They even stayed at the scene for you there. That's right. They did good. We have some more coming. Are you all in? Sure. Have yourself. You bet. Now, the CCB hasn't been approved to remove the 250, so all you'll have is a 90. And that's all we brought today was a 90 for you. Some others up here, there weren't as many buildings out of it. I know. They just keep growing up. When we started this, I was documenting all that. We used to come up here and shoot it for resolution. We'd shoot those grates over there. And boy, when it was out, you could really tell it on those grates. Can I get trained? We've got sufficient. Yeah, help yourself. If you need help, I'm going to let you do it. Good finders. Yeah. Yep. Stop shutter speed. What film you got in here, Jane? This is the 5017. That's ASA 64. Yeah, the one place I was thinking it might be worth, I'm not even sure you would need to change the focus on this thing, but with the telescope up at Appendage Deploy, I think in the 90, pretty good shot. Oh yeah. We separate away. It'd be fantastic. Lauren, how far, how long is it till we're up about, just coming up on 90 above and we're looking at the telescope down against the earth? Does that be the other good place for 25 to 30 minutes? Transition time. Up to almost. That'd be the other sequence once we're about 100 feet or so back and starting with a telescope. You know, but I bet you Infinity is still fine for that. We'll look at the depth of field and if you're going to get... Against Earthshine, it's going to be at least F11. Oh yeah. So I'll have to pull out the books, but I think Infinity's still going to be alright for that. We'll go into... I'll talk to Jeff and get him to give you a setting for that. You may be going just towards the terminator. Just getting right towards the terminator about that 20 or 25 minute point depending on where we release, where we actually get it released compared to orbit. Uh huh. Now you're going to have... Did you push big base in this one? Good, okay. Because we don't have a whole lot of thin base, but you will have the thin base in yours which will give you 2.7 or somewhere there about so you should have plenty of film. Now I've got the gel filter holders ordered for the Nikon. The 180 F28 seems to be a real good lens. It's relatively fast and we still get some magnification on it. What was that? It's a 180 millimeter F2.8. You can just add it. It's a lot of big deal. That's about the size tripod you've got to have with that big of camera. LBJ needed his technical rationale which was the access to deep draft barge. I think that's the only time we've used it, isn't it? I think that's the only time we've used it too. Yeah, it's the only two times. I remember the day they floated that in. I think I came down to see it when I brought it in. I'm going to make sure the park was in here. With a little bit of it I can see. Yeah. How many are we supposed to take? A couple. Okay, I think there's enough for about six or eight everybody. Well, I'm going to take my six.  Just tell me what it is. We'll try that. Paco's all the way to New Orleans. I think it's a... I don't know. Yeah, it's a beautiful shot. Fantastic. And the funny part was that you can tell distinctively where the Balconas escarpment is. You can fly over it and can't even see it, but for some reason I think it's vegetation or anything. You can tell right where that sucker is. Can I see where'd you shoot? Because I just got to eat again? No, I got to take a little circle and make sure it's clear of the roof. Just line it up on the dark part of the South Shore Harbor, yeah. Three point up? Right in the corner window there. Good again. I think you're getting either some sunlight, some sky in there. If I take it up to the clouds, I get 5.6. Oh, I wasn't doing that. I was just lining right up on the side of the building there. I wonder if we're looking at the same building. Yeah, the South Shore Harbor. It's the only big building in the hotel. I got it right in that green window in the corner. The circle around there. Yeah. Yeah, I was going lower so that I tried to get... You may be getting some sunlight in the marina. Yeah. I sure hope we get some nice pictures with it. Yeah. Oh, you will, I guarantee you. You stick it out the window. You'll get nice pictures with it. Point it out the window. We got, what, two magazines? Yeah, I'm too mad now. You'll have two and then we'll have about two 70 exposures to eat. So you got plenty of film. Take pictures. Don't worry about whether you should take it or not. Just take them. You should have plenty of film. Did I hear you saying something about a filter for this? No. No, we're talking about a different subject. With an icon and a couple of gel filters. I didn't remember one from last time. No, there's a haze filter on there, but you don't have to do anything whether it just keeps the lens clean for some reason. Okay. Spacecraft windows is a good enough haze filter, really. Yeah. Well, I'll have these processed and I'll get them to Judy and she'll bring them and show them to you. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you for coming over. Thank you. You need another session or anything? Okay. Give me a holler. We'll set it up again. How about one on the top of one on the lower? That'd be nice. I don't know if NASA will pay my way there or not, though. Yeah, primarily because it was, you know, seven, eight, nine magnitude stars are what typically you have accurate positions for, because they're easy and there's enough of them and it's straightforward to do. Okay. 16 millimeter class. It's the same as the 35. I'm going to go up here and see and then we'll put it together and then we'll go up here and take pictures. And the last thing we do is film loading because it's kind of complicated. So the very last thing is film loading. If you want to load it, it's fine. I'll load it first. If you don't want to load it or you want to wait till you go home and check one out, it's just great too. Of course, you're going to start in the generic checklist if you haven't hooked up a photo camera checklist in a long time. Here or now, we have flight-specific books. The mail functions are here and on the 16 stuff, this camera does great. So there's a lot of things in there where the part of the problem is the operator error. And we tried to do it through mail functions right close to the pictures that you found is pretty straightforward. The 16 millimeter camera is not exactly your instamatic and people just get a little bit more confused on this one. Were you here in the days of the deck cameras? Yeah. This is an instamatic. Anyway, that's all there is in this book. There's the same thing in malfunctioning pictures for all the systems that we have. Anything that flies pretty often is in our inventory, is in your limelight or spot meter and stuff of that sort. In the same sort of such, in the flight supplement. Okay? So that's that. Also, there isn't a workbook on this camera that is still in use. But I did bring in 35 workbooks and 70 workbooks. You can go ahead and start reading although they're out of 70. If I've got three of them, before we leave at that time. Okay. I've taken off all the attachments to this camera so we can just start from scratch here. Set it 45 degrees. So we cut out into like a pie. And it turns. So one minute you're doing, one minute take a picture. One minute you're doing, one minute you're taking a picture. That's pretty slow for me. If you look in here, you can see the mirror turning around. And actually, it, you can see some flickering but most of the time you just forget that's even happening. So that's how it's through the lens. Just get the diopter next to you and watch the screen get sharp and not so sharp. Yeah, I did that. Okay. The other thing is, you know, the mirror turns. Well, when you turn the camera off, it always continues as much as it needs to to put the mirror in the viewing position. If you pick up the camera, somebody's going to mess with it or the battery is dead. You're in a machine. You can't see through it. Your mirror is just not adjusted. To get it back in the right position you can physically turn it or put a fresh battery on there. Most of the time it's going to be a problem. So you can put all this stuff on there and then you can fill in there. The camera in the bag and everything is about 30 pounds at 9 in the morning and it's about, actually it starts at 100 at 7. It goes to low at 9 and it goes back up to the day. Techniques. Why aren't I getting it to run here? Okay, are we in standby? Yeah. Stand by or run? There you go. I didn't see it move, but maybe it did. You didn't have that. I don't think so. No, it was gone. So I got to actually do both of them on one flight. It was a pain in the neck. Out of line on the battery capabilities. And with the day 6, the day 7 EVA, we're going to get the EVA on. Attached to means which has the automatic motor. Yeah, so it's not coupling. And the exposure LED is coming from the same thing. That's not an exposure LED. You mean a little red line? Yeah. Okay, there's a red line in there. You can find it. And it's a motor speed light.  And when you turn the camera off, it should actually blink as you can. Yeah. That means that the motor is not up to 24 frames a second yet. Engines up there real quick. If you have a bad battery that light can stay on constantly, and it tells you you have a bad battery, and therefore your motor speed is dropping. But if you hit it and lock it down, it might go out. If that light doesn't go out, it's somewhere off speed. And it could be because you have a film draft. It could be that you have a bad battery. It's running but not so fast. Anyway, okay. So now let's see. We put the camera together. We adjusted the eye-opter. We put the battery on. We detached the magazine and hand-grip. We know how to do all that. The next thing, we're going to talk about is lenses. And this system has two lenses. And lenses are quite different. Some people like one, some don't like the other. You remember I told you yesterday about widening lenses for no focusing? Okay, this is one right here. This lens is a 5-9. It's extremely wide-angle. Only control on this is amateur. And there's pros and cons. Even focus is really easy because it's 0.2. But there's no auto meter needle bosons. See, because like this. Down, you're over exposed. Why they did that? I don't know. If it's up, it's under exposed. It's backwards. But anyway, if you use a 5-9, focus is really easy. But exposure is not really easy. So you have to constantly adjust here. Now, if you're in the mid-deck, once you adjust it, it's pretty much going to be the same no matter what you shoot. But on a flight deck with windows and stuff like that, it gets a little bit more intricate. Say, there's my metering. Get your metering right. And then you can do the metering. No focus involved whatsoever. So I'd like to pass that around and have you operate the meter. And while you're doing that, I'm going to talk about this other lens. The zoom lens is extremely popular. First off, I'm taking the orange filter off. And what in the heck is this orange filter for? The strange thing that we do is that we fly tungsten film. So if we shoot daylight, we have to color correct it. Makes sense. Also, with this zoom lens, our smallest aperture is F16. We have 148, so we're overexposure. So not only is this color correction but it's sunglasses. And it cuts down as a neutral density and it's a good exposure. Obviously, if you were to come into the cabin, you would want to take this off. Because almost all of the cabin and photography is wide open. There's just not much light in there. Unless you have lots of sunshine streaming in, you need all the light you can get. So you always take this off or inside. So you're going to say, well, put it on and go outside or off. These are sunglasses up here with macro. So you focus and then you have your zoom ring here. If you want to go into macro, push the macro button and you're in the macro. If you want to get back out of macro, push the macro button and you're back out of macro. The normal area is the normal zoom range and focus. You can only go into macro if you had something really special. We'll talk about that when you get the camera in the pan. The aperture ring is a little bit strange in that it moves from F16 to F2. But if you push this button, now you go into auto. So I'm in auto exposure. And so I don't have to adjust exposure at all. Camera takes care of that. All I do is zoom and focus. It's really easy. As we get through looking at the camera, I'm going to touch this and talk about that. The exposure on that again is a sort of fly from it. It shows a plus in that you should. If it shows a plus, it means it needs more light to open up. It means you are overexposed. It's the situation that you are. It doesn't tell you what to do. It turns excessive light. Excuse me. You know, the reason you're out of light coming in, overexposed is down and underexposed is over. So with that lens, as you adjust the aperture, you're going to get the needle right in the center. If you point the camera up at the light, the needle should drop to the overexposed area. And then you readjust for that. Play with that. Inside the finder, you see some areas. TV safe areas. You know, when they take this film stuff, they transfer it to video. So you want to keep your image within these little lines here. That's your TV set area. One of the major problems we have is couldn't you know how to get contrasts so close there? So once you put it on, you just do a lens claim. The lens claim gets a little long. There's a caption for that one. I know there's a star up there. I know there is. What I thought we'd do is not really concentrate on the specifics of the camera or fear of getting into kind of negative training situations. So if you just bear with us, the real objective both in this session and the bit one in building nine is for you to take some pictures that we can go into the theater and look at. So we won't talk too much about equipment. We'll talk a bit about photography. So I turned over to James and David to help them and charge on our head. Well, the first thing I'll do is have a look at the tripod because that's going to be your zero G simulator for the day. And we've got two controls on pan and tilt. If you want to tilt it, we have a lock here. We'll lock it wherever you want to put it. We have a pan lock to the front, the same sort of lever right in front. So anytime you want to move the camera, just unlock those and put it wherever you want it and lock them back in the stay right there. So we'll go through all four of those today. We'll talk some about exposure, how to use the light meter out here and be able to relate that to what the film is going to record and the sort of range of values you'll be able to portion it. And of course we'll shoot in Simon. We'll compare lenses when you see things in the sun since apparently you'll be looking a lot in the sun with HST. So we want to get you familiar with what the different lenses will do in that situation and really get contrast range going over here with the Saturn V. So that's some of the things we'll be doing out here today and then we'll go on into the CCT later in the afternoon and do some interior things. What do you want to add to that? Mr. Douglas? Just going to pipe in once in a while. Keep the action, the main action in the Omni-Max. Try to keep it really down in the low part of the frame otherwise people have to look around and strain their neck to see what's going on. When you put it down almost. If you can. If you have a chance to do that. If you've got that choice you can do it. Generally speaking if you keep things in the more in the center part and not too high up that's kind of a good ground. A good rule of thumb for almost anything. With lots of shots you've got no choice. You're going to fill the frame. Our normal pattern has been for everybody to take at least one and if possible two shots I think while you're here. Why don't we try for everybody to take two? Think about a shot you'd like to take here, here, wherever. We can move the camera to wherever you want and think of a couple of different lenses. One shot with one lens, another shot with another. And we'll try to move it around and give everybody two turns to shoot something. So you choose the you just look around and find something you'd like to shoot. So what you'll want to do is probably zoom this in if it's not zoomed in. Find that little switch that's for sure. Shutter switch. I kind of need to do that. Okay that knob is moving a little element group in here. On the flight camera you're actually pushing on a lever which is attached to the element group but you couldn't get that finder with this. He asked the guy that wears glasses. I'm going to ask him. It looks focused to me. The lines are supposed to be grins, right? Rotate this. See I haven't bothered his adjustment because if the black lines are crisp. Are you zoomed in? I'm zoomed in. And I can see little furry when I say they're crisp. What? Little furry creature. Hairy-legged little I would not bother it. So now you're in a position to decide whether or not the lens is in focus. Okay. You don't like playing the hyper-focal business game? Well, we'll go into that a bit later too. Okay. In fact you can do is you can if your focus about Shoot it and then we're going to vote on it. You guys are going to go change it now. So you get repetitive friends? With Gramsby and interviews Phyllis lives in the background and she's the governor of the state of Texas or something so we want to make sure. We can care less about this rock. The lens, once you get it past F8 everything is pretty nice. That's the other thing. Set your lens up and set your frame and do your focus in with the lens. Wide open. I don't know Charlie. See we didn't change the f-stop. No we didn't. I just wanted to make the point that when you're going to do this process that you check the lens on the camera is wide open because everything's just way harder. I want to close this thing down and just have a look at the difference of looking through there. There's wide open. Now if you try to focus like that see how kind of trouble you'd be in. That's 22. That's halfway open. Even there it's really difficult to do. When you first grab it to focus just make sure it's wide open. Not today. I don't know of it. By then you'll be so fast it won't matter. Your critical focus is one forward. Right hand there Bruce. The little one there. You can use that to zoom in on that little circle. In fact this shot is very difficult to do with your problem because to get a really in the print they fudge it a bit because it can work with the print. But on the film it's always been hard to print it so you've got reasonable blue on the earth and reasonable detail on the card. Just a little bit too wide. I don't even know if this is open up or down. That's up. I decided to grab the just about the ultimate range that you can set up wide open. I like it. The fedora suits you. Yeah I think so. I need it. We'll get to things though. There will be a start up checklist for you on the camera. There's a big roll of film here weighs 10 pounds. Sometimes the next guy who shoots after you take this shot what will happen probably is there will be a little extra film once the camera stops that weight will carry around a little bit further. So you just try to take the slack out of that and you feel it doesn't start up and then hit that stop. Hit that stop. It's starting. I'll put some in there so you can feel better. Come around the corner. Just a minute. Back again. You want to be all unlocked. Everything you're all unlocked. You ready to go? Yeah it's getting smooth. James? Give him a little more room. Since Bruce and Kathy are EVA right now and I want to get the telescope and I'm going to I think I'll go ahead and focus on Bruce. Yeah it's all the way in and I've got the thing here. Keep them low on the frame. How far up the frame is my head right now? Your head is right in the middle. 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Boom, what's up everyone, welcome to Simulation. I'm your host, Alan Sakyan. We are still on site in Manhattan in New York City, New York. And we are now at the New York Comedy Club, which is an amazing venue that's had a plethora of different leading comedians that have performed here over the years. And huge shout out to them for hosting us. We are gonna be talking about all things comedy, all things science communication, the importance of these pressing conversations at this inflection point in civilization. I'm really excited to be featuring Chuck Nice. Hey, thanks for coming on the show. Man, it's great to see you again, you know? Glad you're here on the East Coast, you know? It's always good. You do a great job with, you know, bringing science down to earth for people and promoting science literacy and putting information out there and making it accessible to an audience that otherwise would not be able to contact this information. So I really appreciate you. Chuck, thank you so much for those words and I'll double his pay afterward. That was so good. And oddly enough, I'll still be getting paid the same. And so basically everything Chuck said about me, Chuck does himself as well. Chuck's been, he was born in Philadelphia. He's a comedian, actor, television host, radio host, podcast host. And this is across 46 television shows, which is crazy. So it's just a myriad of different programming that he's hosting and co-hosting. And he's been doing comedy for almost two decades now. Wow, now somehow that sounds really bad. It's great because that's the accumulation of experience over time. And same thing with all the programming that you've been on. And this is everything from the Radio Chick show all the way to playing with science, with StarTalk, also the Today show, all the different types of stuff that you've been a part of. And okay, so Chuck and I have, oh, and Chuck's really cool TED Talk. We'll put that link in the bio as well. Yeah, thanks, yeah. Yeah, it's a really good TED Talk. A funny look at the unintended consequences of technology. And again, you really take that sort of, you're at the edge of a knowledge point. You're like, here's biotech, here's AI, here's social media's effects on us. I don't really do a deep dive into it like you would expect from some of the other TED Talks which are far more narrow in their subject matter. What I do is an overarching broad look at human interaction and technology. And hopefully, by being funny about it, there are some thought provoking touch points that say, okay, yeah, okay, this is what we're actually doing. And technology can be a little scary for some and it can be scary for real. And then the perceptions of it, I think what we think is going to be is going to be somewhat but nothing like we think, you know, going forward. And I only say that from looking at like world's fairs in the past, but the difference now is that many futurists and people who are driving technology forward, they, it's not coming from a place of, wouldn't it be great if we or what if cars could fly? It's actually a more algorithmic progression of technology now. And as a result, things that are mind blowing come to fruition so much quicker, so much quicker, which means they also enter obsolescence so much quicker. And so that's why I think we're not going to see the future the way we imagine it to be, not because it won't actually be headed in that direction, but because we'll actually skip over some of that stuff. We have a lot to evolve our own ethics and our own unity across Earth. And we're just leaping to transhumanism without really figuring out ourselves as just advanced chimps first. Wow, that, right there is a whole show. You just, that is like, you know, seriously, that's a book what you just said. That's a, yeah, that is kind of what, that's kind of what I fear most about it. And that's kind of what my TED talk, the very, you know, the final takeaway from it is really about, you know what you have to do? You have to find out, where is your humanity? What is it that makes you a human being?  I mean, think about, I watch, I've never seen the entire movie, but the something war of the planet of the apes or something and the chimpanzee Caesar comes into, you know, all chimps are already sentient, but he comes into a self-awareness that human beings have, the Descartes, I think therefore I am, he has that moment. And then in a moment of defiance, he speaks. And his first word is, no! And I'm like, oh, that's some real stuff. Like that's very, very real. And what is it that separates us from that? That I think is the real question. That's a good way to put it. And I think part of it is our ability to realize that we were birthed from the cosmos and that we are then figuring out how to work together on this rock. And that's part of the, without humans on the rock, I think the rock would just do its normal nature evolution, but humans being stewards of the rock then make it so that we can really understand where exactly we came from, we can understand the code of the universe, the math, and then we can get off the rock to the next rocks, but we gotta learn how to have that empathy and that unity and that altruism. And I think that's another thing that separates us as being able to raise the baseline of living for everyone around the planet. Yeah. And you know, it's funny because what you're talking about on a more everyday level, I had a conversation with my wife yesterday and we were looking at, we were unfortunately watching the news, which we don't do a lot, we read the news more because it gives you a different perspective, but when you watch the news, it's scary. And because that's what they're trying to elicit from you. They want, they're selling theater. Okay, let's be honest.  And you can become addicted to that. You can become addicted to that feeling of, oh my God, what the hell is happening? Oh, you know, and that becomes the commodity that they're trading it. And, you know, after about a half hour of like little bits from what's going on around the world and of course, domestically. And I just turned to her and I was just like, the whole world is effed up because of money. Money!  Where is our humanity? And when you reach a place of, I look at it like marriage, good marriage works like this. I think about you before I think about me.   You can't help it, okay? I'm gonna think about you before I think about me. And that can, you know, if you were to take that and just knead it out like dough and expand it to the entire earth, boom, guess what? 90-something percent of our problems, poof, they disappear. Yeah. They disappear. Why? Humanity. Yeah, where is our humanity? And Chuck, you bring up this really interesting point that when we look back thousands of years and we think about what it was like to approach someone and ask them, you know, oh, who owns this land? What do you mean owns this land? This is Earth's land. We're just farming on it, this is just what we do. And we live on it. And so the whole, and then now another big thing, and we don't typically think about this one, but just in the last 100 years, just a hockey stick of population, that's been, it's actually people moving to metropolises for opportunity and the network effect has crowded these metropolises to insane degrees and extents, and that's also amazing. I want to know what you're talking about. I live in New York. Yeah. Okay, we are doing a lot of big history and we're doing a lot of civilization design conversation right now, and we'll do more of that towards the end. I want to ask Chuck about comedy because this seems to be something that, it's almost an essence that we carry around with ourselves. It's kind of like humor and fun and play. And it's something we can carry through from childhood through our adult life. And you almost, you train your cognition faster to be able to like make those comedic entries into your situations in life, and it's really cool.  So I don't think I picked it up because I, okay, well I'll tell you my first comedic experience and when I knew, I knew that this was my trajectory in life. Okay, I was giving a speech in the second grade in front of a assembly that had all the students and parents of the second grade. And I was wearing a bow tie. It was part of the outfit that they asked for me to wear. And as I was giving the speech, which one, you know, a lot of kids would be very frightened to get in front of a large group. And that, I did not know that I was supposed to be afraid to speak in front of a large audience. And that's why I was picked to do it because I had this natural inclination to speak in front of people. It didn't bother me. As a matter of fact, I was unaware that there was a large group of people looking at me. And I wore a bow tie and it was clip on and the teacher didn't clip it on properly and it fell off in the middle of my speech. It just, it literally hung, it dangled and people started laughing and I didn't know why and I looked down and when I looked down, it fell. And then they laughed some more. And so I bent down, I picked it up and of course I can't see so I thought I clipped it on and put it and it fell again. And I started enjoying the fact that people were laughing at that then I was enjoying giving the speech. And so at that point I just kept allowing that to happen while and then I finished the speech and I kept doing it and the people loved it. They loved it and the teacher was horrified and she was like, in the future, something you should know about the stage. When something goes wrong, you don't acknowledge it. You just keep moving because no one knows that something went wrong. But once you acknowledge it, they are now tuned into that and that's what they're focused on. And I was like, no, when you do something wrong, you just keep moving. When I do something wrong, I'm gonna have fun with it. I make fun of myself. I'm gonna make fun. This is great. I loved it. And from that point forward I knew something, there was something about laughter that I really enjoyed and giving it. Like not just like giving laughter. I really liked it. And I guess a lot of people would have been mortified by the fact that they're on stage, people are laughing and they're kind of laughing at you because you're doing this thing. I didn't bother me at all. I liked it. And so that's kind of where it all started for me, that one experience. And what that experience did was it served as a catalyst and I started looking for ways to make people laugh. And people were always like, you're very funny. You're funny, you're funny. But being funny and being a comedian to totally different things. And I am a performer, but I'm also a comedian. And not a lot of comedians bring the two together. If you notice, if you watch comedy, it's a lot of guys standing and they're like, so the other day I was, it's more of a conversation. And I don't really like doing that. I like performing. I like being animated. I like seeing the different looks on people's faces, but I also love writing jokes and having a narrative arc and then having an unexpected or ending to that narrative arc which elicits laughter. And so that's kind of for me how it all came about. And I've been doing it almost 20 years. I was on this very stage last night. I did two shows right here and they were killer shows. And so it's the only thing that I do that I've never become bored. You're constantly iterating on your creative ability through comedy. Absolutely, and everything. And this is why I love science. Okay, so like I love science because the more you learn about science, the more you learn, there's more science. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like that is the greatest thing about science. It's like the more, and I don't care what it is from biology to neuroscience to the cosmos. It doesn't make a difference that no matter what it is, you find something out and then it becomes more granular and then it becomes even more granular and then it's like you can just go so deep into it. And then you realize, oh my God, like that's here but it's also here. And then you look at it and you're like, oh my God, science is, everything is science. Everything, well everything is comedy too. And that's what's so cool about it. And that's the two, that's what they share for me. It's like everything is comedy and you can find it anywhere. And the greatest joy that I have watching other comedians, which I don't do very often but the greatest joy that I have is seeing their perspective and how they found comedy and something that I thought there was no comedy and whatsoever. And it's like, there's a big question that is asked. Is there such a thing as a funny rape joke? And I'm like, first of all, that's a really lousy question. Like, you know, that's one of those set up questions because you know it's gonna be a controversial answer. But the short answer is yes there is and I've heard quite a few. And it all depends, like I've heard a woman tell and some are offensive and some are clever. But that's what you're really asking is, is it offensive? And offense is something that lies in the ears of the beholder. Yeah, there's a lot to talk about right there.  It actually teaches us to not be scared or not be fearful of taking a leap into something that is unexplored for us because when we learn how to do that over and over again it takes us to the next level.  We have to gain these attributes and skills. It's one of the best ways for us to learn and grow. And that story also speaks to you getting your flow into the field. And then I like how you talk about there's always something different about comedy for every person. And then also when you do watch someone else perform you see what they find to be funny and how they talk about it. And I'm glad you mentioned the science because we can move into your roles in science communication as you see the world as all comedy and all science and the interconnectedness of all things period that it gives you, you basically get more material for comedy by seeing the world through a scientific lens. Absolutely. And the funny thing is I don't talk about science in my comedy. And people say, oh you should, you should do that. And it's because I don't have anything good enough yet but I have looked like, I'm working on some things that I would like to bring into my act. But the thing is this, when you talk about science and I think it's very important when you talk about science that you have to do it in such a way that it's inviting. A lot of science right now, I shouldn't say science, science is just science, it doesn't do anything one way or the other. A lot of science communication and mostly by sciences. People like you actually open science up to a greater audience. But many scientists, and this is not a knock against them, it's just because they are isolated in their own community and communication is not something that they must learn. And I think that part of any science discipline should be classes in communication. Like you should know how to talk about what this thing that you love so much and that you should know how to talk about it not in the way that you would talk to another scientist but in the way that you would talk to Chuck Nice who may not be the smartest guy in the world but wants to know, wants to know what you're talking about. And I think that the problem is there's an intellectual superiority complex that many scientists have. Rightfully so. When someone, just because someone says, oh, you think you're superior, it's like, no, I don't think I'm superior. Scientists are superior in many ways in certain areas but we all are superior in many ways in certain areas. I like thinking about it as an edge. So they've gone to the edge of knowledge in a specific field and so they're trying to talk to other people at the edge. At the edge. Move the edge forward for society. And so when someone like us says, how do you make that relatable for people closer into the center, there are people that wanna just be genius at the edge and not work on the communication which is great. And that's fine. But don't talk to people. You might defer them away from it. Right, talk to other scientists. Don't talk to people because you're doing a disservice when you talk to people. I look at it like NFL analysts and color commentators. The analysts and color commentator make the, they're not necessary. If you like football, you don't need to hear this guy just tell you that that guy ran five yards and was tackled. I just saw that. I don't need you. But what they're doing is they're bringing the inside game outside. And it makes you feel like I know more about football now. I understand this game. And then before you know it, you're watching the game and you'll see it and you're like, ah, damn, that's holding.  That's whole. And before you know it, here you are. You're coaching. You know what I mean? You're coaching the Eagles.  You're just like, why would they do that? You know more than the professionals playing the game. So you think, but that's what makes it exciting for you. And so that, I think, is what has to happen with science. We need more people. It's not a spectator's right. It's not a spectator's, but we need more people to activate other minds so that they understand this is not relegated to a bunch of eggheads sitting in a room discussing ethereal matters.  You should know. For instance, there's a comedian that will not say his name because I actually know him, but he does a joke about how molecules are a part of everything, which is true. Everything has a molecular structure. And there are molecules in my hand, but there's molecules in the air. But my hand, when I hit a wall, doesn't pass through. Right? First of all, it's not molecules that he's really talking about. What he's really talking about is the space between atoms and how if you look at the space between electrons and a nucleus, it's like space itself. It's mostly empty. So why is it that things don't pass through one another and stuff like that? And he says, and scientists don't know why. He says, I'm like, no, scientists do know why. What are you talking about? Well, they do know why. What you're talking about is the fact that certain things are unobservable and that's what they don't know. But we do understand why I hit this and my hand doesn't go through it. We do understand that. And so I only say this because as I was listening to him, I'm like, you're doing a disservice to science. Like, damn, man, like you're making people think that scientists don't understand the most simple scientific thing when they actually do. And then something said to me, you know what?  Seriously.  And just let the guy tell a joke. At least he's talking about molecules, okay? Maybe somebody never thought about molecules and that could be a good thing. So, you know, I get, that's why, like I said, I don't, I want to bring science into my comedy, but I want it to be, I really am reverent. I want it to be something that is funny, but at the same time thought provoking, you know? Yeah. The, our ability to advance the minds of children and adults to have a more scientific lens goes hand in hand with entertainment and comedy, creativity and seeing the world through that augmented lens is critical for this inflection point that we have, because if you know about how some of the underlying principles of biotechnology work or how the underlying principles of AI or neuro tech or blockchain and cryptocurrencies work, it'll advance your ability to have discussion with other people in your community and around even a federal issues or global issues around these topics. And you know, you make a very important point and that is that these, the interconnectedness of science and your condition are inexorable. They cannot be separated. And so the more you know about it, the better off you are. Let's just take climate, for instance. I mean, let's be honest.  That's my name for it. Human cause, climate disruption. It's a lot to say, but you know exactly what you're talking about. We're doing things and so the climate is changing. We're disrupting the climate, our actions. And there are a lot of people who don't believe that because they think it's an affront to their identity. And that's because they don't want to, they're not scientifically literate. They don't trust science to begin with and that's a problem. Some of that is religion or you know, a based on religion, which I think is terrible because I tell people this all the time. If there is a God, he invented science. So, you know, when the laws of the universe say, this and this has to happen. If there is a God, he's the one or she's the one or it's the one that made that law happen. So you can't even, it doesn't make a difference if you say, well, scientists are atheists. Not true, there are many, many scientists that believe in God. They just don't attribute the things that you do to God. You know? You're making an important point which we try and make all the time is that the idea of God is just such a flexible thing that the God could just be what came pre-Big Bang that caused everything to happen. Absolutely. And if that is what someone thinks is God, then the code of what we live in is math, physics. And so then, now you were making this point about climate science and I wanna anthropogenic or human-caused climate change. Chuck, would you wanna talk about your project as well? Oh, sure, man. So anybody who can help with this, we are open. If you're a scientist, if you're an entertainer, if you're somebody who can help with this project, I am open to receiving whatever it is that you have to bring. I am putting together an effort in the very first Digital Youth Climate Summit that will happen online, that will happen on YouTube because what we're doing is we're not trying, we're trying to bring the mountain to Muhammad. We're not waiting for people to get involved. What we wanna do is activate a youth culture with respect to climate disruption and climate chaos. We want young people to realize that this is their issue, kind of the way the Parkland shooting activated young people to say, we're gonna make a change about this gun BS. We call BS, that became their cry for change. And we wanna do that with climate with young people between the ages of 16 and 25. And the reason is if you're 16, you're gonna be voting very shortly. So you need to ramp up to that.  And you know that you can make a change. What has to happen is these people have to be activated. Right now, everybody has a cerebral knowledge that climate and climate disruption is actually happening. We see it all the time. Bigger storms, actually colder spurts in the winter, along with warms, like it's chaos. That's what we know that it's happening. Parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere. Absolutely. So over 400 now from 300. Absolutely. And the reason why we know that is because we drill into ice. We pull out these little cores and we come bubbles. It's that simple. It really isn't like, it's not deep. Ocean acidification. Ocean acidification. It's killing coral reefs. And it's gorgeous. It's gorgeous. This is part of our soul, the earth's soul is right there in those beautiful and we can take so much inspiration and love and understanding of how things evolved as a planet from it. And the fact is that all these things are measurable and they're all interconnected. So I hate to sound like I'm a character in the movie Avatar. It's like, you saw one planet, it's all connected. I see you. As corny as that is, that's really the soul of climate disruption and what you just said. It is all one thing. There's no such thing as weather. It all starts and ends all in the same place. And so what we're trying to do is get young people to say we call BS and force political will, force individual change, force an adoption of alternatives. And that can be done with the right amount of pressure, pressure placed upon our politicians, pressure placed upon more importantly our corporations and pressure placed ultimately upon ourselves. Because you saw what happened in France. Macron said, look, gas is gonna be this. We're putting the tax on it and that's a good thing by the way. It's painful change, okay? If your shoes are slightly too small, you will walk in them and you will take them off at the end of the day and your feet will hurt and you will say, ooh, thank God I'm out of those shoes.  You will be like, I didn't do shoes. And that's the kind of change that we need. And so we need painful change. And that's what people revolted. Why? Because ultimately we're not putting the onus on ourselves when it comes down to our convenience, our pocketbook, when it comes down to our lifestyle, that's when we don't clear our own note. But guess what? All that's gonna go away anyway if we don't do something. So that's the idea behind the movement and here's what the movement is. They're all there talking and didn't tell you what the movement was, I didn't tell you what we're doing. What we're doing is we're taking entertainment, only entertainment and we're messaging everything about climate through entertainment. So it's scientists and celebrities and the biggest YouTubers on the planet all coming together to bring this message in one big program and one continuing program. So that's the whole thing right there. Yeah, the digital climate summit. The digital climate summit, man, which you know. And it's a real bear to put together. It's a great blend, like you're saying. It's the powerhouses of entertainers, the powerhouses of scientists, the powerhouses of leading YouTubers, put it piecing these things together and inspiring the youth. And I like how you say, you know, it's about the political change and the corporate change but it's also about the youth realizing that we have the power to become entrepreneurs and artists and make these big changes through media and through companies ourselves. And then another thing that came to mind was that there is a, we already have, we talk about this so much, we already have the resources that we need on earth for the baseline of living to be extremely high and sustainable forever. And we're not allocating the resources like, it's hard to just flick it over like a light switch and transition everything away from fossil fuels to sustainable forms. But we're really just needing to push all of the marbles over in more effective ways because we have the technologies, photovoltaics and solar. We have the technologies for all different types of wind resources. And also we have Tokamak fusion reactors that are really, we just need more time investing into them in order to figure out how to just be able to fuse atoms and take out more energy than we put in. And then we're abundantly energy fills forever and that can be used for flying cars and for all other spaceships and all other cool things. And listen, all that stuff can happen and it's really about the will, human will to make it happen. Think of this, go back to the, before the turn of the century and electricity and we had it but you couldn't turn on a light and just have, it was seen as a novelty. Like maybe one street lamp, maybe somebody would have some electricity in their home, like ooh, but it was a novelty. Now you cannot have society without electricity. And so that is what happens when you make a tectonic shift in technology. And that's what we need to do with respect to climate. And that's everything that you just talked about. Chuck, what would be your like big, what would be the most ideal way that this digital climate summit would motivate and then what change would you wanna see in the political, corporate entrepreneurial spheres with this media? So the first thing that we're trying to do is get people to force political will, especially here in America because America is the problem, okay? Let's be honest, everybody else is trying to do something about climate. They're not doing enough. We know that, but that's because we're not leading, okay? China, by the way, the China. A lot of, you hear a lot of people talk about China. They want to be the world's leading economy and they are making huge investments into solar, huge. Now the largest solar farm that's going to be financed and built will be financed and built by, wait for it, Saudi Arabia. That should tell you everything you need to know. The people who, they're one thing they have is oil. They are looking towards solar farms as the future. Come on, man, that's all we need to know. And what are we doing in America? We are divesting, but because we are divesting, that means there's a lot more money to be made in burning fossil fuels. So the first thing that we're trying to do is create a political will amongst people that says, hey, I'm an issues voter. This is an issue. We're not saying that you have to end fossil fuel right now, which by the way we do, but we're not saying that. What we're saying is we need to start transitioning right now. So that's the first thing that we want to do is make it, hey, transition. We got to transition. Okay, that's the first thing. The second thing that we want to do is make it so that corporations realize that this is an issue for them. And all corporations want to be good global citizens if it increases their bottom line. And so they can't wait to tell you that I'm doing something good. Look at what I did. Corporations are like little children. Okay, look at what I did. I did something good. That's what they need. And so we want to force them into that position, but they can only be forced to that position if it means they're going to make money from it. So that's the second thing that we want to do. And the third thing that we want to do, which is chiefly important. If you're not green, people will not buy from you. Boom, it's that simple. It's that simple. It's like, wait, we see that you support the generation of single use plastics that actually break down in our oceans and create problems for the ecosystem and ultimately health problems for us. So guess what? We're not going to give you our money. We're going over to this other company. Biodegradables. That does biodegradables, this other company that is looking for ways to make sure that none of this stuff ever enters our ecosystem. That's the company we want to give our money to. Guess what will happen? Company A will say, we got to change. Change, yeah. Or bankrupt. All right, that's it. And so that's the second thing that we're trying to do. And the third thing that we're trying to do, which is most important is get people to change their mind about this thing. And that's the toughest because the problems which are manifesting themselves more and more, we thought, well, we're seeing the problems actually happening right now. And so therefore people will have to take note and they will have to take note. No, it doesn't work that way. You see the problems manifest themselves right now and people look for other ways to deny. That's all they do.  And we, I can't say we all know someone like that, but if you're old enough, you'll meet somebody like that. It's like, you know, you're other, you're significant, they're, yeah, they're doing that with other people and they're doing it right in frame. I don't believe it. I just can't see them doing that. I love that. I love that. And that's our relationship with fossil fuels, you know, and with earth. And with, yeah. Couple things, I'm sorry. I would love to see an XPRIZE style award for the youth to crowdsource ideas. Oh, we're doing that. So we're, that part of the program is, we're doing a film. So the show itself is a combination of sketch comedy, stand up short film, music. Is it debates? There will be, but they're not real debates. So they're, I mean, it's, yeah, yeah. It's conversations. No, the only conversations that will happen are interstitials. In between. In between. That will happen between celebrities and scientists. Okay, cool. Okay, so the idea is we want to stay away from didactic information dissemination, right? Do this so that we don't want to do that. What we want to do is entertain you for the entire, the entirety of the show. And at the end, hopefully you'll be like, you know what, I need to do something. Yeah, yeah. That's what we're trying to do. And with specific calls to action throughout the show itself. And so one of the things that we're doing is we're going to have, and hopefully we'll get some rich benefactor to be the sponsor of this, an XPRIZE for short film on climate. Great idea. And so we're putting out the filmmakers all over the country and you go make your short film on climate. We will feature, you know, the top three in the show itself. But the number one show will win $25,000. Awesome. So that's part, so we're doing things like that. There's so many different facets that we're trying to incorporate in this, but it's all entertainment driven. And that's the whole idea. Yeah. This is gonna be, I hope, extremely watched as in one of the most watched hopefully videos that ever are made out of.  That's what we hope for. Yes, that's what we're hoping for. And the big, big action push. Chuck, okay, this is a really important pressing topic that's just, it's causing a lot of unfortunate madness in many ways. Political correctness in comedy. I love it. What do we do because there's, we gotta retain our ability to, for example, if we make fun of each other, we're doing it in good light. We're trying to poke and play with each other and we gotta be more friendly and fun about that. But of course you can't just.  There's a couple things that has to happen. One, we, you know, sometimes you have to grow up a little bit and realize that not everybody is going to say and do the right thing. That's number one. Sometimes people need to be helped to say and do the right thing. And that's what political correctness is supposed to be. It's supposed to be that I understand that, saying that is wrong because, and therefore I change the way I speak because I've changed the way I think. What we're doing now is just thought police and speech police. It's not political correctness. It's speech policing. Don't say that, you know? And it's like I said to my son, if you ask me to go to this RPM, it's a speedway thing. I say, if you ask me to go to RPM again, we are not going. So don't ask. And he said, that doesn't stop me from not wanting to go. And that's what we're doing with political correctness. Don't say that. It doesn't mean I don't think it and I don't feel it. And that's, you know what I mean? So. You have a good perspective on kind of like a spectrum of things. There's the, like we should never be treating other human beings as inferior, dehumanizing humans through our speech. So that's like the horrible. And then there's kind of political correctness which tries on the beneficial side to help the people move into not dehumanizing others. So that's the good side. That's a good side. And then there's the bad side of political correctness, the thought police, which is making it so when we're humorously trying to poke at something, we're trying to help people move them forward in different ways and expand their awareness. Especially through humor. So for instance, there was a comedian who did a show at Columbia University, I forget his name, and he was kicked off a stage for this joke.  And I'm pretty sure they're not looking in the mirror going, you know what, this black thing is just not enough. I need to add something else to this to make it a little more challenging. Right? That's a good joke. And it's actually true. It's like, why would you choose to add to your own misery by choosing? No, you're not choosing to be gay. It's what you are.  All right? But the stigma attached to that remains nonetheless. That's what the joke means.     And so that's really, and we gotta move away from that. Here's how we move away from that. Back to science. Critical thinking. Critical thinking allows you to hear a joke and actually listen to it and break it down and go, okay, I get it. I get that. Yes, that's not offensive. I see what you're actually trying to say.  And by the way, everybody says, well, political correctness is how Donald Trump came into power. No, Donald Trump came into power because he actually tapped into a certain angst. One, fear. Two, racism. Three, all the darker elements of our humanity, he was able to bring them together and coalesce them into what seemed like a positive movement. And so that's how he came to power, okay? But the truth is that people felt connected to him because he said things that were unacceptable.  I like that guy.  I just like the fact that he said. The bull in the China shop, exactly. And so, you know, this is what PC, this is kind of the backlash to PC and we gotta get away from PC in that way. I'm gonna make a reach here. I think this might be a decent way to put it, is that there are so many good practitioners of Islam that are not getting the voice that they need to call out the radical Islamists that are killing apostates. And so in this sense with political cragness, it would be like, the ones that are screaming from the rooftops about the issues with their obsession with being like a hurt by other people's words, they're the ones with the loudest megaphone, but the ones that should have the megaphone are the ones that say, hey, I'm learning something from seeing it through this comedic perspective. I'm seeing the nuance on this issue like with that joke. So it's again, is shifting the megaphone's. Okay Chuck, couple quick questions on the way out. Sir. Okay, we like to ask these on the show. What is a core driving principle of yours? Oh man, wow. That's a really good question and it's so personal that it's like, but my core driving principle is, I always want to be a better person. How can I be a better person? How can I be better at being a comedian? How do I take comedy and do something good with it? How can I be a better father? How can I introduce my children into society so that they are now an asset to society and not a detriment? How can I be a better husband? How can I be a better friend? How can I be a better communicator? Being better, moving better towards something good for other people, that's my driving principle. Now I fail at that all the time. We all do, yeah, we all do. I'm an abject failure when it comes to it, but it's what I seek. It's what I truly want. And I think that the world could be a better place if we all did that. I'm basically a hippie. I really am, I was born at the wrong town. I just missed the, I should have been right there in the 60s, man, I just missed my time because I would have been spending a round in the mud you know, with some LSD in my system. I don't care, I'm a hippie at heart. Unity, I like how Chuck is really clear that when we look at the mirror and see ourselves and we're trying to help make ourselves a better person that we're not gonna succeed a 100% efficiency from moment one, you don't start sinking three-pointers. So you slowly work on yourself, maybe you succeed one out of 10 changes, then two out of 10 changes in each year moving on each month. And so that's a good way across all these different facets of your life. And it goes all the way across, you know, like I used to scream at my son and sometimes I gotta admit I still do, but you know, cause my father screamed at me. That's how it works, right? But I fired myself like last night, I came home from work right here on this stage and I walked in the house and it was 1.30 and he was up playing video games. And I went in and I just went like this. And he went, okay, dad, okay? So instead of screaming, just standing in front of him and doing like, alright dude, I am upset. Like, guess what? And it was so much more effective than like, what are you doing? Like that's what I'm talking about. And that shows- He got it. Right. And that also shows him like, okay, maybe there's a better way to communicate. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know. That's great, I love that Chuck, such a good example. Yeah, yeah. And that speaks to our inclination to be more meditative. Yeah. I love that. Okay, if you could rebuild civilization from scratch. Wow. How would you design it? Wow. I'm going to answer that with a non-answer.  To be honest, the problem with civilization will always be human beings. And so the idea, now by the way, we are the best human beings we've ever been in the history of human beings, right now. And people look around and go, the world is a mess and things are terrible. We are the best human beings to ever cross this planet. Okay, as a world, there's always been war, there's always been cruelty, there's always been human degradation. But think about this, not too long ago, when you look at the history of this globe, not too long ago, an iBat ago, Romans were feeding people to the lions for entertainment. Okay, fights to the death, where are you not entertained? Okay, we don't do that now. It's still within us, but we resist that. And so how would I build it from the ground up? I would make, oh man, wow, it just flashed into my head. We were talking about Planet of the Apes earlier and the ape shall never kill ape. Like I'd start there. Yeah, yeah, that's a good one. That's a good first principle. That's it, I just start with that principle. Like that's the first thing that everyone learns, no matter what, like the one thing you can do to deny a person everything is to take their life. So let's start there. And then it's like, well, if I can't kill ya, well, I guess I gotta learn how to get along with ya. Because the ultimate solution cannot happen. I cannot, so now, okay, now we gotta figure out what is it that allows us to come together and mesh because I can't kill you. So that would be my ground up from scratch. It's a good first line of code. Yeah, exactly. Okay, two more. This wouldn't be simulation if we didn't ask you. Do you think we're in a simulation? I think we could be, to be honest. I mean, it makes sense. I mean, let's just say if this were just a mathematical construct, we would not know, okay? We would not know. I mean, you think about it. Think about this. I'm giving you an idea. I'm gonna let you know. Einstein had a mathematical construct for gravity waves. It worked mathematically and no one knew if it existed or not. And then we got empirical evidence that that mathematical construct was actually the case, okay? Gravity itself, what calls one planet to another celestial body and causes that body to be trapped. And it's, okay, that was a mathematical construct first and then it became a reality, all right? So you say, are we in a simulation? We very well could be. It could just be a mathematical construct down on its most granular atomic, subatomic level. It just, as matters, when it comes to matters of particles and how they be, could just be an equation. And that could be, well, this could be a simulation. You don't know. Does it make a difference? No, I still owe Visa $230 at the end of this month. So that's the real answer. It don't make a difference because you gotta live in the simulation if it is a simulation. It's a good thought experiment for adding a scientific lens to our reality and also to potentially realizing that we wanna level up in the game. We wanna gain as many skill points in this game as possible. And those skill points come from helping people, being a better person, creating a sense of unity and value for the world. Okay, look. That's cool. That's a cool video game. I wouldn't mind living in that video game. That's your video game. That's my video game. That's our video game. So yeah, yeah. Okay, last question is, what do you think is the most beautiful thing in the world? I'm gonna go with extra soft toilet paper. And I only say that because when you live without it for a while, you really do understand just how sublime it is. No. No, I'm going to say, and this sounds very corny, love is the most beautiful thing in the world. And that's because it transcends everything. And we don't know if it can be commuted to other animals, but I think it can. When you hear about a dog that walks all the way across the continental United States to find an owner. And that's a real story. When you look at people who do superhuman feats of strength because they are, that's love. That's them actually looking at another person and summoning a love for humanity, for their fellow person, and saying, I gotta do something. When you look at how the connections that you can make just between your own family members and then see those connections actually extend to people that are outside of your family, I think that that is unbelievable. I think that's the most beautiful thing in the world is love. And when it expresses itself and self-sacrifice, it becomes that much more beautiful. Very, very well said. Thank you, Shaq. Oh, man, thank you. It's such a pleasure to see you, brother. This has been a great episode. I greatly appreciate having you on the show and your ambitions in science communication and inspiration and comedy are so great and we're just honored to have you. Thank you. Thank you. Keep up the good work. Well, thank you. You do today. Thank you, we will. Thanks, everyone, for tuning in. We greatly appreciate you. We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below. Let us know some of your thoughts about the topics we're talking about. Also, check out the links in the bio to the Digital Climate Summit. Shaq's work, check those out for us. Also, help join us. Join us with simulations so we can help doing cool things like coming onsite to great places like this and speaking with epic leaders. And much love. Build the future. Manifest your destiny into the world, everyone. Much love. See you soon. Peace. That's it, my brother. Dude, that was great. Good job. Good to see you, man.


Here we're going to see how a centripetal force acts on an object to move it in a circular path, and we're going to see that the centripetal force acts toward the center of the path. The object that we're going to move in a circular path is just a penny. And we are going to apply the force with this hanger, which has been into this shape, into this diamond shape. I'm going to balance the penny right on the end of the hanger. And what I'm going to do is swing it in a circle. I'm going to go ahead and do this so you can see that it can actually be done. It's pretty easy to get it started, but it's a lot harder to bring it to a stop and keep the penny on the hanger. Let's see if I can do it. And so what we've seen here is that the penny is forced to move in a circular path by the force of the hanger, which is directed to the center of the path. Let's look once more at the force that was acting on the penny to make it move in the circular path. That force was supplied by the tip of the hanger, which is pushing up in this case and toward my finger, which will be the center of the path. But as the hanger moves, the tip of the hanger moves also. It's no longer pointed up, but it's continuing to point toward my finger. And even when it's up here, the hanger is pointed down now, which is toward my finger. So that force always points to the center of the circular path. And that is the force which holds the penny in circular motion as I swing the hanger.


I'm fed up. So let me just talk for a second. I don't think the church talks enough about sexuality or sex. We talk a lot about LGBTQ issues and we get in the weeds on that kind of thing and even for me It's like that's something that oh, I'm gonna talk about on my YouTube channel But why don't we talk about more the fact that we are Created sexual beings like that is a intrinsic part of how God designed us I think this plays in so closely with purity culture and if you guys didn't grow up in purity culture And you're not really sure what that is to me I can summarize it as just the legalistic approach to sexuality. So it's really a fearful Just a scared like we don't want to do something wrong We don't want to make a mistake. So let's just tell people that sexuality is kind of bad and stay away from it it's dangerous and and just kind of suppress everything sexual and Or any kind of conversation around anything sexual until you're married and then you can figure it out And I just think that's been that at least in my life personally But I've heard from other people as well that have experienced the same thing It's just so harmful because it's it's intrinsic to how God designed us. He designed us as sexual beings And yet we don't talk about that. Okay. Well, what why don't we I think number one because Within the church, we don't know how to like we're like, okay I got to talk about sexuality or having these, you know feelings, but it's like, I don't know is the Bible okay with this I'm not sure So that's why we need to get a little bit of grounding in the word of God. Yes Sexuality sexual expression is supposed to be reserved for the covenantal relationship in marriage.  I'm like we I've never I've never heard anybody outside of an online context Talk about masturbation I think that's the beauty of the online space is that we're able to have a lot of the conversations that maybe we're too embarrassed about having in person But at the same time if that's it if you're only getting all of your information Online on YouTube on this YouTube video I feel like you're missing out on on a core aspect of what it means to grow with one another and talk about these things And this is a part of who we are You know, I think about you know something like masturbation just talking about that a little bit And how so many people both men and women Struggle with it and yet kind of like really it is only addressed for the guys Very rarely for women and also pornography as well Pornography usage to talk about that for guys all day every day in a lot of ways But it's always kind of it's never real. You know what I'm saying like I Want real conversations? I want real like You know get in the weeds of like what don't just kind of be like, yeah It's not super good or it's not it's bad for you and don't do it and trust God and like just get over it or Whatever else like there are deeper issues here and deeper struggles and and kind of healing that needs to take place But it can't take place if we never talk about it That is something I'm convinced of so instead of me just continuing to rant on and why we don't talk about this Let me just talk about it. I think and for me personally and my sexuality like my struggle to not look with lust and and having kind of a I don't know like maybe a higher sex drive. I'm not even sure a lot of guys will say that and I feel like sometimes They use that as an excuse. I'm like, okay, you know chill on that like it's not an excuse But it's like, okay, this is a real temptation in your life This is a constant battle, right? It really is and so from an early age being exposed to kind of maybe soft-core porn and I became okay with that like I it became kind of a part of a Rhythm of life where I would watch it for a while and then I become convicted then I stopped watching it for six months But then I'd get back into it and I think there was something in me that said Like, you know, hey, at least I'm not looking at that really bad stuff, right? I'm not looking at like, you know Pornhub stuff or looking at like hardcore stuff. It's like this is okay and in so doing what I was doing I was searing my conscience But at the same time I was also getting messages online in the Christian space that were like you gotta not Like be fearful of sexuality right basically and even to the extent of like a hug being sexualized Like this is something should you hug before marriage? Is this something that is okay?  Is it even okay to date people because like that's dangerous too now apparently But at the same time you you're living this kind of life where you're trying to do all the right things Externally like you're trying to be the good Christian kid who just who doesn't go across the line But then you're kind of letting out all of that those sexual urges in private in isolation Where now there's this double life going on and and and that's agonizing and it's painful and it sucks Because you feel like man I can't admit that I'm that I'm experiencing this that I'm that I'm engaging this disgusting You know stuff because we just don't talk about it We just don't have those kind of conversations and for all I was concerned Growing up my my guy friends it wasn't an issue for them. They were good. They were okay I come to find out later on that that you know that we all kind of were struggling in this particular area But we didn't really speak up about it going back to kind of the pornography thing and the seared conscience I was allowing myself to watch this stuff because I felt like okay, at least it's not as bad as You know this other stuff, right? I was trying to still hold on to this good Christian persona because I thought that that's what God Needed me to be like he wanted me to be perfect to be Completely pure so I even when I though I wasn't I tried to convince myself that I was I I was okay I was good. I was better than other people. So God look at me. I measure up. I'm okay But the truth is I wasn't I wasn't sexually pure No, I wasn't even close and and the fact that these messages were so kind of Put into me in what I was watching online and I mean my own fault Hey, it was what I was watching was what I thought was right Like the fact that these things were so drilled into me and I and I clung so deeply to this idea of wanting to be good I wouldn't let myself acknowledge my own sin and actually find healing from it And that was the big piece for me where I think there's so much shame and there's so much guilt tied up to Sexuality that is like especially in isolation if you're you know stuck in a cycle of masturbation or watching pornography There's so much shame connected to that and also that the challenges as well is that it's now sexual pleasure is now connected to The shame right so you you you climax you get to this point where you feel this great. Oh, man I feel good right but then you experience this deep shame and this deep guilt and that's the Correlation and you just think about taking that into marriage You understand why the couples need to work through this there needs to be sexual healing there needs to be sexual redemption because You experience that in the right covenantal relationship.  There's climax But then you you have that same feeling of like oh, they're shame here or there's guilt here And that's not how God designed it at all He designed it to be a shameless a guiltless experience because it was his design from the beginning But because of these distortions in pornography and masturbation and and whatever else kind of a sexual stuff that you can you can Talk about because there's been this distortion We've correlated sexuality and sexual pleasure with something that's evil and something that's wrong and something that should be feared Or avoided or we should feel uncomfortable about what I want to encourage us to and I'm growing in this too Because it's been a long road. We didn't talk about this stuff in my household growing up as much or at all and And that's not to blame my parents or anything like we're all kind of like still figuring out and still learning But that's just kind of my background So now coming to this point where I'm coming to terms with some of the the sexual brokenness in my own life It's hard and and it's and and I know God needs to meet me in the midst of this And I want God to meet you in the midst of this My hope is that you're watching this video and you're saying yes Yes, like I'm glad somebody's talking about this right and and one of the things that's heavy on my heart Is that women are left on the sidelines that they're never really acknowledged or brought into any of these conversations And even for me as a man the idea that like a girl would a woman would struggle with this Sometimes is hard for me to understand because I was brought up in in or the books that I was reading were so focused on This idea that it's only a man's issue And so there's this kind of Continuity there that I'm still kind of working through I'm like wow like all this stuff that I was taught that hey It's only a guy's thing That's wrong and so my hope is is that this would open a greater conversation of being open about our struggles about the things that we've been through and we've walked through and yet also understanding that God is in the business of redemption like that is his plan And so we don't need to experience the shame or the guilt of what we've done in our past or what we're struggling with That we can experience full forgiveness and redemption knowing that we are God's child and Also that he has designed us in a particular way as sexual beings That's an aspect of who we are and there can be a right and a good expression of that sexuality that actually images God How crazy is that that is amazing? That is so exciting to me. It is such a different message then We should be scared of this. We should be fearful of this. We should not talk about this This should be something that we kind of push into a corner and we never really address No, no, no, no, this is part of God's plan and let's talk about it And let's be intentional about not letting people slip through the cracks feeling alone in this because we We've all been through it man in some way This kind of sexual sin has touched us in some way and so the real issue that the question is for you is Am I going to be vulnerable enough to get outside of this isolation and actually dive into maybe Maybe a conversation with a friend or a community where we can be more open about things that were we're walking through because we need each other We need community especially in this area. So this was the end of my little rant I'm sorry if this was a little bit startling for you if this caught you off guard But I think it's such an important conversation to have and one of the things that's on my heart Is that this channel would be a place that we would be able to have more honest conversations that you wouldn't just get the PC version of Christianity that's in a nice bow and and you can just kind of okay great This was the topic for today, and we've all sealed it off, and we're all good I never want that to become what I'm offering you and I know I've gotten caught up in that in the past I think what I'm realizing is that God meets us in the midst of our messiness in the midst of our brokenness in the midst of our sin and That doesn't mean that everything is fixed right away, right? There's still the brokenness of sin in our world and we're still navigating it And so don't feel the need this is what I'm preaching to myself Don't feel the need to tie it put everything in a nice little bow and say okay You know what I'm trusting God or God forgave me So I'm okay because there are deep roots of shame and of guilt and pride that we're constantly digging up and we're constantly Navigating and we're constantly inviting Jesus to say God Please you know do a work here bring about healing here bring about restoration here and God is faithful to do it Thank you for watching this video if you enjoyed it subscribe because I'm putting on new videos like this all the time a huge Shout out to everyone on patreon It is because of you guys that I can make this content that is so dear to my heart and my mission of equipping people to follow Jesus daily if you want to support what I'm doing here click the link in my description It would be a huge blessing you can get access to all sorts of rewards, and it would just be a huge huge Blessing for this ministry. So thank you so much for watching again, and I will see you next time. God bless You


Joe Mixon the bangles running back his stock is up as well 149 total yards from him also got in the end zone Frank Yeah, Joe Mixon what I love here Maria is that he played on 78% of the bangles snaps in this game That was his highest percentage since being drafted by the team one of my worries with Joe Mixon coming into the year Was that this team has always used Geo Bernard as long as he's been on the bangles with Marvin Lewis They find ways to use Geo Bernard that was not the case yesterday Maria and what I especially like is that Regardless of what the game script was because there was points in this game where they were trailing against the Colts And then there were also points where they were ahead Regardless Joe Mixon was the running back on the field. He had 17 rushes 95 yards a touchdown Seven targets in the passing game five receptions for an additional 54 yards versus Geo Bernard One rush for minus one yard one target one reception 11 yards that type of Usage out of your running back both on the ground and in the passing game while Geo Bernard is healthy and really wasn't using this game I think it's very very telling that Joe Mixon could be an RB one this year So again similar to Patrick Mahomes the arrows pointing up on Joe Mixon Definitely you alluded to it a dual threat in the run game as well as the receiving game And he got over 23 fantasy points on Fandle. So things are looking good for Joe Mixon