Hi, it's Bridget. Welcome to Above Life Channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you up with hope. Today, I have asked someone who's been quite popular to come back and give us some kind of a message, an inspirational message, as we are looking in, leaning in, to 2019. Whether you watch this video during that time or any other time, just know that it is alive with energy and will fill you up with hope and inspire your spirit, because that is the point here at Above Life Channel. So ladies and gentlemen, viewers, let's invite in Mr. Freddie Mercury. Come on in. And he like literally comes in, he's like hugging, giving a kiss on the cheek and hugging me. Hey, Bridget. Yes, I know. I'm like, hey, nice to see you. He says, I brought the cats. I brought my cats and I'm allergic to cats. But they're, this is a spirit thing, so it's totally fine, everybody. Human form, I'm fine. There's a really white fluffy cat with some gray by its mouth, kind of nose, mouth kind of thing. And it's got really long hair and super, super fluffy. That's the one I'm noticing. I also see one that's darker that has black on it and a little bit of white.  He's got more than two, but those are the two I see. I see at least three. I know there's at least three. Actually, there's four. There might be five. Okay, there's a lot. All right, and there we go.  He's rubbing the neck right here, like she's a princess. All right. So Freddie, it's a pleasure to connect with you again. You have such a lovely spirit. It's just, I enjoy talking with you. I'm grateful for the opportunities now, you know. And I would love to share with viewers because I know so many people love, just love your energy too, as I have come to really love your energy. Share with us some inspiration. We need some inspiration for the new year. Come on in and share it with us and give us some, give us some motivation. He's kind of like, like me, I sure didn't want David Bowie. He's like, I sure didn't want Bowie. David can come in. No, no, no, no, no. Freddie, you want you, we want you. You're so genuine and caring. Can you give us, if you can't, you know, maybe asking you just inspire us is kind of a lot, right? So let's ask for, give, okay, so this is a good question. Give us, for those of us who are sensitive, which is everybody that's watching this video has sensitivity, whether you recognize it or not, empathic energy, which is the second gift of clear sentence, your feeling, because that's the point. I love that your feeling. Talk to us about us when we're over feeling like we get really overwhelmed, like this change of the year, maybe the holidays for people, maybe it's, you know, just said they're going through a tough time, maybe, or maybe not, maybe they're going through a great time, maybe they just got engaged or something wonderful. And then all they're like, Oh my gosh, overwhelmed with like planning or having to do things just overwhelm, how do we manage that as sensitive beings? How do we do that?  He says, he's kind of going like this, he's got a mustache. He's kind of moving it like this little bit with his lips. He says, if I knew how to do that, I would know the secret to happiness. He says, I would know the secret, the big secret. Now, though, from a spiritual context, right, that's what you want. He says, I can feel his energy. So if I, if when I make facial people have commented on this, I got to say it. When I do facial stuff, it's because I'm feeling the energy. And so I translate energy as much as I translate words, you guys. I'm really good at the energy stuff. If you haven't figured that out, go rewatch stuff and feel the energy. Okay, feel it. He's like thinking and I can feel him moving his mouth. In the context of spirituality, of the reality of spirit, I'd say the most important thing you can do is to be yourself and let people know you. Let people know who you are. It's not fair to people. They, especially if you get into a relationship with someone and you act a certain way, and then all of a sudden you can't act that way anymore, because you can only keep up that facade for so long. And then all of a sudden, you got to just be yourself or revert back to your old ways. And that really confuses people. And I know I've been guilty of that myself. I've been guilty of that myself and trying to be what you think the world needs or wants for you. And that's just misery. That's a life of misery. That's just not worth it. In the spirit, we know each other anyway. So we can tell, you can sense what's real and what's not. You can tell what's true and what's not. Soul is soul, spirit to spirit. And where you are really building your relationship and that seeking that desire to connect is in the soul. Your soul recognizes the other souls. And so there really is no masquerading. It does not work. It's like dress up and sooner or later you're going to be naked. Okay. Okay. Okay. That's the truth. That's the truth. But I don't think, I don't think that he says, but I don't think people will listen to that. I really don't think people will change. That I can change their mind. I think the best way to change someone's mind is because you're really asking to change their, what they value, what they think is true, what they believe to be true, and to change that. That's work. That's effort. So the person has to want to be in the state that you speak about is being awareness to know what you're thinking, to recognize how you're speaking in your own head. What is this inner dialogue? What is this inner discussion that's happening? What is that? And I think one of the best ways for people to be themselves is to know who they are. And sometimes you just have no idea who you are because of all the other messages and all of the other outside expectations that are placed upon you, whether it's from your family or religion or community or career. There are a lot of other expectations being put upon you and it can be hard because it can crush in your heart what you know to be true. And there's a struggle to come back to that. And to recognize what parts are really you and what parts are the voices of others. And it's in the mind. It's really a mind game. It's a head game. And it's not easy. And you can't do it. You can't change other people. You can only make decisions that affect yourself and how other people absorb that if it's a shock or if it's this big departure from who they think you are and what your reputation is or what they see in you and what they expect of your image, whether you're famous or not. I'm not talking about fame. I'm talking about your image, the way that you present yourself so other people will like that. And we're so afraid that we're not going to be loved, you know, that people aren't going to like us, let alone love us. But the truth is we just are love deep inside of you. There's just love. And I wish I had known that. I wish I had known that. And over time, I think that you could argue that my awareness or my sense of self, he says my sense of self became more important to me than what others thought. It still hurts.  It's still very upsetting when people write things that aren't true about you or they embellish or make up stories or, you know, it's much worse now with the tabloids and things, the internet and all of the things you deal with and the social media aspects.   That's really important. And I think that I see value in everyone and I recognize that it's the misfits that will change the world. It's those that are not easily understood, but it's because they don't need to be because they have so much a connection to the love inside of them. But that connection to the love comes from necessity and survival, not because, you know, they came from a broken home or they were homosexual or they were, they faced other ways that they were rejected or not included, not belonging. And it is those individuals that have this tremendous amount of resilience. And it's those individuals that we can learn a great deal from. I don't put myself into that category. Do I feel like a misfit? Yeah, yeah, I do. I feel like I was definitely, you know, different. And I think that that's okay. Different is a good thing. You know, variety is a good thing. And yet it's not rewarded. Or the rewards that you see from being different are only a few. And it's not, it is the exception, not the norm. And so I wouldn't suggest to people to strive to be different. I would say strive to be more of yourself. And the best way to do that is to recognize, to know that what you really want is love. And that love that you're looking for outside and from other places is already inside you, that you just got it, that it's just gifted to you.  And that present is inside you.   Is this enough? Is this good enough? Because you know, you know that you can always be better. You can always do more. So there's this constant reaching to stretch, stretch yourself. And that's a good thing. That's a good thing. But it's important to always have a place within yourself to come back to, to know, to ground you, you know, to really just give you this, this sense of purpose and sense of self, this, this, that there is this love, just this, it's just given. It's just the way it is. And the sensitivity that you talk about the, the overwhelm comes from knowing that it's there, but not knowing how to access it or not seeing it, knowing it's there, but not seeing it's there. And what I mean by that is, there's sort of a part of ourselves that recognizes, has this belief, I think it's a common belief, a common shared belief that it has to be hard, that you don't just get things, aren't just given to you, things that you don't just get love. I mean, you have to prove that, right? You have to have some kind of value or some kind of exchange or somebody, you have to pay for that. And that's, that's a lie. That's a flat out lie. That's a bold faced lie. That is not true. And if you could just get over that, if you could just accept that that's not true and that there's love inside of you, then in your heart there's love, then you can start to feel that, you know, to start to experience that inside of yourself. And you do that a lot of ways, you know, music, meditation, nature, and looking up at the stars at night, just so, there's so many simple things that can create that beautiful love energy inside there, you know, that can access that inside you. You can wake it up, you know, wake it up a little bit. It's easy to get overwhelmed. That's a natural human thing. That's just, it's what happens when all of your circuits are overloaded and the energy of the desire is so high and it kind of blurs out the fact that you already have what you need, what you're looking for, you already have. It's inside you. And it's in the form of energy, not in the form of a tangible of something I can touch, like a cat.  He shows me this big money clip and stack of money. It's not that. First it's here. First it's a feeling. First it's that, first it uses the word energy a lot. So I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that. First it's that frequency, you know, what do you tap and do kind of thing. First it's here. So when you're overwhelmed, that means that there's just too much static and too much fuzziness and too much you're jumping ahead, like you're jumping into the swimming pool with your clothes on.  It takes like two minutes.  And that's, that's what everybody wants. That's what binds us. This. This. It's really not that complicated, but people sure make it complicated, don't they? Yeah, I know. I know. I myself too. I did struggle with that. You know, I struggled with love and being loved and trying to understand what that meant, you know. And I'd say the closest thing I had to love was my bandmates. You know, we were like family.  It wasn't that. It was just a genuine bond. And that you just, you could, it was always a bond, whether you were together or not, making music or not. There was just this unspoken bond. And that gave you strength.    That's the closest thing that I think other people would look at my life when I was a person and see that and understand. Then they would understand that. They would understand that.   Look at all that was, you know. I have a great amount of appreciation for what has been created since I've been gone. And the only reason, well in part, I like to take credit, yeah. Yes, I will. In part because of what I did by living my life, the way I did it, the mistakes and all, the mess and all, all of it, everything, all the good stuff, all the bad stuff, all the wicked stuff, all the messy stuff, all the popularity or not, all the critics or lovers. Look what has been created now. Because of that, doesn't it make you want to ask what's possible for you and your life? I hope that it does. I hope that others can learn from that from me. I hope that they can. That would feel good. That would really feel good. And that is part of the purpose of the spirit of the afterlife for me to be as a spirit, to spread the understanding that the energy that you feel and the sensitivity that you feel, when you express the kindness and the compassion toward other people, you owe it to yourself to express and to live, to really practice living in that state inside of you, in that love state for yourself. It's not always wonderful and it's not always perfect. It's not even close to that, but it's about acceptance and being yourself and having an appreciation for that beauty of all that it is and what you can create because of that. But you've got to have that kindness and compassion that you give to other people. You've got to have that for yourself. That's so important. You can only do half-assed stuff. You can't do what you need to do for the world, for yourself.  That's what you are. That's who you are. I don't know if I can convince you, but I might just try. I might just try and I think Brigitte will help me. Very much a guide for sensitives, for people who are empathic, for people that are really deeply striving, I think, on the human path to be themselves, to know themselves really well and people who are desiring self-love and self-care, people that struggle with self-doubt or why me or vulnerability and who try to hide the energy of being vulnerable and try to be tough and strong and instead of taking care of their own stuff or just giving to everybody else and focusing on everybody else and not taking care of themselves. And I feel like you are definitely an advocate for that, for the people who are sensitives. I think that's a really good message for 2019. If you are a sensitive type, ask Freddie Mercury. Yes, you can. Don't act like, oh, but he's too good for me. Oh, he's such a legacy. Oh, he's such a legend. If you have not learned anything by watching the channel, learn this. You can connect with him or any other person that you want to in the afterlife. You just got to do it. You just got to do it. Start meditating. Start chatting with them. Start a journal. Start practicing by watching these videos and starting to feel the energy. Receive the gifts of the energetic connection like with Freddie Mercury. Do it. And if it's not your jam, don't do it. Don't waste your time. Don't watch anymore. It's your choice. And that's okay with us. Well, I'm okay with that. Are you okay with that? Yeah, because I'm being who I am as Bridget right here and right now.  And I believe in that too. And so that's perfect. See, we're a good team, aren't we? So this is Bridget at Above Life Channel. You've been watching a dialogue, an afterlife conversation with Freddie Mercury. I asked him for some inspirational messaging for 2019. But if you're watching this at any time, it's totally valid. Take a listen. And remember, the purpose of these weekly channeling conversations with afterlife celebrities is to inspire your spirit and to give you hope.  This is your life. And it's your choice. It's your choice. Live it. Just live it. Thank you so much for watching. Give this video a thumbs up if you like it. If you know somebody that could be inspired by it, make sure you share it with them. Thank you so much for watching.


Where is Kevin Byer from? I'm originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, so I was born there majority of my family's in Philadelphia I love the silly Philadelphia. That's why I got a tattered on my arm How do you pronounce Kevin Byer? Well, I just said it Kevin Byer, you know, I've heard Bayard Bynard Bayard I've heard every single thing, but it's Kevin Byer Can Kevin Byer sing what I'm alone? I think I can sing but I won't do it in public at all. I'll do it around my wife. That's about it though What is Kevin Byer's pregame song? I have a lot of pregame songs I mean the list of the Nipsey Hussle, Meat Mills, Future, Young Thug, a lot of different guys I used to switch it up depending on the game day. It's a night game, day game, morning game Is Kevin Byer left-handed? Yes, I'm left-handed as evidence of two years ago against Houston through the prettiest left-handed pass in the world I think everybody's seen that so hopefully I can get some more of those in but I'm gonna talk to Bayard I'm gonna talk to Coach Arkham in about that one this year


Hello, welcome to Clock Talk. I'm Crystal here in Think Tech. Wow, this is our last show before 2017. I hate saying last because it's never really the last, but we're gonna kind of do something to get you forward to the next level. I'm talking about exercise today. Now, a lot of women, you know, they're all fitness freaks out there.  So, today we're gonna talk about that. We've got an amazing fitness freak, I want to say, because she gets everyone out there to really, really bust yourself out and feeling good. Fitness for women of all ages, but we're gonna focus a little bit on what happens.   How do you keep fit? Well, we've got amazing Amanda Delson. Is that how you pronounce it? Amanda from Kaia Fit here. Welcome to our show. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Thank you. So, can you give us a little background about why you created Kaia Fit and why just for women? Yeah. So, actually, Kaia Fit is a franchise. So, it started in Nevada about ten years ago. The founder's name is Nikki Warren and she actually started it because she owned gymnastics studios and she would see the moms bring their kids and the kids would do all these fun things and be active.  When did we stop playing and stop being active and having fun? What is your question? When did we stop playing?  I haven't done this since I was 12. Jump roping is fun. It's great for you. So, we try to bring those things back in and she started it in Nevada. It's grown. There's 50 something locations now and we're the first in Hawaii. So, we're the only one on all the islands and I brought it over here about four years ago. And yeah, it's been going great since. Well, congratulations. Thank you. So, what do you think about the Hawaiian concept of fitness compared to, let's say, California, where you're from? Yeah, well, I mean, everyone here wants to be outside all the time. So, you know, we have a gym where we are indoors but we try to take it outside as much as we possibly can. Try to be active. You know, you can, we talk about bikini season in California and it's not. That's all year round here. So, people want to stay fit. They want to be active. They're people outside running and being active all the time. So, yeah. So, it's really fun to get out and kind of do that with the community. Yeah. So, I know we're going to go and focus a little bit on aging women, but let's start from like the beginning years. Is it ever too young to exercise or are there certain things that can be damaging to your, you know, growing? You know, I don't think so. I think that it's, I mean, of course there can be things that are damaging. You don't want to send an eight-year-old out there with a hundred pounds of weight right now. Yeah. And before they're, you know, fully developed, but we want you to be active when you're young. If you can start a program young and be active and healthy, aging is going to be so much easier. Yes. It's never really too late. You can join at any time and you can start your fitness journey at any point, but if you can start when you're young, that's fantastic. But there's a big difference with people who have started when they're younger as opposed to starting later in their years? Well, yeah, I'd say you have to start slower when you're older. So, if you start in your 60s the first time you've ever worked out, you're going to have to start from a different place. Yes. You can't compare with the lady next to you who's been lifting. Exactly, yes. That's why it's never about competing, especially with our program. It's about just competing with yourself. So, you're trying to do something better than you did last week, last year. I think we have a couple of photos of your classes. I mean, if we can take a look at them and just to kind of get an idea of what Amanda does in the classes. So, what is this? This is just like a kind of a ball bearing. Yeah, so we have these little weights. We call them handbags. We make them from sand and duct tape. We use kettlebells as well, but this is a really good not intimidating way to start out. So, we're just doing sit-ups and we're passing them back and forth. That's good. Getting that weight bearing exercise in. Right. And it's a little communication. It's the woman thing going on. You have a team thing. It's way more fun to do something when someone's pushing you. You'll also work a lot harder. If, you know, I'm doing a sit-up by myself and I'm tired, I might take it easy. But if you're on the other end and I have to pass you that ball, yeah, exactly.  Yeah. Right. But what about older women who post babies, post menopause? Is it true that, you know, with the lack of bone mass, you need to use more weights. But then, if you haven't started with weights, then where do you even start? You just start slow. So, body weight movement is a great place to start, especially if you haven't worked out in a long time. We can start slow and then eventually ease up. But there are now studies that say that weight-bearing exercise and plyometrics, so small jumping movements, actually help build your bone density. So, you know, we slowly start to...  Yeah, like this one? Yeah. So these are agility ladders. So we just kind of run and jump through them. We usually have at least two set-ups. We have a level, people who want to go a little slower. Maybe if they have any kind of injuries, they can be a little more careful. And then we have the ones who want to go super fast and kind of race through it. So, okay, well, that's the thing.  Yes. And she also, you know, she'll get hurt. And she does kind of, you know, not compare, but she's like, I can do that. I want to do what those women are doing. So she'll do it. And sometimes you get injuries just from, you know, exercising. So she'll have like a foot or ankle injury and she'll push a little too hard. So I'm always kind of like... Back off, do some yoga. I know, exactly. But listening to your body, resting when you need to, you know, and it's just been so huge for her. Yeah. And it's not about, you know, looking a different way or anything. Although she has had physical changes. Right. But it's about having that independence back. She doesn't need help from anybody. I mean, my dad will offer to help her pick something up. And she's like, I don't need it. I got it. That's a very important aspect of independence. Nobody thinks about aging women and how strength training can kind of give you that independence in your big life forward. Yeah, even think about just living alone. And like we said, opening a jar or carrying your groceries or putting something up above your head, getting something down. Being able to do that on your own gives you this, this sense of independence that I think is really important as we age. But to back up a little bit, before you get to that point where you saw that transition in your mom, is a lot of aging people don't get to that point because they feel like they're right it off already. They don't even think they have a chance or the ability to do that. That's where she was, you know, a few years ago. So starting, I guess she was in 64 when she started. And the idea of starting a major program like that for her was was really daunting. But it just I mean, I'm very persistent. So I just pushed her. So just like, yeah, come try it, come try it. But I think starting easy and just knowing that no matter where you are, there's no shame in that, you know, it's we have women who are super athletes, and then we have women who never worked out a day in their life. Right. You know, there's also that middle age kind of heavy area where you kind of feel complacent about life. Nothing's really invigorating or inspiring you to do anything. And you need to kind of kick your butt.  And the best exercise routine is something that you enjoy. If you say I need to lose weight, I'm going to go run on the treadmill every day. And you hate running on the treadmill. You'll never stick to it. And you'll be miserable. So do something if it's surfing, if it's stand up paddle yoga, whatever inspires you and makes you have fun. That's what that's what will get you to your right, you know, but to put a group of people with all different ages in the same class, as opposed to like catering one to like older women. What do you think the difference in dynamics? Well, what we do is we do three levels of every exercise that we teach. So we'll be working out the exact same time together. Yeah, but we just do it in a different a different way. So we call them balance strength and Kaia levels and what that really means is low impact, a little more intense and then a higher impact. Right. So it can be adding weight, adding speed at the top level. But if you just just are starting out, low impact, take it easy, work on form, work on learning the exercises. But we can be doing that next to each other. And I can be cheering you on and you can be cheering me on, right? And we're not doing the same thing. Exactly. It's when you get into that competitive, you know, when it's a race, we never compete, we never try to finish faster than the person next to us. It's just about inspiring each other and motivating each other to be their best. How do you make it fun? We change the work every day. Okay, so you'll create you obstacle courses or sometimes. Yeah, sometimes we do that. Sometimes we do games. So we'll pull out a deck of cards. Really? Yeah, yeah, each card will I mean, kind of each card will be a different exercise. And you know, you'll end up thinking it sounds fun, but it can be really hard. But this goes back to when we started the interview is you said that a lot of people thinking to moms, hey, when do we get to play? That whole concept is just kind of like, Oh, it's not.  That works for some people. Right. But it did never worked for me. So getting into a room where I'm now, I know all these women in my class, we're all friends. And I want to know what what they're doing. If I miss a class, I feel like I miss the fun, you know, right? So we change the exercises, we do games, we do, we go outside, we stay inside, we just mix it up all the time. And isn't there the concept that you should try something new every day? Yeah, it's hard to you think. But actually, there are lots of things that we've never done.  Yeah, and then again, accomplishing that, that challenge feels amazing. Right. Such an accomplishment. Are there a list of things that maybe you can recommend for, let's say women over 60 to do? Yeah, I would say starting with low impact. So squats, sit ups, push ups, those kind of things are great. Yeah. And if they're too hard in the beginning, you just start lower. So start on your knees, you know, start on the wall. So instead of being down on the ground, you just start up with the leading against the wall. Yeah, exactly. So just makes those a little bit easier for you. Yeah, instead of putting all of that weight. And then we do squat jumps, those kind of things, squat, come up to your tippy toes instead of jumping, you know, build up those muscles in your ankle. What if you have knee problems? If you need problems, you just want to make sure you're doing it a little more carefully. So no impacts and no jumping. Okay, you just still bend your knees. Yeah, you still want to bend your knees. Just making sure you have the right form. So and if you're not in a group class with someone, look on YouTube, look, you know, find, find videos that show you exactly tech savvy, too.  So don't go away. But before we go, like joints, a lot of older women have problems with joints. Like you said, your mom couldn't open a jar. So how do you strengthen that? Well, she's gotten her strength from when we're doing in the gym, you know, you're picking up the weights, you're holding them, you're doing different exercises, and you don't realize you think you're doing a pushup, but you're using everything. You know, yoga is really great for that. Yes, if you're not ready for high impact exercise, yoga, putting all that weight onto your hands. And then just, if you feel tired, take it easy. Yeah, step off a little bit. But yeah, strengthening, strengthening everybody and your core is really important. Okay, so hold on to that thought, because when we come back, we're going to do like some demos. I don't know how, but Amanda in this small studio space is going to show us how we can kind of strengthen ourselves within even a small space. No excuses, even if you're not outdoors, we'll do it. Okay, so don't go away. Stories that Matter to Tech and to Hawaii. I'm Elise Anderson, and I'm Kaui Lucas. For our show next time, we're doing a Think Tech special, Home Alone and Homeless Alone at Christmas. We want to learn more about the isolated, disconnected people alone in our community. Lots to come on Think Tech. Tune in 10.30 p.m. this Sunday. See you then. Welcome back to QuackTalk. Talking about fitness for all ages, men and women, but particularly women, because we're talking a lot of women on their own when they get older. What's going to happen? People feel like, oh, I'm just so dependent on people. You don't want to be, nobody wants to be dependent, right Amanda? So Amanda from Kaia Fit is here to discuss all that. Before we get into the actual demos, let's talk a little bit about the cultural differences of the concept of fitness, because you know, I lived in Hong Kong for over 25 years and the girls there would always think slim means fit. So sure, they look great in clothes, but you take it off and it's like just bones and skin over the bones. Yeah, they kind of get that. Yes, and there's no shape to that. Here on the other extreme, I'm not trying to diss some, but some Americans have that super bulky, maybe that was more the 80s thing, you know, the real bulk look in now, I think. Yeah, so where do we place that beauty of fitness? I think it just is so important to not focus on that stuff, because especially, like you said, it used to be popular to be this way or that way. Well, it's not, what's important is how you look, you know, and if you focus on, now it's all about strong. So you see those ads, it's less about being skinny, less about losing weight, it's more about looking strong, which is great, because strength is wonderful, but if you don't look that way, then are you not beautiful anymore? Right. So I think just focusing on what makes you happy, what makes you feel good, and what does it mean to look strong anyway? Does it mean you have to have, I know this guy from Hong Kong, he's like five foot two, and he had massive muscles, but he never worked at his legs, so he's got this chicken with like, you know that stuff? Oh, it's good leg day, yeah, a lot of men don't like to work out their legs. It's weird. Yeah, and it's, what's important is being healthy and active, so with our gym in particular, we say we want you to be good at Kaya, but great at life. It's about functional fitness. So everyone's goals are going to be different, but when it comes down to it, is it important that you look good in your swimsuit? Maybe to you that's important, as you age especially, that's not going to be your goal anymore. Right. What's important is what can you do.  Yeah, you feel good. You can do the things you want to do. Keep up with your kids. And you know what, you think about the people who do put too much focus on their image, is they start doing plastic surgery, they'll do everything from outside in, and then at the end of the day, things still kind of droop and do weird things to your body, and it's worse than ever. And what's important is fueling your body with the right food as well, not just about fitness, it's about fueling your body for performance, and that performance could be maybe running a marathon, it could also just be waking up and taking care of your kids in the morning. Right.  Exactly. I think you can, healthy and happy, whatever work you do, because I have a lady, I have a friend who does like, you know, spa treatments, and she, her arms are buffed because she uses, but she enjoys it, so she uses her arms. Exactly. Going back to doing something that you enjoy, is if you stick to something because you enjoy it, and if you have a baby, use that as a way.  They should, growing up in the air. Yeah, that's a great exercise. No, but tell me this, this is the flappy arm thing with the older ladies. No matter what you do, is that something we can't defy? Everyone's body mechanics are different, they're going to depend on genetics, but there are so many exercises for your arms that you can do to help out. Can we do some here? Yeah, I mean we don't have our weights, but we have our water bottles. Water, if you don't have weights, you can use water bottles. We've got two. So obviously this isn't going to give you a whole lot of strength training, but we can show... But it starts with the exercise. Yeah, so if you want to work on upper body, it's kind of boring to just sit here and do bicep curls, right? I like to mix it up. Okay. You can do a curl, you can do a press overhead, and then those tricep extensions. Right? So tricep, this area you're talking about right here. Yes. It's a tricep. Yeah. So you want to make sure that you're working those out. Can you get a heavy can at home and do that? Yeah, you could do that. You could also, obviously we can't do it here, but you can sit down on the ground, you'd have your hands on the ground, you'd be pushing up. So all ages, that's not impact. As long as you're not doing it, you know, if you're doing it up on this table, you're going to put a lot more impact. So doing it on the ground, keeping your hips down on the ground, so you're sitting all the way, you're just bending the elbows slightly. Yeah. You'll instantly feel that in your tricep. Yeah. So just working on... So people who are in the office a lot, they should have a chance to just hold them to their chair and do those kinds of things. Absolutely. Yeah, or even sitting down on the ground if you want a little less impact with it. Yeah. Grabbing a weight resistance to protect. Those are great because they're lightweight. Yeah. You can pack them in your suitcase. Yeah. If you need to go travel or something, there's never really an excuse to not put a resistance fan in a jump or open your suitcase. Okay. They're tiny and you can do so many things with them. And there's usually an excuse people when they say they travel, they're out of their routine, they can't go and work out. Yeah. That's not right.  Yeah, it's not going to be the same as an hour intense workout at the gym. Right. But it's going to give you even though we're, it gives, for all ages, again, everybody, you said the bikini body isn't that important, which is true. But at the same time, people still want to keep their butts firm. Yeah.  That's the new, that's the new thing, too. Right. Before it was...  That's just age, no matter what. But you can keep your bum tight. You can't. You can't. So how are we going to build that booty for 2017? Okay. So we can do a few exercises in this space. But squats are always a great exercise. All right. So if we want, we can face each other. Okay. Or maybe face the screen. So we can just do some regular squats and make sure that the knees don't go past your toes.  And try to squat. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Exactly. So you're just going to squat down and then as we come up, we can do a little leg lift on the side. So get that outer. Okay. So you would just switch sides each time. But also coordination helps with your brain cells too, right? You're focusing on doing, we got to keep talking and doing it. Because this is a talk test I heard that you have to, like how many are we going to do? Let's talk. Okay, five. They would switch sides. How are we going to switch sides? Well, we're not now, but we typically read. All right. But we'll just work at our other leg. But the talk test, because a lot of people say you have to have the cardio and you have to be able to continue conversation. I know guys can't wait for women. Okay. All right. And then we're still talking about building up our glutes. So we can hold on to something. You can even face forward or to the side. And you just kick straight back. So keeping the foot and engaged. Yeah. Keep your core nice and tight. And then you're just squeezing glutes. You can also bend the knees.  So here. Yeah. Does it really help change the shape or your booty?  I mean, that's silly. Right. I mean, right. Thank you for saying that it's culturally again going back. Everybody has different shapes. Exactly. And then focusing on just what works for you with. Right. It sounds cheesy, but beauty is in the eye of the holder. Yeah. It's all in how you feel.  But before you had this healthy concept, when you were a teen, go back to, did you ever have low times when you didn't feel that way? Absolutely. Yeah, I still do. You always do. You know, you have those days where you don't feel good or if you start to compare, you know, social media is the worst for that. It's great for some things, but all it is now is having the best body and showing it on Instagram. Well, this is the scary thing because my daughter's 13 and she's so healthy. She's so healthy. She's so healthy. And you post it up and what does that do to your concept of yourself beauty? It definitely makes you feel less than if you aren't exactly like they look. And when you think about it, you're seeing the perfect angle of that person. You know, they're not going to show what they really look like. They're going to show exactly what they want the world to see. So comparing your every day to someone else's perfect moment, perfect lighting, perfect image on the internet and being happy. How do you get teens to get that right concept? Or is that just the phase that you have to come a little further? You know, that one, that's hard. I don't know. I don't know. But you were one before. I was one and I think I did struggle with that a lot when I was younger. I wasn't as active having them be in sports, having them be active and doing fun things and showing them, especially women, that they can be more than just what the images are of themselves, you know. But Girls on the Run have a local chapter. It's young girls in elementary school. They go and do these Runs 5Ks. And it's so cool to see, they're one of our partners, to see their accomplishment after how long their training is. Right. And focusing on those kind of things instead of focusing on Instagram. How can you look the best in your bikini? It's more about what you can accomplish. Yeah.  Yeah. You know. Have them focus on, you know, accomplishing some major goal. Maybe it's to run a 5K or maybe they want to get into strength and fitness. Yeah. Do that kind of thing outside. Right. So how would you, I don't know, for the 2017 kind of a concept of health and fitness, I know we've gone through many times about the inner beauty and inner strength and being able to be independent and all that. Yeah. You know, don't look at the beginning of the year and New Year's resolutions are wonderful, but they're also a lot of people. Yeah.  And then they go into like a binge diet or something. Yes, exactly. Ridiculous. Or even something that's not specific. If your goal is to lose a certain amount of weight, focus on how you're going to do it. Don't focus on that weight. Focus on how you can stick to that. That's something you can one, actually write out and see and plan or you can accomplish it pretty easily. You know, if you stick to it for four or five days a week and then those results will come. So stop focusing on the results so much and what you want to get, what you want to look like. Right. Focus on how to get there. So we focused a lot on how women should see themselves and where the beauty and strength comes from. But what about a few tips for the boys out there, the men who support kind of this concept of strength? Always be supportive.  You know, if I'm stronger and healthier, then that's going to make our family stronger and healthier. Typically, women and families are the ones in charge of what's being fed, what they're eating. Yeah, exactly. So being supportive and getting out there and doing those things with your spouse and then he goes through phases or sometimes... He goes to your class or do... No, actually right now he's at the gym, we're renovating our gym so he's there right now painting it and doing all that stuff, working on the gym but he can't actually work out there because it's all women. Right. We go sometimes together and work out when... Okay, here's a question. Now transgender is like a big issue now. Yeah. So where does that line cross? Is that okay? As far as our gym, we're open to anything and anyone. Yeah, if anyone wanted to come into our gym and came and talked to me, absolutely. Everyone deserves to be healthy and happy. Absolutely. Yeah. How can people find you? So our website is www.kayafitawahu.com. We're located in Kaimuki. So we are... If you've been to Cocoa Head Cafe, we're right across the street upstairs and on December 31st we're doing a free workout at Alamoana Beach Park. So sometimes we go outside and do fun things like that. We're going to be running in the sand. You know, there'll be options for everyone. Walk dog, run. What part of Alamoana? We're going to meet at the Magic Island side so that Lifeguard Tower 1E. Okay. So hear that. We're all going to meet there. 7am. 7am. Okay, 7am. Right in early. New Year's Eve, the 31st, feel healthy, be healthy, look and feel as beautiful as our guest today, Amanda here. Thank you so much for all your wisdom and... Thank you for having me. Great to have a healthy New Year ahead. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.


the self-licking boot of U.S. militarism. A new Bloomberg article titled, sloppy U.S. talk on China's threat worries some skeptical experts, discusses the dangerous cycle in which pressures in the U.S. political establishment to continually escalate hostilities with Beijing provokes responses that are then falsely interpreted as Chinese aggression. Here's a quote. The hawkish narrative limits room for a maneuver in this crisis, said M. Taylor Fravel, director of the security studies program at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology. Any effort to diffuse tension could be characterized as conciliatory or not tough enough, he said. China has been consistent on Taiwan and there's little public evidence to suggest it's sped up the timeline to take Taiwan, said a former senior U.S. official who worked on China policy, but asked not to be identified. The former official said the hawkish tone in D.C. has contributed to a cycle where the U.S. makes the first move, interprets Chinese reactions as a provocation, and then escalates further, end quote. Bloomberg quotes Bonnie Glauser, director of the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund, who says this cycle of self-reinforcing escalation could end up provoking the war we seek to deter. We just saw this same self-perpetuating cycle of military escalation exemplified against North Korea, where attentions have again been flaring up after a long pause. The U.S. and South Korea initiated a provocative military drill designed to menace the DPRK. Pyongyang responded by launching missiles in its own show of strength and the Pentagon announced an extension of the drills in response to that response. Anti-war's Dave DeKamp explains, quote, the U.S. and South Korea are extending massive aerial war games after North Korea put on a massive show of force in response to the drills. Washington and Seoul started their vigilant storm exercise on Monday, which were initially scheduled to run 24 hours a day for five days. This year's vigilant storm is the largest ever iteration of the drills, involving nearly 100 American warplanes and 140 South Korean aircraft, and about 1,600 planned sorties. Pyongyang made it clear it would respond to the vigilant storm drills, and it launched 23 missiles on Wednesday, which is said to be the most North Korea has fired in a single day. North Korea also fired over a hundred artillery rounds on the same day and launched six more missiles on Thursday. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced the extension of Vigilant Storm after a meeting with his South Korean counterpart, Lee Jong-Sup. I've consulted with Minister Lee and we've decided to extend Vigilant Storm, which is our long-scheduled combined training exercise, to further bolster our readiness and interoperability, Austin said, end quote. So they launch these war games, provoke a bunch of North Korean missile launches, and then they say that they have to extend the war games because of those missile launches, tweeted DeKamp. DeKamp quotes another DPRK official who warns that the extension of the U.S. South Korea war games may provoke further escalations, saying, the irresponsible decision of the U.S. and South Korea is shoving the present situation caused by provocative military acts of the Allied forces to an uncontrollable phase. We've been seeing the same cycle repeated year after year. U.S. military expansionism and aggression in a given part of the world receives pushback from the people who live there. And the U.S. responds to that pushback with more military expansionism and aggression. The official narrative is that the U.S. is responding to unprovoked aggressions from the other side, conveniently emitting its own antecedent aggressions and provocations. A manipulation tactic the Western media are always happy to facilitate. In reality, it's not hard to determine who the aggressor is, when one party is flying to the other side of the planet to menace the borders and security interests of the other. Especially when ramping up militarism in more and more parts of the world facilitates both the U.S. military-industrial complex and the unipolarist objectives of U.S. empire managers. But because the U.S. empire has the most sophisticated narrative control system ever devised, enough people in enough places that matter swallow the official story despite its self-evident absurdity. A system which perpetuates and exacerbates itself while pretending to solve the problems it creates is often called a self-licking ice cream cone. Because that type of system is promoted by those serving the most powerful and belligerent power structure on Earth, one might call U.S. militarism a self-licking boot. We've been watching the self-licking boot of U.S. militarism exemplified for decades in the war on terror scam, where U.S. military interventionism destabilizes geostrategically crucial parts of the world and makes the locals who've suffered under U.S. bombings want to harm their persecutors, and the response is to ramp up military expansionism in those parts of the world in the name of fighting terrorists and protecting U.S. troops. We've been watching it in Ukraine, where U.S. aggressions provoked an invasion by a government the U.S. empire has long targeted for destruction, and that invasion is now being used to advance long-standing U.S. strategic objectives while continually expanding U.S. military involvement in the region. And we'll be sure to see more and more of it as the U.S. accelerates toward global conflict on two fronts simultaneously, while mainstream media pundits cheer it on, despite all available evidence indicating that we are witnessing something profoundly stupid and crazy. The U.S. will continue ramping up aggressions against Moscow and Beijing. Those governments will respond, and we will be told that the U.S. must respond to those outrageous provocations by ramping up aggressions. Repeat ad nauseam. Lick, lick.


There is no shortage of good pitching options for tonight in daily fantasy baseball. In fact, I might argue that there are too many good pitching options because at some point if there are a lot of good pitchers, that means there are fewer teams that I want to stack. In fact, one of our top three stacks today is against a pitcher who I have used this year and will hopefully use at some point again later on this year. So, dicey slate from that perspective, but a lot of options for DFS from the pitching perspective. We're going to break down my favorite guys of that group and get you ready for tonight's slate in MLB DFS. Welcome on into the solo shot. That's right here on the Fandall podcast network. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a managing editor of digital media for Fandall research here to break down Friday night. 12 game main slate would lock set for 705 pm Eastern for today. Now the one bummer about this slate is that there is a lot of rain out east, specifically Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, all spots where we could see delays, maybe some slight risk for postponements as well. Starting Baltimore for the Orioles and the Rockies, it's probably going to impact the game in some way. I just don't really know how yet. So check back on that later to see the timing on the rain in Baltimore. Rain odds are a bit lower in Philadelphia for the Phillies and the Cardinals, though at least still a threat there. So check back on that one later as well. Rain is possible in New York for the Mets and the Angels. That one looks somewhat concerning to somewhere between Baltimore and Phillies. So check back on that one later. And finally, Boston for the Red Sox and Dodgers, I think is the diciest game of the night as far as weather goes. Rain odds are high at the beginning of the game and then don't get as low as you'd like as the game goes along. So check back on that one later again. The game's really some risk of weather for tonight are Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston. Speaking of that Philadelphia game, if you are in the Philadelphia area tomorrow is Fandall Fanfest. It's going to be in Philadelphia. I'll be out there for this weekend flying out to Philly to go to the Phillies game tonight with Fandall. If you're in the Philadelphia area, Fandall Fanfest, I believe is free with a $25 bet on your Fandall Sportsbook app. If you just Google Fandall Fanfest, you can find details there. Fallout Boy performing tomorrow before the Phillies game. So it's at Xinnody Live. So you can check out all that. Just Google Fandall Fanfest, Philadelphia, if you see the random bald guy hopefully wearing a hat at some point. A Fandall T-shirt, come over and say hi. I would love to chat to all of you out there and Fandall Fanfest. Always a fun activity for sure. We're going to dive on in and get you ready for tonight's slide here. 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Hunter Green, Bryce Miller, Kyle Hendricks, Brady Singer. Christopher Sanchez and Dane Dunning are the others at $8,000 or higher. Now Strider is facing the Giants for the second consecutive start. And his salary is very, very high. And the Giants are a good enough offense where that is a concern. But I still want to be on him despite the salary, despite everything, because he's real good.  It is 30 degrees cooler in San Francisco today than it is most of the time in Atlanta, which means it's a much better environment for pitching. And Strider is getting back into a groove right now. He had a stretch this year where he was using his change up more. And I get why he was doing it because it did give him three pitches. And it seems like he's ditching that idea. The usage on the change up for Strider has been down for his past eight starts. And he is lighting things up. 2.71 skill interactive ERA, 37% strikeout rate, 29% hard hit rain allowed. And other than one bad start, the results have been there too. You know which one I'm talking about. I used him there. I think he scored like negative 14 Fandal points. It was not ideal. I have Strider projected for two strikeouts more than anybody else in the entire slate. So it's Strider, two strikeout gap. Actually, it's like 2.4, honestly. And then everybody else. So he's clearly the top guy here, despite the fact that it is a repeat matchup with San Francisco. I think for the second stud, you could go a lot of ways. A ton of guys are justifiable. Personally, if I'm not using Strider, I want to save a bit of salary. Dylan Cease's salary is $94. He's at home against the White Sox or against the athletics, I should say.  And Cease has had a very weird year where he had a rough start to the year that he seemed to turn things around. Now, more recently, he's had some rough starts again. But those rough starts came in justifiable spots on the road at Coors Field, against the Rangers, against the Cardinals. So those are all pretty explainable. Over the past 10 starts, Cease has had different movements on his slider. And in that time, he is walking too many guys. His strikeout rate is 27%. He's also letting up just a 35% hard hit rate, which is something he excelled at last year. So seeing that come back to me is enticing. He's facing the A's here. They're not a team that draws a ton of walks. And that does help Cease. They have a 24% strikeout rate against righties. That helps as well. I have Cease projected for 6.9 strikeouts. That ranks third on the slate behind just Strider and Coday Senga. But Senga's salary is $1,500 higher. So if I'm not going Strider, I'd rather take the discount and rank C second among the studs. Now I worded that intentionally, saying second among the studs. Because I think our top value play may actually be in consideration for number two overall for tonight. And this is a guy we actually talked about last week. And he pitched well there. I think he can pitch well again tonight. And that guy is Brandon Faut. And I like Faut quite a bit for $7,500. Faut is facing the Reds, who are a high strikeout team. They're a very fun team, but they will strike out. They have a 26% strikeout rate on the current active roster against righties this year. And that does give Faut upside. He's also been pitching much better recently. Faut has made six starts since coming back up to the majors. And the first start, he was solid, but he did let up three home runs. Didn't get a lot of strikeouts there. In his second start, Faut changed approach. He started throwing a slider a lot more. And he had a 31% usage on that pitch in that start. It has been 30% or higher in every start since. And we look at just the five starts with more sliders. Faut has allowed just two total home runs. He has a 23% strikeout rate and a 7% walk rate. Now, the two home run number is probably fluky because his bad at ball numbers still are not perfect, but they are much better than what they were when he was up in the big weeks previously. Faut has had five plus strikeouts in all but one of those starts. He had seven and one, eight and another. So I think he has upside, especially at home in a plus matchup. And Arizona needs wins. I have fought projected for 6.3 strikeouts tonight. Again, I have ceased at 6.9. So saving almost $2,000 in salary, being within 0.6 strikeouts of him. It's a pretty good number. So I'd at least consider ranking Faut's second behind Strider tonight after considering his low salary. So Brandon Faut, pretty good value play for tonight. I am very high on it. It would be willing to consider ranking a second behind the Spencer Strider above all the other honestly pretty good studs in tonight's slates. So Brandon fought to me very much in play as a value on Fandual. Let's dig in now to the stacks and talk about the options here. Now I do want to copy out this by saying again, check back on the weather in Baltimore. But if we get the all clear for stacking there, I want to be on the Orioles. They're facing Kyle Freeland tonight and Freeland has had better velocity since he came off the injured list. And that's usually a good thing. And he's also not at Coors Field. But I still think we want to be here. Freeland has made five starts with that velocity being up off the IL. His strikeout rate is 17%. That's better than what it was for him before. But he's also letting up a 51% hard hit rate. He struggled with that all year long because Freeland's hard hit rate allowed for the full season is 44%. That's part of why his ERA is 5.02. It's not just the fact he pitches at Coors Field. In fact, Freeland's ERA is actually worse on the road than it is at home. The strikeout rate also goes way down the road too. He's at Camden Yards tonight where it's 90 degrees. The Orioles have a 112, a WRC plus against lefties. So I think it all aligns to allow us to stack them here and feel pretty good about it. So Baltimore to me the top stack, if, if, if, if we get the all clear on the weather. I do think it's noteworthy how Adley Rochman has evolved this year because to open the season, he was a guy for DFS. I wanted to use just against righties because he had a lot more power as a left-handed batter than as a right-handed batter. But now we're up to 157 played appearance for Rochman against lefties and his ISO is up to 185, which is a big improvement.  So you don't want to overreact. But I think that what we should do with Rochman is take where we were with him against lefties before and just kind of bump it up. Nudge it up a little bit to account for the fact he has hit for more power against them recently. So Rochman climbing slowly for me against lefties and very much in play for tonight facing Freeland. Again, assuming the weather is okay out in Baltimore. The White Sox risk stacking option last night and they get the A's again here. So I do think the White Sox back on the map once again for today. They're facing Zack Neal this time and Neal has spent most of the year in AAA. He had a 5.40 ERA there. And now he's being stretched out as a starter. I'm a bit skeptical of how that'll go. Neal doesn't get many strikeouts. He has a 17% strikeout rate in AAA. It's 16% so far in the majors though. That's a very small sample of just 12 innings. Neal spent most of last year in AAA with the Rochies. His strikeout right there was 18% as well. So I would expect a lot of balls in play for him. And Neal doesn't get many ground balls. A lot of line drives and a lot of fly balls. That doesn't always translate to tons of power because it is skewing more towards line drives than you'd think. But it probably is not ideal regardless let up a lot of liners. As we discussed yesterday, the White Sox are not a good offense right now but they get to face Neal and the A's bullpen. So that should be enough to make them more palatable for tonight. Now the most borderline usable guy in this team is Andrew Benintendi. Now Benintendi hit a home run last night. I was going to talk about how doesn't it for a lot of power. That makes him less appealing for DFS. But he hit a home run last night. He also does swipe some bags. Hasn't done a ton of stealing in August and his overall numbers are not ideal. So has to feel good about Benintendi from a DFS perspective because we want to make sure our guys have paths to legitimate upside. But Benintendi occasionally apparently has some power. Two home runs in the past three games. Maybe he's found something. Maybe we can add on power to that. I'm not expecting that but his salary is $2,800. I have to save salary to get to Strider for tonight if I want to get Luis Robert in these stacks as well. So Benintendi borderline viable play but it doesn't hurt that he's been hitting for a bit more power recently. Now for a third stack this is the one that makes me sad because Hunter Green is making his second start off the IELT tonight and I like him a lot. And I'm happy to use him as a pitcher at times have done so this year but Green let up a lot of homers in his first start off the IELT. So I think we should at least consider Arizona against him tonight. That game for Green where he let up all the home runs wasn't Cincinnati. So some home runs there are forgivable and the roof is closed tonight in Arizona. That game was against the Blue Jays. So I don't want to overrate that one game where he struggled. What I do care about for Green in that game was his slider velocity. He averaged 85.4 miles per hour on that slider. That's down about two miles per hour from where he was before his injury. And even those numbers pre-injure were down from where he was at the beginning of the year. Overall Green has made eight starts with his Velo climbing down on that slider. His hard hit rate allowed is 49%. He has let up a 50% fly ball rate and it's led to a 5.48 ERA. And a big chunk of that is from Sunday but it also shows that rough games are within his range of outcomes. And it's also the long time we've seen him since his injury. Arizona still has a 111 WRC Plus against righties. Our ISO is 188. So Green could pitch well here. I'd love to see him be viable down the stretch but I do think it's necessary for us to consider Arizona from a stacking perspective against him for tonight. Now when stacking Arizona or stacking against Green in general I want to skew towards the lower strikeout guys because even with the lower Velo on the slider he's still getting strikeouts. And for us not many guys in this team strikeout much. That includes Alec Thomas about a 20% strikeout rate against righties so far this year. $2300 salary. He can steal some bases. He can hit for some power. Not a big enough fly ball guy as much as you really want but still definitely enough there to feel good about him. So Alec Thomas $2300 a great value player for tonight if you need help getting up to Strider within your lineups. Let's finish up here things to watch. The Phillies facing Miles Michaelis tonight who is in a pretty big rut. He's tried throwing more sliders recently but that has not fixed his issues. The Phillies offense has perked back up recently so I don't mind checking them out whether it be for stacks or for one-offs. I'm unclear of what to think about Bryce Miller. He's had a good year but more recently he's throwing more stinkers and his results have been fine but he's letting up a 45% hard hit rate with a 54% fly ball rate. I don't really want to stack the Royals against him because Seattle's bullpen is very good but the thought of doing so did at least cross my mind. So maybe some one-offs in the Royals could be in play for tonight. Finally the Mariters on the other side of that game are at least a consideration I would rather not do it because I like Brady Singer a lot and they're facing him and singers pitched really well recently getting a lot of strikeouts but he's also one of the few guys in the Slade who does let up some hard contact. So I don't want to do it I like Singer but stacking is pretty tough for tonight due to all the good pitchers so I don't mind if you have to I'd rather avoid it and rank the Phillies higher the Diamondbacks the White Sox and the Orioles whether permitting for tonight. Dinger calls for this Friday let's go Christian Walker basing off against Hunter Green Green can occasionally have some weird diverse splits Walker does hit for a lot of power against righties and lefties as well but I think he makes a lot of sense so Christian Walker the boring home run call for tonight but the fun one let's go Jordan Westburg he's been typically batting sixth or so for the Orioles against lefties playing entire games he is shortstop and third base eligible on Fandle only two home runs so far in the majors but he did it for a decent amount of power in triple A doesn't have a super low fly ball right and does hit the ball pretty hard so he's a little bit more loft out of Westburg and I feel like we could get some home runs out of him so we'll make a call for tonight with him go with Christian Walker and Jordan Westburg as our two Dinger calls for this Friday that is all we have here for today I'm a solo shot as mentioned UFC podcast via Austin Swain is up right now on the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast if you go find that wherever you get your podcasts hit subscribe and if you like what you hear leave us a five start rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify as well if you've got any questions for me I am on Twitter at Jim Sonnis J-I-M-S-A-N-N-E-S you can also follow Fandle Research at Fandle Research wanna thank you all for tuning in for today good luck to you with your MLB DFS lineups we'll talk to you once again Monday Tom Vecchio and for me Monday Tuesday I'll be back with you on Wednesday and a fantastic weekend this has been the solo shot right here on the Fandle Podcast Network