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At every standard station or independent Chevron gas station, where they say and mean, we take better care of your car. The Iron Hat, a transcribed adventure of George Valentine. How did you get in? Now, that is a phenomenal question. I walked. Yes, so I see. What I mean is Miss Brooks usually announces my call. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. But don't be hard on a girl. I told her I wanted to castigate with you about one for me. Yeah, very interesting. Except I'm not interested. So, unless you've got a better offer... I am. Okay, let's get to it. I am stipulated to offer you your regular fee for a few days to forget about that letter for Cornelius. To what? Let us not be psychum locket heavy.  Forget you ever got the letter and you'd get reinstated just the same as he was going to do. Now, look, I think this is real nice of you, but I don't quite catch on. Maybe that's because I'm not bright. Just who is Cornelius? Oh, a wise guy, huh? Are you trying to integrate? You might make more money with him, huh? Well, the fact is, Buster, I just don't integrate at all. Yeah, I guess you don't. Now, wait a minute. What's the idea of the gun? Just so you will recollect you ain't playing marbles with no kids, Valentine. Now, you're gonna forget all about Cornelius? Why should I? He's a very nice guy, one of my bosom friends. No way. Do you wear a skin to be plugged? Give me that letter, if he votes you. Yeah, I see what you mean. If Cornelius' autograph means so much to you, I'll be happy to turn it over. Now, let's see. I had that letter right here somewhere. Oh, yeah. Here it is. Hey, what the... All right, get out of here. You might hurt somebody.  Now, scram. George, what happened? It's all right, Bruxy. This character integrated. I had some correspondence he was interested in. That's all. You what? Never mind. Show the gentleman out, will you? I think our business is finished. Why, you? I'll get you for this. Just wait until the boss hears what you're doing. Yeah, but I won't hold my breath. Tell you, boys, I'm not interested in running for mayor, huh? You wish you hadn't basic duty as a volunteer. You're going just a little too far. Well, what was that? Why are you holding that gun? Oh, this. Just a little souvenir I picked up. Silly, the people they let go around carrying guns. Well, any business this morning, Angel? No. Nothing interesting. Some bills and circulars and a silly letter. Skip the bills and circulars. What's the letter saying? Oh, it's nothing. You'd be interested in George. Oh, Angel, my curiosity. Well, all right. Here it is.  Today I can't do it unless you feel strongly enough about integrity in government to get back some evidence that was stolen from me. If you're interested in such a job at your regular fee, please come to my office as soon as possible. Ah, some screwball. Forget it. Letterhead, the iron hat restaurant, signed Robert Cornelius. Cornelius, huh? That's right. Do you know him? Not yet. Funny thing, that name was integrated in the conversation when my last caller was here. Now, see you later, Brooksy. I'm going to meet the owner of the iron hat. Okay, Mr. Cornelius, let's start from scratch. I know you own one of the most famous restaurants in town, and I know you're sort of a crusader for clean government, so let's take it from there. Well, rather let's get right to the point, huh? Valentine, up until yesterday I had in my safe documented proof of more graft and corruption than you'd believe possible. Up until yesterday? That's right. Night before last, somebody broke into this office, opened the safe, and got away with some very important papers. Uh-huh. Did you report it? No. And for a very good reason. There are some big names involved. If they put the wrong men in the case, I'd get nowhere. Yeah, yeah, I see what you mean. Tell me, Mr. Cornelius, who has access to that safe besides yourself? Only two people. G.J., that's G.J. Osborne, my partner, and my secretary. Mr. Cornelius, the man from the meat company, is it... Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know there was someone in your office. Oh, that's all right. I was just talking about you, my dear. About me? Yes. Uh, Valentine, this is Alice Madill, my secretary. Mr. Valentine is here about the theft, Alice. Oh, yes. Well, do you think you'll be able to do anything about it, Mr. Valentine? I don't know. Got any ideas yourself, Mr. Madill? No, I guess whatever was taken was quite important to Mr. Cornelius. It was in a large Manila envelope. Yes, that's right. But you see, Valentine, they didn't get quite as much as they might have. No, why not? Well, that envelope held only part of my evidence. The rest of it. Yes, I understand. Well, thank you, Mr. Madill. I'll want to have a little talk with you later. Yes, all right, Mr. Valentine. I'll tell the man from the meet company to wait, Mr. Cornelius. Uh, yes, please do, Alice. Well, you somehow acted as though you suspected Alice Valentine. I don't think you need to. Oh, sorry, I just suspect everybody, that's all. Oh, yes, of course, I understand. Matter of fact, I've already got a lead to go on. Well, you have? Yes, something you wouldn't know about. Tell me, Mr. Cornelius, what were some names mentioned in those documents that were stolen? Well, a few police officers, some public officials who've been playing the game for their own profit, a gangster named Harger. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Say that last one again. Oh, you wouldn't know the man. He isn't the type whose name appears in the papers. But he runs more rackets in this city than you'd believe possible. The name was Harger. Yeah, yeah, that's what I thought you said. No, wait, you know him? Unfortunately, yes, yes. But I've run into him a couple of times. Did he know you had this evidence? He must have suspected it, yes. Why? Because now I think I see where to start on your case, Mr. Cornelius. A very unpleasant character who looked like one of Harger's hoodlums called on me this morning. But, well, how did he know? That you'd written to me? Well, that's what I'd like to find out. And it seems to me there's no better time to do it than right now. And, Justin, what right have you... Yeah, hello, Harger. Can I come in here? Well, what can I say? It seems you already have. Yeah, that's right. Let me see. You would be Valentine. George Valentine, I believe. Good memory. Yes, thank you. Well, what can I do for you? Well, maybe it's the other way around. One of your hoods dropped in to suggest that I stay away from the Bob Cornelius case. What? Oh, you must be mistaken, Valentine. I don't even know what you mean. Well, then perhaps I'd better make it plainer. How would you like to have your boy picked up for assault with a deadly weapon? What? And how would you like to be mixed up in a case of breaking and entering burglar? Now, just a minute, young man. If you're trying some kind of black game... Who did you hire to take some papers out of Cornelius's safe, Harger? And where are they now? Oh, really, Valentine? This is getting to be amusing. You seem to have forgotten I'm an honest businessman. I run the bowling alley out there, the cocktail bar... All right, all right, skip that. I just thought you'd like to save yourself a little trouble, that's all. You see, I happen to have a little souvenir right here. Oh, a gun. Well, you'd better not start anything. Oh, don't worry, it's not loaded. I took out all the bullets. But I thought your lackey might like to have it back. Yes, I see what you mean. Silly of him to leave it, wasn't it? Cedric! Sure you don't want to trade it for some papers? I don't make trades, Valentine. Did you ass-attain me, boy? Yes, yes, Cedric. You know this gentleman, I believe? Hey, it's a Valentine! Exactly.  Oh, wait a minute. If you think I'm coming... In case he feels like changing his mind, Cedric, I have him covered. Yeah, yeah, okay, boss.  Pierce it over. Ah, yeah. My, my. How brave you are when your boss is holding a gun. I said, give me the gun! Certainly sure, here. Now, that is the idea, Valentine. And I believe our little interview is now over, yes? For now, yes. Oh, what possible reason would we have for continuing it? You've gained nothing. Oh, but I have, Harge. Yeah, wasn't it all sure when I came in here that you engineered the theft of those papers? And now you think you are sure? Oh, I'm afraid you'll have a hard time proving that, Valentine. I like it that way. Oh, and one more thing, Harge. Yes? You might be interested to know that you got only part of the papers. Ah, wait a minute. What is he and told you? Big fire, Cedric. Go on, Valentine. All right, if you're going to look for them, they won't be, and Cornelius is safe. Any deals from now on, you take up with me.  Oh, yes, George. It doesn't like you to stop for lunch when you're on a job.  Mr. Cornelius wasn't in his office back there. The secretary said he'd be back in half an hour. Oh, but even if you're so sure, Harge had somebody steal those papers. What good is it going to do to see Cornelius again? I didn't want to tell his secretary just in case she was mixed up in this thing some way. But I'm going to have him give the rest to me. You are? Won't they try to get them from you? Well, I hope so. Then we'll have something definite to work on. Okay, let's get back to Cornelius' office. I'm worried, George. Yeah, why, Angela? Well, if they're so desperate to get those papers, something might happen to you. I'll be ready for them. Don't worry. Here we are. That's funny. No answer. Maybe the secretary's gone out and he isn't back yet. Yeah. Oh, may as well wait inside.  My, this is a nice... Oh! Brooksy, what's the matter? Over there by the safe, George, that girl. Alice Madill. Who? The secretary. Wait there a minute. Yes. No. No, but I don't know why not. Somebody really let her have it with that lead pipe. What did we do?  This isn't a case for him yet. What will it be if we don't get her to a hospital? In just a moment, we'll return to tonight's adventure of George Valentine. Did you ever stop to consider that the cost of operating your car depends a great deal on the motor oil you use? It's true. And it's one of the main reasons why most motorists here in the West prefer heavy-duty RPM motor oil that doubles engine life the time between major overhauls due to lubrication. Yes, we claim heavy-duty RPM compared to premium type oils as designated by the American Petroleum Institute doubles engine life. Actual performance tests prove it. For instance, taxi cabs operated by Tanner Motor Tours of Las Vegas, Nevada used to average only 35,000 miles between overhauls. 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Your name is George Valentine, you wait impatiently in Robert Cornelius' office for Lieutenant Johnson to finish her phone call. She hasn't, eh? Okay. See that a policewoman is in her room at all times. She ever regains consciousness, get a statement, post two officers outside the room. Yeah. Call me when anything happens. Okay. She's still alive, isn't she, Lieutenant? Yes, if you can call it that. Bad concussion. They're working on her. What's the matter with your identification, boys? They dusted that lead pipe in the safe an hour ago. What do you think they do, Valentine? Work miracles? Takes time. Yeah, I suppose. By the way, how'd you get mixed up in this thing? Cornelius sent for me after the first bunch of stuff was stolen. I was going to take the rest until he cleared it up. Except somebody beat you to it. Where's Cornelius now? Well, he seems to have disappeared. Yeah. Yeah. Got any idea who might have pulled this job? Sure. Sure, I have, Johnson. Have I heard of a consul named Cedric? He uses big words in the wrong places. Cedric Gowlin? The professor? Then you do know him. Sure. Sure. A small time hood. We've had him in for questioning time after time. George, you mean the same one who came in the office this morning? The same, Brooks. Do you see, Johnson, this... Wait a minute. I'll get it. Hello, Johnson speaking. Yeah, yeah. What'd you get? You what? Yes, I heard you, but that can't be... Oh, never mind. Okay, I'll call you back. What was it, Lieutenant? Identification bureau. Fingerprints checked with the Cedric character? No, I can't understand it. No make-it-all? Oh, sure, sure. We're going to make all right. The prints on the safe and that length of pipe are... Hargers. Are you positive? The boys are. Nice, clean prints. A perfect thumb and forefinger. No question.  No, wait a minute, wait a minute. Maybe this isn't smart, Johnson, yet. No? Why not? Well, there's something very fishy about this.  Well, what about the prints? It just might be that somebody's framing Harger, you know. Somebody who works for him, maybe. Valentine, sometimes I think you'll read too many detective stories. The pipe, maybe. But how about the safe? Okay, okay, go ahead. Have Harger picked up if you want. Oh, I got another tag to work on. George, where are you going? My friend, Cedric, paid a call on me this morning. I'm going to get his address from the I-Dent Bureau and return it. Oh, this is the address you got from the file, George. Yeah, okay. You stay behind the wheel, Brooks, and keep the motor running. I'll be out in a minute. Oh, that's a horrible-looking place. George, please be careful. Yeah, sure, I'll be careful. This won't take long. Got a message for Cedric. Yeah? Well, Cedric ain't here. He just left. Won't be back for a while. That's all right. I'll come in and wait. And wait a minute. What do you think you're trying to do? You push your way in here like that. No, France, I'm sure. Who are you? I'm Cedric's wife. You want to make something out of it? I've never seen you before. That's my loss.  Hey, look, I ain't you... What are you doing with a gun?  Yeah, okay, but Cedric won't like this. It'll be our secret. He'll never know. How long has your husband been gone, Mrs. Allen, isn't it? That's none of your business. Hey, look, are you a cop? Of course not. Cedric and I have some business dealings. Well, nice place you have here. Mind if I look around? Sure I mind. Now, with that gun pointing at me... Thanks. Hey, you better keep out of that drawer, Cedric. Wouldn't like it, I know. No sale. You could help me, though, if you'd tell me just...  Oh, Cedric, I didn't hear you come in. He busted his way in the door, Cedric. I tried to get him...  Wipe the gun, Shamus. Well, now, I don't know why I should... That is just the influence. I got bullets in this right again, see? Now, to wipe the gun, I'll plug you. Yeah, that sounds reasonable. That's showing him instinct. Now, get out. All right, all right. But first tell me, Cedric, why did you have to hit that poor girl so hard? She might not live, you know. I don't can see what you're talking about. Get him out of here, Cedric. He makes me nervous. Mackie, I told you to keep quiet. Just one more thing, Cedric. Don't you think it's dangerous to double-cross a big shot like Harger? I ain't double-crossed nobody, see? Now, like I said, get out. Thanks, I will. See you in jail, old boy. All right, he went in there. Yeah, I'm all right, Angel, except I'm one as a perfectly good gun. I heard a shot. Yeah, I know. Just Cedric showing off. Come on, let's go. I'm all right, darling, but where? Headquarters. I got to have a few words with Lieutenant Johnson. Hi, Johnson. Well, it's time. What are you doing here? Well, I thought I might help you a little. Well, what's got you in this move? Harger. What's he done now, Lieutenant? Plenty. Had him picked up on the basis of those fingerprints. Yeah? Had no sooner gun him booked than his mouthpiece came in. Harger's got a perfect alibi. Slept a half million out of suit on the city for false arrests, defamation of characters. Yeah, I was afraid he might do that. I warned you, didn't I? Yeah, yeah, but what can I do? Harger's fingerprints on the murder weapon. You mean the Madill girl's dead? No. Matter of fact, she's better. Still unconscious. Well, maybe we won't need her statement.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. Hit a man when he's down. Uh-uh, just trying to help you, that's all. Now first, don't let Harger go. Keep him locked up. Put that liable suit. We can wash that out, too. Then have the death sergeant call Cedric Allen. Tell him Harger's in jail and wants to see him. If he hasn't got a phone, have him bring him in. Yeah, yeah, doesn't make sense. Then let me talk to your lab man who did the make on those fingerprints. George, it doesn't make any sense to me either. I know, I know. Sounds pretty mixed up, doesn't it? I'm just playing a hunch. A hunch? We're in trouble enough already and you're playing a hunch. Don't worry, Johnson. After something I saw in Cedric's house this morning, this is a hunch that'll pay off. You again. Yeah, I came back for something I forgot. Your gun? That what you mean? Oh, yeah, that's right. It wasn't what I had in mind but I'll take that, too. Where is it? I don't know. Oh, yes, you do. I hate to treat a lady like this. Like on my wrist, you... Stop that hurt. Now where's that gun? I'm not telling you. All right. That table drawer. Fine, thanks. Quite a place, that table drawer. I can get everything I need right there. What do you mean? Oh, I'm just taking along something I saw in my last visit. These gloves. Yeah, but you can't take those gloves. You can't. Oh, but I can, Maggie. Uh-uh, stand back. Like Cedric would say, I don't want to have to plug you. What are you going to do with them? Oh, yeah, that's what I thought. I said what are you going to do? With these? Oh, just keeping for souvenirs. Mind if I use your phone? Thanks. I appreciate your hospitality, Maggie. I'm sure Cedric will, too. And Mr. Harger. Hello? Hello, Johnson? Yeah, who? Oh, Valentine. That's right. Cedric, get there yet? Just came in. Don't worry, Johnson. Everything's all right. Yeah? I know, I know. That's what I called about. Don't let Cedric leave there. Put him under technical arrest until I get back. Valentine. Hang on to Harger, too.  Hang on to Bruxy, too, in a nice way, that is. And when we've washed this up, I'm going to take it to dinner. All right, Valentine. You wanted the floor. You've got it. And if you're wrong... Oh, I'm not. I'm not. I wasn't quite sure before, but now I know. Yeah? What? Over in the receiving hospital is a girl on the point of death because you slugged her too hard. What do you mean? You've got nothing on me. Maybe Harger, but not on me. I thought you'd try and rat out like that, save your own skin. That scheme Harger cooked up backfired. Valentine, what's all this? You find Harger's fingerprints on the safe and the lead pipe, Johnson. But he wasn't there when the safe was opened or when Miss Medill was slugged. Was he, Cedric? Sure he was. He had to be if his prince wasn't there. Harger had a great scheme to get some papers he wanted and to sue for libel at the same time. He knew his prince would be in that office and he knew he'd have a perfect alibi. George, can't you explain it to us? I guess these will explain best, Brooksy. What, just a pair of rubber gloves? Plastic gloves, to be exact, with exact reproductions of Harger's fingerprints on the thumbs and forefingers. You checked this with items? Just came from there, Johnson. All right. Looks like you're going to be with us for quite a while, Cedric. Why'd you do it? She wouldn't open the safe. I mean, I don't know. Okay, that's enough. Lock him up, Sergeant. And thanks for the assist, Valentine. Not at all, Johnson. Glad to be of help. But, George, how did you ever know a pair of plain plastic gloves would be important? Got friendly with a fingerprint bureau angel. Tell you about it over a bowl of soup. Before you buy another gallon of gasoline, consider these facts. Any gasoline can be made to stress one feature at the expense of others, but Chevron Supreme gasoline gives you the correct balance of all eight high performance qualities. And every one of these qualities is necessary for top performance. Quick start hang, smooth acceleration, anti-knock, vapor lock prevention, fast warm-up, full power, area blending, and economy mileage. So shift to the gas with all eight. Ask for Chevron Supreme gasoline at standard stations or independent Chevron gas stations where they say, and mean, we take better care of your car. Good soup. What'd you say, Bruxy? You never told me how you figured out that fingerprint thing. Simple reasoning, Angel. I got to thinking after I saw that pair of plastic gloves at Cedric's place. So I went to the boys who made the identity. And? That was a pretty heavy length of lead pipe, but the only prints on it were from the thumb and finger. Oh, what did that prove? Well, just that nobody could swing the pipe hard enough to knock somebody out with just a thumb and finger. Oh, yeah, that's right. You see, with just those prints, Cedric would never be caught. But Harga would. Body proven alibi, sue the city, and still have the papers he wanted. Oh, now I see. But Mr. Cornelius still hasn't gotten his papers back. Or he'll have them back in an hour. Cedric spilled everything. They're hidden in his house.   Get the benefit of it? Oh, yeah, sure is. But that's life, isn't it? No, George. The transcribed adventure of George Valentine has been brought to you by Standard Oil Company of California on behalf of independent Chevron gas stations and standard stations throughout the West. Robert Bailey is starred as George with Junior Greg as Bruxy. Let George Do It was written by Lloyd London and directed by Kenneth Webb. Ken Christie was heard as Lieutenant Johnson, Bill Boucher as Cornelius, Gigi Pearson as Alice, Larry Dobkin as Harga, and Ted DeCorsia as Cedric. The music was composed and presented by Eddie Dunsteader, your announcer, John Heaston. Listen again next week, same time, same station, too. Let George Do It. Let George Do It is heard overseas through the worldwide facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service. This is the Mutual Don Lee Broadcasting System.


Lycan planus is a chronic autoimmune disease, typically of our moist membranes, such as the inside of our mouth, but can also affect other body surfaces. And it's not that rare, around 1%, making it one of the common or conditioned seen in oral medicine clinics. Current treatments are not curative, but rather palliative, aimed at relieving pain. We've tried steroids, antibiotics, chemotherapy, surgery, and none appear to be particularly effective. So even for palliative pain relief, we don't have great options, so that's why case reports like this are so exciting. Here's the before, and here's the after one month, then two, three, six, seven months later, after drinking two ounces of aloe vera juice a day and applying aloe topically as well. With these kinds of before and after cases, leading to journal articles with titles like aloe vera as a cure for Lycan planus, but is ingested oral aloe vera a potion or poison? Internal use of aloe may cause acute hepatitis, liver inflammation, as well as electrolyte imbalances, and you should definitely not inject aloe. But oral use is also not recommended either. This is primarily because of case reports of aloe-induced hepatitis. Aloe is ironically presented as a detoxifying product, but can actually end up causing liver damage, like in this guy who was trying to protect his liver and ended up in the hospital. How did we know it was the aloe, though? The assessment of suspected herbal-induced liver injury is challenging because there's hundreds of things out there that can damage your liver. Here's the kind of checklist you have to go through as a doctor to rule out other causes before you blame it on the plant. Do you have some kind of viral hepatitis or other kind of liver infection, or could be various drugs or toxins or diseases? So maybe it was one of these other things. It was just a coincidence that the problem started after drinking aloe. The gold standard in terms of trying to prove cause and effect is a positive re-exposure test. That's how you diagnose drug-induced liver injury. Liver inflammation disappears when you remove the drug and then reappears when you add the drug back, which is rarely done for obvious reasons. Well, has there ever been a re-challenge case published for aloe? Yes, aloe-induced toxic hepatitis that shot up again after stopping and then restarting aloe ingestion. Aloe consumption has also been linked to thyroid dysfunction. A woman with lichen planus started swallowing two teaspoons of aloe vera juice a day. She started feeling unjustifiably tired. Lab work showed her thyroid function was low, but she perked right back up after stopping the aloe, and her thyroid function returned to normal. What if instead of swallowing, though, she just swished the aloe around her mouth to try to help the lichen planus and then spit it out? We didn't know until it was put to the test. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 54 patients randomized to a topical aloe vera gel, or placebo gel, for eight weeks. 81% in the aloe group got better compared to just 4% in the placebo group. Furthermore, two patients treated with aloe had a complete clinical remission. That's rare. I mean, it's considered a chronic condition. Yet a few weeks applying aloe, these nasty erosive lesions, disappeared. How about compared to a steroid ointment, though? Topical aloe vera gel was superior, more effective than the steroid, a significant difference appearing within two weeks. So although corticosteroids are still considered the gold standard, aloe vera shows promising results, especially with no adverse effects when applied topically compared to various adverse side effects of the corticosteroids. That's for oral lichen planus, though. What about the efficacy of aloe vera gel in the treatment of lichen planus of the genitals? Lichen planus of the vulva is quite common, affecting 1 to 2% of the population, and it may be even harder to treat. There are flares and partial remission, but no tendency for complete remission, and indeed that's what they saw in the placebo group. One woman had a good response, but most had little or no response, but applying aloe vera gel instead, and 9 out of 10 responded, and one woman had a complete clinical remission. They conclude that aloe vera gel is a safe and effective treatment.


I'm Wendy Loh and I'm excited to journey with you as we learn how to take your health back. Well, a lot of us love to cook, right? So the trend is what do we cook and how do we cook? So what I want you to know is that what we cook in is just as important as what we cook and what we eat. So today we have Gail Yogi with us and she will share with us her journey to better health. Her advice to all is change your cookware, change your life. So welcome Gail Yogi. Thank you. I am so excited to be here, Wendy. I know I wanted you to come on for so long because I love your story. I love your energy. I love your heart. What you do for the people of Hawaii, in particular your community in Hilo and your relentless desire to make a difference in everyone's lives. So Gail, please share with us a little bit about your family and how you became so excited about health and wellness.  She actually had gone to a baby shower, a food demo, and came home changed. Always been about health, always been about wellness.  So I said, okay, mom. And that's how we began.  Everything about the food was delicious. And the thing that was even more so, it ended up changing my entire family's life. Coming to at a place where my husband was sick at that time and needed to have better food and more nutrition in his diet. So it came at a really good place. And then of course, my children just got very, very excited and joined me in our journey to health.  And so that's why it was it's important to know that. But the other component, and that's why I wanted you to be on the show is so that you could explain to others what you cook in is so, so important. So I know you believe strongly in promoting farm to table just like me.  I cut my food and I bring it to my body every day. So how do you incorporate that into your business mission and lifestyle? Well, all we can do is live it. We were just talking about that. And as we become a testimony in ourselves of taking our health back, you find that you can very easily have people trust you, because it's really built on a trust factor. As you live it, as you eat well, as you share it and have a testimony about how well you are, it's easy for others to gravitate to that and want to change their own lifestyle. Definitely, I can always just say, thank you, mom, because she lived it. And that's why it became easy for me to follow. And then now that I'm living it, it's becoming easier for my family to follow.  You change two people a day, right? Four people a day just living the lifestyle. So that's so important. And you know, like, whatever we do, it's even as far as recommending a good restaurant or a good movie, if you speak on it passionately. People are really not caring about the movie, but they're caring about what it may you feel. And they want to feel what you felt. And so same thing with food. So if you are passionate about something and put your heart into it, people go on that they want to buy what you have in your heart and you're and they trust the trust that they have in you and your decisions. So it's so critical in what you're doing. And even like you're saying your mom, she pretty much moved healthy. And then she learned a better way to present it and to cook it. She said, you got to come and learn and understand this is not just what we cook and eat, but how we do it. So how do you promote healthy cooking at your home? Well, actually, I Hi, this is kind of funny. I started with my neighbors. I wanted everybody to have what I had. I was never a cook. I was the queen of burn. And my husband would take take over in the kitchen. So I never really had a desire to cook. But when we started to have health related problems, I wanted to take it back and then me being introduced into solid master, it just made it easy for me to prep my meals. And even if I burned it, it tasted good. So that is really the truth of my story. And I started with my neighbors and they invited their sister and the sister invited their sister and that invited another sister and they invited the coworker. And it just went, it just went crazy. And because I wasn't a cook, the place I was employed at, which is a grocery store, everybody's like, wow, she used to be the queen of sushi. And now all she does is want to cook. I dreamt about what I'm going to create tomorrow. I mean, I really did. It just became so exciting for me to have ideas of how I can make this so simple that others can do this too. Because you can't make this difficult. You can't have the very lengthy recipe. You got to make it simple so that they can duplicate it very easily. Right. They can get the ingredients readily. They can prep it. It doesn't take more than whatever, 10, 15 minutes sometimes, you know, but make it simple and quick and delicious and eye appealing, because we all eat with our eyes. That's right. It's got to be pretty.  She said, Hey, come look at what we're doing, a concept of cooking. And then you got excited about it and you shared it. And, you know, the great thing, I know that it became part of your life. It's part of your business. And so that's the neat thing. It became that. But we do it to help others. But in theory, we ourselves are being benefited so much.  I mean, like we're in our 60s, you know, and we look like one hot mama over there, right? It's because you were diligent enough to understand the power of what you eat. You are what you eat. And so you took it a step further. It's your business. And now you do what you do and you do it because you love it and you're getting paid for it. I'm like, hallelujah. Right. And you're also offering the same opportunity to others. Right. And they too can have it. It's not only your secret and you're going to keep it botched up and you know, you're not going to share it, but you share it through cooking, the passion of cooking and how it can get better than just going to the store, picking it up, cutting it, frying it, burning it and then eating it. Right. I'm ordering sushi. So are there are there any outreach programs that you support? Yes, actually, pre COVID, we were real active. We did cooking coach for the Blue Zones. We also are very proud sponsors of the American Diabetes Association. Yeah, we try to try to get our recipes to be high fiber, you know, lowering the numbers and just really kind of incorporating vegetables into everything that they eat and that they would love it. So high fiber meals, low calorie, low sugar or no sugar. And then of course, good oils. So everything we do is really geared to help them to be better health and live better and feel better. We're also proud sponsors of the, let's see, did I say American Cancer Society, but also yeah. And then also with Dr. Neil Bernard for Food for Life. So there's just so many, so many avenues that we've incorporated into simply for health. It's not just us. It's really just reaching out to the community and being a help. So because if you share with, like I said, two people, they're going to share with two people and it's going to manifest and really change the entire community because it's going to be at the buzz of the day, right? I feel better. I lost 40 pounds or 20 pounds. My levels, you know, my numbers are down in my diabetes and I feel great. And so we're hearing that all the time from feedback from our customers. We just don't sell a product. We make sure they're maximizing it and getting the best benefits through nutrition. Well, you're actually selling a lifestyle. Amen. Okay. So a lifestyle that they should have known about me. You know, your mama was right.  But go to the burger shop. It's just quicker. It's more fulfilling. It's cheaper. So, you know, they watch too much TV and they were influenced. So our job is not an easy job because we're needing to re-educate and we make them more aware of what is better for them than just what they want. Because what we want all the time is not what is best for us, right? And so, you know, when you're doing your shows and, you know, your presentations, do people, what are their responses to reactions? Are they like, wow, this food is really good. I didn't think healthy food could taste so good. Do you hear that? Yeah, all the time. Wow, no water. Wow, no oil. Wow. And no beef. For me, it's no beef.  And when we fall, I go stop at the fast food on the way home. But you know when the guys, and the guys come and they come and they look at the food and they're like, wow, it's pretty because it's orange, it's red, you know, it's not cooked to death and it's delicious, you know. And so, as long as you put your heart into it, what they're eating and experiencing is purely your heart, you know. And so that's, that's why you can change so many people's lives. And you know, we all, all of us here in our body just needs to say, let's give it a try. It couldn't be that bad. And they'd be very surprised, right? I have this one story, young man, and I was doing a dinner, it had a lot of veggies that incorporated in it. It did have chicken and I heard him turn to his wife, I'm going to still be hungry and we're going to have to go McDonald's after this. Yeah, exactly. But after the meal, he felt pija. He's like, I was satisfied. And I said, do you know why? When you get maximum nutrition, that's what happens.  So pretty cool. It makes a drastic difference. I mean, even as far as not just intake, but even output is just a better experience. We don't have to take anything to help it come out because it's so high in fiber and it's prepared the right way. And without all the chemicals that watches up our system. So continue doing what you're doing, girl. We got a big job and I know we're making differences because people are telling us and that's all we need to hear is that people want a change in their life. And we're there to hold their hands and help them through their journey of taking their health back. So I know that you do a lot of things, events and things, but what kind of volunteer work do you do? Actually, I have done PTA meetings. I mean, that sounds funny, but my heart is a children and parents and children are pretty apt to try new things. Parents kind of go, hmm. And then they watch their children. For instance, I made this apple beat and carrot salad fresh and they're watching their kids like eat it up. And they're like, hmm, maybe there's something about that. And so now their parents are getting excited because the children are eating better. So that's one of the things that I like to do is any kind of children's event. And another thing that I was doing, we haven't done lately, but I hope to get back into this as everything subsides was the bread basket. Because there is a nice fresh vegetable and fruit truck now that travels with them. And at one point they had me doing meals out of whatever they sold on the side. So I could encourage them to eat more fresh.  And let me show you how I can prepare this simple that you can do this at home. So that was another fun thing that we did. Wow. And I did have the opportunity to come to a presentation or a show. And the bottom line is you made it look fun. You made it look fun. You made it look easy. And it not only looked fun, it looked easy. It actually was fun. It was easy. And so the right tools like anything in life, even towards your health journey, but the right tools, all things are possible, you know, and we just have to know that. And so what you're offering is giving them these valuable tools to create their new lifestyle or continue their great lifestyle. So as I said, you're doing a good job and lots more, lots more to come, especially in these times when we're having such issues, health issues on the outside. All I can tell us is that we just need to steward our bodies better and take our lives into our own hands and be more sustainable within the homes. And that's exactly what you're trying to create. Am I correct? I am. Definitely. I know you are. Home cook meals. Always. And actually, you know what, it's much cheaper, cheaper and better because you control what you put in and what you don't put in. And so this is so valuable. But people, I know that they say we don't have time, but they have to really rethink that, that statement. I don't have time. You don't have time for health or life. What is it? Right? So we have to educate them and make that part fun. And so that's what I segue into is that you are making it fun and simple, simpler. So eating well and staying physically active is important for a healthy lifestyle. So how do you promote this? Okay. So in our dealership here, we actually have a physical fitness trainer. He also does physical therapy. And he has helped quite a bit of my customers or clients or now family. I call them family to continue on their path. And what was nice is how we partnered up because he needed help for his clients to stay on the path of a lifestyle, not a diet. And I needed help to help my clients get stronger physically by exercising, even if it was resistance training. So we partnered together, I would say I met him six years and about five years, we've been together here at Simply for Health. So it's been a wonderful journey. Well, that's a fabulous partnership, right? Nutritional. I mean, and basically you're offering them a family, you know, a lifestyle of a healthy family that I always say like lock arms or hold hands with them because a lot of people say, well, first of all, where do I start? Right. And then, oh, nobody's going to watch me. So I can cheat. Of course, you can cheat, but you're going to cheat yourself. But when what you're creating is you're creating that Ohana that holds each other accountable. And that's the key right there is that you're creating a Ohana and with accountability. That's so key. So that's why your customers or all the people that do come into your doors will be on their way to taking their health back because you're going to not allow anything else. I know that. So what type of nutrition classes? I know you have physical and you have cooking. So what type of nutritional classes or individuals do you partner with? Okay. So we actually also partnered with someone named Valerie Kejano. And she is does thermography and cellular nutrition out in Waimea. And the whole point was to help them to get back into more nutritious foods. And so we also had a very, very lovely woman visit us from Phoenix that taught us how to do fermenting. So that's what we do is we'll have education classes with our with our trainer, with our physician, and then also do my daughter now has learned to do a wonderful ferment class. And then just basic food prep. So now those that are exercising and taking care of their bodies, how can we make it more simple for them to food prep their foods so they're not feeling like, Oh my god, I'm hungry. I'm going to stop and buy something, but help them to have everything ready to have their meals so that they're packed with nutrition benefit. Well, so you know, I understand the value of fermenting. Can you just explain a little bit about fermentation and fermented foods that and why is it so important for our bodies? Well, definitely your gut is the key to everything. And I learned this from a young, well, a man, he was doing a 21 day cleanse and it was to help the body to alkaline. And it was all based on getting the gut in order. And by that 21 day, you were not craving for any sugar or any kind of junk food because now you have good bacteria.  No, you have to have a balanced body is so very important. And the one thing that we took charge of is at that time, my daughter was pregnant and she was having some problems with high blood sugar. So she did a study on a beet kavaas. And it was something that she made that only took nine days to ferment on the on the counter. And what it was was this wonderful little tonic that she just took a shot every day. Who would know that it was just that simple to cut up and to prepare it right and to ferment it and now it becomes a tonic every single day. So it just enabled us to help people realize that food is our medicine. And permits is very important in the process of getting your body aligned. Right. And it's also the greatest source of probiotics for our bodies. It is and prebiotics and free right, free and pro. And so that's why it's so important. I mean, like every culture has a form of free or pro probiotics. You know, I mean, like the kimchi, right? That's up.  It's all good. But then not all, not all, um, suki mono, right? Um, star crowd, all of these things are just naturally, um, made to help clean and take care of our gut. But people don't think of it that way.  No, I just loaded up because I love sauerkraut. The hot dog and the bun was just to put it. So now I don't eat hot dogs, but I still love sauerkraut. It was a sauerkraut that I love. Amen. So those are, that was really important. I believe for me too, I had a love for a lot of crustaceous vegetables. And, um, there was a time when my thyroid was just slightly off. And I thought, well, all that stuff is supposed to be super good for you. But no, there's always a balance. So now for me, if I want to have cabbage, I didn't realize the cabbage took three months to ferment. I didn't realize that because it's full of hydrochloric acid needed to get out. So now I don't have a problem anymore. So is knowing not only what foods, but knowing how to ferment them properly and knowing what's, you know, you need to know, you need to be in touch with your body.  It's just amazing. That's what I learned. I'm still a little bit of a journey of learning. I don't know at all baby, but I'm still learning for work in progress. But you know, um, I've got to mention to the audience, I mean, hey guys, go see Dr. Gale, learn about what she does, how she does it, and get a good food sampling and get a lifestyle change and all this great advice.  Really? Yes. So, you know, that's why we, we have to talk more, you know, you have to talk more. I have you on this show so you can reach more people so they can hear the simplicity of eating and being healthy. It doesn't take a rocket behind us. And you did all the research.  And I'm sure you're not going to hold any information back if they have a question. And I know you that if you didn't have the answer, you would research it and you'd find the answer. I'm sure you will. Because that's a challenge of what we do and who we are is that we want to have the answers and the right answers to excite everyone to take their health back. So what I'm getting our health back is to inspire, right? And to do all we can to share all the talents and their talents. Do you feature any of the, any guest speakers or guest chefs at your? Definitely. We have some amazing people. And I have a chef Tony. He used to work at a restaurant. But for me, his testimony was powerful. At one time he had invested, but he cooked the same. He didn't change too much. And then he went and had to have a blood test and he got diabetes and he had this wonderful testimony that he did a cooking class via live Facebook here in our office. And he told how he had to change immediately. He did not want any of his limbs cut off. He just, it just was a reality to him. And within two weeks of changing the food and how it was prepared, he lost weight. His numbers went down. He was playing good.  And so I think people that have taken this to the next level and are inspired to teach others and then also to share their own testimonies of their successes with their health and wellness. Yeah. Excellent. I mean, I love hearing those stories. I hang out at Down to Earth here in Honolulu. And a lot of people are regulars, but then when I see a new face come in and they go straight to where all the pills are and stuff. And so I just go and say, Hey, you're new here. Why, what about you in, you know, me, Sonya Ele, right? So they said, Oh, when doctor, and I get high blood pressure now, so I got, I got to change. So they're looking for answers. You know, they just got diagnosed and they want to know what can I do now. So again, Gail, that's, then I feel like, Oh my gosh, I'm failed because I didn't talk to this guy. I don't even know who he is, but had I talked to him before, you know, maybe we're going to help them. But then again, he wasn't in the right space in his mind. So now that he got diagnosed, he's pushed into the corner. And so now he has to learn what can I do more to get better. So then again, not too late, but that's when we can receive them where they are and help them along their way. So is there a favorite recipe that you like to share with others? Well, I have a unique one. It's kind of like my signature whenever I do a demonstration. That kind of blows people's mind, but I do, I do a vegetable cake and I don't use any oil and I don't use any liquid and I go straight to the source of the vegetables. And usually my favorite vegetables are carrots and beet, purple cabbage, a little bit of zucchini. If I don't got that, I put a little bit of pumpkin in there and that is able to create enough oils of its own and liquid to bake that cake. Depending if you're vegan or vegetarian, I'll add eggs or I'll add chia seeds for the omega. So it's dragging. Well, you didn't make that for me.  That's fabulous. Get your fix, but it's a healthy fix. Wow. So I know I know we're running low on time, but I want to, I need to ask you what do you hope to achieve in your business as well as your family? Well, I hope that I can really make a difference, continue to make a difference in my community. We are pretty much in Hilo and a little bit in Waimea and Honokai, just starting to branch out to Kona side. And I just want a larger sphere of influence to have people know that we're here. We're here to help them not only change their cook bed, cookware, but to change their lifestyle and to have it affect like for me, I feel like I'll leave a legacy, long legacy. I'm watching you are my children and now even great grandchildren. Hallelujah. That's what this is all about. There's my little child right there. Beautiful. So while we have to leave it now, we run out of time, but you've been watching, taking your health back on Think Takawaii. Mahalo to Gail Yogi from Hilo for sharing your journey to health. Thank you for talking, starting with us and for sharing so many ways that we can all take our health back. I'm so grateful to you Gail. And Mahalo to all of our viewers for watching. I'm Wendy Lo. We'll be back in two weeks with another edition of Taking Your Health Back. Aloha for now.


Hey, thanks. I'm I'm really excited to talk to y'all. So I should be presenting And thanks for giving me some space to talk about this Quick introduction. I'm Ryan. I'm a principal data scientist in Zilla working on Firefox Bloud pretty regularly. So if you are interested in that you can find the link right there So I'm here to talk about getting credit for invisible work And since time short, I'll jump right in So I said I'm here to talk about visible work. What is invisible work? So for this talk, I'm using a very specific definition And it has these three characteristics. So it's work that is critical to a project success something that you've worked on and is very important Something that takes skill to do well and something that is never shown to your stakeholders So by this definition There's a lot of invisible work this happens everywhere in knowledge work Most of the stuff that we do doesn't ever get shown to a to a collaborator I think this is unusually prominent in data work So if you look at these classes of invisible work, you have like exploratory data analysis and data cleaning Which monopolize the time that you spend producing a great analysis and this never gets shared with anyone downstream Just like a quick doodle of how I visualize the data science process We have a question and then we go through this like data science loop where we like build hypotheses Look for data and reject those hypotheses and build context up the whole time To us this process is pretty clear. We have been making progress the whole time and we can feel that progress What our stakeholders see is they have a question We do some stuff and we come back with an answer And this is this is good. I'm not saying that this is a problem. This is actually super virtuous The data scientist is creating a lot of value when they're building up all this context And nobody wants the complexity that the data scientist is dealing with We're producing a lot of value by simplifying these very complex data sets into something that is actionable But this can cause a bunch of problems When we try to demonstrate our value So I say demonstrate our value What I mean by that is Well, let's talk about it Demonstrating our value I work for a company. I work as an IC. I'm not Mostly doing open source work. So I conceptualize getting Proving my value as maybe going for a promotion or trying to get a raise This is true also working in the open or as a consultant Trying to get folks to recognize the difficult parts of your work is difficult This is actually so this first line is actually a piece that I got from a performance review a long time ago And someone asked me that they wanted to they wanted me to demonstrate more complexity in my work This may sound fine on the surface, but I think this thinking is pretty backwards and this backwards thinking is pretty common in the industry We tend to conflate really complex solutions with really complex problems And what we want is we want to have really simple solutions to complex problems the complexity of our Solution is a cost to be borne not something to optimize for And this is pretty common in the industry I've seen this encourage folks to slip machine learning into places where it doesn't necessarily need to be Uh, and I've seen there I've seen folks make their reports the things that they're delivering to stakeholders I've seen folks make these reports super complicated in an attempt to document all of the pieces That they worked on all of the complexity that they faced when coming to this solution They're trying to express this to their stakeholders that they can understand How difficult this is and in reality what happens is you get a long boring report that nobody really reads And this is super lossy because you could be providing this super clean report Um, but this push for explaining complexity, uh muddies the conversation So, all right, that's what invisible work is that's what it might look like when you're doing work So what do we do? And this is the part where it's going to be a little undersatisfying because I don't have a silver bullet for this What I'm going to suggest is uh, I'm going to explain some of the strategies that have worked well for me in building my career And hope that that helps you in the future Maybe like more importantly what I'm hoping here is that by framing the problem up nicely and demonstrating where this problem is That'll put you in good shape for the next time you're trying to solve this type of problem I found that a well framed problem is 90 of the 90 of the way to being solved So I've had I've three things here I'm going to go through them one by one building a narrative arming your manager and fighting a recency bias So I'm I start by talking about building a narrative because I think this is the keystone To this whole process if we can get this right we can kind of bumble around with the other pieces The key to building a narrative is building this clean memorable story about what you actually did and what was hard about it And this sounds simple on the surface, but I found that a lot of folks don't do it when trying to explain their work Two tips on building this story things that you want to focus on you want to focus about what was actually really difficult about your work I've seen folks really focus on the most technical piece or focus on the solution that they pushed out Those things can be useful to talk about but more often The really difficult part of the work is something that looks like Framing up the problem or finding the right dataset or doing some exploration and getting rid of a bunch of options You want to focus on what was actually hard so that you can communicate that to your peers The other piece is focus on outcomes instead of this is maybe in contrast to the outputs that you created You don't want to focus just on the piece of technical code that you delivered or the dataset that you pushed out You want to focus on how how it changed the company so for example maybe My favorite type of project is one where I decide to do nothing I go talk to the stakeholder we talk through their problems and they decide there's a better way to solve this Than working with data. Maybe they just go out and talk to some folks Maybe they just build a feature and see what happens in this scenario. This is great It's the best case scenario. You haven't done any work. You haven't had to do any work and everybody's happier maybe Maybe your outcome is that you went to a team that was very stressed because I didn't know what was going on And that was making them very skeptical And if you walk away and the team's relieved because they aren't angry anymore, that's a huge win and you should sell that That's something that you should get rewarded for So that's two trips or two tips for building this narrative. I also want to like cover one One risk don't again. I've talked about this before don't share complexity A lot of times folks when building up this narrative about what their work looks like take the Take all of the complexity that they worked with And document it and that they create this big document that talks about all the difficult parts of this work That's really not useful. Folks are going to look at that. They're not going to read it because it is super complex You need a story that you can share with folks and that folks will share with each other Something that can communicate or that can be shared from human to human So that's that's the goal behind this building narrative. I'm going to keep moving at a pretty good click I'll leave some time for questions at the end Once you have this narrative, you need to get it into the hands of someone who can share it around the company for you Uh, sometimes you're going to have to be your own manager But the the goal here is to have this story in the hands of someone who's selling this selling this story around So the high-level piece is that Your your manager or you in this situation is going to be in a situation where they need to Sell your story So you need to arm them and make that as easy as possible for them. Sometimes folks feel like this is a little conceded They don't want to they don't want to share this story about how great they are and have someone pushing that around In reality, everyone's busy. We want you to be successful And your manager is going to be grateful for you for making it easy So giving them this narrative that they can use when they're in a room with a bunch of their peers trying to argue Over who gets promoted if if they have this story and they're armed well that makes them look good And it makes it a lot easier for them to do their job. Well One tactical strategy is once you have this narrative slip it into your one-on-ones and do it frequently This helps arm your manager because this story will be common It'll be something that they've worked over a bunch of times This also helps you build this narrative because the more time you spend thinking about it The more smooth it's going to be and the better the presentation will be Um, it also makes sure that you're aligned I've been caught in the situation where I've built this fantasy about how important my work is And that's not great and you want to get rid of that as quickly as possible This final piece is about finding recency bias. Uh, so This is something that I fell into. I had the first two bits and I was writing pretty good narratives What I found is that when I would look back at my work I would focus on the solution because it's the last thing that I did. It's the thing that solved this whole problem Uh, what I found is that in reality, uh, the solution is an answer to a problem that took a really long time to frame properly And that framing was a difficult work I've seen this reflected even the job ladder that this framing of the problem is the hard difficult work for data work Uh, if you look at different job or as you move up the job letter and you get more seniority The biggest thing that changes is the problems you get are more and more vague So sell that part of the work you're doing Uh, and the recency bias forces you to focus on this last thing that you fixed instead of where you started and what the real business problem was Um, I'm going to skip over this example in the sake of time Um Well, no, I won't all right. So real quick example from my workplace. Uh, this is something that I worked on a long time ago in my career Uh, and it wasn't super technical. It was a uh, etl for a data set that summarized the business metric it Was something like take countries For every day and count this metric and put it into a data sets that our executives can like play around with it and get a feel for What's going on in the business? It's not technically complex At all. Uh, it was very easy to deliver. It wasn't more than a hundred lines of code It took three months to deliver so that's not great. Uh, and all in all this doesn't seem like a great project But once it was launched everyone was thrilled and I got promoted not very long afterwards So what happened there? How did that how did that non-technical project lead to these good results? um, and That goes back to the narrative the actual difficult part about this project Wasn't the data set that I pushed out. It was that the questions I were getting were kind of confused and vague and with a lot of urgency so When I got these questions You know they immediately felt I like to use the the metaphor it sounded like someone asked me to buy them a fridge that they could keep their house cold and it created this type of like skeptical feeling like I don't think That's what you want. Um, and it would have been easy enough for me to Answer their requests the way that they asked it and then just walk away But I knew that that wasn't going to make them happy. Um, so I took some time to dug in and framed this problem Well once I did The main thing that I that I left when I walked away was folks were very confident about what was solved What wasn't solved what we knew and what we didn't know and that like calmed them down that gave them a lot of peace of mind So what I really sold here Was the peace of mind that I delivered to the team instead of the the technical thing that wasn't all that complex So, uh I've got to slip this in so I've I said what you want to do what outcomes you want to create but I didn't talk about like What you actually do like what are the rituals? There's a moment of draw the rest of the owl With this description. So two strategies that I use and I still use today They're super useful or keeping snippets and keeping a brag document. Um, I'll talk about each of these Snippets, this is a behavior that I picked up when I was at google It's been super useful and it's morphed into my own weird type of Ritual uh every week I write down what I did what was important and I try to focus on keeping a lot of Context and keeping a lot of context. This is a really useful tool when you're trying to fight recency bias um Be as specific as you can This has been super useful for me if you're only going to do one of these two definitely do snippets This is collecting data on yourself and what you measure you're going to start improving This also helps you find work that you shouldn't be doing and help you discard it The other piece is a brag document As you do work you get excited about it But that excitement doesn't hold doesn't last right you get more work and you try to focus on bigger things If I look at my work from two years ago, it's not exciting because it's a problem that I've already solved This brag document helps capture That excitement so that later when you're like looking through your work You can be like, ah, this is an index of the things that I should be looking for in my week reviews For my old snippets. Uh, this brag doc helps grab that excitement and helps you share it with other folks so The other thing is it's just a nice dopamine hit and helps you see your progress as a data scientist So I recommend you keep it if only for that reason Cool in summary invisible work happens get credit for it by telling a clean story about what actually happened to your manager And you should probably be keeping weekly weekly snippets Um, I'm going to post these slides later today. I'm going to leave some room for questions It looks like about four minutes If we don't get to questions today, if we don't get to your question Or if you have a shower thought later, feel free to email me blog at harderrt.com And then the only other note is that I'm hiring. So if you're interested, shoot me a resume at csv at harderrt.com Cool, I'll leave the rest of the room for questions Fantastic. Thank you so much for this talk Ryan. I particularly appreciate the reminder for us all to Be persistent and unapologetic about advocating for ourselves and to also frame the narratives That we want shared in a way that is easy for them to be repeated elsewhere by others. Thank you We have one question from Tara and I encourage you to share other questions that you may have using the ask a question Button Tara asks is that value to calculating a return on investment could be time or money? Or is it just busy work? Uh, it depends on how close to the money you are. Um I've had work where like it's very clear how much how much Value I produced in dollars and then that calculation can make sense. I find most of the time We're so far ahead of like actually launching a project we can be in like the research stages or we could be in The very early stages of building up the product and if that's the case It's really hard to make a prediction about how much value or how many dollars will be related to And then that if you don't have dollars it makes it really hard to make that calculation work I think it's maybe more valuable to think about this as opportunity sizing And I just had a blog post about how we do opportunity sizing at Mozilla And there you look at really high level Is this work that i'm doing big enough to be worth my time? And if you can get a like even just a rough estimate about whether those line up I think that can be really useful. Um, it's really easy to work on stuff that You know, isn't hurting the company, but isn't valuable enough to uh, to be worth your salary And no one's going to tell you that that's not worth working on. Um, it becomes a good thing to do great We have plenty more questions ryan. Um, I think I'll highlight one by k and k asks, um What are one second? So what are your thoughts about the challenges of communicating technical work with a non-technical manager? Yeah, that is difficult. I I generally uh What i'm looking for teams I tend to report. I try to look to report to someone who's worked with data in the past if you're in a situation where you're like reporting to someone who isn't a technical manager This this like very clean narrative is Way more important, right because now what you're doing is you're taking your technical work You're distilling it and explaining it to someone who has to be able to tell this particular story Well, and they won't be able to like iterate on the edges Uh, so when they get questions, I'll have to add lip a little bit So focus really hard on making this narrative clean and helping them understand what was really difficult about your work Yeah, what did that answer the question do you think? I think so, um, and there's a related one actually from Eric and Eric asks How will you alter any of your recommendations specifically for academia? For academia. Um, well, I think Uh, I haven't worked in academia. I stopped after my bachelors. Uh, so I I've only looked from the outside and I think they're still very clear, uh Incentives and getting credit for this is still important. Um, academia has a very clear, uh Outline for what they want at least from what I can tell focusing on publishing and getting papers out there. Uh, so I I'd make sure that you were responding to the incentives that they are pushing at you part of this is that, uh In in the corporate world, I've found that companies want one thing and they'll reward another and they just kind of hope that we resist this, uh, we resist this, uh Incentive and a lot of folks do in academia. They're they're telling you what they want. I think pretty clearly and If they're not changing their story, then it's fine to play to their game. Um So they want you to just publish just publish


Good day, fellow investors. Now, as we all know, the stock market is very, very volatile. Stocks go up and down, especially when there is some news. Even stable companies can lose 10-20% in a given day, small caps 20-40% and pharmaceuticals can jump 200% in a day and lose 70% in a day, depending on FDA approval. However, that news that companies have to disclose since 2000 and the Fair Disclosure Act and the 2002 Serbanes-Oxley Act that made companies wherever there is something material they have to disclose it to the public, to the investors, to make the investment environment more transparent. So since then, that news has really impacted the markets and there are some patterns which we will discuss through analyzing scientific articles and what to do and what can we take advantage of the patterns. As always, scientific articles and research is the most underrated research in financial markets. There are professors that spend their lifetimes to do research and then they have 15 downloads of their paper. So really under the radar, because it's complicated, because it's academic. However, if you can translate into normal investing, you can get a lot of value there. So we will look at these scientific papers, we will do two case studies, I will discuss London Mining and Apple and how their stock prices react to news. Let's start with Apple. Here you have the chart from the 8th of January 2007 to till the 19th of January 2007. What happened on the 9th of January 2007, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone. And you can see the immediate positive reaction from just above 12, the stock price of Apple here in the blue went to almost 14. Which outperformed the SAP 500 in the next 5 days. However, after 10 days, investors already forget about the positive news that Apple delivered. It will change the world in the next 10 years. But investors preferred the SAP 500 in relation to Apple. Just to show you how the rest is history, this is the performance. Apple, since the announcement of the iPhone went up 1315% plus dividends. The SAP 500 went up 87% plus again dividends. So this is very interesting how in the first 4 days, 3-4 days there was excitement about the Apple announcement and then it went down and even underperformed the SAP 500 even if Apple would go and change the world. So that's very interesting how if there is some exciting news, in the first days investor rush into that news, however if there is no immediate benefit like the Apple iPhone, there was uncertainties, who will buy it, who will do. So a lot of uncertainties around it, then the stock price again returned to where it was before and even outperformed the market. So always see how Wall Street always looks at certainty in comparison to uncertainty. Even if that uncertainty is extremely, extremely powerful. Like an iPhone that combines phone, music and whatever it was the first thing. That was so revolutionary just 10 years ago. That's crazy how the world evolves and iPhone now is normal for all of us. Nevertheless, it's also crazy how Apple's stock price was at 12. Yes, it was at 12 just 10 years ago, even if now it is where 100 and something. So the first take is that if you look at long-term news, there is really time. Even if there are excitement, investors really need confirmation, they need earnings, they need higher dividends, they need buybacks to buy into Apple. And now everybody's rushing into Apple. However, when the news was out in 2007, people were a bit, okay, yeah, yeah, very interesting, nice, nice, nice. Let me buy Apple now 10 years later at 15 times higher prices. That's how Wall Street works. So if you look at long-term news and understand the long-term impact of those news, you can really take advantage. However, wait a few days because after the excitement passes, usually the stock price returns to its normal way because that news, that positive news is not yet seen in the fundamentals. Now, the second thing that we show from the Apple chart is that after significant news has been released, the volatility increases. As I said, first there is exuberance, but then again, the stock price drops to the previous level if there is no impact on fundamentals. So really take advantage of that volatility. Now, just a funny note on the research scientists from Georgia Tech have found that if there is unscheduled news delivered in December, then the reaction of the market is much smaller than in the other months. So December, everybody's thinking about Christmas, partying, buying gifts and they're not so much thinking, especially analysts. They're not so much analyzing stocks and what goes on and what should we do with the stock market. So if a company reports negative or positive news in December, the reaction of the market is much, much less than in the other months. Very interesting, but that's how it goes. Now, another thing that's very interesting, Wesley Chan reported in his paper in the Journal of Finance, how investors react slowly to bad information, especially with stocks with low liquidity. This means that there is some bad news, but then investors look at the stock market a day and then they hope that the stock price will not react that much negatively to the bad news. However, then the bad news slowly starts impacting the stock price and then everybody rushes to sell. So we have a stock price drift after bad news. The first drop is let's say small and then the stock price drifts, drifts, drifts to the subsequent final price where it stabilizes. Again, with increased volatility. This means that investors first hope that the bad news will not affect the stock. However, then in loss aversion, as they see their losses mount, they start selling in panic, which makes the stock price drift to the final price, to the final normal price where it stabilizes. So always be wary of that, especially if there are smaller stocks, not so followed stocks. If you sell immediately the first minute, you can buy then later, really, really on the chip. That is something I did with Nefsum. When they announced that they will cut their dividends from 5% to 1%, in the first minute, when the market opened, I sell my complete position. A few hours later, I think in the next days, I bought back all the amount that I have sold. So I had much more shares. I lost some money because the first drop was initial, but I didn't live. I didn't hold the bag through the longer drop. Same with Amfi, but I didn't buy back in for now. We'll see if I will do ever it later. So really, try to think. I will not mention this anymore in the videos as the channel is growing. But if you have a liquid stock, if there is negative news, you can really sell immediately because the reaction is always a little bit late from investors because it's not followed so much, but institutional. So they are mainly retail investors and retail investors are slow because you are not there to watch the market from the minute it opens or an hour before it opens till it closes, waiting for news. You are doing something else, you have a job, you have this, you have that. So it takes time for you to react. And if you see the stock price going down, you react later and you sell, hopefully to avoid future losses, thus loss aversion. However, those who are quick can take advantage of that, sell immediately and buy back later if the news is negative but not impactful to the stock. So think about it, I won't mention it anymore. So who has subscribed to the channel? Who hasn't? We'll lose this information if they don't look back to the video here. We can share everything with everybody. Then we would have efficient markets and that's something that we don't want. Now, an interesting situation happened last week with London mining. The stock price was around 7 and then London announced a new changed operational outlook for the next 10 years where they have lowered the forecast by 20% for the next two years, increased the investments, but from 2021 they have increased production by 20% for the next 10 years. Of course, Wall Street doesn't like long term at the sacrifice of short term, doesn't like spending money, doesn't like investing, they want dividends now and the stock price dropped what 2023% in five days. So the company announced increased production in the decade going on from 2021 and a little bit lower production now. So there will be lower cash now, lower cash in the next one, two years and that's what something Wall Street doesn't like. We have already discussed hyperbolic discounting, so always if you're a long term investment, if there is short term temporary negative news you can really take advantage if that is short term temporary news. So you have to see if that bad news will pile up and really go into disaster creating a value trap or it's just temporary, the company is sacrificing short term for the long term, family owned, London mining, they think long term, not short term. So very interesting how that works and how Wall Street reacts to that. I still have to put all the new data in my model to see what's the value of London mining. I will share that with you. It's not that difficult to do and it's not that valuable because I think many analysts do it so we can do that, however, give me some time to see what's the real value of London and what's the discount rate and what is the discount or if the stock is still over there. So we have to adapt to the market. You don't want to be a long term buy and hold investor that just holds the bag. You have to also think market has a lot of irrational participants and we have to take advantage of that irrationality.  So we have to take advantage of opportunities and not be bag holders because we have a slow motion or long term investment horizon. Thank you for watching. I'm looking forward to your comments and I'll see you in the next video.


so like millions of other people this weekend I went out and saw the brand new movie us from the amazing Jordan Peele there's a bunch of channels out there doing reviews of the movie as well as throwing out their theories of the ending and other things like that inside the movie but in this video I want to take a look at the very real condition in which people believe that other people around them have been replaced by imposters and I got some great news for you whether you've seen this movie or not it's all good baby because this is completely spoiler free what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel my channel is all about mental health but I'm also a psychology nerd and I love learning about psychology as well as different mental health conditions and all of that and try teaching them to all of you as well so if you're into that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I'm always taking things from pop culture like movie tv music and all of that to make some videos so anyways um my beautiful girlfriend and Tristan and I we just got back from seeing the movie us last night mwah amazing movie go out and see it but before we went out and saw the movie I was kind of like going down this rabbit hole just watching a bunch of different interviews with Jordan Peele as well as the cast members because get out was a phenomenal movie and I knew this movie was going to be great as well so I kind of want to get inside the mind of Jordan Peele and I watched a bunch of videos of him like explaining you know what horror movies he liked growing up and things like that and also where his idea for this movie us came from and I actually came across this clip when did you get the idea for this one uh the idea came you know I I've been terrified of the idea of doppelgangers since I was a kid I had uh you know I always had this vision of like seeing myself across the subway platform and just kind of thought like what if you saw yourself and then you're like if that's not creepy enough what if you went like you know the other you sort of smiled at you and so this this kind of this idea of like all right what's that about and um you know I've been I put it at the idea of a doppelganger family I thought was like okay well then my imagination went crazy and out came this film so yeah after watching that clip and seeing that he had this like fear when he was a child of like seeing a doppelganger version of himself I was seeing that I think I'm like huh I wonder if this is like a real thing I wonder if this is isolated like Jordan Peele is the only one who worries about this or if others might worry about it as well and the other thing that I was thinking about was that movie The Truman Show with Jim Carrey way back in the day and I was wondering if this movie might trigger some delusions in people so those of you who don't know about the Truman Show the Truman Show was a movie starring Jim Carrey in which his entire life was being filmed and it was inside this like super dome and everybody in there was actors and everything well after that movie came out there was a lot of people who suffered from the delusion that they were inside the Truman Show all right so I was wondering like huh I wonder if this might lead to something like that okay so anyways I did some research and there is actually something called the Copgra delusion okay and this comes from the French psychiatrist Joseph Copgra okay so the Copgra delusion is also known as the imposter delusion which should not be confused with imposter syndrome which is something completely different but Joseph Copgra saw this way back in like the late 1800s early 1900s where he was seeing cases of people who thought people in their lives were being replaced by imposters so once learning about that I'm like okay how many other people struggle with this and who is like the expert who is out there studying this delusion right so there is actually a man by the name of Dr. VS Ramachandran okay so he is actually the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of San Diego okay so he does a lot of studies around you know this idea that the movie us might actually you know be real in some people's minds so in an article from the American Psychological Association they actually talk about you know Dr. Ramachandran and some of his findings so what's interesting is this right here where some people believe that this is actually Freudian so Freudian what does that mean well uh Dr. Sigmund Freud he had this idea that you know all young men they have this like sexual desire for their mothers so some people believe that the cop-graw delusion comes from that so by believing that one's mother for example is an imposter then you don't really have to feel bad about your you know sexual fantasies of your mother if they're an imposter but there are actually people who struggle with the cop-grass delusion who for example believe that their their dog was replaced by an imposter and Dr. Ramachandran says and I quote I don't know how Freudians would explain that one so what does Dr. VS Ramachandran actually believe this is what does he believe that the cop-grass delusion actually is so in this article from the American Psychological Association it states research by Ramachandran and others suggests an alternative explanation it seems that in healthy people the brain's visual cortex relates information through two routes one that goes to the temporal lobe where face recognition occurs and one that goes to the limbic system which registers an emotional reaction in cop-graw patients the route from the visual cortex to the limbic system is damaged but the route to the temporal lobe remains unharmed causing the person to see a woman who looks like his mother but who sparks no emotional response the mind explains that discrepancy by insisting that the woman is an imposter Ramachandran posits so what they actually did to Ramachandran as well as a buddy of his who's a philosopher they did some experiments where they hooked people up to something that detected skin conductance okay so basically what they did was they sat people down and they showed them a bunch of pictures so for example they sit a young man down who might be suffering from the cop-graw delusion and they show them pictures of a bunch of random people right and then they would show them a picture of their own mother and basically what the skin conductance does is they'll have a reaction like an emotional reaction your body actually reacts when you have an emotional response but people with the cop-graw delusion did not have any change in their skin conductance whereas they took a control group and they did the same thing but when showed pictures of their mother or different family members the skin to conductance changed right because they had an emotional response to this so part of this delusion is that the mind believes that if you're not having an emotional response to somebody right like that's close to you your mother your father your your husband your wife whoever it is then they must be an imposter that's what the brain tells them so in this article from Psychology Today Dr. Ramachandran he actually talked about one of the patients that he worked with who suffered from the cop-graw delusion where when he would see his own father he didn't have any kind of emotional reaction he thought his father was an imposter and all that but whenever he spoke to his father on the phone he believed that it was his father so what Dr. Ramachandran argues is that yes this is an issue with the visual cortex so humans are very visual creatures okay like we see things and then we process them so if if that's like the strongest part of your brain processing things visually when you see somebody you're not having that emotional response but when it's completely auditory like on the phone then that emotional response might happen because you don't have anything to visualize so there's a bunch of different reasons as to why the cop-graw delusion happens so in this post from Medical News Today they talk about the different instances of it so this is seen a lot with people who are suffering from Alzheimer's disease as well as dementia but when it comes to psychological disorders this is commonly seen in different forms of schizophrenia so how do you treat this thing in the article from Medical News Today they talk about some of the most common treatments for the cop-graw delusion include antipsychotics therapy surgery as well as memory and recognition medications all right so what they also talk about is one of the most common forms of therapy that they use for people who are suffering from the cop-graw delusion is validation therapy and what that is is basically it's a therapeutic technique in which the therapist is working with the person to validate their beliefs to validate their delusions and the goal of this therapy is to help reduce that anxiety so if you can imagine just for a minute thinking that you know your own mother is an imposter a therapist working with that person they're gonna help calm down that anxiety because you can get pretty anxious thinking that you know this woman you know has replaced your mother so that's actually interesting to me because just based on some of the other research I've done and looking at different psychological disorders like for example bipolar disorder when somebody is in a manic state and they're having these kind of you know grandiose delusions like one of the things that you don't do is play into that but since this seems like it's more of a brain issue maybe it's more about you know harm reduction if you will but anyways anyways I thought this was just really interesting just after seeing the movie us and you know interviews with Jordan Peele and then finding out that this is an actual condition that people are struggling with but anyways if you've seen the movie us let me know what you think about that movie down below I'm actually thinking about doing one more video about it um because there were some themes around PTSD and anxiety um so yeah if you want me to do one of those videos let me know down in the comments below but anyways that's all I got for this video if you liked this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos and a huge huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon you are all amazing and if you would like to get involved in our monthly Q&A and exclusive content and all sorts of stuff click a tap on that icon right there all right thanks so much for watching I'll see you next time