Waching daily Jul 30 2018

Greetings and welcome to an LGR restoration, repair kind of thing.

This is not a very pretty computer.

It never has been, that's never been the point of it, heh.

This is just my go-to Windows 98 capture PC, as I've referred to it over the years, that

I've had ever since I started LGR.

Before that even, in fact I still have my receipt from when I bought it January 30th,

2009 for $10 at a local Goodwill store.

That was back when they still sold cases like these as just sort of bare-bones units, but

they actually had a lot of components in there, even for ten dollars.

The only things I didn't have were hard drive and RAM.

And I used to, when I didn't have a job back then, I just bought up systems like these,

repaired them as cheaply as I could and then resold them for a little bit of profit and

that's what I did to make money in-between jobs in 2009.

And then I started LGR some months after that and still had this computer lying around and

was like, "yeah you know what? This will make a nice little machine."

And the time has come for this to get quite an overhaul.

Not only is it looking kind of ugly--I mean it always has, it's yellowed and dusted and

I've never really cleaned it or done or anything like this.

I know I normally show like pristine-type machines here on my channel.

But you know for the ones that I just use as like, an everyday workhorse that I'm really

never gonna show and don't care too much about like, physically and aesthetically, I just

throw things in here and swap components all the time.

This is what happens, it just get dusty and grimy and there's parts lying around in here

that I don't even know why they're here anymore.

But that is what it is.

And speaking of parts, all of these have been replaced pretty much at some point or another

except for I think the motherboard, the CPU... and I think that's it.

I think everything else has been replaced several times over.

CPU is probably fine but the motherboard is definitely iffy.

The IDE controller stopped working on it years ago.

And I put this other kind of IDE controller board into a PCI slot and that's controlling things.

But that's always giving me issues.

And then the power supply has gone bad a couple times now, this is just some random one that

I stuck in there because I had an extra.

And it was fine for a long time, but now it's doing things like it's just powering on and

off every so often.

So I'm gonna replace a whole bunch of things and really just give it a nice cleaning and

maybe a new finish.

I don't know, I might paint it or something.

When I bought this I thought that I would paint it green, but I just never did.

Maybe I'll go ahead and make that happen, green sort of ended up being the LGR color anyway.

Ahh, still though as much as this needs an overhaul so I can get back to capturing things

reliably, it's going to be kind of sad to see this configuration installation go away.

I mean look at this desktop here, look at all these things that have been played and

captured and turned into LGR episodes.

Yeah all of these icons have been LGR episodes and many, many more things on this computer

over the years.

Some before this current installation of Windows even.

I mean there's just been a ton of work done on various versions of this Windows 98 capture PC.

And that is why I'm going to dedicate the time to putting it back together.

Yeah, I'm not trying to make my "ultimate windows 98 machine" here, that is one thing

I want to point out.

Like, I'm not gonna put the best of the best or anything.

It's really just using most of the components that I have in here already, or at least a

good chunk of them.

But upgrading the ones that need it so that they're reliable.

That's the biggest thing, sometimes this doesn't turn on like I said earlier.

And when it does it's very slow, I think the hard drive is going bad.

It's also very noisy.

Listen to this noise, you've probably heard it in the background of several of my videos.

[loud fans and drive whirring away] It's just way too loud.

I want to go for quietness.

So yeah let's go ahead and start taking it apart, picking out the components that I want

to keep, and what will be swapped out for something better.

So I don't know what I'm going to do with that.

I'll probably just leave it in here.

You know, I've never been super fond of this case anyway, I don't like the design, I don't

like the internal layout.

I think it's kind of ugly.

But yeah, I guess I'm gonna keep it.

I don't know I like--I have another case that I could use.

I just don't want to.

Like I'm sort of attached to this nasty thing now, but this finish has got to go.

Anyway yeah, let's get these internal components out of here.

[clunk, snap, clink]

You know, I think this will actually be the very first time that

this thing has been fully disassembled.

I just sort of tossed it together as I needed over the years and didn't worry about it.

Yeah, I didn't even put screws on the other side most of the time, just on this left hand side.

Yeah, this is a 40 gigabyte drive that I picked up at Goodwill for six bucks or something back then.

In fact, that's probably on the receipt as well.

Yeah this really is sort of an odd Frankenstein mishmash of parts that, hehe.

Yeah I'm normally pretty particular about what I put in or don't put in a computer but

I don't even remember when I put this in there.

What is this, Mitsumi D359T6?

It's just a three and a half inch floppy drive, it's just one that I picked out of a parts

bin that worked and that was fine.

Long as it worked it's all good by me.

Now I have put a couple of different five and a quarter inch drives like this in here.

This one probably went in five years ago.

This is a Toshiba ND-0801GR.

I'll probably replace this at some point because, I don't I mean it's a little beat-up.

It still works, it's just that it doesn't handle 360k disks at all.

What even kind of screws are in there?

Why on earth would I have used Torx head screws with the CD drive?

I don't even know.

Again, I guess it's just one of those things, it's like, "these screws are here it's gonna be fine."

Yeah, I do remember putting this in there though.

This is another one of those cases where I just needed something that works.

Something had happened and there were three optical drives that just died in the span

of like a year and like, "man I'm tired of replacing these."

It's an HP DVD840 DVD burner with LightScribe [chuckles]

I don't remember what this was from.

Heh, ah these clips.

These held on a fan of some kind like a CPU fan on here and then the fan died.

And then I just slapped this one on here that's--it's really not even on there, it's just [laughs]

It's just a couple of screws that--I think this is a drywall screw and this was already in there.

It's just sort of jammed in place and like, it's fine, right?

We're gonna fix that.

It's probably probably one reason it was really loud.

Yeah, you know I'm gonna go ahead and take this power supply out too because [ka-chung!]

Yeah, getting a real insight of why this used to actually be "Lazy Game Reviews."

It was just lazily slapped together.

Well honestly it wasn't just laziness it was more not having any money.

So this is the most budget of budget builds ever.

This whole thing probably has cost me like $50 over the years to keep maintained!

Because yeah, most of the parts just came from you know, Goodwill and parts bins.

So they were either really cheap or free.

I don't remember exactly what Compaq this came out of but yeah, a basic 250 watt thing.

So here's one reason that I hate this case.

Not only is it just full of really obnoxiously sharp edges but there's parts of the case,

like these little rivets, that stick out and make it so that you can't actually remove...

you have to sort of move the card down and then slide out.

It's really annoying.

Anyway, this is the latest edition, I haven't actually had a chance to use this yet.

It's just an Adaptec SCSI controller, but it was causing an IRQ conflict with this next card.

Which is the IDE controller, because the onboard one once again is not working.

Promise Technology Ultra 66.

Yeah that I'm sure came out of a Goodwill parts bin [chuckles] Got a PCI networking

card next up here, which I actually do use all the time.

Wow, that is super dusty.

Yeah it's just a basic ethernet card for getting networking so I can communicate between that

and my modern computers.

And here is something I'm definitely going to be keeping because it's just a really good card.

This is a Diamond Monster Sound.

This is an Aureal Vortex 2 sound card for doing A3D hardware-accelerated sound.

A really good card and actually does some pretty decent AdLib and Sound Blaster compatibility

I mean it's not perfect, especially in the AdLib sense, but it works and it's really good for

games from like '98 to 2001 which is really what this machine is made for.

And last but definitely not least, really the heart of this machine as far as what I

decided to do with it.

Another Goodwill pick up, this is a 3dfx Voodoo 3, I believe it's a 3000.

It's a 16 megabyte AGP Glide-accelerated card, it's got S-video out and VGA, ooh.

I actually used to capture PC footage with the S-video out on this card, heh.

It did not look good.

Okay, got the RAM here.

This probably hasn't been taken out since I installed it in 2009.

Let's see what are these.

SpecTek PC-100 SDRAM sticks, at 256 megs each.

I don't know how well you can see that but those are not supposed to be gray, those are

supposed to be black.

Ew.

And then the assembly here for the Athlon is still in place.

I'm just gonna leave that on there and take the whole board out.

Which I believe this will be the first time that this board has been removed from this

machine because I really never had a reason to.

It came with it installed from Goodwill, or from the factory.

I don't know, wherever this was made originally.

It's just some generic clone PC.

I've had so many people ask me over the years like "what do you use to capture Windows

98 games, like what computer and brand and model and stuff?"

I'm like "uh, it's the Lazy Game reviews special hey It's just generic, just a generic

beige box with generic parts that have been thrown in there.

Yeah I can tell this hasn't been taken out since receiving it because all of the screws

match [chuckles] Every other thing that's been screwed in so far

has had like a totally different screw.

There we go.

Ah!

She's free!

Wow.

My first time seeing the back of this.

Check that out.

It's... pretty unremarkable.

I don't even know what kind of motherboard this is, BVK1A revision 1.0

I don't see any brand on here.

Procomp?

Yeah, I'm actually not super annoyed by this motherboard or anything.

I mean it had USB and you know PD/2, a couple serial, parallel this for game port, built-in audio.

Which I never used because I use that Aureal Vortex.

Five PCI slots, one AGP over here, and then one ISA slot which was very nice.

I wanted that in a computer of this era because, well I just.

I just do.

This has been a good computer despite how disgusting it is.

It really has been a good computer.

Look I even made custom label for it at one point.

It had some really gross stuff on top here that I was never able to remove so I just

made this label and it stuck it on there and put that like late 90s Mountain Dew font.

Or maybe was maybe it was Cherry Coke.

Either way, it was one of those radical late 90s,

early 2000s typefaces that was "everything was extreme."

So anyway, it seemed a suited choice for this, but yeah.

I don't like this case but I'm gonna clean it up anyway.

And then we're gonna put some new parts in there.

Really hoping that it's not too big a deal to get the front of this case off though,

I've never tried.

Ah yeah, there's some screws in these corners.

I'm assuming that is holding the front of the case in place.

Yep.

That's definitely what those screws are doing.

Good!

[Screwing noises. No, not that kind.]

[clunking and sliding of plastics and such]

So everything's out of here except for the PC speaker.

I'm not entirely sure how I'm gonna get that out of there other than just bending those

little metal bits.

Does the whole thing just slide out maybe?

Oh!

Nope.

Nope, that was that.

Well let's just put that back on there, everything's fine.

I think it does slide though.

There it is!

Ah, yay.

All right, well this is ready to be friggin hosed down.

Ah it's all stormy outside so I'll just use my extra bathroom.

Aw nasty! [scrubbing, water noises]

Yeah why not give it a shower, too.

[more watery scrubbing]

All right. It's a good start!

See this thing is almost even more gross.

[washing, brushing]

All right.

We'll get this thing thoroughly dried off and then we're gonna

I don't know, do something else to it.

Does my computer need a doorbell?

Does my computer need a washing machine? [thunk]

Does my computer need a this thing?

Mmm, LED lighting?

Nah, that'd be stupid.

Or I could add woodgrain.

Eh.

Not quite the aesthetic I'm going for but that's some nice wood.

[wood flies everywhere] Aw man.

Ah here we go.

Looking for Plasti Dip.

Seriously, that's it?

They got like two colors.

I moved on to another hardware store and they don't really have what I'm looking for here

either, at least not the color.

They do have some other Plasti Dips and similar things but I was really wanting to get a green.

They do have some of these Krylon things, I've used these before on various computer

cases they work well.

But ah.

Again, not quite I'm looking for and I don't know, I just wanted to try the Plasti Dip

thing just to see how it works, so onto next plan.

Struck out a bit with the hardware stores but had more luck in the automotive stores

for what I was looking for, and this is pretty much it.

It's actually kind of close-ish to the dark teal that I was going for back when I wanted

to first paint that computer.

I did just a quick test of the finish, just sprayed it on a piece of the front panel here, and um.

I don't know, I think it looks interesting [chuckles] That's just with one coating.

Obviously, it's going to get better as I apply more.

But yeah, it's kind of a metallic green.

[shakes spray can]

[spraying of Plasti Dip]

[spraying speed increases]

[it's over nine thousaaaaand]

Okay, I think these turned out rather nicely.

Really don't even know how well this comes across on camera.

In person, I think it looks pretty cool.

I was able to get each panel coming out pretty even.

The front was of course, as I expected, the largest challenge.

And I also ended up doing this, like a silver highlight on those raised areas.

And the power and reset button I attempted to spray that as well the same color just--I

don't know, just wanted to see how it would look.

And not only did it not look particularly great but the rubbery nature of the Plasti

Dip made it so that the button would get stuck every time you press it in so that was no good.

So just use some silver Sharpie to highlight that and the reset button and this to match.

And yeah, I don't know I think the whole dark shiny green and silver kind of works out.

And I was having fun so maybe I got a little carried away, but uh.

So I ended up getting the disk drives and painting those as well.

And I've got the optical drive drying at the moment, being green.

And I don't know, I've just never seen drives this color green.

So why not?

And It's about time to get the case assembled see how it looks all together!

[sounds of assembly commence]

Yeah!

Just to kind of get a general idea there, haven't actually screwed anything back together yet.

Sure, I could have used RetroBright and made it yet another beige box, but I have a

hundred and something beige boxes.

But only one rubbery dark green metallic thing!

The different surfaces did pick up the Plasti Dip in different ways, like the front of the

case ended up a little shinier than like around the top and sides and all that, but you know!

Got the little LEDs here.

They just sort of go back into place.

Let's see, which one is this--reset switch.

And then the power switch kind of clicks in here as well.

And that's it!

And just string these back into place.

[wires being strewn about]

Just get those screws back in place.

Man, these are in such an awkward position.

Augh.

Okay!

Got the DVD drive stuff prepared.

So there's the button and that is gonna go and clip right back into place right here.

Yep, it moves.

And if I were thinking I would have taken out the little clear plastic bit for the LED

to shine through, but I forgot about that, so.

Yeah, we'll just go ahead and scrape that right back off of there cuz thankfully Plasti

Dip scrapes off of things pretty simply.

And everything really just snaps back into place with these drives.

[snapping of plastics] Same with the front piece as well.

Just kind of slides on the top here.

And that's that.

[clicking more pieces into position]

Okay, time to get to the internal hardware.

And let's begin with the new motherboard.

This is a gigabyte GA-6VXC7-4X-P revision 5.0.

Really rolls off the tongue.

Now, this is a Socket 370-compatible board here.

So I'm going to be installing a Pentium III, as opposed to the AMD Athlon that I had before

which was a Slot A board.

And the actual CPU I decided to go with is the fastest that this motherboard supports.

And that is a Coppermine 1.0 gigahertz, this is the SL5B3 in particular.

And I actually do have the fastest Pentium III, the 1.4 gigahertz Tualatin, but I don't

have a board that is compatible.

Well, I do, but it doesn't actually have the features on the board that I'm looking for

for this particular build.

But yeah, the other boards that I have that would support like the fastest Pentium III,

which--you know I'm not going for the fastest here, I'm just going for something of this

range of this era of like year 2000 to 2001 at the most.

I like the fact that this has five PCI slots, a universal AGP right here, and then 16-bit

ISA down there.

Most of the others that I've seen that support like, the fast Tualatin chip are not gonna

have the ISA slot, which I really want.

But yeah, I mean it's similar very much to the other board except that it doesn't bother

with any onboard sound.

I don't need it, I didn't want it.

Got the serial, parallel, two USB 1.1, some PS/2 ports.

And It supports up to one and a half gigabytes of RAM, which I just happen to have!

These are 512 megs each, PC-133, 133 megahertz SDRAM sticks.

And I don't need that much, I don't need--really 512 is even like, way more than I'll ever

need for what I'm doing with this system, but you know.

I've got it so I may as well use it.

One and a half gigs of RAM would have blown my mind in 2000, 2001.

And since I put this particular one gigahertz Coppermine Pentium III CPU in there I do need

to change some of these little switch settings on there.

That'll change the bus speed and the clock multiplier.

And according to the manual printout I have here from Gigabyte I need those settings right there.

There we go.

Oh man, where did my sunlight go?

Got really dark in here.

Ah, good grief.

Yeah, there we go.

So we'll need a CPU cooler and instead of using like, the stock Intel one that this board

had originally when I got it whenever ago, I'm going to install this one here.

Which this is some sort of Antec cooler right there and then a Noctua fan because why not?

It'll fit and it'll be quiet and cool and that's the idea.

Gonna use a little Arctic MX-4 because it's the thermal compound that I have on hand.

[snap!]

Couldn't get it in there with the RAM installed so I had to pull that out to fit that side,

it's really cramped up against that.

And the header for the CPU fan plugs in right here, so I'm just sorta--yeah.

There we go.

Okay! Mm, let's go ahead get the board installed in the case!

Oh wait.

I have a new I/O panel cuz this one, I don't need it anymore.

[snapping things into position]

All right now we're ready.

Yeah!

While I'm getting this screwed into the offsets lemme just point out one thing that is kind

of annoying with these later boards that have ISA and PSI--PSI?

Hehe, pounds per square inch!

No, PCI slots.

So if you might see down here to bottom, these two are actually really close together.

Which means that you can only install either the ISA card or a PCI card because of the

way, well, they're shaped.

PCI cards go in facing this way which you can see overlaps that ISA card a bit.

And when ISA cards go in their, you know, the chips are on the other side and it sort

of faces the opposite direction, so.

That means that if you install an ISA card, this PCI slot you can't fit anything into

it, so you're stuck with four PCI.

And you know, it's a trade-off because again: you want legacy support or do you want to

make use of all the other more modern stuff?

That's just kind of what you get on ATX boards of this type.

Okay.

Next let's go ahead and start plugging in the switches and LEDs and PC speaker and all

these wiry things.

I mean I can barely read the legend for that on the board, but I think I can see it.

[softly connecting wires]

That should be everything.

I suppose that I need a power supply, hehe.

I suppose.

And so yeah, I ended up replacing it with this one right here, this is an AOpen.

It's a little bit newer, a little bit more high power, it's a 300 watt.

Crucially It has like the negative 5 volt rail for running older peripherals and ISA

bus and all that kind of good stuff.

Somewhat annoyingly you have to hold it in place because it doesn't actually slot in

exactly the right spot and just rest there.

...tired of watching me screw yet?

That one connection to the motherboard and that's it for that.

And I'll say goodbye to cable management cuz that's just not gonna happen with this Medusa

thing going on here.

Okay let's go ahead and get some of these cards installed.

I'll start with the Voodoo 3 card here.

Which doesn't want to fit!

Stupid case strikes again.

See, it's got these little rivets.

I might have mentioned that earlier those rivets suck, like, why are they right there

where you have to plug in cards?

Dumb as hell dude, dumb design!

Next is the Aureal Vortex 2 sound card.

Plugs into the first PCI slot here.

And got the CD audio cable here for the connection to the CD-ROM once we get that plugged in.

Let's see, which am I gonna do next to have a SCSI controller and ethernet.

I'm gonna do ethernet.

And SCSI.

Yeah.

So I've got some expansion options for Oddware and such in the future.

Let's fill up these drive bays.

Five and a quarter inch floppy.

It's gonna start getting tricky if I don't get some cables in there, so.

Got this green IDE cable, which I will use for the optical drive.

There we go.

I only have one of these cables unfortunately, but eh.

I think it looks kinda neat, sort of [laughs] And I'll just plug this in right here, I guess.

No right here.

Which one is number one?

The red one, of course, so I'm gonna plug it in to number two.

And we got this annoyingly *floppy* floppy cable plugs into that controller right there.

This is why I'm like yeah we're just gonna give up on cable management before we even start.

It's just gonna be a mess no matter what, hehe.

And lastly in terms of removable media: three-and-a-half inch floppy disk drive.

And while I could go all Druaga1 and go with SSDs or something, I'm gonna go with this

Maxtor DiamondMax 10, 120 gigabyte PATA 133 hard disk drive.

Because I don't know man, it works.

I had one of these and you know.

Perhaps I'll do something else later on, I was thinking of doing an SD card interface

just because of how much I swap things out.

And I don't really need a spinning hard disk platter in this, it's just a project box.

I'm not going for authenticity.

And really this thing is way too high capacity to be "authentic" anyway, so.

Whatever, I had it lying around.

And another IDE ribbon cable.

Crammed in here somewhere, oh my goodness.

There we go. Beautiful.

And by that I mean ugh. [chuckles in restrained cable-management agony]

Yeah no, it's fine.

It's not blocking the fan so that means it's good!

Coming together quite nicely.

I'll go ahead and make sure everything works, get it powered on before completing the rest of it.

[shuffles around setting things up]

All right moment of truth.

Ha!

No power plugged in.

Well, my moment of truth is that I'm an idiot.

Ahh, moment of truth!

Mm, got power.

I don't see my LEDs turning on so I probably plugged those into the wrong spot but whatever.

Okay good.

Good so far.

Sweet.

Pentium III one gigahertz, one and a half gigs of RAM.

And we'll hit delete to enter the setup.

It still actually has the correct date.

Almost the correct time.

And we've got the hard disk and the DVD-ROM detected!

And it is very quiet which is very much what I was going for with this.

Power supply fan is quiet, of course that Noctua fan is quiet, hard disk is quiet.

Everything's pretty quiet. Compared to what it had before?

Yeah, I'd say that's a solid upgrade.

Ah we got our SCSI controller right there, so that's a plus.

It thinks that is disk A? It is not.

Definitely have something mixed up with a floppy disks, so I'll fix that up and we'll

come back and get Windows 98 SE installed.

Okay, so I got the LEDs fixed, floppy drives are now in the proper order.

It was determined by the cable and then the cable was not physically long enough, so I

had actually moved the five and quarter-inch down here to make it fit.

Otherwise, I would just swapped A and B in the BIOS, but you can't do that.

[floppy drive seek noises] That's what I was looking for.

So yeah, let's go ahead and see if we can get Windows installed and check out that hard drive.

[typing a bit]

Well, this is seeing it as 48 gigs, not 120.

The BIOS was seeing it correctly but ah, let's get rid of that and see what happens, ha.

Now begins the arduous process of doing FDISK and formatting and all that stuff before we

can install Windows, so ah yep.

We will return once this finishes.

Screw it, ain't nobody got time for that.

I have one of these SD card interfaces that will plug into IDE.

And I'll be able to use an SD card as a hard disk.

So that's what I'm gonna do for the sake of my own convenience and sanity.

After all this is a project box and I swap files in and out of here all the time, so

it just makes sense.

And this mounts in the back on one of those empty spots, so I'll be able to just access

it and pull the card in and out whenever I need to.

And there we go, detected straight away. 32 gigs.

Not as much as the hundred twenty gigs that I was going to use but I genuinely don't need

that much space anyway, it's just a drive I had lying around.

I'm gonna go ahead and run FDISK anyway.

This will at least verify it and it'll be all compatible with everything, I don't know.

I've had some weird issues trying this before without going through this.

It doesn't take long. Thank goodness.

Alright MS-DOS partition created, Master Boot Record seems to be there.

Just gotta format it and we'll be good to go.

It likes what it sees!

Should be pretty smooth sailing from here onward, fingers crossed, knocking on woodgrain.

Hmm.

What do we name this? Hehe.

It's very green.

Kind of a Jolly Green Giant.

Lazy Green Giant, how about that?

"Windows just got better."

Just now, this very moment!

Almost exactly 20 years later [chuckles] Oh no, I'm getting old.

Okay, we're getting somewhere.

So it actually had a problem getting to this point due to the RAM.

Or rather the amount of RAM I suppose.

It was just like "oh man, you don't have enough RAM to run Windows," and I'm like "uhh."

So yeah, I took out 512 megs. We're down to one gigabyte of RAM.

And then it booted up just fine so at this point, we're just gonna go through all the

driver installation process.

I'm not gonna make you watch all of that, but we should be able to just get into some

basic Windows here.

And there we go.

Don't have video drivers or sound or anything like that yet, but Windows is working.

Just a note in post here, I was able to get the RAM sorted, the full one and a half gigs later on.

Just had to augment the system.ini file with a couple of these lines here and that was

pretty much taken care of.

I also decided to install the unofficial Service Pack 3, a cumulative update and set of patches

of all sorts of official and unofficial stuff.

Just makes Windows 98 SE a whole lot more enjoyable and more stable and updated experience.

Anyway back to the build!

Eh we'll just get the drivers installed and be right back!

[Windows 98 startup sounds play]

Yeah! Windows 98!

So all the drivers installed just fine.

Got a cheapo speaker plugged in.

And this radical startup music.

"The exciting new world of Windows 98!"

So yeah, it's just Windows 98 SE [laughs to himself]

But everything's here installed correctly.

We've got all the things that we need.

We've got wavetable audio playback.

[canyon.mid plays for a bit]

We can play some Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition!

[Duke3D startup sounds] So yeah.

Sound Blaster compatibility--don't know what that sound was.

But yeah! [sounds of Duke3D gameplay]

I mean, it's really pretty much at this point just

the computer that I was already used to.

Except a little bit faster CPU, some more RAM, and a better motherboard with an integrated

hard disk controller and things like that that I was hoping for.

Yeah, I mean, I have all sorts of things that I could play but whatever man.

This is mostly not meant for DOS games because really the AdLib compatibility on that Aureal

Vortex 2 is not particularly great.

I mean the compatibility is fine, it just doesn't

sound like a real AdLib card, you know, OPL2 or 3.

It's just emulated.

But it's more for late 90s kind of games, anywhere from 1997 to 2001 ish.

So we can run Quake III and other assorted kinds of things.

All right!

[Quake III Arena gameplay happens]

So this is the computer that I will be using going

forward on LGR for a lot of different things.

If I need something for well, you know late 90s, which is seemingly all the time!

In fact, I have a few things planned already for this, like an Oddware episode or two, and...

uh anyway, well I guess I'm just gonna be playing freaking Quake III now [laughs] So, um.

That's about it for the installation part of this.

I just got one or two little tiny things to do to finish up the computer.

First up I wanna get this SD interface mounted.

And just gonna get that in right...

ohh, no!

Aw no, no no.

Crap!

This stupid AMR interface, the audio modem riser.

It's physically blocking me being able to put that in here.

If only this were mounted like, a little over this way.

That is so stupid!

I could either desolder the stupid riser, modify this put this on like another kind

of plate where it's moved down this way, or maybe just mount it in there somewhere?

I don't know man.

In the meantime I'm just gonna stick it down there.

Ha!

It won't fit there either because now it's going up against the PCI slots.

It keeps bumping up against this side of it.

What a stupid design!

It's fine for now. It's working. Heh.

I'll deal with that later.

Gotta come up with some other mounting solution,

but we can at least get this put back on there, looking spiffy.

All right.

Thumb screws in place and I'm gonna call this pretty much done.

And to solidify its highly custom nature, I made some LGR case badges.

They're quite nice, raised metallic and everything, got a rubber finish and good stuff like that

going on, so.

Oh yeah.

[chuckles in amusement] Now that is satisfying.

And yes, I do sell these.

Not like, all the time or anything.

But I've had some small print runs made that I post every so often on Twitter.

So keep an eye out if you're interested.

I gotta say I'm pretty pleased with how this has turned out, for the time being.

Definitely gotta get that SD card area figured out, ugh.

And the case is definitely a little darker green than I had initially intended.

It almost looks black under the right lighting.

But still, it at least has a unique aesthetic going on.

And really this is just a project box, I'm swapping out parts all the time.

Who knows? It's Plasti Dip, I might just tear off all of what I've done and start over with another

color in the future.

For the moment though I am going to call this project complete, because at least I can now

use this computer and it's ready to go for different projects that I have sitting on the sidelines.

So I hope that you enjoyed this much longer and more involved video than I had planned.

I've been working on this for about a month now, just, oh my goodness, the things that

I've cut out and this is what's resulted.

So I hope that you enjoyed.

And as always, thank you very much for watching LGR!

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Economic Update: We Can Do Better Than Capitalism - Duration: 29:41.

Welcome friends to another edition of Economic Update, the weekly program

devoted to the economic dimensions of our lives,

jobs, debts, incomes, our own, our children's.I'm your host Richard Wolff.

I've been a professor of economics all my adult life and in a way been

preparing to offer these economic updates each week before jumping in

today let me quickly announce that we have a new mailing address a new post

office box and we'd urge those of you that are mailing anything to us check

with our website democracy at work dot info for that new address and likewise

those of you interested in starting or joining an action group based on what we

do that may already be in your city please go to our website again address

is action dot democracy at work dot info and there you will get all the ways to

proceed along those lines so turning now to the economic updates there's a theme

for today's in it the theme might be best described as how and why we can do

better than capitalism as a system and much of what we do today will illustrate

that point I start with a remarkable experiment undertaken by a capitalist

enterprise in New Zealand it basically went from a five-day workweek to a

four-day workweek salaries were not reduced workers simply had four days

rather than five days to do their job and the result by the way the name of

the company is the perpetual Guardian a financial company that employs 240

workers it did the trial in March and April of 2018 and the Guardian newspaper

covered it as did other newspapers around the world but I want to make sure

you get the message the company loves it the company reported better results that

way than in the old five-day week in other,

workers had a better what they call their life work balance because they had the

extra weekend day Friday off they worked better they worked harder

they had more energy it turns out that the old capitalist system of making

everybody work five days a week just convenience the employer it wasn't even

good for them and it sure wasn't good for the workers it's a failure of the

system to have taken this long to discover what this New Zealand company

found out here's another example of how capitalism is something we surely can do

better than it has to do with the capital of the country of Austria namely

the city of Vienna and there's something about housing in Vienna that I want to

talk to you about because my guess is you probably don't know which is itself

a reflection of something important that we don't know about these things

62% of the citizens of Vienna live in public housing housing built by owned by

and operated by the city of Vienna in other words public housing is the

dominant form of life in that city nearly two-thirds of the people live in

public housing and let's now talk about it it turns out for example that a

average monthly rent paid by folks in there is between four hundred and

seventy and six hundred dollars a month yeah you heard me right that's because

it's not profit-making housing it doesn't have to profit the Builder it

doesn't have to profit the operator it doesn't have to profit the maintainer

and because it doesn't have to make profits because it's a public service

the benefits are passed on to the tenants whose rent is far far below the

average percentage a home owner a home renter excuse me in

vienna the percentage of rent out of their income is 27 percent i checked and

in new york city it was 58 percent in other words the

percentage of your income you have to spend for rent is twice in new york city

what it is in the capital of austria one of the great cities of Europe Vienna it

turns out that if housing isn't a profit-making business you can do much

better for people and if you ever go to Vienna as I've done and you visit the

public housing as I've done you will understand what the difference is the

homes are well-kept the landscaping is beautiful the comfort is obvious and the

happiness of the people clear a hundred years ago this project was started ever

since then ever since the 1920s when conservative and liberal and left-wing

and right-wing governments came and went none of them ever dared do anything

about that public housing structure because it is so popular and so

satisfactory nobody wants to go back to private enterprise housing a little bit

like the state of North Dakota here in the United States which has a publicly

owned and operated bank and despite lots of right wing left wing Democratic

Republican governors nobody dares to mess with their public bank here's

another example of how we can do better than capitalism Fordham University in

New York City a Jesuit institution just signed a contract with their

non-tenure-track faculty usually called adjuncts the contract gives these

adjuncts teachers who teach one or two courses raises between get ready sixty

seven and ninety percent the SEIU union representing these faculty edge

it's says that they will be getting at the end of this three-year contract

between seven and eight thousand dollars per course they teach

despite anti-union sentiment despite the hostility of all kinds of

forces when the unions got the adjuncts together which they did and they voted

sixteen to one to have this contract and the fight for it the university decided

it's wiser to come to terms than to try to defeat something when workers are

that unified and that determined now of course let's be fair here is it a

victory for labor for sure is it a recognition of the grotesque

underpayment of adjuncts across the United States for sure but let's be real

adjuncts remain even if they are paid seven or eight thousand dollars per

course much cheaper as a way of providing instruction than having the

old system of professors teaching two to three to four courses and getting a

proper salary you can live on so universities are still moving to the

cheap but they're not as able to exploit when workers begin to push back

who knows if the adjuncts keep at it we may reconstruct the really fine

educational system at the higher level that we once had and now some more

examples of how we can do better than capitalism the next one has to do with

the Burberry company you know the ones who make those famous British style

raincoats and plaid outfits of one kind or another they were recently caught and

exposed in the press for having burned burned tens of millions of dollars of

goods they had produced coats clothing of various kinds and so on why did they

do that answer to protect our brand see they were afraid that these perfectly

good new coats jackets boots you name it would get into

the hands of discounters and become available at discount clothing shops

this for them would threaten their profits so here's what they did they

burned clothing that could have helped countless people tens maybe hundreds of

thousands of people could have had important clothing and it wasn't

destroyed because of Burberry I'm not interested in attacking Burberry they

did what other companies do because it's the logic of capitalism to make a profit

if you're a high-end producer you've got to make sure that

folks can't find your stuff at a lower price and if that means destroying what

could close people that's what you do the fault here isn't Burberry the fault

is a system that makes that irrational action destroying brand-new clothing

logical the system is the problem here's another sad statistic that

suggests we can do better than capitalism 25 to 34 year olds in the

United States have been dying annually from alcohol-related liver disease in

record numbers growing rapidly over the last few years and as per the reporting

of the NPR system the economic troubles of the United States are the logical

conclusions making it were capitalism can kill does it pay us to find

alternatives to a system that drives young people in the prime of their lives

to die from alcohol-related diseases we can't do better than a system that works

that way sure we can and now the last one and I leave it for last only because

in the sense it is so grotesque a critique of capitalism that I want to

say it slowly so it sinks in airlines in the United States

who have been doing quite well in recent years partly because of organizing their

roots so that airplanes are full because we just don't have that much choice as

we once did have decided they can make even more money and so here's what

they've done and if you don't believe this let me urge you NBC News has a big

nice spread on this go look it up you'll get the details what the airline

companies that producers together with the airline companies that fly you have

worked out is they have narrowed the walls of the lavatories they've not only

narrowed the wall to enable us I guess in the rest of the airplane to hear

what's going on inside there but they've also narrowed the space so you better

learn how to do what brings you into the bathroom in a narrower space than you're

accustomed to you won't just be a sardine in your seat in the main part of

the plane you'll now be an even greater squeezed sardine when you're in the

bathroom and why they have no shame so they tell us why it will allow them to

squeeze in another roll of 2 to 3 seats right there in the back of the airplane

where the lavatory for most folks is yes it's a way of profiting the airline and

the 1% of Americans who own most airline stocks at the expense of the millions of

people who ride the airplanes and yes once again capitalism divides us because

if you have enough money to sit in business class or first class rest easy

those bathrooms aren't being shrunken just the ones where most of us sit

that's where they're being shrunk that's a system called capitalism

than by profit that constantly finds ways mostly hidden but some of them like

this one you can't really hide it finds ways to hide or disguise prioritizing

profits over people's needs over people's comforts of course we can do

better than that especially when we see clearly what that

is and where it leads as a system that does it for the first part of the show

but before we meet today's guests folks associated with a Toys R Us toy chain,

please remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel, follow us on Facebook,

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you each week so please stay tuned we will be right back

welcome back friends to the second half of Economic Update for today it is my

pleasure and my honor to welcome two guests we normally have one but today

we're doubly fortunate we have two and both of them have been involved with

something that occasioned today's program namely the clothing of an iconic

store here in the United States Toys R Us so I want to introduce my guests and

then we'll get into a conversation of what happened to that remarkable

nationwide store my first guest is Cheryl Claude she is an assistant

manager or rather she was an assistant manager at Toys R Us in Woodbridge New

Jersey she's been with the company for 33 years and is one of the thousands of

Toys R Us employees who have not received severance pay

since the store closed she is helping to lead the movement for severance pay for

33,000 laid off employees of the toys-r-us company this movement backed

by rise up retail also calls for greater accountability of the Wall Street

private equity firms Bain Capital and KKR that were responsible for the

bankruptcy and liquidation that we're going to be talking about our second

guest is Charles Kahn is an organizing director at the Strong Economy For All

Coalition he has many things to his credit but the one that caught my eye

that I want to share with you is that he's a leader with the hedge clippers a

national organization dedicated to shining a light on the damage that

private equity and hedge funds have on our communities and making sure that

they are held accountable welcome Charles welcome good to be here thank

you okay so let's start for our audience tell us what happened to the toys-r-us

corporation and what it meant for you Cheryl why don't we start with you well

I've been with the company 33 years and when 2005 when KKR Varnado

and Bain Capital took over our company they just drained us they just took all

our money invested it and just drained it and that's they took everything from

us I mean everything including your job my job itself and made us go bankrupt

yes just a simple question did the company look like it was doing well that

your job was secure that your future looked pretty good in all the years that

you were there leading up to this toys-r-us was profitable yeah they made

11 billion dollars last year 11 billion dollars nobody of your hold

the hole yeah absolutely absolutely I thought I was gonna retire

from the company right so you didn't regret your decision to work with them

absolutely not okay absolutely I thought I was gonna retire from the company I

felt I felt my job was secure and when did you kind of get the message oh

something's really wrong here in 2005 when we when we didn't have

we didn't have picnics we used to have all this stuff in 2005 every we didn't

have anything anymore okay and I think part of what happened

is you know when when Bain and KKR and Vornado took over they changed the the

soul of the company instead of investing in their workers they decided to charge

exorbitant fees and enrich themselves and in the end that's really the story

of what happened to the company instead of investing in their workers their

workers used to have better benefits there were certain workers used to have

stock options instead of that there were fees they didn't tell the workers what

was going on with the company and ultimately the debt that they loaded the

company up with is what led to an 11 billion dollar a year company filing for

bankruptcy for those who don't know the familiarity with it this is a fairly

common occurrence in American capitalism in which sometimes people called

corporate raiders or words to that effect see an opportunity to borrow a

ton of money and buy a company from whoever owns it not with the intention

of keeping the company going not with the intention of growing the company but

with the intention of making a lot of lenders very wealthy by paying huge

interest fees for the money that used to borrow the company and paying themselves

a lot of fees to manage the company and then if it goes downhill if the next 10

years it disappears as long as they've gotten the interest payments and the

fees along the way they're happy and the loss is to the community that doesn't

have the store to the workers that don't have a job and to the local communities

that don't have the tax payments at stores that are successful make and in a

sense you particularly you sure are a victim of how this system how this

system works tell me how much blame do you put for this on the people who had

the company before and how much do you criticize Bain KKR and the other

came in since what happened in 1905 sorry and 25 seems to be a crucial

moment in changing the history of all this I mean I think what Cheryl will

tell you what other workers will tell you is that the company really changed

direction in 2005 that's really when Toys R Us began this downward spiral

right Vornado Bank acara they forced them to sell the the land that their

stores are on to pay rent you know in any homeowner would know that rent is

not is not what you want to be paying they change the culture they charged all

of these fees and I think the blame squarely lies on them and that's the

story that we've heard that is what the facts have represented and that's why so

many elected officials and so many media outlets have come out with really strong

support of the workers because it's so clear what happened and it's also really

clear that didn't need to happen it was excessive greed that caused it to happen

they can make money another way in this system these people can use borrowing

and all the laws that exists to do this I mean they're free to do it and you

were a spectator you and the other workers in a sense were a spectator to

your own situation unraveling on you what did you do how did you handle those

years what did you tell yourself as this was unfolding I just told myself to just

keep doing I mean I had to stay with the company I mean there was nothing that I

had to supply my work to live employees I tried to keep the employees happy and

keep moving I stayed to the very very end because

that was that was me I worked hard I stayed to the end

I stayed to the June 30th I was the one that locked that door when I locked that

door put the key in the box that's that was me I worked I worked very hard for

that company to walk away with nothing and that's what they literally did they

don't you you're done yeah and that actually there was no other no other

manager in the building it was me in the liquidator we boxed up the registers put

the key in the box walked out the door that was it how did it affect the other

workers around they didn't even want to work anymore they came in left I mean

they they didn't have the will to work they said how are you

happy I said I have to be happy this was my life 33 years I spent in that

building I've worked in four different stores in the 33 years three different

stores I worked in one store for 28 years and it's a total of 33,000 people,

33,000t employees, more or less in your situation, absolutely all over the country all over

the country and did the company do anything they did nothing for us they

gave us 60 days 60 60 days to work and that was our that they said that was our

severance pay 60 days they gave us work yeah and I think did you have to come in

to work though yeah that was the only pay they were giving us it was 60 days

worth the work and I said I think what was another narrative that's happened is

that last year in was a December they gave some work workers the option to

leave and take severance pay what they also said is that if we have a

strong holiday season the company's gonna pull through so a lot of workers

like Cheryl have dedicated their lives to this company decided today right and

when the company went under right what is but after the holiday season they

were still telling the workers we're gonna take care of you you know

everything's gonna be okay and then the story changed and that's why so why all

of those 3,000 workers are fighting for for what they're owed

right they were promised severance pay they were promised some kind of

restitution for the for putting their lives into this company you know working

in retail you miss holidays you know all the holidays where most of us go up to

shop or spend time with our families they're there they're punching their

time cards it's like the dedication the dedication I had with that company

I miss my daughter's quit high school graduation my father died was in

February I was out and my father passed away in February and then I came back to

work that week and that's what they told me that I didn't have a job after that

you know this is an old story the companies never want to tell the workers

the truth absolutely because they don't want you to leave on your skin that's

right they want you to leave they're scared

so that's why the funny stories one way or the other or the possibility holds a

little out for you in the hope that something will survive so that they can

make the break when it's convenient and profitable for them rather than for you

that's why in a number of European countries there are strict laws that

require an employer to notify six months or a year in advance so that the burden

of the adjustment is not entirely on a on a labor force they have to take the

risk also of what it is they're doing to the community in this country they don't

have to do hardly anything and so the chips fall and it's a social disaster

let me ask you a couple of questions was there any involvement when workers

brought in in any way to try to deal with the situation all the way they were

bringing people in a month before we're getting ready to close just to cover and

the people that were leaving temporary I thought that was disgusting because we

couldn't hold the people because everybody was leaving because they were

they were angry I mean how could I mean I felt bad for the temporary people that

were coming in how do you bring temporary people in until they got

thirty they used to work just ringing registered that's all they wonder for

and to clean the store I just really felt bad for the people and they said

how can you be so happy because that's the kind of person I am even though

we're closing what about the government were there any governmental supports to

help was there anything that either local state or federal government was

able or willing to do to intervene and do something about a disaster for 33,000

people and the communities they come from so I think that elected officials

and many government officials have posts through the bankruptcy announcement come

to stand with the workers what we're at where we're also advocating for is is

not just for the workers to be paid what they're owed but then also what can we

do and what should we be doing to prevent this from happening in the

future because toys-r-us is another victim in

long story of greed confirm Wall Street on and on the part of our economy and if

we want to make a change to our economy our financial system to really talk

about what capitalism looks like in our country these elected officials that

we've been working with like Bernie Sanders who's come out in support like

Cory Booker who's in New Jersey where Cheryl lives and they've come out and

support and we're talking about changing laws right to outlaw leveraged buyouts

right that put that saddl companies with unsustainable amounts of debt to turn

private equity into joint employers so they're also responsible right they

can't say Oh hands off we don't we don't own the company anymore

and then also governors like Mark Dayton in Minnesota right Bain KKR they have

hold billions of dollars in pension fund money right that's that's how they make

a ton you know these that's how they buy their Rolls Royce right it's pension

money and governor Mark Dayton in in Minnesota ceased all future investment

in KKR until an investigation is done they are doing what they can to hold

these Wall Street firms accountable and I think what we'll need to see in the

future is more kinds of action more kinds of commitment and more like that

official of standing with workers so we can start to not only change the

narrative but change that the tangible circumstances that so many American so

many workers are facing am i right to infer from what you've said that if the

workers themselves owned and operated Toys R Us

you would never have sold it to okay you wouldn't have done it because you would

have understood in a sense absolutely what was in store for absolutely

absolutely it's something for people to think of absolutely we've come to the

end of the first part of our conversation I want to thank you both

for sharing this story it's a sad story but it can have a good ending if people

learn from it and I want to thank all of you for watching I'm finding this is

important the story I hope as we did and I want to remind you that

this conversation and this interview will continue on our patreon channel

patreon.com slash economic update and I hope you will join us there to continue

it otherwise I look forward to speaking with you next week

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♪ (JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ Hey! ♪

August the fourth, Sergey Kovalev

against Eleider Alvarez

for Kovalev's WBO light heavyweight title.

Eleider Alvarez definitely poses a threat.

He only knocked out 11 opponents,

but he boxes really nice.

What we know about Kovalev,

he's definitely one of the top three

light heavyweights in the world.

JIM LAMPLEY: Kovalev is one of the hardest punchers alive.

HAROLD LEDERMAN: No question for Sergey Kovalev,

he's returning home, you know?

He's fought in Atlantic City a number of times before.

He should be, you know,

very, very popular in this fight.

In the undercard, Dmitry Bivol takes on Isaac Chilemba

for Dmitry Bivol's light heavyweight title.

-I mean, Bivol for 13 fights, -(MATCH BELL DINGS)

11 knockouts, he's a tremendous puncher.

Very, very good prospect.

Without question, the winners of these two fights

should fight each other in the near future.

I mean, Dmitry Bivol and Sergey Kovalev, definitely.

I expect these two guys, if they win,

should definitely fight each other in the near future.

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- Today, I'm down in Laguna Beach

with my buddy Brock Johnson.

And he's got some awesome Instagram tips

that are gonna build your engagement

and take it to the next level.

(upbeat music)

So Brock helps people develop their brand or their business

by using stories.

And I'm not just talking Instagram stories,

or Snapchat stories.

I'm talking about, like, actually using your story

to build engagement and build your brand.

- Yes, I'm a young entrepreneur.

I know firsthand that it is possible

to build a booming business with limited time

and a limited budget.

I'm a college student, athlete,

so I'm on a very limited time and budget,

but I know with the power of social media it is possible.

- It's crazy, right?

He is the quarterback at UC Davis,

pretty awesome that he is so young

and just getting after it.

Guys, you have to follow him because he has a lot of value

in everything that he's doing.

Let's go down to the beach

and let's get some Instagram tips.

(upbeat music)

I think the biggest question to start this off though,

is why would you even need to build your Instagram?

Whether you're a business

or you're just someone who wants to create content,

Instagram is one of the social media networks

that you have to be on.

- Instagram is one of the hottest social networks right now

and it's super easy to create daily content

that's super engaging.

- And it's a way that I have direct engagement

to my followers when I use my stories,

or I'm just posting photos daily.

But one of the key things about Instagram is

you just can't post a bunch of random stuff.

There has to be some sort of brand involved

with what you're doing,

you have to brand yourself in a way.

- Another thing to think about

when you're branding on Instagram

is what kind of niche market do you want to track?

If you look at Jeven's Instagram,

you can see the different travel photos,

the lifestyle photos that are attracting

his kind of followers.

If you look at my kind of following,

my kind of pictures that I'm posting are very different,

might have a definitely a blue theme to the photos.

But they're different lifestyle.

It's me working behind a desk, me in my home,

in my office, less exploring.

That's because I'm attracting a different kind of market.

- And the importance of attracting a niche market

is that you're gonna build more of a following.

When you have a niche,

you're posting a bunch of just general photos

that kind of span the whole spectrum of like,

photography, or lifestyle.

You're never gonna get a following that understands

who you are as a person, and that's kind of the key.

Even if there's more to you than just

travel, adventure, film like it is on mine,

I'm not gonna post the other photos

because I'm putting out there a specific look and feel.

That's like the first thing you gotta remember

when you're starting to look at your Instagram

and build a following, is that you have to brand it.

And that's just a important thing,

and this is why we're talking about it so much,

is that this is the basis for everything else.

You gotta find some different things

that work within your brand.

- Mine small business, again,

because I'm a college student, athlete.

mine also has a fit lifestyle in there,

me working, me being a solo entrepreneur,

those are my different categories

that tend to stick for me.

- For me it's anything adventure,

travel, a little bit of filmmaking.

I kind of mix it up alright so what do we got here?

We got some beach beautiful scenery

- loose guys

- So first things first we got to go find a cool spot.

We're in beautiful Laguna Beach I mean this is amazing,

and we got to find a couple spots where we could get some

photos. I'm gonna do one that fits my brand and

we're gonna do one that fits his brand.

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- So one photography tip is that,

if you're in a setting like this,

look we got direct sunlight there.

A lighting tip is that you don't want to shoot

when you're in the direct sun.

So check this out if I'm on this side,

he's being blasted by the sun whereas if I move this way,

you get that kind of half light

and it just looks way more dramatic.

So something to keep in mind,

just a photography tip in general is don't blast your people

with light, position yourself in a way

where the sun is off to the side or behind

or different direction where you get that more dramatic look

So whether using just your iPhone

or you have another camera like a DSLR mere list,

you can get awesome photos.

Brock was taking photos on his iPhone of me,

I got some on my camera, the GH 5,

you still get good photos you just gotta fit your brand.

- So the next tip involves how many hashtags that you're

going to put on.

I've always done thirty but you're telling me twenty eight.

- Twenty eight and the reason for that Jeven is because,

Instagram yes they allow you to use thirty,

but if you use all thirty hashtags;

basically you'll be on Instagram's radar,

your post could get taken down, it could get flagged,

you could get blocked.

If you used twenty eight you're flying

just below their radar and you're still maximizing your

reach, that's why I recommend using twenty eight instead of

thirty hashtags.

- So they'll actually take down your posts

or will they take down your account?

- There's some extreme cases where they do,

usually it'll just be a warning,

but of course if that keeps continuing,

then it could mean taking down your post,

deleting your account or banning you all together.

- What about this whole trend of shadow banning.

I've heard a lot about shadow banning,

is that a real thing

- Shadow banning is not a real thing,

so Instagram actually had an official announcement

about two months ago,

where they said shadow banning is not a real thing.

There was a bug going on in some people systems

that was causing them to not show up in some

of the hash tags, but shadow banning,

officially from Instagram is not real.

- So why do you even want to do hashtags,

what's the purpose of it?

- The purpose of hashtags,

it's like keyword searches on Google,

it's how you get found by your new audience,

it's how those people can find you

and discover you and in fact Instagram released a couple of

months ago, they told us over one hundred million people now

follow hashtags on Instagram.

That means that they're going to be showing your posts when

you use those hashtags.

- So if you're putting your photos in these hashtags,

you're finding new people,

that's how you build a following

and those people will now become more engaged because

they found you on a hashtag that they're interested in.

- It's very organic, in fact,

I think it's the most organic way to grow a large following,

this year on Instagram.

- It's pretty much if you don't have another social network

that's driving traffic to your Instagram,

it is the only way to get organic traffic.

- Absolutely I agree.

- Okay, so we got 28 hashtags, what is the next step?

How do we find hashtags that you want to post on?

- A lot of people think that they should use the bigger name

hashtags, the short-term keyword hashtags.

But really you want a longer term keyword hashtag.

That way you can reach a more targeted audience.

You know we were talking about branding,

you wanna niche yourself down into that market

and find that ideal customer

and you're not gonna find that ideal customer by using

the large, giant, hashtag love, giant hashtags on Instagram.

- Like say there's five million posts in a hashtag,

that's too big right?

- That's probably a little bit too big

and usually I say that if it's less than 20,000,

it's a little bit too small, but the key here,

is to find hashtags where your posts can rank as a top post.

- Gotcha, so you wanna make sure that

when you look at a hashtag

and say you have 500 likes on your photo,

all the top photos in that hashtag have 2,000-3,000,

you're not gonna rank.

So you wanna find a hashtag where,

you're gonna rank and it makes sense for you to post

because the idea is that you wanna get on the top

of the hashtag.

Now we wanna come up with our hashtag,

so I'm not gonna use the hashtag adventure,

like that's what I wanna show is,

that I wanna get people that are in that hashtag adventure

but I'm not gonna say adventure.

I might do adventure photographer,

which has under 1,000 posts on it,

whereas adventure has millions.

- Absolutely and the same would go for me.

So instead of using something like hashtag entrepreneur,

which has millions of posts,

I would use maybe solo entrepreneur, young entrepreneur,

Southern California entrepreneur,

something along those lines.

- So when you're thinking about your hashtags,

maybe think the big ones that you're gonna use

and then add on to it, or change it, or modify it

and just start looking,

just start seeing what has lower numbers of photos in it,

versus the ones that have millions

because you'll never rank in those.

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- So now we've got our list, we've got our 28 hashtags,

or actually you would say more right?

You want more than 28.

- So you can keep researching and build multiple lists

and use those lists interchangeably.

But for my entrepreneurship hashtags,

I actually have about three or four different lists,

which I all have saved in the notes app on my phone

that way whenever I'm ready to post,

I can use the same list of hashtags

and then alternate different ones

and reach that same audience.

- You just want to copy them from your notepad

and drop them in because it's such a pain to try and

write out your hashtag every time.

You gotta do the research, you gotta do the work beforehand

and then just have them ready to go so that when you post,

you're not wasting time, that's like one of the key things.

If you post your hashtags 15-20 minutes from now,

you're not gonna get seen, you have to post them immediately

- They should be immediately

and they should be in the first comment,

rather than the caption.

That's purely for aesthetic purposes.

It doesn't make a difference in terms of engagement

and reach, whether it's in your caption or first comment.

But it looks pretty ugly if you put a big ol' list of

hashtags in your caption.

So that's why I say put it in the first comment,

and a pro hack for this, is instead of just copying and

pasting the list every time;

create a keyword shortcut in your phone.

So when you type in one word,

that entire list of hashtags is generated.

- That's a great idea I need to do that.

Alright guys I hope these tips will help you.

If you want some more in depth, Instagram hashtag training,

Brock actually has a course, I've done it, it's amazing.

It's taken my Instagram to the next level for sure.

- It's a quick step by step video based course,

it's gonna teach you exactly how to rank your hashtags

and how to find that exact niched down list of hashtags,

it's called Help With Hashtags.

- These tips that we've given you today will definitely

build your engagement, build your Instagram,

I highly suggest checking out his course,

I'll put it in the description below.

Alright guys that is it,

make sure you head over to Instagram

check our Brock, I'll put his link down below

he's got some awesome stuff, he does a lot on storytelling,

and for us filmmakers, for us Youtubers, creators,

storytelling is like the number one thing

that you need to be able to make good videos.

So he's someone definitely to watch out for,

he's gonna have some awesome content

that will help you make better stories.

Dude, thank you so much for bringing me down to

Laguna Beach and checking out this beautiful scene,

this was amazing.

- I'm glad I got to show around a bit,

thanks so much for having me.

- Alright guys make sure you hit that subscribe button

there's a lot of filmmaking tutorials, photography stuff

a lot of Instagram hacks on this channel,

along with some cool vlogs where I travel around the world.

I like to travel, and that's about it.

Make sure you head over to Instagram, check out Brock,

check out me, see you on the next one.

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How to Overcome Mommy Burnout | 5 Tips to Reverse Mom Burnout - Duration: 32:13.

I wanted to tell you that this has been a game-changer for me because from the

bottom of my heart I don't want to get emotional here on this YouTube but from

the bottom of my heart I know what it feels like to be at the end of your rope

hey there welcome to my channel my name is Michaela Rainey

I am a pre and postnatal fitness specialist I'm certified in nutrition

through Cornell University online you can learn a little bit more about what I

do if you're interested I have that in the featured video up on my channel but

today I really wanted to talk about a topic that has been really near and dear

to my heart lately and it's called mommy burnout and

it's a real thing and it is debilitating and it is all-consuming and it impacts

your life and your family's life and if you're a mom you know what I'm talking

about and you've probably experienced it before you're probably you probably have

experienced it you know going in and out of it as well so for me personally I

made it quite a bit of big changes in my life recently and I know that that was

probably definitely you know a trigger of that for me

but what I noticed was I kind of lost the vision of myself I am a dreamer I am

an over analyzer I visualized myself where I'm at now what I do now in my

business what I want to be what I look like what I feel like I have fully

visualized that I've always had that vision that's kind of what is that what

drives me to do better and to do what I want to do to fulfill my purpose in this

life and I just kind of lost that lately for the past six or eight weeks I just

kind of stopped seeing my future self and stopped you know what I kind of lost

sight of my goals and my passions and you know things like that so I knew that

I needed to be radical I knew that I needed to make a big change that I could

kind of pull out of this because my husband could feel it my family could

feel it I just kind of felt withdrawn and just kind of just over it just burnt

out visit emotionally drained so I knew that I

needed to be radical I knew that I wanted to make a big change so that I

could just get back to feeling myself so I am a researcher and I am educated but

I'm also really a big proponent of being self-taught and always continue your

education so I just researched the hell out of it I just was like okay what can

I do to change this in me because I need to get back to me so I found five things

that I have been doing and I had like a list of like ten and then I narrowed it

down and I've been consistently doing these five things and so I also created

a mommy productivity planner that um has it's like a one sheet I'm gonna show you

it and I had a free download for it for you because I promise you it is

life-changing I do this every morning I'm gonna run through this with you

because it's tip number two it's been incredible it really really has helped

me so so much and so I wanted to share it I wanted to share because I know from

the bottom of my heart I know how it feels to feel like you're at the end of

your rope and you just lost yourself and you've lost your identity so I wanted to

go on this journey for myself to kind of get myself back and I wanted to share

with you guys so let's just get right into it and that's kind of a long intro

but I wanted you to kind of grasp the feeling that I I feel it too and I'm

from the bottom of my heart I know what you're going through if you search this

and you came across this because you're looking like you're like am I the only

one that is so over this no you're not and you can get out of it and I feel I

do I feel like I've made an amazing change and I made some amazing progress

and I feel like I'm definitely back to myself so do these tips I'm gonna walk

you through it but make sure that download this and you print it out and

you do it because this was the biggest thing that really helped me was like

putting it on paper and actually taking action like not just listening and

reading and researching about these things that I can do it was just doing

those days so that being said the first tip I have is less consuming more

producing

so the first thing you need to do is delete the apps off your phone the

social media apps because as stay-at-home moms

I get bored like I'm gonna work from home mom or a stay home mom or a working

mom and like sometimes you're bored you know your kids all day and I work from

home so I'm with them all day I'm gonna be honest with you sometimes I'm bored

sometimes I'm lacking that social interaction and I turn to social media

for that and I know myself and I know that I don't have the self-discipline to

schedule times unless it's off my phone and I have to get on my computer

to access those platforms so that was a big thing for me was deleting the apps

off my phone and I haven't put him back on and there's been a huge game changer

especially at night because that's when you feel like a hobby I just one time to

myself and then you just go in through your phone and then you're up late and

then it just starts this whole cycle of being tired and it's just not good so

just delete them off delete them off your phone it will do you so good and

the only thing I ran into with that was the Instagram stories which I know like

your family wants to see it I know like in business you need to be present and

you want to share and you want to be open you know and all that so I haven't

quite navigated that side of it but I did navigate the personal side of it and

so what I did was I created a private Instagram of just my kids just people

who are really close to me in real life or I've made strong relationships with

some friends are online friends and I don't follow anybody this is the key to

this one so I can produce without consuming so I can take pictures of my

kids share the stories so my family can keep up with them and see them regularly

and I could be consistent with it but I'm not tempted to look at my best

friend's stories let's see how her date was going because I will do that if I I

tried to follow like just a couple movie blows I go I'll just follow my friends

on this private one because they're following me but then I'm like well I

just want to look at their stuff because I'm looking at it whenever I'm when I'm

doing my Instagram stories I see her story up I'm like hey I want to see what

her kids are doing so I stopped following anybody I don't follow I don't

interact and just produce and that allows my

friends and family to keep up my kids and it I can be consistent with that and

I'm not also consuming and then I can schedule the times where I want to go on

and consume my friends content or people who inspire me as content you know

things like that so the other thing is consume more productively so I

personally don't watch TV anymore it's been like two years since I've done this

one but um we watch a movie once a week we plan that time sometimes not even

once a week but sometimes twice a week you know whatever it is we plan it Brian

and I we like to watch a movie together I'm not like saying don't watch TV but

I'm saying plan it but personally I cut all that off

I don't watch this as ass I don't watch The Bachelor and those are two things I

really like to watch but it was just a Canuck my innings for working and so

personally I needed to cut that out but if you're not working you interstate

home mom then just plan it just definitely don't do it every night and

don't do it all night long and if you're going to cut it out because I promise

you it's a huge game changer when you cut it out replace it with productive

consumption so podcasts or books things that are going to propel you forward and

the things that make you happy and that are going to make your life better so

for me it's a lot of self development self development and business you know

marketing and things like that I love to listen those kind of podcasts I love to

read those kind of books I'm always reading a book but if you're wanting

something like more entertaining do like an autobiography watch how amazing that

makes you feel to see somebody so incredible something that's so

inspirational to you what they've gone through in their life to be where they

are because we can all be something incredible if we put our minds to so

that's my biggest tip is just to reduce the mindless consumption of like reality

TV and social media and news and things like that and in replace that with

things that are going to fulfill you and be more in alignment with your purpose

so if you're not in the business maybe organizing your home

or being a developing a certain parenting style that you really want to

work on or you know having a specific hobby like maybe you want to grow you

know do a garden and produce more of your own foods thing and just whatever

it is that sparks your interest and makes you fuels your soul go after that

read about that consume that consume things that are going to push you

forward and what is going to make your life better and I promise you if you can

do that you will change your mindset will change your this bunk that you're

in it will start to go away so do it just try it try all this for one week

and I promise you it will be an amazing impact to is to plan your day

so as mom's we are so reactive we literally wake up in the morning it's

like breakfast water need to change diapers need to pack somebody's lunch

need to make somebody this I don't want that where is this toy we're just

constantly reacting to somebody else's needs all day long and it is exhausting

it really is it's so exhausting so if you can just do one thing to put a

little bit more control and structure in your day you will feel so much better

and productivity is it doesn't have to be I got all this and this and this this

and this done that doesn't mean you're being productive just doing things that

make you feel in control that make you feel good and that make you feel like

you're moving closer to where you want to be and whether that is a mindset

you're trying to achieve whether that is you know a in any kind of goal that

you're trying to achieve just do something that helps you go in that

direction so I wanted to walk you through this planner here is the planner

here I'm gonna pop over onto my laptop and I'm gonna pull this plan it up and

I'm going to walk through and a screen I'm gonna screen grab and walk through

this on there okay so here's my mommy productivity planner I put this all into

one spot so that you could really just kind of put everything down in one spot

and just take action on everything so the top here you see is the top three

projects right now so these are not the things that you're going to do today

these are the top three things that are on your mind right now like if it's in

your business if it's something if it's a book you're reading if it's something

a habit you're trying to create in your home life if it's you know I'm trying to

stay consistent with my meal prepping or I have this Fitness goal or I have this

work goal or I want to organize this room in my house like these are your top

three projects and then three things that are going to move those projects

forward so do that there you want to do that every day so that you're setting

your main goals in front of you every single day so do that and

then this is kind of your running list so you might want to copy this from the

day before work she wanted this every day you want to really physically write

this out every single day so this is like kind of just what's going on like

you need more paper towels or you've got to take something to post office like

those kinds of things that are just in your mind floating around put those

there and then having your breakfast lunch dinner and snacks just written

down for the day every single day will help you so much staying on track with

your fitness and nutrition it really will it's gonna help you just have a

plan it's gonna leave less up to chance which is every day write that down every

morning just kind of have an idea the brain dump thing over here you could

even start with this if you kind of just feel jumbled and you don't really know

where you're headed you know on this page a day just this is a spot to just

kind of write everything that you're thinking about so that you then can kind

of just put it together and pieces together so that you feel better about

you know and you feel less overwhelmed and then just scroll back up to here so

these are your top five to do today so these are the non-negotiables but this

doesn't have to be like five huge things this can literally be like I need to

pack lunches I wanted to finish this project or I wanted to read the chapter

out of this book you know just five things that need to be done today but

make them happen and they don't have to be big make sure they're attainable but

make sure that they're going to move you forward and they're going to be in

alignment with your true purpose and then kids activities so trying to get

out and do an activity every single day will really help you too and just being

around other moms being rather kids being outside so try and plan something

like that if you can obviously you can't every single day so just doing something

in the house but just kind of trying to put down what you're gonna do for the

day what kind of activity you're going to do if you're home with your kids that

day and then the next thing I try and do is I daily tidy every single day every

night we clean up every morning our dishwasher has been run the night before

we can load it every morning you know obviously there's some days that this is

done not the case but for the most part every day we have cleaned up the night

before the dishwasher has been run so in the morning I like to do is unload the

dishes make breakfast my house is picked up but I like to do one cleaning item

per day so on Mondays clean the bathrooms really quick on

Tuesdays I will tackle Aaron I'll run the vacuum you know wipe stuff down so

just trying to do one thing a day really helps be less overwhelmed and it frees

up more energy for me to focus on other things versus like having to do a huge

cleaning day once a week or something like that so this right here has really

been a game changer for me and then this quote down here that I want to share

with you and it says as mothers we live such reactive lives oftentimes this is

the underlying issue to burnout lost identity depression anxiety and that

general feeling of self-doubt or unworthiness

so remember everything in life is a season the more proactive positive and

intentional momentum you can create in your life the happier and more fulfilled

you will become as the leader in role model of your family today make it a

point to be more present more caring and more proactive so this is something that

has really been a huge impact in my life and I really hope that you print this

out and that you utilize this and let me know what your thoughts are so every

morning it would be amazing if you give it before your kids but you can do this

every single day watch your world change I'm telling you I'm serious this has

been what the days that I don't fill this out I feel like you know it's not

that I have a ton of stuff that I have to get done every day during the day I

mean I do but it's just having it on paper and looking at your goals and

visualizing it and writing it down not typing it not putting it in your

calendar actually physically writing it down it just changes you you can

download this it's in the description box so do it I'm just gonna email it to

you all you have to do is just click on the thing and I will email it right to

you you can put it up okay so step three is set aside time for yourself

number one thing okay number two thing because this really really has been huge

for me doing that everyday probably the number one thing that really has made a

big changer in my mindset just making me feel productive making me feel like I'm

doing the right things but the number two thing has been setting aside time

for myself which I have always been like the whole you know I can do it I can

work I can take care of my kids I don't you know need to put that on anybody

else but it's like shoot girl your husband is there kids too and he was the

one that saw that in me he was the one that was like you need some time to

yourself you're with these kids all day every day you know working from home all

day every day and whatever it is that you're doing you need time to yourself

you really really do so what I did is two days per week Brian gets off early

he actually worked this into a schedule wasn't something it was something that

he approached his you know boss about and it's something we worked out so two

days a week he works six to three and he comes home pack my bag I do a workout or

run hop up my car I go to Starbucks and I work and he puts the kids to bed I'll

have dinner prepped in like ready for him on he may have to just like throw it

in the toaster oven or you know warm this up pull it out the crock-pot or

whatever it is I make it easy so that you know we're helping each other out so

that has been a complete game changer for me it's just having that time to

myself the days that I know that he's coming home and I get to leave and I get

to start work before 8:00 p.m. at night when everybody's asleep and I'm working

all night I start all this all over again the next day and so you may not

need that much time you may not be working you may you may you got to find

what works for you but the most important thing out of it is to make

sure it works for both of you so do something in exchange like okay hey on

Tuesday and Wednesday or maybe you know maybe it's just one night a week so for

me it's a little bit different because I'm working and we're trying to create

some working time I mean because that we don't have child care I just say one day

a week most definitely just for a few hours you leave he puts

the kids to bed or you get in a morning and if say he doesn't go to work until

you know 9:00 and he doesn't need to leave the house till 8:30 and you're a

morning person maybe 5:00 a.m. you get out of the house and you leave you go to

Starbucks you have your coffee go for a run you go for a walk you've read

somewhere like do something by yourself and be consistent with it if you're a

single mom and you're like well I don't have a partner I can't do that so lucky

you but I have to be used by kids all day every day

find a friend so when I was in Texas my best friend and I had talked about doing

an exchange one night a week I was gonna go over to her house Wow while my kids

were asleep my husband was home with my kids she's gonna put her kids to bed I

was just gonna go sit over at her house and hang out the older kid what baby

slept she was gonna go out to dinner vice versa she was gonna come over to my

house once a week and do the same so do something like that you have a best

friend be like hey one day a week I'm gonna come to your house or bring your

kids to my house and let them play for a few hours you could do what you need to

do and vice versa or you can do every other week like this week it's your turn

next week it's her turn just create something but make it consistent don't

just do it one time and never do it again because that's that is that will

recharge you that will bring your empty battery up to full but then it's gonna

go back down you have to keep filling up your cup you have to do it consistently

and that has truly been the game changer for me is that I know every Monday and

Wednesday I get this time to myself to work in peace so create something that

you can do consistently and create something you can do for your partner so

it like take the friend thing for example like for your partner is if say

one week you know every other Monday it's you every other Monday he comes

home he puts the kids bed you go you do your thing you do a girls night you do

whatever and then he has his so whatever it is create that for you make it

consistent make it something you look forward to and it will refill you and it

will recharge you so just don't feel guilty about it just take action on it

and just do it because once you just take action on it and you just keep

doing it the guilt will go away because that's what I felt sooo I felt so bad

when I would leave I feel like I need to come home and it

was just it was really hard for me because I've never left my kids but once

I just started doing it consistently uh it really has changed my world and then

number four you had to have known I was gonna say this I am a fitness

professional is to stay regimented with your health and fitness

and it is so true because your energy in your mood is not something you just get

it is something you generate you generate energy and what the energy you

have right now is what you've created in the last 24 hours

so how you slept last night what the food the foods that you put in your body

how much you moved how consistent were your workouts or did you work out or did

you feel your mind within positivity did you do those things because that's what

you need to look at if your energies are low that's what you need to look at you

need to look at what you're eating you need to look at your exercise and you

need to look at what you're consuming and how you're sleeping and that's where

your energy is coming from it's not gonna come from a cup of coffee which I

drink coffee I'm not saying don't drink coffee I'm just saying that the energy

in the mood that you have is something that you generate and health and fitness

is a huge player in your energy generation watch your energy become

abundant and positive when you stay consistent with your health and fitness

so I know you're like hell I'm coming to this video because I'm burnt out I have

nothing left to give and you're telling me to go work out yes I'm telling you to

go work out but the what's gonna help you the most in doing that is planning

it and I'm planning in is in telling your husband these are the days that I'm

gonna do this even if it's not within his day even if it's you know you're

doing it at a nap time but planning it and putting it in your calendar and

writing it down planning it and knowing what you're going to do before the day

out don't don't have your you wrote in your calendar I'm gonna work out Monday

and Wednesday and Thursday and then it's Monday at 4 o'clock when you're supposed

to work out and you haven't made it work out yet so go by somebody's workout goal

follow a program go on YouTube plan your work out the for the full week like you

know what you're going to do don't wait until right before you're about to do it

because that's just gonna it's gonna be another reason for you to put it off and

not do it and then the other thing is to back your workout into something you're

already going do so I know that when I'm the most

consistent with my workouts is when I'm backing it into something that I know

I'm gonna already be doing so for me those Mondays and Wednesdays I know I'm

gonna go to Starbucks and work so I make myself do my workout or go for my run

before I do it so you know you're gonna start dinner prep at 5 o'clock every

night just know that at 4:30 you've got 30 minutes to get your workout done

before you do that so just plan it and then back it into something you're

already gonna do because it helps you from putting it off and then as far as

nutrition goes you need to do some type of planning preparing you don't need to

do a big huge meal prep but you need to do some things like chopping every

fruits and vegetables pulling the berries out of those back back packages

rinsing them off putting them in a container pulling the grapes off the

vine putting them in a Tupperware making a crock pot of chicken so that you could

do tacos soup and chicken and rice or whatever it is that you that you eat if

you eat meat or not you know doing things that are going to make it easier

for you to cook dinner or to make lunch and to do things throughout your week

and that's actually the next video that I'm going to talk about I'm going to

talk about the different ways to get yourself regimented with your nutrition

through meal prepping and planning and how to do that with kids and how I

balance eating kids and transitioning kids and how I deal with with dinnertime

and things like that that's actually gonna be my next video so stay tuned for

next week and I am going to be sharing that with you next week so my last tip

is to give back

I know you're like I am here because I am burnt help and I am at the end of my

rope but you know what give more do it give more and it will change your life

so find something that you love and then share already going to do are you

passionate about outdoors are you passionate about cooking

do you love to read as words of affirmation your kind of thing find

something that's natural to you that you love and that you're naturally going to

do and give that to other people so for me outdoors is something that is

natural for me my kids we go outdoors every single day twice a day mmm yeah I

mean it's very rare that we don't go out and outside like not just to a

playground like we're hiking we're at the beach or swimming or you know

playground but twice a day we go before naps we go after naps that's another tip

that I should have added in here is get yourself out and do something outside

every single day because that is huge my kids and I are outside every single day

but that's just something that comes natural for us and so when I'm thinking

about getting back and that's something that I'm naturally gonna do so I started

a chapter of a free forest school and you can go to free for school or guy'll

link in the description box if you ever interest it's just free child led hiking

and exploring and it's amazing and I basically I map out a route and I leave

families and their children through a hike and we have lunch we share snack we

do a little circle time story time but we're we're literally hiking through the

forest we're not playing on a playground we're not bringing toys we are hiking

and digging and exploring and getting messy and playing in the rain and the

cold and the hot we are experiencing all the elements and that is something that

I love to do and it feels amazing for me to give that to other people so think of

something like that if you love reading maybe once a month or once a week you

write a note in a book and send it to somebody a different person go through

make list of everybody that has impacted your life teachers friends family

members people that have made impact in your life and just send them a

note an email a letter through the snail mail just telling them how they've

impacted you or what you admire about them give that type of service back to

somebody that you care about and watch yourself feels so good it feels good

when somebody comes to me from for school and they're like man I would have

never taken my kids out and this kind of experience before thank you thank you

for showing me a new way of exploring that fills my heart it fuels my soul I

love it it's not related to what I do in my industry but it makes me feel good

and when I started that here in Florida we moved from Austin to Florida and

that's a big big proponent I think of this burnout that I've been having it's

just this huge transition and I started that and it was a huge game cake game

changer for me so find something that fuels you and makes you happy and share

that with others and it will make you feel so good and I know you feel like

that's the last thing you have time to do is to add something else on your

plate believe me believe me I was like holy crap my husband was even like are

you sure you want to do this for a school thing I'm like I promise you it's

gonna feel me it's gonna make me feel better to give to others and to serve my

community so think about that think about something that you can do make it

easy make it simple but make it something you're already gonna do so

it's not you know going so far out of your way and it will be a huge

game-changer for you so that's it for my five tips I promise you if you can do

this if you can do these five things and you can put them into action and you can

do them consistently and you can put it down on paper and do it you will change

your mindset will change you will fall into alignment with your purpose and you

will move forward so please give these tips a try I didn't just sit here and

talk about this because I just wanted to talk about something

I wanted to tell you that this has been a game-changer for me because from the

bottom of my heart I don't want to get emotional here on this YouTube but from

the bottom of my heart I know what it feels like to be at the end of your rope

I know and I people probably surprised to hear me saying this the people that

know me and my clients and friends and family but things happen people get

triggered people get down on themselves people get uninspired people you know

sometimes you're like Who am I to raise these children to be home with them and

you know or what am I gonna do with my life why did I have so many kids like

those are genuine thoughts that go through my head and that's okay it

doesn't mean I don't love my life and I don't love my kids and I don't have

passion for what I'm doing but sometimes what's in here get you down and you mean

to take action to change it and sometimes when you go through something

like that you come out and do things like this and create habits like this

that can make your life so much better because motivation is one thing you can

be motivated of course you can be motivated but that's only gonna last so

long creating consistent habits that you do every single day that is what changes

your life so thank you so much for tuning in I was so nervous about this

outlet but I'm really really excited I'm really passionate about talking and

serving and educating and sharing the love and sharing the things that I

experience through conversation with you here in this channel so if you if you

like this if this video helped you if you feel like this video impacted you or

spoke to you in any way please like it please comment on it please subscribe or

share this with a friend believe me people want to be heard they want to be

validated they want to be loved and I want to do that to you and I obviously

want to feel that in return and I want to know that what I'm doing is creating

an impact because that's what I believe I'm here to do I believe that I have

tools and I have expertise that I have a duty to share with other

who are on the same journey as me so thank you so much for supporting this

channel thank you so much for tuning in and I will catch you next week and I'm

gonna do a video about nutrition family nutrition prepping and you know ways to

stay on track with that so let me know what you'd like to see as well comment

below I would love to hear what you want to see because really excited to be here

with you each week so I'm gonna do a video every single Monday so stay tuned

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Jeep Wrangler JK Tuffy Tailgate Security Enclosure (2007-2018) Review & Install - Duration: 4:32.

The Tuffy Tailgate Security Enclosure is for those of you that have a 2011 to 2018 2-door

JK that are looking for a way to add some security to that rear area of your Jeep.

That space between the rear seat and the tailgate itself is just left wide open if you don't

have something like this in place, but if you do add something like this, you're going

to be able to put some stuff in there, use the factory lock on the tailgate in order

to secure that area.

This is a very easy piece to install.

Very simplistic but it gets the job done.

As I said, very easy install here.

I'm gonna give this a one out of three wrenches.

You just have to remove a couple of the existing screws in the floor of your Jeep, add this

piece in, replace those bolts.

Very, very simple, and we'll show you how to get it installed in just a second.

So, Tuffy has been making security products for some time now, and they're known for making

some really high-quality stuff that cannot be broken into, and this is gonna be no different

from that.

Now, this isn't going to be a completely enclosed box with its own lock on it.

However, this is going to do a nice job of integrating into the factory tailgate so that

as you close that, as you lock it with your regular central locking system on your Jeep,

that area is now closed and secured.

So whether you have a hard top, you have a soft top, this is gonna add a secure place

to keep stuff in your Jeep, and it's going to do it all at what I think is a pretty fair

price.

So if you are looking to add some security to your 2-door, this is going to be a pretty

good choice.

As for construction, this is going to be built out of a 16 gauge steel covered in a black

powder coat finish.

Everything is welded and riveted together, giving you a nice strong piece.

This does have weather stripping all the way around, so it is going to keep any sort of

moisture out.

You're also not going to get any kind of weird whistling or anything like that when you do

have the top down on your soft top or your hard top removed.

As I said, this is only one piece.

It bolts into your Jeep very, very easily, and it gives you a nice secure place to keep

your stuff.

I mentioned before that I think this is a pretty fair price for what you're getting.

This comes in at just over $200, and again, I think that's a really good deal if you're

going to be keeping anything of any value in your Jeep.

You want to keep it locked up.

$200 is a pretty low price to pay for the additional peace of mind and the additional

security of having a nice large secure cargo area behind the rear seat of your Jeep.

Now I'll have a member of the install team show you how you get this bolted up.

Alright, first thing we're gonna do is remove the two T30 Torx bolts located on each side

of the trunk.

We're now ready to install our security enclosure.

We need to make sure that these corners right here tuck under.

It's gonna give it a nice snug fit.

All right, we're ready to bolt down that security enclosure now, and you wanna make sure that

you lift up on your plastic trim and you allow the security enclosure to slide underneath.

We're gonna do that on both sides.

Okay, now put our T30 Torx bolts back in place.

So, if you're looking to add some security to the cargo area of your 2-door JK, I would

recommend this option here from Tuffy, and you can find it right here at extremeterrain.com.

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I'M IN A COMMERCIAL! (not clickbait) behind the scenes vlog! | Zoe Maya - Duration: 3:59.

On set

Oh we're actually famous now - We literally did

Hey guys what's up today I'm doing a different sort of vlog, I am going to be in a commercial

And yeah I'm going to hopefully vlog my day on set if I'm allowed to. It's going to be shown like at the movie theater as a

trailer before the movie. I got my makeup done just very natural

I just didn't like trust myself to do it like perfectly and yeah, I'm very excited

I think I'm leaving in like five minutes

Make sure to subscribe if you are not already and I will see you at the set if I'm allowed to film

On set

That is my "someday I will..." I wrote empower other women in the industry in the film industry

Hey guys we're on set here it's whatever. We're making that bank

You wish you were us

You wish you made it, we made it. So that's awkward for you. But it's lit for us. So there's that

See you on the flip see you when I'm famous like two minutes from now so like

I'm going to get an interview... am I? Yeah. I feel like they don't want to interview me cause I'm literally the least interesting person

I don't even think it's focused on me

So we were like fake talking in the background over here

while someone else was being filmed and they really liked like how enthusiastic we were or something so now they're filming us for real here

And we have to like talk about my camera and stuff

We'll film it, that's our big break we just got discovered. Oh my god we actually did we're literally famous

Do you want my autograph? Yes give it to me

We're professionals and we were talking before and it was so easy to talk so we'll just keep doing that and get paid for it

By the end of this we're gonna be rich and famous and that's my goal

That is someday I will be rich and famous and that day is today. It's really not but we can pretend

It's such a nice day. Are you taking a video? Yeah I'm taking a video right now

Let's take a picture of me taking a picture of you

Back from school doing some homework went to bed

Hate my life, haven't gotten out of bed since three

Don't spoil anything

Thirteen reasons why did you finish it?

Alright so I'm back home now I finished on set and got my first little paycheck here. But yeah

I had a really cool day, it was really amazing to be on a film set. I had a lot of fun

it was really cool that Jessica was there

like I didn't know if I would know anyone else that was going and yeah, everyone was super nice

and I'm really excited to see how it turns out. It was really like unexpected

I just thought it would be like so much more strict

like k, like places like action go like do this

but really it was like super like chill and

casual they were just like do what you feel like write what you want just like talk normally so it was like really chill

It was a beautiful day outside, so yeah, it was really amazing. I hope you guys enjoyed this video

I really just wanted to make a little

short vlog of this experience to document it for myself, and if you care to watch for you, too

Make sure to subscribe down below and follow my social medias, and yeah, I'll see you in my next video. Bye