been perfectly fine. Then touching on visibility it's excellent. I can see perfectly fine out the back and rear view mirror. So 100% not going to have any issues there. And then just touching on forward visibility a little bit for the limited trim level you will get rain sensing windshield wipers but only for that limited trim level. So essentially what that is is whenever the Tucson detects any kind of missed rainfall it's going to automatically turn on those windshield wipers for you. Just like automatic headlights just one last thing you got to worry about there. So that's pretty cool. But that pretty much rounds out the performance segment of this review you guys. Let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2024 Hyundai Tucson. All right so here she is you guys the new 2024 Hyundai Tucson. There is a new color available for this year. That color is Hampton gray that is available across all trim levels in case you're curious. But as always let's go ahead and start with where this one is made. Take a look at the van first character is the number five indicating that the new Tucson is built and assembled here in the U.S. specifically Alabama in case you're curious. But let's go ahead and start up front. You will find a large dark front grill coming standard daytime running lights integrated within that front grill. I absolutely love that look. It's so cool that Hyundai is starting to or it really has done it for a few years. Now integrating the LED light system into the front grills of their vehicle. So definitely a very cool styling cue there. LED headlights do come standard for all trim levels across the board. Gonna get the automatic feature with that as well along with automatic high beams. So if you have your high beams on tonight and it senses a vehicle coming in the opposite direction it's gonna automatically dim the back to low beams for you there. So that is pretty cool. And you guys can see just to the corners of those front headlights. You will also get front air curtains as well. So that's gonna direct air around the wheel tire combination for a little better aerodynamics up front there. But that pretty much rounds out the front end. Still very good looking. Let's not go ahead and make our way to the side. All right, so now since you are around to the side of this one you gotta love that upper silver window trim that definitely gives it a very distinct design cue there. Kind of creating a floating roof line towards the sea pillar in the back. You got the Z-shaped creases just like the Hyundai Elantra. Always thought that was a cool design cue as well. Body colored power adjustable side mirrors do come standard. They will be heated with LED integrated turd signals then as well. They take a look down at the wheel setup, 17 inch alloys for the SE and SE L trim levels and then 19 inch alloys coming standard on the limited. So we do have the 17s. They look pretty good in my opinion. I'll have an issue with them but that pretty much rounds out the side profile. Let's not go ahead and make our way to the back. All right, so now since we are around to the back of this one gloss black shark fin antenna all the way to the top just blow that rear spoiler with an integrated brake light. And if you're curious where the rear window wiper is because you guys can see it's not a fixated to the rear glass. It is actually tucked away up underneath if you guys can see that. And that's pretty cool. It's kind of like the Chevy Tahoe Chevy Suburban. So it doesn't impede rear visibility at all because of that but also pretty cool. You got the Hyundai logo kind of integrated into the rear glass as well. So I like that that's different. You don't usually see that setup too often. Look at these tail lights though. They are, they almost look like shark teeth almost but they are LED if you go with the SE L or limited trim levels but they are not LED for the SE that we have today. They are halogen. So I do want to mention that. I got the H-track badging found on that rear tailgate that is going to be Hyundai's all-wheel drive system because of course every manufacturer names their all-wheel drive systems. Another really cool thing I like is the kind of hexagonal pattern integrated into the rear bumper. It's another different styling cue that you don't usually see too often. So do like that. You kind of got a little bit of a rear diffuser. I see those cutouts right there and then just below it all there is a single exhaust outlet under there somewhere tucked away. So having said that, I do believe you guys know what we have to do next. As always here is that exhaust clip. All right, so now since we are around to the back of the Tucson, when it comes to opening that rear tailgate it is going to be a manual tailgate for our SE trim level that we have with us here today but if you were to go with that SE L or limited you will find a hands-free power tailgate. So kick your foot underneath. It's going to automatically open up if your hands are full but once opened up, cargo capacity comes in at 38.7 cubic feet. If that was not enough space can of course fold those rear seats down bumping that up to 74.8 cubic feet then. In the cargo area you can find grocery bag hooks. There's a 12 volt power outlet, tie down anchors. There's a cargo cover available as well. And then if you were to lift up underneath of that cargo floor you are going to find a spare tire. You might be able to slide an ice scraper in there but basically it's just the spare tire under the cargo floor there. But then make your way up to the rear legroom that comes in at 41.3 inches. That is a, that's luxury good quite honestly. For reference, I'm an even six feet tall. This is how much space I had sitting behind my own driving position. There is a place to hide the seat belt as well. I wanted to mention that to you guys. I always found that pretty cool. Rear seats are reclining so you got a little bit more comfort there. Rear center armrest with cup holders that does come standard for all trim levels. No rear ventilation on our SE trim level unfortunately. However, you will get that otherwise. Heated rear seats, you can find them actually on the limited trim level. Dual rear USB charging ports are available. We again don't have them on our SE but heated rear seats are going to come standard on the limited if you wanted to spoil the rear passengers then a little bit. But then make your way up to the front seats. Claw seating is going to come on the SE that we have today. But I do like the nice design on the upper portion of the seats of our SE trim. That actually looks pretty cool. So leather at seating coming with the SE leather seating with the limited eight weight power driver seat with power lumbar for the SE on limited heated front seats for the SE on limited ventilated front seats for the limited along with memory settings for that trim as well. You will actually also get an eight weight power adjustable passenger seat for that limited too. But honestly, even with the SE trim that we have today even though they're cloth manually adjustable I don't have any issues with them. They're actually pretty comfortable. I felt a heck of a lot worse. So my short test drive seat comfort is perfectly fine for me at least. But then take a look at the steering wheel and telescoping of course. It is leather wrapped for the limited trim level also heated for that limited trim level but the 10 and two grips is really what oppressed me. These 10 and two grips the design to it, it's so thick. So I absolutely love the 10 and two grips. So anyways, then make your way to the startup. Let me start by showing you guys the key here. Get your Hyundai logo on the one side when you flip it over lock and unlocks a pretty basic key, but it is going to be keyless entry with the push button start for the SE on limited. Otherwise you're going to get that turn key start that we have with us here today. Remote start is also available. Smart park is going to come on the limited where you can pull out the car and back and back to no parking spot using the key fob. So that's pretty cool too. But in our case all I'm going to do here is simply put them up front of the brake and turn the key. And so once started up when it comes to the gauges and all gauges for the SE and SE L trim. So that is what you guys are looking at of course but you will get a 10 and a quarter inch digital gauge cluster for that limited trim level. So that's going to be completely customizable. It's going to change colors and all that stuff when you change the drive mood. So that's pretty cool. But anyways touching on our gauges you got how many miles you have left until you hit empty. There's your outside temperature, trip A trip B of course. And there's some steering wheel mounted controls that you can adjust different readings on the digital portion of the screen at least. So I'll just say it'll get the job done. But now let's go ahead and make our way to overall interior quality. A panoramic sunroof is going to come on the limited. Power sunroof is going to come with the convenience package for the other trims. Dual zoom climate control for the SE L and limited auto dimming rear view mirror with home lake for the limited. LED interior lighting for the limited. Limited trim really gives you all there's a creature comforts I guess you could say. Just in front of the shifter you have a little bit of rubberized storage. You have a couple USB charging ports, 12 volt power outlet as well. I'm actually charging up my battery for my camera right now. You got a leather wrapped shift boot. I like that a couple cup holders just beside that. Electromechanical parking brake. And within the center armor it's actually a decent amount of storage in there. And I think the design element I like the best on the interior of the Tucson is this kind of gloss black and silver strip that runs along the doors just above the passenger side glove box. It really continues just through the gauges and kind of continues into the air vents. It just looks good, so I like that. But anyways, now let's go ahead and make our way to the infotainment screen. So an eight inch color touchscreen display is gonna come on the SE and SE L and that is what you guys are looking at of course. But there is a 10 and a quarter inch color touchscreen display with the limited. Either way you get Bluetooth and audio streaming also Android Auto Apple CarPlay but here's the kicker. You get wireless Android Auto Apple CarPlay with the eight inch screen. Not with a 10 and a quarter inch. You think it'd be vice versa, but it's not. So it's pretty cool that because it wireless Apple CarPlay and wireless Android Auto for the screen that we're looking at here. Factory navigation system coming with the limited. There's a voice memo system as well so you can record your voice and play it back at a later time if you don't want to forget something maybe. There's also a quiet mode where it eliminates the rear speakers and limits the front speaker. So if you have kids sleeping in the back that's gonna help you out there. Also you can check out your radio information so you get six speakers for the S-E and S-E-L and then an eight speaker Bose sound system for the limited. So we do have that six speaker sound system with us here today. So let's go ahead and turn on the radio see what we got playing today and let's test out the clarity of this one. I am so sorry. Honestly for traditional radio that wasn't even serious that sound that was traditional radio that was decent. One of the better six speaker sound systems that I typically hear. So decent amount of bass clarity wasn't the best because it's traditional radio but maybe if it was serious XM it'd be a lot better. Honestly I don't have a problem with that sound system. Of course it's not the best because it's six speakers but it'll get the job done. But last thing I wanted to mention to you guys on the entertainment screen at least is when you do put the two-sign in reverse you will find a rear view camera. It's not that bad of quality. It's not the very highest quality but it's not the very worst that I've tested but that is gonna let you know who or what is behind you which is always is going to lead us into safety. Now let me start by giving you my favorite part here. My IHS top safety pick plus which is the very highest designation given by IHS that pretty much does it all right there and that does apply for all trim levels believe it or not. Front side side carrying airbags do come standard. You're also gonna have latch AKA lower anchors to tether children for the rear car seats, rear child door locks, tire pressure monitoring system but also coming standard forward collision warning with pedestrian detection, automatic emergency braking lane departure warning lane keep assist, driver retention monitoring system rear occupant alert and adaptive cruise control with stop and go which is a brilliant system on all Hyundai's probably my favorite.  So it's gonna beep at you if you get too close to something but overall when it comes to my final thoughts great safety of course and IHS top safety pick plus it doesn't get any better than that. Digital gauges are great in the upper trim but having said that I honestly don't mind these gauges either a little bit different than what I'm used to seeing so I don't mind them. America's best warranty it can't beat that.  Really I think that's the best maintenance program as far as free maintenance goes that is out there right now. The only constructive criticism I can think of is some rear window sunshades would be nice to have as an option even for the limited trim level and I always say this but multicolor ambient lighting I know Hyundai can do it because they do it on so many of their other vehicles it would be nice to see it at least as an option here on the Tucson as well. Anyways let me know what you guys think of the Tucson in the comments section below. 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So Gregory and I are talking about his website. And I noticed that one version of his website doesn't go to the correct place. In other words, there are four versions of every website. I don't know if you knew that. Your website has four versions. One version. So let me show you all what I'm talking about here. So one version of your website is www.GregoryVahanian.com And it might default to, yes, okay. So it defaults to HTTPS. So, okay, version one, HTTPS colon slash slash www. Okay, that's version one. That's the most common version these days. Actually, it's a toss up between www and non-www. Okay, that's version two, two separate versions here. Okay, so this is version two of your website. This is without www and this is what happens. So in other words, Gregory, your domain registrar needs to do a better job of saying, dude, do we have all four versions of Gregory with that website pointing to the same place? Because if we don't, that's a problem. So the second version is not working. So your website needs to work without www because that's a lot of people don't type www, right? Thank you. And that's exactly where that's precisely the image. That's where it ends up going. And then the third version of your website is without HTTPS. Okay, and with www and let's see where that goes. So without the S and with www, let's see where that goes. That goes to the correct place and it redirects automatically to version one, which is www with the HTTPS. And let's fourth version is without the S and without the www, right? So it's all like four different versions. Let's see where it goes. Again, it doesn't go to the correct place. So in other words, what we can see here is that is yet essentially your non-www versions are not directing to the correct place. So when someone types in, for example, if I type in HTTPS, let's do it for my own website, right, HTTPS.com slash GeorgeCow.com without www, okay? Right, it's version two. This should redirect to the www, right? Or just simply work. So let's see what happens. See, he redirected to the www. So that's what should happen. Yeah, yeah, so hope that helps. Thank you so much. I've been over it with the domain provider and they assured me that it was all and we took time. And yeah, so thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you.


So my beautiful people, I am back with another Dying Light 2 video and today I'm going to show you how you can literally fly around the map. You ain't going to believe this. How's it going guys? My name's DP Jane. If you do enjoy the video leave a like. It really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more, be sure to subscribe. Okay, so you guys probably know about the Broom Easter Egg. There's a broom in the game which you do a challenge on and it's pretty cool, not going to lie. But guys, there's a way in which you can keep that broom and use it whenever you want. Don't believe me? Check this out. Here we go, people, flying around the map wherever I want to go, wherever I want to go.  So I think it's baby Yagoos or baby Yagoos, I'm not even sure. But that's the Easter Egg anyway. That's the Easter Egg. You get to fly a broomstick and if you want to keep it, it is as simple as once you start up the challenge, mid-challenge, quit out the game, load back in guys. And you'll have the broom in your inventory and you'll be able to equip it and use it whenever you want. This means you can fly literally everywhere and it's as simple as that. And here we go again, I feel like the witch had the wizard of us. No, go up, fly upward. No, my problem is I'm holding forwards. I need to hold backwards or go upwards. No, don't want to get stuck in a tree. Don't want to get stuck in it. No, don't hold forwards and still. No, don't. Let's go this way. It's hot. Let's try again. There we go. We got there in the end people. I'm not quite the best broom pilot. I'm not quite the best broom pilot but I'm getting the hang of it. I'm getting the hang of it. Now if you don't know about the broom Easter Egg, I will show you in a quick second exactly where you got to go and what you have to do to exploit this and get this to use whenever you want. I got to call these people. I can literally go wherever I want to go. How amazing. So you need to obviously get to the top of the VNC building, the broadcast building. The easiest way is obviously the lift. If you haven't got to the broadcast mission yet, you won't be able to use the lift and you'll have to make your way around up the sides and it's pretty difficult. I do have a few guys on YouTube, I was supposed to be one ages ago, but you will need a grapple hook and you make it actually, you make it, I think it's this way and you just get all the way to the top.  I want you to actually on the crane, as you see one of those shrooms, you have to actually hold X. You can't pick up, you have to hold X on it and you have to keep doing this for eight, it takes about five minutes, you're holding for about five minutes, you have to repeat that step, it's just wild and once you get to the end, the challenge starts.  Now sometimes the game can bug out and it don't allow you to like equip things you've got in your accessories, in your inventory, I've had this with the grapple hook, I've had it with the parachute, I've had it with a couple of weapons, all you've got to do is just drop certain items and pick them back up, drop certain items, equip the thing you want to equip and pick them items, just drop back up and it is as easy as that guys, so yes people, there you have it, this how you get the broomstick stick, which will allow you to fly around the map and do what you want, how cool is this, how cool is this, now if you do enjoy the video leaving a like really helps out, if you're new around here and want to see more Dying Light be sure to subscribe, if you want to join my discord with an amazing Dying Light 2 community, that's a link down below also, you'll find people there to trade with, glitch with, do it with whatever, again join my discord, you'll love it, but guys, thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully people, I will see you on that next one.


Today, my friend, Ashley, is coming over. I am showing her my new apartment, Ashley Calling. I'm coming to your apartment. Where is your apartment? My apartment is near the Columbia Heights Metro. Listen. Where is your apartment? Listen. My apartment is near the Columbia Heights Metro. Speak. It is near the Columbia Heights Metro? Yes. Exit the metro and turn right. Then at the bus station, turn left. Then walk straight ahead. Listen. Yes. Exit the metro and turn right. Speak. Then at the bus station, turn left. Then walk straight ahead. OK. Exit metro, turn right, turn left. Then go straight ahead. Yes. My apartment is near a coffee shop. OK. See you soon. Hi, Ashley. Hello, Anna. Which coffee shop? There are three coffee shops. OK. My apartment is across from a big department store. A big department store? Ah, I see it. OK, bye, Ashley. See you soon. OK. See you soon. Having my friends over. Come on. Today, my friend Ashley is coming over. I am showing her my new apartment. That's Ashley calling. I'm coming to your apartment. Where is your apartment? My apartment is near the Columbia Heights Metro. It is near the Columbia Heights Metro? Yes. Exit the metro and turn right. Then at the bus station, turn left. Then walk straight ahead. OK. Exit metro, turn right, turn left. Then go straight ahead. Yes. My apartment is near a coffee shop. OK. See you soon. Hi, Ashley. Hello, Anna. Which coffee shop? There are three coffee shops. OK. My apartment is across from a big department store. A big department store? Ah, I see it. OK, bye, Ashley. See you soon. OK. See you soon. Having my friends over. Come on. Ready.


Yeah, and then you know if it's good enough for sure. Okay, throw it back on that scale and then you see where they come back. Oh, okay. I'm gonna ask you, what's the most money you ever had to count with a group of people in your life? I think 3.2 million. How long did it take? How long we remember, man? That's a long time. You had to count us, of course, but that still takes a long time.  Yeah, we gonna talk. You think back to when you first started dealing with drugs and dealing with these different communities, dealing with the drug game, can you even think back to the first? Cause I forget a lot of stuff. You know what I'm saying? I listen to a lot of your interviews, but do you really reflect back? Cause I can remember taking something from my uncle. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's how I got started. I remember that. Well, I know exactly how I got started. How did you get started? I had a friend who called me and said that he had something that was new. And it was gonna be the biggest thing that hit the planning for a while. And when I went and he showed it to me, I didn't believe him. He told me to go and try it. And that's what I did. Did you take it? No. No, I didn't use it. That's one thing I asked. Not at that time. Okay, I asked him a question the other day and I'm gonna ask you. And I always like when they watch the movies and somebody- Don't ask it. Don't ask it. No, I'm serious. When you watch a movie, cause I watch movies, that's how I learn a lot of this stuff. And- Then he gonna show you nothing on TV. He cut the bag and they tasted it. Like you have to, like do you have to taste to make sure you're getting the good product? That nobody's not selling you no flour. When I first started, I did do that. Okay. I never did that. I would have people that would- That's what I did. Tell me if it was good. But it got to a point to where you no longer needed to taste it or anything like that. You put in a shaker bottle and throw some baking soda on it and some heat.  And then you know if it's good or not. Yeah, for sure. Throw it back on that scale and you see where they come back. Okay. I was gonna ask you, what's the most money you ever had to count with a group of people in your life? I like 3.2 million. How long did it take? How long we remember? That's a long time. We had to count it. We had to count it. But that still takes a long time. Now when it was bad, when you had to count that sh** by hand, that was like, Yeah, that's it forever. Guess what?  I ain't counting on money today. No man, like, and just to try to clean it up, like what was one of some of the resources that you used to clean it up, dealing with that much money? Or did you even care to clean it? I mean, that's easy. You know, that's easy to clean money. We dealt with detail shops in the country. You know, it was the weakest little way that we had our little money. Everybody knew what was going on. Person get a detail shop or if a person take in and try to figure out ways to put stuff in his momma name, you already know these avenues will be taken. Everybody. That's, everybody know it. My momma had 24 brothers and sisters. Oh wow. Had a lot of people I could slide and snide in their name. You know what I'm saying? Hey, Unk. Mm-mm. I be scared. I mean, like, I don't trust none of them. When they put in the newspaper, you got a live sentence or that property become theirs. Yeah. You don't need that. Oh yeah. All you're gonna do is give it to that girl. That's so true. You know, you don't think about it. Yeah, yeah. But, you know, the drug business is a ruthless business, you know, and it's stressful. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gonna talk.


The sky she is looking angry my friends. We are at another cemetery We was at dirt the the one that you the video you seen before this this is the same day We was at that cemetery. We found another one to check out now There's really no no There's no claims of it being haunted But this is the only thing left of a ghost town That used to be right in this area there used to be a turpentine mill and post office and all that stuff This is where we're at. So we just thought we'd share this with you we just left our One of our favorite burger stands where Elvis supposedly ate a Hot dog at that'll be in an upcoming video It'll be in a another filming locations video but This is Found this interesting someone's got a bunch of water jugs while milk jugs with water in them so they can Water plants and stuff out here. So that's pretty cool. I see some some flowers down here Same way down there some flowers So that's pretty cool. I don't know if they're real or not, but we'll check them out Like I said, so it is an old cemetery But there are some newer gravestones like this one is 2010 Looks like the guy was a hunter. So that's pretty cool nice stone so Yeah, this is the only thing left of the ghost town Well, it used to be a town. It's not really quite a ghost town now because there's nothing left, but Wouldn't there a Old train depot around here somewhere Oh a stagecoach. Oh She's You'll be careful of that Don't trip over that. She's out playing with her ghost thing Bring you down through here. We'll look around No, right back in here. There's a road It goes down in there. I don't know what it goes to we're in the with Likuchi State Forest Which you can see the sign right over there Hopefully Focus that's pretty cool. This is 2001 here very nice So they got these all nice nice back in here. Okay. They're not real folks, but these are Those are real plants very nice little bird bath a couple little angel children in there There's some nice plants That is beautiful 2010 But yeah, there's a road that goes back in there. I don't why she didn't want to pull down in there I want to go see what's back there But yeah, they're supposed to be that's why they call this stagecoach trail this road I guess stagecoach used to run through here and there was a stagecoach stop But like I said, this is the only thing that exists now. So just wanted to share this with you So that's pretty cool Must have been a hunter see the little deer And and there's a 410 shotgun shell there There's one over here with a couple of doggies on it focus. There we go Pretty cute. Yeah, this is a it's well maintained. So that's good. That's good but they're still People being buried here. Here's one like this one here She is apparently still alive This one here they were married January 17 1946 and He passed away in 2003 on June 6th So she must still be living So says hand-in-hand with Jesus. That's it's pretty cool So Jimmy Dewey So he must have been a veteran and I can't see what that says So he might have been a veteran Here we have a toddler is old And over here we have Mills Douglas J Mills 1896 to 1985 and then you got Sadie J Mills 1899 to 1996 And I'm guessing this is their two children. There's baby mills and Ivy mills 1920 so a lot of times and I don't I'm not saying this is what happened but a lot of times if you had twins and they were And they passed away at birth They would bury him like this with one of the stones saying the year So I'm guessing that may That may be what that is But they're definitely baby's graves, they are real tiny and I'm guessing this is Also a baby grave Safe and the shepherd's fold. Yeah, see the lambs This one's another Two years old 1922 to 1924. So there's some babies in here So Very interesting Very very interesting. It's right beside the road. What for that it'd be pretty It would be pretty Pretty quiet out here, but it's nice. It is nice Monkey she's still doing her ghosts Things very nice. Okay. We'll take you guys Over here. I'll kick you back on when we get in the other corner over here way back over there So I thought I'd share these with you. These are awesome someone took the time and painted them This one was two years old mm-hmm 1919 to 1983 honey That must be the mom 1912 to 1973 and the dad Well, that would be the dad Otis right and this is Arlena and this was probably There's a baby He died this baby died in 79 He she died in 83. He died in 73. So January 6 That's the date my brother died on so I just Thought that was really nice They painted that because there's cars in a marble there. Mm-hmm. I just saw that Yep More to come Okay, here's one here. It's kind of hard to make out But she was born Marth March 10th, 1811 She died February 5th 1887 So this is the oldest one I found here so far. So and we're going to newer ones here. So I That's interesting. That's a very old that might have been the first person buried here You know, it's the oldest one I found so far 1887 Yes, and Elizabeth Clark These are all Clarks Well, there's a Clark right there. Yeah, they're not So That's a Sarah Clark But she was born in 1811 died in 1887 So that's how long friggin old that is old see look They got the foot stone here with their initials. That's what they used to use They used to use a headstone and a foot stone See that's the foot stone with her initials AEC and Elizabeth Clark Pretty wild, huh? Yeah, there's another one. Let's see It's like here's an old one if I can see this 19 something 1912 Looks like 1861 but 1912 so Yeah, that's uh, that's the oldest one back over there. Oh No infant December 9th 1909 to December 17th 1909 not even a week old There's another one 1911 1915 three years old Four years old. Yeah, there's a lot of infants and young children buried here Yeah, this this is the yeses see There's some stones over in here Yeah One two three four, I don't know why they're here, but they're here Interesting, huh? Yeah Okay guys, so there's another one for you That was like that was close Big one them real thin lightning bolts Right over top the truck, right Right, I'm surprised it didn't hit them trees right there, but So there you go guys another one for you. I know it's a quick one but I'll put a link in the description as well as I Will put the information on this cemetery in ghost town That used to be here so We'll do that. I'll give you another look around here real quick. I'll give you a slow pan again interesting Because there's real flowers back in there. Yeah, yeah No, the sunflower's a fake, but there's other there's flowers hanging on a planter. Oh, okay, so Hey, there you go guys We see more We'll add it if not See in the next video. All right, so yeah, you guys take care. She better met the manual legend. I'm gone Like he says she's out for now and Bruno's gone literally All right, bye guys. Take care. Thanks for watching the sky She is looking angry my friends


It's mostly focused on being available. We can deal with some inconsistencies later, even if it means manual intervention. But we never want to be down. We want the app to be working every time, every day, every minute. And that's challenging. So what you're seeing on the screen is the view of Amsterdam, the city that I live in now from Uber's point of view. You can see the brightness of the color represents how often an Uber car drives there. And so our architecture, we have many servers in geographically distributed data centers. And we have a service-oriented architecture with hundreds of microservices. And it's not only about people, actually. We have no tech talk is good enough without a picture of some kitten. So Uber is actually going into the last mile delivery business. We can deliver packages, different cities. That's part of the Uber rush service. We can deliver food very quickly within minutes as part of the Uber Eats service. And we have some fun promotions where we agree with some animal shelter. And we take some kitten from them. And people can order an Uber car with kitten and the money that they give them goes to the animal shelter. And then they also can keep the cat. So yeah, some fun. Right. So about open source, our platforms are built on open source technologies everywhere. We are using Ubuntu and Debian Linux on our servers. We are using a lot of Docker. Docker was a big buzzword last year. I don't know if it still is this year, but I guess it is. And the main languages, our backend services are written in our Python, Node.js. And recently, Go has been gaining a lot of speed. Our storage or further backend services include Kafka for logging, Redis for caching, Cassandra for key value storage, basically, and Hadoop for data analytics. And the list goes on and on. We use open source technologies everywhere. But we are not only using them, we are also contributing. Every project, every service that is created at Uber is considered for open sourcing. Of course, that can happen every time. There are some business critical things that must be kept secret. Sometimes it doesn't make a lot of sense to open source something, but if we can do it, we open source things. And we have about more than 880 original public GitHub repositories, also more than 40 forked repositories. And our software engineers are constantly contributing to projects in different ecosystems, I would say, mostly in Node.js at this point. But contributions from our people are very often our people contribute. So this graph shows you how many microservices there are at Uber. This is like a historical graph. So two years ago, there were no microservices. Everything was served by a monolithic API service. But since then, the number of microservices has exploded. We now have over 700 microservices running at Uber. And even keeping them running is a challenging thing. And so I'm going to talk about three things that support this microservice-oriented architecture. The first is string pop, which is scalable, full tolerant application level sharding. We'll see what it is in a minute. T-channel, high performance RPC, and Hyperban, service discovery and routing for our large scale service-oriented architecture operations. All right, so ring pop. Ring pop is actually the project that we are developing in MSTREM. So ring pop consists of two main things. It's a consistent hashing ring and a membership protocol. Consistent hashing allows us to consistently shard requests to the workers that actually do the business logic. So imagine you have a trip that has started. The trip has an ID. And because the trip is full of state, and you're doing some caching, you want the cache to be fresh, so you want that one request to be routed to the one host, to the one instance, and that one instance is going to handle the whole trip. And you can imagine that the supply service, for example, or the demand service that we have are being served on hundreds of hosts. There are hundreds of instances. And we need to route these requests consistently to one machine that is going to handle that one trip. And then it can do other things. And of course, we want to be available. So if that machine fails, we want this failure to be non-disruptive. We want the trip to still continue. If the machine crashes, we cannot afford to lose the trip. And a membership protocol gives us full detection in a decentralized way, in a scalable way. So we will see how these two things come together. So I will dig a little deep into the underlying technology. So the hashing ring is actually like a continuous, or basically a four-byte integer. So the first thing we need to do, we are basically placing workers on this hashing ring and our instances, as we call them. And then as the requests come in, we route them to these instances based on hashing. So first thing we need to do, we need to place these instances on the hashing ring. So here we have three instances, A, B, and C. And we've run them through a hashing function that is going to just return a four-byte integer and that places them on the hashing ring. This determines the key space division. So every instance is responsible for the keys, for the hashing keys that are counterclockwise until the next instance. So in this case, instance B is responsible for the left half of the key space and instances B and C have split the right part of the key space. In reality, it's a little more complicated than this. It actually never happens that this would be this imbalanced. But for the sake of simplicity, let's assume it's kind of disbalanced, but in reality, it's not. And now if we want to determine which instance is responsible for a given user, for example, or a given trip, we hash the user or the trip and it falls somewhere on the ring. In this case, users 1 and 5 will be handled by instance B. And the same way, user A is going to be handled by instance C and user 4 is going to be handled by instance A. And now, let's say instance C has caught fire, like it's down. Somebody has cut the cable. And we need this thing to cause as few disruptions as possible. So our membership protocol determines that instance C is down. It removes it from the ring. And now instance A is responsible also for user 8 because C is no longer part of the ring. But as you can see, users 1 and 5 are still being handled by instance B. So unless the instance goes down, the request is going to be routed to the same instance every time. And in the other case, if we put another instance in the ring, in this case, D, it's going to take over some of A's key space and user 4 is now being handled by instance D. So the important thing to remember again, unless something goes wrong, the request is always being handled by one instance from beginning to the end. All right. And now how we do the membership protocol. So our membership protocol is based on Swim. If you've never heard of it, go read the Swim paper. It's an excellent paper. I really recommend it. It's a great read. Do it. So we are assuming we have three instances and we somehow want to keep the membership and we want to keep it in a decentralized, scalable way. And Swim allows us to do this. So in the steady state, these instances cycle through their membership list and randomly, in given intervals, ping their neighbors. And if nothing happens, they just happily ping and everything is fine. But if instance B goes down and instance A decides, like, tries to ping it, it doesn't get a response back. So but we don't know. Sometimes packets get lost on the network. It might be just a temporary thing. We don't want to jump to conclusion that instance B is down. So we want to be sure. So what happens is that instance A asks another instance, in this case, instance C, to do what is called an indirect ping. It sends a ping request to instance C and instance C pings instance B on A's behalf. And so this is for the case where a link between A and B has been broken, but still the link between C and B is fine. So we don't want to mark B as faulty because it's still there. Just A cannot reach B, but that's not a big problem. So the indirect ping fails and now A declares B as suspect. That means it's not yet declared faulty. It could be just a temporary failure. We don't want to be causing many disruptions unless it's really necessary. So it's just been declared suspect. But after some time, yeah, I forgot something. So what's important here is that this protocol is based on what we call gossiping. That is, in these pings, we gossip or piggyback what we call it, information about the membership to other instances. So the next time A pings C, it also the ping carries the information that B has been declared suspect. So in the next ping, the information that B is declared suspect goes to instance C. And after a little while, when B doesn't respond back, it's actually declared faulty. So the best thing about this approach is that it's very scalable. It's doing what we call infection-style dissemination. It goes randomly. It randomly disseminates information about membership. But this random infection-style dissemination eventually gets to all the nodes. But the beautiful thing about this is that the traffic is constant per node. So when we grow the cluster, nodes don't need to keep connections to every other node there is. They are just pinging some subset in constant intervals. So it's very scalable. And we have clusters with 1,000 instances in production. We have tested it to 2,500 instances. And we just don't have enough hardware at this point to go further. But this thing is going to be fine up to 10,000 instances of this running. So that's something about the scale, Fuber. We have a service that has 1,000 instances in production. OK, so how does RingPop actually, how does one use RingPop? So RingPop is an application-level middleware. Requests come into the service. RingPop, based on the hashing ring and the membership decides whether it should handle the request or forward it to some other instance. And so you can imagine something like this. This is just pseudocode. Don't look too closely at it. So if you look at the diagram in the bottom, these are our three instances. A request for user 1 comes to instance A. Instance A is not the owner of the user based on the consistent hashing, but it knows where it should go immediately. So it forwards it to instance C and instance C handles it and replies through instance A and sends the response. So this is what the code could look like for some kind of business logic on users. So you have seen that there's a lot of RPC happening, many services, many pings happening, many requests and responses flying around. And we used to use HTTP. But there were many issues with it. HTTP is a complex protocol. It's kind of slow performing in some cases. So we came up with our, yeah, there was a need to make something more reliable faster. And so we created T-Channel. T-Channel was created with the service-oriented architecture in mind from the start. So we are not calling hosts, we are calling services. We wanted to be able to trace any requests in our service oriented architecture so that we can do diagnostics, we can do performance testing, and tracing of the requests. We wanted to be easy to implement in the languages that we use. Also, we wanted it to support multiplexing. That is, you can have one connection open and send many requests. You don't have to wait for the response as you would need with HTTP. With HTTP, you can work around it by using multiple connections. But then you're using more connections, and it's not as scalable. We wanted it to support arbitrary serialization. We still use a lot of JSON, but the problem with JSON is that it's slow to parse and produce. We have found that many of our services were basically doing one thing all day, and that is parsing and producing JSON. So we actually started using Thrift, which is a different serialization approach. And we wanted, of course, it to support high performance forwarding, because that's what we do a lot as you have seen. So T-Channel is a binary protocol. And it's binary because we know fixed points in the T-Channel header that we can access directly without needing any difficult or complicated parsing. And based on these headers in fixed positions in the byte stream, we can determine the forwarding. We don't need to parse the whole request in any way. So that allows the very fast forwarding. And there's a request ID, which actually allows us to do the tracing I described. We can just trace any request by its ID throughout the whole network. So again, T-Channel is open source. We have four implementations in Node.js, Python, Go, and Java. And we've also built tools to support it. T-Curl does, yeah, it's just curl for T-Channel. And T-CAP allows us to trace and diagnose T-Channel requests as they fly through the network. And of course, if you have a large service-oriented architecture operation, you need some way to do service discovery and routing on this large scale. So it's one thing to have one service that is nicely working and it's reliable and it uses consistent hashing and everything is working fine. But you need a way to communicate between these services. So that's where HyperBrand comes in. HyperBrand gives us service discovery, request forwarding. Clients have to do almost zero configuration. You just need to give it one HyperBrand instance and it will bootstrap automatically. IP address of one HyperBrand instance and it will bootstrap automatically. And also HyperBrand allows us to do circuit breaking. That means if one service is misbehaving, it doesn't respond. We can cut traffic to it so that it doesn't disrupt services that are downstream to it or upstream. And also allows us to do rate limiting if, again, one service is misbehaving, is producing many requests. We want to limit it dynamically so that, again, it doesn't disrupt more of our architecture. So HyperBrand is actually based on HyperBrand. The HyperBrand routers form a ring and services connect to this ring. Services do not connect to every node in the HyperBrand ring. They just have a subset of them, what we call an affinity group. So you can imagine when the service starts, it contacts one of the HyperBrand nodes and the HyperBrand node tells it where it should connect, where its affinity group is. And it connects there and then it's ready to respond to requests. So this is what a request flow could look like in HyperBrand. So service A connects to HyperBrand. HyperBrand basically, service A wants to do a request to service B. That's the goal. So service A sends the request to HyperBrand. HyperBrand determines where service B's affinity group is forwards the request to one of the routers in the B's affinity group. And then forwards it to service B. Service B again determines where it should actually handle the request, forwards it to the correct instance, and then the whole thing goes back. So you can see there's a lot of routing happening and forwarding happening. And that's only things to teach and all that we can do this in a high performance way. So conclusion, Uber is both open source user and contributor. We have a large service oriented architecture based on our open source projects. You can just, there's good documentation. You can really go to GitHub, take a look, play with it. These projects are RingPop, T-Channel, and HyperBrand. There's plenty, plenty more there. And we still, but we still have a lot of interesting challenges ahead. We've been around for four or five years, something like that. Our architecture is still evolving. And so things will change, things will break, but a lot of interesting stuff is happening. So thank you. Yeah, Uber is hiring if you want to work on this and more cool stuff, get in touch with me. Also, if you want to take an Uber, you still don't have an account. You can use a promo code mark for you to get 250 crowns of your first ride. Yeah, so that's all from me. I'm ready to answer any questions you may have. All right. Yeah, I think you were first. I have two very quick questions. Yeah. OK. Yeah, the first question was, do we use some kind of raft or pexus implementation? Answer is? Yes. Answer is, we use Cassandra and we use React, which are both based on these things, but we don't have anything in-house based on these two. So, kind of. And the second question was, we collect a lot of data. What are we doing with the data? Are we selling it or not? So, we are definitely not selling the data. As you, like, actually, yeah, we have a big head-loop operation. We are analyzing a lot of data, but we are definitely not selling the data. No. What are you doing? So, you can imagine that. OK, I'm not sure I can actually, like, talk about it a lot. Yeah. Like, there's a lot of space for optimization in routing, for example, you know, like, of the cars. And, yeah, that's about everything I can probably say here. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, I think, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, so, we work with UUIDs throughout, yeah, sure. The question was, how do we determine the identity of the user, basically? So, we don't use usernames. Every user is associated with UUID, so we use these UUIDs as the source for the hashing, right? Yeah? Yeah, the question was about security and encryption with the channel. This is all happening internally. We don't do any encryption on the application layer. I believe there are IPsec things happening, you know, like, in the lower layers of the network. But, yeah, you wouldn't use the channel to connect from your cell phone to our infrastructure. We still use HTTP and REST-based approach to get to the end device. Yeah? Yeah. And if it dies, another node takes over. Yeah. What happens in the background? We probably have to replicate the data. So, we use customer for it, or it's a stateless or it's some sort of state plan to replicate the data. Yeah, so, the question was, what happens if the die, if the node actually dies in the middle of the trip, how do we load the state? So, there's a couple of things we do. One, we use Redis for caching. So, you would stay the transient state in Redis as one place, or we have a couple of storage services based on Cassandra, based on React, where we store the data so that it can be loaded in case the node dies. Yeah, yeah. Yes, yes. So, the advantage there is that your caches are fresh. And also, there are other services which only store really transient data that get refreshed every couple of seconds. So, if the node, if one of the instances dies, the data gets refreshed from the source very quickly.  Yeah? So, the question was, is there any guarantee that the requests get where they are supposed to go? The answer is no. Like, you can always lose the packets somewhere in the network. But what you can do is, you can do speculative execution. That is, you actually ask two instances for some request and you use the first response that comes in so that if one of the packets is lost somewhere, you still get the second one. You can also wait for the responses. If it doesn't come in, you repeat it. But then, of course, you are faced with some latency issues. Yeah, so, yeah. There are ways to work around this. But of course, if a packet is lost somewhere in the cable, it just gets stuck in the cable. No? Yeah, you need to. Yeah? So, thanks to the fact that we have request IDs, we know that we send a request with an ID and we are waiting for a response with an ID. So, if the response doesn't come in, we can safely resend the request because the destination service knows that it already served it so we can send the same response again. So, we can guarantee that it's going to handle the request only once. And as well, we can guarantee that the source service is going to handle the response only once. Thanks to the IDs. Yeah? So, yeah, what used to happen is that devices would basically ping our data center every couple of seconds and they would get the whole state of the application back and it would just display the state. But we are kind of moving away from this approach. So, the mobile application knows what data it should request and it just asks our back end services for the data. And if the connection gets broken, your application won't update for a couple of seconds. But when the connection comes back, it will just load the data that is necessary. So, I don't think there's a big room for conflicts, really. The application is fairly simple, actually. So, when you make a request to get a car, you just commit with pressing the button. The request either gets to the server or it doesn't. And if it gets there, it gets processed on the server and you wouldn't send the request twice. So, I don't think there's a lot of room for conflicts, actually. Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, so the first question is, Hyperban is written in Node.js. Why didn't we choose Go? Basically, Node.js at the time was the language to write things in. At Uber, there were software engineers able to write things in Node.js, so that's the basic reason. And the second question, yeah, did we have problems with Node.js? Yes. So, yes, we've had problems. Yeah, that's why actually Go is gaining a lot of speed at Uber now. We are considering all options. So, unfortunately, we are really out of time, so thanks, Mark, for the great talk. Did you speak English, right? So, I will repeat the question. The question was, why didn't we write Hyperban? Why didn't we use something like all of the books?


Welcome to It's About Time on ThinkTech from our downtown studio at the core of Honolulu. I'm your host Becky Sampson, a professional motivational speaker, author, and coach. Do you ever ask yourself, why do I do what I do, especially when it comes to getting what you really want out of life? And do you keep attracting things that you don't want? After a lifetime of struggle with my weight, I have lost 130 pounds and been maintaining that weight loss for over nine years now, and I can attest that if you don't understand how to master your mind, you will always get stuck in the merry-go-round of what you don't want. Uncovering and understanding the real culprit to unhealthy habits might be easier than you think. Joining me here in the studio today is Al Grineal, owner of TrueSpeak.com. Today we're going to be answering that question, is why do we do what we do? Uncovering the mind to master our results. So welcome. Hi, Becky. I'm so happy to be here. Hi, Al. It's so fun.  I'm glad that you said yes to coming on the show today because I know that you are right, MacDab, in the middle of this world of teaching people about their minds. And I know with my own personal results, it is really, it starts with where we think. Correct. So tell me kind of like what your backstory is and what got you stored into this industry of teaching people about their mind and getting the results that they want. I think it starts with that. I've always been a wordsmith, like such an avid reader at a really young age. And very early on, I understood the power of your language. There's always the right word, right? You can say there's a lot of books in the library or you can say the library has a vast amount of books. So I think that started it all in me thinking about language and words and then I became a writer and then I started to realize that I was not getting, even though I was doing all the motivational stuff and I was doing it right, things weren't happening. And so I put that together with the idea of words and words start from your thoughts. They don't start from an action. They don't start from an emotion. Then that kicked me into the whole neuroscience of how the brain processes information and neural pathways and all that kind of stuff and it just blew me away. And I've been doing that research now over 30 years because there's always new stuff that they're finding all the time. And to help people understand that it's easier than they think, like you said, it's just people aren't taught the process. So we're always thinking forward and in order to get what we want, we need to sometimes think backwards. Exactly. And I think it's unwinding that. I know when you and I were having a conversation the other day, I was telling you I remember the first time I really learned about this stuff about 10, 11 years ago. It blew my mind, like literally, because you're going, no, it's more of our control than we really think in being able to make massive changes. So what are some of the problems that you see in society now and in our communities? Like you said, a lot of us, we start going in these circles and not getting what we want. What's the main problems? Like what are people dealing with? I think the main thing is we've evolved into this real solution-based society that it needs to happen quickly or something's wrong. Instant gratification. Yes. And so that's, I think, part of the problem. And the other problem is our poor communication skills now, because we don't have to, people don't do what we're doing right now. So through texting and emails, a lot gets lost in translation. So we're losing our ability to communicate effectively. And then to top that off, we're just a society also who's very open to blaming instead of accepting responsibility. It's just easier to blame because it also gets to a faster result. Not a good result, but a faster result. So that's what I'd like people to really be thinking about, taking ownership of everything and figuring out what they want instead of what they don't want. So isn't that interesting? How do you, when you work with people or that you've seen, how do you take somebody from somebody that's been a complete victim in their life to making that shift of taking responsibility? Like how does that happen or how does the brain simulate that? I like first to have people just say how they feel, right? They're just coming in and they're like, I can't help it because this and that or I was poor or I was the youngest child or whatever. So I let them just get that out, right? Get it out of your head, verbalize those words. And then my favorite part in coaching is I say, okay, so what do you want? And that's like mind-blowing. People have never been asked, well, what do you want? And they're speechless usually for a while, or it's like, wow. It's easy for them to say what I don't want, right? I don't want this kind of relationship. I don't want this kind of result. I don't want, but yeah, isn't it funny that when you work with people, it's like, what do you want? And they go, I don't know if I've really thought about that. Exactly. So if someone says, they come to me and they're like, I don't want to smoke anymore. I'm like, cool, I don't want to smoke anymore either. So what do you want? They still don't know. They say, well, I don't want to smoke anymore. I'm like, well, what does that look like? It's really difficult for them to realize it looks like more money in my pocket. I can taste food again. I can breathe again. Possibilities.  But when we have these things that we don't want, all of a sudden it's just like a gate that just locks our creative processes and being able to problem solve. Yeah, and how does the brain really, I know there's a lot of studies out there and you probably know, but the studies of when you say I don't want something, your brain goes immediately to getting more of that. Yes. So how does the brain work? That works two ways. So the first way is your brain is actually positively positive. Your brain can only create. It can't take away. Your ego does that later. So your brain can't do no, don't. So if I say to you, don't pitch your pepperoni pizza, bam. There it is, right? If I ask Alexa, don't play Backstreet Boys, bam. A Backstreet Boys song is going to play. That's a really great point. So once you can stop saying what you don't want, then your brain can start getting you more of that which you desire. And then that just gets followed up with you. When you're focused exactly like what you say on what you don't want, you get more of that because that's your vibration that you're putting out there is what you don't want. And you think that might be good. Like, well, I'm getting more of what I don't want, but because the brain can't do don't, you're actually getting more of that which you're trying to avoid. Which is super frustrating for people, right? I don't want to be overweight anymore. I don't want to be in this particular relationship or I don't want to be poor anymore or those kind of things. And that's where we focus on expands. And that's something I would really encourage the listeners that if you really are stuck that way, we really gotta start taking responsibility for what we think about all day because we will produce those things out in our outward life. That's why that question is so powerful. Well, what do you want? You're like, well, I want to be healthier. Yay, what does that look like? Well, you keep asking the right questions instead of saying, why does this always happen to me or why do I always gain the weight back? Your brain's gonna answer that question. And those aren't empowering answers that you're getting. They deflate you. Whereas you say, well, what do I want and how can I get it? Your brain also answers you, but in a way more powerful way.  For many, many years. Tell us a little bit about that and how you got into that and how that's taught you a lot about how the brain works. I never in a million years thought I'd become a fitness professional. I was never a little girl saying, one day I'm gonna be a neurobic instructor because I can count to eight. It's really been this wonderful journey of where I was able to begin teaching fitness classes just to fill the time in a martial arts studio. He had some downtime. He's like, I want the housewives in here working out. So that was a long time ago. And so that just evolved and I got certified and credentialed and became a CEC provider and kind of infamous in the fitness community. So I've been teaching fitness classes since 1984. And what that does is it allows me to keep on using these positive phrases and messages out to people, teaching them how to think positively and then teaching them how to love the body they're in right now because you've got to honor where you are before you're ever gonna get any better and people don't understand that. They just want that. But if you don't love this, then you don't deserve that. You gotta love this first so you can step into that. So that have just evolved into my first book, The Chocolate Cake for the Thighs, the Anti-Diet Book for Women. Oh, you didn't tell me about that one. Yeah, yeah, that was 2006. And I still randomly get residual checks for it, which just blows me away. It makes me so happy. And basically it's just 101 tips on how to think and feel healthier and happier. Oh, I think you did mention that. You did mention that because I know that that's been a real passion of yours. It's helping people with their health and also your own journey with that, right? I mean, I think everybody that's listening can at some degree relate to some frustration around our weight or about our bodies and that sort of thing. And I'd love that you bring up that point that you need to be able to accept where you're at. That's hard. Like talk about that, how hard that is sometimes when you're working with people. It's difficult because where we are today, unfortunately for a lot of people, is a tethering to the past. So you think this is the best you can hope for or the best that you can be, even though you really desire something else. For some reason, we don't think it's possible because the past results have sabotaged us. So we've had enough sabotage to feel like why bother. But the problem is, is we are too much relying on the past, which is what other people think of us, where we've been in the past and we're not able to realize that those are all learning lessons and that we can move forward from there.  And this is what I learned.  Well, I was thinking it was gonna work this time. Yeah, you were doing the best that you know how and I always tell people too, is that you never know when that moment will happen or your whole life will change. You know, if you give up the hope that there's something out there that's a solution that's gonna help you or maybe a new way of thinking of things or the new way of doing things, then you give also the opportunity to see the miracle happen. I know, yes. I call it the yet process. Like it's like, well, maybe you just haven't lost your weight and kept it off yet. Or maybe you haven't got the job or the relationship or whatever it is that you feel, you just don't have it yet. So that's the hope is in the yet. It's so important to stay hopeful, it really is. And even though you feel like you may have had a string of failures, the success comes in learning from the failures. Like what did I learn? So that you can move forward. It's when you don't learn the lesson and you repeat this, like I'll never go on one of those famous diets ever, ever again because I finally learned the lesson after going on a few of them about how 100% the weight's gonna come back on. I don't know if there's exceptions to the rule, but it's important to understand what you learned from those, why they didn't work. So that next time, you don't make those same mistakes and you get closer to the hopeful yet of tomorrow. Yet, I know. I wish yet was just the hope, right? Because we never know. We just never, never, never know. So what are some other, any other problems that you see when people are, so I love that you brought up the fact that you've got to get them thinking about the future and imagining. Like what is it that you want? You mean I've never had that before, but how do we get you there? So painting the vision. We talked a lot about that last week, actually, with the vision of keeping our vision clear so that we know where we're gonna target. What else do you do with someone to kind of get them to shift from that? Everything in my life is, I'm someone else's fault, to how do I, okay, how do I just look at it? It's just information and move forward because that's really a critical first step. Yes, because it is just information. And you were lucky to have experienced that so that now you have that information and you can take more or better action going forward. I can't remember who to give the credit to, but there's a famous quote that says, obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal. And that's what happens is people allow everything in the past, like if you're like this and if you're living your life over your shoulder, you're for sure gonna crash, you need to always be looking forward and what's my next step, right? And so in order to be able to do that, you need a plan. And again, it goes back to saying, well, what do I want instead of what do I not want? And then you just keep taking those baby steps forward. And what's cool about that is like, I used to live in Huntington Beach and there was this long stretch, Bolsa Chica where you could see all these like guard towers, right? It was a nice long stretch of beach. So if you started walking after amount of time, you could see more lifeguard towers that you couldn't see when you were back there. Didn't mean they didn't exist. Didn't mean they weren't for you to see. It just meant you needed to do the actions to be able to see that vision. And that's how we get to see around the corner. People always want to know what's coming. The only way to know what's coming is to start moving. I love it, get into action. And we're gonna talk more after the break, really dive into some practical stuff that you can do in diving back into why do you do what you do and why do you think the way that you do? So we're gonna take a short break. I'm Becky Samson. This is It's About Time on Think Tech. We're talking to Elle Grineal about why we do what we do uncovering the mind to master your results. Stay tuned for we'll be right back. Thanks to our Think Tech underwriters and grand tours. The Atherton Family Foundation. Carol Mun Lee and the Friends of Think Tech. The Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education. Collateral Analytics. The Cook Foundation. Dwayne Kurisu. The Hawaii Community Foundation. The Hawaii Council of Associations of Abarbon Owners. Hawaii Energy. The Hawaii Energy Policy Forum. Hawaiian Electric Company. Integrated Security Technologies. Galen Ho of BAE Systems. Kamehameha Schools. MW Group. The Shidler Family Foundation. The Sydney Stern Memorial Trust. Volo Foundation. Yuriko J. Sugimura. Thanks so much to you all. Hi, we're back. I'm Becky Sampson and it's about time. And I'm with Why Do We Do What We Do, talking about uncovering the mind to master our results. And we're talking to Elle Ronell. Right, did I say that right? Yes, absolutely. Sorry. Okay, and she is a master at the mind. And before break, we kind of talked about how important it is that we get clear on our vision and we know what we want versus what we don't want. So that we can be able to train the brain. So I know something that you teach about is this T-process. It's kind of funny kind of what that is. Okay, it's my favorite. I call it the secret ingredient. It's the one thing that people or the process that people are missing, right? In knowing what they want, but not knowing how to get there. And so before we were talking about blame, so that's an action and a feeling. And what happens is before any of that even happens, we first have a thought. So T stands for your thoughts will lead to your emotions, which then lead to your actions, right? For better or for worse. So this can go for you. It doesn't have to go against you any longer because now you're aware. Now it's in your awareness. So always, you're always going to do it backwards. Like I mentioned earlier, you got to think backwards. So when you have an action, like say you keep going to fast food over and over again, that's an action. And so you got to back it up too. Well, why am I doing that?  So that's your emotion. But then you got to go to the core. The root of the problem was first you had a thought. And the thought was, I don't want to cook. Or, you know, it doesn't matter. Nobody cares if I go through fast food. I'm lazy. I'm lazy. It's hot. I'm tired. Yeah, it's hot. And so once you can change the thought, so now your thought can become, I choose healthy food. I choose to plan my day. I choose to make sure that I don't have to eat poorly any longer. I choose to make healthy choices. Once you can keep spinning those thoughts around, then your emotions, just saying like those three sentences, like pick you up, yes. And then your actions will be, okay, well, I'll keep bars or nuts in the car. So I can just have that little protein snack. I don't get hangry and I can make it home. Hangry. Tell people what the word. I love that. I use that as well. Like what does hangry mean? I do. I don't know if Snickers made it up, but they started it. Yeah, and so they had a commercial where people would be really ugly or scary because they were so hungry, they were angry and mean. And then once they had the bite of the bar, so that's like the protein, then you automatically, you stabilize. And you can think more clearly once you don't have that crazy blood sugar thing going on. And so you don't have to feel that way, but when you start to feel that way, then you know it's time to go grab one of my little healthy snacks. That you've put around everywhere. So you gotta unwind. I love it. We have a graphic that kind of goes over this that talks about the equation. I love equations. If I can live by equations, like the thought leads to emotion, emotion leads to action, and then action leads to results.  Do you want it or do you not, right? That's kind of what we're looking at. If you don't want it, then how do they go back? So they go back one step, look at the actions that they're creating. Right, the actions that are getting that result. And what's really, I'd like to mention here too, really important to understand, inaction is also an action. Yes, I love that. So choosing not to do something, which is procrastination, is also an action that leads to a result. So you get the results no matter what. And so we want the results that we love and are proud of. So we're gonna set up actions that support what we want. You have to ask yourself, well, what do I want, not what do I not want? And then really let yourself think about what that feels like. You know, like when you say, well, this evening I'm gonna go to a fitness class and it's gonna be fun, right?   Leaving, exhilarated. Yes, pumped up. Meeting new friends, allow yourself to get in that high vibe emotional state because that's where it all really lives and that vibration is in your emotions. And then you start vibrating other positive people and things into your life. And then remember that you've got to keep making those, it's like when people have to clean the gutters out on their homes, they get full of leaves, right?  So that's why you must keep thinking the thoughts that you want. Cleaning those gutters and rewiring those neuropathways so that your brain has a new way of thinking that's really clear. So talk about neuropathways, because I mean that's something I love. I told you, I started learning about quantum physics like what, 12 years ago, 11, 12 years ago? And when I first started studying about the brain and the neuropathways and how they work and why it's so difficult to make changes sometimes, I couldn't sleep at night.  Talk about the neuropathways, what are they? How do we change them? What purpose do they serve? So in a nutshell, when you think of the brain, you know how it looks like a walnut, right? And so all of those pathways you see, those are the larger ones, but underneath there are so many little firings and things and synapses and they kind of connect and talk to each other if they're related. So there's this great network going on that is our mind. And so when you start to bring in new information, new synapses and pathways need to be created if they're totally out like something you thought you never could do, doesn't mean you can't. You just need the roadmap, how to get there. And in some cases you need to actually build the road, which is a process, but so worth it. Otherwise you're never gonna get there. And so instead of beating yourself up, like you always turn right when you leave your house, right? Because that's where work is and da, da, da, da. Maybe one day you wanna walk the dog in the parks to the left.  So you don't beat yourself up, you just turn around and go the other way. So that's what's really important is that when you do an old pathway or whatever. An old habit. Yes, instead of beating yourself up, just go, hey, I caught this, yay, yay me. Now I'm gonna go the other way. I'm going to get what I want, which is over here. And so you do that with action. And it is gonna feel uncomfortable at first. I always like the analogy of you fold your arms and then you fold your arms the other way and it feels really weird. It does. But that's what's happening is that, and we talked about this the other day, that when we're trying to create a new pathway, we get sucked right back into our old habits and it's easy when life gets difficult because that pathway is so tiny and so brand new and you've got one that's been here for 30 years or 40, 50 years and you think it's gonna be easier to flow down the old path instead of the new one. So you gotta kind of keep diligent and keep building that road.  So when a baby's learning how to walk, they don't get it the first time at all.  Never gonna learn how to walk. But we'll do that to ourselves, right? When it comes to something new for us that's healthy and what we want, if it doesn't happen immediately, we beat ourselves up. So talk to yourself like you would encouraging a baby learning how to walk. Saying, yay me, today I didn't go to fast food. Yay me, celebrate that. And so you keep, yes, celebrating creates the emotion that gets you in the vibration that gives those synapses more power to vibrate and then look at your external conditions, right? So if you come home to a house loaded with junk or stress or TV in every room, then it's very difficult to affect change because your environment also needs to reflect who you are. Your wardrobe, your haircut, everything. Just go for it, like who am I and how does this look? How do I want this to look? And then take those steps and make it happen. How important have you found having coaches and support behind someone when they're making those changes? Yeah, I know. I know you and I both feel this way. It sounds terrible, you know, because I'm a coach.  But the only reason why. But seriously. Seriously, the only reason why I'm 100% confident in the Sanser is because you've already tried it and it hasn't worked. Absolutely. And you've maybe tried it with a coach and it hasn't worked because you gave it like 30 days. Because you, or you didn't do the work. You wanted the coach to do all the work for you. You're in the blame game instead of the responsibility. Yeah, when you get accountability and that's what a benevolent coach does for you.  I love you and want you to hit those goals but I'm also not gonna let you fail. So it's finding a way to support you in a way that keeps you accountable. So a coach keeps you accountable for lots of reasons. Yeah, and that accountability is far none, like the most important thing. I mean, there's no way I could be where I'm at in my life either without the people behind me because my natural man is like wants to suck right back into the old neuro pathways of the bad habits that got me the bad results that I did. So tell us a little bit about kind of when you go in cause you speak and you've got a book that's coming out. I believe we've got a copy of it that you can look at and it's coming out like in the next week, two weeks. Yes, it'll be live on Amazon September 3rd. It's in pre-sale right now. Awesome, awesome. And tell us the name of the book. Okay, so it was a working title. And finally with my editor, we settled on get healthier, fitter and off the meds now. And then the subtitle is seven steps to better health. Actually, sorry, I just changed the title one more time. So now it's seven steps to better health in a body you love. Oh, I love it. Because that's really the goal. It's not about exercise and diet at all, at all at all. I'm not a doctor so I'm not telling them to stop taking their meds. I'm telling them that there are other options and so the book is all about honoring your path and the body that you're in right now. Oh, and that's awesome. And they can say, and I actually have a little chapter in it. You do. I know. You got me write my little story at the very beginning so thank you so much for doing that. It's so exciting and about your story. So I wanted it in the beginning originally to motivate people to keep reading but then it ended up being at the end because it's such a challenging journey and then it closes with this hopeful message. I'm like, oh, that's how the book ends and on hope. Yeah, it's possible. Don't give up hope. Please don't give up hope. And so tell them already your website that they can get ahold of you. I'm at truespeak.us. Truespeak.us. Yeah, truespeak, p-r-u-e-s-p-e-a-k.us. And I'm also info at truespeak.us. If you wanted to just drop me a line. Yay, and then make sure you go to Amazon in the next couple of weeks and get her book. I'm excited to read it. Yes, only $0.99 in presale. That's in everybody's budget. I know, right? Everybody can do that. Well, thanks so much for coming on the show today. My pleasure. This was such a pleasure to have you. I know you've kind of been traveling a lot and I appreciate you taking the time coming in today and thanks for the work that you do because I know you change a lot of people's lives. Yeah, so do you. And now we're gonna be fired up all day. We're gonna be going around high five and strangers and stuff. I know, it's awesome. It's awesome. Well, thanks so much. We're out of time, so we're gonna have to wrap this up. I'm Becky Sampson with It's About Time on Think Tech Live Streaming Network Series. We've been talking to Elle Grinnell, why we do what we do, uncovering the mind to master your results. So thank you all for being here and thanks to our broadcast engineers, as always, and floor manager, and to Jay Fadel, our executive producer who puts on this all together for us. And of course, I'll see you next Wednesday for more on It's About Time on Think Tech Hawaii. I'm Becky Sampson, mahalo everyone.


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