Hi guys, welcome to Hots Hall. If you look over here, we have a dining hall called Fulbright. They have amazing desserts. I got a brownie and ice cream every day. So watch out for that freshman 15 because it is real. Over here, we have Quad C and Quad B and over here we have Maple Hill and right beside Maple Hill, we have a place called Club Red. It's like a convenient store. You can get snacks, last-minute ramen noodles, toothpaste, and we also have the Hill Grill, which has chicken and burgers and grilled cheeses, which I recommend. All thereby Maple. All thereby Maple, yes. So it's like maybe 300 feet away, and over here we have parking and Garland Garage, which has more parking. We have Small Mart, which is like... What is Small Mart? It's like a teensy Walmart, but it somehow has all the things that you need. It's pretty dense. There's a lot of stuff on the shelves. A lot of stuff. We also have a couple of restaurants like Subway and fast foods like that. Sure. We have a couple people already tuning in, Summer. Feel free to chime in and tell us where you're from. We'd love to know, since you're viewing us. And Summer, can you tell us a little bit about yourself?  Yeah, I'm a student here. I'm an honor student. I'm a junior, so I lived in Hots Hall two years ago, but I remember it just like yesterday. I'm majoring in honor psychology and minoring in biology on the pre-med track, so wish me luck. Yes, yes. Good luck to you. It's going to be a doctor someday. I hope so. Very cool. Well, so let's head inside to Hots. Sounds good. And usually in order to get in, you're going to have to be sure you fob in, which is kind of a security measure we have. We have pre-fobbed for you, so you don't have to worry about that. There's the fob. Yes, exactly. You have that little thing on your key. Did you always have your fob? Not always. I would wait at the door and wave until someone came and found me sometimes. Okay, okay. Well, hey, how are you doing? Hello. Good. What's your name? I'm Emily Davis, and I'm the CRE for Hots Hall. Okay. What is a CRE? It stands for Coordinator for Residence Education. So basically, I supervise the RA staff. I do a lot of the day-to-day operations of the building. Make sure it's still standing at the end of the day. Help with programming and kind of in Hots with honors kind of the liaison between the two. Oh, okay. Hey, we just got a question. Yeah. Molly asked, is the small mart within walking distance? Oh, yeah, it is like a two-minute walk. It's a two-minute walk that way. Yeah, it's not far at all. Absolutely. So you mentioned programming. What is some of the kind of programming that you do here at Hots? We do a lot of really large-scale programs. The space you'll see as you kind of walk them around the building is made for gathering. And so in every dead day in December, we have a big casino night where we have our doctor profs come deal for us. We do different tournaments and games and stuff like that. And then honors does a lot of stuff as well. We have a lot of stuff going on here. Sure. Sure. You mentioned honors college. Of course, this is a unique kind of collaboration between housing and the honors college. So we work together very closely. Yeah. And as a matter of fact, I was looking over here talking about games. You've got, what is this? Pool and ping pong. Did you ever play any pool or ping pong? I did. Yeah, you don't want me on your team. Why is that? I mean, I think it speaks for itself.  Oh my gosh, okay, okay. But there are a lot of people who kind of sit there and play. Oh, yeah, all night. All night. All night long? Yes. And I see over here. There's a kitchen. Let me kind of show that off. Did you ever, um, Did you ever cook? Tatum, tater or tatum? Well, sometimes we call their tater. But Tatum Yocum, shout out to Tatum. She made vegan queso right here. Vegan, because there is vegan cheese apparently. Wow. Yeah. And a lot of people use the fridge, but don't bet on it because a lot of people might drink your drinks, eat your food, so keep in your own fridge if I were you. Does labeling your food work here? It does work here. Okay. I would label. Okay. If you label, maybe you, it'll be safer. Okay, good deal. Lesson learned. All right, cool. So you got the kitchen area there. And let's see. We've got a big theater room. Again, feel free to chime in and tell us where you're from. We're very curious to know where you're from that you're coming here this fall. All right, theater room. Nice. Okay. That's a pretty big TV. What did you watch here, if anything? Actually, I watched zero movies in here. Really? Okay. Yes, I always Netflixed up in my room with my roommate. But a lot of people did come down here and watched Harry Potter, Marathon, Star Wars, everything. Any TV shows that were, uh, yeah. Breaking Bad was really big when I lived here. Okay, because it was a final season maybe, or they were just watching the leftover. And Orange is the New Black. Orange is the New Black. Definitely. Well, cool little space here to use if you want to. But you might be like, uh, summer and just watching Netflix in your Up in your room. There you go. All right, let's go check out some more of this hall. Okay. So we're walking now through sort of the main corridor on the first floor. And we've got our music room. Are we going in there? Yeah, let's show it off. Okay. Because we have a lot of band students that live in Hawks. A lot of band students, yeah? Okay. So this is a space, I guess you could really play any instrument you wanted here. Any instrument, and it's almost soundproof. So you can usually hear like a faint piano in the distance, but it's pretty soundproof. I can see how that might create a little ambience. Yeah, it does. Did you make a lot of friends while you were here? At Hawks? Yeah. I made almost all my current friends here at Hawks. You mean like the friends you're friends with now? Yes. I met my sophomore year roommate. I met my boyfriend. All of my closest friends. Wow. That's a very, very interesting freshman year. You get a lot going on. Yeah. Um, fantastic. Good. Well, let's head on out and see what else we've got here. Now we do have a summer camp going on here, so you may see some campers walk by, but that's what's going on. All right. So what is this room called? This is the letters room. The letters room. The giant letters, which you will sign if you live here. Great. Oh, and who is this? Hey, how are you doing? Good, good. Man, what's your name? My name is Terence Boyd. I'm the director of recruitment and retention with the Honors College. Okay. Well, hey, thank you for joining us. No problem. No problem. What can you tell us about the Honors College and retention and recruitment? What can I tell you? I can tell you that the Honors College is a great place for students who really want the most out of life. They are high achieving, high ability, like summer, our great tour guide here. Shout out to summer. Right. All right. Students in the Honors College, they love a great academic challenge. They love to study abroad, which we really focus on. That's how I met summer, honestly. How'd you all meet? Well, I feel like, you know. In Peru. Right. I met in Peru. On the bus, we were making up Harry Potter characters for each other. Yeah, I think, I wasn't Hermione. No, you were Floor. I was Floor. Floor. Yeah. Which, which, which house is that? Is that Slytherin? No, go. Floor was from, she was from the, another wizarding school. Remember the fourth one? Oh, the blonde one. Yes. The one from, like, the wizarding contest. I see. I see. Well, cool. So we haven't gone back. But yeah, we met in Peru during the H2 Passport trip. So I accompanied summer and 15 other undergraduate students, honors students specifically to Peru. We went to Lima, Adikipa, Cusco, Puno, Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca. Lake Titicaca. That's just fun to say. It is. It is. Right. So like, study abroad is a big part of the honors experience it sounds like. Yes. And like, living here in Hots, so you met the CRE, Emily. You met summer. But here in Hots and just in the honors culture overall, we really push studying abroad. International education is important. Over 50% of our students will study abroad at least once by the time of graduation. Students have gone to South Africa, well, thinking content is based. They've gone to Africa, South America, all six minus Antarctica, all seven minus Antarctica. Maybe this year in Antarctica. No, no, that's good. That's good. All 19 with Antarctica. Fantastic. Wow. Again, from a Hots standpoint, we really push studying abroad because it's just a culture of you get to meet people who also had that same ambition of wanting to study abroad. So you meet a student who wants to like strengthen their skills in Spanish like, oh, you're interested in the study abroad program in Madrid. So am I. Let's talk about that. Or we have programs here, like out on the patio or in the theater room, which you all saw, that really gets students together along with Falcons and Rivers as well. Who can talk about those study abroad experiences and how do you get those things funded? Because through the Honors College, we do provide funding for study abroad. Oh, funding. Very important part of the whole equation. It is. Will you join us as we walk through Hots? Maybe chime in with some information if you have some? All right. Cool. Well, let's continue on summer and look. All right. I'm here 24 seven. I swear they sleep here. They wake up here. They're called the lobby dwellers. They're here all the time. Is that true? Yeah. Oh, it's 100% true. There was a group of students who they it's like 24 seven and it was kind of a thing. I had RAs in the group me and if there was a tour coming through, we needed to be fancy on camera. They would just text in the group me dwell and they would show just one word dwell. They knew they knew what it meant. That's what it meant to dwell is to be here. Okay, fantastic. Well, great spaces, great common spaces. Yeah, so we'll follow on through with you. The fireplace comes on in the winter time, which is super cool. That is super cool. Let's show off the vending to just so people know. If you do have those late night need for a snack or drink or something like that, you can come down here and get some vending stuff. Run out of ramen. Do they have ramen in there really? No, if you run out, then you can get a Twinkie. This is the office desk rent kitchen supplies. You can just use them in the kitchen. If you need to talk to an RA or anything like that, then that's where you can find them. Fantastic. Very good. Any thoughts on where do they pick up mail? You pick up mail over at Maple Hill South. Which is just like one building over. One building over and it's during business hours. You have to go between eight and four to get your mail and packages, but that's where you get. You can get mail anytime because you have a combination to it, but packages you have to go when the hall admin is there. Sure, sure. Thank you for that. Care packages as well? Yes. Parents, please, sin just as the largest gear packages. They can use them, especially during finals, right? Of course. All right. Let's go and walk on over there. Okay. There could be a printer in here. I don't know if they have that in the school year, but a lot of people do their homework in here. It's really quiet. Everyone knows to not talk in this room, so that's really nice. So you would study in there as well? Oh yeah, I would study in there. Very cool. Very cool. Nice. And this is just another lounge area. I like to go and watch movies and just hang out over here. We have the weird men-shaped chairs.  They are an interesting shape. They are indeed. Yeah. And so there'll be some programming though out here too, is it right? Right on the outside of what is it called? Professors on the patio? Yes. What is it? What is the name of it? It's called professors on the patio? Professors in pizza. We forgot the pizza. What were you thinking? Okay. And there's pizza. Hence the name. Hence the name. And so you learn about studying abroad, classes, resumes.  Because it's kind of a fenced in, nice space. I would say that summer, maybe not. You summer, yes, but the season of summer, not the best time to be out here. Maybe not the best time. But in fall, wow. Yes, it would be perfect. In fall, this is amazing. So one of the big peas of professors on the patio is a professor where we want to make sure incoming freshmen or current freshmen, they have that chance to connect with professors. They're not these big, bad, scary people whose life it is to make your, like the nightmare, oh, security issues. They're very secure hand huts. Sure. But yeah, they come and they talk about a plethora of things and it's really just a great chance to get connected with your professors who you might have as a freshman or you'll have down the road who can help out with research, just connect you with jobs or whatever it may be, honestly.  This is like a nice cover patio piece. Yeah, it really is. It is nice out here. Fantastic. Great. Well, let's head on back inside. Thank you. I'll follow you. All right. And you were showing us those unusually shaped human chairs. Human chairs. Yeah. They look like people. They feel like people. Or meeple, kind of like meeple, like the little board pieces. Nice. Okay. So then another group study area looks like. And there's one on every floor too. So you don't even have to leave your floor. Over here. We have the CRE's office. There's Emily's office. Can we come by and see you sometime, Emily? Absolutely. If we're living here? Yes. I'm there. Usually nine to five-ish. I'm there. If not, I'm in the building somewhere probably. Thank you very much. Excuse me. So then let's go through here. And I guess we're going to look at, you have a gym. Yes, a gym. So you don't even have to walk to the gym. You can come right down here. We have everything that you need. We have weights, exercise balls, treadmill, elliptical. Everything you need is right here. So you don't have to walk all the way to the union or to the hyper, which are also great. They're great to have, but it's good to have this right, right so close. Having right here is helpful. Make you use it more often. Yes, definitely. Fantastic. Well, thank you. Thanks, Terrence. All right. So what's been your favorite class so far that you've taken? H2P, for sure, which is not my major or minor, but it's been the most interesting class because it incorporates music and art and history and architecture with the best professors that I think I've ever had. So if you're thinking about H2P, definitely do it because it's been the best thing that I've had so far. H2P? H2P. It's Humanities, Honors, Projects. Oh, okay. Very interesting. I like that. It's awesome. So let's go check out a couple more things on the first floor before we go up to check out the wonderful top of the building view to the laundry room. That's where we're going. And we'll show the trash chute as well.  And we have some information just about that system. But basically what it's meant to do is let you know what's open before you come down here. Yeah. And then whenever your stuff is finished, it'll text you and let you know that it's done. We're living in the future. The future is now. So we have a lot of washers and dryers here. And how much does it cost to do your laundry? $0, which is great, except for, I mean, you probably want detergent and stuff like that. You will. And we'll recommend that you use pods, but you know, use liquid if you need to. Powder is not really your friend here, but liquid's good. Pods are even better. Yes, definitely. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, great. Well, we want to show off the laundry. Let's see. Do you know if the, let me show the chute on the up on the other floors unless you see it right here. Okay. Yeah. Right here. We'll show it right here. Sorry. Very good. Okay. So here's the big trash area, but on every floor, we also have a chute.  Comes down here. Yeah. To be, to be tossed out into either recycled or to be tossed to the landfill. So one of the two. Yeah. All right. So we'll catch the elevator now. Is it open? We'll catch the next one going upstairs. Okay. Now did you ever, uh, what floor did you live on? I lived on the ninth floor. Has the coolest views. We actually, yeah, the very top we called my room the penthouse suite. We were at the corner on the very top and we had great views. Oh, wonderful. Wonderful. Um, and uh, you said you met your best friend here and a boyfriend as well. I did it. Yes. Okay. How did you and the, and the best friend meet? Well, uh, she lived on my floor and we would just study together. We were in classes together, H2P actually. Okay. And so we dropped a lot of our essays together. We did homework and we went camping our first week here. We made friends really quickly.  Uh, Devil's Den. Oh, right. You should definitely check it out. So if you're like from another state, you've never heard, never heard of Devil's Den? Yeah. What do you think sells it? What do you think Devil's Den has that is really great? So there's so much hiking and there's also a river and a little waterfall. People get I 49. You can see old main. You can see the cranes where we're building the rest of our stadium. And you can see the view and MLK from here. Wow. We had a question from Marissa. She said, I'm going to be living on the night floor. Was moving day difficult?  And so they're sad.  And then they got to go because you haven't a lot of time. So as soon as you get your stuff moved in, you're sitting in your room, you're like, what do I do now? So that's when you make the most friends is moving day. Little existential moment. It's all up to me now. It is all up to you now. Emily, do you have any further thoughts about moving or suggestions you might give? Moving is my favorite day of the year. It is like she said, it's easily the hardest, like busiest, craziest day of the year. But everyone's so excited to be here. Whenever you get to the lot, be sure that you follow the map that's online. Don't follow your GPS. It will take you wrong and you won't be able to turn into the parking lot if you come from the left. So please try to make sure that you are coming into our lot off of Razorback and then on Cleveland. But just be patient with us. There's a lot of people moving and a lot of moving parts, but we'll get you moved in and we'll be so excited to see you. Well, you and your parents both were excited to see you come. All right, so let's head down now that we've seen this great view down to I believe four twos where we're going to look at a room and a bathroom. And I guess I should point out this study area right here, which I guess we have one on every floor. We have two on every floor. These are really nice little study areas. We had a lot of our floor meetings here and we watch movies and eat popcorn. It's a good area. Nice. Very good. Okay. While falling on down, you got it for me. Thank you. All right. So the elevator, this elevator seems to move pretty fast. Yeah. Usually they do. Had a few scary experiences. We were actually scared. We were fine. But you made it through. We made it. How's it going? But I took the stairs a lot just because I was eating a lot of brownies. So you had to compensate for that. I had to compensate for that. Yeah. What's your favorite thing in Fulbright? You see it there, right? Yeah, Fulbright. Stir fry. There's a stir fry station and you can get rice or noodles and then eggs and vegetables and mushrooms. Another study, big study area right here. A ton of water bottles. You can just bring every fillable one and it's purified water and it's delicious. And this shows you how many water bottles we've saved from being wasted, which is really cool. Did you bring your own water bottle? I did. And the water is really good. Was it plastic, glass, wood? It was glass and it was pink. They are actually really nice because you get your own little stall. It's like a shower and a toilet all in one. You can shut the door. So there's a lot more privacy. Sure. Let's show them the shower. Take a look at what's going on in there. And you do have all of these little hooks to put your towel on right there. Yes. And this closes. So you've got your own, your own space. Yes. So it's just, yep. And there's no shuttles. But a lot of people bring caddies and they set them on the floor, which is what I did. And I just had my like shampoo conditioner, little spongy thingy and I set it in there and I just carried it back to my room. Yeah. Yeah. Shower shoes, yes or no? Yes. I had pineapple flip flops. So I would be sure to bring them. I'm sure it's clean, but I'm a bit of a germaphobe, so I brought flip flops.  Never a bad idea. Kristen asked about, do all the residents also have water dispensers in? All of them have some way of dispensing water. I think almost all of them have that bottle dispenser, but there might be a few old school water faucets in there as well. All right, here we go. And then we have toilets, but once you've seen one of them, you've seen them all. Nothing exciting there. All right. There's this little private toilet right here too, which we'll mention. Oh yeah. This is my favorite bathroom. These little signs, I don't know if you can see them. They say, Vankit or Occupy. So no one can ever walk in on you. You have a little sink there. So if you get up early in the morning, you have your own little private bathroom. Yeah. This one is like the best. So everyone waits in line for this one. What's the turnaround time when you're waiting in line here? It takes people 15 minutes, 10 minutes? We need a laundry look for that bathroom. Yeah, we do. All right. So let's go look at, what's we want to look at in this floor? Let's see. We got the room 230 study room. Study room. That's right. So it's covered in white boards so you can just scribble everywhere you want. And it's amazing because you can do math. So many people did calculus and physics. My friends and I wrote a lot of our essays on these boards actually. You wrote your essays on there? Like our outlines. Okay. And then you wrote our papers. And a lot of people just study in here, do a lot of group work. It's really nice to have. And they're on every single floor too. Very nice. Is there one of these on each side as well? Or what's on the other side? Do you never? There's a room on the other side. It's just like this. Some lucky two people get a room that looks like this is the eight room. It's like the mega rooms. The eight room, the mega room. Yeah, but that's, there's only one of these on each floor. Okay. Okay. Fantastic. Great. Well, let's continue to walk around. And there's a cable. It looks like cable outlet. And let's go into one of the residence rooms. So I asked you how you met your best friend. Yes. How'd you meet your boyfriend? Organic chemistry. Organic chemistry. Okay. Yeah. I bet there was. All right. Yeah. Okay. So let's see. So we're looking at this room and let me just give him kind of a good view of the room here. All right. That's the loftable furniture. And we have two wardrobes there. Now did your room look all like this? It looked exactly like this. We moved our wardrobes around a little bit. But other than that, it looked the exact same. We actually walked in our beds. It's like as tall as they would go. So we could put our desks underneath. So we had our own little study space on each side. Sure. And there, right now, there is actually a desk underneath there, it looks like. And a dresser. A desk.  It's walkable. You can put a lock on it. They will go higher. They'll go up to, it looks like. Yeah. I think you can put it, I think you can put it as high as right there. Oh yeah. Okay. So that'll go very high. Good deal. Good deal. Well, are there any questions about the room, as long as we're in here and kind of taking measurements for you? Do you mind opening up the window? Yeah, sure. One of them. Just to give them a view of what we're looking at. Great. All right. The other parking lot that you can park in, this is between Maple and Hots. And then there's one over here that's between the quads and Hots. You can park in either one of these if you have resident reserved. And there's one that's across the street that they built last year that you can also park in. Sure. And resident reserved is the red parking, right? Yes, the red parking. Red parking is to hear for that. Now you chose to live in resident reserved or you lived in, I'm sorry, parked in another place. I actually got a green pass in the beginning and then I realized that you have to walk forever to get to your car. So I switched my pass to the Garland Parking Garage, which is right across the street. It takes like a minute to walk to and it protects your car. That's a blue, is that right? Ooh, a purple. It's like red and blue. The blue is the reserve. Molly asks, is it annoying to have to climb up to your bed? No, I thought it was fine. Every night a new adventure. I loved it. I actually, I stepped on this window and then I hopped into bed. It's not that hard. Okay, okay, not too hard at all. I guess we'll show her how you would climb up and what you would do is use these sort of stair steps right there. Yeah, a lot of people do that. And then Megan asked, how wide is the window? Would you want to help her measure the width of that window? I think we're talking about both windows. Let's do both. Let's give them both measures. So the full width of the window is, Molly, it's 131 inches and then to measure just one of the panels, I guess, 66, 67 inches wide. Okay. Thank you for that question. Let's see what else we have here. Joyne asks, can you request to get your bed lofted before moving day? And yes, you can. The way you do that is you go to housing.uark.edu forward slash fix it and you make that request. Now, because we're getting so many of them, it's possible that your bed won't be lofted by the time you arrive, but you're certainly willing to make that, certainly open to making that request and we will honor it as best we can. I think these are pretty easy to loft if you decided to loft yourself. We suggest you bring a rubber mallet. We have them at the desk. Lofted, you can go down to the front desk and ask for a mallet. And it takes two people to do it. Don't try to do it by yourself. You will hurt yourself. But yeah, we will have the equipment for you to do it. And then you don't have to worry about waiting. So let's see. We got a couple more questions. Molly asks about how deep is the shelf and the shelf of the windows, what we were talking about? So if you could just give her the depth of that. All right, that is 14 inches. 14 inches. And then Tessa asks, do you recommend bringing additional drawer storage? I did. I put a set of drawers right here in the middle because we had a pet fish. His name was Frank. We actually had three Franks. Frank one, two, and three because one and two died. Frank, Frank. Frank kept dying. But we had a set of drawers and we just put like our TV stuff, snacks, Frank, you know, and it helps. The wardrobes are big. The dressers are big, but we're girls. We have extra stuff. Yeah, yeah, sure. So it was a drawer. What did it look like? It was from big logs. Okay. And it was like a build-it-yourself rolly cart. Nice. And we just put it right here. It was like that big. We built it on move-in day. My dad is not happy with me. Okay. Well, any other questions that you'd like for us to answer? Summer of course has lived here. So she's got experience living here. Emily, how long have you lived here? I've been in Hots for five years since we opened and this will be my fifth year. We opened in the fall of 2013 and I've been here since then. So you've seen a lot of coming and going students? I have seen a lot of coming and going of students. Any words of wisdom for our incoming freshmen? It can tell. People have basically the time of their lives here. Not too much fun. But make sure that you're taking advantage of it. We do programs. Keep your door open when you're here so people get to know you. Hang out in the lobbies. Like we talked about earlier, people dwell here and it's built for coming together and spending time together outside of your room.  You won't get as much out of your experience. Would you agree with that? Yes. Keep your door open because if you keep it closed, random people can't come in and those random people will be your friends eventually. Your friends? Yeah, exactly. So Molly has one more question for us. Can I hang a shoe organizer in a mirror over the door of the wardrobe or will it make it off balance? I don't think it would close all the way because it is pretty tight whenever you close it. But if you're okay with it opening about that much or however far, then yeah, a lot of people do it. Put something like an over? Yeah. Mingus, are very many people rushing that are in hots? Do you know? Yes, a lot of them do. My roommate, Rushman, did. So she was doing rush my first week here and a lot of girls on my floor were so. So yeah, a big number here. Great, great. Marissa asked, can you please measure the wardrobe? So let's just give them the outside dimensions of length, width. So the width is five inches. 35 inches is the width. A height, I guess. Do I know that? Thank you. The length is about 70 inches. 70 inches? Okay. It's good to give them the depth too just to have a, you can measure the outside too or whatever you want to call it. All right, the depth is about 22 and a half inches. 22 and a half inches. Great, thank you. Susan. And then yeah, so you have a built-in mirror right there. Keep that in mind. And each one of you has one of these wardrobes. Yes, you do. And it holds a lot more than it appears. You have plenty of room to put shelving in if you want. Susan asks, where did you put your television? Okay, so my roommate also had a little shelf that she brought. We put our wardrobes against the ends of our beds so that we could put stuff on top of them by our beds. And then we put a shelf by the door and we put our TV right here. Okay, so these wardrobes are actually each up against the bed right there? Yeah, and then we could lay in bed and watch Orange is the New Black right there. Season one, two, three, four? All of it. Do you binge? We binge. Okay. Ellis asks, can we see a room with a chase? Do we have a room with a chase on this floor? I don't know necessarily what resident rooms will have it. I also don't know what's occupied. Ellis, we have a lot of campers right now for different summer camps, so unfortunately we can't just like walk into very different rooms. I'm sorry. If you email me ead003 at urc.edu with like your room and everything, I can go measure whatever you need me to whenever the camps have left before you get here. Okay. All right. Well, great. Why think? Hey, do we have you? You want to tell us about any final thoughts for incoming freshmen? Okay, final thoughts. To echo what has been said, really just an opener policy is real, but going beyond the residence hall, let the campus be your home because here at the University of Arkansas we're like one big family. It sounds so cheesy and cliche, but it's real because the friends that I met freshman year, especially in my residence hall, we're still very friends. One of them is like there's a bun in the oven. Everybody excited? I'm gonna be an uncle. Congratulations. You can wait on that. All of you, I can wait on that. No, thanks. Just right. No, but really just be open to all the experiences and have a great time. Seek our help from your RA or upper class men, the Honors College staff. We're here for your success. And yeah, just be happy. Absolutely. Brittany chimed in and said, live in hot. Exclamation point, exclamation point. You'll find your best friend you could ever ask for. Very nice. Very nice. Okay. All right. Well, you want to wave us out? All right. See you guys later. I hope to see you in hot.


So my name is Eric Gosser. I'm a nurse at Southern Ocean Medical Center in the ICU. I'm the assistant nurse manager and I have worked here at Southern Ocean Medical Center for about four and a half years. I came from a whole big family of nurses. My mom was a nurse, my brother's a nurse, my dad's a nurse. To come out of high school I just wanted to do something different so I tried business. It didn't really inspire me too much so I did that for a few years and then my mom kind of pulled me in. She gave me a job as a patient observer from day one. I was just hooked. I stay for the impact I can make on the patient's life. So COVID was tough but despite these challenges I come back every single day for my team. What really gives it magnitude is the nurse who won it last year. I know him personally and I know how great he is so for him to have won this award and me knowing exactly why he won this award and that for me to win it this year for potentially having those same qualities really hits home for me. I don't come to work to try to get recognized. I'm here for the patients but to get recognized is great.


What's up everybody, Jason here for jazbeescasebreak.com, 21-22, painting a Mac in the basketball, five box case break, pick a jeans number three, just sold out, and again we had to do a couple of R&B's, which we did. This is the first one here, Houston, Toronto, Chicago, Atlanta, Clippers, and Portland. There's the customer names there. Here's the one for Detroit, Orlando Cleveland, Lakers, Milwaukee, and Sacramento. And then of course everybody else bought it straight up, so I appreciate that guys. You gotta get, you gotta, okay see again, I gotta get you one man. I did pull a Getty RPA on the Instagram site on release day. I was hoping you got one on this side when Joe was breaking. Let's see, let me get you one over here. I got a nice one out of 49 RPA. How about we start off with a one-on-one, one-on-one Desmond Bain for the Grizzlies. Nice one-on-one base. Memphis Grizzlies, D-Lo.  We got a little dual relic here, that's Dave Young Mitchell and Zyre Williams, 9 out of 75. Sacramento Kings, that is part of the R&B. Memphis Grizzlies is D-Lo, so we'll have to randomize that. Jumbo patches, how about Scotty Barnes, look at that. 19 out of 25, Team Logo Jumbos. That's going to the Toronto Raptors, R&B, spot 9 is Allen. Very beautiful here right there. We got a past and present, Bobby Hortest, 34-49. Milwaukee Bucks also part of the R&B for Detroit, that's 34. Four is Brian Frank. We got a JT Thor RPA to 50, Charlotte Horne is Brian Wofford, nice three-color patch. And then we got a Bradley Beale Washington Wizards to 99, I don't know what's going on. This is right here to activate, yeah the Chow's are enabled, I don't know what that means guys. Sorry. Wizards is Fred. Sorry, I got this alert in the background for myself. What does that even mean? No, I'm good man. Alright, I'll deal with that later I guess. First box done, let's go to the next one. Alright, we got a Julius Randall to 99, New York Knicks, and then Jeremiah Robinson-Erl. Okay, see that is D-Low and then New York Knicks is at, alright I'm just switching chats now guys, for some reason the Restream chat's not working so close that for now. And then we got Banton. That is 9 of 10, Toronto, another one for spot 9 which is Allen. We have Zyre Williams 24 of 99 for the Grizzlies, Memphis Grizzlies that is D-Low. We have a Jerry Stackhouse to 10, Detroit 7 of 10, 7 is D-Low again. And how about a Franz Wagner 16 out of 22, I guess you could call that a two-pillar patch, right? There's a little bit of white right there. And that's the Jersey number RPA's, that's going to the Orlando Magic, part of the random number block, and that's going to go to Orlando 6. Orlando 6 is Anthony, there you go man. That's pretty awesome right there, that's a big hit. Next one, we got John Collins 2 out of 5 for the Atlanta Hawks. That's part of the random number block again. Atlanta ATL Hawks is 2 is Shawn Matic. We have DeMar DeRozan to 99, DeMar, that's Bulls to Shawn Matic again. We have little Anthony Davis supposedly back and ready maybe next week for the Lakers. Lakers have definitely used him. 59 out of 99, Lakers, R&B. The last one is Craig, we have Puku, 13 out of 25, Puku is Thunder, okay CD low. And then we have Past and Present, TJ McConnell for the Indiana Pacers, that's going to Ching. And then the last one's a redemption, here we go. 3 patch autos, so this is to 99. Card number 123, Scotty Barnes, there you go. That's going to go to the Toronto Raptors R&B, spot zero, DeLo. There you go buddy, RPA of Scotty Barnes coming your way. Very nice, Franz Wagner to 22 RPA jersey number, and then a Scotty Barnes true RPA. It's a pretty good case so far, right? Maybe a hot case, I don't know. Yeah, Steven, I literally just said that. Could be a hot case, I don't know. Kristops Porzingis for Washington to 99, that's Fred. Paul George, PG for the Clip Show, Clippers is for the Houston R&B, 72, spot two is Shawn Matic. We have a nice little jersey numbers, Isaiah Jackson to 25, Indiana Pacers. Nice three color patch right there. We have a redemption, and it's Rookie Patch Autographs Red, another RPA. Josh Christopher, which I believe is a Houston Astro. Houston Astro, right? Our website man, josephyskasebricks, or Houston Astro. Houston Rockets, I don't know why I said Astros for. But yeah, Houston Rockets, that is part of the random number block again. That's going to DeLo again, there you go, spot zero. I don't know why I said Astros. And I think Red's out of 49, I think. Spencer Dinwiddie, Modern Marks for the Dallas Mavericks, going to Oren. And then a little veteran patch autograph, 10 out of 49, Grant Hill, Pistons, three color patch as well. That's zero Detroit R&B, going to Brian Frank. All right, last one here, folks. Picketing number four is also put into an R&B. We're technically going to do that tonight, if you guys want as well. All right, Jalen Suggs to 49, and we got Robert Williams to 99, Boston Celtics, Chung. And then Orlando Jalen Suggs. These actually sell pretty well too, guys, since these are rookies. Orlando is Detroit R&B, six, Anthony. And we got a two of three, look at those patches. Patrick Ewing for the New York Knicks, going to Ed. There you go, man. Plus 75th anniversary team patch. Got another redemption, and it's a Brook Lopez shadow box signatures. And I was just, this was so funny, because Brook Lopez was like my redemption in a couple of boxes, and I'm like, why the hell is Brook Lopez cannot sign? I was like, I get it. I need a chap now, Ryan. Did anyone with Milwaukee? But whatever. I guess he could be a busy man. Milwaukee Bucks is part of the R&B. That's a zero. Or actually, it should be Milwaukee, right? Let me double check, I guess, just to be safe. Sometimes they put older teams, older players. This was shadow box. Yeah, some Milwaukee Bucks. All right, and then zero is Brian Frank. Oh, do they really? The out of three patches? Nice. All right, we got A, John Collins, three out of 10 shadow box. On card. That's Atlanta Hawks R&B. Three is Gregory. And then last one is Alperin Sengun. 77 out of 99. Houston Rockets, spot seven, which is D low. C&C, we don't give away anything, man. Everything has to be purchased. If we do any giveaways, it's usually you buy something, then you get a chance to win something. All right, guys, when there you go, guys. Pretty nice one here, right? R&B cleaned up. Christopher RPA, Scotty Barnes RPA. Out of five. Look at that jumbo Scotty Barnes patch there. R&B on this side didn't do too bad either. Got some hits here as well. Franz Wagner. And then straight up, team-wise, the nice one out of three right there. Got some jumbo patches there. Puku, some Zyra Williams. Bradley Beale, a little 101 there. And it's got to do one randomizer here, though. Dave Young Mitchell, Zyra Williams randomizer. So again, if it goes to the Sacramento Kings, it's going to go to the R&B, which is spot nine, which would go to Craig. If it goes to the Memphis Grizzlies, it goes to D low. Roll, five out of three, eight times. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Eight times, eight times. Kings win that randomizer actually. So there you go, Sacramento Kings. So that's going to go to the R&B team. So there you go, folks. Thank you guys so much. Coming up next is some R&Bs with Impeccable after that. And then hopefully by then we got some other breaks sold out. That's JasperCaseBrace.com.


I don't see any problems with today's meeting with Pan-Asia properties. We've got a pretty good relationship with them, and I'm confident. That's great, but we do need to negotiate for specific measures. And they are the length of the tenancy our company wants, the rents we can afford, the opening hours of our food plaza, and the types of tenants we want. Have you done any preparation and thought about how we can negotiate with Pan-Asia? Well, not much. You see, I don't know exactly what they'll say, but I have some figures at hand, and I think that's enough. Don't worry. Yes, I have those figures as well, but I don't think that's good enough. I've also thought about our objectives, what we must get, our bottom line, what concessions we can afford to make, our anticipation, what Pan-Asia will accept and what they won't. A language in rapport. I mean, the language we should use and how we maintain a good relationship with Pan-Asia. Well, yeah, yeah, let's be flexible anyway, and I guarantee no problem for sure. Fingers crossed. Hi, Jeff. Hi. So, hopefully we can get a good deal today, and a reliable company will set up business in our premises. Three companies are interested in the second floor of our Sea Breeze complex in Saikung. This afternoon, we're meeting Blandon. Now, we've done some business with them before. A pretty happy experience, as I recall. We're meeting their representatives, Ella and Luke, this afternoon. I hope they'll be cooperative enough, I mean, ideally, by accepting all our terms. As the finance manager, I particularly hope Blandon will accept our rent and the length of tenancy. As you can see, these are the figures, and this is really our bottom line. Yes, and besides rent and tenancy length, I hope they'll also accept our suggested opening hours for the food plaza and the types of tenants that we expect. Anyway, I'm willing to offer them a bit of flexibility and everything could be negotiable, depending on how it goes. Well, I'm starving. Let's grab something for lunch and see what happens this afternoon. Jan, see you at two? All right, see you then. Hello, I'm John, the business development manager of PanAsia. How do you do? You must be Ella. Yes, nice to meet you both. And you're Luke. Hello, everybody. This is my colleague Jan, the finance manager. I've especially invited her to join us today to give us some advice. Hello, welcome to PanAsia Properties. Have a seat. We're looking at our sea breeze complex at Saikong and the whole second floor is now available for lease. We know your company would like to rent this floor to set up a food plaza. I think that's a great idea. In today's meeting, we'd like to discuss four areas and if we can agree on those areas, you, Landon, will likely get the contract. Well, the four areas are the length of tenancy, the rent, the opening hours and the types of tenancies. I'm sure we can come to a satisfactory arrangement, something that will be mutually beneficial. I hope so too. OK, about the length of tenancy, I think initially we would like to save three years because... I'm afraid we would find it extremely difficult to make an operating profit in such a short period of time. So, what exactly are you saying? How many years would be enough? Would there be any possibility of having a five-year contract instead? We would be very pleased if that could be done. Plus, we think this would also be good for your company as well because... You have a good point there. Sounds reasonable, Jan. I think we can agree to five years, don't you? Yes. How about the rent? What we would expect is... OK, I get your point. But having said that, to ensure a win-win situation, I was wondering if it would be possible to... It's extremely difficult for us to come down on the price, but I can understand the reasons behind your proposal and some of your points appeal to me. I hope you won't mind giving us a couple of days to seriously consider this. No problems at all, and thank you very much for considering our proposals. All right, Luke. You've been pretty quiet so far, but I suppose you must have something to say about the opening hours and the types of tenants. Well, yes I do. The opening hours of the shops in the foot plaza must be from 7am to 11pm because... I must be? Come on! How can you say that? I want all the tenants to be... And I want... And I want...  I think you've got it wrong there. I don't see why we can't do that. Oh dear, mind your language. Sorry, actually my colleague means...  But I don't think you're very smart either. And we do not like... And we cannot accept... So there's nothing to negotiate. Do you expect us to just give you what you want? I don't agree. I don't see the value of that idea. Oh dear, stop it. You're nuts. That's impossible. Impossible? Well, I'm afraid we'll need some time to reconsider the contract. What? Yes, we need more time to consider what you've said, Luke, and think about whether or not we want to sign a contract. Thanks a lot for your time. We hope to hear some good news from you soon. Very strange. It's been a week, but we still haven't heard from Panasia. I really did my very best. Don't you think? Why haven't they got back to us? Any idea, Ella? Well, what do you expect? That attitude of yours. Yes, you did do your best, making big claims about what you wanted, what you thought, what you would accept or not. To be honest, I don't think you did enough preparation. You hadn't thought about our bottom line in the negotiation. You hadn't anticipated what Panasia would accept or what they wouldn't. Didn't you think about the kind of language you should have used when we met with John and Jane? Didn't you see the expressions on their faces?  You didn't care about Polinas at all, did you? Very obviously. It's been a total failure this time. Can't you see? Was that really that bad? Well, still half an hour before two. We'll take a nap first. The opening hours of the shops in the foot plaza must be from 7am to 11pm because... We really hope that the opening hours can be from 7am to 11pm because of... I want all the tenants to be... I want... I want... We would like all the tenants to be... and may I also stress that... and it would be marvelous if we could have... I think you got it wrong there. I don't see why we can't do that. Perhaps I might be wrong, but it would be quite feasible for us to... and about the types of tenants. It would be very stupid to... and about the types of tenants. I think it might be better if we could also consider... We do not like... and we cannot accept... Sorry, we have some reservations about... I don't agree. I don't see the value of that idea. Great, I can't say I'm happy about the idea of... That's impossible. I really have difficulty in seeing how this could work.  I don't think you be a good negotiator. That's impossible. I want you to fail at all times. I want you to fail. I want you to fail. I want you to fail. I want you to fail. I want you to fail.


So, AdLens interface is an adjustable focus computer lens. So you can adjust by turning the dials on either temple to whatever working distance you need. So, up close on a cell phone, intermediate like using a tablet or a further away watching TV. The yellow tint actually helps filter out blue light which is a cause of eye strain. Over 70% of Americans can suffer from digital eye strain so these help reduce that strain on the eyes. Headquarters are based in Oxford but our CEO and some of the vice presidents at the company have an affinity for Boston so that was the logical choice for our US base.


Welcome to FIG's inaugural weekly economic and trading update. My name is Mark Bailey and this is Jessica Russett. So Mark, it's been quite a big week. We've got economic updates. We have got reporting season, quite a bit going on. Will you talk us through it? So a few key points for this week that the markets were following was geopolitical uncertainty in France where we actually had Marine Le Pen's National Front Party gaining in the opinion polls, holding 27% of the primary votes. The other part is at 20%. Still very, very unlikely that you will get elected after the secondary vote. But as we've seen with Brexit and Trump, markets get nervous about that. So that was a key issue for this week. Also we had indications about the Fed and whether they're going to hike in March. Janet Yellen had a couple of meetings in front of the Senate and continued to talk about the regional presidents saying that March is live. Current expectations are around about a 1 in 3% chance that they do hike in March. A bit higher in June. There's various commentators coming out and saying, look, it should be higher than that. I still think we'll get to March and we probably don't see a hike. And then finally as well, domestically, we saw a pretty weak wage growth inflation number again, which again is slightly different to the picture that the RBA is painting of a more upbeat economic outlook domestically. But that wage growth number is certainly not going to make them force them to hike rates in the future. And actual fact, I still think the economic outlook domestically is quite depressing. It's not great and still quite soft. And I think we've still probably got one or two interest rate cuts going down the line this year, which again doesn't help investors chasing yield. You know, the continued search for income is one that's going to be throughout this year. So Jess, in terms of your weak investors still chasing yield, I guess. They're always chasing yield. Especially actually at the moment in that there isn't much paper actually around. There seems to be a bit of scarcity in the market and that's not just for figure as well, that's the institutional market as well. So what we're actually doing to try and counter that is look offshore in the USD space. So the Aussie dollar has actually been quite high. It's actually spiked up over 77 cents again this week again. And as our expectations, we do expect that to actually come off a bit. So this gives an opportunity now to lock in a good rate and get into some USD bonds. So we recently over the past month also added some new high yield USD bonds to our direct bonds list, which is the process of finding bonds that can actually be broken down from $500,000 institutional parcel sizes down to $10,000 parcels and so on. That is probably a bit more digestible by clients to add to their portfolio. And so three bonds in particular that were added was Tallinn, Frontier and Kindred. And what was really good about this is that these were in industries that previously we haven't had a product offering in the USD space. So Frontier is network and communications. Kindred is the healthcare for post-acute care. And we have Tallinn, which is the power generation and electricity company. So they also have shorter maturity dates. So it ranges from 2023 maturity to 2025 between the three of them. So clients that were previously holding maybe longer dated bonds were able to switch out of those and then shorten their duration on their overall portfolio by moving into these shorter dated bonds which worked out quite nicely. I think maybe in terms of like the week ahead and what I'm going to be looking for. So if you start off offshore, you know, there's the GDP figures coming out and also personal income and personal spending out of the States, which are probably the key ones. And what are they expecting for that? The GDP is around about 2.1% and personal income and spending is 0.3%. And interestingly domestically as well, we have the GDP figures out and the Bloomberg consensus there is for Q4 of 0.7, so year over year of 1.9. So I think the domestic figures are pretty important. Again, setting the RBA in terms of is the economy weak or is it actually starting to show a bit more strength? It's probably the former, but there will be the key statistics this week. And what about yourself? Well, my job's always tough looking for a new offering and new paper especially with the landscape at the moment where it's all quite tough to get your hands on. But we will continue to try and get some USD supply. There's been a couple of bonds this week that we haven't been able to get. Also with earlier in the week was President's Day in the US so we had a public holiday and a lot of the traders we deal with were on leave. So hopefully we'll be able to get some of those tougher names that we were chasing and also in the retail offering as well just trying to see what we can get out there. So we'll continue to search for supply. Alright, thanks Jess. No, thank you Mark. And thank you and we'll see you next week. So tin hats on and enjoy. Thank you.


Think I want to get the steering put together on this boat And I think I'm just going to rebuild the same kind of steering it had before Because it worked really well in the last two years The only maintenance I ever had to do on it was replace the strings a couple times This is that shaft that rotated that went the whole length of the boat and It's got some nice Bearings on it. I'll probably still use this everything works. Well, however Originally it went all the way to the front of the boat, but now this is going to be all open So it only has to go to there. So I've got some extra and I think This is the right size to do something Very specific. So I'm gonna cut a chunk All right, that pipe is slightly too thick for what I'm doing. However This one looks like the perfect thing Some on the boat might be silicone The replacement for this whole thing So I need these four things Attached to this in some way that it's not going to interfere with the smooth surface on the inside and what I've done previously in the situation is I'll put rivets through from the inside Now the rivet head would get in the way so I countersink them a little bit So they're flush with the surface and this Blue stuff is thick enough that I can sink a rivet in there and it still has enough to grab on to to work well, so I think I'll Figure out some way to attach all this stuff with rivets Unless I have some countersink bolts around We could always grind the heads of the bolts to make countersink bolts Although if I do that, I'm afraid there's not going to be enough material here. However, I could Put that piece on there Do my little rivet trick a bunch of times so that that piece is held in really well Could also glue it but I think a mechanical join will be better and then there will be enough material there to countersink bolts For all these four things These are all attached by bolts originally Well, I probably want to change these arms still attaching them by bolts will be nice And yeah attaching these by the same basically the same bolt Would be great. All right. I think that's what we're gonna do that'll be That'll be really simple As long as I can get it to work right I happen to have some Forstner bits They'll make a nice flat countersink for some rivets. I think that should be countersunk enough Yeah, those are Looking pretty good It should be fine So little nubs sticking up might have to file some of those off All right, that should hold this piece in place pretty well Enough that I can get some screws in there. I don't have any countersunk countersink bolts around So I just cut the top off this one with an angle grinder to make it thinner and I think that'll be fine Looks like the head Slot there. Yeah All right Looks perfect. Oh amazing. Oh beauty. These guys are looking good. These are my arms for this before I think I might want to switch them to something stainless steel Maybe maybe I'll go put this in place Make sure it actually fits. Oh, I hope it fits And then you're here a bit and get this a little bit tighter It's perfectly right there. There's just a spot. Oh Wait, yeah, right over here. It's a little snug So It's just a spot where I had fiberglass here and they're connected so it's extra thick Sand that off a little bit Bit of grease on there lithium grease Whoa, that is slidey There's a way more slidey than it needs to be Perfect. From there the pulleys will pull this sideways They won't tip back They could tip forward. I might have to I might have to put something so it doesn't tip forward, but I'm not gonna worry about that until it becomes a problem shouldn't be a serious thing. That's just Like it's a bolt something on here that comes around. Yeah, I just hold it up. Maybe I should just do that. Whatever. I'll leave it See if it actually is a problem When I use it Um Now what do I do to connect this to this guy over here? Something Well, I might just do a stainless steel rod going straight from one to the other. Okay. What I had before Let me just check that this is actually in What I had before on the other one Was I had the plastic the pvc pipe attached to here another pvc pipe attached to here And I could pull them apart so that when I pulled the motors out of the water It didn't mess up the thing, you know Pull that up whatever that also has that string you can pull. It doesn't work. Um It would be nice if I could just have a steel rod like a stainless steel pipe Going from here straight to here But then what happens when I want to disconnect it and pull this up I need somewhere for that rod to go so say it's connected here. I disconnect this end Do I just like I don't know I can have the connection more flexible So that this could just go up and stay connected You know what I feel I kind of feel like I should just Try putting a stainless steel pipe directly from here to there just one piece of pipe two holes Screw it permanently on. Well, actually maybe maybe that's what I do Maybe I make the temporary connection at this end So when I pull the the motor or the the rudder up I can Take the pipe off here and I don't put it up somewhere I don't know. Let me just I'm just going to try making a straight pipe here with the two holes in it And then then I don't know Okay pipe It's just uh like a half inch Worthen 12 millimeter. I don't know. It's either a half inch or 12 millimeter height Stainless steel pipe looks like it fits I need a bolt Oh, come on Oh deeper That will work just like that falls forward a little whatever it still works So what do I do about pulling up the motor? And the rudder well, I can pull it up enough to get it out of the water without it messing anything up So maybe maybe I just Put the nuts on those loose And just leave it connected all the time I think that might actually be all right. Yeah, I guess that's a good thing that takes that way All right, this is maybe working out pretty well. Oh, did I forget a nut? Oh, I can't breathe it All right, got all my nuts on there. That is beautiful Oh, nice work man. This is going really well if you're with anything rudders out of the water I guess I can Attach my little pulleys up here Although I don't think I need so many pulleys. You know, I had Two pulleys here and I know two or three pulleys up here to make a block and tackle So I could pull a string at the top and easily be able to lift a heavy motor All right me camera battery died there Uh, I didn't stop working while I was charging it and I got this silly thing in there And it turns the steering wheel and the steering wheel turns it. I obviously need to trim this off You know, I'll take this little collar and slide it up next to here to trim it off And I'll have to put a collar on the back too Just to keep that whole thing from moving and amount of the steering wheel Yeah, while the camera was dead. I did a lot of stuff so I got bolts going through there into this and then bolts up there and then These I had to modify slightly but now they're connected up there And that makes the entire steering thing nice and sturdy and I also got the string up in the back. I'll show you in a second, but here. Okay, click in Turn Turn either direction Turn a lot Spin that propeller Not propeller. Is that called steering wheel? Yeah, okay turn it the other way now A lot keep going keep going Yeah Keep going man, keep going All right, hopefully this is turning the right way when I turn to the right that should turn Dude move move. Don't grab that while it's going. Yep, right direction. Good. I connected the uh Connected the strings correctly. I love this. Oh man. All right, so So this car can't get back up. No, no, don't grab everything you need to get your fingers pinched so this connects to this blue thing which moves from a string That's connected there to the frame then comes through this pulley And then goes through a pulley there through a pulley there Up to a pulley there and across and wraps around this so that when When the steering wheel Turns that string which goes up and turns this goofy looking Pully it rotates this entire steering column, right? And that turns this Which also goes down to the other side with the exact same thing down to there Over to there to there and then back connected And I gotta say this is this is my favorite steering I've ever had on a boat Oh, I love it So I'm thinking one person can sit here pedal or sit there both people can reach the steering wheel And uh, even you and one of my favorite things about this is that It turns so many times You know when I originally designed this I wanted to be able to to do that Yeah, I've just been like half a dozen times around To get it to go all the way one way or the other because it seems like a piratey thing to be able to do Hard to starboard. Yeah, that's starboard. Oh, I actually got it right hard to port Oh, I love this thing. Oh, it's a best steering wheel ever You want to do some steering? Make sure you keep your fingers out of there. Yeah, you can do some steering So now that I have pedals Pedals and I'm steering so I can actually move this boat. I could drive it somewhere right now Well, we can't actually go anywhere. We're tied up to the lens I also don't have a chair We don't have much we only have like this much space we can move because we're tired Well, let's go make dinner


have you ever watched one of the movies that come out and you're looking at the lead action star and you're wondering how he went from being so scrawny to so big in apparently such a short period of time like if you look at Thor and you look at the people in 300 and you're sitting there wondering like why do I have such scrawny biceps how did they go from being that to that well in this video let's talk about five case studies from the big screens and how these guys in particular ended up gaining weight so quickly what's up guys alex hyan here author of the book master the day all right so case study number one is gerard butler in the movie 300 i mean just look at the before and the after picture it looks pretty dramatic but as you'll soon see this is actually probably the least dramatic body transformation i'm gonna feature here today so let's look at the obvious factors here in this picture number one gerard butler did not gain that much weight all right he didn't gain like 30 40 50 pounds like some of these guys did and he mostly actually just cut so he cut a lot of weight there was makeup used in the movie to even highlight the shadows on people's abs and he got pumped up before a lot of the fight scenes where he had to be you know the charismatic muscular dude now there's even a saying in the fitness community that losing fat or getting cut appears to add 20 pounds of muscle now this is kind of like an anecdotal thing but you can take the guy the same weight a person at the same weight male or female when they lose body fat the definition itself can make a person look incredible this second case study here is chris hemsworth in the movie thor now obviously before he looked like this he wasn't a thin dude but he was an average body weight and after he was truly massive like this is a big dramatic transformation where chris actually gained a lot of weight for this role now here's a direct quote from an interview with him on how he bulked up when he said i feel as if i've been busy but all i've been doing is eating all day eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting so number one we know he was eating kind of like a bodybuilding type meal plan which was every two to three hours typically rice broccoli and chicken his workouts on the other hand were typical also bodybuilding splits so for example on monday he'd do chest for six to twelve sets tuesday back wednesday arms thursday legs and then friday shoulders and abs so for chris hemsworth it was hammering down tons of food and typical bodybuilding splits now what about mark wallberg in the movie pain and gain so mark wallberg first of all was already a weightlifter he's already a big dude that obviously stays consistent in the gym you can see between movies he's already fit and he stays pretty big now he got a lot bigger for the movie pain and gain and this is a direct quote from what he was doing in an interview with e online he said i was eating 10 meals a day and drinking mass gainers i was even drinking my own and i created this line of supplements with the retail chain gnc it was a lot of work there was even a lot of getting up at two in the morning to eat another meal and i was still full from the meal at 10 o'clock now what about his workouts on the other hand the workouts very much resembled chris's bodybuilding splits where on monday he would do biceps legs and back on tuesday triceps chest and shoulders wednesday biceps and legs thursday and friday off and then saturday and sunday biceps legs back and triceps chest shoulders so his secret was hammering down a disgusting amount of food as well as typical bodybuilding splits and a lot of volume tom hardy is a bit of a different transformation before he wasn't necessarily that fit he was just kind of like a normal body weight-looking guy not that muscular for bane he had to gain the weight in a short period of time so what we see that's different here is that he also gained a lot of fat now with bane bane's character is kind of in the shadows a lot and the way he's done he's not like a super ripped villain but he's just a big dude and in an interview tom hardy said for the movie bronson i put on about seven pounds a week with no steroids in the end i'd put on about two and a half stone by eating chicken and rice which was my staple diet throughout the day then i'd have pizza hagan das and coca cola so not good stuff but i had to put the weight on now even though tom hardy's transformation is dramatic the difference here is that compared to the other people i featured he's a lot less cut and a lot less ripped so you can tell he was a short period of time and there was probably a lot more junk and a lot of excess calories in order to get there now the fifth transformation here is christian bail going from the movie the machinist all the way to batman now what was so dramatic here is that he lost a crazy amount of weight to look like this in the movie the machinist and then in under a year i think he had to play batman and he had to gain over 109 pounds now this is interesting for a couple reasons first of all he still looks pretty good big and he still looks cut there's not a lot of body fat there and in an interview this is what he said the director Christopher Nolan asked me to try and put on as much weight as i could because he would find it very difficult to convince the studio to cast me if i was a beanpole in doing so i overdid it because i was enjoying gorging i was ignoring advice about taking it slowly because my stomach had shrunk from the role in the machinist and i should just go with soups but i went straight into pizza and ice cream and eating five meals in a sitting my stomach expanded really quickly i got very sick during that time but i enjoyed getting sick i didn't mind it at all in that short amount of time i actually did go from 121 pounds right back up to 180 pounds which is way too fast so that resulted in some doctor visits to get things sorted out so how did he actually do this well one of the things was that he regained the weight he already had so look at his role in the movie equilibrium two years before he was already a pretty big dude and fairly cut so going down to the machinist he wasn't really gaining 109 pounds of muscle your body pretty quickly can come back to its normal weight so christian bale in one sense wasn't gaining that muscle he was regaining almost his default or where he had been before still as impressive as hell that is a look at how some celebrities have gained weight in a short period of time now what about for you i want to know what's been the challenge for you to get to your ideal physique leave a comment right there below because i want to hear what's up guys i hope you like that video now the best way to stay in touch is come grab the free seven-day personal development and fitness weight loss challenge either on modern health monk dot com forward slash youtube or in the 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