And I'm talking about holistic success, right? This is the essence of my kind of Master of the Day philosophy that I share in my book, which is that there's one thing or one universal principle, a truth you can apply to all aspects of life and it'll get better. Well in this video, this is more of a personal development challenge, but in this video we're going to be tackling one little experiment you should do and try that will definitely change your life. What's up guys? Alex Hine, author of the book, Master of the Day. So just like in my book, this is nothing new, right? Nothing sexy, no new detox, no cleanse BS, it's called the blame game, right? And it's funny, the hundreds of people I've coached personally, one on one, the easily 10,000 plus emails I've answered and all of the kind of comments I get collectively, one of the things I notice the most that poisons your results more than anything is blame, right? Blame by default will deflate any ambition you have. It'll kill action, it'll cause procrastination. It's the one thing that will sabotage you more than anything.  That's great. But then what are you going to do about it, right? Blame more than anything is an emotional state where you can't grow at all. You can't change anything. Okay, that may be true with your girlfriend or your boyfriend or whoever, but what are you going to do about it? Right? That may be true, but what are you going to do about it? So the big thing with blame is that it immediately shifts you from a place of, I control this, I can change this, I'm going to do something about this too. I'm a victim, I'm powerless, I'm, God is like the Aunt Bully and I'm the Aunt, right? It could be true in your fitness too. Maybe it's true that your mom was always overweight and you have her same genetics. That may be true. It may be true that you live in a house where there's no healthy food. That may be true. It may be true you don't make enough money to really eat healthy, organic food. That may be a fact, but guess what?  You still have to figure out what you're going to change, what you're going to do differently, what action you're going to take. Now you could be a recent college graduate too and you could say, oh, the economy sucks, there's no good jobs, I don't have the credentials required. My boss is an a-hole. All of these things you could blame and they may all be true. But you're going to find plenty of successful people that had all those barriers and they succeeded nonetheless. The big thing is that blame removes any power you have to change. When you blame, you're immediately in the victimized position rather than thinking, okay, I don't have the credentials, how can I get the job without the credentials? My boss is an a-hole, okay, can't you still do great work or can't you find another job? I'm maybe not that skilled at my job, that's why I don't get paid a lot. Great, that's a fact. What are you going to do about it? When you take yourself from the, oh, life is so hard, the economy, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, those all may be true and yet they don't help you because you still have to do something. All right, so the last one in this blame game is happiness.  It's not, am I happy? Do I love my work? It's not, am I in a good relationship? It's not, do I live a life that inspires me? It's not, do I wake up and I look forward to my schedule? The weather, like the weather, is that really the biggest factor affecting your happiness? I would say no and that's just a very easy thing to blame because you can't control it and then it just puts you again into the victim position and there still is no action step set forward for what you're going to do to actually improve your life. But there's one trait I notice more than anything. It's being very aware of the blame game which comes up with whatever story you tell yourself. Like it's why the narrative, the story we tell ourselves is half of my book because overwhelmingly, weight loss is a psychological battle and it's just like life. Everything is about psychology because the story you tell yourself is more real than reality. So if you tell yourself that the weather is the reason why you're having XYZ depression and lack of success and whatever unhappiness, then it's real even if it's a lame story. So my challenge to do today is try going 90 days and shifting from blame to saying okay, those may be facts, but this is what I'm going to do with my habits instead. So I hope that helps a little bit more intense, more of a rant there but it's something that had to be said. Before you go, leave a comment there below and I want to know for you though, what do you blame the most for your lack of success in whatever aspect of life you're working on? Alright guys, so I hope that video helped. 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Income tax 2021-2022, software example, recovery rebate credit, otherwise known as the RRC. Get ready to get refunds to the max, dive in in the income tax 2021-2022. Listener tax software, you don't need tax software to follow along, but you might want to have access to the forms and schedules, which you can find on the IRS website at irs.gov, irs.gov, starting point, single filer, noting that as we focus in on the credit, we're not really looking at the filing statuses per se, focusing in on them. We're really looking to go from married to non-married filing status rather than focusing in between like single and head of household, because those are going to be the major distinctions that will have an impact on the particular credit that we are looking at. So we've got Adam Smith living in Beverly Hills, 90210. We're going to start off with no dependence up top, got the 50,000 up top on the wages. They 12,550 for the standard deduction, getting us to the 37,550 for the taxable income, going then to page number two, the taxes calculated at the 4,298, and we're focused down here at the recovery rebate credit. Now note by default, for most software, there's nothing in it because the recovery rebate credit is something that they tried to give the full payment out in advance. And you can kind of tell by the way they, to me, they kind of botched up or didn't get the name quite as nicely put together as they could have because they didn't call it a prepayment. They called it just a stimulus payment or an economic impact payment instead of calling it like a prepayment, which would indicate that it's tied to the tax return, right? They just kind of sent out a check. And I think that causes confusion for some people and for a lot of people. It's a little bit confusing to tie that into the credit, which we call the recovery rebate credit. So what we're talking about here is the advanced payment or the stimulus payment or the economic impact payment for the third economic impact payment is a prepayment of the recovery rebate credit on the 2021 tax return in a similar way as the advanced child tax credit payments were prepayments to the child tax credit, which that one you can see kind of they tied it together a little bit more efficiently. They did that later and they got the name, I think a little bit more cleanly on it. So people probably have a better understanding just by the name that yes, this is the advanced payment of the child tax credit. We've seen the child tax credit before the recovery rebate credit before they started doing these stimulus checks. We hadn't seen them before and then we had this prepayment kind of concept, which is new to most people. So also note that there's three stimulus checks that have gone out. We're looking at the third stimulus check here. The first two stimulus checks have the same kind of relationship to a recovery rebate credit and the prepayment, which is the economic impact payment or stimulus check, but that is tied to the 2020 tax return. So if you're talking about the first two stimulus payments, then the remedy to fix those, if there was any problem with it is the 2020 tax return recovery rebate credit. Third payment is what we're focusing on here for the stimulus payment. The remedy for that, if there was anything wrong, would be this 2021 recovery rebate credit.  So you can see that on the notice. You should get a notice 1444C indicating how much you received. If you don't get that notice or you lost the notice, you can go to the IRS.gov website and try to log into your account where you can find that information there as well. So and some things that could cause the payment to be wrong, for example, is say your income level was higher or different, let's say in 2020, the year that they estimated as opposed to 2021, the actual numbers here, then they could get the credit kind of wrong. So let's imagine you didn't get the credit at all. If we go back on over and say, okay, I didn't get the stimulus check at all. So we're going to say I got no stimulus check. If I go back on over with the one filer, that's going to calculate at the 1400. So that kind of shows us the calculation if there was no basically prepayment involved. You can go into the worksheet and kind of check it out here. So you've got enter 1400, a single head of household, married filing separate. If married filing joint, we've got the 1400 for both people generally, 2800 for married filing joint. And then multiply times, if you have any dependence, you'd have the calculation on that and then you'd have a prepayment. And there's also a phase out that's taking place at 75,000. You can see kind of the limit here. So if I put this, for example, if I was to increase this to, let's say my income, let's bring my income up to like, to like 77,000, for example.  Now it's being phased out and you can so you can see what that phase out looks like. So it's possible, for example, that your income was over that threshold for the calculation in 2020 resulting in you only getting, let's say, sent $840. But if you actually did the calculation in 2021 based on the current information on the tax return, then maybe your income was lower and that that's a result that could result in you needing, you know, the recovery rebate credit being the remedy for that situation. So let's take a look at that. If I was to say, let's say that my income was back down to 50,000. So if I got no, if I got no prepayment, then the calculation would be for 1,400. So if I go back into my, if I go back into my detail here and I, and I go and let's jump, let's jump there. Actually, I was right there already. So if I got the full 1,400, you know, obviously, then nothing would be here because I got the money already. But if I only got the 840, for example, based on prior year, because it was an estimate and possibly I had that income threshold. Now the difference is what I'm getting the remedy or the recovery from here. So you can see that difference being the calculation. That's when it would come into play. That's one reason it would come into play. Either you didn't get it at all for whatever reason or they possibly, they messed up the income threshold because they based it on a prior year and they would remedy that. Now, the funny thing is you would think that if you got, let's say you had a dependent on the prior year tax return that would double the credit to 2,000. Let's say it was 2,800 that you got. But then on the current year tax return, you didn't have that. You didn't have that dependent because let's say it was a split custody situation. So last year, you had a dependent that qualified you for a higher credit than the 1,400, but then in the current year, you didn't have that dependent. So then they gave you too much on the credit. And if you go back down here, look at the calculation. They didn't make me basically pay it back here, right? You got the 1,400. I got the 2,800, the recovery, repaid credit subtract line 13 from 12. If zero or less, enter zero. So notice they're kind of incentivized. And this kind of makes, it's kind of funny, but I don't think it's a good that the IRS does, they're doing this kind of often. They keep on incentivizing people to basically make errors, right? So now they all, you know, you could have called them up and say, don't send me the payment because, I mean, you could have tried to not give them, have them overpay the payment. But the incentive here is to have them make a mistake on the upside. And they've done that with a few different things now, which I think is not, you know, setting a good precedent. But in any case, if you overpaid, you know, it could be a benefit because they're not making you, they're not showing you to pay it back here. Okay, so let's go back on over and let's do the calculation. Let's say we didn't get anything. And let's say that now the calculation's at the 1,400. Now, if they were married, if we were married, then you would say single to married. And so now you got Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve are married now. You go down and you could say then page two, if they both didn't get anything, then I would double the credit, right? You get the 2,800. So here's the calculation. And then if only one of them got the credit or if there was a phase out and you didn't get the 2,800 on the forms or notices 1,444C, then you could go back on over and say, if I didn't get the full amount for whatever reason, let's say the first one got the amount and then the spouse didn't get the amount, for example, but should have got the amount. Let's do that again. Let's say the first one got 1,400 and spouse is 0, 1,400 and 0. So now you got the 1,400 that would still be received in that case. Let's take that off and let's just add a dependent just for the fun of it. Let's add a dependent. Let's say we had a dependent on our return, Sam, our son. This is our son, Sam. Sam's a good man, a good young man. He's still a dependent. But Sam, there's Sam. Page one married. Now we've got the dependent. So we got three people involved. And so now you've got your calculation. If I said we didn't get any, if I didn't get any, any payment, negative one, negative one, then it would be at the 4,002 because we basically have three people, right?  It's the 1,400 times three now, 4,200, right? 4,200 we would have got. Now what if that one child was like a new child? Like they were born in 2021. They wouldn't have been on there in the prior year in that case, possibly. So then maybe we didn't get paid for that third one and maybe we got 1,400 and 1,400. But we should have got the other one. Now we've got that 1,400 that would still be needing to be received for Sam in that case. And that's another area where they could have got it wrong. If there's a joint custody situation, if the child is going from one parent to the other, they might have applied the payment to the wrong person. And again, I think they incentivized it to make that error on purpose because if they sent it to the wrong person and they got the money, then you notice it didn't result in the overpayment needing to be paid back. And then the other person would properly report the dependent possibly and you'd double up on it there. So it's kind of a fun, maybe. I don't, that's just, I'm just, that's what I'm thinking here. But in any case, that's one area that it could have gone wrong and the income thresholds, it could have gone wrong. Now notice the income threshold now.  Let's get rid of the dependent. Sam's not our dependent anymore. Sam has, is not the dependent now. And then let's go back to, and let's go back here and say, say that we've got nothing. We didn't get anything for, for a taxpayer and taxpayer. So that would be the 2,800. And let's say that the income threshold goes over the threshold, which for married filing joint was married filing joint. If our income goes above the threshold of let's say like 157,000. So if I go on married filing joint and I'm at 157,000 and then 1,000 and I go to page two then, then you can see it starts to phase out with that income threshold, which again is another reason why, why it could, something could have been wrong on the economic impact. And because you might have been hitting the threshold or not hitting the threshold in the prior year and either hitting the threshold or not hitting the threshold in the actual year 2021, meaning they're going to get the number wrong. Cause if they base it on the 2020 number, if there's a threshold kind of component with the income threshold involved. So that's the general idea with the recovery rebate credit. Just remember recovery rebate credit is tied to the stimulus payment and it's just there to kind of.


Hello and welcome. This video will demonstrate the efficiency of STESD protection devices for communication lines. Our solution fits many applications, whether they are for industrial, IoT or automotive. As an example, this demo will focus on CAN and LIN communication systems. This demonstration is based on two identical evaluation boards, which lets you easily evaluate our ESD protection diodes and transient voltage suppressors. The demo embeds two wide-voltage spark generators so that real electrostatic discharges can easily be created. A rocket switch lets you choose either the CAN communication protocol on the left-hand side or the LIN communication protocol on the right-hand side. There are two black spark housings through which the communication wires pass. A push-button is used to manually trigger sparks in the black housing, simulating ESD. You can see those sparks there. The evaluation board is based on a master-slap structure on the same board using two automotive microcontrollers. The microcontrollers communicate with each other via a communication loop based on the LIN or CAN protocol. The communication status is indicated by four on-board LEDs. The LIN and CAN bus interfaces use four transceivers powered by the 12-volt supply issued by the step-up converter. The ESD protection TVS highlighted in the CAN setup part are D1, D2 and D7, D8 on the CAN communication link. The ESD protection TVS highlighted in the LIN setup part are D17, D18 and D14, D15 on the LIN communication link. Let's start with CAN communication. After switching on the power, let's initiate the demo sequence. The three color LEDs start blinking sequentially to indicate normal communication. Pushing the button generates a spark on CAN wires. The system continues to communicate. Software defects can occur. However, the system restarts by itself showing that no hardware has been damaged. Now, let's switch to the LIN board. Sparks are generating on LIN wire. No hardware failures can be observed on LIN setup with our ESD protection. As for CAN, software faults can occur as well. However, system restarts by itself showing that no hardware has been damaged. In this video, we demonstrated that even in the case of repetitive ESD surges, the application keeps on working without damage thanks to ESD's efficient protection devices. While CAN and LIN communication protocols were used in this demo, our solutions are valid for all other communication purposes. ESD recommends using ESD protection ICs to ensure the reliability and robustness of higher low-speed microcontroller interfaces in industrial IoT and automotive applications. For more information, please visit us on ST.com.


Hello all, in this video, I am going to show about how to insert multiple references in Zotiro reference manager. So, we are going to see how are we going to insert multiple references at single point. We all know that inserting reference is like this. So, we need to keep the cursor where we want to insert citation. So, we need to add our edit citation. Suppose let's say I want to insert this first reference, then I select this, click OK, then automatically citation will appear. So, this is the usual way of inserting the citation. In order to insert multiple citation, we need to go here, add our edit citation. We need to keep the cursor here. Then we need to press command in case of Mac and control in case of Windows. That is we need to select these two references and we need to click on this multiple sources. So, that is the most important thing. After selecting the two references, we need to click on this multiple references. Then these two references go like this. Then you need to click OK. When you do this multiple references will appear like this in Zotiro reference manager. You need to select those two references and you need to click on that multiple source in order to insert multiple references or multiple citations in Zotiro reference manager. Thanks for watching this video. If you like this video, please share it to your friends and subscribe to our channel.


and welcome to Connecting Hawaii Business on Think Tech Hawaii. My name is Kathleen Lee, and I am your host for this program. You can catch all of our Think Tech Hawaii shows on thinktechhawaii.com as well as on Think Tech Hawaii's Facebook and YouTube channel. Today, we have Aaron Sakai of Healthness Hawaii as our guest, and he'll be talking about personal training as a business. Aaron, welcome to the show. Hi. Thank you very much for having me. Thank you for responding to me. So, tell our viewers about yourself. Of course I would. Where would I go? I mean, it was really nice. Yeah, thank you. So, for the viewers out there, Aaron and I met each other through social media, and this is a testament to how powerful social media can be when it comes to fostering connections. So, Aaron, let's go through you telling our viewers about yourself. Well, being that you brought up that we met each other through social media, it was through a previous endeavor that I would like to still do, but I don't do anymore. So, Sleep Times Over was the talk show that I used to do on social media, and we met through, because this is my first time talking to you in this capacity. I've had guests, Adrienne Tam, Megan Cowell, friends of yours. That's how social media works, and we connect with people, and I had the show, and also my day job is a personal trainer. I had that along with the show. Show got too tiring for me, so I had to put the show on the back burner, because I just couldn't do it all by myself and focus on the day job, which is and always has been personal training. Healthness Hawaii is the company, and been doing that ever since 2006. Yeah, tell us more about that. I know part of your background is like you were educated in physical training. So, can you go over that as well as your experience as a personal trainer since 2006, as well as being at the Honolulu Club since, and I want to tell you. 20 was when they finally shut down, which was a very odd situation. How controversial can we get? Can I go say some stuff about that? Maybe not. We can edit this later. So, Honolulu Club, I was there from an intern when I first started college. So, I went to college. I don't want to make this a long story, but I got into health and got wanting to help people from 2003. Went to KCC, those in exercise science program, took that, went to UH, took the kinesiology program. Within the span of that time, a professor told me, why don't you just work at the Honolulu Club and see if you like working at a gym and seeing if this is the right thing for you. So, that's how I started there as an intern working at like four in the morning, and then folding towels, and just seeing what everything unraveled with the gym. And lo and behold, I've been there since, till they're closing in 2020. And that was the thing. I graduated 2006 in kinesiology, exercise science in KCC, kinesiology, UH. 100% trainer since 2006. So, it's going on 17 years. And very fun, everyone's different. And it's always an experience every hour is different. Literally every hour of the job work day is different. Yeah. What keeps you going? I mean, it's a very niche industry. What inspired you to go into it and have that as a business? Because we're not talking about like selling products or maybe you have that at some point. I don't know. But we're talking about you selling your actual services and your knowledge. So, tell us more about that. Well, when it comes to health, it may sound cliche to a lot of people, but the reason I got into it was I wanted to truly help people feel better about themselves physically, mentally as well. I mean, we can get into that later of how it's very important mentally and how that connects with the physical. But that's basically what I wanted to do from 2003. And each and every person I meet is different. There's never the same story. You may have similar storylines, but everyone's different. Everyone's got their quirks. Just being able to help that person and help that person achieve to be confident and to be comfortable in the fitness world. Because it's quite frankly, I mean, it's a weird place, right? I mean, it's a lot of awkward stuff going on. If it was easy to do, everybody would be doing it. So that's really what the guide of the trainer is, much like a coach or a teacher teaching someone how to learn the computer or how to fish is teaching someone how to be comfortable exercising and exercising properly and doing the right things for that person for you specifically and coaching along the ways of even mental or life coaching as well that comes into play as well. So yeah, long story short. Yeah, that's a lot of responsibility. And I think it's awesome that you have taken that on because it's very purposeful and you train people from beyond fitness studio. Do you also go into people's homes as well? Yeah, that's always the thing, especially now with a lot of the condos having their own gym now. That's been a thing that has changed over the years is all of these great condo gyms and some of them are nicer than the gyms that are commercial gyms itself. So that has also been a thing that's been for convenience factor, very easy for people. They just come down from, you know, go to the lobby or go to wherever the gym is in their building and I meet them there. But also another thing that's changed regarding COVID is the virtual training and the zoom training. That's another thing that I offer and has changed dramatically since 2020. Yeah, let's bring that up. You actually went into my, thanks, Erin, you went into my next question. You know, like, did you notice any patterns between what people requested from you from before COVID hit the globe and after, but you did talk about the virtual training. So let's pull up your patreon.com page so we can go over it and go into more detail about what this is and how virtual training goes. Okay, so when the first lockdown happened in March of 2020, we all didn't know what was going on and we didn't know what to do and I'm always the person that works a lot. So like, okay, we're at home and everybody else is at home. So like, okay, why do I, how do I get money? Like, what do I do for a job? What, what do we do? How do we even work out? So I created this virtual program thing on Patreon and a lot of these subscription sites where you can sign up for the program, you can sign up for a workout, and then I can guide you virtually without having to be in person. So that worked for the first lockdown. I put that on hold all the way till now basically because this program that we're talking about is brand new. I didn't even launch this yet, but the site is up as you could see, but it's just to help people with convenience because convenience is a factor that's never going to go away. It will always be there. And to eliminate any possible excuses toward working out where people may not want to be around people, working out in front of people, the intimidation factors is not comfortable. So I created, if you are wanting to stay at home to work out, if you are traveling, if you moved away from Oahu where we are and you still want my guidance, I can still help you with that. We have the technology to do so. And that was what it was, just another service that kind of focuses in on today's 2022 age of how everything is online now. So that, that was really what it was. It was stemmed from COVID, but it kind of an evolution from COVID since we are back in person again. Yeah, I appreciate how you adapted that quickly. Speaking of working out, how important is routine and consistency? You know, some people say you have to switch things up, others say no, as long as you come up with, like what does consistency even mean? Is it just working out every day doing the same thing? Or is it working out every day switching it up? Like, can you go into that a little bit further? If we look at the bare bones of just exercise in general, consistency is key. And we have sets, we have repetitions. Everything is a repetition. And if we look at the word repetition, it's doing the same thing again and again and again. It sounds monotonous, but it's key. It's key to adapting, key to getting stronger, key to learning, key to getting better at whatever we're doing. That's really it. It's, I think that is the most difficult for a lot of people is just to consistently do something, consistently do something physical. We have a lot of other tasks that we consistently do throughout the week, take a shower. But we look at that, that's something that we don't really look into our mindset of thinking of we need to do something physical, we need to get out and go walking, we need to go out and get physical in any type of capacity. That's really what it is. It's just, if you can maintain that, the difficulty of the exercises, the changing up of the exercises, that comes later. That's later on. The first bare bones is consistency. Being able to work out three times a week, can you pull it off? Can you pull off four times a week?  It's really, we have to simplify it and it's still going to get your results. We don't have to look at, we have to do something in high intensity training. We don't have to do anything. We start with the bare bones of the person, of yourself, myself, where are we in our life? Where can we go and add to our life in a physical capacity? That is only going to benefit us. Anybody that walks, a person walks five days a week, they're going to feel better and it's not going to be anything difficult, but they're going to feel better and then they're going to want to feel even more better and then that's when you progress. Somebody wants to do 10 push-ups every day. If he does that, he's going to feel a little bit better about himself. He's going to feel better physically and then we progress. So, consistency is number one. Difficulty, not so much number one. Maybe look at that number two or three in the ranking, but consistency is key. Okay, that's good to know. Coming from a trainer, since I do my runs, I call them run walks because they're not super intense. They're a combination of running and walking. So, this is good to know. So, thanks for confirming that, Erin. Appreciate it. You have very useful information when it comes to what you have out there, especially when it comes to your social media. And one thing that caught my attention was you talk about focusing on fat loss instead of weight loss. What does that mean? Are those synonymous or are how are they two completely different things? Big misconception. I'm going to go on the scale. All right.  Changes every day. Two pounds, one pound. And then what happens? Anxiety, stress, and then we freak out. We're like, oh my God, what are we going to do? That should not be the case because weight is going to fluctuate regardless. It's a long-going informational thing that I don't know where it got misconstrued, but we always like to look at the scale as like the end all. And that's always been the case. It should be the case that we want to burn fat. We want to lose fat. Muscle weighs more than fat. So, if the said person is going to be working out and doing weight training, they will gain probably a few pounds, but their clothes will fit different. So, looking at the fat loss is that's how you're reshaping the body. Not looking at the overall weight, but looking at how I may be weighing five pounds more than I did three months ago, but I can wear a smaller size pants, smaller size shirt. That's what we need to look at as far as not looking at the scale and having that just control our life. Look at other means. Look at other types of measurements. The scale has been such a convenient thing over decades, right? You just buy one from Amazon and you put it in your bathroom and then you go stand on it and it's just convenient rather than measuring your body fat. So, I get it, but it's just changing the mindset of looking at, I'm going to start exercising. Don't focus in on the scale. Maybe look at it once a week. A big misconception that should be changed. So, you're saying I shouldn't tell you that I weigh myself every day. Please don't. Yeah, that's not going to go well. You're right though. You're absolutely right about that in that it does cause a certain level of anxiety. So, I appreciate you reminding me of that. See, this is why we have you on the show, Erin. Well, thank you. I'm trying to dispel a lot of the, I guess, the stereotypes of the years, you know, of that. Like the classic one, I'll throw this one out. Whenever I meet a female for the first time, they're always like, okay, I want to do weight training, but I don't like it bulky. It's every single time. I don't want to be like a bodybuilder. Like, I didn't realize bodybuilding is still a thing in 2022. I didn't realize, like, I thought that was like that in the 80s, but people are still holding on to the bodybuilder thing. I don't know any, unless you're in a bodybuilder, I don't know who's following bodybuilding, but women still know about bodybuilding and they don't want to be like that woman. So, I'm like, it's impossible to do that. And that's a big misconception is weight training is actually more beneficial for women than it is for men. There are far more female oriented issues that weight training will help more so than men, osteoporosis is one, if we can just say that. And women need to, I guess, get more comfortable with weight training and not realize that they're going to be all bulky and turn into she-hulk or something. That's not going to happen. So, there's another one. I hope that changed your mind. I hope you didn't think that before. No, not at all. Okay, good. Okay. But what was the other one? I'm going to lock you to that. Well, the main one is, well, that's the two main ones that I hear all the time is the scale. I don't want to become bulky. I don't want to look like a man is another one. I mean, I don't know where that got misconstrued through the years, but it's a lot of it has to do with intimidation factors of the gym and being comfortable in the gym environment. And I think that's a big factor. I hear a lot of women saying they don't want to work out in the gym because they don't want to be around these meathead guys and they don't want to, they just want to go in the cardio machines because they don't want to deal with it. And they don't want to go to the weight area. I totally understand. I mean, once again, the gym's an odd place. So that's, and that's where I come in in sense of being, I'll be the guide for you. Let's figure out this crazy world together. I got your back on this. We get in, get out, do what you have to do, and then you get out of it. We don't need to linger and go hang out and do gym selfies. We can just get out. And that's part of it. It's a lot of psychological factors too that I hear come up a lot. It's just the intimidation and just not being comfortable with working out in public especially. Yeah, I can agree with that. I actually like working out outdoors instead of gym. So it's interesting that you bring that up and makes me feel like I'm not alone in feeling that way. Let's go into more of the business aspect. If someone wanted to be a trainer like you, what would they need to have to go in the industry? How long is this show? One of the things I did at the Honolulu Club before they closed was I was the trainer of trainers. So I would train the new trainers who would come in and help mentor them so that they can figure out this world themselves. They need to listen first of all. That's number one. They need to be a good listener and ask questions but comprehend and listen to what the answers are because everybody is going to be different and every program is going to be different for every single person. And it's not some cookie cutter situation. So being a good listener, being a good conversationalist is key as well so you can gather information. And the more you gather, the more you'll know about that person, the more you can program to that person. The knowledge, hopefully, of course, we need the knowledge. So the schooling is a critical big time factor but a lot of it has to do with the personality of that said trainer, the listening skills and just the communication skills, just being able to put that all together because there's the science of it. And a person coming into the gym is not going to really, they may ask these questions and of course you answer them. But at the end of the day, this person wants to either lose weight, this person either wants to gain weight, this person wants to get healthy, their doctor's telling them they're not doing well, they need to exercise, they're coming in to see you and they need your help and they don't have the knowledge for this. So you need to guide them in a way that will make them feel comfortable to want to trust you, to want to be there with you and carry on as your coach. So that's pretty much the first bit of information I would tell someone is just being able to listen and communicate. Well. Yeah, well you've been in the business for a long time. What are some challenges that you have ran into in building it? It's really getting your name out there and it's and plus it's since we're on Island, it's word of mouth. It really truly is word of mouth and it's once you find that said one client. Of course, do the best job you can possibly do, of course with all of your clients, but try to see what type of worth you can get out of building that relationship you have with that said person and that will be how you build. Say you're training a man in his 40s who's married. Ask him how is it going? If he's enjoying it, if he's enjoying the time with you, ask him if there's anybody else in his family that could benefit from the results you're getting. Ask if he has a wife, son, daughter, whoever, friends and just put it out there. A lot of it is just asking. It's a salesman tactic, but it's an honest salesman tactic because we're just selling just getting healthy. You mentioned products earlier. I'm not a person of selling any products. I used to work in a vitamin store. I ain't pushing any vitamins now. I just don't feel it's needed. If you just eat well, if you exercise well, that's really, it's cliche as I said, that's what all you need. So that's how you would say to that said person of how you would build and that's how you would build your clientele is just through honesty, through trust, transparency and then hopefully that will connect to other people and people will hear of you and then you may find people on social media. Here we are. So it's all, it's all relative. See how we just bring that back from it. Yeah. It's bringing that back full circle, Erin. What are some lessons that you have learned that you'd like to share with people out there? Wow. In regarding just the business aspect or anything. Yeah. It's just really being just the key to, I guess, to being a good personal trainer or just being a successful personal trainer is just really comes out to the listening skills and the communication. The knowledge is there once again, but it's really just having to listen to that said person and follow along with what they need and cater to them. Because we're in the customer service industry. It's a customer service position. So it's being able to cater to that said client and cater to them to the best of their ability. And that's really the basis of it. And just know that there's a lot of psychological factors too that may be coming into play of why are they working out? Why are they not working out? If you're telling them to work out when I, if I see the person twice a week and I tell that person, can you go and do a two other days a week and I'll give you the homework and I'll give you a workout to do and they don't do it, delve into what's going on with that. Why are you not doing that? And there's always going to be those set factors and I hear all kind of stuff. It's similar to like a hairstylist or a bartender where they'll spill all kind of information to you and it's all connected. If they're feeling a certain way, they're not going to be able to work out. If they're stressed, they're not going to be able to work out. It will help them if they do, but there's going to be other things that we have to help guide them to make sure that they can put it to the side or overcome. So yeah, that's I'm giving long lessons. Is it sorry? Am I just?   You should be giving long lessons and so I appreciate you doing that. Once again, how long we got this episode? A couple minutes left. Is there anything else that you would like to add that we didn't cover? Just know that for anybody out there that's wanting to exercise, anybody out there that's hesitant to work out, look at yourself and what are the factors that might be the case? I mean, everybody has a ton of excuses, right? And it's just looking at what is the underlying factor? Do you want to feel better about yourself? Do you want to get and feel that way or living out of shape? I wrote a quote on IG not too long ago, living out of shape is harder to do than exercising. And I hold true to that because someone who has back pain or whatever pain going on, they're going through their day and they're just like kind of just dealing with it.  If you're consistently working out and moving around, let's see how that back pain or whatever pain, let's see what happens with that one. I'm pretty sure it's going to change dramatically and for the better. So it's really that, do you want to move on and progressively get better with yourself or do you want to live out of shape? That's kind of the thing that each of us need to look into ourselves and figure out. I like that. Pick the kind of heart that you want to live with, right? Exactly. That's stuff, Erin. If people would like to get a hold of you, how do they contact you? Well, I'm on IG. I don't have time to make a website yet. So we're just going to go with, it's at Erin, underscore Sakai is going to be my IG. That's going to take you to the Patreon link that we showed earlier. That's the Health Miss Hawaii virtual training program. And I just post on there weekly and I guess my number of contact information is on there as well. And give me a follow. That's what they do. That's what I did. That's why we're here. That's why we're here. That's why I met you. So that's how it works. Yeah. Well, thank you, Erin. I really appreciate you being on the show today. And we also want to thank Jay Fidel and the staff at Think Tech Hawaii for making programs like this possible. Today we had Eric and Hailey who helped us out with the program. Until next time, aloha. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. 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So, now we are going towards Monte Carlo Tree Search MCTS. We clearly want to plan. We want to consider potential futures. But in a way, we will in the end only want to consider meaningful futures. There's like, if you consider the game of chess or something, there's just lots of really really bad ideas. In a way, that helps us choose a good action. Like we want to look at the futures that are relevant for what we can do now. Now there's two policies involved here. The first one is, build me a good tree. A tree that is informative about what I should do. The second one is, choose a good action based on the tree. As the tree is too big, let us only consider meaningful futures. In a way, what does that mean? We will want to assume that both players are not horrible, that they will generally do moves that are meaningful. We want to look at possible futures and look at Monte Carlo Tree Search. So, which trees do we want to explore? Do we want to explore just the best moves that will produce a very sparse tree? Well, we want to produce the moves that are most uncertain. That will mean that we will be following a lot of really bad moves. So in a way, what we really want to do is, we want to follow moves that could be the best moves. And that is something that we can view as an upper confidence bound strategy. Like every potential move, if we think about it, there's kind of like a feeling that we will have, that we will represent using a neural network about how good they are, and ultimately also how uncertain we are about how good they are. And we want to focus our effort on the moves that could be the best moves. And that is where the upper confidence bound UCB strategies, where they come from. So, let's first talk about the tree, what we want to do. Every node in the tree is really a pair of a state and an action, an SA pair. For that, what we will want to store is the average value, Q of S and A. We will also want to store the number of times we have chosen action A in state S. That is the count N of S and A. And the total number of visits then can be calculated, the number of visits to state S, is the sum of all actions of the number of times that we've taken that action in the state S. We will also have the policy, P of S and A. Now, let's talk about how we built that tree. We select a part of the tree in a first step. Then we will expand that by considering additional actions that we could have taken. We will then run a simulation where we do a roll out, where we go to the end of the tree and then ultimately do the roll out there. And then we will back up taking those results that we have at the end and propagating it back all the way to the relevant states and actions. And those are the steps that we have when we build these trees for Monte Carlo tree search. I should say this is a wonderful example of the Sutton and Bartow reinforcement learning book that I very highly recommend here this slide. Now, let's take the upper confidence bound idea that we mentioned before and make it more precise. What we want to do is we want to maximize U of S and A, which is the sum of the quality of the moves that we experienced so far, Q of S and A, plus a parameter C P U C T of... And then here we have the policy P of S and A, multiplied with square root of N of S divided over 1 plus N of S and A. So what do we have? The first term favors moves that are good. The second term favors moves that we haven't done many times. Not sure if N of S, A, the smaller of N of S, A is, the larger the term that we have on the right hand side and the more attractive to do this move. So the parameter here, C P U C T, upper confidence tree is what U C T stands for, and this parameter regulates the trade-off, how important it is to observe new things versus how important it is to follow moves that we think are good. So importantly, there's no need to play the full game. We either encounter the game end and its valuation or like in the end, I win, I draw, I lose, or alternatively, if we don't get to the end of the game, we can simply use the value estimate from our value network. It won't be perfect, it will get better over time, but it gives us an estimate there. And in the end, we will use deep learning to train both a policy and a value network. So now your role is to really understand how the tree is grown for Monte Carlo tree search.


This particular topic and program of Abledon On Air is partnered with Yankee Kingdom Media and WYKR. Coming up on this edition of Abledon On Air, we focus on radio communications and people with special needs. Plus, we talk to Joshua Smith, a man that came from the port to the radio broadcast booth. All that and much more when Abledon On Air starts right now. Welcome to this edition of Abledon On Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns and achievements of the differently abled. I'm your host, Lauren Seiler. On this edition, we focus on radio communications and people with special needs. Let's welcome Joshua Smith, CEO of Yankee Kingdom Media and WYKR. Welcome, Josh, again to Abledon On Air. Yeah, it's great to be here again, Lauren. It's fantastic to see you again. Okay, fantastic to see you again throughout the whole pandemic. We're here. Talk about the history of WYKR and why you decided to go into radio communication. Yeah, so for about eight years or so, as many of your viewers know, I was the executive director over at Greenmount Support Services, which is an incredible organization. And one of the aspects of it is that we were doing a lot of public service and advertising with local radio stations. One of them being my hometown radio station where I'm from, which is WYKR, which has been around since almost 50 years. And one of the aspects of it is that the owner, the family of Puffer Broadcasting that's been part of it, the other ones that created it back in 1976, were looking to sell. And so they add some people that were looking at out of state conglomerates and people that wanted to come in and buy it, but they're very excited for the fact they're able to have somebody who is local to the area, who was able to carry on the mission and legacy of what a local radio station does. And so with my experience as well working in the disability field for well over a decade, the ability to take on the role of doing some level of adjusting my passion for public service in a way to be able to do that on a different platform was really a big pull for me. And as we've mentioned before off the air, I've had a long history of working in broadcasting as well through internet radio for almost half a decade so far. So it was a really good fit for me and the ability to kind of continue along with my mission and values and being able to do it in a different platform was good for me. Now let's talk about the history of radio for people who don't know and then go into, first of all, radio is not bad. What is the difference before we get to the history? What's the difference between internet radio? Because people with special needs are interested in the Korean radio. What's the difference between internet radio and a regular radio station? Right, that's a good question. And one to bring up the point that you said radio is not dead. As a matter of fact, radio as of this year celebrating its 100th anniversary as of 2023, radio broadcasting has been around for over 100 years now. And also too, just for your listeners and viewers to understand too, is that what makes local radio so powerful is that it's the only medium you can't pause, you can't fast forward. What do you mean by that?  And you can record it on a DVR. Right, exactly. That's the thing about local radio. Local radio, unless you actually record local radio as it goes, there's no aspect to do that. So what makes local radio powerful is that it is the only medium that you are 100% engaged in while you're listening. You can't, as they say so, for those that are looking at, for any nonprofits out there or for any businesses out there, local radio specifically is one of the best places to do advertising. And with that said, as you talk about with the issues with the difference between internet radio and local radio, local radio as we call terrestrial radio, radio that have AM frequencies or FM frequencies fall under the FCC communications. You have to get a license from the FCC in order to run. So let's talk about that for a minute.  You don't. It is still, so internet radio does not fall under the FCC guidelines yet. So which means is that you can be a little bit more free with what you want to do. But there's very specific rules and regulations if you're running an FCC, if you have an FCC license. One of them is that you have to make sure that anybody, specifically we're now in 2024, it's a political season, which means that radio stations have to oblige by letting federally people that are running for federal office to advertise on your radio station. And you have to give them the lowest price point that you've given somebody else because you can't show favorites. You can't have one party charge them more than another political party. You have to charge everybody the same amount. And the other thing that you have to do with an FCC license, which we talked about off the air about the public service announcements, you are obligated, if you have an FCC license, to actually perform X amount of hours a year to X amount of hours a year or a quarter a month to provide some public service announcements. Like what? What type of? Anything it could be from? A segment, a show. Commercials, it could be talking about the National Guard. It could be talking about cancer awareness. It could be about talking about people with disabilities. Talking about what people would like, just doing any advocacy work with people that are living with a disability. So there's a lot of things that are part of that guidelines that you're able to do. And you bring up the point, too, is what makes the beautiful thing about where we are now with our technology is that people living with any levels of disabilities, the accessibility factor is so much better now than it was before. So you think about folks now with the technology that might have hearing issues. Now there's a lot of places so that you have YouTube videos and other media that are able to create auto-generated captioning. So people that have hearing issues are able to be a part of a conversation by seeing that happen. I'm talking about people that radio has always been a huge advocate for the blind because the fact is that it's an auditory platform. It's a platform that's able to do that. But then you get into the question about how do you access radio for people that are hard of hearing. And that's where it comes down to that I really advocate and educate people that Facebook and social media should never be considered a competition to radio or television. Radio and television should be using social media as a tool to help promote the brand that a radio... Why is that? Well, there's a few things. You think about a garden. So say for instance that say you're an apple orchard. So you're primarily growing apples. That's your job because it's called an apple orchard. We're called the radio stations. We primarily work with radio. But the point in order for you to diversify your income streams through different mediums is going to where your listeners are. If your listeners are on the radio, you've got to make sure you're on the radio. If your listeners are in the car or waiting in a doctor's office and they can't listen to the radio at that moment, then being able to make sure that you provide complementary resources and information through your website or through a Facebook feed or through Instagram or some of those other points as well. And that's where it comes down to where we mentioned to when it comes to working in the... Being an advocate for people in the disability field is that it's really important that you cannot passively or unintentionally discriminate between people's access points. So with that said, we are very sure that we are as a radio station, we are an auditory platform. But it's extremely important for us to reach out to making sure that we provide some level of complementary videoship or some complementary ways for people to see what we're talking about as well. So let's talk about the history of radio.  Years ago you had stories such as the Superman radio hour, even Idle of Lucy started as a radio and then went into TV. And then you had Dragnet and others, including the most infamous one, War of the Worlds. When we talk about news and war and things that are happening now, how has radio evolved? And you said radio is not dead, but past, present and future, how is it changing? So think about it from the perspective where you see, the thing that really brought local radio back a lot and just radio is podcasts. People are now able to... people are now able to listen to things on demand, listening to podcasts. There's literally right now hundreds of thousands of podcasts out there. It has democratized the medium for people to... It means that what I mean by that is that it's been able to allow anybody who has a microphone or even has a phone to make a podcast. So being able to create your own... be able to create your own library of information through that and being able to then send it out to the world for people to listen to. And that's one of the... Do podcasts cost money? Does it cost money to have one? It depends on the platform. So it depends if... So say, for instance, there's a few podcasting platforms that allow you to do it for free, but you're not in charge of the commercials. Which means they might put a commercial on there that might be different from what your own personal values are. If you want to pay for something, then... You can pay for something, then you're in charge of everything about it. Think about some people will have a Spotify subscription. If you have a Spotify subscription and listen to your own music on demand, you can play any music you want to. But you can also listen to Spotify for free. But when you do, you're going to have commercials pop up every 30 minutes, which is going to interrupt you. And it might be a commercial you're not interested in.  And it might be something that is not something that you purely believe in, whatever. So you could be a vegetarian, you could have a vegetarian podcast. And all of a sudden there's going to be a commercial for Oscar Meyer Wieners on your... Oh, I forget his name, but there was a gentleman that was on radio for years, author of someone that did a cooking show on radio. And that was kind of... There's several cooking shows on radio. I mean, that's kind of hard because you don't see the food, they talk about it. Right. And so the benefit of podcasts is that it's easy for people to make their own podcasts. The hard part about podcasts is that there is, as I said, there's hundreds and thousands of podcasts out there. The challenge of increasing your listenership is only through other people who listen to podcasts. Because if people that don't listen to podcasts aren't going to jump on podcasts.  So the ability to get listeners to come on and be a part of that is way easier than it is to do podcasting. But the podcasting has a much shorter doorway for people to walk... A much easier doorway for people to walk into. What is... Now, I've researched. There are other countries that are doing radio and teaching radio for people with special needs. Berlin has a station, several. Then in Brazil there's a situation, it's called La Califata, and we've spoken about it on the show before. Where psychiatric patients or psychiatric residents in a hospital do a radio program as part of their recreation and job. What are your thoughts on that? I think it's great. And so this is the point when we're talking about podcasts and also internet radio. Also creating your own internet radio station is something that actually is not overly complicated to do. And this is the point that I highly recommend people that listen to the radio and are interested in starting their own shows. Whether they might be, as I say, they might be working in state government or working in nonprofits or doing anything. Any of your viewers and listeners out there, everybody that's listening and watching this, you yourself can actually create your own internet radio station. You can create your own podcast. And some people would say, well... What are some of the simple ways to do that? So people... Yeah, there is. There's absolute... And my first recommendation for anybody out there to do that is just get on... We're living in an age now where you can access any information you want to at a click of a button. And so I don't want to specifically direct anyone to a specific place. But I can tell you, all you have to do is get on the internet and do a search for how to create your own internet radio station or how to create your own podcast. Because some people that might be watching this might be saying, well, this is my thing. I might love gardening or I might have a disability advocate or whatever your thing is. And then the first thing you would say is you would get online and search and find that there is 100 different people doing the exact same thing you are. That doesn't matter. Because they're not doing it in your voice. You might say it in a way that will actually then finally reach somebody's ears. Because you might have a different story. Everybody has their own stories to tell. And being able to say it in a different way might be able to inspire someone to take some action. And so that's where it's extremely important is that no matter what everybody has... Everybody has a mark they want to put on there. Everybody has a story to tell. So with that said, another option as well is finding the... And if you do find some of those podcasts or find in some of those radio stations that you actually like a lot, here's the other thing that you can do. Instead of actually starting your own, reach out to that station and reach out to that podcast and say, hey, can I be a guest?  And if you have a story to tell, you'd be extremely surprised how easy it is to get on some of those podcasts and get on some of those shows to talk. Because as I say, everybody here, it's extremely important to stand behind the advocacy piece that you really should feel strongly about and get on there and start talking to people about your story. And then from there you could be inspired to start your own podcast or start your own show. And start your own radio station. That's something that is not a heavy lift. So say for instance, a group of just picking something like the Brain Injury Association or the Alzheimer's Association or a collection of companies that work with people with disability. Reach out to your colleagues and say, hey, let's start a radio station. It's not that hard. To do that, the accessibility of actually getting the equipment and being able to do that stuff, that is such a great way to actually increase your library of advocacy work. It also increases great ways to do fundraising, great ways to do a lot of that stuff. Okay. What are some of the misconceptions around, well, because you own a station. Is it a big risk jumping into a pool per se and owning a radio station for people that want to know? So starting an internet radio station, no. It's not a big risk at all because... But owning a terrestrial radio station, first of all, you just can't start a radio station where you actually have to see if there's a vacancy, a geographic vacancy to do that. So that's the other thing because there's also... And so the FCC only allows certain radio stations to be created. And I would say, too, is that you see a lot of radio stations that are starting to consolidate. That's why you're starting to see a lot of... If you see a lot of our local television stations around here are not locally owned anymore. They're owned by out-of-state conglomerates right now. They're all owned by Hearst Media. Great communication. One of the reasons they're owned by larger organizations is because it's extremely important that if you're looking at getting a radio station, first of all, you'd want to find one that's already in existing that you could purchase. And the other thing, too, is consistently looking towards the future of what is... What's going to happen in 10 years with local radio? What's going to happen in 15 years with local radio? So you have to be thinking consistently future-oriented on what that's going to look like. And as I say in the other piece, too, is making sure that you are... What makes you different than the other radio stations as well. And that's the other point that's going to be extremely important. And also, too, the beautiful part about this is that, as I was saying before... Starting an internet radio station is easier than having a regular radio station. Yes, correct. Because you can be... There's less overhead. There's less overhead. And also, the other benefit about internet radio is that it's, by default, anybody anywhere in the world can listen to you. So that's the other benefit of internet radio. So take me through a typical day. You're the station manager. What happens? Well, so I wake up at 5 o'clock in the morning to make sure that I get to the radio station by 6.30. There are some DJs that wake up at 3 a.m. Yeah, there are. And usually what it is is... So the four aspects of radio is engineering, knowing actually how the towers work and how all the computers and the control boards and all that stuff work. So the engineering piece, that has to be top of the mark. The other point, too, which is just that they're running on the business perspective. So the administrative aspects of that is also important. The other one is then is the programming and like in the on-air personality. So the actual programming of what's being played on the radio is important. And then the fourth part is sales because you can't run a radio station for free. So everything is based off of advertising. So those are the four aspects. Why are things based off of it? So advertising is a revenue stream, correct? Exactly. Yeah. Why is that? Well, because that's how you... Because that is the... Literally the only way a radio station makes money is through advertising. When you're working in the private sector, there's no grants or there's no... None of that stuff, those contracts are available. So that's why what you'll usually see a lot, too, is that there is... Any programming that you'll see on there is usually done through what they call a barter system where, like, for instance, we run... Say, for instance, that we would run the... Say, the old Farmer's Almanac, for instance, does a two-minute thing that they send you. And if you get it for free, then they expect you to run their commercials during that there. So that's kind of what you'd get. You get some barter situations, but you also think about it from the perspective of a newspaper. Newspapers have to sell their ads. That's how they get... If it's a free newspaper, if you're like, here, where we are right now, here in Montpil, you've got the world, you can go in there and pick up the world and it is free. You also have the bridge. And is the bridge free? So the reason why it's free is because they have advertising in there so that you're able to... So the advertising works... In seven days also. Yep. And the way that works is that they're able to put in their ads to pay for that newspaper for being free. That's the same thing as radio. Radio is free. You don't have to pay to listen to the local radio. But in order for the local radio to run, they have advertising in there to make sure they can keep the lights on. Okay, so what didn't we cover that's important for people to... So I truly believe that the point of radio and media itself is really important for people to realize that it's accessible to anyone. And if you feel like that it's not accessible, that's where it's really important to speak out and say, I want to hear this voice here or I can't access this. So that's one of the major points about that is that it's... The benefit of radio and the benefit of media in general is that it gives a new way for people to really talk about their advocacy and talk about their issues. And the point of radio is to educate, entertain and inform. And those are the three things that even with media is even what Lawrence, you do here is you educate, entertain and inform. And being able to make sure that as a station and as a company that own a media company that our job is to do those three things to as many people as possible. Well, I would like to thank you for joining us on this edition of Ableton on Air. Thank you very much for more information on WYKR and its programming. You can go to www.wykr.com and where can people turn for Yankee Kingdom Media? So as the parent company of WYKR is Yankee Kingdom Media. And we do have a website that's not up yet, but you can follow us on, follow WYKR on Facebook. You can follow us.  No matter where you are in the world, you can actually listen to WYKR. WYKR and WTWM. 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Who's that pretty girl with the Indian paintbrush? What's wrong? You just had a revelation right there. Oh, you got pocket sweetheart. You're gonna be okay Welcome to the elements of the mountains Welcome back to the untamed elements y'all here on the channel. We are doing camping this week last night was kind of like spike camp We got a really late far far drive from Texas to get up here into the mountains of Colorado And I kind of just picked out an area once we got into a national forest that we could just pull over and Camp and that was safe and it was flat and all of that today. We're actually going to be finding a camp with more Resources where we can get water. So the goal this week is to of course enjoy the wilderness Breathe in that mountain air enjoy each other as a family here But also it is to teach our little girl about camping and the elements and wildlife and The last time she was up here. She was two years old She doesn't really remember a whole lot of it. We were camping in a tent. It was very very cold There were a few nights. I had to stuff her into my sleeping bag. It was so cold, but this year We've got the overlanding camper got the opus And we've got a Stephanie has created a really cool List a scavenger hunt and we also have badges and prizes and all sorts of things To help make this fun and enjoyable and you know what OSG is probably going to learn a couple things Maybe you guys will learn some things. I'm probably gonna Learn some things and hence my skills as well. It is going to be a fun time and these pretty wildflowers They've had so much rain up here. They've started to get these pretty flowers How beautiful And I think this is part of what's gonna make it fun is on the scavenger hunt We have all sorts of things like that. We actually did not include the flowers But she should get like a flower collecting badge because that's awesome. Let's go Find our spot that we're going to be staying at for the next few days and really set up our main camp And of course dad's got to have some fishing close by Yeah, we have those back in Texas Glad daddy didn't hit those with the tires last night OSG back in the mountains My happy place. It's become my happy place You look ready You can tell like She's looking forward to it.  So I'm cooking there I'm sitting there by the camp cooking breakfast and all of a sudden I see like two little eyeballs peek over the hill And it's a cow like oh no Here they come and this in this National Forest There are caught there's cows everywhere because I guess the cattle ranchers use this then like 50 more of them Come over the hill and they start coming over because they smell.  They smelled it and they came running So I started like immediately putting all the food away and then and then you come over the hill Just just when you think it's all over camp commander comes over the hill Who gave me on my shoulders? And all is good. Oh, it's good. Oh saw my first chipmunk Okay, I'm gonna roll down the window so you can see it when we pass, okay That's a real dear doe. You see her? Look where I'm looking Yeah, there you go. You got that one Okay, you got your your real dear part of your scalp you're scouting governor on you got it Little help from mom and dad there It means first look out over the mountain where we're making a quick stop We were climbing way way way way way high where the aspen's are starting to change Starting to turn a little yellow Therapy gorgeous Be careful don't walk over the edge Look at that. I mean Yeah, we're not done. We're going to aim to hire Man looks like a Chevy commercial go in places Find new roads look at this I Mean, what do you think about this? What do you think about the mountains? The coyotes The cows you've had an experience with cows today so far we have cows come in our other camp But we made a made a decision to to move try to find this is the spot where me and you Camped years my very first time your very first time could up here special memories for you It's just a prime spot. It's right by the lake, you know go down there get your trout bring them back to the camp We got fire rings already established right here. There's some dead falls. So there's firewood opportunities There's a little creek right over here You can also you know wash things if you need to wash your dishes and and stuff like that if you really want to Or just collect water you need if you need water For the camp which we are going through tons of it being up here I've been drinking water like crazy if you guys ever go up to the mountains around 8,000 feet plus Make sure to drink a lot of water as you're going in Lot of two years ago Stephanie got sick because she wasn't hydrating enough on the way in so And I can tell them I'm more out of breath and I am in Texas man. It feels good to be up here It's nice and cool. It's like 57 58 degrees right now We are starting to get some flies and some yellow jackets and stuff like that come out What we're gonna do now is set up the opus Before I left I kind of did a walk-through video, but I'll show you guys how I Set up the opus once once we get it parked and the first thing you got to do is get this thing level because when It'll kind of look level and if you go to sleep and it's not level It is not comfortable. Plus with the shower You want all that water to drain down the center as much as possible and not pull up in places So getting level is important and I got these little these little ramps You just stick them under the one of the tires and you get it to come up You know, this is easy because it's a single axle, so I just put one under there That's Stephanie watch the level until I rolled up on it and it looked level Which we are we're looking good right there Another tip I'll give you guys just getting in here if you've got a a long Travel on a say a logging road or mountain roads basically when you get off the pavement and You've got sharp rocks like we do up here in the Rockies Always a good idea to deflate your tires On the way in I know that sounds weird, but the more you deflate your tires The the better chance it gives you to roll over a rock and not have a puncture I've seen a lot of people have on the side of the road with tire issues. They've busted tires Me and Stephanie have had to help people before So what I do is I carry a small mini pump I keep it in my truck and I'll deflate the tires with a pressure gauge get them all the same I'll do the same thing on the opus on the trailer And I'll take about 10 15 maybe 20 psi out just depending on the tire That'll be a number one a smoother ride for you be more enjoyable and then also It it will decrease your chances of having a tire puncture dramatically if you guys are doing any truck camping anything like that You can get a small pump and it's helpful on your way out just air them back up before you get on the highway There's a lot of bugs here It's been so rainy here that I think that the bugs are gonna be kind of bad It won't be bad in the mornings and the evenings, but midday when it's heating up flies are gonna be bad bees are gonna be bad Got the wheels chalked double chalked. I got a little scary.  I think it was under 60 bucks But it makes changing tires easy and then lowering these jacks very easy So let's see this is off straight. So gotta go the other way All right, we're bracing the front and back Now we're gonna open the top Undo these levers back when it's a little tricky One more. Oh man. It's so nice in the shade Had to go into the into the shorts to the Guggen shorts Getting hot So this is the part where we just pop the camper up There's so much light in this opus You know, it's a hard camper, but It's kind of like a hybrid you have that soft Shell on the upper part So it still feels like you're sleeping in a tent at night at times But it's nice when you can just open these vents up Let that cool air in Don't forget the bathroom Definitely no wonder forget the bathroom This is awesome right here Unzipping And then look at the view Like look what you're looking at. It's just awesome. Oh Yeah Who doesn't want to wake up to that in the morning. That's good stuff. That fills the soul Shoot All right, we're mid-bathers setting up camp and I hear something down here something big Amy's collecting dandelions It's either gonna be a moose a cow or a bear Lord knows it's not an elk Of course, it could be since I Don't have a bow with me And I didn't get a tag up here this year. I see it in the woods It's a big furry Now next step is me and OSG you have to roll out our bedroom because I Slept on the top bunk last night. We were just kind of spiking out. I Got cold. I did not sleep well You got cold up on the top because I was like literally Right up against that thing And I gave the girls the nice cozy bottom bunk Right next to the heater and it was it was very nice But tonight we're rolling out the back then me and OSG We're gonna have a window back here and we're gonna be overlooking The woods over this drop-off which is pretty cool There's a couple of deadfall looking trees that could Could hit us but we're not gonna be in a tent. So we've got a hard top. I think we'll be all right awning coming right up middle of the day, you know a good Six seven hours. We're gonna be getting direct sun on top of our solar panels Which are directly on top of the roof. I can't even reach up there to show you guys right now Just running the fridge I've got a freezer running right now and a refrigerator. So we got a frozen soup Some chilies Cinema rolls all that good stuff and then our fresh fruits and vegetables We are ready to go in the kitchen. Well, that's the easiest part About this whole get-up just rolls right out. That's our kitchen water to the sink Wabam propane On now we're cooking with Crisco now typically keep all the the Immediates right here.  Oh, gee.  I was like, oh great eggs and coffee when I get back in came back and The French press was on the burner like trying to boil it with the beans in there and Had to shut it down and her coffee privileges are done. You haven't had your coffee, honey This is why I'm here. I'm I'm the coffee commander as well as the camp commander on this excursion And I will take care of your coffee needs.  You want an espresso? Got you You need a you need a shot All right, honey Ready to make her bedroom? Dusty I'm so low back here Okay, now we're cooking in the kitchen Great outdoors What you cooking up? Well, that's not mold on there, is it? No, it's that's street corn That's straight up corn from the American classic That we save for the way up here. I don't tell them that. I guess it's homemade The truth we're having a little little midday corn cob little espresso You were about I'm sorry. I'm out of steam Yeah, you need something she about ripped my head off a while ago because she was like What did you do with the pot? You know the one with the handle and I was like, well, which one I have a lot And she was like the one you always carry that we make.  Yes So I never got my coffee when my taste buds were already like almost drinking it So I've been in a bad mood ever since because I just needed that we're gonna save you here We're gonna save you so we actually don't need an additional pot here with the With the beleti so we're doing mid-day espressos in the montañas with corn on the cob and And some dogs, man We're doing hot dogs and some fruit anyone in an apple so we're actually gonna eat inside because of all these bees and There's a lot. Yeah, so actually set up the kitchen table in there Which I normally don't use but we're trying to keep these flies. You got to get in quick Get it out. Get it out.  I don't know what she's doing, but she's having fun. She loves to collect She loves to explore and there's really no better place at our house. It's it's pretty good We have a lot of things, but she's kind of explored the limit. So she's finding new rocks She's finding new sorts of trees. These are all things that she doesn't really remember when she was two years old espresso is close, honey and I never had breakfast as well. I'm on I'm on like an elk hunting Diet right now. Like I'm ready to sit down midday When the elk are bedded and just I'm ready to feast up on a mountain house right now Okay, except I'm getting corn on the cob Can I enter the the present? The premises now that you've had your coffee. Yes, I have my coffee. I have vacuumed You Not this high maintenance guys The table we just put in the table this afternoon if I had this table out of it for like a year We just had a lunch three three of us sitting here. It's pretty good Going no lag underneath to sport. It's it was nice having the flies and everything show them, you know We're the magic come on over here Okay Yes, so you put a bit a mattress top there on top of this. This is our first time using an actual mattress topper I would highly recommend it. What do you think? Yes game changer? This is my first time with it and I immediately sat down and I could I could take a nap It's a king-size bed, but it's like it's not a great bed It's really not as thick as it is. You think it'd be like cloud worthy. No, but it's really not no So definitely get that topper that master's topper.  Okay, we're full set up This is the burrow when you want to get cozy on this thing, so that's the spot so that's that's where Amy sleeping tonight me you know as she got that set up and before We Before we head to bed where we're gonna have our magic s'mores dinner and all that great stuff Head out here to the campfire area You getting our campfire area ready Hey Would you see what you see in there already got the unicorns ready? Oh a bee Yeah, don't swap those bees honey Those those bees might come after you now.  I've already got it These were you gave these to me for Mother's Day Mother's Day comforts look at that Like if you've got oh man comfortable conditions, I mean that You can literally you could lay all the way back. It's so nice, but they're just they're so awkward to pack Don't mock mommy over We just got her jazzed up for that coffee. Look at the bouquet. I got a bouquet. Man. It might as well be Mother's Day So the Mother's Day chair From dad tonight. We're gonna break it out Don't break that off And this is where I'm gonna leave you guys for this video. We are fully set up on our off-road adventure off-grid Overland Camping this is this is how we're doing it this year and I feel pretty good about it We are set up to thrive for the next four days if you haven't already subscribed to the channel So you don't miss any of the outdoor action and if any of you all have kids We're gonna be doing some some cool scavenger hunting and fun activities that I think They'll be fun for the whole family. I'm like, I'm honestly pretty excited about it And I got fishing videos coming up OSG's making cinnamon rolls one of these mornings come all with it And we're just enjoying the great outdoors So smash that like button for that and I hope you're breathing in some of that Fresh delicious outdoor air. I'll see you guys on the next one You