Think, Tech, Hawaii. Civil engagement lives here. Welcome back to our celebrated tropical, exotic islands of Hawaii here, that the Soda Brown and myself are looking into if the built environment could be as human and humane as possible. And humility and humanity, all these things. So we look into that. And so we're going to break the record because we stumbled upon something literally and figuratively and we're going to break the record with the most images. So let's go and run. We've got a lot to do. And we're talking about stairways and that's why there's a stairway behind us. And when we get started we say that first of all there are various stone structures that are part of ancient Hawaiian culture but they never built stairways. They did not have that technology or they just didn't think about it and they didn't need things like that for the buildings that they had. We only see these large stone structures for Heiao or other important religious structures but people didn't live in houses that need stairways. Until when? Well, until in our next photograph we see that Westerners brought in bigger buildings and they brought in stairways and for these buildings, which were all built in the early 1900s, we can see that stairways are a featured part. The buildings are up on a plinth as you said and the front stairways become an important aspect of how you approach and see the building in addition to how you get up to the first floor. And that's that. But it didn't really take off until when? Well, after statehood when we start to see a lot more growth happen in Honolulu and other islands to a lesser degree, we start to see a lot of these small walk up apartments. Very basic concrete buildings and they've got exterior stairways like the two that you see here. So we're talking about how stairways are a feature of buildings and some of the details, for example, that you can do to make stairways more interesting. And next picture, as all the pictures are just exemplary, we just want to encourage you guys to go out there and you see tons of them. You do. This is just next to the project we've been shedding a critical eye on, the new student housing on King University and in front of that are these two three-story walk-ups. And there you go. You've got two different iterations of the same theme, staircases, one which we've done show about volcanic veneer and one with wood slated version. But these are just exemplary for many others. So let's look at some of the others. So let's go to the next picture. And we're sticking with this time period. We're talking about the 50s and 60s. And we've got a 1960s car in the lower left corner to show you those clean 1960s lines. You also can see how the stairways in many cases are really stripped down to just the basic element. But they've also got, as you pointed out, an interesting little twist in which the riser is not at a 90-degree angle, but it's tilted a little bit. And so that adds a little dynamic and a little sense of motion, makes you want to go upstairs. Just like the cars had these lines that were distinct, but also looked very sort of moving, right? You wanted to move in those cars. So next picture is introducing also different sort of, well, this is another example that only doesn't do the riser on the on the foot side, but also does the parallel one on the backside, which makes it even twice as fast looking, right? This is Criken doll hall on UH. And it also introduces a structural system where there is actually beams underneath, right? The steps are basically resting on that. Right. And if you look from the side, it looks like a letter Z. Absolutely. That's what you pointed out. And there it is. It's like Z for Zorro, us old people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And another example here is something you captured. Next picture here. Yeah, this is a small commercial building, which is on University Avenue. And then in the background, you see that new Mahana Ali housing that's going up. And this is, again, a really sculptural element of the building. And it isn't just the steps. It isn't just the supports, but the railing has an element of that too, which makes it really unique. It's kind of floating in the air. It is. And maybe the most, I mean, we made it the top number one of this little subfamily here of the Meandering one. That's the next picture. That's why we made it the permanent background picture as well. But it's not coming yet. So this is the third one. This is on Kapahulu in Mayhut, close to the fire station on Hawaii on the Diamond Headside, a little shopping center. That's sort of a late entry to our tropical brutalism. Absolutely. And once again, it has a sort of celebrated staircase that's in the center of it that goes around, winds around, and circles around, and celebrates once again. Correct. And it's got this one dynamic central core that makes it stand up. And then the two parts stick off of it at angles. Exactly. So it isn't just straight, but it's meandering, as you said. It's a little different. And so now our best one of this little subfamily here comes now. This is one that's very close to you because you're very familiar and close to the architect to design this. And this is sort of down the hill from where you live. Exactly. This is Vladimir Asipov's stairway in the Outrigger Canoe Club. Again, a free-floating kind of skeletal thing that was very commonplace in this time period because technology allowed you to build a stairway that just was the basic elements. And it again has this wonderful sculptural artistic look that turns the stairway, which is just a necessity, into kind of a feature. Just like the little other one, the spiral staircase. Also very sort of exotic, very fun to go up and down. Makes you just feel nature in the environment. Yeah, right. Right, right, right. Because it's surrounded by palms, too. It is, it is.  There you go. That's right. So next picture, you also go to the jungle.  And here on Koa Street, with a building of the same name here, we snapped this picture here online. And so we went there, both, and took this picture here. So it's luckily still around. So our point is keep it, keep it, keep it. And if you want to change the color, we always like the color themes from way back because there was so subtle pastel. And the tropical sun sort of nicely brings it out. But it's not overpowering. So I'm sort of a little critical about the purple and the deep piece. Purple and orange is a little bit. But never mind, you can just repaint it. But it's pretty much still in the original condition. And it's a keeper. So guys, please keep it. Next picture is going, continuing in the jungle here. There's the Alihi. Again, little, you know, fourth story walk up here. And once again, very jungly the staircases when they put the light on there. You really want to go there. And again, this is sort of an express structure. You see these sort of tapering beams coming out and holding it. So once again, celebrating circulation as today's. And the fact that it is not enclosed means that when you're walking up and down, you are amidst those palm trees. And you are in nature. And you're feeling the air movement, which is something that we are grateful that we are able to do in this nice tropical climate, as opposed to New York City for today. And as introduced here in a little bit, but next picture here, or the next three here shows another theme where architects were sort of, we've said camouflage at a better term. Veil. We're kind of veiling it. They're not totally obscuring the thing. I mean, because a lot of buildings today, the stairways are entirely enclosed in walls. This is turning it into a facade that's kind of covering it up, but camouflaging it, but letting you see some of it as well. And this is sort of a little bit corduroy version. Corduroy, absolutely. You've got this vertical thin lines of different widths. And this is very elegant, you know? Very nice sort of louvering over it. So it's sort of blending it away. Gives it a little bit the notion of privacy, but it's still visible. So it's a very elegant, very elegant way. And so is the next picture something we showed when we were focusing on these themes. We already showed this here. We just didn't point out there was a staircase behind it. Correct. Right. And you can still see through, and you still have air movement. And you're not totally enclosed, but there is a little level of camouflaging and veiling. And the most extreme of that sort of subcategory comes next, which we also showed in that show in the back, which is that hospital here where they're pretty 50-50 porosity louvered. So you're very, very camouflaging it. But you're still seeing through. And so air and light is going through, but it's be filtered. And this is what the tropics are about. Absolutely. Next picture, another element that's already taken care of in the previous one, because the guardrail is sort of built into the project. That's sort of an effect on the side. But usually they're separate. And this is referring to a show with it a while ago here. And this is another way, structurally, they're basically coming on cantilevering out of a wall. This is also a very ambitious and very effective. Yeah. And I think that what's interesting there is that those are intrinsically, as you said, part of the structure. This is probably as basic as you can possibly make a stairway. Each step is a separate unit sticking out of the wall. And you couldn't strip it down any further than that, except to put all you got to do is add the railing. And then again, here, look at these sort of refinement of mid-century detail that they're thicker. They're exactly following the gravity and sort of structural necessity. They're thicker where they get into the wall, and then they get thinner. So this is perfectly showing the line. And they are not just a concrete block, this rectangular. Exactly. And then you need guardrails, so you don't fall off as we show one here. And next picture is going to show sort of a little cut barrier of guardrails. Just, again, you can get crazy. We can write books about it. And we should point out cold as a potential sort of enemy of freedom of expression, because there is the head of a child is sort of the thing. Absolutely. It's like four and a little bit inches. And into current cold, you can't be wider than that. So these were way more experimental, way more open, way more liberal. And these things, again, as you just said, you see a lot of very interesting variations of these type of sort of wrought iron railings that were locally produced, 1940s, 1950s. A lot of these little buildings have unique to them railing structures. They didn't just go buy them. They have them commissioned and made. Yeah. And the permeability, maybe the most charming we show next. And shame on me, I was still not knowing where it is until yesterday. I drove by and didn't look to the left. We did a show about the Wall Street, but I looked to the right. And here they are. Now I know. Right. And as you just pointed out, today this would be illegal, because there's too much open space there for where our child's head or another body part could get pulled through to detriment of everybody. But isn't it beautiful? The question is, how many kids get hurt? Probably not so many. So once again, codes are well intended, but sometimes sort of shoot back, because they limit our expression of freedom and what you do. And that's a particularly cute one. That was cute. And that was mid-century. And there was more like 50s, more sort of Googie style. And then came the 70s. Next picture is a brutalism era here. This is unfortunately, now it's already boarded up. And they're taking it apart, which is very, very sad. This is Ward Plaza by Steve Owl. And again, he did some masterful staircases here of different types. The next picture is his project that is unfortunately down Ward Warehouse. And once again, here is sort of brutalist way hippie, the hippie way of the opposite to the mid-century, to the 50s, where they were dematerialized in the garden. Here they're a little overemphasized. Exactly. And the thing about this is that it's a concrete structure that's surrounded by a natural wood structure. So it's a contrast. And it's kind of, as you said, a little bit kooky, because the rest of it is natural hippie. But then we've got this big concrete curved thing in there. But it's all gone. And also so overemphasizing. Or celebrating next picture is also we did shows and also wanted to do a walking tour with Doko Moe that way to cancel, because of that crazy rain. And so we're going to move it to another time. But here again, the vertical thing that's sort of the iconographic thing is the staircase tower. And if you want to know more details, watch the show. Yeah. We already talked about it. Another show that you also then got to watch here is Hilton Hawaiian Village. And once again, this iconic staircase celebrated as the exotic thing. People coming from other parts in the country where you just can't do it like that, because due to the international building codes on the mainland, they have to be enclosed.  So that makes sense. But that ice thing, do we have that here? No, we do not have frozen ice on our stairways. And I'm very happy about that. All right. Very good. And we've talked more about that in a second. But let's remember another show that we did next one. So in many ways, this is sort of a reviewing of shows we did before, because they all have staircases by nature, if they're tall buildings. And here, another open staircase with a dorms, gateway dorms at UH. And young people, for sure, are the most able to climb stairs. They are the most ambulatory, the most healthy. They are the ones who should and can use stairs the most. They always go to the gym, sometimes indoor gyms, both on campus and off campus. Why don't you do the stairs? That's right. And save you money to go to the gym or time. That's right. Just use the stairs. And next picture, if you live in Waikiki, which we did a show here about Lanai's on balcony, there's also external staircases in these mid-century ones.  Why not? Keeps you in shape. That's right. Cardio for you. That's right. So do it while your knees still work. Let me tell you. There you go. We get to that in a bit here. So similar next picture referring to the show about Makaha. So the residential towers have the same thing. These very patriotic towers, staircase towers.  And you're building, being an artificial mountain. And you climb it for the device of descending and descending in a natural way. Pretty cool, literally, and figuratively speaking. Next picture is also a show with John Williams here at Windbauer. Did it as well. Just in two buildings, one in the Gold Coast and the other one here is more in Waikiki here. Once again, really. As you said before, using it as a proud architectural element, like special. It's showing it off. Right. And you're making it, again, part of the element. It's a necessity. It isn't an adornment. It isn't an artificial type of a chevron. Exactly. Exactly. It is necessary for the building. And you turn it into something that looks good as well. Absolutely. And it's also looking good. Most people find Waikiki most compelling when the sun sets and it gets night. So the next picture, also, we want to encourage you guys to look at them when it gets dark. And this is just me here. It's one of my neighbors on the left side, which, if you pay attention, then here the breeze block has been used as to camouflage it. And the breeze block at night gets lit up by the cold illumination that's necessary so they don't step and break the neck. So it's mandated to have these safety lights. Lights at all times. The safety lights, they turn into this illumination. And I took this off the Ilikai the other day when we did the show about it. And once again, isn't this kind of really tropical with the palm leaves and accentuating the geometry? The folding of the stairs has a lot like the leaves of a plant. Yes, they are. They are. There are similarities. So next one is, basically, so whenever you have a building that, and this is Kamehameha School in Kakaako at the Salt area. And we were wondering if these, and this is a renovated building. And so we're wondering, are these original or not? I just ran into one of our emerging talents who lives in there. And he is of the opinion that they are original. They are original. And they look like that. I know they do look like it. And they are super interesting because they are a totally freestanding structure at the back of this building, which is 650 Olimwana. And I think it's very interesting how the railing doesn't remain upright, but tilts at the same angle as the stairway does. But it's a really interesting structure. And it's attention grabbing and attractive. Absolutely. And I was about to, I pulled these pictures from the website here from Kamehameha School, sort of branding it and creating these sort of logos with a screwdriver going up the stair, kind of funny. But I was originally looking for another one that I think Hank Rogers and his Green Building Foundation, they made some advertisement. I think it was on Ward Center at a door that goes into the parking.  So use the stairs for your health. Exactly. And next picture, again, we keep returning to our invasive monster of Makaha student housing on Korean University, because most tragically, the building, the project that was there before is the picture on the right that a few story walk-ups. And it had one of these nice, and look how thin it was cast. And it's tapering.  So once again, before you guys come up with new stuff, check if it will be as cool as the previous one and not make it. And if you can't do it, then just leave it the way it is. That's unfortunately what we have to say. And next picture. And then be critical about things. And so there's other ways to get up in the building. And they're also driven by code. Correct. And one is the American Disability Act, the ADA. So it says you have to take care of people who can't walk the stairs. So either handicapped or they're too old, or for whatever reason, they can't do it. But this is our friend Don Hibbard here, who on a tour through Chinatown showed us this building. It's on Nuala Street between Bishop and Holtail Street. And it's an historic building, turn of the century. Not this just past century, but the other one before. Correct. And this is a wooden pulley elevator. How cool is that? And so somebody actually stood there and pulled ropes to make it do that? Exactly. OK. And isn't that like a very sort of solidarity act? If you think about people, you have to have some bodies and saying, hey, I need to get up there. Yeah, so pull the rope for me, right? What else? And that can carry people? It can carry people, and it carried goods. And it's very low techie, right? Yeah. Well, so it's little. We just got a new elevator at school at U-Age. And I don't want to know how many $100,000 of dollars that cost. And then it was just installed and then broke down. And it was out of commission for a couple of months. And then we got it fixed. And then some people got stuck in there. That certainly doesn't happen here. It's like the old cars. We use cars as vehicle for the old crank window. You can fix and it lasts forever. And once the electric window breaks, it's broken. Exactly. So maybe you guys go back and revisit this sort of archaic, historic things and thinking about innovating or reinterpreting these systems. And another one that I remember, the next picture, is a crazy one from the Netherlands where they had the warehouses and from whatever trade they were doing, coffee and stuff like that. They had this wooden hamster wheel on the roof. And that was basically powering a crane. And so it took like, there's two guys in there for the fun, but it just needed one person to basically be in there. And there's the picture. I put the picture I found online there. Oh, they take the stairs, yes. And use the hamster wheel to bring things up. So all of a sudden, turn the fossil that makes you lazy, what the elevator is right now, for many. I mean, the few ones who need it, that's another story. But most people, let's just be honest, are just doing it because they're lazy. Oh, of course. So it makes you fat, obese, you get diabetes. So maybe you do these things. Maybe you stand in the hamster wheel and make the wheels of commerce turn. And we always speak from experience. And next picture is me going back to my childhood. And so I lived in this five-story walk-up, no elevator, 96 steps. And you knew there were 96. Yeah, and the lady who was sort of the caretaker of the building, she just turned 100. And not unlikely because she did these stairs until very recently. So that's a proof of evidence. It's good for you. Yes, it is good for you. And the next picture is how this sort of subject informs us in our work here. This is a school for disabled children we did a while ago. And then we had to do two stories in parts because the site wasn't large enough to do one story. But then the question was in discussion with the building authorities and the fire department. Well, in case of a fire, how do you get wheelchair kids mentally and physically disabled down? There's just no way. And so we invented basically slides that are parallel to the stairs. And now they train it all the time with the kids. And the kids think it's fun. So in case of a fire, you just don't panic them and say there's a fire. You just say, oh, it's slide time again. They love it. And they evacuate like with no effort. And we also camouflage and louver that. So that's a common thing. And that reminded you of another way how you can get in and out of a building. Exactly, and ramps are another big weight. And ramps can work in places that you wouldn't even think ramps could work. But they have the advantage of not being steps. They have the advantage of being accessible to wheeled vehicles. And they have the advantage of being at an angle that you don't feel as arduous. It's not as tough to go up that ramp. And there is a building on Catalina Island off Los Angeles, which has a building called. I mean, it's on Catalina Islands. It's building called a casino. Does not have a gambling joint in it. But it had a ballroom on the top floor. And all the access was up ramps. And by doing so, they could handle really large groups of people walking up and down. And also a very celebrated way of sort of seamlessly ascending and descending. Another way to get up, it's another lazy one next. Picture our escalators, which are where the stair moves. And we were interpreting that here and making a canopy over access to the subway station once again, sort of celebrating the enclosure or the semi enclosure here. So then going back to our home here. Next picture is me doing it in Waikiki Grant that we did a show about. And I have an internal staircases that I hardly ever do. And I have this external one that I do every day as part of my workout. And it's fun. So yeah. And you just walk or run. I just run it. I run it. You run it. And that's your exercise. That's part of my exercise. There you go. It's my cardio. And that's why he's so healthy. And that's why he's so slim. Try my best. There you go. Run, run, run.  That's why I'm so slim. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I don't. So next picture is our hero. That's Howard Wiig, host of Gold Green, and working for the state. And having reintroduced the Easy Breezy Staircases to the local building cult, which, as we said before, this is New York City here. And it snows, but we don't have that snow. And so we don't do what we saw down there as in Kakaako, a Stanford car development that I don't even know where the stairs are and has elevators and this introverted corridors. So Howard is our hero because he brings us back the chance to actually do the Easy Breezy Staircases in Bravo. And the next picture is then developers already do it. On the left, and there is one example here in Kakaako, that Howard used affordable what they're doing, but they're basically just licking and sticking a steel staircase to a building. So they're doing it to save money because they don't have to enclose it any more. But they don't take advantage of it poetically anymore. Right, and they don't make it sculptural because it's just sort of a prefab thing that's on there, as opposed to what we've already seen, sticking things out and making them more interesting. And this probably, we decide we want to do a show, maybe the next show, which we call basically Paradisal Pyramids. There are certain buildings that do something interesting. This particular one here basically exhibits almost like in an exhibitionist way the staircases as the front, as the address of the building here in the Gold Coast. So let's run through a couple of sort of suggestions for the future. Next picture, this is Ted Paul's studio, Bundit and Janice here, my heroes, who have done apartment building. Again, few stories walk up again in Moliili, and they're celebrating the staircases. They're louving them, they're doing right. They're just connecting to that awesome tradition. Next picture, what is that, DeSoto? Well, that's Primitiva, that's Primitiva One. No, excuse me, no, no, no, we're talking about this is the container. This is our container development, and it's got walkways, it's got stairways connecting all those stacked up containers to each other. Exactly, and what you were just saying comes next. So there she is here. And there's Primitiva, there's Primitiva One. And as you pointed out, there's one section of this circular cylindrical building which is left open for the stairway, and that is on the east or the west side, which gets the most sun. So instead of making that residential, you leave it open, and it's the stairway area which you use, not that frequently, but just partially, and you're always in motion. So the heat of the sun doesn't really matter, plus we've got these open areas that we've already talked about as to where things are also going on where the stairs are feeding into. Absolutely. But we wanna do better, so that's why Primitiva Two is under development, and the next picture is one of the inspirations. We're always having Don Hibbert's flash drive with things for Peter's Shea on them, I think. I also found these here where he's climbing the mountains here in a pretty crazy way, and that's probably the original way. I mean, Suzanne and I were just doing almost by accident, Malka to Makai, and that's the original way. People were going over the mountains, and that was the natural way. On foot, that's the only way you could do it, and without the benefit of stairs, nowadays we have stairs, and the Haiku stairs are the stairway to heaven, is was built purely for utilitarian purposes, but it became a thing that people hiked on just because it was so beautiful. And talking going over the mountains, next picture we also went to Bellows Beach, and Bellows Beach has this amazing tower to the left, which is almost like the sort of most archaic way you can make a stair. It's out of scaffolding members, very skinny, and then you have these cables that tie it down so it doesn't fall over, so you can't make a stair more minimal. And then David Rockwood reminded us of Super Studio, who were these provocateurs, these rebels, from the 60s here with their polemic photo collages, here one of them where you have escalators that just go to the sky. So all these things. There's no particular reason. So these things highly inspire us too. Let's look at the last picture here. And so this is Prima Tiva 2 under development right now, and you see in the upper left-hand corner, there's a central core, and from that these floors are sort of cantilevered off, and it's like the building that we talked about earlier, the Waikiki Belle View. In that central core, it does contain the stairway. You've also got a picture of sort of temporary types of structures for the nomads to live in, as you like to say. And so this is, again, creative thinking by architectural students. It is, and I want to particularly thank Qua, who had pulled in all nighter to create the picture at the bottom left, which is telling us about what you just said, the urban nomadic lifestyle, it's just providing stacked banias as Kurt Sandberg calls it, and then not stuff them and clock them with things, but basically have the most minimal lifestyle. Whenever you need privacy, you come up with more clever devices as these cocoons. To shade yourself, or to disguise yourself, or shield yourself, right? And you're in this bubble for as long as you need to be private, and if you're not, you're out and about. It's basically cascading down landscapes, and this is why we have split level here. You can see the floors are attached to the core. They're offset half a floor, so you don't have that feeling that you have to go a whole story up or down. It's only half story, and that's what split level is, and this makes it almost be like a cascading landscape. Absolutely, and in addition to just the way, to the idea of it, it looks interesting to visually. That staggered look is kind of cool. And as you always say, it's not an add-on, it's integral to the idea, it doesn't cost more, so it's a positive side effect. So do it. So with that was a good run up and down together. Yeah, we did it, we ran. We did it, and so see you back in about two weeks, where we're gonna, as we already said, we're gonna look at the Paradissel Pyramids. Pyramids, it's gonna be our pyramid show. Interesting phenomenon, because you would think that belongs to Egypt, but we have some here. No, no, no, we have some here. That's right. And also Tune in next week, we're gonna have the Desert Red Will Brooder, who's gonna come here, and he said, he doesn't wanna talk about his desert stuff, he wants to come here. Don Hibbert and I are gonna drive around with him, and then he's gonna sort through, and he's gonna share two handfuls of the best stuff that impressed him the most, and two handfuls of the stuff that impressed him the least. And we said, that's exactly how we do it, right? There we go. That's along our lines. I'm gonna watch that, that's gonna be cool. These you all do. And until then, keep celebrating our exotic tropics, and see you then, bye-bye.


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Nice one there, Miami, that is going to be Degoberto G, nice Aquius Test. I still understand those cards. Garrett Wilson, I don't know either, Xamir White, and Xamir White again. Missing Nameplay, Trey McBride, Rookie, nice one there for the Cardinals, Jamie P on the combo spot, Desmond Ritter, lead series, Deandre Swift, and Shuba Hubbard. A solid box over there, Aquius Test, Rookie, and a Missing Nameplay, Rookie, so not that. Tyler Linderbaum, my guy, Tombury, Great Iron Kings. Purple is Darius Slayton, that is number 21 of 26, 26 receptions in 2021. It's probably pre-ACL there, I have to imagine. Devin Lloyd Rookie. We've got another redemption, this time it is Sam Howell, rated Rookie autographs going to the Commanders. Nice one there, Washington, Jeff Kay. There you go, Jeff, nice Howell coming your way. Derek Carr, AJ Dillon, and Nick Boussa, John Mechie, there's Dominators, Joe Montana, Kavon Tibidot, and Clinton Portis. It's kind of like a short print of some sort. No one knows, Scott. Yeah, it's kind of just like the Don Russ. It's kind of known to be a short print as the Aquius Test. There's a Brock Purdy. Yeah, very bizarre one, for sure. Chris Olave, elite series, the Saints. Aquius has to do something with water, but I don't understand how that would apply to cards, so that's like a water test card, I don't know. That's like the cards, they just dunk the water, Romeo Dobbs, the Rookies, James Cook, Great Iron Kings, and Juju Smith-Schuster, red, color match, press proof. That card is done through water, I guess. There's Jersey Kings, TJ Hawkinson, 313 out of 399 for the Lions, nice one, Detroit. We're going to have a Hawk Noah Emma, Bob Lilly, and Dalton Schultz, Mark Andrews, Erica Zucconma, and Nick Bonino on the Orange Jersey number, 3 out of 42. Oh boy, what did Vaughn find on PSA? Okay, the Experimental Water-Based Coding. Interesting. See? Interesting. That's kind of wild. Yeah, no, I mean you were on the right track, for sure. Eli Manning. Yeah, I wasn't going to make fun of you, Gus is his mind on that one. 1992, Tom Brady. I thought you just wanted to make fun of me for some reason. I mean, it's not that hard, to be honest. Yeah, you're right. Sam Howell Rookie. It's like shooting fish in a barrel, making fun of you, and Sean, and Devo Samuel. Trayvon Walker. I got an aqueous test at home. I'm going to go home and dunk in the water and let you guys know what happened. Did you pull one? Yeah. Who was it? I forget who it was. Oh, downtown Eli Manning. Super Bowl. Hey, here we go. Going to Damien V. Nice one there, buddy. Let's go. That must have been in Indianapolis right there. That's sick. My first downtown I pulled this year. It's Super Bowl. Let's go, dude. Yeah, Super Bowl downtown. Big time for Damien V. Congrats, buddy. I'm sorry, Candler. Oh, no. James Cook. Vongos, not a fan of that card. Cream Hunt. I was going to say it for us. Yeah. I picked up a Super Bowl downtown. That's cool, too, because it's Indianapolis, so it's got the Indian parts. I was curious of why they have the... Yeah, it must have been at Lucas Oil. Probably. There's Justin Fields. David Ajado. I don't know. I feel like that would be the other one. I don't know how they catch those in a dome. Yeah, maybe then. That's cool. Could have been any other Super Bowl downtown. Had to be Giants. Derek Carr. Champions Rams and Russell Wilson. I'm going to send that to... I'm going to buy that card, Vaughn. I'm going to send one to you. Sam's just a troll. I am. The rookies, Damien Pierce, Najee Harris, and Jonathan Allen to 71 out of 75. Yeah, how many catchers Arizona? Okay, well, I don't know. So that must have been, yeah, 2011 was Indy. Four of the commanders. All right, let's do Impeccable now. I guess Forrest and Vaughn would know. True. Thought seven the most. Apparently, too hurt to play a full game and not to hurt to party after. Oh, no. Oh, nothing's stopping Grom from party. Right, yeah. There's Justin Fields to 50 for the Bears. Nice. Mark Andrews to 75 for the Ravens. And Tyler Lockett to 50 for the Seahawks. We've got going to Jeff Kaye, commanders. That is Clinton Portis, 12 out of 35. Nice one there. Clinton Portis. We've got a Derek Stingley Jr. That is three out of 49.  Manning to Manningham. Nice one there for the Texans. H-down. And we've got a redemption is Cooper Cuff, immense patch autos going to the Rams. Kenneth H on a combo spot. Congrats, buddy. Nice one there. Maybe sold out for the night. That's three, four, and five. We are sold out on the night guys. Thank you so much. We've got a nice one here going to the Lions. Aiden Hutchinson, 48 out of 49 for the Lions. Again, another soft corner on that one. We'll send an empty box and wrap her. Soft bottom left corner with the Lions. My insert really likes the... I know. It's tough, dude. They almost always do like pretty much always do. And a nice one here we've got going to the Patriots. That's going to be Bailey Zappy, 19 out of 25 helmet gloves auto. Can we copy this Zappy? Wait for it. Nice one there. You can pack this one, I would say, because it's a low enough number. Nice Zappy. Going it to the Patriots.  Okay.  Oh, yeah. That was the draw of the line. Oh, yeah. We've got a TJ Hawkinson, Jersey Kings. Sam Howe, Commanders. That is Cooper Cup going to the Rams. A Derek Stingley Jr. going to the Texans. Clinton Portis for the Commanders. Aiden Hutchinson Lions. Mark Andrews. We just got the base. Donny's just recapping the base now. There we go. Oh, yeah, my bad. My bad. I got distracted by the Zappy. Oh, man. He was trying so hard to come up with a stick. No, I was. And he just blew it. Downtown Super Bowl Eli Manning for the Giants. Nice one there. And then we've got Donny is currently magging the Zappy. We need a bigger filler. Listen, I'm easily distracted. Okay. Vaughn goes, let's go, Donny. Vaughn, stop pressuring me. I don't perform well. Here you go. Thank you. And Bailey Zappy. Nice one there. That is 19 out of 25 for the Pets. That'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Next up, we've got one more of these.


Cool. Well, thanks for making it out the earlier this morning. It's been a crazy week full of in Intense activities a lot of crazy parties and fantastic conversations. Yeah, I'm Jared. I'm co-founder of status It's but really I'm really just a representative of like a hundred plus core contributors that are all participating in this project trying to will it into existence And I'm pretty much just a cat her to these days I wanted to start off this talk with a with the quotes from Marshall McLuhan We shape our tools and therefore our tools shape us I've kind of known about this for a while and certainly heard of it But I don't think I really understood it into a kind of recently when I started working with sort of larger scale human systems A lot of the time we talk about like changes that we do to software and things that were updating But we don't really think about how we actually change ourselves in doing these things and we're an industry that has is primed and can potentially impact Millions of people if not the whole globe so the design decisions we make today Could have everlasting consequences and it's really important to keep this stuff in mind and status really starts off with a question that we're trying to answer and Is it could we actually build a secure communication tool that upholds human rights while enabling community money Community law and through privacy help preserve culture And when in answering these things you can't help to start feel more principled You can't help to think about public program rock chains and connecting directly to them to avoid intermediaries because immediately if you allow that into it You you create an environment where there can be Corruption and these sort of adversarial attacks So we initially started Embedding go Ethereum in directly on your phone We still do today But we also started thinking about what actually means to create generalized Interface to a therian I think the ideal version of that we're still a little bit shorter from Ideally it would look like a window manager or a desktop environment or directly integrated into the operating system But while we're in this mobile form factor It's currently expressed as essentially three apps all rolled into one We have this that browser which is essentially like your window manager It allows you to access all these crazy cool daps that are coming out on top of a therian You have your wallets or your transaction management. This allows you to sign transactions manage your assets And get your collectibles, of course And the other part that is sometimes a little perplexing to people is chat But if you think of the term smart contracts, and I know there's some opinions against that But it's really really interesting to think about the implications of what we're doing If we are signing smart contracts as people You can never really sign a contract in the legal sense without first a meeting of the minds And so we need to create an environment and where we can actually provide secure private access to coordinating before we create Transaction artifacts of our human relationships we're also targeting Android and iOS and We've been working on that for some time now and that's pretty much where I think people think that we stop them That's what we work on quite frankly our scope has expanded since then and Yeah, this is just a bunch of crazy stuff that we're going through and I'd love to walk you through some of it now I mentioned this idea of like how our tools shape us and If you remember about a year and a half ago ish most of the crypto communities were doing a lot of their community building over a tool called slack Unfortunately slack was essentially Designed without the public in mind. It wasn't exactly like IRC it didn't have really any moderation tools and it's basically for sort of internal teams and This internalness or this castle mentality is something that's really shook us Our community grew to over 16,000 people we had 50 to 100 active people chatting about different things in different chat channels at any given moment of the day and It was that it was a fantastic time for a community-driven project The issue with that of course is that we had a bunch of scammers and fishers were quite right at the time They came in and we didn't really have any tools to help combat or defend that Almost every project was forced to essentially Split their communities some moved into right and matrix some into rocket chat and others into telegram, etc, etc Which would be fine But unfortunately for us we had set up a bunch of Bots in different processes that were integrated directly within chat so it made a very difficult for us to Extricate extricate ourselves from that and move into a different environment because the amount of effort to get back to our Productivity was was too high And what that really did is we started hiring we started growing the team and With that people were coming into this and they were they're already Divorced from the community this castle mentality starts to infect us the terms internal versus external became a thing and it was incredibly Depressing actually because we were no longer connected with our community the people that were actually building with and for And it's kind of strange because at the end of the day our application is all about connectedness So last year at DevCon we announced the status desktop To solve this problem Essentially we act we're adding three new target platforms, which is Mac linux and windows Last year it kind of looked like the that picture there the janky or the janky one and We didn't want just like an electron application a lot of we wanted to share our react native code base amongst all of our platforms so we picked we dusted off an old project that canonical started and Spruced it up a little bit optimized it and being have been implementing different rendering components that react native has and Today we finally got to an alpha Which is actually somewhat usable it has the same code base as the mobile application But not all the same features are created So as part of this Today we want to like to deactivate our slack entirely as a signal that we are moving our turn organization into status desktop Thanks So so our boy no bill is gonna make this happen now come on Who is that that's our CFO by the way, you know Anyway, so What a more serious note so that's done, which is great So you're welcome to join the conversation You'll notice that there's hashtag topics. These are whisper topics and you're welcome to join it on the mobile application or in desktop Although, you know, be warned the desktop thing is like really janky. It's more janky than mobile location application Anyway, so we have The other issue that we've had is we had a bunch of different stories about how much assets people are actually carrying around in their Mobile while it's like on public transportation and it's a little scary sometimes when you hear these things Especially when you hear about some of these news over the past year how perhaps we can't really trust our hardware devices as much as we would like to think and Certainly a mobile phone is not somewhere you want to be storing your keys So we've been last year we we mentioned this idea of doing a hardware wallets The code base is now completely done and it's been audited and we're now moving we found a great card platform And we're moving into production. That's some prototype packaging there And essentially what this allows you to do is put your HD keys on a credit card form factor And just tap on your phone to log in It allows you to have pins it allows you to export your whisper identity And we have an extra feature if you're feeling especially dangerous for tap and pay which is essentially pinless So you can imagine later on that it's you could add a point of sales terminal It's kind of like you just tap the amount of cash that you're willing to risk for ease of transactions But this is also really fascinating from an onboarding standpoint you can imagine these things wrapped in foil preloaded with a certain amount of tokens in a convenience store and The person would have everything they needed to get going in in ethereum They would tap there the the card against their phone. It would automatically load up The installation for status at the same time. It'll allow you to retrieve the preloaded Tokens from it and then you'd be able to initialize it correctly with with the hardware a lot So that's going really well, we also started working on the next version of this Where we want to essentially create the same credit card form factor But have things like Bluetooth and all that involved, but we want the hardware to be actually open So it's very hard to find these kinds of platforms and asking them to open source their PCP designs Another major thing that we do is user user research We have a team that actually travels globally meeting with people who are not involved in the blockchain space whatsoever and we do a lot of testing with them and Essentially, this is allowing the public or the people to help mold our tools and make it a lot easier to use One of the most interesting things for for UX is that some of the some of the security features Are the ways that you have to do things in in ethereum are a little unorthodox and For example, if you've signed a transaction in status You will see this thing called a signing phrase and it's essentially anti-fishing measure And it's the first time that that users are actually Required to have the application prove its identity to you. It's usually the other way around But of course the signing phrase it's at the moment It's just a jumble of three words and that's a little bit confusing, especially when you have your passphrase already What we found through our testing is that the use of emojis is been incredibly powerful It gives you a sense of like warmness when you when you assign and it makes you feel a lot better And you're much more inclined to sign transactions. It's just kind of interesting We've also done many iterations over our onboarding apart from like the password stuff, which will like replace with fingerprints very soon It's pretty smooth. Everyone's pretty happy with getting through and there's a very little attrition in what we're doing at the moment however Once you get in it's like a it's basically you might as well see a little hay bale kind of rolling along whatever it's called And that's because we're not connecting you with the community. We need to find ways that we can actually Bring you to other people so you can start participating in our wonderful community online and we have some interesting ideas about that you could imagine subscribing to a new user notifications and when a new user comes on you get a notification to go chat with them and you all come into a group chat and Give them the rundown help them help them out to get them started within within the crypto space We've also done a lot of surveying in terms of like what our requirements are For actually getting adoption of status and ubiquity is the main thing So we we need to be everywhere for every reason so and of course security isn't paramount Another thing we've reintroduced is extensions. This is something that we had a while back But it was a pretty janky implementation. It's a lot better now, and it's incredibly powerful Essentially, we want to get to other people to kind of build on top of status and build within the chat UI And we'll have other hooks for other parts of the application in the future Some of the in-house extension ideas where we've been looking at is doing multi-sig transactions within the chat context We're thinking about doing stenographic messages So you can actually send hidden messages even though they're already encrypted and then decrypt them on your side as well as things like self-destructing messages We also Released our E&S names, so you no longer have to have a ridiculous long address. You can just be referenced by by your name For example, you could you could register potatoes and then people can just find you by potatoes And yeah, it's really cool It's but I I'm a little bit concerned about this actually because there's some there's some there potentially some issues depending on how this technology goes we might Be creating a problem where people can be identified depending on like some of the virtual asset regulation stuff that's coming out so Yeah, keep an eye on it Another thing we've integrated is a voting DAP. It's users quadratic voting and of course it's non-binding But essentially we're trying you can think of it as trying to get community feedback and help us influence the direction of it Even if you don't really want to contribute in any other way In fact, the reason why I mentioned potatoes is because our community voted for me saying potatoes Which is great. We also have this thing called a wall of shame, which I'll talk a bit later Or it's called a book of shame and opportunities now. I think And we basically together during our off-site earlier this week We came up with a list of all our priorities and we all voted on what we think is going to be the best way forward If this is not in our nightlies and not in our release, but we are currently reintroducing private group chats We tell her it all down and that's predominantly because we use whispers identity-based encryption only and That's something like PGP But we want to include another layer of encryption by default, which is perfect forward secrecy and Yeah, so that's what we're doing That's some slides of what group chat looks like at the moment and Pfs is something that we're doing but the important thing with this is that we're actually making this by default and adding it into your contact requests Pretty much every other messenger out there does not make this by default and if they do then They include your phone like you have to register with your phone number, which is problematic and for a different reason So we do a lot of work on the the UI and the app and how we can actually interface humans with blockchain technology But we're getting to the point now where we've pretty much kind of come to the limits in terms of what the light client protocol Is a capable of doing and what whispers capable of doing in fact This whole event has been a really good live test run for us to see how well whisper scales We've implemented some of the bloom filter stuff and we've managed to kind of bring down our network topology quite a bit So on a daily usage, it's just not using a one gigabyte worth of bandwidth is using roughly 12 to 20 megabytes However, when there's concurrent users and there's a lot of network And no activity It does become problematic So we need to start thinking beyond this and how we can actually start moving down into that space And help working with researchers to make better protocols And the same with the light client protocol I think when we move off proof of work and move into a proof of stake scheme, this would be quite interesting But for now we need to start thinking about ultra light clients ways that the client can get a level of security and pull down states But not necessarily have to verify the blocks themselves And in running through that theme We've also started working on a therium 2.0 a shouting clients called Nimbus Basically taking a lot of our engineering ideas in terms of getting the stuff running on resource restricted devices such as mobile phones Raspberry pies routers that sort of thing And we really want to create like a really good Solution for for that and hopefully expand that out to include some layer 2 stuff as well We're also trying to do our best to support the community in terms of education and development one thing that we've had to do is bring lots of skills from outside the space that we haven't been able to source and There is just this disparity. So we need to create these training systems to be able to help people Understand this technology and build dApps and that sort of thing and of course development is something that we've been involved in for a while We've been contributing to Viper for Eons now it feels like And we are now building out the embark team and they've been doing some amazing stuff. I hope you checked out Yuri's Talk it was it was really good and their web ID is absolutely insane. They're blockchain explorers and all kinds of crazy stuff But we're also taking embark further and making a status studio This will essentially be at least in its current form a series of visual studio Code plugins as well as an education portal and hopefully we'll be going beyond just dApp development we'll be talking about libertarian principles and How to design these things etc etc? So I basically just rattled off like a bunch of like stuff that we're doing But they're pretty much all how I view software is they're essentially cultural artifacts They're material items that have taken our mental models and we've put them into things and Now we've gotten to this point where we can actually stop for a moment look up and really think about the future And when we start thinking about the future we start thinking about How do we actually want to go about doing this? Do we really want to live in this castle that was slack? And who are we actually designing this stuff for? So we got together in Basel in Switzerland To really understand like what we're actually about and what we actually believe what are our values And these principles in terms of software design is really where it came down to We're thinking we're talking about liberty a censorship resistance security privacy transparency openness decentralization inclusivity continuous and resourcefulness Keep in mind the inclusivity and Continuance stuff because I'll talk about it in a moment, but the rest of the other principles made us really understand That there's a bunch of work that we have to do I mentioned this idea of this book of shaming and opportunity and It made us really understand this the threat model that exists out there in terms of protecting people's assets and that basically the livelihood and I mean this quotes is pretty extreme but it has been said in ushered and Even though I'm not one to judge on whether that's justified or not I think the the means of what basically the the technology that's been created to be able to do that sort of thing Has other implications or ability to be misused So for example phone numbers, which is pretty much in every messenger when you sign up is leaking your metadata We avoid it now. We started like doing the sort of phone verification stripped it all out Mixed panel is quite interesting This isn't really important for product managers to really understand how people are navigating through an application and try and refine the user experience But the problem is is that's leaking a lot of data and it's sending it to a centralized server that we no longer control So we have no idea how that data is being used So we had to rip it out Of course that made a lot of people unhappy because they could no longer do their job effectively in the same way that they could We're trying to combat this with two things Basically, we want to go and talk directly with users of the software within the software And we also want to do a thing called adversarial analytics Basically, we are attacking our own platform to see what data we can get out of it So we're trying to identify users by their transactions We're trying to we've got a cluster of whisper, of course So we see what messages we can find from that what we can't see messages, but we can find How they're flowing throughout the network And trying to identify a sort of network topologies and seeing if we can find correlations between relationships We're also think we also recently removed a thing called test flight test flight is basically used by banks and a whole bunch of other applications out there For testers to get you know accurate logs and like video screens and stuff like that Now they have a feature right where you can hide password screens and you can hide certain screens So like the idea was that we could use this and like hide certain elements This is only included on our nightlies by the way and not in any releases but the problem with this is they had a bug twice now with those features stop working and It was too much. So we pulled that out as well Now the how is quite interesting in how we want to do this Like I've mentioned we've been kind of living in a castle the past year or so and It's not really conducive to to like what this project's really about and it certainly has become less community driven Then it has been in the before So now we're thinking about how can we actually move out into the space? How can we get help encourage more people to get involved and what kind of structure does that look like and It's quite interesting because there's like there's two different kinds of modes of thinking about this And a really good example is this spaghetti and marshmallow challenge. She'll hands was actually heard of that challenge by the way cool, so basically the idea is In the study is they they have a bunch of kindergarteners on one side And they have a bunch of CEOs or lawyers or any other skilled profession on the other side And they're given 20 sticks of spaghetti Basically raw spaghetti and they're given a stack of marshmallows and they need to make the marshmallow get as high as possible Now you would think that the the CEOs and all these high skilled people would actually start building and getting as high as possible But more often than not the kindergarteners do and it's essentially theorized that the kindergartners don't really need to worry about so Histories or so like social pecking orders and that sort of thing They're just all equal and they all just just try stuff, you know, they just mash things together talk awkwardly and Just brute force the problem Which is quite interesting when you start thinking about collective action So I'm also quite influenced by a political scientist named Mark Bever He does has a dissented theory of governance Basically, we're so obsessed with formalisms or at least we focus on formalisms because they are incredibly important But they are essentially institutions His position is essentially that Before you even get to that point these institutions rise out of a narrative out of our social norms our traditions our Rituals and which give rise to our belief systems and so If you're creating essentially a DAO or a model where anyone can fund anything and create proposals and get funded Like how do you actually corral that how do you create direction? How do you create sense of purpose and His ideas are essentially revolving around cultivating that shared narrative and treating it like a cultural practice So you need to find anchor points Within the space which could be our principles they become talking discussions You can treat people as like nodes in a social network except for the the software they run is their culture and the discussions we have is like semi-updating or loosely updating each other When we started talking about this and as soon as we had status running almost immediately a pseudonymous group or faction Arrows within status They have a channel called moot and they all use the same key We don't know who they are, but they've basically voicing their opinions on how things should be done that they wouldn't normally do It's a really fascinating cultural experience that to be part of when people are voicing their concerns or Bringing up ideas and moving it completely away From biases of individual you can really treat ideas in a merit meritocratic way Anyway, so who are we building for? Essentially ourselves to start off with and when we're talking about that we're talking about internal motivation We all come from different life walks of life Some of us have more cryptor anacostic side of things some people are actually living in these conditions and other people just want to help others and those others are the dispossessed and Eventually we want to do almost everybody And so we're like also working on cultivating culture Like I mentioned and one of the best ways to do that is through symbology and through memes essentially So we're coming up with a framework in terms of our branding that allows people to individualize it And so it no longer becomes this one static symbol But it comes a living object that we can all change and transform You can imagine in a decade's time what status looks like in terms of a symbology in Indonesia will be drastically different from like North America and Here's some examples of some artists that are already doing that I were also questioning what is mass adoption Because that can mean really different things and for different reasons You can imagine that in the developed country There's not really a real need for a lot of this stuff because we already have existing legal frameworks In fact, they're already bleeding into this this technology already But there's another side another Megatrend that's happening is this idea of mass urbanization is going to be over two billion people Forecasted living in slums by 2030 according to UN habitat They live in informal economies and perhaps we can start reaching them Anyway, the point is is status as an organization is changing. We'll be moving into a doll I hope you would join us on the on the journey and be part of the conversation. Thank you very much


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Okay, she we have a question from some online viewers about praying while flying Can you give some tips to pray outside at airports or inside airplanes? Also, what if one has to make we do on an airplane during a long flight other than where we do socks? Is there any other dispensation? Yeah, so um I've never ever felt comfortable giving telling people that it's okay to pray standing to pray. Excuse me sitting on planes I know you'll find those photos out there What I would say is is that do your best to pray standing if for some reason like? Yeah, I mean the seatbelt sign is on and you're about to land and the part time just came in Then I would say okay, pray in your seat and then make it up after But alhamdulillah that my wife and kids we always pray standing on planes Unless it for some reason that we're unable to do so or at least we try to So I think prayer has to come first and alhamdulillah the only planes that I've ever Not been able to stand up on it was always a Muslim plane, which is really strange I've never had a problem ever brain standing on anonymous and plain And it's you know, I think you know it is what it is But I would recommend that you know Obviously if you're spying on a smaller plane from like a smaller city to another small city It might not be possible to stand up if that's the case you pray sitting and then you make up your prayer after So I would say that try first and foremost to Even if you have to pay a little bit more to select your flights according to prayer Okay, so last time I was here that we ended up flying back and we did a red-eye flight But we realized is that we would have to pray fudger on the plane. So we went through Chicago Intentionally so fudger came in we prayed fudger and they caught the connecting flight after that And when it worked out that way and so try to arrange your flight schedule so that you can pray and we give prayer you know preference and Oftentimes we can do that so then Let's just say you're traveling to like Australia is like the classic one for me It's because you end up going to have to pray like four or sometimes five prayers on the plane You still have to pray and it's fairly easy to determine the table based upon the flight maps And you determine the table and if there's a place for you to pray just ask them kindly say I need to pray and Usually that it's facilitated in that yes It's very good for both men and women to invest in a pair of would-do socks There's many kinds now they used to only be available and like Some Islamic bookstores and stuff, but now they're even on Amazon like Randy's son is a good brand They're all seemed to probably have the same They just probably relabel them to seem to be the same manufacturer anyhow Would invest in a pair of those make sure you have we do when you put them on and then it's so much easier But even then like if you have to make we do put water on your feet I would just recommend just getting the floor wet So just make we do right Getting the floor a little bit wet and then just dry it at the end definitely dry it And so what I have the times that I've had to wash my feet in the plane You just put water in your hand put your foot over the toilet wash your foot again use water again And then it's totally doable and then at the end make sure you clean it out So you don't leave it dirty. You just wipe it all up And it's possible to do although it's a little bit difficult The only plane I've seen that has a drain is Saudi Arabia airlines Which is really nice because then they actually have a drain in the ground because they know people are making would-do on it Which is really helpful But that's what I would recommend is to plan your prayers Plan your flights accordingly and then try to remain in a state of would-do if possible wear socks Find a nice place and that prayer prayer is standing definitely if you're able to do so


that you cut this for me for this long. Why are you going on? No, I don't know, what else are you hiding from me? I'm gonna trust you. All I have is a three-year-old that needs a home and he needs to come here. And you're not telling me what our payments are going to. That's, oh my God. What's going on, Mama Squad? Welcome back to our channel, guys. As you can see by the title, I'm going to be pranking my girlfriend that I have a kid. I'm gonna make her believe that when I was dating my ex-girlfriend over three years ago, I got her pregnant. And I never told her, but she had the kid and he's just been living with her all this time. And on top of that, now listen to me, I'm going to tell her that I have been paying child support, not just out of my money, but I have also been paying child support out of both of our accounts. So she's gonna think I'm using her money to pay this. And on top of her already being confused and mad about me having a kid, where the kid is and how this even happened, she's gonna also know that I have been using all of her money and her bank to pay for this kid that she doesn't even know who it is. So before I get into that more, I wanna tell you guys that we are literally starting Vlogmas tomorrow. Or maybe it's today because we're gonna start posting every day from now on. We had stuff going on in the beginning of the month. Now our schedule's a little more open. So we're gonna be literally posting every single day until Christmas, which brings me to make sure to be subscribed to our channel and turn on those post notifications right next to it so you get notified every single time we post, especially during Vlogmas season. And one more thing, guys, if you are new to our channel or you do not know already, we are doing an iPhone 11. Yes, an iPhone 11 giveaway. We're doing it at the end of this month for our Christmas giveaway. You have to be subscribed to our YouTube channel with post notifications on. And make sure to go follow both of our Instagram so we can contact you if you are the winner. Mariah's on her way over here. I already have the whole story planned out as I told you in the beginning. I got Max pregnant, blah, blah, blah. We have a kid, you don't know about it. Four years, three years, whatever.   Hashtag Team Bill in the comments. I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I will see you when Mariah gets here. Wish me luck. All right, guys, Mariah kind of caught me off guard a little bit. She's actually here right now and I am not even ready. So I'm changing my shirt out because I'm trying to look a little better and I'm gonna go set up the camera as quick as I can. She's getting a lot of stuff out of her car because we're supposed to be filming TikToks and another YouTube video today, but I'm pranking her right now. I will see you guys downstairs. Wish me freaking luck. Like, this is gonna be literally crazy.  You can see her cars out there. She actually just walked past the window and now I gotta find a spot inside the freaking camera. Oh my God, okay, it's fine. We're good. This looks like a good angle, right? I hope so. All right, you guys are going behind a pineapple. So let's get it. I saw you carrying a bunch of stuff. Is this good for me? Wait, this one's for me?  Okay, I'm over here. Mm-mm. Oh. Can you even sell it?  I can't smell the fuel. It's definitely your hair. And for fuel. Feels like fuel.  So you ate the last salad the other day. Is there nothing? What can we eat? I'm starving. Mariah, come here. I'm hungry. I need to talk to you. Can you talk to me? Yeah. Good, am I gonna be? It's kind of like both. It's about like four years ago, I think. Three or four years ago. Before we started dating. Okay, so three years ago. I was dating someone. Okay. I was dating someone and that girl. Can you, you're like pushing into this. What's wrong? Why are you, you're- I'm like, I'm like- I'm like stressing out. Wait, don't. It's a stress ball. No, I don't care. Let's just show you how stressful I am. All right, so anyways. I don't know how you're gonna take this, but I never told you, because I didn't want you to like think differently with me, but it's kind of like our problem now, and the reason I'm bringing it up now is because we have to do something about it. Okay. So I was dating this girl, obviously, before I started dating you. I'm being that serious. Okay, tell me. I know you're smiling. Why are you just not telling me this now? Because I didn't want you to think differently with me and now I have to tell you, because it's like serious. Okay. You're scaring me, so spit it out. This girl. Spit it out. Okay, she- What? Tell me, dude. You guys talking? You cheating on me? No, I got it pregnant. So obviously, we were doing stuff because she was my girlfriend. So- And she just now pregnant, or is she pregnant three years ago or four years ago, yeah. I'm being that serious, Marana. This is like been stressing me out. That's why I've been so stressed out lately. So you have- You know I've been stressed out lately. So keep spitting out what you're gonna tell me. What do you think? Put two and two together. Four years ago. So you have a kid? Kind of. Kind of. Okay, I've been paying child support to her. Child support? So our money that we're making is going to child support? Bill, you know how messed up this is?  It's not even a lot. You have a kid that you paid to fact for. Out of our money, out of our money that we make on YouTube. And where does this kid stay? It's only like- Wouldn't you ever see the kid? It's only like 400, mom. Okay, my question is, wouldn't you ever see the kid? Wouldn't you see the kid? Is it a boy or a girl? Like who, like what is it? Yeah, it's a boy. It's a boy. So, wouldn't you see your son?  We were supposed to have our family. Now you have a whole other family, something else?  So, my question is- And I went there.  Today? No, like- No, do you realize- Remember that month that we broke up for? Yeah, but that was two years ago, three years ago? Exactly. Nine months after- Oh, that's when you found out? Nine months after she was pregnant. We broke up. I went to the hospital while we were broken up because I was so stressed out. Yes, there's that other girl that you know about, but I also, during that time, the reason why we broke up was because I was going to the hospital and I met the kid and then signed it over fully to her because I didn't want anything to do with it. So, why are you lying to me this whole time, though? I would have been- Listen, I've been so supportive with you- So, you would have liked having a kid? If it- Yeah, because I- You would have dated me if you found out that I had a kid when I was- What was that? I love you, Bill. Listen, this is the thing- How old was I? 16, 17? Okay, listen, I love you and I would have accepted that you had a kid with somebody else, but now I don't accept it and I don't appreciate you that you lied to me this entire relationship because that's messed up.  Yes, I have a kid, big deal. Okay, but here's the- And I've kissed your mom and I'm gonna get- Like, I'm gonna- This is a big deal.  They don't know about it. They don't know about them either? No, it doesn't. But here's the thing. This is why I need to- Nobody knows. This is why I need to tell you I have a kid now is because she wants me to have the kid. Like, keep it? She's moving out of country and she doesn't want to take him along because- Well, of course we can bring him along here and I'm supportive with you. It's just more of like, why wouldn't you tell me this before? Now it's gonna cause an issue. Now we are- So you're totally fine. No, I'm not fine because we have, we're not even old enough to do this stuff, but I mean, stuff happens- Obviously, you could be 16, 17. Listen, I want you to know something. I am very supportive with you and I'm going to love him like he's my own, okay? I'm going to, but what I'm upset with you about is that you kept this from me for this long. And then all of a sudden, he's throwing it. What if she never was leaving? You would have probably never told me and then like, that's just weird. And you should be there for your kid. You don't care- No. About your kid? I don't know him. I haven't seen him in, you know, a couple of years. That's not right. I'm just more mad at you because you didn't tell me and now you're telling me. Like this is like shocking to me and it makes me kind of uncomfortable that I just got thrown in this situation when you knew this this whole time. Like yeah, maybe back then I don't know what I would have done, but I love you now- So you're totally fine with me having a kid. Well, I'm not gonna leave you for that now. Well, obviously not. It can't make me so hard. Obviously not, but you're telling me right now that I'm having a little kid. I'm not fine, but I'm supportive. You're fine that I have you. I will adjust to it with time. I will adjust to it with time because I love you. You're like way too comfortable with this actually. Like that's- I am not comfortable. I said I will adjust to it.  I would be upset. No. Okay, right, honestly. Listen! Lynn Sin! You literally just seem like, oh that's fine, whatever.   How much I've been stressing about this. Okay, and you should be glad that I'm gonna be the queen for you. I know, but now you're just like, okay. Okay, okay. No, I didn't say I'm okay. I'm uncomfortable.  Listen, I'm uncomfortable, and I just said for the 100th time that I need to adjust to it, and I don't know how it's gonna be because our life is stressful as it is. I can't imagine throwing a kid into our life. I can't even fend for myself yet. How are we gonna fend for another kid? Because it's just, we'll make it work. Like this would have been a lot. How am I gonna tell my parents? How am I gonna tell my dad? Where's my mom? Like no one knows I had a kid. This is your problem. You and my ex-girlfriend are the only people that know I have a kid. So how am I gonna tell my mom and dad? I don't know. This isn't my problem. You just took me today. How are you gonna expect me to tell you how to do this? If I knew this for a long time and you were nervous to tell your parents, I would have came with you and helped you. But there's nothing I could do about it. This is something that you just threw at me, and they're gonna be just as mad at you because they should have known. That's messed up. You know, I was supposed to just, if you have a kid, you're supposed to care for the kid, not leave him behind. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I know, babe.  I'm gonna be there for you and I'm gonna support you and I'm gonna love him like he's my own and I'm excited and happy for you if this is what you want. But I'm just letting you know. It's not what I want. Well, it's what you did and you didn't tell anybody until now.  So you've been paying child support and when is this all, like how for how long? So you've been using- Since I signed the papers, I've had to pay child support monthly. Yes, I've been using it. How much is it? It's like, it's a couple hundred, like, 600, 700. $600 bill. Yeah. $600 a month? Yes, that's what we cost. Well, you better think you're using our money on something that I didn't even know about.  Yes, that's messed up because that's our money that we made together and you're gonna spend it on something without telling me? Yes, because I can't see it. Legally, I have to legally pay all the time. That's messed up. Why are you going home? I'm not gonna think about your actions. Why are you going home? What else are you hiding from me? I have a kid. That you're marrying. I just have a kid. That's all I have. I don't even trust you at this point. I have a friend. How can I trust you? All I have is a three-year-old that needs a home and he needs to come here with us.   Okay, but that's half. Like imagine. $700, whatever. I'm just so mad right now, Bill. I can't. I'm sorry. You should be. I don't know what you want me to do. I'm sorry. What I want you to do is say you're sorry and that you're gonna know. I'm just so I'm sorry. Oh my god. I'm sorry.  I'm not mad that you have a kid. I'm mad that you took this song to tell me and that you're doing these monthly bills with our money that we make together and you're not telling me what our payments are going to.  Oh, I'm so mad. Okay, why do you think, okay. I am so livid. I am so livid. Right, you know how I said we were only like. Bro, don't even talk to me. You know how I said we were only making. No, honestly, I'm not gonna talk to you. You know how I transfer money from into your account and into my account? Well, like I actually take a portion of your money. Not all of it, just from the account, like. You have got to give me money. I only give you a certain amount. Bro, are you shitting me? I'm not kidding. Bro, that's messed up and I'm going home. That's not even funny. I'm sorry. That's not even funny. No. You're taking my money, my money, to pay for a kid that's not even mine. To pay for my kid, it could be our kid. But I'm not trying to scream at you but this would have been a totally different situation if I knew. You didn't even need the extra money.  Seriously. Come here, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. Come here. Give me my space. Come here. Okay, why are you laughing? Why are you laughing? No, back up, seriously, no.  Come here, the relationship is that. Do I know what kind of relationship it is? What? Babe. They're so funny. No, I actually want to get- I think that it's a prank. Right, I actually wanted to get your reaction because I'm not pranking you. This is a reaction video. I have a kid. You're joking? No. Please be joking. This is a reaction video. I actually have a kid. Because that's irritating, dude.  Brian, I'm joking, I don't have a kid. I don't have a kid. Brian, I don't have a kid. I believe you now. I don't. I'm joking, I don't have a kid.  You freaking fell for it.  I'm the best prankster. No, you're not. It's not even a funny prank.  I swear, I'm sorry for making this. I'm still trying to process what the hell just happened. Okay, I had a kid. Now I don't. And I was just pranking you.  No, I'm just kidding. What? No.  And no, I never, when we broke up for a month, I never went over there and she never had a baby because we never had a kid. Okay, good, I'm glad it's a prank. It is a prank. I'm serious. Sorry for- I don't know what to believe. I want to watch your intro and make sure it's actually your action. It is. I'll show you after this. It doesn't matter because it is a prank. Whatever. Team Ryan has claimed that because that was a messed up. Please put in the comments. Who do you think is about a prankster? Team Bill or Team Ryan? Yes, Team Ryan had had some banger pranks, but Team Bill has also, I will admit that because I'm a good person, but Team Bill has also came through with good videos and just leave a comment on who you think. Team Ryan! All right everyone, so that concludes today's, I have a kid prank on my girlfriend. I hope you guys enjoyed. Make sure to drop a like on this video. Give it a thumbs up for Vlogmas. Vlogmas, you read my mind, Ryan. So Bill probably told you in the intro, but we are starting Vlogmas, starting tomorrow on Monday guys. I'm so excited. We're gonna be posting every day until Christmas, I think, or the day until Christmas or just every day this week? Every day until Christmas. I think every day until Christmas. So guys, make sure to give it a thumbs up if you want us to post every single day, every day until Christmas. This is the first time doing it. I guess we're about seven days late to Vlogmas, eight days. But that's fine. But that's okay because we just had a lot going on, so here we are. Thank you for watching. Sorry, Ryan, once again. It's okay. So we will see you guys in the next video, but until then. Peace. Peace, you have Vlogmas. Wait, see you tomorrow, actually. Yeah, see you tomorrow. Check us out tomorrow. See you tomorrow. Day two, let's get it.


Hi, everyone, this is Dr. Ruscio. I am here with Jen, who has had some nice results with Elemental Heal, and she was kind enough to share her story. So, Jen, I'm really excited to hearing more about your journey. Great, thank you. So, I don't know a ton about your case, and I try to leave these questions for us to go through in this conversation, but tell us a little bit about the road up to Elemental Heal.  Tell us a little bit about what was going on up until now. So, for over a year, I had just had symptoms that continued to get worse and worse. I had been dealing with extreme belching, extreme stomach, just a distended stomach. I always felt like I was full, so I was never hungry, but I knew that I was having trouble eating pretty much right before I started Elemental Heal. I couldn't eat anything without having some kind of symptom. I had tried the low bottom-up diet, elimination diets. I had been through extensive testing with my gastro-specialist, and I had just finished a colonoscopy and some biopsies with no results that were helpful. Nobody knew what was wrong, and I said to my doctor, have you heard of SIBO? And he said yes, and we discussed it and decided that I would pursue antibiotics, but my insurance would not cover them. So, because I had spent such a long time trying to heal myself and try other methods, I chose to do some research and then I found Elemental Heal. I was pretty miserable by the time I wasn't sleeping because of the symptoms and I was having trouble working and thinking, so. So, not a very, unfortunately, not a very uncommon story where on the one hand, some good things. You had any major pathologies ruled out by your gastro and your conventional doctors, which I think everyone should, and just to maybe reiterate this for people, my position has always been, you should have at least one doctor on each side of the fence because while there is some overlap in the Venn diagram, there's also differences in what we're looking for. So, I was to make sure, in case there was any kind of major potentially threatening pathology present, you had that ruled out. So, okay, we can kind of check that, which is good on the one hand and frustrating on the other because it leaves the person saying, well, what do I do? And then you also try some diets. Low Fobbit is a great initial diet to try along with an elimination. So, those are both very intelligent first dietary steps to go through. So, you really have had done, I think, a kind of A-plus job on the way up to this point. And I also don't blame you for feeling a little bit miserable because when you're doing this stuff, seeing doctors and changing your diet and not feeling any better, it can be really frustrating. I'm glad that you are all about the potential of SIBO or some type of disruption of the flora in the gut. And Rhafaxin or Zyfaxin is definitely approved to help with IVS. So, that's definitely an option. But unfortunately, as you mentioned, for some people, it's really a battle with their insurance to obtain coverage. And this is where I think probiotics have a lot of potential utility because we haven't done the analysis yet, but I'm fairly certain that we do a cost analysis comparing the facts when the probiotics will find the probiotics are vastly cheaper as one option or the elemental diet as another option. The nice thing about the elemental is it can really do fairly rapid relief and symptoms. Not to say it's the best option, but it may be one of the more expeditious. Is that what you noticed? Was there a fairly quick response in terms of your symptoms? Yes, I would say within, definitely by the third day, my quality of life had completely flipped around where it was pretty, it was, if on a scale of one to a hundred, it probably was at a five and then it was up to 95. And to your point, I think the elemental diet and all the other things that I had tried, for me, I had been spending so much money on food and testing that it just, I really felt like I was out of options and I was willing to just drink liquid. So you have to be, I think, ready to do that too, but I was at a place where I was ready to do it, to do it consistently. So yes, my symptoms were, I would say they improved after just a day, but almost all of them were drastically improved by the third day. Okay, so yeah, and so again, that expeditious response. Was it difficult for you to do? One of the things I'd love for you to speak to, and there's no right or wrong answer here, I'm not trying to lead you in one direction, but one of the things people will read about online, depending on where they start their meeting with the elemental diet, there's some more data literature that, or opinions that elemental diets taste terrible, which is true based upon the early formulas, the newer formulas like the elemental heel line has said some major revisions in terms of flavor profile. So what did you think about taste? How difficult was it to do? And how do those other aspects feel for the person who may be saying, oh my gosh, exclusive liquid nutrition, that sounds really hard? Yeah, it was hard, but so I'm still using it, but for the first, I took it for 17 days, only that. And I just played around with ratios, so ice cubes, and do I wanna use a third, two thirds cup liquid or a half a cup or a full cup? I purchased the vanilla and the chocolate. I think the taste is fine. I had no problem tolerating the taste for the elemental heel formula. And I was really happy because I had read so many stories about diets like that, tasting really bad. So that was also important to me when I was doing my research and trying to figure out what diet I wanted to choose. I knew that I felt I would have a better shot if it was getting good reviews taste wise than it was. Sure, sure. So you've done it, you did it for 17 days exclusively and have you gone through the food reintroduction yet or what does that look like? Actually, did I say seven, was it 17 days? I think I'm wrong about that. It was just over, I think it was just over two weeks that I did it exclusively. Yes, so then I did reach out to your health coach and scheduled an appointment because I knew that I had to figure out how to reintroduce food and I was really nervous about that. To answer your question, yes, I have been introducing very, very slowly the three probiotics and then just reintroducing food. And I've learned the hard way from my moments of weakness that things, I guess things that I don't tolerate or how important it's been for me to introduce like one ingredient at a time so that I can really be a good detective and figure out what my body's responding to and what it doesn't like and what it can tolerate. Good, well, I'm glad that you're gonna be working with one of our health coaches. One of the reasons why I think that the health coaching is such a nice compliment to something like doing a reset with elemental heal is because from there, you're kind of back into the wilderness of, oh my gosh, all these various bands on the internet and it can be very hard to know, well, what is the best way to kind of parse through all these kind of opinions and really lay them out in a way where we're going to go with the steps that seem to be the most science-based rather than, as you may have heard, my criticism that there's a lot of conjecture on the internet and I'm sure most of the conjecture is well-intentioned but we should take opinions, filter the opinion through a filter of science and then on the other side, we retain hopefully the best recommendations which doesn't always seem to happen in the field and that can lead to consumers being really confused in terms of what to do because the recommendations that they get aren't all passed through that filter. So some of the recommendations may be sound, others may be really not very well-bedded. It's very hard for the consumer to know which one is which, which one do I do and that's where the health coaching can really be helpful. Yes, I wanted to, I didn't wanna walk right back into the place that I had been prior to elemental heal. I needed a plan and I wanted some support. Probiotics are definitely a great addition because those can, presumably, and this has been partially demonstrated, the best model that has demonstrated this is probiotics allowing those with lactose intolerance to have a better tolerance for redirection of dairy and there was one study that found that those who were non-seriac gluten sensitive who went on a gluten-free diet actually had a better symptomatic improvement when they also had probiotics on board at the same time. So the probiotics will definitely help you and the other thing that I'm confident our health coach will help imbue is not a fearful perspective regarding food which is another thing that's so easy to kind of slip into which is reading about all the foods that can be bad, carbs, oxalates, FODMAP, salicylates, all these things and it can be very confusing and people can start to take six different diets and try to follow all those rules at the same time and you feel like they've kind of shrunken their life into this carrots and turkey kind of diet which that's a little more extreme than we have to go. So that's why I'm really glad that you're on board with the health coach show. She can really help you through these next few steps. And have you started the reintroduction? So you're already kind of exploring a little bit into the reintroduction? Yep, about every 72 hours I'm reintroducing a food. I'm still staying away from dairy and one of my slip-up was that I let myself have a piece of dark chocolate and I was miserable. But the thing about Elemental Heal was that it really did help me feel like I was starting with a clean slate. So I got my quality of life back. I got some hope. I was sleeping better. So that gave me energy to keep, I know that I'm not finished yet but it gave me the energy I needed to continue to figure out this food situation for myself. Absolutely, absolutely good. So I think you're on a really good path right now. Just a few things maybe to throw out there and you probably already know this but just to make sure I put them on the board here. Look at those reintroduction as opportunities to learn. Sometimes I think we can be quick to beat ourselves up. And it's all about how we kind of frame this but okay, maybe right now chocolate and or maybe the dairy and the chocolate is a trigger for you. And it's frustrating on the surface but we can file that away as okay, here's the list of foods I'm gonna be cautious with. Come back to those a little bit later and I'm sure as you continue working through the food list you'll find many foods are okay and there'll be that small column of foods that seem to flare you which as you continue on your journey that small list of foods should get smaller and smaller as your gut heals the same thing that I went through. I used to have problems with beef, eggs, spinach, all these foods and every few months those intolerances really started to drop off. So just kind of keep that in mind that whatever your reactions are on day one or day five may not be the same a few months later so that you kind of keep that overarching philosophy of healing, I'm getting better and I'm going to consciously kind of trying to keep expanding the boundaries of my diet over time. Yeah, thank you for saying that, that helps. Good, good. Okay, was there anything else that you wanna share with people? I think just I know that if you are miserable it can be very difficult to figure out what works and maybe even to trust reviews but I wrote a pretty lengthy review because I just felt compelled to help other people. I'm truly grateful and honestly I think that it has a ripple effect. So your quality of life may improve with Al-Nel Heal but the quality of life of the people who love you also improves. I'm a vice president of an educational program so I'm able to do my work in the world that I was really struggling with. So I think it's important. Yeah, and I'm grateful. Yeah, well thank you and I'm so glad to hear that and I couldn't agree with what you said more and that's one of the facets of the work that we do that makes me so proud of the impact that we're having in the world is that knowing there's all these people out there who are presidents, vice presidents, mothers, fathers, you know, they're functioning in their lives like you said and they're showing up with more energy, vitality, happier mood, more energy and that has a big impact on how you're impacting all those people in your life and that's very important. So I'm glad you made that point. Yeah, yeah, thank you. Well awesome, I'm thrilled that you're doing better. Please keep us posted and I'm very confident that the road ahead for you will be a steady trend line upward. There may be a few bumps in the road that's just part of being human and not being a machine but I think you're on a really excellent path and I'm super happy to hear it. Thank you so much, I appreciate your time. Thank you.