And we're going to see how the public react. Well that was a really positive handshake, I'm sorry. Did you see all their reactions dude?  Someone shook my hand, didn't you get that? Joey, how are you doing brother? I'm a massive, massive fan. How are you really? Yeah, I'm feel working like probably the reason I'm vegan. Oh really? You're in half now man. Oh my god. I watched all your videos before man. I get a picture. Yeah. What do you think of this sign? Yeah it's cool man. Yeah it's my new t-shirt. Sorry I don't need to grab you like that. Nah you're right brother. That's all good. I'm coming to the march. Oh really awesome man. You're going to be there. Yeah, yeah for sure, yeah. So I guess you're reacting with them today then yeah? I would say seeing how people react to this. How are they reacting? How are they reacting? Most, well the people who disagree might not be saying anything about it but people who agree are going, I agree, shaking my hand and stuff so. Awesome man. Yeah. You've got to work man. Cheers brother. Looks like my vegan activism worked on him. Let's see if we can work on someone else. Hey brother, I'm asking people what they think of this sign. What do you think about it? Do you think it's true? I eat meat everyday. Do you think it's true though? I'm not coming. What do you think of this? You think meat is animal grilled? Of course it is. You think it is? Of course it is. Really? Why is it? I mean like come on, why would you eat that? Yeah true. Why would you eat a dog? You don't eat animals? No. Really? So you don't think it's cruel at all? I eat animals everyday. What do you think of this? Boys. I love steak. You love steak? Me too. Do you think it's cruel though? Because you're recording. Oh you can, I think it's cruel. I mean I don't believe that they should inhumanely treat the animals. Yeah. I don't believe that. You know I think there should be, there's not such things as effort for clothing because it's death. Yeah.  Yeah kind of. It's like catch-22. Yeah. I mean we have K-90 for a reason that's my, you know we haven't got... Show me. No. Show me yours. No. We haven't got all modes in our mouth. I mean you know what I like steak, I mean I try to buy ethical meat. I do. Where from? Like if I go shopping I tend to like go for free range.  But then you treat them whole...  Yeah, yeah, yeah that kind of thing. It's a little bit... Hypocritical? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's a hypocritical. I just think that... I just think that what's happened now is that they're supermarkets.  Factory farms. When I was growing up you've got chickens from the field. Yeah. You've got cows from... You know cows ate grass, you know. So because there's a massive demand for meat because everyone was they made they have to put them in factories and... Yeah and it's cheap meat. Cheap.  You want to pay the price for some type of consolation. Yes, yeah, yeah because I mean you know I mean I don't just... I'm not absent minded. I don't think what I'm... I don't ever dismiss what I'm eating. Yeah. But I don't think of it that much that's going to change my habit. However, I did change... I didn't eat meat for three years. How'd you feel? I feel silly because I was in the cinema.  And then the smell just put me back into my teeth. But I don't eat a lot of meat. Do you ever watch animals be slaughtered? That I couldn't do. Yeah. I saw it once. How about you? Have you... Do you watch animals? Have you seen animals be slaughtered? I like the low animals. Yeah. You love animals? Yes. Yes. But do you like... Could you see how people could connect a pig and a dog as like being very similar? Dogs. Dogs. No, I don't see... Actually, no, I can't... No, there are animals at the end of the day. But one, we don't... You know, we've never really... We read dogs as pets. We don't... We never saw them as something to eat. Yeah. Yeah. Unfortunately, pigs was a different thing. Yeah. Because of the way we view them. Yeah. But we can still eat a dog. Yes, you can. Because in some cities in China... Look, dogs are denticles. We're not denticles. We're not denticles.  It's not ethical... Well... What if they come from your humane farm, you buy ethical meat? No, I wouldn't ever eat a dog. I can't... I wouldn't... No, no, no. I know, but then... But then we haven't got a connection with pigs. We don't walk down the streets... So, if you've made friends with a pig... Yeah, but we're not going to. So, that's a bit of a... You know... I have. I've made friends with plenty of sanctuaries and... Yeah. But then, when you walk down the street, what do you normally see? You see... Companion animals. Right, you know? And you can train...  But at the same time, it's not on mind thoughts.  No, no, no, no. Because they're the species of animals. Yes. Interesting. Do you see, like, all these conflict contradictions? Yes, yes. To me, it's just not one... It's not just one side. It's not just that... Oh.  It's not just that, because I mean... It's like, for instance, lambs. Yeah. I love lamb. You love eating lamb. Yeah, but I mean... You know they're baby sheep. Yeah. When I found out how they rear them, it didn't... I don't eat it as much as I used to. Yeah. I don't eat it as much as I used to, but I think that is... That's a little bit too far, like, veal. You know, I think that's kind of like... It's all to our... Baby cows. Yeah, I know about vealers. That's what I said. But it's all to our personal delicacy. It's because we drink milk that veal industry exists. Yeah, but I mean... Yeah. You know, if I... You know, I would try and... I won't have lamb so much. I'll have it once in a while as a tribute. Simply because, you know... It's a... That's interesting. Like, you know it's cruel and unnecessary, but you still do it every once in a while. Yes. It's because you kind of like disconnect, especially when you put it in the oven. That's the word, isn't it? It smells nice and you wake up, you wake up and it's seasoned well and you've got fringe and you've got... And you don't see the slaughterhouse? No. You've never met the animal? No. You don't know who you're eating? No. Yeah. I just got this right. Who's coming around for dinner? What are you cooking? What should we cook? Lamb chops. No, not lamb chops. Look at that. Lamb. Lamb joint. Oh, joint of lamb. Yeah. A leg. And they'll say, I'm having chicken, but it's not a house meal. No, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, that's what I do. It's because I see it all the time. Yeah, but maybe if we are exposed to it more, which it's not going to happen, maybe people will start changing their opinion about this disconnect between what we eat and the way it's produced and how it's killed. There is. How do we change that? The truth. We rely on good-hearted people to change or... No, the truth. Because we're stuck in our ways. So would you avoid looking at the truth because it might compel you to change? If I was to... If let's just say... I used to say this is going off the subject a bit. If people could see the damage it caused by life injuries, if you would go into a hospital and you see a dead person there with the knife wound stuck into them, you may decide to yourself, hell no, am I responsible for that? Yeah. I'm not going to ever use a knife again because we disconnect ourselves from the reality, like the death.  I personally would. I would. It's because I've never seen them being sawed.  Oh. I'm not a compassionate human being. Oh, without a doubt. Yeah. And if I know that, if I don't know, if it ever would happen, or if they said, right, boss, we're going to go to a real laboratory. I don't know if I'd be on the bus, but I can tell you this now. If a documentary, a flounder will documentary the real truth about... British farming? No, no, the story of animals. I'd be compelled to watch it because it's on the fly. It's not... It's not... It's true.  I would actually sit down and watch it, and it will probably jog some kind of conscious... Would you promise to watch this one then? Because this one was actually produced by some friends of mine. It's called Land of Hope and Glory. And it was filmed all in the UK. All right. And it's farms in Abattois. Red Tractor approved as well. This here is the reality of British farming as it stands in the last few years. And this will give you a really good picture of how they trick people with the, you know, the marketing free range and humane slaughtering. I know the free range. When I was growing up, free range was free range. It wasn't... It wasn't a hundred yards... It wasn't a hundred yards of grass. It was free range to run and catch the bloody chickens. But then, let's just say, free-ranging animals, is that still ethical to hang them up by their hoofs and slash them in the throat? No, I don't... I don't connect with that because it's awesome. It's grotesque. I mean, I don't care... And they want to live, don't they? Yes. They don't want to feel that suffering. I don't know what level of consciousness they have, like you and I. Maybe not. But enough to... Enough to... They suffer. I know that I've heard that, you know, when, you know, you hear animals screaming, as they've been led down because they know they can hear, they can smell... They can smell the fear. They can, you know... It's like, I watched a... One thing I did watch is like, I was actually struggling on them killing dogs in China.  And I was like, whoa, Jesus, that is crazy. Well, they've got these things called gas chambers here in the UK, and that's how they kill pigs, and you can hear them going down into the CO2 and they scream and thrash in these CO2. Even if you're talking about it now, it doesn't resonate with me, but it makes me feel really uncomfortable. Yeah. It really makes me feel like, oh, my God. But you know what? You're making the connection again. I am making the connection. I have never lost a connection because, however, I started to eat corn. I don't have as much meat as I do.  So I have substituted my meat. I have substituted some of mine because... Intuitively, you kind of know? Yes, but that's a conscious decision. At first, the substitutes were just rubbish. Yeah. But now they've got like, they actually taste nice. England's one of the best, easiest places now. And so I have changed my habit, and that was simply because the way that the animals are kept, the way they're slaughtered, when they say humane... Is there a good way of doing this? No, there isn't. That's just it. There's no humane way in killing an animal. Actually, no. They say they've done what they say. It's not. Shooting someone in the head. How is that humane? Right in their throat. In what world? Yeah. But then, you know... No one sees that. No one sees it. But I will watch this. Check it out, Land of Open Glory, and on the back, this is a vegan challenge. 22 days. It's all supported on Facebook. It's completely free. I know it's who you're filming from. Just wondering. Hey. Who you're reporting from. Just curious. It's my YouTube channel. Oh, okay. I've got no problem with... I've had it filmed. Yeah. Filmed? Yeah, you have been... Oh, my God. That was a fantastic conversation though, mate. All right. You're really... You're really emotionally intelligent and logical. Yes. But, you know... It's just not consistent in your actions, that's all. It's the illogical part. Yeah. It's the illogical part that I don't like about me, because even having this conversation with you, you know, I don't know what it's like in a... It's cognitive dissonance. It's like conflict. Yeah, conflict. It's conflict. It's like, you know, do I really want that burger? Your beliefs and your actions are conflicting. Even here, I started to have, like, alternatively, like, community burgers. Yeah. Stuff like that, you know? The vegan burger. Then we've got the dairy industry with the view and the, you know, it's horrific. So, like, vegan is the way to go. But we have a vegan store and I have... You do? We have a vegan store, completely animal-free, completely 100% vegan. Really? I tend to have that a lot. Oh, really? Yeah. Whereabouts is it? I'll let you in, but don't go around training people that, because it's like... Oh, is he filming? Sneaky devil. Is it from over there? Yeah. Oh, okay. It's a bit... Look, it's a food trailer. Okay. Can I film with this? Just the food? No, because of... Simply because of what you're promoting. We have a lot of... We have... Yeah, because if... I understand. It's a conflict of interest. We have... Most of the traders have a vegetarian option. Yeah. Okay. I understand. No, you don't know. It's gonna be kind of like in conflict.  We don't have to put it out there. It's fine. I've given you quite a long interview. Yeah. And I don't mind, you know... I completely understand it's your workplace. Yeah. But you know what? One of the best conversations I've had for a while, mate. Thank you. Really. I hope one day it took me 26 years in my life. Yeah. And now I just... I'm gonna... I will. I can guarantee you this. I'm actually gonna watch this. Yeah. I am. It's not morbid curiosity. Don't get me wrong. It's curiosity. You want to face the truth of what you're contributing to? Yeah. I do a lot of activism like this and just having conversations with people. And yeah, there's a whole community online. It's a big... You know, once you open up Pandora's box, there's a lot to look into, so... Can I be a little bit of tongue-in-cheek? Yeah. I do like a good burger. That's a joke. Get a vegan one. Do you think we need to eat meat? No. I'm gonna tell you, I've been exposed to these things quite a few times. Yeah. And the last two statements I said were not true. Wow. You were testing me.  Bye.


We support the 2-1-2-1 infantry battalion. Whenever they go out on missions, if they have a vehicle go down for any reason, we try and repair the vehicle on the spot. And if not, we use these records behind me to bring the vehicle to our area and we try to fix it then. Out here, we also do maintenance where they bring vehicles to us. We're setting up a maintenance facility right now. And whenever we get finished with that, they're gonna rotate through. We will PMCS the vehicles, which means we do preventive maintenance to make sure there's nothing wrong with them. And if there is, we'll fix the vehicles on the spot then or we'll schedule it for a later repair. This being my first overseas deployment training for my career, it's given me an opportunity to see new things, meet new people, and encounter different experience that, other than what I'm doing would never be able to do inside my life. What's coming over here overseas is put us in a terrific position to be able to strengthen and build our alliances with our four nations and four militaries. And I'm glad to be over here and build that relationship with those people. And it's an honor for them to allow me to be here.


Two new cases of zebra mussels were recently confirmed in the Brainerd Lakes area. Clayton Castle takes a closer look. They're back. If there's one invasive species that's synonymous with Summeroth Lake, it's the zebra mussels. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has confirmed two cases of zebra mussels in Crow Wing County, including Lake Edward, and the mine pits in Kuyuna Country State Recreational Area. So zebra mussels are a mollusk. They're a bivalve, which means they're basically two shells connected by a mussel and they're filter feeders. Zebra mussels can be dangerous for both people and boats alike. And then if people aren't careful, you know, they can cut themselves with the shell on the shell. And also, you know, a boat that is moored or left in water for a time period, particularly a few days or more, we will see mussels start to attach to the bottom of a boat or even make their way into some of the engine parts. Now, one thing that does concern the DNR is the spread of the zebra mussels, especially at the lakes here in Crosby, primarily because a lot of the lakes are connected. The lake in Crosby is Monoman mine pit one and two, and it's also connected to the Pennington Mine, which has the major state public access point.  However, for some zebra mussels aren't stopping them from hitting the water. They're beautiful lakes. They're deep lakes. They're still clear. You can still enjoy them. And the zebra mussels haven't seemed to affect any of the fishing or anything like that. So it's been really good either way. Now, while there are two confirmed cases of zebra mussels in Crowing County, the DNR says they only find zebra mussels in a very small percentage of Minnesota's 10,000 lakes. Reporting in Crosby, Clayton Castle, Lakeland News. Overall, now there are almost 50 confirmed cases in bodies of water in Crowing County of zebra mussels. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Oh, yeah, big yellow all right guys look at the bend on that pole didn't even get time to set the camera But I got one topside nice yellow perch Look at the size of that one.  Man, it's hard to throw that one back I'm not set up to eat them, but He's over 12 inches Nice nice yellow. Let's get him back catch another one. We got a school there. That was fun What is up guys Joe Holland here? I am here with my good buddy CJ. We are on super super early ice We're trying to get set up and I did the one thing that I did the one thing It's really hard to do when you're trying to get set up as I dropped a line in So that kind of stopped the whole setup process. So I gotta force myself to stop And get set up get a camera set up for you guys at home CJ's hooked up. Oh, yeah, I got a few on the crappier gonna come in higher, but I could be wrong. I Might have to hit those holes behind you Are you serious look at the size of that I think there he goes, I think it's pumping seas But I could be wrong. Yeah, pumpkin seeds. That's a nice one. That's big for out there, right? For pumpkin seed. That's a good one. Yeah, they get stave in like 10 11 inch Yes Say, but that's a good size one be a good eater if we're if you were eating them Adam Feels pretty good. I think it's a big yellow again. Oh crappy nice one Yeah, there was a whole school of them All right got that one on the Mickey jig Tip with a little crawler top of the No, they were pretty low Yeah, they just scooted out on me, but there's a nice 12 inch or to start the day Yeah, 12 maybe a little bit bigger than 12 actually get him back good color in here, too Yep, I like that gold Got him. I Just had a school on me. I had a really nice fish. I think it was a giant yellow Oh, yeah, there's a nice yellow there. I need a bigger one on the camera. I mean on the beautiful These are gorgeous yellow perch Got that one on a castmaster. It's like one of the greatest lures of all time Real nice yellow there guys. Look at them. It's like one and done Yeah, I don't know letting these yellows go their tattletail and on us or what? Oh, they're flying Damn What are these we're gonna find out? Got them. Oh Pretty decent fish, whatever it is Think I got the second one.  That was a good fish See if I can catch the last one coming through Oh got him Got up got the second one Yellow I don't like to have seen that first one Got a nice school of yellows here guys Get back down. Oh, I still got some here about to get another one Got him Little guy. Oh, yeah, look at that one Awesome and the school's gone Man they come in in a hurry They leave in a hurry. All right, nice yellow nice yellow perch Let's race them down. Go ahead on that one. This one's pretty decent Good fighter here. Oh, yeah, big yellow. Wow. You got that pretty deep Nice yellow perch there Anytime you could lip them. That's pretty good pretty good size perch Good yellow perch there guys Get him back Yeah, I'm gonna come back that way. I lost everything here. That was weird I don't think these fishers get it. I think they're just moving Nice I got a school of yellows just moved in on me. Ah, maybe. Yeah, I swear you can't let these guys go I think I got a nice yellow Yep, nice yellow Here they come Yeah, nice yellow there. That's a big yellow Wow That's a good size yellow And they're gone got them Double got a double. I Want to hold this one up for a picture, but I got a double. Oh Look at that. Two nice ones. I got two for a picture at least There's another one down there, but I don't want to I don't want to drop Yeah All right, couple good ones there guys CJ and I are out here smashing big yellows got these both on a castmaster with no meat on them and You know, they're both in the 13 and a half 14 inch range We're gonna throw those back and see if we can get a couple more. It's hard to If we were eating these we'd probably catch more because as you let them go they just they go away They take the school with them But this school's kind of stuck around a little bit for me But yeah, there was I think it was a big bass. It might have been crappy. It was off the bottom Kind of came in and scared everybody They're moving like crazy. Yeah, they're covering a lot of water. Yeah And it's not that we're spooking them. I think they're just moving Because like even when you don't catch one you do you just go Yeah, I have nothing then I'll have four or five go through and then nothing again but releasing them is definitely hurting us because When you drop one down and he shoots the whole school goes with them. They're like in this crazy competition. I don't know if they're L-wives or probably not l-wives, but there's shiners in here. Maybe they're chasing shiners Like baby shiners or something I had a wicked school at 75 feet when I got over there and drilled they were everything's gone And I couldn't even see them when I got there It was a big school of fish. Well, maybe it was just waiting them sneak back out when the holes are in there.  They're so like aggressive fight hard. Oh, and they fight each other to get to your bait That feels pretty good. I don't know what I'm into here It's either a decent yellow or a bass Oh, it's a nice yellow. Holy cow Nice yellow Drag's probably a bass. I got a wicked school of yellows now I got the best school I've seen yet. Oh, it's another jumbo. Dude. I got the I got the school I have 40 fish on me. Maybe 50. Oh nice one I might have 60 fish on me now. This is this is that school. I've been looking at I put one back Let's see what happens. Oh lost them. There's one left And then there was one Just like that they're gone All right guys still wailing on these great big yellows This is just a smash vest on the yellow perch Putting that uh that copper castmaster down there probably looks like a baby yellow perch and These guys are just mowing Good size ones right there This school of yellow perch. I've never seen a school Never like stop Like they do not stop for an instant. They just come through at 100 miles an hour And they either eat or they just keep going They don't stop and look or anything It's either game on or game over They're not easy to catch. I mean this is We're gonna have our game on We're gonna be on our we're gonna be in good shape here if we can Topside a couple more of these But I mean we put some big yellows on the ice today. Yeah back on the yellows We'll try to two at a time All right, that feels a little better Yeah, that's a jumbo Oh, he choked it. Yeah, I got one more lure Might as well drop that one down He's there. There he is. Oh lost him. All right. I'm tripled up All three of my lures got one on it. Nice All right That one ate the mickey jig that one ate the castmaster Oh, this feels pretty decent. This this must be a bass If it's not a bass, it's a really good yellow Maybe it's a yellow. Oh, it's a really good yellow Really good yellow. They're liking that castmaster the best Big yellow there guys I think they'd call that one a jumbo Another nice yellow there another jumbo good one here Solo so oh it's a bass It's a bass Little largemouth All right, time to move Feel some of those Use of that's nice yellow He's got a tug to him Now he's not as big as I thought He thought he was though Got one He was like a yellow. Oh, yeah Nice yellow perch Good little yellow there That was a struggle When one of them in line goes bad it goes bad Yep, nice perch That is a bright light I am truck camping Here in the wilderness of western Maine And also doing some serious pan fishing I got out for a couple hours today with my good buddy CJ CJ runs and owns burnt meadow guide service Awesome guy Really good fisherman loves ice fishing as much as I do So we got out for a couple hours today Couldn't quite get to where we wanted to get due to Really rough road conditions And the weather But we were able to get on some mega yellow perch Hammered a bunch of jumbos, had a great time Caught a couple crappy Now I am getting set up for the night But I'll show you my setup All right, here's the truck It is a Yukon There she is right there I built a little platform right here Down here for my bed To lay flat on And then what I have here is a Full size memory foam mattress Got my pillow sleeping bag And I have a lot of gear in here Now this isn't ideal for Normal camping situations But Whereas I'm ice fishing And I don't often truck camp Normally I'm camping right on the ice But we don't really have good ice And I didn't have a lot of room to bring a bunch of gear So I said well I'll just do it out of the truck So as you can see I have a lot of ice fishing gear A lot of videoing gear And pretty well jammed in there Like a siding cam It's going to be just enough room for me to sleep in there So that's what the setup looks like Yeah And I'm going to eat some dinner right now I stopped at the Hannaford brothers And picked up some ham and turkey and cheese And some bread I'm going to make a nice sandwich And eat that Probably do some reading My buddy of mine wrote a book And I got a chance to do like a first edit on it So I'm pretty excited about that And get into that book to do some reading tonight And I'm meeting up with CJ in the morning We're going to try to hammer some crappy tomorrow All right got my GoPro batteries charging That's always like first thing to do So we got a bunch of batteries charging So they're ready to go for tomorrow Running some heat in the truck here So stuff kind of thaws out My boots are pretty well frozen And got my knees a little bit wet today Out on the ice somehow Truck camping super easy and comfortable to me When I fished the FLW Pro Tour I probably spent 200 nights In my truck Sleeping in my truck Over 200 nights a year On the road and homeless one year So that was that was interesting And just slept in my truck So I'm super comfortable in my truck The bad the key is having like a nice comfortable bed And that's why I ripped all the seats out Built that little platform Under the foot well in front of one of the seats Throw the old memory foam in there And she sleeps pretty good Staying warm too So the nice thing is if it gets too cold You could always start your truck and heat it up I just have that nice thick sleeping bag And I never run into that problem At night I slept 10 below zero The worst nights are when it's too hot Like I remember one night I slept and I think it was on the Chesapeake Bay I had a FLW Tournament once And it was like 98 degrees out It was just so hot And you couldn't even leave the windows open Because the mosquitoes would just chew you alive So that was probably the worst And I'd rather have like cold super cold nights And have the hot ones Because the hot ones are really hard to Get comfortable and get some sleep Whereas the cold ones you just kind of snug up And in the sleeping bag and get some sleep that way So let's make some dinner for tonight Sounds like a plan I didn't bring any cook stove This like I said this this trip Let's talk about like roughing it This one's kind of roughing it But not really because I'm not sleeping in my tote sled Or anything like that I'm actually just here sleeping in my truck Like I've done a thousand times But when you're passionate about something You don't really care about the little things That might be a problem to some people Like oh you gotta sleep in your truck Or it's cold out Or maybe your clothes aren't dry Because it's snowy or wintry conditions Or you just don't have the comforts And when you're passionate about something And you really want to do something The first thing you forget about are those comforts Like they don't matter You know you just do it And you don't even think about that stuff And there's nothing to complain about Because you're doing exactly what you want to do So that's what I'm doing here I've only had one day on the ice in Maine So far this year Because the ice has just been so sketchy So now that I have an opportunity to get on some ice That's a little bit safer And just to get out on the ice I don't even care what I'm fishing for And I just love ice fishing I love it so much That normal at home comforts Don't matter to me at all All that matters is that I'm out here doing this And if I gotta sleep in my truck And I drive three hours And eat cold sandwiches And maybe drink cold coffee in the morning Who cares? It doesn't even matter to me It's the stuff that It's a really small price to pay To do something that I'm passionate about I love to do And I love to share with you guys And bring you guys some fresh content Some new videos Alright Dinner tonight It's gonna be turkey and cheese Looks like turkey in Swiss That was what was on special at the Hannahford brothers And we're gonna put it on some rye bread And we'll probably eat the same thing for lunch tomorrow So while I have it out And I'm making them I might as well make two Make myself some lunch for tomorrow We might even have it for breakfast too So maybe I'll make three I think it is what I have for breakfast I should have bought some dumpsters But more than likely There's a half a pack of dumpsters somewhere in the truck Alright, so we're gonna make three sandwiches One for tonight One for breakfast And one for lunch tomorrow And then tomorrow's dinner We're gonna do something a little bit different Yeah, it's interesting when Talking about stuff that you're passionate about Where you love doing I don't know if you guys ever noticed But like It's amazing how little you eat When you're doing something That you just love to do Unless you love to eat But like if you're working on a project Or you immerse yourself into Some task or project And some days I just work so hard on stuff like that You actually forget to eat And it goes along the same lines of What I was saying earlier about Giving up and not even worrying about those Creature comforts that you're used to When you're doing something that you love to do So that's kind of the goal Is to get into those situations where Where you're doing stuff that you love to do so much That it doesn't even matter Like the small things won't bother you And it doesn't even matter Lunch tomorrow Breakfast tomorrow And this isn't This isn't how I like to do all my ice fishing trips As you guys If you've watched the channel as you could tell You know, I usually like some Some other ways to do it But I'm just so fired up to get out there fishing After going to Minnesota And being able to fish for a little while And then coming back to Maine And just having crazy, unseasonably warm temperatures And then thaw and have ice for like a half a day Where I went out and it was pretty dangerous But now that I can get on some pretty good ice And fish with a buddy of mine Like I'm so jacked up that None of the comforts matter I'm just so excited to do this And yeah And I'm just really happy Super happy to be here And grateful that I'm able to do this So it's a dinner tonight right there So this is a beta copy of a book called I Am Penobscot It's the life of a Maine pioneer David Stone Libby Who I've heard of He's, I think I read I've read a handful of different things about him But Tommy Carbon wrote this book And this is a beta copy So I'm supposed to mark it up If I see anything Or find any misspellings Or do like a kind of rough edit on it And then get it back to him with a list Of things that I think about the book Or find interesting Or basically to help him before he goes To flat out publish on this thing So I'm really excited to read this book I love the Penobscot Riverman and Maine logging history And so does Tommy This is really exciting for me All right Bunch of reading done Did a decent amount of editing I was proud that I was able to help out some with this book so far And I'm about to crawl in bed And call her tonight Got a little bit of room back here Not a lot Usually I have more room If I was going to ice camp out of If I was going to ice fishing Truck camp out of this vehicle More I'd definitely build something for the roof And if I need a little bit more room I could always take some of this ice fishing stuff And just leave it outside Or tuck it underneath the truck If I'm worried about it raining or snowing tonight But there's definitely enough room here


Hello and welcome to the session the given question says, the resultant of two forces p and q acting at an angle theta is equal to 2m plus 1 into root over p square plus q square and when they act at an angle pi by 2 minus theta the resultant is equal to 2m minus 1 into root over p square plus q square show that tan theta is equal to m minus 1 divided by n plus 1. Let's start with the solution now if the forces p q in angle theta then we are given that the resultant is 2m plus 1 into root over p square plus q square which implies that 2m plus 1 into root over p square plus q square is equal to root over p square plus q square plus 2 times of pq into cos theta. Since we know that if r is the magnitude of the resultant of two forces p and q acting as an angle alpha then r is equal to root over p square plus q square plus 2 pq cos theta. Here we have again two same forces p and q so we have root over p square plus q square plus 2 pq into cos theta as the resultant and we are given the resultant equal to 2m plus 1 into root over p square plus q square hence we have this equation. Now on squaring both the sides on the left hand side we have 2m plus 1 whole square into p square plus q square is equal to p square plus q square plus 2 times of pq cos theta which implies that 2m plus 1 whole square into p square plus q square minus p square plus q square taking both these terms on the left hand side on the right hand side we are left with 2pq cos theta which implies that 2m plus 1 square minus 1 into p square plus q square which is equal to 2pq cos theta or we have here applying the formula of a square minus b square which is a plus b a minus b we have 2m plus 1 minus 1 into 2m plus 1 plus 1 into p square plus q square is equal to 2pq cos theta or we have 2m into 2m plus 1 sorry 2m plus 2 into p square plus q square is equal to 2pq cos theta now dividing both the sides by 2 we have m 2 times of m into m plus 1 into p square plus q square is equal to p into q into cos theta here we have divided both the sides by 2 let this be equation number one now we are also given that f and q at an angle pi by 2 minus theta then the resultant is minus 1 into root over p square plus q square so we have minus 1 into root over p square plus q square is equal to root over p square plus q square plus 2pq into cos of pi by 2 minus theta and cos pi by 2 minus theta sine theta so next step can be written as 2m minus 1 into root over p square plus q square is equal to p square plus q square plus 2pq sine theta under the root or on a squaring both the sides we have 2m minus 1 whole square into p square plus q square is equal to p square plus q square plus 2pq sine theta this on a square in both the sides now taking p square plus q square on the left-hand side we have 2m minus 1 whole square into p square plus q square minus of p square plus q square is equal to 2pq sine theta of the further half taking p square plus q square common we have 2m minus 1 whole square minus 1 into p square plus q square and this is equal to 2pq sine theta now here find the identity a square minus p square since one can be written as one square as you can further written as 2m minus 1 minus 1 into 2m minus 1 plus 1 into p square plus q square is equal to 2pq sine theta or we have 2m minus 2 into 2m into p square plus q square is equal to 2pq sine theta or we have dividing both sides by 2 2m into m minus 1 into p square plus q square is equal to pq sine theta that was the equation number 2 now dividing equation number 2 by 1 the right-hand side of equation number 2 is pq sine theta and the right-hand side of equation 1 is pq cos theta so here we have pq cos theta similarly writing the left-hand side of equation number 2 we have 2m into m minus 1 into p square plus q square and the left-hand side of equation number 1 is 2m into m plus 1 into p square plus q square and on simplifying on the left-hand side we have sine theta divided by cos theta is equal to m minus 1 divided by m plus 1 which further implies that tan theta is equal to m minus 1 divided by m plus 1 this is what we are required to prove that tan theta is equal to m minus 1 divided by m plus 1 so this completes the session bye and take care


Working on it. All right. I'm gonna tell my kids to get off the internet Should I keep the mood lighting yeah, why not keep it interesting Look there's people hi people. How are you? No way there is not people, but I figured I'd just say that anyway just to get us all excited Well, you have to yeah all the radio hosts do it hi That's true, so if we just pretend of this is like a radio show We're cool. So yeah, we'll get the data on how many care later That's so true Borderline funny In the meantime minute yourself. Yeah, so and welcome to the spirits of ABA. I am drinking. What is this? soda water with Cranberry juice because I didn't want to add anything else to it because this is kind of a serious thing But once in a while, we'll make it maybe have a little but not as serious not as serious today today We are not going to be super serious, but in a serious sort of way anyway Mr. Bishop welcome to the spirits of ABA welcome to a live session and we will continue to leave up for folks Um So thanks for welcoming to my own channel exactly you didn't bother to welcome me like where is the social reinforces? No You interrupted you don't get a welcome though. Hmm. Fine. I Don't know what to say. I don't know if I've been punished or if I've been reinforced I didn't I shall I depends on what behavior you were antagonized. That's a motivating operation. I think I Believe so, oh, what did you get to drink? I have a Chinese master broth. Oh Sounds quite wonderful. Which is It's quite wonderful It goes well with a wonderful bourbon although we are dry this time as well because we're trying to be serious But you'd find yourself pretty much put an herb put in the bone broth life is good put an herb put in a bone broth This sounds like all your advice It's like a witch's brew. I think you would be right Wait a minute this goes back to the OBM video winches and winches and winches witches and ooh that could be a series Brew a witch's brew not a winches working on it a witch is who you got the eyes of an SLP See we like our SLP friends In fact, I got the lucky opportunity to get a phone call an emergency video freed from an SLP today Help me with this child. I'm like, I'm not qualified. She's like, I don't care. I just need help So anyway, it was really cool To watch an SLP adopt behavioral principles in an instant and then it was amazing and she was doing SLP work And she was literally I mean it was unbelievable. She was doing this consistent like reinforcement She was so good. Like I was like you have that child. I'm like an FR one and she's like what are you even talking about? I'm like you're doing it right. Just keep going And the kid was responding and like when the kid would ask for a break she would give the kid a break and I'm like You're perfect. Just shorten the amount of work time and life's good. Like we'll go from there, but she was doing great. Um, so It's fun to see naturally where you're just like, ah there it is. Yeah, it was great I didn't even have to prompt it. She's like, I don't know what to do. I'm like you're doing it Just just keep doing your thing So I suppose since we are now three minutes into the beginning of our brand new event We should announce what a brand new event is would you Why don't you start us off with a discussion and it all follow up and we'll chitchat and go back and forth All right. Well, welcome. This is the spirits of ABA. It is where we are trying to take the behavioral perspective Throughout topics in the world if you will so we plan on discussing a multitude of things essentially kind of a you name it big picture large idea sure, but we would like to Apply and or open the floor to those topics which we plan on doing there a few planned Yep, that are coming down the pipe got to get some people organized oak food They're picking up. We'd like some perspective outside of our own um, but yeah, that's kind of the name of the game and For those of you that are watching now and who are watching later. You can see how Brad and I interact We are very light. We're very fun. We'd like to have we have a lot of energy when we talk about this content And we want this sort of thing to be that way So for those of you that have the link and are participating live you can contribute to the conversation We have the chats up. Of course, they shown up on the feed We have the chats in here as well too and we can respond to you and so on so forth And of course we can talk and see those things This is intended to be a piece of the perks that you get for becoming a member of our channel The first one make the second one We're going to leave it open for everybody to generate some interest And tonight is just a hey, hi, how are you? Here's what we're doing some examples of what's going on In fact, you already heard an example of that when you first got on us kind of bouncing back and forth And having fun talking about things like reinforcing each other and socially and all that fun stuff Yes prompts here as some random person has simply said enter your prompts in there in that box If you have access to it if you don't that means you're watching it After it has been recorded and is no longer live So therefore we will only respond if you send a different way of communication because this won't even be there Anyway, side of the point which makes a special type of response prevention and access to reinforcers So, uh, let's see what's up some of the first topics that we talked about one of the things that we've got Go ahead. Sorry You you forgot you had the prompts followed But you forgot reinforcers in the martini glass, please. Oh, yes. Yes. And there's ways to make that happen Like if you if you look down the feed, there's a button you can click on there for contributing to our To our channel So we do take tips it'll fill up as you go if you subscribe and become a member it'll add little pictures in there It's really kind of fun Not really permanent product, but it'll be that way until we hit the empty button It kind of overflows and looks ugly, but That's the way it is Um, let's see. So some topics So we we we bounced around with how we wanted this to look because there's a lot of podcasts From the behavioral world out there and they're amazing, right? You can go everywhere from behavior observations to the behavior bitches It doesn't matter who you're talking about out there. Everybody has a really cool value that they bring to the table So we didn't want to replicate what somebody else was doing But we also want to make it useful. We can't like it's we're not that good No, no We're we're much much a yakov smirnoff's right. No, I'm kidding. Sorry yakov smirnoff You were a great comedian. Is he still alive by the way? I don't think so I feel like he died hasn't performed in a while. Yeah, or at least that I know So anyway, light hearted look at some of this content, but we're gonna also cover some heavy topics We don't want it to be preachy. We want it to be fun We want to we want to give you access to what it's like to think about problems in the world from a behavior analytic perspective And then not only problems just like fun stuff like gaming like one of our topics I want to cover is gaming my kid's a huge gamer. I used to be a decent gamer. I was never good. Um Brad's an amazing gamer like he kills zombies for almost amazing. You do you do for a living? You know that you get paid for killing zombies Oh, I do Well, if you ever set up your if you ever set up your twitch chat account stream and do a lot of stuff Maybe you will I'd rather do this Killings so this is more reinforcing than killing zombies No, that's because I have a first then strip first youtube then zombies. Oh, I see gotcha. All right, so yes So free mac principle Not tonight we're just gonna hang out for like another 12 minutes or 20 or 22 minutes. Uh, but yeah, not tonight man It's not gonna work. Um, so gaming is a topic we want to cover. Um Brad and I both have a deep passion for the for comedy So we're gonna cover we've been long since talked about doing some comedy stuff In fact, we even have started a journal article About a year ago on addressing that so we'll probably follow through with a journal article Maybe some presentations over the next year, but we also wanted to do Comedy like it just not not us doing a bit for you But looking at comedy from a behavioral perspective and using some examples from robin williams and George carlin and and bobernum for some of the more current stuff and Whoever the fluffy dude is the glaciers guy.  I want to look at some of that behaviorally We want to look at a topic that came up. We were in a chat the other day. I'm gonna call these people I was in a chat with uh, uh, dr. Veronica Howard Dr. Maggie Pivone and dr. Rachel Potter, uh, which were all of us and everybody out here is all involved in these open educational resource things Anyway, there was a discussion that popped up and it led us to the concept of evil giants So in giants being these big people in science That historically we're all we've wow their research is so revered, but what if they were just punks? Like what if they just were unethical? pricks Don't get too nasty on youtube here, but How do you deal with that? What do we do that which ties into cancel? We'll just want to talk about some of that from a behavioral perspective That's gonna be fun. That'll be fun. And then we've we've we've we've beat around the concept of gun control and The school shootings we've talked about that before it gets kind of heavy and it gets kind of sad It gets a little political and we want to be political but not too political We're happy to share with you some of our views, but we're not here to try to tell you to vote for Bob or vote for jane or vote for um, whoever elizards lizards I told you we can't talk about the lizard people brad Oh, I feel you had party. Yeah, exactly because they're funding the whole thing And I hope the rats don't get mad Rats don't ever well, you know, they bite but you have to let them bite their teeth just keep growing unless you let them Unless they bite their teeth will just keep growing forever. So you get really lonely. So you gotta let them chew on something Why not let them chew on your fingers? Yeah, that's totally it Pretty much um, and we're that's it. That's that's the that's the end of spirits of ava So literally looking at you know spirits of course play on word and some of the history and I've got a long philosophical influence of the ava stuff and I'd love to think about things from this perspective and brad likes to correct me because I'm usually wrong He's like, no, it's this I'm like, oh you wait So and we like to have fun for those of you that haven't seen any of our more I don't know. What do you call those the specials? I keep looking over here at you, but you're actually here too. Like I gotta move you Yeah, I gotta look at the camera getting getting used to this This multi device thing going on here. This live feed thing. Hey, at least it's working. We have live feed thing. Wait a minute Yeah, we had seven Yeah, that's okay. We're down to three. You don't really care. It's all good because we're gonna play this back everybody Um, let's see. I was gonna talk about Oh the shaping involved in just doing this Like I don't know if the viewers appreciate the shaping that you and I have gone through since the beginning of our channel beginning of our channel What's really funny is anyone that actually witnesses the entire shaping procedure usually ends up with the bcda by the time they watch some videos And we have plenty of comments that indicate that's the funny thing like people will actually tell us that We're like, I am so sorry Like we we thought we would record our learning and present it to the public All errors and cracks cancer is included. Just the whole thing Truman show your study just straight up Go for it. Why not? And that's kind of what we did. I mean, that's kind of the background of How did we get involved in sending this stuff across the interwebs to everybody and There's the the dei piece the diversity equity inclusion access to open to content, right? Yeah, so that's a huge piece for both of us um I came from an open source software world doing some work internationally and we ran into using oer's and the value of it was So so impactful in my in my head and in my world that when brad had that core idea of Doing what we do Was like open perspective. Let's do it and we figured out how to pull it off and it's been great We've been having a lot of fun with it Then what were we talking about? Oh you correcting me in the shape going it shaping. That's what we're talking about Like what of like what are some of the shaping things you've seen for us back up to the actual topic? Yeah, shaping. Oh, what have I seen? Yeah, what do we do with video quality?  Thank you very much appreciate it Oh, no, it fell out. We lost it it bounced up. No, it's fine. It's all good Those were those were big ones too. Somebody donated some serious money. Whoever that was. Thank you very much Absolutely very much tipped a few saline. Oh, is that salina from california? No way That's like salina the one that she used to call into it. She did some cram sessions with us, I think Or she just she went. Oh, no, wait a minute. It was not cram sessions. She was doing the she was part of the um dissemination for behavior analysis thing, right Salina from chicago, that's right. So she was the she was the dba person Salina from chicago. There is that's how we know everybody because we've moved all over the place I now live in virginia brad still brad moved in spokane. He's Wait a minute. We had this discussion. I did move though. However, he is part of colbert Colbert is not colbert It is colbert No, um, yeah So welcome aboard salina glad you're here. He was doing yeah, no, no Especially if you're from me like me Right next to colbert Yeah, um, so yeah, if we go back to shaping Some of the first videos make me think of uh The equivalent of our first ones make me think of when you're teaching a kid to cut pictures out or shapes out And they're just all over the show and there's like three cuts right through the square and it goes off the line And they present it's like it's this wrong circle thing And I did it. Yay And we had this whole thing with like we were learning learning about green screens So we would do weird stuff behind us like random open source picture Or like open access pictures and stuff behind us like hong kong and then we had a river one day It's like man. We were just seeing if we could do video behind us while we were recording We were so excited And our a lot of our audio was like a court like a 16th of a second off or something It was just we were bad Weird echoes or just completely wrong where your lips are just And in the last opm video No, in the last video we shot was we had four cameras up Four different cameras running we had one two three four four five different sources of audio And we had and only one camera lady very overworked and she worked her bacon off. Let me tell you It was great. And then then the editing was insane. It took a team of us to edit all that stuff up and Get it chopped into pieces and make sure it looks right and then the audio It's been a long stretch And then even just just getting these live feeds to go has been a shaping process because just yesterday we couldn't We were we were trying to figure out Why couldn't we get certain audio feeds to go through this channel using this This software that we've got the streamlabs thing to make this thing happen And we couldn't do it Like I just gave up like it would last couple of these things We just we were getting close and we got to work once and then we didn't All right a time I just gave up so we gave up and then Yesterday I just had this one weird idea and changed a different thing and it worked Now we're here. So and now we're here shaping And people are donating cash to us. So thank you selena. We appreciate that and selena's been around for what we worked We did a thing with them with the dissemination for hip analysis special interest group for a bai We worked with them a couple of times. We would work them in a heartbeat Both brad and I were part of the open educational resource sick At a far a bai As well and we're all kind of help co-found that thing as a team So yeah, we're all involved and as much as we can be giving our lives I think we want to say yes to everything Definitely is an issue which sounds good. That's great. Awesome. I'll do that. We'll do that and with what totally Who needs time when you have tasks, right exactly so Yes, so you get the idea what we're going to be doing here a little bit with spirits of aba It will be a little more focused in the future again. The first one we got coming up is probably going to be comedy I think that's when we're going to land on Just so you can get some more brad and I and a take of how we're going to pull this off If you are a member and you're a member part of the channel membership Then of course you get these things for free and well not for free But just party membership and of course you get the cram sessions as well And then but we will make all these things available for for viewing down the road So after after we get done processing and make sure that everybody that was on board is approved with the video We'll send it up to the channel server, but you can see it and turn it into an open access resource or open educational resource but until then it is going to kind of Be a little bit hidden behind the scenes. So if you want to participate join in with the membership What's Lena say and Uh, you hope there was some grants because you're awesome. Oh, yeah, that's right. I forgot about that So that we used to mean that's right. That was I remember those mornings So not in a bad way at all Selena. It was great. Um, I don't want to get too much into the detail But yeah, I've got a bit of a history in grant writing and working on grants And happy to share my information when I can if it's useful to anybody usually not But some people like Like Selena finds it useful. Yay All right, so what are we doing? What else are we doing? What else is your goals with this Brad? I mean I've got my own biases. Well, I think just because we're on the topic of membership to Remind the people that signed up for a formal membership that we're doing cram sessions as well Which is our bcba study prep where we're going to have topics. We're going to dive in week Very focused on terminology and whatnot, but You can't do that all the time because that's boring. So this one's supposed to be more about philosophical perspectives on things Yeah, and then I had another train of thought but the trains did not connect the station and now I'm left in the cold Yeah, um, I think one of our famous cognitive psychologists may say that you are stuck at the choice point of the maze, sir So whenever it was the recently posted that on Instagram I about died because they're talking about choice points And I just kind of went back to Tolman and whole and had a minor meltdown for the moment So but that's okay I recovered because I looked at the second slide and it was completely redeeming And for those of you that know who you are I'm just winking at you because it was quite humorous. I enjoyed it. It was good Not in a bad way. I believe I'm more familiar with the consequence point Which is usually the timeout room into the corner much like a point, but with my Anyway Interesting aspect there, sir Yeah, well, you know Got to talk about what you're familiar with. Oh, wow. Yeah, I'm familiar with this room Um Record a ton of videos in here teach from here. What's up? I was gonna say you've only been in there been there for three months Six months. We moved here in july so brad and I literally We we borderline divorced ourselves and moved across I moved across the country and brad stayed in spokane area My wife and family and I picked up and made had it off to virginia Um where I got an opportunity to be a full-time professor at haring Baldwin university in the aba program So, uh, so I got lucky got a cool job offer and they were super supportive of site core And ironically the time difference makes it easier for brad and had he get work done So we've been extremely productive once I moved away, which is a weird form of escape ring for base You know, I think I could accomplish a lot more if you would just get away from me Oh, yeah, and I did So, so is this a thing of like the more times this is a magnitude thing the farther I go the more we get done To a point I think it depends on the signal and how long You start getting into that three or four days to get a signal. It's gonna get pretty rough So by the time I get to the moon it's gonna slow stuff down is what you're telling me Yeah, yes, okay little far engagement is lacking Um The inter-response time is getting a bit much The interstellar intervals are way big and it just gets weird you get all this adjunctive behavior and You just can't function and now my reinforcers are all over the place and yeah, and what's the point?  This is just his black background I think we need like a superstitious pigeon and things like that. I got some I don't know you're in charge of said Whatever you I just do what you tell me to put on the screen. I'm just I'm trying to technology I didn't know we could change the background Do we do whatever we want? I like multiple feeds. I could get pictures of people We could put pictures or whatever back there. We just got since we're gonna release this This is no we are we got to make sure that whatever we do is Open access, you know, it's open. Oh, no. Yeah, that's that's nobody we're gonna do that. Hello green soul green soul Like that's that's all right. That's Green soul I get that I get like heavy marijuana vibes with some cool music That's that's like what I get like in a dark the dark room Like kind of like brad's room like right now. Look at that the lighting perfect Add a bunch of pot to that and some good tunes and that's that's green soul Okay, I don't know If we're talking about stimulus right there's a stimulus and look at the response that came about in generalization and And it came out the mouth and now it's out in the wide world and And because we're talking about opera behavior There's a limit to this right? There's an edge that's gonna stop somebody's gonna put an edge to that generalization gradient and sir that would be you right now because Everyone else I can't hear Not really don't yeah, that's fine. You don't have to like it's all good Yeah This is right. He just likes the shape of the leaf He likes to talk about it, but he doesn't really care. Yeah back in the day It was a thing for yeah, it's just not functional in my world anymore For various reasons right and just to just kill the value. I lost the value on it It's like it almost like a bit sweet to it. So anyway, there you go Good times But the Yeah, I'm trying to go over what we're talking about. Oh the ABA Yeah, just a general chit chat. Again, we're gonna be a little more focused in the future This is just kind of introducing you to what we're gonna do. So gaming's coming up. We got shoulders They're not shoulders of giants. We got evil giants Um, and then we've got the humor stuff coming up. Um, there's all sorts of different things I would really love to go back over and look at the um, the fun theory um, I don't know if anybody's had a chance to review the fun theory, but um Fun theory is fun theory. It was a thing. I believe it was done by Volkswagen. It's on youtube. It's old now Like it's really old. Um, but basically they ironically they took the idea of reinforcing people for various tasks in other instead of punishing them and they created opportunities for people to earn reinforcers for doing things like taking the stairs instead of the escalator Or recycling this instead of that or one the one the contest was a speed following the speed limit trap So every time you were caught on camera following the speed limit You went into a lottery and then every month that's lottery would right and it would pay out So you never knew if you were going to be the one that got caught. I had this variable schedule with it It was brilliant and it was just like completely fit. Um, some of the other stuff casinos, you know fun The casinos are an obvious one. Um, we obviously want to talk about relationship issues We want to get into some where do you think about the ABA in the context of your relationship? How about with children? How about with your animals? Like do you do ABA with a cat? Like if you do, that's all good Like you might be a little weird, but I do it It it totally works totally works Recently trained my cats to uh Go to the garage under the stimulus.  I think that's awesome. Yes. Yes, I did Wow and click why not? Yeah, like that's that's the other thing we need to get the clickers for each other So we can reinforce each other while we're doing this time Oh Uh, yeah, selena tickle you can like you can find out it's it's old, but it's it's worth reading Um, we're so what were some of the other things that were popping up the other day when we were talking about this stuff There there was one, uh, I'd like to connect on that beforehand and see where that connects with I know a gentleman using the power of fun Which is essentially kind of creating the environment Enriching the environment with reinforcers is how I would break it down behavior analytically, but uh, actually got to study with that guy for Fitnessor david raymond. Oh, wow. Um, it would be interesting to see if that's just a generalization of that theory Um, yeah, I mean that that could be a fun fun theory is not really a theory. It was just an advertising campaign as in all capital letters and Yeah, it was somebody not it was it was an average it was a Volkswagen doing something cute Um, yeah, which Volkswagen is known to do overseas.  Oh, perfect Yeah, uh, all the other things we could think of I'd try to talk about all the Geopolitics mental health that yeah mental. Yeah politics would be good So we'll talk about act a little bit. Uh, geopolitics was fun Looking at looking at the different cultural levels of selection because when you start to think about Some of the politics that we all experience we can have a discussion about division within the organ within Division within political viewpoints and different sides, right without saying the one side's right or one side's wrong You can push this whole like who wins when everybody's fighting like everybody's Everybody's behaviors are reinforced in some way shape or form, right? So What does that look like from a politician's perspective? What are their behaviors that are getting reinforced? How about the news media? How about The news conglomerates of people that own the news these big people to do that. What what is what what's the motivations in their world? How about Jeff Bezos? What what might be his media motivations? We can look at all that stuff. So and we've got a long list of things. 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Today's video is a recent interview that I did on the Brent Gove podcast and I was asked questions about the current market, how I'm handling it, how agents should handle this current market and the market shift, or we also dive into some strategies and some different things like that. So this is not like a long interview. I think this one is maybe like 20 minutes or so. But I think it's pretty powerful. And you may listen to this interview and you may think, you know, okay, Ricky, I've heard you talk about how great the market is and I've heard you talk about email marketing and, you know, okay, I've heard all this over and over and over again from you.  And this might be that video you never know. Every single day that I wake up, I feel like I'm a new person. I honestly do. I'm gradually changing.  And that different Ricky is every day trying to get better, right? I'm just trying to get 1% better every day in terms of my skill level, in terms of, you know, my knowledge of the market and looking at trends and understanding human behavior, how to communicate better, you know, just how to be better on all fronts. So although you may say, well, this is the same information, Ricky, but I say it differently. And today might be the video where you actually finally get what I'm saying and it clicks and it's like, boom, I get it. And now my business is changed forever. And that's kind of the point. But anyway, I digress. Enjoy the interview and shoot me a comment. Hit the like button, all that good stuff. And let me know if you have any questions whatsoever. Here we go. The bottom line is, is email has a 90% organic reach and it's really cheap per organic reach. And that's what excites me about it. You value the numbers for the business and how it works and just the pure math of it. Just check in with yourself. Do you know your numbers? And if you don't know your numbers and get with somebody that could help you with the numbers so you can do the proper planning and you know what your daily activities need to look like. You can literally do the whole look up the numbers and call them in like an hour and a half. And that activity that you can now do within an hour and a half took me from nine o'clock in the morning to like nine or 10 o'clock at night every day. Dude, do you realize how much money I'm making off of, you know, my brokerage?  I had to make a really nice check every month. Like, do you realize how much money I'm making here? Hi, this is Eric Laugham. I want to welcome all of you to the Brent Gove podcast. And we have another tremendous guest today. We have Ricky Kruth with us today. He has over 20 years of real estate experience, one of the top real estate agents in the world. I'm so blessed, Ricky, that you were able to join us today and share your wisdom with us on the Brent Gove podcast. Welcome to the show. Good to be here, man. Thanks for having me. Awesome. Well, it was great to have you here in Placer County recently when you came out and spoke to Brent's audience. And I've been following you for many years as so many people have. And the first thing I wanted to ask you about, we're in a different market than what we were with COVID. And I wanted to get your insights for, if I'm an agent, what, how should I be responding to this market or any insights you have about this market from your view? Well, there's a lot to unpack. I mean, you know, the, it's just, it's just the cycles, right? This is, we're in this 10-year cycle. You know, we're in the down, the down part of the 10-year cycle. The difference, there's a big difference in 2008. You know, we're going to have about the same amount of transactions as 2008, right? But the difference is massive because there were actually 4 million active listings back then. So it was, it was just a sheer lack of demand back then. I mean, if the demand was there, the listings were there for people to go by. It was just a sheer lack of demand during that time where it's very opposite now. You know, it's like, if we had 4,000 listings, we would have a lot more than 4.2 million transactions this year. It's like the lack of inventory is a big reason of the lack of transactions. And it was just completely opposite situation. There's a lot of demand being suppressed by the interest rates, of course. And there's a lot to be said about the forecast of interest rates and where everything's headed, you know, as far as that's concerned. But at the end of the day, this is just a normal, you know, this happened in 2008. This happened back in the early 2000s with the .com crash. And now we're sitting here on this, you know, post-pandemic stimulated, you know, inflation that caused interest rates to come up, which affected mortgage rates. So, I mean, you should be looking at this like this is just the greatest opportunity ever, because back in 2008, that was when I really made my, I expanded my footprint so much during that time. And this is just the perfect moment to really expand your market share in terms of the amount of people in the market that know who you are, right? That's market share. And it's just a massive opportunity to do that, because as we all know, it's 110% chance that the market's going to rebound with a vengeance, right? It's going to be, you know, it took it from, you know, 2008 to 2012 or 13 to get back to 5 million transactions a year. That's not, it's not going to be the case this time. Now, the one thing that's kind of like puzzling, right? The one question mark, and like you, like, I heard the guy from Black Knight was asked this. I heard Robert Redkin from Compass. I heard Glenn Kellerman from Redfin. Like, I've heard so many people get asked on TV, how is, you know, in what scenario is inventory in terms of the amount of active listings going to increase? And they're all just like dumbfounded. It's like the one thing. It's like, where is this, where is the inventory we're going to come from that's going to balance the market out? And really, nobody has the answer for that. You know, when interest rates start to come down, we're going to see sellers who have been on the fence that have just been dying to upgrade who are kind of sitting there low interest rates that just don't want to jump from, you know, four to seven right now.  And but what that creates is a net even because we're adding inventory, but then that person is also a buyer in the market. So it's going to add a listing, but it's also going to take a listing off the market. So that's a new listing. So we're going to see new listings come up, but we're not really going to see the active listings increase, right? Because there again, when interest rates do come down into whatever that magic number is going to be, whether it's six, five and a half, five, whatever it is. And, you know, we're not going to get there for a while. Maybe we get to five and a half next year. Maybe it's 2025, 26. You know, who knows? I'm not trying to forecast it, but we will eventually get there. And when it happens, we have record amounts of 33, 34, 35 year olds, right? So we've got, we've got this like massive group of buyers who don't own homes yet. These are going to be first time home buyers who are going to enter into the market that have been suppressed and and are ready to go buy a home when interest rates hit a certain amount. It's going to be like, boom, they're going to come out of nowhere. And then you're going to have homeowners who are selling to buy. So it's going to add inventory to the market, but we're going to have more buyers. We're going to be an even worse scenario, right? It's going to be even worse than it is now. Like I, I kind of fear that active listings are going to go from 600,000, which is where they are now in the country to 400,000, you know, when interest rates get down to a certain amount. So we'll kind of see how it all plays out. But at the end of the day, this is just a massive opportunity for you to go out while a lot of agents are sitting on the bench and really make your mark, make your name, build your, build your influence in the market. And as the market rebounds, you know, you're going to be the one, right? The more relationships you have, the more friends you've made in the market, the more business you're going to do. It's a real simple stuff. You know what I mean? And now it's just such the prime time to like get in the business. Like if you can get in the business right now, you're getting in at really one of the most depressed moments, you know, in the market in terms of the cycle. And it's like, if you're introduced into this, then you're really going to love it when the market rebounds.  You know, that's just phenomenal. But if you're even just treading water and you're building your database larger, that's a huge win, you know, just a massive win. So look, closings happen every day, forever, no matter what, you can go back through the worst economic times ever and see the closings never stopped. They happen by the truckload. It's like if you went back right now to the 2008 statistics, you know, look at 2007, eight, nine, 10, 11, whatever. And you look at how many closings were happening per day in your market. Okay, not nationally, but take it even a step further and look locally and see how many closings were actually happening in your market. Where prices were, you know, how many listings were hitting the market, so on and so forth. You look back at that and now kind of, and you kind of know kind of how it all played out.  I wish, I wish I would have been in business back then, but while we're in 2008, while we're in 2007, eight, nine, 10, you know, it's like, man, this is tough, right? When we look back at it, we're like, man, that was amazing. And so that's what we're going to look at, you know, five, 10 years out from now, the agents that are complaining about today's market or saying how tough it is or whatever. You're going to look back at this market and say, wow, that was a good, good, good market, right? And so we got to squeeze it for every last drop that we can, because it's not going to last, right? This opportunity is going to come and go. The market's going to re-expand with or without you. You know, you should be gathering as much as you can so that the re-expansion not only expands the market itself, but also your business, right? Awesome. I love that perspective. And I want to talk a little bit about expanding your network. And I know one of my things that I love about what you do is your email strategy. And I love the simplicity of it. In my business, I have a sales training company. I'm not a real estate agent, but I do a lot of email marketing. So I resonate with that. And I have my own email list that I built up through the years. So could you just like lay out the strategy and explain, you know, why it's so effective for you? Well, I mean, you've got to build, you've got to have your business set up where anybody you come in contact with, never going to forget about you. Right? And you've got to have a system set up. It's real simple so that you can scale it. If you can't scale it, if there's no volume behind what you're doing, you're not going to have a massive business. So when you look around of all the different ways to stay in touch with people, right? There's phone calls, there's text messages, there's email, there's social media, there's direct mail. What else we got? Can you think of anything else? Door knocking. Okay, door knocking. Referrals. Just staying in touch with people though, not just Lee, not Lee, Jen, just staying in touch. You've talked to them and now we're just trying to stay in touch, right? So when you look at direct mail, expensive, right? When you look at calling your database every month or whatever, there's no way you're going to do that ever in a million years. Never happened, especially the larger database gets. Social media is about a 5% organic reach, although everyone should be and needs to be doing it. It's not mandatory. I never did social media in my real estate business and I still don't do social media in my real estate business, but I crush it. Why? Because I understand what the business really is. It's one-on-one conversation and staying in touch forever. So when I look at email, I think, wow, that's cheap and it's a 90% organic reach. 90% of the people in the database are going to see that in their inbox. Whether they open it or not is a different story, but they see it. That's an impression and that means something. So when I look at all the different ways to stay in touch with people, text messaging, text messaging is great, but used in the right context. I like text messaging for massive holiday text messages or one-on-one in the deal. Like, hey, they came back at 305. What do you want to do? I'm not opposed at all to texting out your weekly email. But text is still kind of a strange place, right? Because it's still kind of that intimate place where it's more friends and family. You've got businesses coming there, but it's still kind of strange, right? It doesn't have that feel where it's like, is this a robot? Is this a robot or is this a person? To me, when a text message comes from a business, but with an email, it's like, I'll craft an email. The reason why my email wins so much is two reasons. One, it's every week on the same day of the week forever, so they see that consistency. Number two, I've got a branded subject. There's a couple of things. Number two, it's a branded subject. You know, it's the same subject every week where they see that subject and they know it's mine. I use the preheader text to draw them into open the email. And then the body of the email is like, here's a ton of value, but also here's my opinion on it. And that's where people are winning and losing. They're doing generic emails. They're doing just cold hard. Here's the numbers, but they're not saying they're not giving their opinion behind the numbers. People want to know what you think about it. When they hear what you think, then they start to kind of connect with you versus just, oh, a property sold for this much. Well, a property sold for this much. And I actually saw the property and it had this, this and these upgrades. And I think it was actually a pretty good deal. So congrats to the buyers. Like just things, right? That's on your mind about whatever it is you're trying to send out. That's what makes content win, right? Same thing with social. It's like, you see the generic stuff that agents do, the higher company, and they get two likes versus people that actually are trying to use the media platforms to spread media, right? Here's, here's, here's something I want to teach you and here's why, right? And it's kind of like, I think we're in this place in the internet where there's a lot of, this is what you should do, but there's not a whole lot of here's how to do it. It's like, you should buy a house right now. You know, well, no, tell me that I should buy a house and then tell me how to buy the house, right? Us as agents, we don't, we just assume people know some of the real basic stuff that we deal with every day when the general public has no idea about, you know, a lot of the general public has no idea like what the process is to buy a house, what to look for an investment property, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you know, and really trying to break down not just what to do, but how to do it. So I impact a lot there, but the bottom line is, is email has a 90% organic reach and it's really cheap per organic reach. And that's what excites me about it. Yeah. And one thing is to look at the numbers. So if somebody listening right now built up, you know, not a huge email list, but say a thousand person list of people that they know and they built it over time, and they, they did your strategy in the Senate once a week, you know, that's, that's 52,000 marketing impressions at essentially zero cost.  You know, you're probably sending out upwards of a half a million emails at essentially zero cost. And in my sales training company, I do the same thing.  It doesn't cost me anything.  And so if you're listening right now and you do not have an email list, it's so simple. And you just do it once a week. It's not a big time commitment.  It really is a no brainer. If you take a look at the math on this and what that could mean, can you just speak to what it means in terms of actual transactions? I mean, it's one thing to get the marketing out in the organic reach, but what does it mean in terms of like, how many deals you think you get a year from your email list? 1%. So if you got 1000, you're going to get 10 deals, right? 2000, you're going to get 20 deals. And this is with no prospecting, right? This is just organic referrals, past clients, referrals over referrals. So let's just say you want to make a million bucks a year, right?  Okay. That's 13,000. Okay. So your average deal is $13,000 commission, you want to make a million bucks? Okay, that's 77 deals. Okay. So we know we're going to close 1% of our database every year without prospecting. We may have to prospect to build the database, but as the database is built and these emails have been going out, we're going to close about 1% of the database every year without prospecting. So in that scenario, when you get your database up to 7,700 people in your database that have been getting this weekly email every week on the same day of the week forever, you're going to be closing 77 deals a year without prospecting. You'll be making a million bucks a year. So you can kind of work the numbers like that. I'm going to close 1% of my database, you know, every year that I'm using this method. It's a very consistent, very consistent results with all the thousands of agents who have went through the program and implemented the strategy. They all rave about it and they all close 1% of their database. Now, the 1% that's closing, if you've got 1,000, you're like, oh, what do you do with 10 deals? Well, that's from the database. You're still prospecting, remember, and you may close 20 prospecting and then you got your 10-firmary database. So that's 30 for the year and you added another 1,000 that year. So next year, you're going to close 20 from the database and another 20 or 30 from prospecting. So now you close 50 the next year and added another 1,000. Then you're going to get 30 the next year from your database and close another 35 from prospecting. So now you got 65, you added another 1,000 and the list goes on and on and on. So you can kind of see how it plays out. And when you get your database up to the number that you're making the amount of money you want to make, then you're done. For me, it was to make a million bucks. So the average price for me was like 400 when I hit that. So I had to have about 100 deals. And so I had, when I got to 10,000 in my database, which is 2017, that was the first year I made a million bucks. And then I quit prospecting. And guess what? I sold 100 properties every year after and I made a million bucks every year after no cold calls, no social media, no checking on people, no direct mail, no client parties, no open houses, nothing. Just weekly email and get two inquiries, close two deals, two deals a week, two deals a week, two deals a week, close two deals a week since 2014, you know, every single week on average. Some weeks I would close 10, some weeks I would close one, on average I would close two a week every week since 2014 until I got out of production, which was about a year and a half ago. So and I still do the weekly email and my dad handles the day to day and we still knock down deals every week. Yeah, probably listening what I loved about Ricky, what you just shared there, like you know your numbers, you were going through that real quickly. And so you're, like you, you value the numbers for the business and how it works and the, just the pure math of it, you know, spending transactions at this average commission, this size email list produces, you know, 1%. And so as you're listening to this right now, just check in with yourself. Do you know your numbers? And if you don't know your numbers and get with somebody that can help you with the numbers so you can do the proper planning and you know what your daily activities need to look like. So that was real gold there. And one other thing I always encourage all of you listeners to listen to the podcast multiple times. And you know, Ricky, somebody who is, it's not that he read about it in a book or he went to a seminar and learned about he's, he's doing the deal. Like he is the real deal. And so there's some tremendous content that if you listen to what he's sharing, listen to the recording multiple times, share this recording with your organization so they can benefit from this knowledge as well. The last thing that I, and I might have two more questions, but my second, my one next question I want to ask you is about when, back when you were in production and it wasn't just the, like you didn't, you were, when you got to the, the email list to the point where you didn't have to prospect anymore, let's go a little bit for that. You're still prospecting. Like what did a day look like for you? How many hours a day were you working? What time are you getting up? Like what did it actually look like for you? Yeah. So I would hand dial because we didn't have auto dialers, right? So I would hand dial a hundred numbers and I would start calling about nine o'clock and it would take me until about three in the afternoon. There's some people that say they hand dial a hundred numbers in like two, three hours.  Like I've done it so many times. I know for a fact how long it takes to hand dial a hundred numbers. And so I did that for, that was my day was hand dialing a hundred numbers from nine to three from three to five. I would like follow up. I would write 20 handwritten letters every day. And I would kind of do my follow up and everything. And then like around four or five, when I got through with that, I started the process of looking up the hundred numbers I would want to call the next day. So it would take me from five o'clock to about like eight or nine to do that because I had a reverse lookup and copy and paste addresses and names and white pages.com and Spokio and Bigfoot and all these different websites that I had. Now you can just go on RedAx and just boom. Just click a button and have thousands of phone numbers that are actually way higher quality than I had back in the day. And then hit another button and just auto dial them and just cross through a hundred in about an hour and a half. So you can literally take what used to take me all day and night. You can literally do the whole look up the numbers and call them in like an hour and a half. And that activity that you can now do within an hour and a half took me from nine o'clock in the morning to like nine or 10 o'clock at night every day. And now you can compress a ricky day back in the day into just an hour out one to two hours in the morning and then have your whole day to actually crush whatever I was accomplishing back when I was building my business. It's like in today's world with technology you can literally compress time so much. You can leverage so much now with technology. And the funny thing is nobody hardly anybody really uses it. There's only a small percentage of agents who actually take advantage of the tools that are available for us to go out there and compress that time compared to what it used to be. And really, I mean, you could build a ricky career. It took me 15 years to get to a million bucks a year.  So it's interesting, right? So that was my day back then. Okay, so totally different from what it would look like today. Totally different from what you know agents are doing now. You know, now it's like wake up, take advantage of the technology, make your calls all morning, and then work on your marketing all afternoon. I didn't really do any marketing. I did handwritten letters, right? I might have did some postcards here and there. But in today's world, right, you've got social media at your, at your, in the palm of your hand that you can literally for free reach so many people, you know, in your market. So yeah, it's interesting, bro. It's super interesting when you compare like a ricky day back in the day to, you know, what you can do in today's world. Well, Brent and I sure appreciate you coming out to California to speak recently and you've been on Brent's team call before you're here today on the podcast. So thank you from both of us. And is there anything that you'd like to offer our listeners? We have a lot of real estate agents that listen to the show as a next step to connect with you. Listen, yeah, let's see, where can you guys go? Instagram is really kind of my favorite platform. I post there a lot. I not only post like how to for real estate agents, but also just a lot of market information, you know, kind of like a real estate market nerd. I'm always like studying the housing market and trends and stuff like that. But Instagram is a good place. I got YouTube. I got zero to diamond.com where the free coaching program is. And if anybody wants to shoot me a text and ask me a question or connect with me, that's 312-251-312-8844. But yeah, anything I could do to help you guys. I was the first completely free real estate coach for agents out there. Just saw a big need for it. The missions to reduce the failure rate in the industry one agent at a time. And we've accomplished that and we continue to accomplish it, but I'm happy to connect with anybody and do what I can do to help you.