What is the Septuagint and why do we have it? Is it important? It's a question that some people have never really thought about. Some have, they've heard about it, but aren't really sure what it is, why we use it, how it came about, and if indeed is important. When we look at the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, we get our understanding from two really two different texts. The Hebrew text, which has been commonly called the Masoretic text, which is really basically a copying by the Jews later to go back and add the Vow Markings, because originally Hebrew does not have Vow Markings, and so the Masorites would go and add the little Vow Markings to give us an indication, give us an understanding as to what these words are, how they're pronounced. So now the next question is, or the next thing is, what is the Septuagint? The Septuagint is the Greek translation of the Hebrew text. Well, why is that important? Well, for a couple of reasons. Recall, the Jews, because of their disobedience, were taking into captivity, and after a while, you know how it is, even here in America or anywhere else in the world, whenever someone is taken into captivity, the people who were taken into captivity begin to speak the language of their captors. Now, as time goes on, the language of the region, or what we call the lingua franca, becomes Greek. Most of the people in the region spoke Greek, various different dialects, and that doesn't mean that other people didn't speak other languages, such as Hebrew, such as Aramaic, such as Arabic. They did. There are other languages spoken as well, but in that region, the dominant language was Greek. It does not mean that they had a Greek culture or a Greek way of thinking, a philosophy, if you will, no, it's just the language. Just like here in America, we speak English. We're not English men. In Mexico, they speak Spanish. They're not Spaniards. Same thing with those in that region. They were still Jewish and had a Jewish culture, but spoke Greek for the most part. Now, the Septuagint is a product of the library in Alexandria needing or wanting the Hebrew passages in Greek, because again, the majority of people are speaking Greek, and so it was commissioned by King Ptolemy II, and it's told that there are 72 Jewish scholars who would go and translate it from the Hebrew text into Greek. Now, that's also where we get the term LXX, which means 17, so the 72 was just simply rounded down to 70. And the first five books were the ones that were translated first. Other Jewish scholars would give their approval to say that, yes, this was a good translation. Now, obviously, it's hard to translate word for word, going from Hebrew to English or Greek to English or from Hebrew to Greek, and so they would do the best that they could. However, one of the things that they would also try to capture in the Septuagint is the thought to try to get the entire idea. And so you would see that often cases born out in when these idioms are put out, these Hebrew idioms. Well, you could not translate the Hebrew idioms into Greek because it would make no sense. And so that's where a thought of what the point of the passage is. That's what that would be brought out. The beginning to the end of this translation took from approximately the middle of the second century towards the end of second century BC. And what we have is all of what we have in our normal Old Testament, but they also translated some of the Apocrypha books as well into Greek. So why is this important? Well, obviously, the Hebrew text is the superior text. It's the one where we get our leading from. It's the one where we get our greatest understanding. The problem is though sometimes though, because they may be speaking in an idiom or something like that, sometimes the Greek Septuagint gives us a little bit of a light shade. It is not to take place or supplant the importance of the Hebrew Old Testament. No, but what it does is it shows us how these Greek speaking Jews may have read or understood or interpreted the text as well. Now, if you think about it, when the Bible says when Paul makes his quote in Galatians four, he says that at the right time God sent his son, is that because of Greek being the lingua franca? Because now we've got the New Testament being written in Greek. We've got these people who are by and large Greek speakers in that particular region. Even Rome. Rome was predominantly Greek speaking, even though Latin was the lingua franca in Rome, but the majority of the Roman Empire spoke Greek because that's what the Greek Empire had established before then. And so is it possible, I'm not saying definitively, but is it possible that that's what Paul meant or part of what Paul was getting at, that at the right time God sent his son, why? Because now we've got the Old Testament in Greek and we've got the New Testament in Greek. And so we've got people who are able to read the Old and the New without having to be taught anything. They know Greek, understand Greek, or they can hear it and respond to it. Well, then it's a little bit easier for the language or the scriptures to go from the Old Testament to the New Testament while being unbroken. And so thereby allowing people who are hearing it to kind of understand the words and the thought from the Old to the New. That's a possibility that we ought to consider as well. What's interesting though is that there are many people who believe that Jesus spoke Aramaic as well as the apostles during that day, either Aramaic or Hebrew. The problem with that is, and I'm not saying they did not, but the problem with that is we don't have New Testament passages that date earlier than the Greek passages. We don't have any New Testament passages in either an Aramaic or Hebrew. Now, it's not to say that no one spoke Aramaic or Hebrew in that region or at all. They did, but in that region again the lingua franca was Greek. And so that's why we cannot find any copies of the New Testament in Hebrew or Aramaic except a few centuries later, the Pechetta being one of the earlier examples of an Aramaic text of the New Testament being found. But again, we're talking about a couple hundred years after the Greek New Testament had been written. And so it'd be hard to say that the language that they spoke and wrote was anything other than Greek when we don't find a lot of historical or archaeological discoveries that would state that. What we do find though is we find them speaking and reading and quoting, and that's very important, quoting Greek. And it makes sense because to think that these people who weren't necessarily language scholars would read or write in Hebrew or Aramaic and then turn around and translate it in Greek because all of the writers were not as learned as we would like to think. Now, the reason why I even mentioned this issue of a quote because many of the Old Testament passages, as a matter of fact, the majority of them, I think somewhere between 70-80% of these passages that were quoted from the Old Testament were not quoted in the Hebrew, but they were quoted in the Greek. As a matter of fact, Jesus did so often times as well. I want to give you one example of where Jesus quotes the Old Testament, but he does not quote it in the Hebrew, but he quotes it in the Greek. In Mark 7 verse 6 he says, and he said to them, rightly did Isaiah prophesy to you, hypocrites as it's written. Here it is, he's quoting Isaiah from the Old Testament, but he's quoting it in the Septuagint. He says, this people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, but in vain do they worship me teaching as doctrine, the precepts of men. But now look at the Old Testament, the Hebrew translation. I won't put the Hebrew up because you may not be able to read it, but I'll also have to the right of it. I have the Septuagint translation says, because this people draw near with their words and honor me with their lips service, but they remove their hearts far from me and their reverence of me consists of traditions learned by rote. And this comes directly from the Greek Septuagint, the quotation of the Greek of the Old Testament. Now, it's not that big of a difference, but the point is though they're trying to give you not just the words, but also the thought that's what's happening in the Greek Septuagint. And interestingly enough, Jesus quotes it. So it's not that we can even say that the Greek Septuagint is bad. If it were bad, then we would not have the apostles, disciples, and so forth. We would not even have Jesus quoting from it. What we're going to find out is it's not so much the words verbatim that are important. It's actually the message. God is not necessarily after us quoting his word verbatim, but getting an understanding of this message and then also having that be what governs us. Now, another interesting passage. As a matter of fact, an important passage to look at is Hebrews 10.5, where they quote not the Hebrew Old Testament, but the Greek Old Testament. Because if you see what it says in the Hebrew Old Testament, it doesn't quite make sense to us. Why?  Let's go to that passage and take a look in Hebrews 10.5. He says, therefore, when he comes into the world, he says, sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for me. Now, what we want to do is go and look at what the Hebrew text says and let's see if that sounds like what he's quoting in Hebrews 10.5. Sacrifice and meal offering you have not desired, my ears you have opened, burnt offering and sin offerings you have not required. Well, that's not in Hebrews 10.5. Nothing about ears being opened. Well, what does that mean? Well, it's an idiom. It's an old, it's a Hebrew idiom. And so to quote that verbatim would not make sense to these, this Greek speaking group of Jews. Remember, Hebrew, the book of Hebrews is written to Jews, but they read and understand by and large in Greek. And so to quote it in Hebrew, that idiom probably, matter of fact, more than likely would not make sense. And so to quote it in the Greek, that does make sense. And that conveys the point that even the Hebrew writer is trying to convey. So this is one of the reasons why the Septuagint is important. It does not supplant in terms of rank or desire. It does not, it does not replace the Old Testament Hebrew, but it does give a little bit more clarification in some cases. It does give us an idea of how they read, how they thought, and it gives us in some cases an understanding. Sometimes we can go back and look at a word in the Hebrew that might kind of cause a little confusion. Maybe some scholars may think it means this. Another scholar may think it means that. But then we see what the Jews who spoke Greek, how they translated, if it's sized with one or the other, that could help to clarify an understanding or misunderstanding. Guys, I hope this has been edifying and interesting. I hope this has helped to get an understanding of what the Septuagint is, the beauty of it, the importance of it. Again, the point of God's message is not to say it verbatim, but to get what the message is trying to get across. Amen.


dengeki blue good for creating strangely like blue electricity stealth black good for spying on people in a state of undress and subscribe red good for you to be pushing it and subscribing to the ground line review for regular one piece content uploaded straight into your youtube feed hello and welcome to the ground line review your source for everything one piece and today we are continuing our ongoing exploration into the deeper relationships between the straw hats with this addition focusing on what i honestly believe to be one of the more understated dynamics in the series between the captain and the chef and actually to begin this one i think that we need to take some time to flesh out another key relationship to lay some very important groundwork here and that is the ongoing love story between luffy and food you see luffy is a simple man with supremely basic desires in this world in many ways he's kind of like a dog really three times when he is happiest it's going to be when he is exploring playing or eating and he takes mealtime every bit as serious as a golden retriever and he finishes his food just as quickly as one as well but food is nigh on everything to luffy not only is it one of his greatest pleasures but it gives him this almost magical energy to continue striving towards his goal the link between luffy and food is so profound that it could probably have its own video focusing entirely on that idea but with that in mind let's now consider the extreme importance of a chef in the mind of luffy a chef on this crew is very much luffy's key lifeline without a chef luffy's journey would become an immediate disaster an example of which we actually briefly got to see between the zoe and whole cake island arcs as within a couple of days luffy had managed to poison himself with his quote-unquote cooking and he just wasn't quite complete until sanji had returned to the crew we will get to that whole situation a little bit later but first up it's important to highlight that food is not everything with this relationship in fact it wasn't even the key factor that led luffy to scouting sanji in the first place there were plenty of highly talented chefs on baratier but what really locked luffy and sanji was seeing his sheer kindness towards guine a starving pirate who had rocked up with no money and who was thrown out only to be met with a plate of sanji's trademark seafood fried rice and this was very much something of an ultimate combination of features for luffy someone who was on his level in terms of a moral compass but also an individual who could prepare delicious gnomes and immediately after luffy saw sanji feed guine he made the declaration that he had found his cook and from that moment on whether sanji liked it or not he was destined to become a straw hat although this did also lead to the ever famous luffy refusing sanji's refusal to join the crew but despite the fact that sanji did decline there was only one major obstacle stopping him from saying yes right then and there which was the debt he felt he owed to zeff as opposed to other members of the crew specifically zoronami sanji didn't really have any reservations about becoming a pirate in and of itself i mean he did possess a dislike for them but at the same time he had been practically raised by a pirate in zeff and just about all of his colleagues were former pirates or criminals plus the restaurant he helped build was designed to cater to everyone including pirates so following luffy actually presented sanji with a very natural path after everyone else pushed him into it of course but that doesn't even begin to touch on quite possibly the most important thing that bonds luffy and sanji together which are their dreams now you can say this about most of the straw hats i suppose they all come together with their outrageous sounding dreams and support one another in completing them however with luffy and sanji in particular they have very difficult goals to strive towards ones that aren't say as tangible as others for example zoro wanting to become the world's greatest swordsman an incredibly difficult thing to achieve but something that we did have a tangible metric for you just need to defeat miho and you're done you did it congratulations zoro like nami wanting to draw a map of the world that one's even clearer you just need to literally draw a map of the world and in fact even usub's goal of becoming brave in general is quite easy to measure but with luffy and sanji their goals don't have that endpoint because they were both in search of something that may not necessarily exist becoming the pirate king is a very vague path i mean in theory you just reached laugh tail and then somehow magically you become the king of the pirates it's a very foggy goal especially in these early days when we didn't even know if laugh tail actually existed and that is very similar to the goal of finding the old blue because as far as we know it is a mythical existence i may narratively we as readers can assume that it does or will exist but in this world the dreams of sanji and luffy seem actively impossible to achieve compared to that of most of the rest of the crew and that creates a pretty immediate bond because of everyone in the straw hats these are going to be the two that get told their desires are ridiculous and impossible the most so while luffy and sanji exist with extraordinarily different personalities they immediately understood each other on that all important base level and not only that but it also creates near instantaneous respect for one another given that they are both so willing not only to break but to completely shatter the expectations of globalized society and that makes them an incredibly fearsome combination two wildly powerful figures each fighting for the benefit of one another with that said they do of course have some pretty grand differences on a more superficial standing one of the most fun is that sanji realizes that luffy is you know not the sharpest of rubber knives and in fact he will frequently state quite blatantly actually that luffy is an idiot but never in a particularly like negative way if that makes sense which isn't to say that sanji is complimenting luffy but there's always this aura of the unsaid surrounding sanji with these statements it's very much like saying yeah my captain is a moron but that's exactly what i love about him sanji very much appreciates luffy's simplicity and openness which sometimes results in saying dumb things or performing stupid actions but that is preferable to sanji in comparison to the more status quo mentality of the world and in regards to this sanji is almost never shocked by any decision that luffy makes at least not in the same way that luffy has the ability to shock say nami with very dangerous and seemingly not at all well thought out courses of action whereas sanji is a lot more like zoro he sees luffy's intentions and just accepts that as his own course of action although unlike zoro he doesn't just jump blindly into combat with luffy and this is where sanji probably displays one of his more important enhancements within this dynamic because luffy is the kind of man who suffers from some pretty extreme tunnel vision he will be driven by a singular focus no matter how great or small which means that he very much neglects the greater world around him sanji on the other hand tends to see the bigger picture of any given situation and while luffy is away causing chaos in that charming luffy way he does sanji quite often uses his head a bit more to make the situation in question much more favorable to luffy and the rest of the crew and i think one of the greater examples of this occurred during the anise lobby arc when whilst everyone else was facing off against a large legion of marines sanji instead chose to find a way to close the gates of justice which is the act that would inevitably allow the straw hats to escape this ordeal alive and this just shows a kind of initiative and brought a utility that many straw hats don't quite have because they like luffy tend to focus on the more immediate issues at hand and the interesting thing is that a lot of this is just subconscious sanji operating as well like there are countless examples of him acting counter to luffy and the rest of the crew like when he boarded the sea train or found mr threese hideout on little garden or focusing on destroying elzark maxim on skypeer sanji is responsible for a lot of game changing actions within the series and he works in perfect balance with luffy who acts as the loud powerful distraction whilst sanji vanishes and accomplishes some incredible feat speaking of incredible feat though another great advantage sanji has is that he can also act as a powerful combatant alongside luffy which does give sanji quite possibly the most utility amongst the straw hats because he is a character capable of raw demolition as well as great intelligence and while he's not the strongest or smartest member of the crew the ability to seamlessly bounce between both worlds is 100% integral to luffy's success in most major arcs and as a result of this i really cannot overstate just how much trust luffy invests into sanji so luffy sanji is a pretty incredible being who can do an absurd array of really finicky cool things that luffy could never even dream of but at the same time luffy can also trust sanji to protect the rest of the crew as well because he has that innate power and in this way sanji very much acts as the tertiary captain of the straw hats i say tertiary because zoro is the natural second in command which i explored in his video but that isn't to take anything away from sanji because when situations become extraordinarily desperate he is more than capable of stepping into that role of leadership in luffy's stead the situation which immediately comes to mind being dressed rosa when the crew decided to split up and luffy giving sanji permission to act against the big mum pirates as well as lead half of the crew to zoe and while i'm certain luffy would do this with any other crew member because he trusts the entirety of the straw hats there was definitely a supreme sense of comfort and confidence in this particular situation because sanji was in position to be the temporary leader of this faction that factor alone meant that luffy could give his undivided attention to the chaos on dress rosa and not worry about the rest of his crew because there would sanji and being with sanji automatically means that they will be fine that is a pretty incredible degree of trust right there but that does of course lead us to the major conflict that has occurred between the captain and the chef which happened on whole cake island after sanji had been blackmailed to leave the crew now it's very rare that straw hat members face off against each other in a non-comical sense and there was something very heartbreaking about this instance in particular and that's because this wasn't a situation like luffy versus usa where two people were fighting over differing ideals or luffy versus zoro which was fighting over a misconception in this case sanji was actively fighting against luffy in order to protect luffy and i suppose fight is a very liberal way of putting it because luffy didn't actually make any physical attempt to strike sanji he just stood there and took his various blows but the actual fight was confined to the mental realm due to the extreme pressure being directed at sanji he was putting on an act saying that he had never believed in luffy and had been looking down on him this entire time and etc i say etc because luffy didn't believe any of it neither did we and when everything was said and done luffy was a relentless iron war breaking sanji's facade and blatantly calling him out as a liar which worked and sanji was forced to face the truth which became even more clear after the revelation that charlotte pudding was also a lie but the truly touching moment of this whole exchange was when luffy admitted that he would be unable to become the pirate king without sanji and not just because he was the chef but because of everything that sanji represents which we've already gone over luffy saw sanji retreating and in response he said that he would just sit there and starve because in his mind there was no point in even trying to continue his journey to become the pirate king without sanji and that's kind of incredible actually because luffy has never made such a statement like that about any other crew member and even though i have no doubt that he feels yeah the same way about everyone else it was still really powerful to hear that out loud because most of one piece consists of the straw hats making sacrifices and bold claims regarding luffy so to see that happening in the other direction was really quite something and eventually luffy would break through to sanji properly with a trademark punch in the face hole and as soon as sanji revealed his true feelings about wanting to go back to the crew well it was another one of those moments where all of a sudden everything was okay luffy reacted with a smile resolved crash wedding and take on an emperor of the sea all for the sake of taking sanji back and this ultimately leads us to the best part of this relationship which was explored in hall cake island because when everything was said and done or almost said and done they had an encounter with sanji's biological father finn smoke judge who proceeded to berate sanji stating that he had no royal pride his mentality was too soft too easily swayed by emotions etc and luffy just responds by being genuinely curious as to why judge is listing all of sanji's best qualities which is a scene that was played for comedy but i actually think it's one of the most telling moments in regards to this entire dynamic especially because it mirrors sanji's thoughts about luffy he willingly admits that luffy is an idiot but that quality which is seen by many others as highly detrimental is something that sanji truly values just as how luffy truly values all of those sanji features that judge despised and that brings us to the very modern day where luffy and sanji are both proceeding fairly smoothly along the path of their highly impossible dreams sanji providing luffy with the energy utility and that extra boost of power he needs whilst luffy continues to lead sanji to greater and greater heights and more importantly ever closer to the all blue because that is the dynamic of the captain and the chef but what do you guys think please do leave your thoughts in the comments below or even join my discord server and if you'd like to see more videos like this then please do go and check out some of my other content or even subscribe to the channel for more glorious one piece business uploaded straight into your youtube feeds but for now this 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all right what's new new all right we've got I see this in like little toys and stuff it's a double CR 2032 battery holder but it's like like a pancake style it's top to bottom we have one that's side to side style and I thought it would be kind of cool to have this I'll just show on the overhead real fast because I want to show how it's put together okay so oh my goodness this is out here so I have it here I'm just showing it's powering this LED it has a nice on-off switch this pops open and then you can see it holds two coin cell batteries so again it's it's like if you want something that's pancake style this works quite well I like how they're it's a very pokey outie switch so you can't miss it I see a lot in like little toys and games and stuff it just comes with bare wires I soldered them on to this LED but handy if you want you know a very small coin cell battery holder that can power your six volt project next all right more of these next up more of these so these are adorable little silicone nubules that stick into your ports to keep them dust-free we have construction going on so actually my ports are getting dusty so we have them in USB A and here is USB C so these fit into the ports so USB A USB C goes into ports as shown here and then HDMI so if you have a computer with HDMI or maybe you have a Raspberry Pi with HDMI soft them in they come in packs of 10 each they're soft silicone rubbery they work quite well and I'm kind of into them so yeah first of just like am I going a little too far and then turns out I wasn't going far enough okay next up okay next up we've got some terminal block breakouts for the Raspberry Pi Pico if you have a Pico you're probably like a while when uses for industrial uses you want to connect this up to a din rail so you've got two terminal block setups this one is kind of like the narrow thin version let me grab it and I'll show it off because there's there's stuff on the sides here okay so Raspberry Pi Pico of course plugs in like so you can see the USB over here and then if you wanted to solder in the headers for the debug port you can do that as well and then it comes this PCB comes fully assembled and then every terminal block has a nice label showing you it's one by one right so it's like each pin matches up with the pin on the Pico there's a lot of grounds and then you've got all the power pins over here more GPIO over there everything nicely labeled and then you can mount this onto a din rail or onto an enclosure because it's got this nice kind of din raily it's it's din rail looking but it's actually not it doesn't have the the sliders for a din rail but you could probably get the sliders and add it on or you can just mount it using these two little ears over here next up okay next up similar but not quite the same this one is a terminal block breakout but it's like side to side mode instead of like long mode I don't know how to say this but these are much bigger terminal blocks Pico still plugs in on the top here and then you've got these 45 degree terminal blocks the wires go in from the side and you screw them down everything is again labeled one by one this would be better for thicker wires I think it's you know it's a bigger construction it doesn't come with the nice plastic bottom right so you this is for direct usage there are some mounting holes but you know people are always like hey I just want to plug it in and terminal block connect something for a robot or industrial use these two do the job quite nice okay next up is a blue tooth clock that's why the code was BT clock okay so here it is bluetooth clock let's go to the overhead so maybe it'll change over while I'm talking about it yep okay so this is a bluetooth bluetooth ink clock it is not like a full pixel display as a segmented display so in case you're like can I have a display anything I want to hack it no like you're not going to have a display anything more than what you see here it has a kind of a generic bluetooth chipset inside it has an ink display that updates once a minute so hopefully in the next few seconds it'll update and it also has humidity so here is the humidity and percentage and temperature it's in centigrade right now but you can change it to Celsius this little happy face just says hey you know that it's good humidity good temperature for humans I don't have a human face the reason we're stalking this is that even though you can't we program this oh there you go it's just changed you saw that was a change that was a partial update because it only updated two segments and then if we wait another minute it will update the whole display so if it's cool we'll hang out here inside it is emitting the time I think definitely the humidity and temperature over bluetooth as like data signals and so a lot of people who have an ESP 32 using home assistant or even using our code with Blinka or circuit playground you can read the temperature and humidity that's being sent from this board as a as on your bluetooth controller so it acts as a peripheral and it's like it's not an advertisement you you would connect to it you can read the data but it's a very nice like all-in-one not only like a clock that runs for quite a long time but as a sensor node so we have the little mini sensor notes that we stopped now we just have the larger one that's also a nice ink clock I'll say the only thing that's a little annoying I guess we'll just update I think it's all annoying is it if you want to and then when does an hour it actually does the full screen clean so you saw that to set the time you have to use a computer there's an app but the app only runs in China and then if you put your app in China mode if you if you set your region of China then the time zone is wrong basically we link to a web bluetooth application that you can use you just connect to it use Chrome because that has web bluetooth connect to it and then you set the time for your browser you only have to do it once okay the ink clock okay this is a really easy it's just two double-sided foam pieces we include these in a lot of kits and once in a while people are like I need more of these phones or I didn't get the phones or I lost my phones we now just have the Mizzatupak a phone okay and last up it starts show tonight besides you lady to our community our team yeah one second sorry our customers I drop I drop things yeah you you're just like goodbye trinky I just threw it off it is the ate a fruit keycap custom keycap limited edition we were not gonna probably do these forever it's coming soon sign up we don't put our logo on anything it's just one of the things that we decided to do when we do something yeah we put on circuit boards so this is something special and I think people will enjoy it because what they'll do is I'll put this keycap on their computer and they'll set it up to go to the aid fruit site or maybe our YouTube channel or whatever so let's take a look at the world premiere of the effort you got okay all right so yes I found a service that will make a custom keycap and the way this works is actually if you look it's a translucent plastic keycap and then has a thin opaque black coating that's then etched away right so you can kind of see that you can see the reverse on the bottom so the only thing is obviously keys don't have the LED's in the center although we're looking at trying to find it a key that does have an LED that can admit to the center in general they emit from the top north side or south side whatever they're they're from the side so it's just something to watch for we etched these come in our for styling so they're kind of used for like escape keys or like if you want to have a function key so we kind of recommend that you put it so that the angle makes it so it's towards the LED it's not going to be fully lit you can see it's a little shadowed but it still looks really good and also that I didn't want to have it only in the top because sometimes people have south keys and some people on east or west so basically you know you don't work okay even if it's you know on the opposite side of the LED it just won't glow as much but it's still it still definitely glows through so we are starting with a custom keycap and then stay tuned because we're going to get more custom keycaps but I like these because they work great with our Neo keys I have it here on a Neo key trinket because it's just an easy way to have one key glow but of course this works on any keyboard with a cherry MX cross so it's a very very very common key type chances are if you have a mechanical keyboard pop one of the keys off of it has a cross section then you can use this key and that's all the custom products


that over-emphasis on self-esteem teaching in the United States cuts Jesus away because it's all about your self being esteemed. Jesus' view is not esteeming your flesh. It's killing it. Jesus' view is not your self image. That's your problem. That's my problem in the first place. You're dead to the law. You're dead to sin so that Jesus can take the place. It's almost like God says, I don't trust you anymore. I can only trust my son. Can you please make room for Jesus?  I'm too weak. Oh, but I can't squeeze smoking. But you don't understand. I am very mean as a person. Jesus, I have so many problems. Jesus says, I can handle the problem. I'm really good at that if you don't know. What I cannot handle is if you don't give me room to work.


Alright, in this video we're going to show you how to replace the keypad on a Manitowoc ice machine. In a previous video I showed you that we found it to be defective so we went ahead and ordered the keypad itself. We're going to remove these two screws and this ribbon cable here and then we're going to basically transplant the electronics into the other keypad housing. Pretty self-explanatory as you can see. It just hooks at the very top. There's really nothing much to this and I haven't had any of these go bad yet. Generally when it's under warranty the factory will only give you the keypad and I haven't had them provided as a whole. I know I was asked that question once before so I'll go ahead and address that now. After attaching the two screws as you may figure like I said we'll attach the ribbon cable, snap that into place, then we'll put the back on. The back pretty much is nothing special. It does have a little bit of a silicone seal around the outside edge corners. It helps keep any moisture out of the keypad area as far as the control board but it by no means is it waterproof. From my experience the keys have been damaged from pressing them too hard with objects other than what they were designed for such as a normal finger tip. So we're going to go ahead and just reattach it to the wiring harness here. Date the back as you can see it's been a few days ago. I don't know up from down so once we get that into place head over to the breaker box. The breaker was defective. It was only wanting to reset on one leg of power. So we've got a new breaker in place already. We're going to go ahead and flip that on and then we're going to go ahead and check our power up. As we get over to the machine you're going to notice that we have a little bit of an error here. They're false codes.  It clears it right out. As you also may remember we went in and cleared the history before we left. So we're going to go down there and check the history once again and you're going to see that the error that you just seen now was also on the same date that we were doing the work. So here it is 127 at 154 and on my watch there says 127 153. So they're within a couple minutes of each other which reassures me that it's not a new problem and it's just something from the power up. So we're going to go ahead and clear the air log again. We're going to double check our temperatures and then we had to replace this water shield that you see with a new one. I'm going to go ahead and snap that thing back into place. Nothing special here. It just hooks in the bottom and top corners if you have both hands handy. It's pretty much simple and self-explanatory as I mentioned before but in this case here we're putting in one at a time. Now in the past I've had a few issues where these trigger mechanisms here if we get the exact name of it but basically this thing can bow. Sometimes it'll get hung up and they won't retract and the machine will lock out on been full. Here everything looks good. Our temperature drop across the coil looks pretty much in line for as quickly as we've just started the machine and everything looks pretty good. This here is an example of what the keypad actually looks like underneath of the cover. I went ahead and destroyed this one knowing that it wasn't needed back for a warranty claim but what we're pointing out here is the button that's the power key right here. You can see it smashed down. It's completely bent in the middle there and you can see the edge corners. Now here on the right-hand side is an example of what it should look like. There's where it shouldn't look like. So this top right button is not in there as important as the left button and let's just say for example this was a weekend call Friday what have you they're extremely busy you don't have a keypad to get them by the machine doesn't want to run you can literally pull that keypad apart take a heat gun heat up the faceplate of it peel back the cover pop off the crappy button put the button that's good over from the right-hand side and then put it into that place push it back down and get the machine back up and running. This is by no means a permanent fix or anything like that but it does give you a chance possibly to be a hero until you can get the replacement part ordered and get back and get the machine properly repaired. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all my subscribers for watching the video and if you haven't subscribed yet please consider subscribing until next time everybody we'll catch you on the next one


Yeah, so I heard our CEO, Mary Bara, a few months ago give a quote that I thought was really appropriate, not only for General Motors, but really for the whole automotive industry.  And I thought her answer was really thought-provoking and inspiring.  And we all scratched our heads and puzzled on that, and she said, well, I run a technology company. So I think that's really appropriate, and that's why I'm here today in Geneva. General Motors has a number of strategic initiatives to further improve the technology of our cars in the future, electrification, alternative energy, fuel cells, autonomous vehicles, and connectivity. So we can't meet the challenges of the future for safe, congestion-free, zero-defect vehicles without safe and reliable connectivity. So 5G, V2V communications, GPS, improved GPS, all of these things are essential ingredients for the connected car of the future. I'll give you a few specific examples. SuperCruise has really been an excellent market introduction for us at General Motors. This is a hands-free, level two automation vehicle that we're now selling in the United States and Canada. That service won't work without continuous and reliable connectivity. So as a specific example that's been publicly announced, whenever the customer turns the key on and starts the engine in that vehicle, we need to deliver through either 4G, LTE, or potentially 2G or 3G connection continuous GPS corrections to the car. And that's to ensure that we know which lane the vehicle is operating in. So in order for that feature to be successful, we really need to be careful and thoughtful about how do we deliver that technology reliably. From a business perspective, how can we be confident that we can continue to deliver that service for the life of the car in a way that makes sense not just for our customers but for us as a business. And as we expand that feature going forward into the future, we need to think about more advanced use cases and customer features that require even more connectivity.  So connectivity and autonomous vehicles really are inseparable and only going to become more tightly entwined going forward. So the auto industry as a whole, including General Motors, really needs to evolve to a point where we're all acting faster. That means taking advantage of really strategic partnerships. That means being engaged with startups when we need to do that. It means finding partners that can be agile and quick, responsive to a very rapidly changing space. This world is too complicated for any one automaker to do it alone. So we really need to pay special attention to strategic technical partnerships.


Good morning everyone, welcome back to another vlog. I am so tired. Very low energy.  I'll explain it in a little bit, but I'm just getting ready for the day now because the show must go on. I'm actually using a couple new things that I got at Sephora. I got a couple little like travel size things for my trip coming up. So I'm using this little hula bronzer, which I have honestly not used hula bronzer since like high school. This was like a go-to fave back in the day. And honestly it's looking pretty good. I can see why I used to love it so much and why everyone else loves it. I go so hard on the bronzer. It's a toxic trait of mine, what can I say? Today on the agenda we're doing just a couple little things. I'm staying home today. I have a little bit of residual like stomach pain going on. And so I'm just gonna try to get some things done around the house. Just more stuff like in preparation for me going out of town for Taylor Swift, which I think by the time you see this vlog, I will be up, I will be there tonight. Like when you're watching this, I can't. I got this new Natasha Denona little like compact palette, which first of all, how cute is this?  And so I was like, let's get something nice and tiny. I don't have a mirror to work with. So we're just gonna have to figure this out together. And yes, I am using my fingers to put on eyeshadow, whatever. I wanted to try this eyeshadow look that I saw on TikTok where basically you just put like a shimmery champagne shade and then you do like a pop of color on the inner corner. And I also recently, I have had this in my favorites list on Sephora for months and I decided to give myself a little treat. And it is this Natasha Denona pastel palette. Look at these colors. They're so pretty. They're so 80s. Oh, there's what's in my medicine cabinet. This is gorgeous. So I'm thinking maybe I'll do like a little lavender because I'm wearing purple today. I don't know. Let's try this purple. Why not? Just gonna do a little bit on my finger because again, who has time? I saw this girl on TikTok literally just do this. So cute, very subtle. Hold on one second. Let me do this and then we'll reconvene. All right, here is what we're left with. I think it's pretty cute. Actually, I'm gonna finish doing my hair. I already curled it and I'm just gonna kind of, you know, shows it up a little bit. Make it a little more smooth and all that. Give it some body. My hair is so flat these days. I mean, it usually is, but even more so lately. It was so weird. I literally heard someone's voice right here and they were like, UPS, UPS. And I was like, oh, and I thought they were right outside the window, but they were at the front door delivering a package. So we can open, we can open that together. I'm using some of this, hello? Some of this dry texture spray from Orbea. Holy moly. It just adds like a lot more volume. Do you see the difference? Well, cause I just did that, but it just adds like a little bit more body, a little bit more texture. We'll add it to this side too. So there we go. All right, ready for the day. Was that a get ready with me? Slightly, I guess you could say. Let's open this package. I ordered it yesterday and it already delivered. So that's pretty iconic. Let me move in here so maybe you can see the eyeshadow a little bit better. Is it better in this lighting? I can't tell. Looks pretty cute though. All right, here we go. I don't order from Lisa's as God too often because I'm gonna be fully honest. I think they're insanely over rice, but they have really cute stuff. And I wanted to treat myself for something for this trip. And this is a splurge. I've been thinking about it for a while. I got myself two things. The first one is this pair of pajamas because I wanna have cuter pajamas other than just like a big T-shirt because I'm just not feeling that cute lately. And so I saw this pair, which how adorable are these? Little high waisted, lettuce hem, kind of like ribbed, Heather Gray shorts. And then we have the matching tank top to go with it. And the tank top has like a cute little pink bow. Thank God these straps are adjustable because like what? This would hang below my nipples. They were on sale, which for them is like very, very expensive. But oh, it's okay. You can't even see you through them. Then you go, sorry. I like your eyeshadow. Is that what it is? My shadow? I like it.  I think they saw it on TikTok. Cute. You can wear it like that. Yeah. All right, so they promised that this sweater was soft and not itchy. I don't know if I would say super soft, but we'll see. Okay. If I don't like this, it's going back because it was expensive. But here she is. I feel like this is going to be so cute. This actually seems really big. I'm a little nervous.  I don't know. Let's try it on. Okay. I'm genuinely devastated because look at how cute this is. This sweater is so adorable. Like obviously you could button it all the way. You could wear it more loose. It is like pretty oversized on me, but like look at the sleeves. My hand is right here in the pink. Do you see that? This is how long it is. Like it's not even a matter of like I could roll the sleeves up. And the other thing is it's so itchy. Like I'm really, really sad. It's going back immediately. Props to them for like the super fast shipping. Oh, there goes the trash truck. Laila's out on the patio right now. Props to them for like super fast shipping. That was really impressive and amazing, but here's the sweater from another perspective. Drew is like, let me put it on. I'm always like, it's so big. Who has arms that long? We both have really long arms.  I mean, I think it's supposed to be like, maybe if you like roll the sleeves in, you'd be like over side. Yeah, but I don't mind. It is, it is itchy. Like it's not like a hundred percent. But I'm more sensitive to that than you. Yeah, I don't hunt it. Cute fit though. Yeah, we're good. And somebody was just barking to come back inside. Are you over it? Okay, let's go. While I had the package out, I thought I would show you what the pajamas look like. These are really cute. The top is too big for me. And I have the strap tied to like the tightest. You can see it's literally like all the way at the top, but I'm just gonna sleep in it and it's really cute. Anyways, still love them. We'll still shop them, but the sweater's going back. Oh, and I have another fun package I wanna open. This is one that I've been looking forward to. All right, so we have a massive box here from Brooklyn Inn. They are kindly sponsoring this vlog. Thank you so much to them. If you didn't know, I have been working with Brooklyn Inn forever. I am a loyal stan at this point. Look at the size of this box. I'm so excited. If you didn't know, Brooklyn Inn is a luxury sheets company providing very high quality products to really elevate your home and your space. And it's important for me to not only invest in sheets that are gonna last a long time, but that also get softer with each wash, which mine just had truly only gotten better with time. I'm obsessed with them. And since we all spend a third of our life laying in our bed, why not have sheets that are like the most comfortable, you know, hotel quality sheets? And today I am trying something new that I haven't tried before and it is their down alternative comforter. And I have been so excited about this because we've had sort of like the same old comforter for a while and it's just time to be replaced. Oh, goodness. Look at her. So this down alternative is great for people who are vegan, people who are on a budget, people who have allergies. I just prefer the feel of this much better and what really drew me to it was that it has these like little loops that hook onto your duvet cover, which is iconic. You can choose from lightweight all season or ultra warm. I went with the lightweight option because I live in a warmer climate and also Drew and I are just very hot sleepers. And this honestly feels like a cloud. Another reason why I love Brooklyn and so much is cause you can shop from the comfort of your own home whether you're picking out a sheets bundle and you can mix and match from like 20 different colors. There are so many options or whether you're buying a new comforter or pillows or whatever, it's just so quick and easy and simple. And right now Brooklyn and is having their sleep week sale. So this goes until March 20th and all of the items on their website are 20% off. So make sure you click the link in the description box below. The discount will already be applied at checkout. Get yourself a new comforter, some pillows, some sheets, couldn't recommend them enough. I love them. That's all we have in our house at this point. I can fully tell you after sleeping on their sheets for over a year now it's the softest sheets I have ever slept on. They're so, so good.  We're gonna get extra nice and cozy. I can't wait and let's continue with the rest of our day. Mom, excuse me, sir. We have to change the sheets now. I know this is your bed and you control it but we need to change these sheets, okay? No? Well, we're gonna do it anyways, okay? We're gonna take a moment to just sit and relax for a second. And I was gonna tell you about what happened last night in maybe hopes that like some of you have gone through the same thing and you can tell me what happened to you or maybe you can relate. But basically last night we ate dinner at around, I don't know, six or so. And then by like maybe seven o'clock I had like called my dad, talked to him and then I was on the phone with my mom and I was telling my mom on the phone I was like, I feel like I have heartburn coming on and I don't really get heartburn that often but it probably happens like once a year I would say and it's just totally random. But this time I felt it more in my stomach and it was like my stomach had heartburn. Does that make sense? And so I was like talking to her, I was like, oh, I should probably take some like Tums or Pepto and then it just started getting worse and over the next like two hours or two and a half hours it became like unbearable and I have no idea it was coming in waves. It was almost like I was in labor.  Like it just burned, it burned so bad and then it like made me feel like I had to go to the bathroom but not the kind where you get like cramps down there not like that. It was literally like in my stomach, like it was just burning and it was burning from like my stomach all the way up to here and it was so bizarre. And so I was like explaining it to Drew and he was like, that doesn't sound like heartburn.  It was literally just in my stomach and it just got worse and worse and worse and like I would be sitting there on the couch like talking to Drew and I'd have to stop talking and just be like, like it literally I was like, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. It hurt so bad. It was like one of the most painful and uncomfortable things I've ever been through and then probably by like, I wanna say like 9.30 ish it started like every time sort of one of those waves would come it would be like a little less severe and then it was kind of like longer periods of time in between that. And I was just like, what was that? Cause that was not heartburn. Like that was crazy. It wasn't like, you know, I wasn't going to the bathroom. I wasn't throwing up, nothing like that. It was so freaking weird and I've tried to like look it up and there's a bunch of different things obviously. Like I, you know, if it continues or if it happens again, I will go to the doctor but it was so uncomfortable and painful and also just really scary. Cause I was just like, what is going on with my body? Like I've never felt like this before and I was like, do I need to go to the ER? And then by the time I went to bed at like 10, 30 ish, I would say like I was mostly able to just like lay down and get comfortable and go to sleep. But even like this morning I woke up and my stomach still wasn't right. And I did sort of have like a wave of nausea. And I also felt a little like kind of like my body had chills a little bit. And I don't know, maybe I was just like in shock from what was happening, but it was very bizarre. And I honestly like have no idea what it was. The only thing I can think of cause it wasn't like an IBS flare up or anything. But the only thing I can think of is that I tried a new food yesterday and it was those like daring vegan chicken bites. And I don't know if it's like something in that like all the soy protein or whatever but I didn't really have that much of it at all. So I don't know, maybe that was it but everything else I ate yesterday also had. The only thing we had different was or the only thing that I had that was out of the ordinary was that. And like maybe, but that was a really intense reaction. So I don't know if anyone else has experienced anything like this. I'm not asking you to medically diagnose me of course but if you've gone through this, let me know your experience. At first I was nervous that it was like something with my gallbladder, like maybe a gallstone but I feel like it wouldn't have just come out of nowhere like that. And then just like gone away. I feel like it would like keep coming back but I don't know. So anyways, that's the tea with that. Very bizarre, very strange. So I'm just kind of like low energy today. I'm doing my best to just give myself moments to rest. I might actually take a break and do a little bit of reading. I am behind on some work. So I probably do need to get started on that as well. So I'm gonna take a quick little break and then we are gonna continue and try to get as much done today as we can but also just try to like take these moments and rest. Something I am admittedly not very good at but I'm trying. I'm currently reading a book called The Perfect Marriage. I had seen people talk about it on TikTok and Instagram and it's kind of like more of a thriller book. I don't know, I'm only 68% into it. I have enjoyed it so far. I'm trying to put it together. It's sort of like a mystery. You're like, hmm, who done it type of thing? And I'm suspicious of everyone. And I watch a lot of those types of shows and I was like, why didn't I think to read books like that? And I think sometimes the sort of opinion that people may have where if a book isn't like super intellectual or stimulating or whatever, then it's like trash. And I disagree. I think everyone has space for their own opinions but like some people hate calling Hoover books. I mean, I understand. But I also think there's like a purpose for everything. So like when I'm in the mood to just dissociate and read something like fast and easy and quick and like a little smuddy and like a little spicy, then I read her books and just all that to say, read whatever books you want.  I mean, if it's like bad people writing it, that's another thing. But anyways, I think I'm like starting to figure out who it is. But then they say that there's a twist near the end of this book. So I'm gonna read this a little bit longer and then it's lunchtime.  I'm like a little scared to make lunch. I'm just scared of like eating anything because I'm just afraid that like it's gonna make me feel bad. But I had breakfast this morning and I've been fine. I had liquid IV, so I should be good. But in the meantime, I am so cozy right now and I'm not moving for the next little bit. I was just taking a Ritz cracker break because I'm addicted and Drew bought me a nice little gift for a trip and just for life in general. And it's a switch. It's a pink switch. Yeah, so cute. So I definitely wanna play the Disney Dreamlight Valley game, I think it's called. But if you have any games on the switch that you recommend, definitely let me know in the comments below. If you know, if you've been watching me, you know I will be playing the 1990s versions of Donkey Kong, of course. But yeah, if you have any good games to recommend, let me know because I'm a switch girl, I know. It took me four years. It's a cozy game. Yeah, I like very cozy things. I mean not that Donkey Kong is cozy, but anyways. Okay, we're gonna take the left side but I'm so excited. This is what's for lunch today. Real simple, real comforting, real nostalgic. Butter noodles are honestly just a childhood classic staple and it's what sounds good. So that's what we're gonna go with. It's a little while later. It's like, I don't know, almost 2 p.m. or something. And I actually got another package. The mail comes here a few times a day and I thought I would show you because I am literally a 35 year old woman still trying to figure out what bras to wear and what bras look good on me, what my bra size is. I have actually had on my list for a while going to a professional place and having them fit me for a bra and then ordering bras. My friend Sierra actually also recently filmed a video like that on her main channel. So I would highly encourage you to check that out and it really sparked the idea again where I was like, I've been meaning to do that for a while and I really need to. But anyways, I tried my best to measure myself and I saw a girl on Instagram recommend this bra. I can help measure. You can help measure? Yeah, I'll let you know. But she recommended this bra called Bra Leluiya and it's by Spanx. And it's like a full coverage, kind of like t-shirt bra and these cups look so big to me. So I don't know if I ordered the right size but I am gonna try it out and I'm just gonna put on like a t-shirt and sort of show you the difference in what it looks like. Cause I'm really curious.  So I'll show you what I have on right now. It's just like a bralette but that's what I wear most days to be honest. And like I feel like a lot of us just don't actually know what we're doing when it comes to bras. And if you can get away with not wearing one, God love you. More power to you. I didn't wear bras for a long time until I started gaining weight and now I'm just sort of like trying to figure it out. So okay, pretend cause this one's kind of a high neck one but here is what it looks like when I wear a t-shirt, just normally. Kind of flat, kind of saggy. Nothing wrong with that.  But I feel like we're gonna see what the difference is. So let me put on this one, one second. Okay, so I think I actually do need to go down. Although do I? I'm also really insecure about like this part of my body. So please bear with me but this is what it looks like. I'm gonna try it on with the t-shirt but I do feel like there is like a slight gap up here. So I may need to go down a cup size but like stay the same band but then I think that changes. The band size I think is okay. It's like hyped up really, really high. There's not any kind of like adjustable straps on this bra and I haven't worn something with an underwire in so long so it's very noticeable to me. Look at the difference between like wearing a normal bra and not. You don't have to let me know what you think. I do think it's like possibly the right size. Maybe I'll hang on to it and just sort of see. The only thing is like, this isn't like digging into me by any means. I just noticed that it's there and it's weird because I'm not used to it because I haven't worn underwire bras in like a really long time. This bra like isn't super cheap. It's kind of expensive actually but I wanted to have like one actual nice bra. Strapless bras are like a whole other thing that's like another topic for another day but I actually think it might be okay. The wire goes like all the way here so I don't have that sort of like spillage towards the back that I usually do so I actually think this is kind of nice. It's actually a pretty comfortable bra. So I'll link it down below in case you wanna check it out but yeah, I'm trying to figure it out.  Like I'm just trying to figure it out with you so maybe I'll do like a main channel video on that but I actually think I'm pretty pleased with this but I am gonna put my bra all that back on cause I'm gonna get back in bed and play some Disney Dream Life Alley or something. Play my new Switch for sure. Anyway, that's gonna do it for me today. Thank you so much for hanging out with me. I'm just gonna take the rest of the day to relax, rest. I'm feeling much better honestly. After eating lunch, I think that helped a lot. I'm gonna take maybe a little nap or something. So hopefully you enjoyed today's vlog. It's starting to get loud in the neighborhood so I'm gonna go. Thanks again to Brooklynin for sponsoring this vlog. Don't forget to check out their sleep week sale that's going on until March 20th. You can get 20% off all Brooklynin items. All of it will be linked in the description box below. Thanks so much for hanging out with me today and I will see you very soon in the next vlog. 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I'm Ryan and I'm Allie after falling in love we decided to ride bikes across America collecting love advice along the way. This is Love Cycles. No flatties, no weddings, no crotties, no crotties. Ah, shame brothers. Oh, don't leave. So fun. Bye guys. We only used one bed. We could have bounced on both beds. Give it a bounce. There we go. Oh, these are good ones. We were about to leave the room and Allie's like, wait, we forgot something. Pablo just left us ice cream for breakfast. Drink it. You want to come with us, buddy? Yeah, yeah. Alright, partner, let's go. Whoa. No flatties and whammies and crashies. Bye, dog. See you, buddy. Lucky penny. Yes, 1975. I have not spent much time in Nebraska. I've essentially just driven through it on my way to do rag brie in Iowa and I'm excited to get to know this state. This is the Midwest. Goodbye big majestic mountains. Hello, plains and farm fields and humidity. Ryan, nice to meet you. I know your dad. So here we are in Rushville, Nebraska, teeny little town and this woman starts running at me. Ryan, is that you? I'm like, who is this? And I get closer. It's Megan. Hi. My good bud from home. This is nuts. What are you doing here? Super, we're in Nowhere, Nebraska and like out in the middle of Nowhere, we are on a road trip. My boy and me and we are going to visit family in Minnesota and kind of got a late start and rerouted to this road I have never been on. So we have never been this route before and I passed these guys on the highway. I was like, how weird would that be if that was Ryan and it's Allie, right? It's Allie. Oh my goodness. I love how small the world could be. And now I get to meet Allie, which is awesome. So cool.  Absolutely.  This is super nice. We were biking along highway 20 and kept on seeing this trail off left. We're like, huh, is that the cowboy trail? Decided to go over and check it out. Turns out it's a beautiful hard pack crusher finds trail. Got all to ourselves. We're aiming at a town called Valentine. I think that's the official start of the cowboy trail, but they are going to connect it way out here and it will someday become the longest rail trail in the United States, about 300 miles. So we're riding the very beginnings of it. My stepfather always called this flyover country. And you know, that's my history. I've flown over, flown through, but never spent any time here. And I'm really looking forward to, yeah, getting to know the place. The beginnings of Nebraska were absolutely beautiful. And now we're on a gorgeous trail. We are closing in on our destination for the day. We've ridden 77 miles. The town is called Merriman. It's a teeny town, but we're hoping they have a swimming pool. All the other towns we've passed today, even the small ones have had a swimming pool and it sure would be nice to jump in a pool right now. Yeah. We got a park right here. Okay. Yeah. Absolutely. Yep. Awesome. Thank you so much for your help. Here's our home for the night. A million star hotel. We have our own playground with teeter totters. I really like this park. There are so many beautiful trees up here. And our hotel tonight comes with its own concierge named James. How you doing James? Are those teenage mutant ninja turtle shoes? Yeah. Awesome. You know what we're doing right now? We're biking across the country from the west coast to the east coast, from Oregon all the way to New York City. Does that sound crazy or does that sound cool? That sounds cool. Sounds cool, doesn't it? Yeah, you look good with that sticker. You like it? Uh-huh. Very cool. James is going to show us the best place to get into the water. There's a creek right here. There he goes. I like our little friend. Look at him go. All right, so where do we get in the water? Right there. Right there? Oh, so we just jump off the bridge? Really? It seems a little shallow. You going to do it? I'm going to dive in. You going to dive in? Do it, bud. Are you guys going to get all the way in? Yeah, we're going to get all the way in. I promise. Keep it up. If I was your father, I'd say that's a bad idea, but since I'm not, go for it. This is way better than a swimming pool. What do you think? Definitely better than a swimming pool. Yep. All right, we're going to get you. I pointed at stuff and you record. Yep, it's filming. Can you see my face in there? Yeah. Hi. We have a new cameraman today named James. Are you going to film the picker table? Oh, there's Ali. Oh, just kidding. There's Ali again. Yeah, there you go. Do you have any questions you want to ask us, Mr. Reporter? What's your favorite food? I don't know yet. You don't know that? That's a good answer. You haven't eaten at all yet. I feel like I'm back in Honduras in the Peace Corps, playing with my kids. This is what we did a lot, just playing. Good morning from the town park here in Merriman. So this here is Main Street, Merriman. The sign coming in says like 115 people. It's a very small town, but most of these old buildings are all boarded up. They don't look like they're in business. This is kind of what small town America looks like these days. You know, big box stores like Walmart's and other things kind of kill these places because the prices are so low and they have everything. So these mom and pop shops can't really can't really keep up, which is a shame. You know, I get it. I get why people go to Walmart for sure, but it definitely has a negative effect on little places like this. There might be other factors involved, but that's definitely one of them. I think starting every day on a swing set is a good way to start a day. In elementary school, when we had recess in the mornings, that was pretty much the prime of my life. I love recess. I was really heartbroken when I got older and they took away recess. Getting ready for another day on the road in Nebraska. No flatties, no whammies, no crashes. What do you say we ride bikes today? Okay. Good morning, Nebraska! Lovely to see your hayfields. Today is an exciting day because we have 60 miles until we get to the town of Valentine where the cowboy rail trail officially starts and we'll be on that for 200 miles, pretty much all the way across Nebraska. And also we have two very special guests joining us this evening to ride for a couple of days. And I'm really excited for you to see them and meet them. They are wonderful people.  They're all covered in grass. So the store we bought our food at this morning is a student run store which is a really neat and interesting thing to see in a small town like this where there's not a lot of opportunity for kids. These are high school kids to join the workforce. There's no McDonald's. They can't sell newspapers. So somebody's created a program here where high school kids can learn how to work in and run a convenience store. And I think that is a really neat thing to do. And they have Nutella. And clearly the kids know how to stock a store. Nutella, Nusa, good job kids. What just happened? So I just flew into my face and stung my mouth. So you want to talk about what's happening and why it's somewhat serious? Well we were biking along and something flew into my face and it stung my lip. And I'm allergic to stinging insects, to wasps and nail jackets. I can go into anaphylactic shock so I just took a bunch of pen and drill and hopefully it's fine. If not I have an EpiPen and Ryan will stab me in the butt with it and get me to a hospital. 15-30 minutes after I get stung I usually start getting hives. The last time I get stung I started going into anaphylactic shock and I took about 45 minutes. When you get stung one of the first things you want to do is just lay down and get your heart rate really low. It's possible that whatever stung me was something I'm not allergic to like a honeybee, which would be great. But I didn't see it so I don't know. So I just want to play it safe.  And yeah, mitigate any possibilities of having a dangerous reaction while out in the middle of nowhere with no medical facilities. How you doing Allie? We rested up for a couple hours to make sure that I wasn't going to break out in hives and I haven't, which I'm super grateful for. So now we are pushing forward. I'll be at a slower speed because I had a handful of pen and drill. But we've only got 20 miles to go. So I figure I can sleep like that pretty easily. Valentine! I can see their car. We are finally in Valentine feeling pretty good. It's been a bit of a rough day, right? But we have two special guests. And if you've been following my channel for the past two years, you know these people. You love these people. All the way for Valor! It's time for the Valentine's Day! We've been you all being gone for so long. And we brought cookies and laquah. Laquah? Well, we're so excited you're here. This is going to be so special. We love you!


Hey there, Psych2GoFans. Welcome to another thought-provoking package of information that we put together just for you. You can find any and all references used in the description box below for added insight. So let's begin, shall we? Do you ever wonder why others don't see the easy solutions to a problem that you do? Have you ever felt like you have a slightly different thought process from your friends? Did they ever marvel at the simple ways you use to solve their dilemmas or think the high heavens for your friendship saving their day? If so, it could be a possibility that it's a sign of higher intelligence. We encounter different problems daily, varying from person to person. These problems can be difficult or simple to solve. It is in these moments when we can actually realize that we are a lot smarter than we think, and it's quite the common occurrence. As different people display different levels of intelligence quotient, IQ, and emotional intelligence quotient, EQ, here are certain things that relate to higher levels of IQ and EQ. One, you do not feel smarter than average. According to the Dunning-Kruger effect, intelligent people tend to underestimate their own intelligence as they're more aware of their own weaknesses. By knowing what they lack, they constantly strive for improvement. On the other hand, people who are overconfident about their capabilities often fall short of the intelligent mark. Two, you are empathetic. So what is empathy? Simply put, it's the ability to understand the feelings of other people. Empathy, as a trait, has been proven to be a sign of higher emotional intelligence in people. Empathy is considered a powerful tool of communication that aligns with the concept of emotional intelligence quotient. It involves the ability to assess our own emotions or the emotions of others. Being able to understand another person's perspectives and feelings is a sign of emotional intelligence. When we have high EQ, we're able to relate to their feelings and provide support. Three, you are creative. Being creative can be applied to many different things. Creativity is a sign of intelligence also, because it shows that an individual is capable of thinking outside the box and has different approaches to the problems that they encounter. The ability to adapt to situations and adjust their thinking accordingly is a sign of intelligence. Creative individuals also perceive things in many different ways to gain more perspectives. Four, you are proactive rather than reactive. A sign that you are an emotionally intelligent individual is how you receive information. In our lives, it is highly common that people tend to react immediately after receiving information about something. Reacting immediately allows their emotions to take control over them as well. However, an emotionally intelligent individual would often take some time to process the information and think about it. But let's not confuse this as having slow reactions. It means that they would rather respond appropriately to the situation rather than react impulsively. Although it is normal for people to be more reactive than proactive, being able to slow things down and respond calmly is a sign of emotional intelligence. As it shows that the individual is in control of their emotions. Five, you are open-minded. According to a study, openness to experience was found to have positive correlations to levels of intelligence. This means being able to think openly and being open to new experiences are signs of intelligence. Being open to the perspectives of others helps an individual form their own. No experiences expose an individual to new ideas and points of view. Seeing different viewpoints introduces the individual to other ways of thinking before the formation of their own opinion. Thus, if you find yourself being open to new perspectives, you may be smarter than you think. Six, you practice self-improvement. You just quarreled with your best friend and you want things to be okay again. So you choose to apologize first. The ill will evaporates and the two of you reconcile. Having the ability to apologize shows that an individual is not prideful. Even though we find ourselves not entirely at fault sometimes, we practice self-checking to see how we could have handled the situation better. In doing so, we're able to apologize no matter whose fault it was, because not only do we value the relationship more than our pride, but we're also open to self-improvement. Being able to put aside our pride to save a relationship is a sign of emotional intelligence, as we know what's more important. Seven, you crave to keep learning. Another sign of intelligence is to know that learning is a lifelong experience. The desire to learn displays signs of intelligence because learning contributes to personal growth. Wanting to learn more can also be perceived as being open to new knowledge and adopting new ways of thinking, which contributes to signs of intelligence. The desire to learn also encourages creativity in the thought process, which may be due to a drive for self-improvement. And eight, you're emotionally aware. Being emotionally aware is a sign of emotional intelligence, as it allows an individual to recognize when they're being manipulated or used. It helps individuals see through people's actions and evaluate the intentions behind them. As such, emotionally aware people are better able to protect themselves from emotional manipulators. Having that knowledge can make an individual potentially cunning as well. Although it can be a tool of manipulation, it can also be used to prevent manipulation. So, how many of these signs did you feel that you align with? It's common that we often feel that we're not as clever as other people, and that's normal. That's called the imposter syndrome. To find out more, watch our video titled Imposter Effect, linked in the description below. Truth is, we are actually a lot smarter than we think we are in certain aspects. It's important to remember that not everyone knows everything and that's okay too. Our strengths and weaknesses are what make us unique. We must understand that learning is a lifelong experience and that we should continue to seek knowledge and improve ourselves further. Being open to learning can be a life-changing decision. Do you think you can now better estimate intelligence using these cues? Do let us know in the comments below if you can tell the intelligent ones apart. Also, remember to share this with someone you think might benefit from it as well. Don't forget to click the like button and subscribe. Thanks for watching.