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If you talk about the compression characteristics of the soil mass, it is E over sigma prime and suppose if I give you a curve like this and another curve like this, so it is understood that this soil 1, so I can write here that soil 1 is much more compressible as compared to soil 2. So this is how also you can characterize the soils and differentiate between them. So most probably one is going to be a fine-grained material, the two is going to be a coarse-grained. Now what we want to do is, we want to quantify the compression characteristics and these are the three parameters which are used to quantify the compression characteristics of the soils. The first one is known as coefficient of compressibility, this is defined as Av, now if I plot E versus sigma prime and this is the compression curve starting from E0 you get to EF and this is sigma 1 prime, sigma 2 prime. So Av is defined as minus delta E over delta sigma prime which is equal to minus E0 minus EF upon sigma 2 prime minus sigma 1 prime, what will be the dimensions of coefficient of compressibility per unit stress. The second one is the coefficient of volume compressibility, we define this as MV and this is equal to Av over 1 plus E0. So this is equal to delta E over 1 plus E0 into 1 upon delta sigma prime, 1 upon E0 is the specific volume.  The third term which we normally use is defined as the compressibility index or compression index. This is defined as CC and CC is if I plot this data on a log scale, now this curve is going to be a linear curve or a straight line. This is E0, EF, sigma 1 prime, sigma 2 prime, this is nothing but the slope of this curve. So the slope of this line is CC, compression index. So this is delta E over log of sigma 2 prime upon sigma 1 prime. So CC is dimensionless, MV will be again per unit stress, our CC is dimensionless. So CC is utilized to characterize the soils, when I said that soil 1 is much more compressible as compared to soil 2, I can say that CC of 1 is higher than CC of 2. In place particularly, the biggest problem is that CCs could be as high as 2.0. So this is one of the ways to differentiate between the soils. I can do one dimensional consolidation test, compressibility test, I can get the CC value and if CC value comes out to be extremely high, it is a highly compressible soil, you know. And if CC is extremely low, let us say 0.1, 0.2, you know, this is what is going to be stiff clay sometimes or this could be sandy material. The interpretation could be these are the coarse grade materials. Soils with very high liquid limit would show a absolutely high CC value. On the same graph, if I plot, so this if you remember was the compression curve and this is the swelling curve. So here if I plot the swelling curve, this is how the swelling curve will look like and the slope of this will be CS, this is CC, CS, CS and CCs can be utilized to characterize the soils. There is a empirical relationship which is given and which can be utilized for you know most of the practical work, CC is equal to 0.009 liquid limit minus 10% of what, 10%. This is liquid limit and this is the value of CC, empirical relationship which was given by Skempton in 1944. So this is normally used for the designers. If you obtain the liquid limit of the soil mass, you can use this empirical relationship get CC value for an initial design, you know, if you are doing the finer designs then you have to do this test and get the parameters. Now comes a question that how would you find out the sigma p prime value, the pre-consolation pressure. So, suppose if I want to determine this, suppose if I take a sample from the field and then conduct this test on it, what I will be getting is, I will be getting a relationship like initial portion is horizontal almost and followed by a rapid drop in the Everser-Loxigma curve. So, this is on, suppose if you take out a sample from the field, this flat portion resembles your swelling curves or recompression curves sort of a thing. This is because of the pre-loading which system has already been exposed to. So this sigma p prime is the pre-consolation pressure and the question is how to obtain this. So this method was given by Casagrande, it is a bit of geometrical construction 1936. So on this graph get the point of maximum curvature and once you have done that draw a horizontal line, draw a tangent passing through this point. So this is a tangent divide this angle alpha in equal half. So this becomes equal to this extend the virgin consolidation curve which you have obtained. So this is the linear portion of extended, linear portion of the virgin consolidation curve, this is the horizontal line, this is the bisector of the angle and this is the tangent. The point of intersection of this extended curve with the bisector gives you sigma prime prime. So find out the intersection of the extended linear portion of the virgin conservation curve with the bisector of the angle and this point gives you sigma p prime. So what we have done is we have got the pre-consolation pressure and hence we can redefine the OCNC behavior alright. So OCR is the ratio of pre-consolation pressure divided by the pressure acting on the system at present. So OCR is pre-consolation pressure divided by the pressure which is acting at present. So what this indicates is if you can define and you can obtain like this the OCR value, you can define both ways. The NCOC behavior can be defined the way I have defined earlier OCR can be obtained like this. So this is the practical application of pre-consolation pressure. Now why this initial portion is horizontal because once you take out the sample from the field, the sample is already undergone through the pre-consolation pressure because of the movement of the vehicles or whatever. So we want to find out what is the pre-consolation pressure which is going to control the mechanisms of you know the soil mass fine. Any questions? Somehow these things you have to remember because these are the parameters which are utilized for characterizing the soils and this is more of a fundamental response of the material. Now if this part is clear, I will move on to the consolidation settlement and its computation. Most of these methods have been proposed by the person, alright. So this is how they propose things, this is their philosophy, we are simply following it. You may say that this is the point beyond which the reversal in the mechanism is occurring. So this is the pressure which is controlling or switch over between the OC and NC response also. So you must have realized that this is a very flat portion, clear? So that means the void ratios are not changing much with respect to incremental pressure. So this is a peculiar OC response. So if you realize here that this is the point where the sigma p prime lies. So this is the boundary between OC and NC behavior. So this is a hypothesis which is proposed by Casagrande to obtain the sigma p prime, makes sense also. So you must have realized that beyond sigma p prime the fine grained soils continue exhibiting deformation or compression or consolidation, clear? So all these soils which are of the marine origin form under the category of NC materials, normally consolidated, clear? The soils which have got desiccated have become stiff, they are all OC materials. The compressibility part has been discussed now and let me start discussion on the consolidation part. So basically consolidation is a phenomena which happens in saturated soils, fine grained soils and this is compression of the soils mostly because of expulsion of water alone. So compression is compression undergone by the soil, by the soil mass is mainly due to expulsion of water from the pores. I hope you can realize that this expulsion of water from the pores is nothing but the pore or pressure which is getting dissipated. So we call this as dissipation of pore-water pressure also, clear? And dissipation of pore-water pressure is a function of hydraulic conductivity and the type of the soil. So what is the difference between consolidation and compaction? So in case of compaction air only oozes out, alright air expels out. This also leads to gamma D becoming higher, correct? However in case of consolidation what is going to happen? It is the oozing out of the pore or pressure from the pores. So this also results into gamma D becoming higher. So this is also a densification process and this densification is because of the sustained loading, remember. So this is the densification due to sustained loading. Stain loading means T tends to infinity, the place, the time when 3, 4 dial gauge readings cease to change, they become constant. This is an instantaneous process, air gets expelled out, gamma D increases, fine. Normally we do not talk or we do not associate time with compaction. Now this is the time which is getting intruded into the expulsion of water because of the permeability. So permeability is nothing but a sort of resistance offered by the soil mass or the flow of water which is a time dependent phenomena. So sustained loading, T tending to infinity, densification occurring because of oozing out of the water but soil still remains saturated because you are forcing it to by putting it in the water, clear? So these are the minor differences or the major differences between compaction and consolidation process. I hope you can realize, even if I compact the soil, all right? Suppose the top layer has been compacted, this is a momentary process. The pad which I have created on the ground surface because of this delta sigma, what is going to happen? Now this delta sigma is going to get delegated over this point, clear? So this will become delta sigma multiplied by I b, okay? You know what is I b? Influence factor, very good. The consolidation is going to get initiated because of this delta sigma over a period of time under sustained loading. So whatever you are compacting and creating a pad, if you are not careful in designing the systems, keeping in view, they are the settlement response of the soil mass, they are going to fail, is this part okay? So even if I take the soil and compact and create an embankment which is going to sit on a marshy marine clay type of a soil which is highly compressible, once this system is formed, initially there is no problem but in the due course of time what you will observe is that this whole system will start slowly and slowly settling down. And most of the time these settlements are not very uniform, why? Because the thickness of the deposits might be different, soil properties might be different, pore structure might be different and so on. So what is going to happen is the whole thing will result into differential settlements. So one portion will settle more as compared to the next portion and so on. And hence the entire system will result in a failure. So suppose if I consider this type of situation and if I ascribe the settlement undergone as SC, clear? This is the settlement of the system. And if I assume a thin layer of the clay, mostly clays will exhibit consolidation settlement at a depth of z and made up of let us say delta z to compute how much settlement the system is going to exhibit, I require 2 parameters. So suppose if I say settlement analysis and this settlement is because of consolidation. So one of the ways of doing the settlement analysis is to utilize CC what we have written over here, compression index, clear? Normally CC is associated with NC response of the material, marine clays with very high liquid limits because what we have observed in the formula for CC, there is a liquid limit component coming in the picture. However, if I am dealing with the stiff clays, then I require MV. So this is normally used for OC materials, you should not move up between the two. So depending upon NC OC response, the settlements can be obtained. Is this part okay? Is this okay? Have you understood this? So please never goof it up. So what we do is the entire region or the soil mass is divided in small, small strips normally of 1 meter thick okay and at the center of these strips we compute delta sigma prime and this delta sigma prime is going to cause the settlement of the system. So if CC is known, the SC can be written as CC over 1 plus E0 into log of sigma prime initial plus delta sigma prime over sigma not prime, is this okay? Multiplied by the total height H. So if we are doing it for layers, H becomes 1 meter, CC is of each layer, void ratios are initial void ratios. You know what is the initial stress acting, delta sigma prime computation is very important and for this you require influence factor, is this okay? So the stresses which are getting induced in the soils because of external loading has to be obtained, CC is known, void ratios are known, SC is known, settlements, consolidation settlement of the NC material. However when we are dealing with the OC materials, the SC will be equal to MV delta sigma prime into H. How did we get this relationship? SC is nothing but delta H and delta H upon H equal to MV delta sigma prime, do you think it is alright? So for NC materials, alright, the consolidation settlement is equal to CC divided by 1 plus E naught into log of sigma not prime plus delta sigma prime divided by sigma not prime into H. H is the thickness of the clay layer, sigma not prime is the initial pressure at the point O, delta sigma is the incremental pressure because external loading which is causing settlement to occur, CC is the compressibility index, E naught is the initial void ratio. Number 2 is your MV case, so here the consolidation settlement will be equal to MV delta sigma prime H and this is what we were discussing, delta SC is nothing but delta H, so SC upon H will be equal to MV into delta sigma prime. Now this term remains constant, clear? So MV into delta sigma prime term remains constant and this is the material property. Now what you have realized is the way we have defined MV, see truly speaking, AV is a function of the stress increment, so what happens to AV? As sigma prime increases, AV keeps on decreasing, clear? What happens to MV? As sigma prime increases MV also keeps on decreasing, clear? Now CC is the linearization of the graph within a certain range of delta sigma prime, fine? So what we have obtained from here is MV into delta sigma prime remains constant and this constant is nothing but a sort of a volumetric strain. For OC materials MV remains constant, for NC material CC remains constant in finite thickness of the layers and hence we have done discretization of the entire soil mass. These are infinitesimally thin layers for which we have obtained CC, E naught and H and delta sigma prime, is this part clear? So what we have done is we have now quantified how much consolidation settlements the system will undergo when it behaves, the soils behave like NC and OC for an incremental pressure of delta sigma prime, incremental pressure is important to remember. On their own if delta sigma is not applied, consolidation settlement will not occur. So if delta sigma is 0, what is going to happen? The consolidation settlement is insignificant, how settlement depends upon H, high. So you must have noticed what we have done, this we have multiplied this factor with H, is it not? So if H is going to be more very thick deposit of the soil, you should be expecting very high consolidation settlements for the given properties. If H is a small, consolidation settlement will be small. So when we do this type of analysis what we do is we keep on summing up all these settlements which are going to come from different layers. So here I can write this is SCI and then I can sum it up from I equal to 1 to N, fine? So this becomes the total settlement of the system. So there is something known as spring analogy for consolidation which was given by Terzaghi proposed by Carl Terzaghi. Now what it indicates is this is based on the assumption that if I take a you know cylindrical container and the walls are rigid and if I fix a piston into it and if I leave a wall over here and if I apply a load which is giving me sigma, if this container contains water which is the pore fluid in the soils, there is going to be a spring which depicts the whites, sorry which depicts the skeleton of the soils, alright? So at t equal to 0 I hope you can realize that if I keep this wall closed and this wall actually is simulating the k hydraulic conductivity of the soil mass. So for very low hydraulic conductivity materials like clays wall remains practically closed. The moment you apply stress no pore water pressure is going to get dissipated so soon because of the low hydraulic conductivity, what is going to happen? The pore water pressure is going to be maximum, is it not?  So sigma prime will be equal to 0. Now as time passes by what happens and if I open the wall that means if I allow dissipation of pore water pressures this piston will move further, spring will get shrunk, water being incompressible will come out. So what is going to happen? The pore water pressure will tend to 0 at t tending to infinity. Now when pore water pressure tends to 0 the sigma prime will be equal to delta sigma prime. So the way Terzaghi has proposed this if I plot stress on the y axis and time on the x axis I hope you realize that the first time we are talking about any property which is a function of time in geotechnical engineering clear. And this time is representative of the hydraulic conductivity of the material. So if I plot let us say pore water pressure I hope you can realize the pore water pressures being maximum delta sigma with a period of time it will tend to 0 clear. So this is the variation of the UW pore water pressure is this okay? The release of pore water pressure because of application of external stresses which is hydraulic conductivity dependent over a period of time is the consolidation process. So the pore water pressure starting from a very high value they tend to 0. What happens to the effective stress? The effective stress initially was 0 as time goes to infinity pore water pressure decreases this will become like this. So this is your effective stress the summation of the 2 is nothing but the total stress which remains constant. So this is let us say delta sigma is this part clear? So what is spring analogy for consolidation says is that the soil mass can be considered to be a system containing water and the spring when you load it the entire load is taken up by the you know water you cannot remove it. So the pore water pressures go maximum the moment you load any system the entire net pressure gets transmitted to the pore water. So effective stresses are 0 immediately very difficult situation I hope you can understand it. So criticality is when sudden loading is done I hope you can realize because suddenly the blood pressure shoots up core pressure shoots up and the effective stress becomes 0 slowly and slowly system becomes stable. So what I have to do is I have to do something to negate this type of a situation and that is why people preload the soils and pre treat the soils to make them stable is this part okay? Now this theory was given by Karl Terzaghi and there are few assumptions which I will write down so that you can understand better. So Terzaghi's theory of consolidation we should call it as one dimensional consolidation theory proposed by Terzaghi 1943 is valid for fully saturated laterally confined soils particularly fine grained soils subjected to one dimensional loading. Now if this is a situation the following are the assumptions number one soil is a homogeneous material number two voids in the soils voids in the soil mass are fully saturated with water are free of air number three solid particles of the soil solid particles are nothing but the soil grains of the soil and water in the voids are incompressible. Number four the change in the volume of the soil when loaded is due to the change in the volume of the voids. Number four the compression and flow of water now flow of water is basically dissipation of the pore pressures are unidirectional opposite to the direction of the application of the load or the stress are unidirectional opposing loading alright point number five strains generated due to the application of external loading are small because we are still assuming that delta H upon H is the strain you know this is the assumption which we have made this is equal to delta V upon V. So this relationship is valid when the deformations are small this is a strain term and this we have it related as delta E over 1 plus E naught clear. So this is valid when the strains are small and hence that is the reason why in the previous case we have discretized the entire soil mass in small small strips. So suppose 20 meter thick soil mass we have discretized this layers of 1, 1 meter clear so that this condition does not get violated you are asking this question. Number six Darcy's law is valid at all the gradients number seven the hydraulic conductivity and MV remain constant throughout throughout the process there is a unique relationship independent of time between the void ratio and effective stress. So these are the assumptions which have been imbibed into the one dimensional conservation theory which is given by Terzaghi. I hope you can realize that it is fair enough to assume that the soil is a homogeneous material no issues voids in the soil mass are fully saturated and divide of free of air we are immersing the entire specimen in the water bath so this can be achieved no issues these two are okay solid particles of the soil and water in the voids are incompressible therefore the change in the volume of the soil when loaded is due to the change in the volume of the voids is fine compression and flow of water are unidirectional opposing the loading is okay a strange generated due to the application of external loads are small is fine there is no problem I can deal with it by discretizing in small small layers Darcy's law is valid at all the gradients what is your understanding this is not correct truly speaking because for very small gradients Darcy's law Darcy law might not be valid so this is a one violation in real life hydraulic conductivity and MV remain constant throughout the process is also not correct it is over simplification why because k you know is a function of moisture content as well as k is a function of time when we were doing constant head test I think I talked about this that for a fixed time duration we take 3 readings for the drop of head if time intervals are very high then your hydraulic conductivity that bound to change otherwise also if you plot k versus T what you observe is that hydraulic conductivity decreases with time particularly when the times are of the order of months and years there could be the changes at the poor level which might occur depending upon the type of contaminants which you might be dealing with the k might increase with respect to time bacterial activity k might change with time so it is not a good idea to assume k remains constant fine MV MV also does not remain constant just now we have seen so MV is AV over 1 plus E naught and AV is delta E upon delta sigma so truly speaking MV is a term which depends upon the delta sigma so as delta sigma increases MV value decreases so this is a violation of the Terzaghi's theory in real life there is a unique relationship independent of time between the E and sigma prime is also not correct truly speaking because if you remember when we are talking about the E versus sigma relationship I said that the third scale should be time scale because ultimately what we have done the entire process we are superimposing on time scale clear so for the simplicity sake Terzaghi assume that the wide ratio and sigma prime are related to each other and there is no time dependence in these processes in these parameters there is another issue k will depend upon the boundary conditions and these boundary conditions are the drainage boundary conditions this I will be discussing much more in details in the next lecture. So I hope you must have realized when we were discussing today's consolidation test what we discussed in the class I was intentionally I have put two porous stones on the top and bottom of the specimen so that means I am forcing the drainage of pore water pressure to take place in this porous stone and in this porous stone as if there is a line of symmetry along this point so because of the application of stresses whatever pore water pressure develops it gets dissipated from this porous stone as well as from this porous stone about a line of symmetry. So k will also depend upon the boundary conditions fine so I have discussed a lot of things today about the compressibility behavior of soils and I have also talked about the consolidation characteristics and I have introduced the concept of one dimensional consolidation theory which is proposed by Terzaghi.


Hi, welcome to the Think Tech Hawaii studios. I'm Lisa Kimoran, the host of Family Affairs, here to talk about all of the programs, the policies, and the information that helped make Hawaii a safer, happier, healthier place for families. With me today, I have a couple of guests to talk about a really important program for new moms, Liana Lam and Elyse Noe. Welcome to the show. Thanks. Thanks for having us. Absolutely. Liana, tell me a little bit about how Pico Pals began. What is Pico Pals? What is Pico Pals? Pico Pals is a new parent support program that connects and it builds community. It also, I don't know, it just, it, yeah. 12 weeks of new parents support. Thank you, thank you. Yes, it offers, it's a program with 12 weeks of new parents support. We meet every week for two hours and we slowly help facilitate and build relationships and our group leaders also mentor the new parents and just kind of normalize everything as they transition. And it's not only specific to moms, it's also just all new parents, so we also have fathers involved as well. Would you say that it's a support group or what kind of, what kind of setting is it? You know, it's not officially a support group, but everybody finds so much support through the friendship and community building. I think of it more as just holding space for connection because new parenthood can be really, really isolating and so there's a lot of camaraderie, a lot of friendship, a lot of rallying and encouraging that kind of helps people get over that hump. And as I guess since we have a lot of facilitated discussion about all things that new parents go through, it just people find a lot of things in common with each other and a lot of connection. And through that we have, I guess organically there ends up being a lot of support, but I wouldn't say it's like support with a therapist or a counselor specifically, but as you and I know we both find support through friendship. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's a program offered through Healthy Mother's Healthy Babies and there's a variety of topics that are discussed. What kinds of things come up for people or what can they expect in the setting? Oh, let's see. So some of the topics we spend time talking about would be feeding our baby, whether it's nursing, whether it's breastfeeding or bottling, like it's all accepted. We talk a lot about sleep. A lot about sleep throughout all of the program. Totally universal. Absolutely. We talk about career and balancing our family life and our work life. We talk a lot about relationships with our partners and our extended family and childcare and gosh, you name it, we talk about it. And we also create space within the two hours that we spend to just talk about whatever is going on that week. Because you never really know what you're dealing with until you're dealing with it. So we create space for that as well. Great. We'll put some pictures up on the screen so people can see what a group looks like, but Elise, what has your experience? Tell us what you've done as far as getting involved with Pico Pals. Yeah, so I joined Pico Pals as a new mommy and really loved it. Like you're saying creating space, like it was just like I found it so supportive and empowering as a new mom to show up and see what other moms, how they get through their day and how they're managing and dealing with this whole change of your world. And so Pico Pals was like, I looked so forward to it every Wednesday and just loved it. And I honestly don't even really remember a lot of it from, you know, because it was just like to get out of the house and to see other adults and misery and celebrate all these things that happen as a new mom. So I was the member, you know, through that. And then I've now transitioned to the other side of it as a leader. Yeah, and I really have loved it. It's a different experience, a different way to support and create an environment for those mommies. Yeah, but my original interaction with Pico Pals was using it as my way to enter the world of parenthood. Yeah, absolutely. Your son Austin is in some of those photos that were up there. How old was Austin when you guys first started? I think he was four months old. So he wasn't the oldest baby. He wasn't the youngest baby. But he was right in the middle. He was the biggest baby though. He was always the biggest. But yeah, and it was great for him because I felt better supported and felt more confident for him. And then as he's gotten older and they start to interact, he's now has other babies his age. He can, you know, look around with and interact with. Yeah. And what have you seen now becoming a group leader? What is that experience like for you? It's totally, it's totally different. And so we had spoke when I first started, you know, it's about creating an environment where other moms can get the support. So when I was participating in as just a regular participant, it was about finding support for myself. And now it's about creating an environment where other moms can create those connections, which was a really interesting transition for me and really something that I learned a lot from. And yeah, I just, I really want to create something that they can make those friendships and they can support each other and they can feel like they're heard and that they're not, you know, alone because it is really isolating. And there's some issues that come up or things that come up that, you know, other people just don't know. So I understand or can't, I can't understand because they haven't gone through it yet. And so being able to say like, oh, this experience has been super hard for me. How has it been for you and letting them kind of foster that has been so nice. The tagline is parenting with Aloha together. So Leanna, what does that mean exactly? I think of, well, I feel like the new parenthood position is such a sacred space for us.  And I look at that as an opportunity to teach people how to love, how to connect and how to have like just to live Aloha and just to live a lot of love. And if well, and and our group leaders, we train our group leaders to really try to facilitate and hold this space and celebrate the diversity, celebrate everyone's voice, encourage moms to trust their own intuition and and I mean, I could go on about that. But it's so so because of like, it just creates a really nice environment to cultivate love and Aloha. I think one of course, the idea of togetherness, connection, community, it's a 12 week program. But all of our group leaders know that in the beginning, the very first week, everyone's really nervous. And and we kind of it's human nature just to feel like the other in a new situation. And you kind of size up people and and automatically you'll see like, what do you have in common? What is different? And then as the weeks progress, and people keep showing up in the layers, just keep getting peeled away. And you start seeing people acknowledge in each other's experience, like, Oh, my baby, that's here. Oh, my husband's driving me crazy. Or like, Oh, my wife worries about that as well. And then slowly you see the the group or just the connections start to form and the relationship getting deeper and deeper. And it's so beautiful. So I really feel like so back to that that are are saying of learning to parent with Aloha together. It's it's all of that there's Aloha and then the togetherness. Oh, and also that you get to see other people's ways of doing. And you also realize that your initial judgments or just preconceived notions about people were totally off.   And what you see now is a result of some long journey that they've had of all these experiences. So it can actually get kind of deep and life changing. But it also provides a lot of support for those sleep this night. We were just trying to get out of the house. There's a camaraderie. You made it.  And so all of that's there and it's very beautiful as a group leader to watch. Yeah, that sounds great. Let's talk a little bit about what that isolation factor feels like for new parents. Yeah. Can you at least describe that situation for yourself? Yeah, I mean, there's, there's a couple things one, you're just physically so exhausted.  And so you feel uncomfortable stepping outside sometimes you don't your body isn't what it was before, you just you don't know how to dress yourself. There's that aspect.  Should you not? Should you do this? Should you not?  And so I know some moms the first meaning for pico pals the first time they've gone out by themselves, other than a doctor appointment, which is, you know, a really big deal for them.  And that's so important, not just for you, but for the baby. And so, you know, but yeah, there's so many things physically, emotionally that are keeping you at home. And you just, you're just trying to get one day at a time, right? And so this just gives you another thing to look forward to and opportunity to see other people doing it. Yeah, there's so many and people have different experiences, you know, some people feel really isolated because they're trying to breastfeed and they're not and they feel bad about that or their bottle feeding and they're worried about being judged or they're trying to breastfeed in public and they're worried about being judged for that.  And so I found some of my mommies coming out, I was so happy to hear that this is our first time, but we feel really good after it. I'm like, Oh, that's great. You know, like, that's so wonderful. Now, you know, they feel more confident each time. You know, what kinds of changes do you tend to see with your groups? The same kind of confidence. There's definitely a lot of uncertainty and like, not as confident in the beginning. And then as time goes by, and they, everybody just encourages each other. It's like in the beginning, it's me and I model it. And that's partially not because other people aren't capable. They're just, they're just uncomfortable themselves. And then we realize we're all kind of nervous. And we just acknowledge it. And then with the camaraderie, they all start supporting each other. And it becomes so beautiful. Because new parenting is super isolated. When I had our first, and I guess I didn't really answer your question because I was a little nervous about this whole thing texting, but why we founded it. And it was because at least I felt really passionate about you because I did not have a group with my first child. And I lived in Kanyuhi and and you would think that because I'm local, I'm like, fifth generation grown up in Hawaii, my parents are still here. You think I have an advantage. I went to high school here. I have my high school pals, deep bonds with these people, but they're all working right now. And at the time, none of them had children. And so they were busy living their childless lives, which there's nothing wrong with that. They just don't know what it's like. And so when I would talk to them about things, they just couldn't understand. And we keep mentioning the word connection and relationships. And I just had a hard time connecting with people. And it just made me feel a little bit more queasy, even with my longtime best friends. It's just, it's not the same. And it took me a really long time to to build my own group of moms, my own group of supportive moms. And I felt so fortunate because I'm pretty extroverted and I'm very friendly. And I would think, man, if it's taken me like a whole year to build this and then some, what about everybody else? And then when you see how beautiful the strength of a relationship is and the part of community like, oh, we need this forever. And so with our second, and then that's when I met the other co founders, because we're all in something similar to a Pico Pals group at the time. Not as intentional, but in the same sense where we held space for each other. And we got to experience it. And once you, it's kind of like this like secret sauce of community, like once you experience that level of connection, it's, it's so magical. And it's like, how do we bring this experience to other people? Because if I was feeling isolated under my conditions, like, oh, man, not that I'm so amazing, but I could only imagine what other people are feeling. Yes, there's so many people here recently. You know, we're going to talk a little bit more about this. We're going to talk about the philosophy. We're going to take a quick break. Thank you. Come back to us. 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Hi, welcome back to Family Affairs on Think Tech Hawaii. I'm Lisa Kimura, the host and I'm here today with Alyssa Noe and Liana Lam talking about a really transformational program for new parents called Pico Pals. Liana, we were starting to talk a little bit about the research and how a program like this really helps impact people's relationships and their ability to bond with others and bond with their baby. Can you talk a little bit about that? Totally. Let's see, there's there's a lot of emerging research coming out right now, especially, and they even tie it to neuroscience and like the way brain formation is going and the way your brain can grow, but there's a lot of research that's identifying this epidemic of loneliness. You probably hear a lot about, you might even feel it in your own lives. Like in the evenings, we zone out on our personal devices, you can be in bed with your partner, but not connecting out just on your device and on your device until you're too tired to even connect and then you just go to sleep. And that's all a missed opportunity and so a lot of people think that they are connected to each other digitally through Facebook and whatnot, but we really are not. I've read a lot of studies, yeah, I'm kind of a geek like that, but one that stands out most to me is they were measuring people's levels of connection in different modes of interaction. So one was face to face, which got the highest ratings. The second rating was on the phone and I think you don't have the visual, but you still have like the intonations in your voice and you're still receiving a variety of, I guess, communication and then there's a steep drop all the way to digital communication. So you might be on a group text, even text messaging where it's like me sending directly to you, but the buzz that you get is significantly lower than in person or like on the phone. Interesting. So once I read that one it's like, oh gosh, that's what people, like I feel like people palses in response to things like that, like a war against loneliness, if you will, but it's like we need face to face, two hours a week, seeing people. There's also other research about friendship, or even just any healthy relationship, there's three factors. It's positivity. So you feel good when you're talking with someone and I think like in Pico Pals we have ground rules about no judging, the group leader models that compassion, that engagement, just the active listening and connection. So there's positivity, there's consistency and frequency, so it's like you have to see the same people over and over and over again and what's really beautiful about that is that builds trust, because I don't know if you've ever felt where like you kind of showed up and you met somebody and then like you feel like you misspoke or you went off topic or you messed up in the beginning of think tech when talking or whatever it is, like you just feel we're human and we're awkward, but if that same person continues to show up and and they say, hey come come back I want to see you again over and over and over again, you realize like oh they trust me, like this is a safe space, they accept me, and then the last one is intimacy or connection or vulnerability depending who you subscribe to, but the idea that you can be yourself and have that super super safe place where you can say what you're thinking without fear of judgment, you can you can have courage and it's just and that's like the golden place to be. So any healthy relationship has those three factors, it's the positivity, the frequency consistency, and the intimacy, if you have all of that then then you have healthy relationships. So that's what we try to build in PicoPals, very intentionally, the way our curriculum is, the way we facilitate, the way we train our group leaders, we spend a lot of time showing them how to build those conditions. Fantastic. What would you say for someone who says, ah I have enough friends, I've got family here, I don't need a group like that, what would you say? So I think it depends, because it's definitely, I mean sure it's not for everybody, it's not like a one size it's all, but I do think that especially with your first pregnancy and your second because there's all these new things, I personally don't know those yet, but I'm sure I will someday, but it's just you don't really hate to use the phrase you don't know until it happens to you, but there are these things that you just, you know even with your best friends who don't, like you said, who don't have children, sometimes you just, I don't know, it's just they, it's camaraderie that they just don't necessarily understand, and so you know I always say just give it a try and like be open-minded, you know, give it a try, because you just, you don't know and some people really participate, like they talk a lot during the group and that's great, they you know they really want to say things and get things out there and there's some who just want to sit back and listen and that's their connection that they're building and so you don't need to, there's not a specific person who needs to be in this group and so I always recommend to my friends just check it out and try it um trying to be unbiased as a leader but you know because there's different ways to get support out of the group some people need a place to talk, some people need a place to just get out of the house, some people need a place to see other babies and let their babies see other babies, so it's you can get different things out of it and that's kind of what I say to people and like I said it's not for everybody but I think that you can there's more opportunity there than people realize, that's what's so valuable about it, you can get what you and you know if you participate you never know what you're gonna get you know so that's what I tell someone if they thought you know just try it for you what would you say is the most the best thing that you've gotten out of it, whether participating or now leading a group, um the best I mean I guess the support and the friendships is really the big thing that I got out of it and knowing that how eager moms are other parents are to make those connections, so many times people are just like you're a mom let's be friends and it kind of becoming a mom parent kind of takes that away sometimes like you don't want to like I don't know how to say it you don't want to like oh do we want to be friends you're like you want to be my friend because we need we need support and so that support was what I got and then the other thing which is totally just me but becoming part of this community with the healthy mothers healthy babies the pico pals like it really sometimes you lose what am I going to do right now like right now I'm kind of working per diem and I'm with baby a lot and what am I going to do and this just gave me a whole new community to be part of and I like really it's been really lovely for me so that was something aside from the group that I got but you don't know what you're going to find you know so for me that was this community and the support with a really just the best lovely yeah Leanna when pico pals first started what kinds of things did you feel like we're lacking like did you look at what was out there or what was the process wow yeah um I looked I looked a lot um you know there were there were some there were very few new new parents support groups or I guess I should but like uh like classes or anything like very few that it seemed like a lot of it was focused on childbirth um the preparation for natural childbirth and then breastfeeding classes yeah but then the actual and and then and then there was seem to be a desert of sorts like a gap and then there seem to be classes for maybe when your kids are like six years and older about and that's more like activities that sing with baby how do we be with baby how do we encourage babies brain growth which is all valuable and really important but um it wasn't so much like how do you nourish the mom or the or the parents for that matter how do you how do you nourish them and support them so they can find their way and hone their parenting philosophy and learn how to trust their own intuition and instinct yeah that that um I do think that there are some work for special needs groups very specific special needs groups that not everybody like the average mom necessarily or average parent necessarily qualified for and I feel like pico pals feels that niche that it's it's really just parenthood is universal um and I know when we develop the program we we created financial aid supports for special populations who maybe couldn't afford um to participate um and and I know in every group we always have at least like one or two that we just compensate and just say welcome in because connection is fundamental you kept mentioning that um and there's research on that too like the whole mazl's hierarchy of needs it's food shelter water but the very next one is actually loving connection and if you don't have that you kind of go a little bit bananas like and and we don't know like you you feel it and you feel often you think maybe i'm just sleep deprived which is that too exactly by that but that actually is a a total fundamental basic human yeah it really is so talk to me about if someone wanted to lead a group what is the process what kinds of training do you do for them oh so um we invite them let's see we try to we aim for like once a month uh or every other month we hold a group leader training um a couple of hours at at healthy mothers healthy babies um oh gosh and qualifications it's nice if you if you participate in a pico pals group but it's okay if you did not it's really anyone who is a parent or who has experience as a as a parent because as you know it's it's really helpful when you when you when you know people's experience going into it um let's see so we meet for a couple hours and then we talk about our program the mechanics of it but more importantly we talk about the feel and the philosophy of it i know at least you're talking about the binder we do have this magical binder that's comprehensive but i don't know if you remembered when we went through our group leader training i didn't spend a ton of time in the binder i tried to i tried to facilitate spaces where people could connect and talk with each other and then uh go back into their own personal experience uh and practice listening a lot of empathy and i tried to encourage our group leaders to trust their own intuition just like how we do with our moms and to really be comfortable with who you are as a person and to acknowledge that you are growing and learning as well just like your parents um and i think it's i i i learned something new every time that i'm a group leader and it is so humbling yeah i would encourage it for anyone if you love babies if you uh if you believe in relationships and connection and community and um serving others or just contributing feels i don't know it's also like a research proof and happiness um practice but just giving um i would say please please sign up to be a group leader that's fantastic fantastic well we're just about out of time so i wanted to encourage anyone watching if they're interested in signing up for pico pals to visit healthy mothers healthy babies at hmhb-hoy.org or search online for pico pals to join a group um alise and lianna thank you so much for joining me today thanks for everyone who's tuned in today and i'll see you next time on family affairs and think tuck away


Everybody forced here. Yeah ripping 2022 Prism World Cup breakaway five-box number three random groups check them out right here on the Results to have the website at any time should be on what regular Fox, which I don't know what it is Here we go. Good luck everybody breakaway time so we get two numbered per box looking for autos are not guaranteed Let's see what we got First break of our Wednesday daytime. We got another one of these up next with five to go Oh I think that has to end in a draw and they might have to win by multiple goals here I don't know they are losing their minds. I don't think I've seen anybody's World Cup celebrate harder than Tunisian fans right now Security's like I don't know It had to have been that I think they only brought two keepers. All right base packs first two. What's up Lane? What's going on Chris? You flipped over and that goal was scored Got a Weston McKinney he's been so good Weston McKinney on the breakaway prism for the United States We'll recap anything that has numbers Breakaway red Saliba For France 29 of 99 Saliba you think France just kind of lets this happen. Yeah, they don't care. They really don't care. I Think the players in the field care, but I think overall they're like, yeah, the coaching staff doesn't care Silver rookie Abdul alai al maliki. I'm sure they care like It's more like you guys should not be allowing goals at Tunisia like Man craziness already We got a national landmarks look Haku Belgium Congrats Belgium that's group what H nope group G right?  That's beautiful Romelu Lukaku Silver connections Brazil Danny Alves Tiago Silva. I don't know anything about the country at Belgium But I'm sure that these these lions are super significant. It looks like a church of some sort Wouldn't know unfortunately Hey, Rafael Leal Portugal breakaway prism Pulsar if you will Whoa, that's a nice color Oh Rafael Leal Portugal Black breakaway one of one first box of the day It's usually how we do it Congrats, Alexandros in group age Rafael Leal black breakaway prism one out of one. That's beautiful, man. Yep great card Heck yeah, man I don't wake me up. I Wake up at like 8 a.m. On daytime break days. I don't actually wake up until like halfway through the first break And we should have always gets it should be one more numbered. Nope. That was that that one was numbered Wow It's that's all over That is that is mag worthy Wow Well, it'd be a great time to drop a link for the next break Which has five to go still five to go break away How's it going everybody Breaking right after they're breaking right after this what on a DJ this guy looks young He's young for sure. Nope. It's like Early 20s at the latest Somebody layout, please tell us Face pack. Yeah, that looks sick. The black pulsar looks like a snake Where do you have to my cars in the first box? Yeah, that was that was a pretty wild box actually Considering we had a national landmarks and a black one of one that happened on a bowman chrome release day What a nice name or break away? Mmm That happened on a because I pulled black shimmer Joey Weimer One of one in the first case of a bowman chrome or the first box of bowman chrome hobby that I read last Wednesday This is like a trend oh a gold now Come on a gold. Oh Nana Cameroon Numbered five out of ten Andre. Oh Nana. Yo Cameroon Rotator cuff surgery that sounds like a bad time man. It's like a bad time One arm banded at the moment. Yo, the French fans are there just vibing French fans are just there to hang out rookie silver for Korea Woo Young Jung You I will say it has been awesome for the US team is a few things, but the main thing is Tyler Adams Tyler Adams. He is he's him. Whoo. National pride dude Belgium Yori Telemans. Oh my gosh Belgium with two case hits in a breakaway five box break Holy cow Belgium broken in this one. They broke the break Australia scored Denmark is in trouble man And a silver scores called the tarot Argentina Wow the Aussie scored Denmark about to be out should have gotten this break. Denmark about to be out The board man could come in next that'd be fired Honestly, I mean who'd be surprised a bono rookie breakaway Bono a Red breakaway Sarmiento for Ecuador. I'm surprised they lost yesterday. I mean Senegal is very good If Senegal had money, I think they'd be legit like semi-final like Sarmiento they probably I think they could have won that group Because they look to go against Netherlands to it. They just didn't get the goals. Yep So on that I'm not like The US is gonna have it tough no matter what right Senegal and Netherlands both with the difficult games. I guess you would take Senegal, but I don't feel like we'll say in that Okay, three more boxes though guys. We've got on the next one. Then they got a Timothy Weya Still five to go on the next one Still five to go Breakaway prism rookie Nuno Mendez Portugal No, I'll surprise he didn't make the team I know he's like 21, but PSG right there Purple Joe Allen Wales 11 of 35 low number on those purples man Conga Lang Joan Buchanan Spain team badge The show that I went to in Orlando like whatever Um There was a guy there that had the one-of-one Netherlands badge really yeah, I pulled the Switzerland one-of-one oof a manga No way Dude, we're hitting three straight boxes with a case hit three straight case hits be him Stars and Stripes Weston Oh Wow Wow Matinee and group B Break to get it. Oh my goodness the McKinney one is fired. They need to give him the red white and blue hair though I love his hair bro That that one some of the mongos look so that's my favorite one of the break for sure I That's what I'm saying. I've I've opened a few of these are personals and like I've not seen one case hit No, it's male as our silver Senegal phenomenon That's how it is though. I say no boxes for a group break always the nasty ones Phil Foden on the breakaway finally got a start for England and He killed it. He scored really. Yeah, finally got a start. He scored that Rashford that Rashford free cake was was Phil. Yeah I Don't know the Foden and the first Rashford Rashford scored twice. I think the first ones are they were like they were like a minute apart a Red and Malinkovic Savage for Serbia Number 21 of 99 they kind I mean it's gonna make Southgate look kind of bad Because he's always starting like and like soccer is great and Mount is very good Like those guys are really good, but he finally starts Foden and Rashford and they do really well.  It's more so much more to lose. It's a gobby rookie there So we're at four to go. Yeah for to go on the next one guys out of yummy We think Germany is gonna move on I think if Jeremy would have to be Costa Rica by multiple goals if There's a Gakpo rookie Poor guy's gonna get eliminated on Saturday. Got a Diogo Costa rookie breakaway red breakaway Hakimi Morocco number 68 of 99 probably the best Moroccan player Yeah, he's an older rookie, but I mean he's at PSV I think it's his first Panini rookie for sure though because he's at PSV He's signing with a with a primarily club soon Yeah, January January transfer window is gonna be huge for him because he's gonna transfer and get big money money Yeah for the Netherlands Yorien Timber Oh, there's breakaway. Oh, yeah breakaway rookie auto Yorien Timber Netherlands You've already all rookie silver Croatia. Croatia couldn't straight up eliminate Belgium on their own today Yeah, Germany just has to win and That's all they all they can do is win and hopefully by multiple goals because I think if Japan and and Spain draw you got a silver Belgium team badge then Germany would have to out score Costa Rica by a few goals to top Japan The goal differential they'd have the same points of Germany wins in Japan draws, but Japan drawing against Spain is obviously gonna be difficult Uh, pulsar Jordan Pickford, I don't know if there's a Realistic scenario where Spain doesn't move on with their goal differential being outrageous There he is, there's Antoine Darmine Nuno something behind the Darmine, yep blue breakaway now is a Masakini for Tunisia 41 to 49 Subs coming on Netherlands team badge. Okay one last box. It's been a crazy break Crazy So you guys for to go I'm gonna go tweet the next break out we'll get to this last one here We're going the next break Halfway full random groups. I'll get an entire group five boxes breakaway two numbered per box We just you can see we pull case hits we can pull autos You can get everything you get in hobby just the parallels are a bit different You get a whole group the four teams So yesterday Chris in the second half they were showing it for the USA game They were showing like I guess when England would score they would show but they should just keep it up there I agree like like the NCAA tournament. I just hope in the 2026 World Cup. It's not Fox covering it Give it to like NBC or something. They're honestly anybody Yes, PN. Yeah, I feel like anybody else I just feel like when stuff is on ESPN everybody watches it like everybody can and everybody does Everyone has ESPN plus now if you don't have cable So it's like if you have cable you can watch it if you have ESPN plus you can watch it Sarmiento breakaway rookie Ecuador. If you don't have cable, it's kind of hard to tell it's hard to watch box, you know, yeah I don't even have TV. I actually bought like what Fubo for the month Just like a watch World Cup exactly exactly if it was on ESPN you have ESPN plus probably already, right? Yeah, exactly A red skiery Tunisia number 17 out of 99 Although not when you only have ESPN plus you can't watch everything that's on ESPN You can watch replays of stuff, but you can only watch ESPN plus things if that makes sense Really? Yeah, I don't think you can watch live ESPN. I thought you could I think you can get like a premium But like the basic one I don't think it's like Hulu. Yeah, like to Hulu to watch live TV You have that extra version. Yeah, I Think if I'm wrong someone please correct me, but I think that's how it is. I have ESPN plus United States Auto Kellen Acosta Nice break for Group B. Kellen Acosta there. There's two different auto styles Yeah, there's like international ink, and then there's just the regular signatures silver Suley, Germany Boxes 2026 rights. Well that stinks Oh Well, it's not that bad you just I just don't watch any of the pre-game post-game stuff I just watched the matches silver new era Ricardo Pepe, which which stinks because I like you know It's Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey. Yeah, and Yeah, I like the the former players. I just don't like the other Fox soccer like people Diallo Senegal breakaway should have what one more number card I think Unless the auto Think so no here it is purple coming up is a on tuna rookie, Mexico to 35 Go Mexico. They have they they have to win today three to 35 Have to win. I didn't even know they were still Yeah, I don't like it and all likelihood they won't they need other help too, but they bottom line they have to win first off And I think they need other help I think there is a scenario, but it's it's tough just because everyone else only has like four points. Yeah, they could do it no quick recap guys just the color and Four mag cards in a five box breakaway is pretty wild Pretty wild All right purple 35 on tuna, Mexico red two wasn't 99 yet to 99 is scary Tunisia blue Misakni Tunisia to 49 international ink a Costa and timber rookie auto United States and other ones there red Hakimi red Malinkovic savage purple Joe Allen Red Sarmiento a golden 10 Andre O'nana Cameroon red Saliba France Leba Had a manga West of McKinney United States national pride Telemans Belgium one-of-one Raphael Leal Portugal and national pride Belgium Romelu Lukaku Congrats to those that had some really nice cards there. Thanks again everybody another one of these coming up next


Got a blog. Okay. Am I blocking? Yeah, you block it. Block the other way You really think that I could react that fast? How's it going everybody? Da totally here back with another Dragon Ball fighters video for you all today and in today's video We are going to be doing something a little different. You see over a year ago I actually invited my sister onto the channel to play some Dragon Ball fighters as somebody that is only watching a Very little bit of Dragon Ball Z and plays no fighting games I thought it would have been funny to see how she would react to the game and whether or not she'd be able to Learn as I was pretty much screaming at her not not even close to teaching But I thought that was a pretty funny concept and some of you really wanted to see it brought back someday So today we are going to do exactly that We have returned to Dragon Ball fighters to play some more ranked games and see if season 3 makes the game any easier for All right, so we're gonna start off the same way we started off last time There's a whole new season of DLC characters and if you're gonna play the game you have to be informed So we're gonna go down this line here of all the season 2 and season 3 characters and you just got to name them So who's this? I have no idea. It looks like a moth A moth? And who's this? Videl. That's correct. I don't trust you anymore. Who's this? Go-Tang Go-Hun? Baby Go-Hun? That's Goku GT I wouldn't ever guess that Go-Ku No, it's the fusion of Goku and Vegeta. What's that name? Goku and Vegeta Yes. Is it actually? It's Gojira And who's this? Bardock That's Broly And the final character? Goku again Well, you got I think 3 out of 9 So you failed, but at least you got 3 Is that it?  I learned nothing last time Why would we not jump straight into ranked? Choose whatever stage you want to fight on I guess the Cell one Since I'm Cell, maybe I'll have an advantage Super Dash Why does it say that on my side? That's the instruction manual Didn't I do a lot of dashes last time?  I don't know how to hold on You got a block Am I blocking? Yeah, you blocked it Block the other way Do you really think that I can react that fast? You have to, otherwise you're not going to Okay, mash all the buttons at once There you go You're in your powered up mode You can stop mashing all the buttons though Let's go talk to him You forgot to keep clicking the buttons? You forgot to keep clicking the buttons? You got me excited, thought they died Oh, no I feel like I'm doing pretty good Now remember, you can move You can use the directional pad to move I am, I have been Block, you got to block Okay, quarter circle back Square and triangle Quarter circle back, square and triangle Roll it back, square and triangle Let's go talk to him Keep clicking square, keep clicking You didn't, why didn't you? It's lagging Am I blocking? No, you're probably dead How? You didn't take out anybody? No, I felt pretty good Alright, rematch this guy one more time Alright, round two Less getting hit, more hitting back Okay, I think my plan is blocking more of this game Okay I know I said I blocked more of it I kind of forgot This guy is so good Remember, when you're getting hit, you hold the button in the direction How do I, which one is block again? Back, you just hold back You just hold back from where your opponent is I think it's forward I think it's forward No, you walked forward and you got hit Why do you keep stopping during the most important part?  Oh, I still got one more Mothboy coming now Save your spark, don't spark yet Go back to what you're doing You did another quarter circle move At a bad time I'm sorry Wow, wow, can I live?    Roll it back to the right And then the top two buttons Is that the quarter circle? Yes I'm trying to break it down Easy You may be time to spark You got to click both buttons at the same time I'm clicking both buttons at the same time You see me? Look at my hands It looks like you're clicking square to me Now, get him I'm sparking, did I spark? Keep pressing square You dropped it Nice combo with that It's 5 frames Quarter circle back, top two buttons I don't know what that means Quarter circle back, top two buttons Away from him, roll it away from the opponent And top two buttons Away from the opponent, top two buttons Away, away Go away Away from him Away from him Stop hyperventilating He has spark So he can still make a comeback Away from him, top two buttons At the same time With your thumb, just hit both buttons No, you got to block You got to be more careful Wake up Top two buttons Away from him, top two buttons I'm literally doing what you're saying I'm doing what you're saying Alright, go back to square He dodged it, top two buttons away Top two buttons away Buttons, roll it You lost You lost That was pretty good Can you be excited for me? After a few ranked games I realized this probably wasn't the best place for her to be playing And my points were getting pretty messed up So I went ahead and posted on Twitter for people to come out To do some arena matches If you didn't already know, those have special new rules That make the game a lot more approachable for newcomers And a little bit more fun If you're just looking at playing casually Of course I did make sure to mention in the tweet That people should bring their A game Because I did want it to still be challenging Let's give this intro, maybe that'll throw him off a little bit Look at the hell, all you need is one hit Get him, get him I got to play this smart Alright, that's one down, two left Maybe play a little smart If they come close to you, you can hit X The A button is X I am Who's cooking now Keep it Alright, well that's fine I thought it was one hit It was almost one hit I snagged him once Wait, wait, wait He's got more lag Okay, he's probably going to spark It won't do much, just keep that game plan Keep that game plan Overhead, you didn't kill him though Backcrack! Wait, I won?  Yes But you have to beat him again, you haven't won the set yet Look at Mothboy, he looks so cool I kind of like him Mothboy, you mean Jiren? Whatever his name is If you win right here, you win the whole set Same strategy He's probably going to be a bit more aggressive Watch out!  Just don't let him touch you, you get a perfect Quarter circle forward Did I do a quarter circle forward though? You did, but you didn't do anything with it That's okay, as long as I did it Right?  I won though, right? You did win, you won the whole set That's great, that's great How about this, how about we do a mode where Your team plays, but a bot controls it What does that even mean? So, we wouldn't even be playing But your characters would be playing, and they have a chance to win Now how is that fun for me? Because we get to watch the bots And you can watch the bots go to work And you can see what it looks like when everything's moving If you want, you can even hold the controller and pretend Wait, so are we reversing another bot? Yes So, our bots could still lose Our bots could still lose, yes If my bots lose, I'm never playing this game again Well, don't lose them Alright, so here's your team, let's see what they can do Hit in all red We're going to skip this, get right to the action Let's see what they go for here Ooh, a little bit of offense already He's playing just like me No, that's defense What are you trying to say? I'm trying to say you don't have defense Also hit got evaporated Why are my bots terrible? Why are my bots so bad? He's getting torn up He's dying Oh, this is the level 3 That I was trying to tell you to do all day I could have done that You probably could have if you would have listened That's pretty cool Oh, no See, it's Cell, he ruins it Oh, no, he's not going to get away They're assisting, I've never done that Yeah, you've never done that, those are the shoulder buttons on the controller Oh, yeah, I've never touched those Your team still isn't doing too well though I gotta admit, they're kind of getting bodied I'm kind of scared Oh, that's not hitting anybody But it was a good try, I guess He's going to come back though Mothboy's going to come out and kill everyone He barely blocked that That's right This is another level 3 I was trying to tell you to do Goku's dead, he's gone Look at that He's alive Come on Cell, just gotta finish it buddy He's not Are you kidding?  That's not going to help Isn't he programmed to know how to play this game? Well, apparently not, he got bodied Did he seriously die? Yes, he's dead Alright, so we just had Mothboy, right? No, we hit has a little bit of help And who knows, maybe he can make the most out of it He's going to come back, he's dead Dammit, okay Mothboy Seriously though, let me down He has to make a huge comeback But he's already starting on strong Easy, it's Mothboy He's my favorite now Moving Look at the movement He could get a little super damage off that Not bad, I mean not the best Another super dash, that's it You can't stop him, he's coming back for sure If he could take out the other character It would be a 1v1 in his favor But unfortunately, he's not going to You see Come on He's not doing too hot right now He's not doing great at all Can you have faith in anyone? I have faith in the fact that If he wakes up level 3 It's not over yet I don't know why he keeps doing this I don't know why this is his favorite strategy No We're dead Please Mothboy Please No, he's definitely dead He's definitely dead He's alive He's dead He's dead Alright, I hate this game Actually, it's pretty fun today I felt pretty good, I know my bots lost But can I still get a good jump? No, no, they lost Well, I guess that's the end Any last words? I won one game though, right? The one hit thing You did win the one hit set It was the easiest game but I'll take it So I guess good job for that That's it though Bye