Podcasts about Hydrox

DR1Our Tech OverlordsIn our 'Elon Musk's alibi to police was, "It couldn't be my fault; I haven't been at Tesla since they passed my pay package."' headline of the week. Tesla Under Fire After Car Smashes Into Texas Home and Kills 76-Year-Old Grandmother*************** In our 'Hello, my name is Jeff, I have a younger brother and sister, my favorite food is Betty Crocker pancakes, and I am a Coupon-ism major at Columbia University' headline of the week. Jeff Bezos Called Washington Post His Worst Investment and Staff He Laid Off ‘Terrible' People*************** LivingSocial (Written Down 2016): In 2010, Amazon poured $175 million into this daily-deals competitor to Groupon. The daily-deals craze fizzled out quickly, and six years later, LivingSocial was acquired by Groupon for effectively $0In our 'Just tell them it will make their Netflix better' headline of the week. Head of Microsoft Rages at His Fellow CEOs for Admitting What They're Actually Doing to Society With AI*************** “You can't say, hey, all white-collar jobs are gone and this could even be a weapon and we will use all the power to build data centers,” Nadella explained(Microsoft's own AI CEO Mustafa Suleyma, it's worth noting, very recently claimed that AI was on the verge of performing most “professional tasks.”)Nadella is now pushing an approach that factors in the common worker, criticizing those who get excited to announce AI-driven layoffs. “No, how about we think about reorganizing the jobs?”In our 'Mark has super-duper pinky-promised to stop using his $150,000 Patek Philippe watch to time exactly how long it takes a developer to cry' headline of the week. Meta CTO Admits Mark Zuckerberg Has Completely Crushed Employee Spirits*************** In our 'Hey Ma, every time I click on this ad it wipes my butt, buys a dozen frozen turkey burgers, and breaks up with my girlfriend, tell Dad!' headline of the week. These new Amazon ads don't just recommend products—they can make your purchases for you***************MM1In our 'What if I replace the Oreo knockoff brand Kroger Chocolate Lovers Kid-O's with Hydrox in the vending machines? Will you like working here again?' headline of the week. Meta Floats Bigger Snack Budget After AI Shakeup Tanks Employee MoraleIn our 'What if I make it LOOK LIKE your job isn't harming children, so you can tell your Mom at Thanksgiving, "no, we don't hurt children, that's ridiculous!"? Will you like working here again?' headline of the week. Meta lobbies Congress for immunity from lawsuits alleging online harm to childrenIn our 'OK, what if I replace the HYDROX with ACTUAL OREOS in the vending machines? Not even Elon Musk would do that - would you like working here again?' headline of the week. X tells 'neglected' Meta employees that it is hiring and will 'exceed any snack budget offer'In our 'I should have gotten the worst possible grade for GOVERNANCE, not ENVIRONMENT... don't you people read?' headline of the week. Musk Furious After SpaceX Stock Get Worst Possible Environmental GradeIn our 'Free Float data already created influence metrics, says, "make your own ESG data, jerk"' headline of the week. Inside Peter Thiel's Invite-Only Dialog Network: Secret A-B-C Grading System for Billionaires and PoliticiansGrades are assigned based on factors including fame, wealth, influence and political fit: C ratings go to the most prominent figures, A to those who are established but less high-profile, and B to most othersDR2The StupidIn our 'Target screams, you're supposed to fake fire your CEO and make him Executive Chair and promote the COO in times of internal crisis!' headline of the week. Lucid Motors Fires 18% of Workforce and Axes COO Marc Winterhoff as EV Market Slowdown Hits Hard*************** In our 'Target screams, yes exactly!' headline of the week. Domino's names COO Joe Jordan as new CEO amid slowing sales***************Outgoing CEO Russell Weiner will transition to executive chairmanIn our 'Group of experts suggest painting the pool blue to get rid of the problem' headline of the week. ‘ESG Hasn't Gone Away': Group Urges Trump, SEC to Rein In ‘Big Three' Asset Managers' Voting Power Long Term*************** Bull Moose Institute: 8 men, 0 women: ran by Aiden Buzzetti, President | 1776 Project Foundation & Bull Moose ProjectIn our 'Soccer 1, Child Care 0' headline of the week. After forcing workers back to the office, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase are now letting their staff work remotely—but only for the World Cup*************** In our 'Board members include Kimbal Musk, O.J. Simpson, Dana White, Rebekah Neumann, Elizabeth Holmes, Richard Sackler, John R. Tyson, and John T. Walton' headline of the week. Trump Forms UFO Board to Investigate 'Mothership' Orb Threat Over Sensitive National Security SiteJohn T. Walton (1992-2005), the billionaire son of Walmart founder Sam Walton, died in 2005, when the home-built experimental ultralight aircraft he was piloting crashedUnlike siblings Rob and Jim Walton, who took executive roles, John's involvement emphasized oversight without deep immersion in merchandising or supply chain functionsMM2In our 'Blackrock announces funding a reboot of the movie The Highlander called The Gay Highlander: There Can Be Only One' headline of the week. With the exits of Apple's Tim Cook and Dow's Jim Fitterling, the Fortune 500 is losing two groundbreaking gay CEOs—leaving just one In our 'Lying sociopath is 100% excited about making money, 74% excited about taking a bath, 29% excited to go home to his baby, and 12% excited to eat Hydrox' headline of the week. Sam Altman was ‘0%' excited to be a CEO of a public company—but OpenAI is taking steps to compete in the AI IPO blitz anywayIn our 'Lying sociopath hires man accused of aiding suicide to build product that will destroy humanity' headline of the week. OpenAI Just Hired a Guy Accused of Terrible ThingsNoam Shazeer, cofounder of Character.AI who has been accused of having an AI chatbot that rooted for their customer's suicidesIn our 'Lying sociopath who hired man accused of aiding suicides for product designed to destroy humanity thinks the product will be able to do it by next Christmas' headline of the week. Sam Altman thinks AI will surpass human intelligence by 2030. His rival AI billionaires say it'll be even soonerIn our 'Man who owns everything and has all the money suggests you try out whittling or become a cobbler' headline of the week. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says electricians and plumbers will be needed by the hundreds of thousands in the new working world

Prepare for battle – a cookie battle, that is! Back in the early 1900s, two brothers invented a game changing cookie. It consisted of two crisp chocolate wafers, stuck together with a vanilla cream filling. It was delicious! It was fancy! They called it… Hydrox.Years later, Nabisco created their own knockoff version of Hydrox. They called it the Oreo. For decades, Hydrox was the undisputed king of chocolate sandwich cookies. But in time, the tables turned.Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Norm pulled from: Business 2.0. “Oreos to Hydrox: Resistance Is Futile.” February 20, 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/20020220054213/http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,4537,FF.html.Cahn, William. Out of the Cracker Barrel: The Nabisco Story From Animal Crackers to Zuzus. Simon & Schuster, 1969.CBC Radio. “The Best-Selling Cookie in the World Is a Copycat Brand.” January 11, 2024. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/undertheinfluence/the-best-selling-cookie-in-the-world-is-a-copycat-brand-1.7080582.CBS, dir. Hydrox Cookies Turn 100. 2008. 03:16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbFiS-1fhiM.Chenab Gourmet. “Crackers Through the Ages.” November 18, 2024. https://www.chenabgourmet.com/crackers-through-the-ages-discover-the-gourmet-secrets-that-will-transform-your-snack-game/.Elmwood Cemetery. “Jacob Loose.” https://elmwoodcemeterykc.org/resident/jacob-loose/.Jewish Action. “Paving the Way for Women's Leadership: The OU Women's Branch.” June 12, 2018. https://jewishaction.com/religion/women/paving-way-womens-leadership-ou-womens-branch/.Kansas City Journal. “JL Loose Dies in Summer Home.” September 19, 1923.Kansas City Journal. “Loose-Wiles New Brands Now Ready For Delivery.” November 9, 1902.Kansas City Star. “Death of Joseph S. Loose.” n.d.Kansas City Star. “The Cracker Trust Buys Another Kansas City Plant - An Independent Combine?” May 20, 1902.Kansas City Star. “Who's Who in Kansas City.” December 24, 1922.Kansas City Times. “Lock Horns With a Trust.” May 1, 1902.Loose Mansion. “History of Loose Mansion.” https://loosemansion.com/history/.Los Angeles Times. “Granny Goose Parent Thinks Chips Go Well With Sunshine Biscuits.” February 10, 1988. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-10-fi-28222-story.html.Martin, Mackenzie. “Remember Hydrox? Kansas City Created the Original Oreo Cookie.” KCUR - Kansas City News and NPR, March 6, 2024. https://www.kcur.org/history/2024-03-06/remember-hydrox-kansas-city-created-the-original-oreo-cookie.News-Press NOW. “Soggy Cracker House Needs Some Help.” April 15, 2008. https://www.newspressnow.com/news/soggy-cracker-house-needs-some-help/article_df129ed7-c42d-5179-b43b-7de4822332b6.html.NPR. “Episode 652: The Hydrox Resurrection.” September 18, 2015. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/09/18/441546748/episode-652-the-hydrox-resurrection.NYC EATS. “Adolphus Green.” https://www.newyorkcity-eats.com/adolphus-green.Serious Eats. “How Oreos Got Their Name: The Rise of an American Icon.” https://www.seriouseats.com/history-of-oreos-bravetart-cookbook.The Pendergast Years. “Jacob L. and Ella C. Loose.” https://pendergastkc.org/articles/jacob-l-and-ella-c-loose.The Springfield Daily News (The Republican). “Hydrox Advertisement.” February 2, 1926.The Topeka Daily Capital. “Home of Sunshine Biscuit All That Name Suggests.” October 24, 1917.Are you enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Then please leave us a 5-star rating and review wherever you listen to podcasts!Are you *really* enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Well, calm down, history ho! You can get more of us on Patreon at patreon.com/oldtimeypodcast. At the $5 level, you'll get a monthly bonus episode (with video!), access to our 90's style chat room, plus the entire back catalog of bonus episodes from Kristin's previous podcast, Let's Go To Court.

Mookie opens the show gloating about Arsenal F.C., we debate the true power of the Wooden Spoon, and then we get into the real chaos. Tarik Skubal is basically one-and-done for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic, and we're not thrilled about it. Who fills the gap? Is Team USA already in trouble? And are robo-umps about to screw someone in a massive spot thanks to the ABS strike zone issue that players like Sal Frelick are pointing out? We fade the Colorado Rockies, Mike gets irrationally excited about the Cincinnati Reds, and we wrap up Olympic season with full Coach Lou Holtz energy that includes: – Curling gold drama – Lou pronouncing Tkachuk – A naked skeleton request – Lou getting left behind by Team USA – Lou reacting to Skubal bailing We also get into: – The UFL going full chaos mode with 4-point field goals, no punts past midfield, and no tush push – The NBA's latest ideas to “fix” tanking (it's not good) – Floyd Mayweather Jr. fighting Mike Tyson and Manny Pacquiao in 2026 like it's a time machine Plus beer recaps and whatever that ending was. Live every Tuesday night. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/jvY9dgX8Sf Chapters: 00:00:00 Introduction | How was your sports weekend? | Mookie gloats about Arsenal 00:04:29 The Wooden Spoon: The Mom's choice for discipline 00:09:16 What's in your mug? 00:16:57 Tarik Skubal bailing on Team USA 00:24:56 Who fills the Skubal gap? 00:29:12 We might already have an issue with the robo-umps 00:36:35 Fade the Rockies 00:38:43 Mike is getting exciting about the Reds 00:40:33 Final thoughts on Skubal and Team USA heading to the WBC 00:43:32 Thoughts on the Closing Ceremonies 00:44:01 ScottSkit45 Stat of the Week: 500 hits for 4 different teams 00:49:32 Nobody's sad the Olympics are over 00:52:09 Lou Holtz is rolling fat stacks thanks to Cameo 00:52:57 Canada beats Great Britain for curling gold 00:53:29 3v3 needs a rebrand 00:56:27 Lou Holtz didn't couldn't celebrate with Kash and Team USA 00:57:38 Lou Holtz pronounces Tkachuk 00:58:22 Lou Holtz wants to see naked skelton 00:59:58 What is Lou Holtz brining back from Italy? 01:00:53 Lou Holtz recaps the women's figure skating finals 01:01:37 The US Men's Hockey Team left Lou Holtz behind 01:04:13 Lindsay Vonn update 01:05:05 Lou Holtz weighs in on Tarik Skubal going one and done in the WBC 01:05:54 Lou Holtz signs off from the Winter Olympics 01:08:19 Internal conflict over Team USA winning the men's gold medal 01:13:00 Kash Patel loves Starry, Hydrox, and Cheese Nips 01:16:55 What a time to be alive, where the director the FBI can chug beers in a locker room and nobody bats an eye 01:19:51 Women's hockey team snubs Trump to party with Flava Flav 01:21:43 UFL rule changes: 4 point Field Goals, no punts in plus territory, no Tush Push 01:29:05 They're going after the punter who wore shorts | Everyone hits the Overtime drop 01:33:34 NBA has ideas on how to fix tanking 01:41:01 Floyd Mayweather fighting Tyson and Pacquio would have been cool in 2005 01:43:30 Beer recaps 01:48:41 This was a show 01:48:51 Outro #TeamUSA #WorldBaseballClassic #TarikSkubal #MLB #ABS #RoboUmps #Olympics #UFL #NBA #NBALottery #FloydMayweather #MikeTyson #MannyPacquiao #Arsenal #CincinnatiReds #CraftBrewedSports

This week, Andy misuses a new segment, Noah discovers the Oreo to TANcast's Hydrox, and Tim's mic shorts out before he can talk about his week [CONTENT WARNING] TANcast features mature language and immature hosts but is NOT a representation of the stand up act of Tim Babb. Listener discretion is advised. Get official TANcast […] The post TANcast 746 – Maximum Customer Frustration first appeared on TANcast.

In this week's food industry news in 2 minutes, we examine how once-discontinued brands like Slice and Hydrox are successfully tapping into nostalgia to win over consumers.

Time for Extra with a side of EXTRA! Join Matt as he ventures closer to a thagomizer (from Season 11 Episode 14 with Michael Eppley) AND Hydrox (from Season 4 Episode 5 with Dave Forman - available on our Patreon).

Are people in Boston — and New England more generally — especially obsessed with ice cream? Consider this an Explain Boston to Me investigation. To help me navigate these frigid waters, I'm joined by Judy Herrell, who has been in the business for over 40 years. We talk about Steve's Ice Cream in Somerville inventing the mix-in, how the ice house begat a local passion, and the resurrection of Hydrox cookies. This episode originally ran in September 2023.  Next week: Charlestown and the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. While you wait for that ep, put these events on your calendar.  Have feedback on this episode or ideas for upcoming topics? DM me on Instagram, email me, or send a voice memo.

Hydrox cookies are known as a cheap knock-off of Oreos, to the point that Hydrox has become pop culture shorthand for “second best.” But did you know that Hydrox came first? And that these two cookies have a rivalry that goes back more than 100 years? This week Dan talks with Mackenzie Martin, a host of the KCUR Studios podcast A People's History of Kansas City. Mackenzie tells Dan about a war that started in Kansas City – the sandwich cookie war, and reveals why Hydrox was banished to obscurity, despite being the original sandwich cookie. Check out Mackenzie's full story on the Oreo-Hydrox wars here. For more photos and videos of Kansas City history, check out A People's History Of Kansas City Instagram! The Sporkful production team includes Dan Pashman, Emma Morgenstern, Andres O'Hara, Kameel Stanley, and Jared O'Connell. Publishing by Shantel Holder.Transcript available at www.sporkful.com.Right now, Sporkful listeners can get three months free of the SiriusXM app by going to siriusxm.com/sporkful. Get all your favorite podcasts, more than 200 ad-free music channels curated by genre and era, and live sports coverage with the SiriusXM app.

CEO of F45 Training South Africa, Karen Loader on what to expect from the upcoming HYROX fitness competition which takes place in Joburg on 1 March with thousand of athletes across fitness levels expected to take part (and Cape Town's even larger event happening in September). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello and welcome to our newest episode! We're glad to have you with us. On this episode we definitely talk about some Kitchen Witch conjured food. Fried chicken, Chicken Pot Pie, and Peach Pot Roast. Pumpkin picks up a blu-ray of a film that we both enjoyed towards the end of last year, and is getting a lot of Oscar buzz. We try some new hot sauce, make a Dirty Eggnog, and we stop by Lower Forge Brewing. Pumpkin finally talks about his visits to Ship Bottom Brewery, Pinelands Brewing, and Manafirkin. All those things and more await you. Join us! Check us out on Instagram @pumpkinandpeachpodcast and on Facebook @Pumpkin and Peach Podcast to see pictures and get links to things we discuss in each episode. Now, also check us out on YouTube @Pumpkin and Peach Podcast! Also, our business on Instagram @uglymugsinc and on Facebook @Ugly Mugs Inc. You can also email us at pumpkinandpeachadventures@gmail.com Contact us if you want to collaborate, or be a sponsor.  Also get in touch with us if you want us to try a cider, beer, food, product, or anything and review it on a future episode.

Want to build a brand with a cult-like following? In this episode, we break down the 6 essential steps to: from crafting compelling brand narratives and establishing a strong mission to leveraging enemy marketing and introducing relatable brand characters, we unpack the strategy behind iconic, loyal brands.Tune in for actionable insights on building repeatable content pillars, creating social series, and staying ahead in 2025.Here's 5 things you can get done faster on Wix Studio:● Scale content with dynamic pages and reusable assets● And integrate with Meta CAPI, Zapier, Google Ads and more in seconds● A/B tests are a given—create them in days, not weeks with intuitive design tools● Connect tracking and analytics tools like GA4 & Semrush in seconds● And manage all your clients' social media from one dashboardAll of that right here: https://l.marketingexamined.com/wixpo

In this episode of the Shift AI Podcast, host Boaz Ashkenazy is joined by two pioneering experts in AI security and ethics: David Danks, Professor of Data Science and Philosophy at UC San Diego, and Zhou Li, founder and CEO of HydroX AI. Together, they explore the critical intersection of AI adoption, security, and trust in an era of unprecedented technological change. Drawing from their extensive experience at leading tech companies and academic institutions, Danks and Li offer unique insights into why AI security must be built into systems from the ground up, rather than added as an afterthought. They discuss real-world security risks while emphasizing the importance of human values in AI system design. The conversation takes a fascinating turn as they explore how the traditional cybersecurity paradigm is being reimagined for the AI age. If you're interested in understanding how organizations can safely adopt AI while managing risks and building trust, this episode provides essential insights from two leaders at the forefront of AI safety and ethics. Chapters: [00:00:00] Opening Thoughts on AI's Rapid Evolution [00:01:43] Introduction to Our Distinguished Guests [00:03:35] First Jobs and Career Beginnings [00:05:19] The Evolution of AI Ethics and Trust [00:10:35] Security Experience at Tech Giants [00:13:48] Current State of AI Adoption [00:20:51] Real-world AI Security Risks and Threats [00:28:57] Mentorship and Inspiration [00:32:35] Future of Work: Two-Word Predictions Connect with David Danks LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-danks-21538613/ Connect with Zhuo Li LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhuo-li-4830a145/ Connect with Boaz Ashkenazy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boazashkenazy X: boazashkenazy Email: shift@simplyaugmented.ai

You've got running questions - and we have your answers! Join us today as we answer your running questions, including: Should you run on concrete or asphalt?  What should you do after completing a Couch to 5K program? Can you keep PRing in your 40s? Is racing weight something to worry about? Can you do Hydrox during marathon training? Can you go too slow on your easy run days? Should you do a two week or three week taper? How do you rebuild mileage after a race? How do you know if you should stick to a new plan or switch? Recommended marathons outside of the Six Stars/World Majors How to mimic a hilly course on a treadmill How to prevent sports bra chaffing This episode is sponsored by Centr. The Centr app allows you to get in workouts at home - including treadmill workouts! Get $600 off the Centr T-7 Treadmill, which has a smartphone mirroring screen. Use the link https://bit.ly/Centr-tread-lightly

After some NFL takes and a discussion of whether or not the Deshaun Watson trade is the worst in sports history, we dive into some of the all time most disapointing "knock off" products that we ended up with, because they were chepear, healthier, or just available.  We're talking Hydrox cookies, Loc Blocs, and Go Bots. Then we discuss the shocking news that Capri Sun is going to be selling it's drinks in bottles and we wax on about the iconic packaging like pouches and cannisters that "Make" certain products what they are.

S6 - E3: No Airs and Graces, Just Pure Baxters Festival of Running Royalty (@weetoongirl) (58) - Have I got a cracker of a guest lined up for you or what? In Episode 3 of Season 6 we welcome a lady who is on a mission right now, with a body and mind transformation. She's on the road to Hydrox in its homeland but she's giving a bit of running a go along the way. Moreover she's the voice of reassurance and guidance as the host of the Baxters Festival of Running 10km race. That's right, superstar DJ with the Heart of Scotland, it's Grace Nicoll!If you enjoy this episode or the podcast, please consider dropping us a review, rating or follow at @thepoint99podcast on Instagram to get all the latest news about the podcast. You can also email us at thepoint99podcast@gmail.com

Har du noen gang lurt på om det er mulig å være både sterk som en okse og utholdende som en maratonløper, samtidig?Jeg, Loyd Georg Færøvik, styrkeløfter, har tatt steget inn i en verden av hybrid trening. På trening kombinerer jeg nå styrkeløft med løping, triathlon og swimrun. Hva er en hybridatlet? En hybridatlet er rett og slett en person som ønsker å utvikle både styrke og kondisjon. Målet kan være å øke styrkeløfttotalen samtidig som man forbedrer VO2 max. Men hvordan kan man klare å balansere disse to tilsynelatende motstridende målene? Er det ikke som å jage to harer på en gang? Fordeler og utfordringer? I denne episoden av trening og livsstilspodden snakker jeg om fordelene og utfordringene ved å være en hybridatlet. Vi ser på hvordan treningsformer som CrossFit, HIIT og Hydrox har elementer av hybrid trening: Ødelegger den ene treningen for den andre, eller kan man faktisk bli bedre i flere disipliner samtidig? Schumann M, Feuerbacher JF, Sünkeler M, Freitag N, Rønnestad BR, Doma K, Lundberg TR. Compatibility of Concurrent Aerobic and Strength Training for Skeletal Muscle Size and Function: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Sports Med. 2022 Mar;52(3):601-612. doi: 10.1007/s40279-021-01587-7. Epub 2021 Nov 10. PMID: 34757594; PMCID: PMC8891239.

Which Oreo knock off is best? The original creme filled chocolate sandwich cookie was released in 1908 by Hydrox, a couple years later Nabisco responded with Oreo.  Despite Oreo not being the original, they somehow ended up changing the snack game forever.  Although there are alternatives out there (including Hydrox being an Amazon exclusive) we are going to anoint Oreo king and compare them to 3 of their off brands to see if any of the little guys can compete with Oreo in a blind taste test.  This weeks contenders are Oreo, Trader Joe's, Wal-Mart, and Whole Foods.  Please like and subscribe and if you have any suggestions, let us know by tweeting us @tastetestdummies or email us at nickandjohnpodcast@gmail.com.      SPOILER!  Below is a list of which cookie corresponds to which numbered plate it was on: 1. Whole Foods 2. Oreo 3. Wal-Mart 4. Trader Joe's

Tuesday, April 23rd. In this episode we talk about: Weather report: Impossible announces Impossible Ranch, Hydrox to sue Oreo manufacturer, new Pepsi flavors for summer  Plant-Based Meat Sales Continue to Decline as Consumers Demand Lower Prices and Higher Quality ( Eating More Plant-Based Meats Could Save the Planet, You Say? Nah, We're Good () Tune in live every weekday at 11am to watch on  or on Instagram ( and ), or watch on Twitter or Twitch! Follow , , and for more.

Before Oreos, there was the Hydrox, the original sandwich cookie. And it was created by Kansas City's own Jacob Loose. After disappearing for years, Hydrox are back on the shelf — but only if you know where to look.

South African firm Hydrox Holdings has developed a new way of extracting hydrogen for use in cars and other applications that it believes will help usher in a new era of plentiful clean energy for the world. The company, based in Pretoria, has won a number of awards and other accolades for its patented intellectual property, which involves extracting hydrogen from water using a "membrane-less" electrolyser technology that it has developed and now patented globally. Corrie de Jager, the CEO and founder of Hydrox Holdings, joins the TechCentral Show to chat about the progress the company has made in recent years in developing the technology - and why he is now looking for investors to help commercialise it. De Jager, who has been working on the technology for more than two decades, claims the technology could help move the world to non-polluting and mass-scale hydrogen fuel cell-powered cars more quickly by dramatically reducing the cost of producing hydrogen gas from water. In this episode of TCS, he unpacks: * Where the idea to build a membrane-less electrolyser came from; * The proofs of concept the company has launched; * The hurdles that Hydrox's team has had to overcome while developing the technology; * The cost and production advantages of membrane-less electrolysers; * Why hydrogen could be the next big thing in the field of energy; * What's stopping the widespread adoption of hydrogen fuel cell-powered cars; and * Where Hydrox plans to take the technology and how it intends to commercialise it. Don't miss a fascinating interview about a potentially ground-breaking South African innovation. TechCentral

On The Other Side of Midnight, Frank starts the show talking with space expert and radio host Steve Kates a.k.a. Dr. Sky. They discuss the Vulcan launch and the upcoming eclipse among other things. In the next hour, Frank talks about an iPhone surviving a 16,000 foot fall and also sits down with Alan Collinge to talk about the ongoing student loan crisis. In the third hour, Frank comments on Pope Francis' disgust with surrogacy and the battle between the Hydrox cookie and the Oreo. Frank wraps up the show talking about ideas for regular paid guests for the Other Side of Midnight. He is also joined by Noam Laden for News You Can Use.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On The Other Side of Midnight, Frank starts the show talking with John Banzhaf, Professor of Public Interest Law Emeritus at George Washington University about suing protestors and transgender athletes among other topics. Frank later mentions a cruise getaway to Antarctica with William Shatner. In the next hour, Frank discusses greenery improving mental health, the laziness of Gen Z and also opens your mail! In the third hour, Frank comments on Pope Francis' disgust with surrogacy and the battle between the Hydrox cookie and the Oreo. Frank wraps up the show talking about the release of more information on Epstein, microchipping pets, Japanese birth rates and the Vulcan Centaur rocket among other things. He is also joined by Noam Laden for News You Can Use.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frank talks about Pope Francis' disgust with surrogacy and the battle between the Hydrox cookie and the Oreo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Tuesday 10-3-23 Show #933: We're on FOX News - Fox 35 not the other one; plus, python hunting, crisis actors, Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card in relationships, and the abominations known as Hydrox cookies.

Jesse reveals that the 'off-brand' Oreos actually aren't as off-brand as you might think. The pain cities are going through is not enough. Trump's strange backpedal on pro-life. What officials in our government sound like vs. what a patriot sounds like. You're always ready to fight the last war. They're going to start up the draft again. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jesse reveals that the 'off-brand' Oreos actually aren't as off-brand as you might think. The pain cities are going through is not enough. Trump's strange backpedal on pro-life. What officials in our government sound like vs. what a patriot sounds like. You're always ready to fight the last war. They're going to start up the draft again. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Are people in Boston — and New England more generally — especially obsessed with ice cream? Consider this an Explain Boston to Me investigation. To help me navigate these frigid waters, I'm joined by Judy Herrell, who has been in the business for over 40 years. We talk about Steve's Ice Cream in Somerville inventing the mix-in, how the ice house begat a local passion, and the resurrection of Hydrox cookies. Send us a Text Message.

This week's episode is “Trivia”. Andy finds out about Oscar's Trivia Night and gets the office to crash it in hopes of winning the grand prize. Meanwhile Dwight goes to Sabre headquarters in hopes of moving up the corporate ladder but gets stalled by Gabe. Angela's friend Brian Gattas sends in an audio clip, Jenna breaks down the Hydrox cookie and the Office Ladies team plays a round of trivia. So put down your copy of John Steinbeck's “The California Raisins” and enjoy this episode!  *This episode was recorded July 7th, 2023.  Office Ladies Website - Submit a fan question: https://officeladies.com/submitaquestion Follow Us on Instagram: OfficeLadiesPod Check out Office Ladies Merch at Podswag: https://www.podswag.com/collections/office-ladies

Welcome to March 6th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate teeth specialists and a cookie imposter. There was a time that if you needed a haircut and had a toothache, you would go to the same place. A barbershop. Barbers weren't proper dentists—they didn't provide any preventive services or teeth cleaning. But they did perform tooth extractions if someone was in pain. They used something called a dental key, which was an early version of forceps. This practice started in the Middle Ages and didn't end until the 1800s, when dentists and barbers became two separate things. And thank goodness for that. On National Dentist Day, we celebrate the people who keep us smiling and the fact that we can get our hair cut without worrying about Novocaine. If I asked you what kind of cookie has two crunchy chocolate biscuits with cream filling between them, you would say…? Well, if you would have asked someone that question in the early 1900s, they would have given you a different answer. Hydrox. When Oreos made their debut in 1912, Hydrox had already been on the market for 4 years. In fact, Hydrox launched ad campaigns to make sure consumers knew that the new cookies were imposters. For years, Oreos didn't make any money for the Nabisco company and they might have disappeared without a strong ad strategy and a redesign. In the 1950s, Oreos overtook their rival in popularity and Hydrox began to look like the imposter. On National Oreo Cookie Day, celebrate this classic with a glass of milk and maybe a twist. I'm Anna Devere and I'm Marlo Anderson. Thanks for joining us as we Celebrate Every Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Phones in school, Emergency broadcasting system, Chinese Balloon, Suicide is Illegal, Water and voting, Hydrox vs Oreo

What did you think was ultra-fancy when you were growing up?

After finding Shania Twain lyrics very relatable, Hydrox cookies fandom gets Lex a free bed.

Cereal Enthusiast Keith M. Sedor, w/ Steven Crawley, Christina Brice Dolanc & cereal foil, Benjamin Rockwell discuss three new varieties of Frosted Flakes, breakfast-themed breakfast cereals, and sample the cookie that was the inspiration for the OREO.

This week's episode we explore the latest in streaming news as it relates to the fate of HBO Max now that its new business daddy Warner Bros. Discovery has announced their plans for its future and the effect they may have on Netflix, Hulu, and DIsney+.Additionally, some new and exciting things happened in the world of video game speed running and achievement bounties that we take a brief moment to celebrate before sharing our thoughts on the second booster pack for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

We're back with Part 2 of “Cookies: Double Stuffed” Get ready for an extra deep Deep Dish with our Foodlosopher, Anna Van Valin, as she dives into one of the most epic food business rivalries in history: the century-long battle between Oreo and Hydrox. When a ruthless lawyer and two bitter baker brothers collided at the beginning of the 20th century, it led to the creation of the very first food conglomerate, a world-changing invention, and the most popular cookie on earth. She tells us which cookie really came first (it's not the one you think!!) and how some of the best and worst marketing played a big role in who came out on top. It's a story STUFFED with corporate backstabbing, petty revenge and so much shade. Milk isn't the only thing Oreo's been DUNKing on!*If you need reproductive care, want to learn more about your reproductive rights, or find out how to help, visit choice.crd.coMore info from the show:* Watch the deliciously dramatic “Cookie Wars: The Food That Built America” from the History Channel * Oreo's delightful 1980 commercial*Hydrox's questionable commercial from 1966*Hydrox's VERY questionable 1988 commercialConnect with us!*Want to support our women and BIPOC-created independent podcast? Buy us a coffee!* For more great content about the stories & foods we talk about on the show (plus a peek BTS) follow us at @FoodDayPod on Instagram, Twitter & Facebook or check out our webpage.* Join our mailing list for extra content and to keep up with all the exciting things we have planned for this season.*Get yourself a delicious Yumday snack box

There's DOUGH much we want to tell you about cookies, we had to do it in two episodes! In Part 1 of this epic two-parter, Anna and Lia share their fondest cookie memories and tell us how letting their creativity go wild with cookie decorating was important part of their holiday traditions growing up. They also debate Oreo cookie eating methods — the twist and the dunk — and prove there's no such thing as moderation when it comes to these sweet treats. Then Lia Ballentine, our Chef-Creator, digs into cookie history, presents the “cookie vs. biscuit” debate, and goes through an epic list of cookie holidays. Can you believe there are more than 15 cookie days to celebrate each year? She highlights some of the most interesting cookie days on the calendar (National Spicy Hermit Cookie Day?) then tells us about three important women who have made (and continue to make) a tremendous impact in cookies and culture: Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of the Girls Scouts; Ruth Graves Wakefield, creator of the chocolate chip cookies; and Jasmine Cho, a cookie activist. Stay tuned for Part 2 coming next week, when Anna Van Valin, our Foodlosopher, discusses the century-long battle for the cookie aisle between Oreo and Hydrox!More info from the show:* Watch Jasmine Cho's TEDx Talk: “Cookies as a Form of Activism” * Listen to Phoebe tell another lie in this clip from “Friends” - Connect with us!*Want to support our women and BIPOC-created independent podcast? Buy us a coffee!* For more great content about the stories & foods we talk about on the show (plus a peek BTS) follow us at @FoodDayPod on Instagram, Twitter & Facebook or check out our webpage.* Join our mailing list for extra content and to keep up with all the exciting things we have planned for this season.*Get yourself a delicious Yumday snack box

Joe talks about his lack of racist and homophobic role models growing up, gender uncertainty in an appliance store, and Hydrox.

TED! Ben is here!!!!!! It's the moment we've all been waiting for- the time when Ben and Chris arrive! We split this episode into two parts because it was just TWO good (get it because TWO parts, omg, wow) and we needed to cover everything! Join us as we go on deep dives about the Swiss Police Force, Hydrox vs Oreo, Jack London (why is Leslie obsessed with him?) and of course we spend the last minutes going over Adam Scott and Rob Lowe, hello?!?! Grab a drink and a friend and catch up with us! Life Is Short Podcast with Adam Scott that Holly mentions:https://podcasts.apple.com/si/podcast/adam-scott/id1459899327?i=1000558671446 Please rate and review us! Questions? Comments? Email us! parkpalspodcast@gmail.comTruly,Holly and Madi@parkpalspodcastMusic by @seantrainormusicArt cover by @sketch.it.snipsSupport the show

Welcome to the Type1lifting PodcastIn this episode I talk to Hyrox and fellow Misfit Athletics Athlete Xander Fallek. In this episode we talk about what is Hyrox and his goals for the year. Subscribe for more Episodes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/type1lifting/id1493068726Share this video with a friend: Liberte Lifestyle: https://libertelifestyles.com use promo code TYPE1 Listen next – My Mom Mary Lennon https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/type1lifting/id1493068726?i=1000559650755Let's connect:Instagram – @Type1LiftingTwitter – @Type1LiftingLinkedIn – THOMAS LENNONFacebook - Type1LiftingThank you for listening and please leave a review so I can help this podcast grow.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hour 2 Oreo cookies make a coming out film...which has what to do with cookies? Audio from WGIG-AM and FM in Brunswick, GA

(Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MOXIE - Enter promo code MOXIE for 83% off and 3 extra months free!) T-shirt for Ukraine, all proceeds and matching donation to Ukraine Red Cross at yourbrainonfacts.com/merch Who you gonna believe -- me or your lying eyes?  Today we look at court cases where people try to avoid taxes by arguing that things aren't the things that they clearly are. 00:50 Tomato 08:18 Jaffa Cakes 17:48 Hydrox vs Oreo 37:40 X-Men Links to all the research resources are on the website. Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.  Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,  or Instagram.  Become a patron of the podcast arts! Patreon or Ko-Fi.  Or buy the book and a shirt. Music: Kevin MacLeod,  Want to start a podcast or need a better podcast host?  Get up to TWO months hosting for free from Libsyn with coupon code "moxie."   We like labels, as humans we like labeling things.  Taxonomy is the branch of science concerned with classification and there used to be several inconsistent and sometimes conflicting systems of classification in use.  Then came Carl Linneaus and his influential “Systema Naturae” in 1735, laying down the system we use to this day.  Linnaeus was the first taxonomist to list humans as a primate, though he did classify whales as fish. Years later, a New York court agreed with him.  My name's… D&D Stats Explained With Tomatoes Strength is being able to crush a tomato. Dexterity is being able to dodge a tomato. Constitution is being able to eat a bad tomato. Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad. Charisma is being able to sell a tomato based fruit salad.   TOMATOES So that's more clear, but it raises a rather mad –and for some, maddening– question: Is the tomato a fruit or a vegetable?  Well, yes, it's both, but actually no.  Botanically, it's a fruit. But legally, it's not.  A fruit is technically the seed-bearing structure of a plant whereas a vegetable can be virtually any part of the plant we eat.     Things must have been slow in March of 1893, because this definition was set by the Supreme Court.  The issue at hand was tariffs, specifically a 10% tariff on the import of vegetables into the United States.  Just veggies.  Imported fruits were not.  This was of particular interest to John Nix of Manhattan.  He ran a produce wholesale business along with his four sons and found himself the proud owner of an enormous tax bill on a shipment of Caribbean tomatoes.  John Nix & Co. were one of the largest sellers of produce in New York City at the time, and one of the first companies to bring the Empire state produce from such far-flung places as Florida and Bermuda.  Nix disputed the tax on the grounds that tomatoes were scientifically-supportably fruit.  Full of seeds, ain't they?  That's the part that seems to turn grown adults into fussy toddlers when their burger has a tomato despite their very clear instructions.  Worse than the anti-pickle crowd.  Anyway, Nix filed a suit against Edward L. Hedden, Collector of the Port of New York, to get back the tax money he'd been forced to pay under protest.    The crux of Nix's case was the opening of an uninspired speech -  counsel read the definitions of the words "fruit," "vegetables," and tomato from Webster's Dictionary, Worcester's Dictionary, and the Imperial Dictionary.  Judgment for the plaintiff, case closed!  But wait, there's more.  Not to be outdone, defendant's counsel then read into evidence the Webster's definitions of the words pea, eggplant, cucumber, squash, and pepper.  Oh, it's on now! Countering this, the plaintiff then read in the definitions of potato, turnip, parsnip, cauliflower, cabbage, carrot and bean.  That's when, I assume, all hell broke loose in the courtroom and perhaps a giant musical number broke out.  Just trying to jazz it up a bit.  Nix's side called two witnesses, not botanists or linguists, but men with a lot of years in the fruit & veg business, to say whether these words had "any special meaning in trade or commerce, different from those read."   The supreme court decided to look more practically and less pedantically at the situation and ruled that it's how a tomato is used that makes it a vegetable, not the official scientific definition.  If people cook and eat them like vegetables, then vegetables they must be, and so they were subject to the tariff.  “Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans, and peas,” wrote Justice Horace Gray in his 1893 opinion. “But in the common language of the people, whether sellers or consumers of provisions, all these are vegetables.”     What was really important about Nix's case was the timing.  We're talking late Victorian, after the age of sail had been obviated by the steam power of the industrial revolution.  You might have heard about it, it was in all the papers.  Ships could now cross the Atlantic in 1-2 weeks, rather than the 6-12 weeks it took in a century prior.  Foods from the tropics could now reach New England in a week or less, making their import a viable option.  This was when bananas went from being expensive oddity to must-have trend to staple of every grocery store, though that was the Gros Michelle banana, the one our fake banana flavor is based on, not the Cavendish banana we eat today, but that's a topic for another show.  To service the evolving tastes of urban population, a new class of national wholesalers, such as the Nixes, were born.   The tomato's identity crisis was far from settled, though.  In 1937, the League of Nations, precursor to the UN, sought to classify various goods for the purpose of tariffs and they too labeled tomatoes a veggie, putting them under the heading of “vegetables / edible plants / roots and tubers.”  Not to be left out, the U.S. Department of Agriculture agreed, citing 1890s Nix v. Hedden case.    But there are always exceptions, hold-outs, outliers, and just plain contrarians.  Tennessee and Ohio made the tomato their state fruit.  If you think that's silly, you might want to swallow your coffee before I tell you the state vegetable of Oklahoma is the watermelon.  I did not care to look into their reasoning.  The European Union went a step further with a directive in December 2001 classifying tomatoes as fruit — along with rhubarb, carrots, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins and melons.  It's bad enough all prepackaged fruit bowls have some form of melon in them (which causes me instantaneous reverse peristalsis), but it you gave me a fruit salad and it had cucumbers in it, I have a parking lot and I'll fight you in it.   But I think I'll give the last word to George Ball of the Burpee's seed and plant company: “Are [tomatoes] fruits? Of course,” he said. “Are they vegetables? You bet.”  Though Burpee's does put “vegetable” on the seed packet, so maybe it's not settled after all. JAFFA CAKES Maybe things that grow are too ephemeral for man's taxonomy.  Things are a lot of simpler when we're talking about man-made goods, things that don't grow on trees, and it is only a tragedy that you can't plant an entire orchard of Jaffa cake trees.  For those whose life has not yet contained this job, a Jaffa cake it a little round of dense yellow cake –sponge, as they say in the home counties– with a disc of orange jelly on top enrobed in chocolate.  It.  Is.  So. Good.  You can sometimes find them in big grocery stores like Kroger and Publix if they have a large enough “International” aisle stock Branston pickle along with pad thai sauce and Tajin.   This issue here it again taxes, but this time VAT.  For those that don't speak British, VAT or  Value-Added Tax is “A type of consumption tax that is placed on a product whenever value is added at a stage of production and at final sale.”  Basically sales tax cranked to 11.  VAT is a tax that is paid by everyone involved with the manufacture of a given object or foodstuff, as well as the consumer.  As I go to air, the VAT rate in the UK is 20%.  If you're a UK-based widget-maker, you pay VAT on the price of the raw materials.  When you sell the widgets wholesale to a store, the retailer pays VAT on that sale.  Then, when someone comes into the shop to buy one of your cutting-edge widgets, they pay VAT too.       As with most areas of life, there are exceptions –  a number of things are subjected to a reduced 5% rate and some things are exempt altogether.  The exceptions are for the really necessary things, like mobility aids, menstrual hygiene products, stamps, end of life care, and most food, including cake.  That's some grade A foreshadowing right there.  But some foods are just so wonderful, they absolutely must be taxed and taxed fully.  Such luxury items include alcohol, mineral water, confectioneries and, with the specificity that all governments seem to love, chocolate-covered biscuits.  Regular biscuits are apparently basic essentials.  No, American listeners, not like buttermilk biscuits, because even I'd have to think twice about covering one of those in chocolate.  Whereupon I would do it.  I could make that work.  You're talking to the chick that made a startling good roasted garlic and parmesan ice cream.  No, British biscuits are cookies.  And British listeners, don't at me on soc meds with the definition of biscuit, because you know you're not consistent with it.  The only word that's more confusing is pudding.  Is that a dessert course, a sausage made of 80% blood, a flambeed Christmas dessert, or a suet dough stuffed with beef and veggies and steamed for eight hours?  While I'm on British language, Cockney rhyming slang has got to be the worst thing…   The McVities company had a notion otherwise.  They appealed, prompting a Customs and Exchange VAT tribunal.  Jaffa cakes, they said, shouldn't be taxed at the “most food” 20% rate, but at the 5% rate of chocolate-covered biscuits.  It takes a lot of brass to make that claim when you yourself named the product Jaffa *cakes. [tiktok] origin story] According to the website for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, the court first had to establish a legal definition of what made a cake a cake and what makes a biscuit a biscuit, before determining which column Jaffa Cakes belonged in.  Jaffa Cakes were assessed using the following criteria: The product name, ingredients, texture, structure of the product, the size, how the product is sold, and how the product is marketed.   Towards this end, the main arguments on behalf of the office of Customs and Excise were that Jaffa Cakes are the approximate size and shape of biscuits, are stocked on the shelves with the biscuits, and, owing in no small part to McVities' own marketing, people eat them in the sort of contexts biscuit are eaten.    McVities countered by stating that Jaffa Cakes are baked in the manner of cake and of the same base ingredients.  Their master stroke was staleness – cakes go hard as they stale and biscuits go soft.  When Jaffa cakes go stale, and it's hard to imagine them sitting there long enough, they go hard.  McVities actually let a bunch of them out to go stale and brouhght them into court as evidence.  And in a legal tactic I'd like to see more often, McVities baked a big ol' 12-inch version of a Jaffa Cake, to show that if you blew it up to the size of a normal cake, it would just be a cake.    If I were on the other side of it, I might make a big deal over the name, but the judge presiding over the case, Mr D.C Potter, ruled that to be of “no serious relevance” because a product's name often has little to do with its actual function.  In the end, the court decided the Jaffa Cake was, in fact, a cake, and the Irish Revenue Commissioners agreed, though their ruling was based on the Jaffa Cakes' moisture content being greater than 12%.  So no VAT on Jaffa cakes, which means we can buy more of them, hooray!   HYDROX VS OREO In 1882, the entrepreneur Jacob Loose bought a biscuit and candy company that would eventually be known as Sunshine Biscuits, the company that would eventually give us Cheez-its, which my ex-husband went through at least a box of a week, dipping in port wine cheese spread.  About as close as he ever got to a balanced diet.  In 1908, launched the cream-filled chocolate sandwich biscuit known as Hydrox.  The name, he thought, would be reminiscent of sparkling sunlight and evoked an impression of cleanliness (probably because it sounds like a disinfectant).  This was after all only a few years after the Pure Food and Drug Act, before which your canned veggies might be full of borax and your milk be a watered down concoction of chalk dust and cow brains, and you wouldn't know.  Some tellings have it that Hydrox is a portmanteau of hydrogen and oxygen, the elements that make up water, the gold standard of purity.  Meanings aside, the fact that there actually was a Hydrox Chemical Company in business at the time, one that sold hydrogen peroxide and was caught up in a trademark lawsuit at the time over the use of the word “hydrox,” should have given them a hint to maybe go back to committee.  Hydrox chemicals lawsuit, btw, pointed out that the word “hydrox” was already in use for such disparate things as coolers, soda, and ice cream, so maybe Jacob Loose figured the word is out there, might as well use it.   For four years, Hydrox cookies with their lovely embossed flower design made cash registers ring for Sunshine Biscuits.  Then, 90 years almost to the day of this episode dropping, the National Biscuit Company came along –you probably know them by their shortened name, Nabisco– with the launch of three different cookies, the Mother Goose biscuit, the Veronese biscuit, both now lost to history, and the Oreo.  The cookies were very similar, with Oreos even being embossed by the same time of production machine, but Hydrox have a sweeter filling and less-sweet cookie.  Like VHS vs beta, which you can learn more about in the book and audiobook, the newcomer soon came to dominate the landscape, and there's no clear reason why.  Any chocolate sandwich biscuit is offhandedly called an Oreo, no matter how cheap a replica it may be.  It's literally the best-selling cookie in the world now, with $3.28 billion in sales in the U.S. alone.  They sell 92 million cookies per day throughout 100-plus countries under the parent brand Mondelez International.  That ubiquity has led a lot of people to erroneously assume that Oreo is the original and Hydrox is the Mr. Pibb to their Dr. Pepper.  Hydrox did manage to hold onto a cadre of die-hards, especially in areas with significant Jewish populations, because Hydrox were always kosher.  Oreo cream used to be made with lard from pigs and Nabisco would later have to invest a lot of resources into replacing the lard with shortening in the 90's.     Sunshine Biscuits was purchased by Keebler in 1996, who replaced Hydrox with a reformulated product called "Droxies," which 100% sounds like drug slang for a veterinary tranquilizer.  Keebler was acquired by Kellogg's in 2001, and Kellogg's yanked Droxies from the shelves before adding a similar chocolate sandwich cookie to the Famous Amos brand, then discontinued them.  In August 2008, on the cookie's 100th anniversary, Kellogg's resumed distribution of Hydrox under the Sunshine label, a limited distribution, one and done.  Hydrox-heads besieged Kellogg's with phone calls and an online petition, asking that Hydrox be brought back for good, but all for naught.  Less than a year later Kellogg's had removed Hydrox from their website.  “This is a dark time in cookie history,” one Hydrox partisan, Gary Nadeau, wrote, according to the Wall Street Journal. “And for those of you who say, ‘Get over it, it's only a cookie,‘ you have not lived until you have tasted a Hydrox.”  As of the time of writing, I've never had one myself, but I'll see if I can't lay my hands on some before going to air.   Getting my hands on some may be a touch trickier than it should be.  They exist; that's not the issue.  In 2015, entrepreneur Ellia Kassoff, a lover of Hydrox who knew the trick to getting a trademark someone else had allowed to lapse, was able to pick up Hydrox for his own company, Leaf Brands—itself a dormant brand that Kassoff had revived.  Hip to the time, Leaf Brands made Hydrox available on Amazon, so anyone anywhere could get them whenever they wanted (plus two days for delivery).  These new Hydrox weren't going to bow gracefully to the dominant Oreo.  Their website points out that they use real cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup, and no hydrogenated oils, artificial flavors, and GMOs, and warn consumers, "don't eat a knock-off!"  Hydrox are also made in the USA while Mondelez International was laying off U.S. workers.  Sales of Hydrox grew by 2,406 percent from 2016 to 2017, amassing more than $492,000 in sales — clearly, still light-years away from Oreo's overwhelming dominance in the market, but impressive progress nonetheless.   If you ask Leaf Brands, they'd be doing a lot better if not for Mondelez – not out-competing them, deliberately sabotaging them.  This is the hard-to-find bit I alluded to.  In August 2018, Leaf Brands filed a lawsuit against Mondelez International, seeking $800 million in damages because of "lost sales and reputation.”  The charges claimed that Mondelez was using its massive industry muscle "to place their own products in favorable locations in stores and move competitors in less desirable positions on store shelves."  On their Facebook page, you can see pictures of grocery stores where Hydrox cookies are hidden behind other displays, scooted to the back of shelves, and even turned sideways so the short end is facing out.  If you've never worked grocery retail, your instinct may be to blame the store staff, but a lot of brands are actually stocked by the manufacturer.  Ever pass a guy in a Pepsi polo shirt with hand-truck loaded with soda?  That, but with cookies.  And it's not just their own products.  Mondelez is what's called a “category captain,” meaning they get to determine much of the layout for the whole cookie aisle.  Leaf alleges that Mondelez employees and agents are deliberately making Hydrox harder to find while making Oreos pert near impossible to miss.   This is far from the first lawsuit over Oreos.  A class action lawsuit was filed claiming the cookies misled buyers by stating that the product contains real cocoa.  The judge dismissed the case.  And they were sued for Fudge Covered Mint Oreos not containing any actual fudge.  The plaintiffs claim that these cookies don't contain any milkfat from dairy, a key component of fudge, but rather cheaper palm and palm kernel oil.  As so often happens, there are eleventy-hundred articles from the week the case was filed and nothing on the outcome.  That's what happened with the main point of this article.  I was dead sure I remembered Hydrox and Oreo going to court over the basic infringement question, and Hydrox losing, but I couldn't turn up anything on that because of the sabotage lawsuit sucking up all the search results.   X-MEN It's not all foodie fact fun today.  I'm going to risk a copyright strike to play 15 seconds of a song that will make everyone near me in age go “aw yeah!” [sfx Xmen theme]  For the young or those who had social lives in high school, that's the theme song to the 90's Xmen cartoon, and it slaps, as they kids used to say.  For the truly uninitiated, and c'mon even my mom knows who the Xmen are, the story centers on a group of superheroes who get their powers from genetic mutations…and government experiments, time travel, by dint of being aliens – it's a comic book, what do you want.   Ever since their introduction to the Marvel Universe in 1963, the X-Men have always had to deal with questions about their humanity.  While their enemies will stop at nothing to cast them as monsters, the team continues to fight for a world where they are treated just like humans.  That's in-universe.  In the broader reality, it's actually in the X-Men's best interest not to be considered humans.  Well, Marvel comics financial bottom line, anyway, and they went to court over it.   In 1993, international trade lawyers Sherry Singer and Indie Singh found an interesting provision in a book of federal tariff classifications – “dolls” are taxed at 12% on import while “toys” are only taxed 6.8%.  The devil is in the details, or in this case, the definition.  A “toy” can be any shape, representing any thing, but a "doll" can only be a representation of a human being, like Barbie or GI Joe.  [tik tok Joe's thumbnail]  Singer and Singh knew this distinction could be a sizable financial benefit for their client, Marvel Entertainment, who had an ownership stake in ToyBiz at the time.  For years, Marvel had been importing action figures that were taxed as dolls, despite their wide panoply of brightly colored characters often being anything but human.  Taking a direct approach, the two lawyers gathered up a literal bag full of action figures and went to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Washington, D.C. to try and convince them that Marvel wasn't importing humanlike “dolls,” but instead very non-human “toys.”   The Customs staff's reaction to the bag of toys is not recorded, but their official response was that the “non-human characteristics” of the X-Men and other action figures “fall far short of transforming [these figures] into something other than the human beings which they represent.”  Singer and Singh were locked onto this tactic and pursued it for a decade.  A judge considered various figures from Marvel's whole line to decide whether or not individual characters were human or not.  Rippling pecs, long claws, blue skin, red eyes, all were scrutinized, as lawyers on both sides expostulated on the philosophical ramifications of what it means to be human.  How can these action figures be human if they have "tentacles, claws, wings, or robotic limbs?"     I'd loved to have been there to hear people with expensive educations in tailored suits, stand before a learned jurist in a wood-paneled courtroom and say things like,  "The figure of 'Kingpin' resembles a man in a suit carrying a staff. Nothing in the storyline indicates that Kingpin possesses superhuman powers.  Yet, Kingpin is known to have exceedingly great strength (however 'naturally' achieved) and the figure itself has a large and stout body with a disproportionately small head and disproportionately large hands. Even though 'dolls' can be caricatures of human beings, the court is of the opinion that the freakishness of the figure's appearance coupled with the fabled 'Spider-Man' storyline to which it belongs does not warrant a finding that the figure represents a human being."   In 2003, Judge Judith Barzilay ruled that Marvel characters aren't quite human enough to taxed as dolls.  “They are more than (or different than) humans. These fabulous characters use their extraordinary and unnatural physical and psychic powers on the side of either good or evil. The figures' shapes and features, as well as their costumes and accessories, are designed to communicate such powers."   Yay, a victory for the giant multimillion dollar corporation!  But a slap in the face for diehard X-Men fans.  Chuck Austen, one of the writers for Uncanny X-Men at the time, said his whole goal in the story was to show the team's humanity.  The nerds grew restless and Marvel had to issue a statement that read, "Don't fret, Marvel fans, our heroes are living, breathing human beings—but humans who have extraordinary abilities ... A decision that the X-Men figures indeed do have 'nonhuman' characteristics further proves our characters have special, out-of-this world powers." And that's… To protect the public from contaminated oil, New York State law required that all fish oil be gauged, inspected and branded, with a penalty of $25 per barrel on those who failed to comply.  Samuel Judd purchased three barrels of whale oil that had not been inspected, and James Maurice, a fish oil inspector, sought to collect the penalty from him.  Judd pleaded that the barrels contained whale oil, not fish oil, and so were not subject to the fish oil legislation. At trial, one side said the term "fish oil" was commonly understood to include whale oil, and the other side plead the obvious science that whales are mammals.  The jury deliberated for 15 minutes and returned a verdict in favor of the fish oil inspector.    Mr. Judd, dissatisfied with the verdict, moved for a new trial. By then, the Legislature was in session and the Recorder, knowing that a new fish oil bill was pending, delayed his decision on the motion. The new enactment limited the inspection to fish liver oil, and the Recorder took the view that this implicitly confirmed that the earlier legislation covered whale oil. Accordingly, he refused to grant Judd's motion for a new trial.   James Maurice resigned his position as fish oil inspector because he considered that the position under the new law had too little value or importance.     Sources: https://www.constantpodcast.com/episodes/are-whales-fish https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/12/26/256586055/when-the-supreme-court-decided-tomatoes-were-vegetables https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/18/the-obscure-supreme-court-case-that-decided-tomatoes-are-vegetables/ https://www.insider.com/interesting-facts-about-oreo-2018-7#oreo-first-appeared-on-the-market-in-1912-1 https://www.mashed.com/223360/the-strange-history-of-the-oreo-and-hydrox-cookie-rivalry/ https://www.mashed.com/702384/why-this-snack-food-giant-is-being-sued-over-an-oreo-flavor/?utm_campaign=clip http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/10/time-company-baked-giant-cake-win-court-case/  https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/read-this/is-a-jaffa-cake-a-cake-or-a-biscuit-heres-the-definitive-answer-as-decided-by-a-court-1379222 https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/92007/why-us-federal-court-ruled-marvels-x-men-arent-humans https://www.polygon.com/comics/2019/9/12/20862474/x-men-series-toys-human-legal-issue-marvel-comics https://observer.com/2007/12/thar-she-blows-19thcentury-court-case-harpoons-a-whale-of-a-story/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtpJFEBcKoE

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Elizabeth Molina: [00:00:00] Hello, my beautiful people, I'm Elizabeth Molina and I am your beauty guru in this podcast, I will share with you all you need to know about beauty from the inside out. You will gain access to the latest beauty trends from head to toe mind. And so you will hear from experts themselves. The trendy influencers, celebrities, athletes and of course, myself on all things beauty. This is definitely the place to be biohacking, beauty, hacking, life hacking into the why for your beauty routine. Are you ready for your global obsession? Welcome, guys. You know what day it is. I'm going to keep it short and sweet, because today is going to be a hot episode. We have an amazing guest. It is Susan Bratton. She is an intimacy expert to a million. She is a champion and advocate for all of those who desire intimacy and passion. She is the co-founder and CEO of Two Corporation's Personal Life Media Inc, a publisher of a heart connected love making techniques in the Bedrooms, Communication Skills and 20-20, LLC, a manufacturer of organic and botanical supplements that enhance sexual vitality. You heard that right, guys? We are going to have a spicy episode today. She's a bestselling author and publisher of 34 books and programs, including Sexual Soulmates, Relationship Magic, Revive Her Drive, Ravish Him Steamy Sex Ed, The Passion Patch, Hormone Balancing and Hot to Trot. Susan has been featured in The New York Times and on CNBC and The Today Show, as well as frequent appearances on ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC. Hi, Susan. How are you, Elizabeth?   Susan Bratton: [00:01:48] I am radiant and glowing, as we all should be.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:01:52] You truly are for you guys. We are also recording this video, so you have to see her. She is truly radiant and glowing and looking as hot as ever. And so I'm excited to have her on. But let's let's talk a little bit about what you do. Let's talk about sex, baby. Let's get into the conversation. You are the expert. You have really helped millions of people. You are the expert in this case. So I'm I'm intrigued. What does that mean that you've helped you become the intimacy expert for millions of people?   Susan Bratton: [00:02:24] Well, about 15 years ago, my husband and I was closer to 20 years ago. Now my husband and I had a really rocky point in our marriage, and I didn't really want to make love with him anymore. You know, I had been doing it for over a decade, and it wasn't that satisfying for me. And I really pulled away. And then that made him emotionally disconnect. And then we were on the verge of divorce and we decided to do something about it. So we sought therapy, which was a part of the solution. But really what helped us was going to sex workshops. It was our sex life. You know, they say that either couples have trouble with their sex life or with money and money wasn't the problem for us, nor was it for all our friends who we saw getting divorced. It was really our sexuality. And what had happened was, you know, in hindsight, 20, 20 vision, we had been having sex. And what I would call today, the patriarchal way, the way that men want to have sex because they don't know any different. And there are there are masculine sexual leaders. And so they're doing the best they can, but they don't live in our bodies or understand our arousal and our libido and how different it is than theirs. And when we did sex workshops, we began to understand orgasm skills and have sexual communication skills that were much, much stronger.   Susan Bratton: [00:03:39] And we really went through a renaissance in our sex life to the point where we decided to start a company together, essentially taking these incredible transformational sex workshop experiences and putting them online so that people could do them in the privacy of their own home. And what I like to say is that my job is to transform having sex into making love. It's also translating the masculine and feminine for each other so that you that you can get into your partner's world. Because though I support full gender spectrum expression, most people are in a heterosexual monogamous relationship. So that's where my sweet spot is. My sweet spot is, hey, this is what she needs from you. Hey, this is what he needs from you. And here's how you can get into a more of a balance that satisfying for both people, because so much of the media and pretty much all of porn is both degrading to women and doesn't follow at all what I would consider to be the matriarchal needs of our sexuality. So I've published over 45 books and programs. You can find them all, by the way, at Susan Bratten dot com. If you look under my products link, there are all of the published programs that I've created, all of my supplement company products. But also there's about 30 free gifts because. And you could just help yourself, you can have as many as you want, because   Elizabeth Molina: [00:05:03] I love that. Thank you.   Susan Bratton: [00:05:04] Different places in their sexual evolution, and you could be stuck in an entirely different place than the next person, than the next person, than the next person. So what I really did was I created a constellation of things that help remove the obstacles to your intimacy and satisfaction wherever you are. Because one of the things I can tell you is that good sex can be can get better and better your whole life long because you can get better in bed your whole life long. And sex is really a learned skill. Procreation, we kind of can figure out. But passionate lovemaking. We're not getting taught. And not only that, but the media and pornography is making it worse for us women then and not making it better. So I really feel like I like to break through all of the wrongdoings, the misunderstandings, the myths, everything from our orgasmic potential to being afraid to talk to your partner or to not knowing what you want. You do know what you want. I tell her that. Yeah. And and I think those things are all of the ways that I can really help and support people and meet them wherever they are. And I've worked with people from 19 to 90 around the world, from all different cultures. So I really have a big heart for actually how sexually emancipated we are here in America compared to the rest of the world. They're still in a very backward paradigm. So that's kind of who I am and what I do.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:06:34] I have a ton of questions. I'm like, what can you just quickly like tell us, because I know we're going to get into this, but like the pandemic has been huge for couples with this sexual arousal. Being with your partner all day, being in the same small space, how do you find them attractive no longer getting dressed, you know, waiting. There's so much we're talking about beauty here, which we will get into. But give us a short OK, you're showing us something. What are you showing us?   Susan Bratton: [00:07:01] So I'm going to show you. And remember, you can go to YouTube and see these images as well. And it's worth going to YouTube and seeing these images, because what I'm actually showing you is the internal mechanisms of a penis. Yes. And really what I want to do is I want to tell you two things that will make a big shift for you. The first is that our men, if we're in a relationship with a penis owner, he has this. The benefit of something called hemodynamics and hemodynamics means that he has these big spongy chambers of erectile tissue in his penis and they fill in very quickly with blood. The blood just runs straight into them. But if you look at what our vulva looks like and I want to show you two images here. The first image is the inside the X, the outside of our vulva. So we're pretty familiar as women with the the the outer labia, the inner labia, the vestibule, the opening, the the clitoral tip, the shaft, the hood, the urethral exit, where our PRP comes out, the vaginal opening, the G spot inside. We're pretty familiar with what the rover looks like, though. I bet we don't look at our own enough. Probably if I peel away the skin and I just take the layer right off the top here group, this is what it looks like underneath our skin and all.   Susan Bratton: [00:08:30] All of this meaty tissue is our erectile systems, and we have as much erectile tissue in our vulva as our male body partners have in our in their penis. But we don't have it. I always say that if a man's like a banana, a woman's like an English muffin. She's got all these nooks and crannies that have to be filled in with blood and it seeps in more slowly. And we have the clitoral glands, the clitoral shaft, the clitoral arms or Kaura, the clitoral legs or vestibular bulbs. We have the urethral sponge, which people call a G spot. It's not a spot. It's a long tube that both comes out on the face of the vestibule of the vagina, as well as going deep into the vagina. And then we have a perineal sponge on the bottom. That's also erectile tissue. And our vaginas are literally wrapped, embraced with erectile tissue. But we women put our attention. We've been told your orgasm starts in your clitoris. And we think our clitoris is this little tip that shows under the hood when actually this entire structure that wraps around our vagina is our clitoral structure. And we have a urethral structure and a perineal structure, and we have sex too fast. And the reason that we do and this is the matriarchal versus patriarchal view, is that he is, number one, testosterone dominant where we are estrogen dominant.   Susan Bratton: [00:09:59] And so he has not only the benefit of hemodynamics, he has the benefit of test, more testosterone, which makes him ready to go and ready to penetrate us. And so the thing is that he gets an erection. He wants to stick it in, but he sticks it in way too early and doesn't allow our entire vulva to become engorged or swollen with blood. We need a lot of stimulation, manual oral toys, you know, vibration to get all that tissue plumped up. Because if you think about it, a man wouldn't have and would not have sex with a flaccid penis. He would want it to be plumped up. Correct, because there's more surface area to send pleasure signals to the brain. So here we are having sex too fast without enough stimulation and enough time to get engorged. That's why women struggle to have orgasms from intercourse. So many sexperts say intercourse is overrated. It's all about the clit. And we need pleasure in the clit, etc cetera. And they are wrong. We can have orgasms from intercourse without even touching the tip of our clitoris. If we get everything fully engorged, if we slow down. If we take our pleasure, if we give ourselves time and the older we get, the harder it is to get that tissue engorged.   Susan Bratton: [00:11:22] Because not only do our hormones decline, but something called our nitric oxide production declines. And one of the very first tips I have for beauty also works for sex and orgasmic pleasure, and that is nitric oxide supplementation. When you can't get enough blood flow, nitric oxide controls your vascular system and how much blood goes where. And if you don't get enough blood flow to your vulva, you can't get fully engorged. So you can't feel the orgasmic pleasure that you deserve. And then you have to spend all the time jangling the nerves of your clitoral tip just to try to orgasm, when all you would have to do is get enough blood flow and engorgement to your vulva that you wouldn't even have to touch the tip of your clit because it's getting stimulated through intercourse. So I really believe and know for a fact that every woman can come from or from intercourse without even stimulating the tip of the clitoris, which is called the glands, by the way. And that's the only part of the clitoris. That's not erectile tissue. Interestingly enough, it has a lot of nerve endings. But your entire vulva can be absolutely activated with pleasure. You can have you can have an orgasm from the tiniest little touch on the edge of a labia. You don't need to have all this mass stimulation to the clitoral tip.   Susan Bratton: [00:12:46] And so the thing that I tell men is, if you want to make love to a woman and have her really appreciate it, which is what they want more than anything in the world, they will give up their pleasure for your pleasure. It's important to them. They just don't know what they're doing. Then slow down and slow down some more and then four down 10 times more than that. I love and put a lot of attention on manuell pleasure or pleasure. Toys get our vulvas, our pop and get our clitorises, our recht. We need a Clate erection. It takes about 20 minutes to pop your clit, and that's a good indication that the rest of it's beginning to fill in. And so slowing down and getting into sensation and pleasure and. Devoting the whole volver means you'll begin to want to have great sex with your partner and you'll literally be able to do what I call Krock crossing the orgasm chasm, being able to have an orgasm from intercourse with your partner, and then you can go on to having multiple orgasms. You can have g spot orgasms, you can have expanded orgasms, you can enjoy female ejaculation, you can have peroneal orgasms, you can have boob orgasms and lip orgasms and brain orgasms and belly orgasms and foot orgasms and fantasy orgasms. And, you know, you name it there.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:14:04] The list goes on,   Susan Bratton: [00:14:05] The kinds of orgasms that are available to us. And we're having one. And it's more like a sneeze than a really good, intense experience. So the good news is there's so much more you can learn and learning makes you better in bed and gives you more pleasure. And all of sex is just learn skills. Some people got lucky and they could do it automatically, but very few. And so I always say to women who think, oh, I'm just not the kind of woman who can have an orgasm from intercourse. I'm like, nope, you're just not one who's had it yet. Oh, well, the woman can have that. And if you're in a relationship with a male body partner, that's something you guys need to work through and figure out so that you can come and come and come the whole time he's in jail. And you can just have a fantastic time and of course, incorporate toys, incorporate oral, incorporate all those things. That's really the trick. And it starts with nitric oxide, which brings vascularization, which brings blood flow to your whole body, including your face and your skin. And what vascularization? Our blood flow, Gattu, is oxygenation and healing, because we take a lot of hits to our skin, to our beauty, to our hair, to to our cognitive function, to everything with all the toxins that are in the world and all of the, you know, the external assaults on our beauty. This is literally the number one foundation of she's pointing to.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:15:30] And, yeah, she's pointing to this bottle flow. So do you take this daily? Do you take this before you know you're having intercourse? Like how does it how does it work? Tell us a little bit more about this, because like obviously our listeners are like, what are all these orgasms? How do I get them? And we know that when you experience real pleasure. Yeah. You have a glow, you're happier. You're releasing a whole bunch of great hormones, happy hormones. You're just in the state of happiness. I mean, you you can see that there's nothing to be angry about. You're in a state of bliss. So tell us about this product. How does it work? How do we get it? We want to know, OK.   Susan Bratton: [00:16:10] It's really easy. Flow is a product that I developed because there weren't any organic nitric oxide supplements that I liked out in the marketplace. This is made from organic watermelon citrulline is a very bioavailable version of a nitric oxide precursor. It also has spinach and bitter cherries in it. And all of those things help you create nitric oxide, which helps you get blood flow to your vulva and to your pelvis, which helps you get lubrication and orgasmic intensity. You can take it about 20 to 30 minutes before lovemaking, which just take it just before you start having sex and, you know, spend half an hour in foreplay and then make love and it'll give you increased lubrication and an orgasmic pleasure and sensation and then take two at night every night just to keep your organic, not nitric oxide stores up once you hit 40. By the time you're 50, you have half the nitric oxide production you did when you are 20s. So women, a lot of times they think it's a hormone issue that's creating the loss of lubrication and lack of pleasure, when in actual fact, yes, estrogen loss does thin the vaginal tissue. But and I'm going to talk a little bit more about some other things I do to keep myself plump and young. So where you get flow is on Amazon flow, organic nitric oxide, or you can get it at the 20 store dot com with my promo code, Susan. And there's a discount that way, which is always OK. So flow is it. And if you want me to send you some Elizabeth, let me know. I'd be happy to ship them off.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:17:46] That's that's a no brainer. I like. Yes.   Susan Bratton: [00:17:49] Ok, good. We'll have that.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:17:52] I'm like, I need this. Let me try it out. Let's experiment and like. Wait. Question. What if you take this? This is like a I basically I'm here like a Viagra for women. Is this like kind of like that or. No? Like will I take it? And I'm like, I need to stop my day, cancel my calendar. I'm fully like in the mood to do things.   Susan Bratton: [00:18:13] Well, you know, for for us women, so much of our sexuality begins in the mind. But when your when you're vaginas lubricating and wet more, you actually do feel more turned on. So there are many women who've reported to me that they're walking around wet again. For the first time in a long time, and that naturally makes us feel like we could be more open to having sex. And one of the things that really helps reverse the drying out and shriveling up is partly taking a nitric oxide supplement, as well as making sure you have your essential fatty acids. And some what I like, I like collagen, but collagen alone is not enough. I've got a really sneaky, awesome hack for you that'll make me knowledgeable. Tell us, keep your tissues plumped up. There is there's a bacteria, a probiotic. It's called El Rouda. Ri l r e u t e u r i locked the lizard, derides and studied by Stanford. It's been studied by many, many. There's a lot of clinical data on the fact that this particular bacteria creates scaffolding in our tissue on which the collagen hangs. And without it. And my other hack, which is highly iranica acid and I like this brand, neo cell. Neo cell is a highly ironic acid that helps hold the moisture in the tissue.   Susan Bratton: [00:19:52] So between the collagen and the HRA and this particular bacteria, and I put these in my spice grinder, I take 10 capsules, put them in my spice grinder, grind them up, put them in my yogurt maker with my you can use dairy or nut milk and a little inulin, which is a prebiotic fiber. That's what the bacteria eat. You put the inulin in there, you sternal up, you put it in 100 degree yogurt maker, you leave it on for thirty six hours, very slow at one hundred degrees. And it cultures and you get this wonderful yogurt. And that's what I put in my morning smoothie, which I have right here. This is my morning smoothie. I'm still drinking it. And so I have the LRAD rye yogurt in here. And then I also put in. That the collagenase. So I like a brand called Organics. And I'm also like bulletproof when you make it with the yogurt and the collagenase. You're doing a fantastic job giving your body what it needs to hold on to the collagenase so they can stay there. And then I also use colostrum. I use colostrum in my smoothie, and I use a cream that is an organic cream from a company called The Cream.   Susan Bratton: [00:21:12] That is a colostrum based natural skincare product. So colostrum are very good. And going back to the hotel, you're on a acid's there are a couple of different things you need to know about HIV. You want there's there's something called high molecular weight and low molecular weight. How URAC acid. Yes. And the low molecular weight, which nacelle makes is very good for your skin. The high molecular weight, which is lubra ocen L'Abri is why. And that's good for your joints. If you're cracking when you're moving, that's a loss of age in the joints, in the synovial fluid. And so that you need the higher that you actually get this to racecourses, you need the high molecular weight. And then I also think that topical, highly irenic acid can't hurt a bit. The truth is that anything topical is only going to do so much. Your beauty starts from the inside out and you have to have enough. You have to have enough collagen. You have to have a structure for it to sit on with the L root rye. You have to have good, essential fatty acids, which I want to talk to you about.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:22:23] Check out the video she's showing us, literally the pictures. I was very impressed with the picture of the vulva and all I didn't like. I come I think that I'm pretty educated, but like I learned so much in this little, we didn't even go into so much detail. So I'm like, holy moly, Shmuley, I need to learn is so much more. And I love that you talk about beauty is an inside job. And, you know, we are talking about sex and we're talking about getting it hot and steamy. And before I want to go into the beauty part, I want to go into because you have this shy and you have this pizzazz about you that I can tell you're having a lot of fun, not just in real life and in your bedroom, but in in your mind as well and in your body. But quickly, I want to touch up on two things before we go into the beauty and continue the regimen, because they're all linked together. Right. Your beauty, your skin, your face, your sex organs, like the collagen you're talking about, all of this is linked together. And it's no surprise. I it was the first time I've even heard about it. I always thought it was the hormones that you're decreasing lubrication for women. It was like, oh, you're getting menopause, you're getting dry. I mean, I'm not in that age yet, but I'm in, you know, the biohacking space with women over 50.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:23:38] I love to learn. And like I'm going to be there, you know, not soon, but like eventually. And I'm like, what's what's in store for me? I want to learn how do I, you know, hijack that? How do I biomech that? And this is the first time I've heard of this. And it makes total sense, I have to say, like everything you're saying makes sense. The proof is in the pudding. Look at you. You look like not a day over like twenty eight. So I'm just like, how do I get there? How do I do that? But we are still coming out of a pandemic. Slowly, some places are closing back up again. And as you know, I'm sure you've heard it in your industry. Couples are suffering. Couples are suffering. Singles are suffering. And I mean, that's a whole nother episode. I feel like single during the pandemic and getting, you know, sexual pleasure and all that kind of good stuff. What may be freebee was you had that you could recommend to couples to kind of spice it up, you know, especially having maybe young children in the home under like 12, just, you know, finding it very difficult to be in each other's space. Not feeling that zests. Give us something to go on. What can they download today, right now that can like bring some fire back?   Susan Bratton: [00:24:44] The first thing that I'd recommend now you can find everything I'm talking about at Susan Bratten dot com. I have a page that mentions all my products. Flow is on there, for example, but it also has all my free gifts. And I have over forty five programs on there, and many of them are free. So help yourself to anything you want, because everyone's at a different place in their sexuality. So I can't guess where any individual would be the most helped. But I'll tell you a couple of things based on what you ask me. I'll give you some directions. So when you get to the page and look at those things, the first is that I've really written about why it's not your hormones that are drawing you out. You know, when you have a loss of estrogen going through perimenopause and beyond you, your vaginal tissue gets then your vaginal mucosa gets thinner and it can become very painful. There are many things you can do to fix that, one of which is this product, the V fit, the V fit. If you go to Joi Lux dot com slash Susan, there's a special page two. This has red light therapy, which uses photo bio modulation, low level laser light therapy, Bagnoli, along with heat and vibration for Kagle toning and recolonization. It helps with incontinence, thickens up the tissue. It reverses that painful sex along with perhaps a plant based estrogen and DHEA cream rubbed internally if you don't want to do bioidentical hormone replacement.   Susan Bratton: [00:26:13] I have thirty eight fascinating facts that supercharge your sex drive. It's called Hot to Trot and it's that hot to trot book dot com or you can find it by going to Susan Bratten dot com. And it goes more into these kinds of things that are it's not actually your hormones hits all these other things. Here's some things you can do. It includes the information about the L root rye probiotic and all kinds of things in there. So that's one. The second thing is talking more about how our female genital system works and how to pleasure it in the way that it needs to be measured, not in the way that is shown in television, on movies and in pornography, which is actually hurting us, not helping. And that's at arousal tips dot com. Ok. And then as far as spicing up a sex life, there's a couple of things I always say that couples that play together stay together, especially in the bedroom. It's either sex or money that tears us apart. And most of the time, if we were with we both have jobs. It's usually around sex. It's around sex more than people want to admit. You can learn pleasuring skills. You can do fantasy and roleplay. You can do lingerie, fashion shows, you can do new sex positions. You can have sex in new locations. You can incorporate toys into your lovemaking.   Susan Bratton: [00:27:33] You know, there's lots of ways that you can invigorate your sex life. But honestly, one of the most simple ways to get started doing something new is to try a new sex position. And I have a book called Seven Stimulating Sex Positions, that it's at seven positions dot com, the number seven positions dot com or at Susan Bratten dot com. All roads lead to Rome. And what I like about that is it's my seven favorite sex positions and it's an illustrated guide there. The illustrated couple is dressed in lingerie and things like that, but it is really fun to just work your way through all seven and try them out. And there are things that generally anyone can do, even if you've got joint problems or weight problems or what have you. So seven positions is something that I'd start with to get your sex life going, because when you learn new things together, when you begin as beginners together, it generates that new relationship, energy that's gone missing. Everything that I've been doing is inside, out, outside, in natural as possible. One of the things that I do love a good skin brush, but one of the things that I think is the most important is a good fatty acid profile. You have to have a lot of good fats. So, for example, I make my own salad dressing. And, you know, in order to eat healthy, raw vegetables and good salads, I like to call this the undressing dressing.   Susan Bratton: [00:29:05] I like to call it Visegrád, because what it really does is, you know, we lose the blood flow to our pelvic bowls, both the masculine and feminine, because we get plaque in our arteries from eating bad fats that clog everything up and then our blood flow is restricted. So when you make a good salad dressing out of, you know, like an organic avocado, oil is what I like to use as a base. Yeah. And if you take a cup of organic avocado oil, a quarter cup of a nice sherry vinegar. Yeah, that's nice. Old sherry vinegar and then a tablespoon of Dijon mustard and some salt and pepper. And then I use one of two dried herbs. I'll use fresh herbs. But I honestly think the dried herbs taste better. I use either savory or marjoram. Don't mix them. They don't taste good together. And you just keep those all those ingredients are dried ingredients you can keep in your house all the time. There's nothing up in that that you can't just store. So you can make fresh salad dressing, shake it up in a jar. And then I like to add a salad. I think a salad diced very fine, gives the dressing a delicious dimension. Everybody always wants my dressing people when I'm coming over to their house for dinner pre pandemic, they'd be like, can you can you make me some of that dressing and bring it over?   Elizabeth Molina: [00:30:25] It sounds yummy.   Susan Bratton: [00:30:26] Yeah, it's delicious. And so I think making sure that you're not eating bottled dressings is very important. Make your own vinaigrette and then take cod liver oil every day, a big tablespoon of it because cod liver oil. And you can get the orange or the. Strawberry flavored I like the Nordic Naturals. It's on Amazon. The cod liver oil has a very good, essential fatty acid profile. But I also use a lot of these activation products. I use the black Couchman oil well like that, the Stari and Pumpkin, which is great for breast and prostate health. And I also use this five seed blend. And so I'll just take a tablespoon of one of these oils along with my cod liver oil. So I eat my avocados, I drink my avocado oil, and I eat my oils. And then I also take something called Puram response, which is it's called a pro resolving mediator. And what this is, is basically essential fatty acids that also really help lower inflammation. A lot of inflammation comes from cellular debris. So when you see yourself aging and you think, OK, what do I do to stem the aging? What you actually have to do is go, I know you like prolon the fasting mimicking diet, and I like that as well. So doing intermittent fasting either with prolon a kit of food that you buy or food window eating gives your body a chance to clean the dead and broken cells out.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:32:01] It's all connected. It's all connected. Beauty, health, vitality, sex like function, like when you are inflamed, you don't have a drive. And it doesn't surprise me because there's so many things blocking that blood flow. Yeah. That vitality to come through to get you like you're not feeling yourself. Like how can you you're inflamed. Your body's fighting something, OK? You are Covid. You look fantastic. Like I can only hope and wish that like I will look like you   Susan Bratton: [00:32:29] Could really be you know, it really ruined my skin. It was so depressing. It was weird because, you know, I lost my cognitive function. I couldn't work for a year. I'm a CEO of two companies. And my my whole team had to run the business without me. Wow. I couldn't even run the. I'm really not back yet. I'm doing I'm doing a lot of these kinds of experiences getting myself back out in the world because they're easier for me to do than sitting down in meetings and things. I still have concentrate, etc.. But I'll tell you of all the stuff, because I'm so vain, you know, I feel in my life that I've gotten prettier as I age and I want to be beautiful for the joy that it brings me and everyone who gets to look at me,   Elizabeth Molina: [00:33:12] Really, I just   Susan Bratton: [00:33:13] Love it. We're not supposed to say stuff like this out loud, but you know what? I say stuff out loud and I've been given a gift and I I've worked very hard to maintain it. Now, when I got Covid, it ruined my skin and half my hair fell out. And I, I like to call myself follicular challenged. I've got that Scandinavian baby fine hair. So I'm wearing a hairpiece. I'm wearing what's called an integrated hairpiece. And basically what it is, is it's like a little custom fitted cap that has lots of holes in it, kind of like those old frosting kits. It has these little clips all the way around the base. And I take the tail of my hair, my rat tail of my comb, pull my own hair through it. I have my hair is dyed to match underneath, but my own hair is is very thin and baby fine. And I lost half of it. So I put on this integrated hairpiece. When I do public appearances, the things that I've been doing that are more procedures are number one, I got preppy hair. Yes, I got it. They call it the fam vampire hair left, but it's PRP punched into your head. That then helps new hair growth. And I've got probably a good three inches of hair. But to support that growth, what I do is I use a laser hair hat every day for 10 minutes, just like the laser I use into vaginally to keep my vaginal mucosa strong. I use a laser hair. I sometimes I have the hair cap on and I've got my V fit inside my vagina. And I just sit there on Instagram.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:34:57] That's like the ultimate bio hacker. Let's speak about what you're doing, your beauty routine, what you're drinking, what you're eating, because you look fabulous. And obviously we know you've got the bedroom down, but you know, for the bedroom, you also need to feel good. You need to feel good in your skin. You need to feel good in what you're in, in your suit, which is your body, your vessel.   Susan Bratton: [00:35:16] Well, we've talked about the internals now, the outside job, again, to keep it as toxin free as possible. And one of the things that I always like to do, if I can, is have the deluxe version and then the ghetto cheap. I'm broke. So I like a product line. If you've got lots of money, I like a product line. And it's kind of these are my real ones, of course. So it's kind of greasy. But I like a brand called Mother Mutty.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:35:44] Oh, I love   Susan Bratton: [00:35:45] That mother makes body butter. They make and a body oil and they make a body. Sarah and I think these are a very nice quality product with excellent absorption, with a really nice non-toxic profile. Yes. So mother is very good. But if you can't afford mother and I understand that you can't. Here's my ghetto option, which I use a lot for sex, too. This is a mango butter. And all it is is organic, refined mango, but it's literally just mango butter.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:36:24] What do you do with this for seeds?   Susan Bratton: [00:36:26] I rub it all over my body. I have sensual massages with it. I don't use it internally, but I use it externally. The only reason I don't I would use it internally the first time I use it. But when you have up something, you dip your fingers in to it. It's going to get bacteria and. Yeah. Not use it into your vaginally. Because I always say that if you wouldn't put it in here, you shouldn't put it in here because your vagina is the other end of your alimentary system. Essentially, it's just a tube. And so it's the same tissue and your mouth is very, very similar to your vaginal mucosal lining. And it's really quick to absorb everything. And the problem is that lubs are an FDA class two product, and they have to have preservatives in them to keep the bacteria's out. Right. And the problem with that is that the preservatives are toxic. So I don't I don't recommend if you've got stuff from CVS and Walgreens and all those places that are lubs, just stop using them and switch to an organic refined oil like whole hoeber sweet almond avocado. Those are three nice vaginalis lubricants. And make sure you have them in a squirt bottle so you're not touching them at any time and introducing bacteria and use them quickly so they don't get rancid.   Susan Bratton: [00:37:46] They last for quite a while. And if you are a condom user, you need to use a poly urethane or polypropylene condom with an oil based lubricant because oil will break down latex. But so many people have latex allergies now that I don't think anybody's using latex condoms these days, but maybe they are. The other thing that I would say about condoms is that semen is very, very healthy for us women. And we've been kind of scared off of semen because you you're going to get pregnant if you can get a Nestea, you know, all this kind of stuff. But I really like the fertility awareness method using a daisy tracker or another tracker like that so that you don't have to use a condom necessarily if you're with a safe partner who's been tested. Right. You can't do that. The problem is condoms. You know, there's over 20 studies, and only if condoms only protect you from a couple, most estes's your skin to skin contact, which is why I say that until you have your potential partner tested, you should never put your mouth on their genitals. They should never put their mouth on your genitals. And you should never do genital to genital contact. You should keep it to kissing in hands, which are pretty safe as long as they've been Covid tested and vaccinated semen.   Susan Bratton: [00:38:57] When you can get into a relationship where where you can actually have the semen in your vagina is very good for you because it has luteinizing hormones that regulate your menses and regulate you even after menopause. Also, serotonin for mood lifting and elevation, zinc for cognitive function, testosterone for courage. And go getter, go get Earnest's. So, you know, we are although I support same same sex relationships with equal vigor, the masculine the male female sexual relationship is a very healthy and symbiotic one. And there's nothing to be afraid of around semen. So that's a long winded talk about STIs and safe sex and contraception and lubrication. But it it all comes down to, you know, non medicated IUDs and fertility awareness met that are the least toxic birth control pills and lubs you get at the grocery store are the most toxic. And the chances are that your listeners are maybe doing one or both of those things. So it's it's important to talk about. So the inside job around toxin's these these can be oils. You know, they're cheap. You get a big vat of it. They're very nice. And these are really good for the rising of the externals.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:40:19] Yes. And you said something about the sperm and how like it's great. You know, obviously, if you're practicing safe sex, use Daisie, Tricor, et cetera, et cetera. If you know your cycle, be responsible like, you know, obviously don't email us and say like, hey, I became pregnant, it's your fault now, like take care of this baby. What about swallowing sperm? Like, how does that affect? Because I know so many women who are concerned with the cat. Calories, I know this sounds crazy, but they talk about calories. Are going to stay in your body. What is that going to damage you? Like there's so many conversations about this and it's still taboo. But I figured you're here. Why not? Like, let's just get it out of the bag.   Susan Bratton: [00:40:58] Well, your vaginal mucosa is a very spongy tissue. So it's going to pull in all that goodness and distribute it through your body when you ingest semen. Your stomach acid is really killing it off. So you're not getting the same benefits. And with regard to caloric content, that's a Google global fact. I'm not worried about calories at that level, myself personally.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:41:23] And so, like, let's continue with the regimen.   Susan Bratton: [00:41:25] Yeah, I like Doctor Dennis Gross. I like his alpha hydroxy daily skin refinishing and his body refinishing. Ok, Hydrox, these are fruit acids. They're quite natural. There's not a lot of chemicals in these daily body buffers and weekly body buffers. And they're very good at keeping your skin soft. I've always worked my whole life to keep my skin feeling like velvet. I want it to be plump, wrinkle free, but I don't mind getting tan. I don't know if you can see, but I'm a tan woman and there's no tan lines.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:42:01] Guys, you have to see this whole diet and do that again. I mean, like that was hot. Look at this. Oh, my God. Ok, dude, she's like a 28 year old. Like, fuck what? Ok, we don't have to like play this back and clip this for like micro content. Like she just lashed us. And it was not and I'm not sad about that. I was on a hot flash twice. Sorry. You're doing a great job that mother oil is really working. I would order all a whole bunch of that today.   Susan Bratton: [00:42:32] I like sunshine. Now, the problem is I don't let it get on my face and my neck and deckle touch. So I wear a really good sunscreen. And the one that I like is called Eclipse SPF. I wear this. But I also this is one of my this is one of my places where I make an exception. I use Chanel Foundation and it has some shitty chemicals in it, but I don't care.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:42:55] And I love that you said   Susan Bratton: [00:42:56] That you got to choose your battles, 80-20. Yeah. The eclipse under. And then what I like is that CC cream from Chanel because it is pretty thick but doesn't look thick on. And it's a fantastic barrier. If I took my breath, I have my makeup matching my tan because I sit out in the sun every day naked in my backyard and I get 15 or 20 minutes worth of sun. And I do have some aged spots, which I continue to whack back with Fraxel. So I get the spots and I whack the spots. That's my process. I don't love it, but that's what I do, because I want the viit, the natural sun, the natural color, the natural vitamin D. It makes me feel better. And feeling better is even more important than age spots for me. So I've got a white face and a brown body. And so what I do is I use the Chanel cream, the Chanel CC cream, which is also a really nice ESPs. I have a double SPF on my face because I don't want to lazarre the crap out of my face. Now, there's some other things. So this is a product that I've been using and it's very expensive. It's three hundred dollars a bottle.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:44:05] What is this?   Susan Bratton: [00:44:06] It's from skin medaka. Everything I own has grease on it. I mean, literally, that's   Elizabeth Molina: [00:44:11] Because you use them.   Susan Bratton: [00:44:13] I am just I am so lubed up. I am like a slippery little devil all the time. This skin, medaka tiens, advanced serum. This is a single pump in the morning, single pump at night. And essentially this is a firming, smoothing, tightening anti wrinkle. Good for us, old six year old broads. So I use skin medika. And this is one where I'm like, I'm just doing it. It's got some stuff in it, but it's working. It's really getting rid of the surface, the small fine lines and giving me some plumpness. So I've done the PRP into my skin. I get the facials. I do a couple of other things. Here's two more things that are natural. One is castor oil. I use castor oil. When I shampoo my hair, I put a dropper full of castor oil with the shampoo and shampoo with the castor oil in it. It's very good for hair growth and emollient, see, but you have to put it with the shampoo and then kind of scrub it out and it leaves a little a little deposit of that. And that's been very good. You can use this on your eyebrows. If they get thin as you age, castor oil will regrow your eyelashes and your eyebrows. And then I just got on to this one of my mentors, Dr. Patti Taylor, who's well, a little older than I am. Let's just put it that way. She's a redhead, so she's got super fair, thin skin. And I was telling her about how Covid just really. Took my skin and just made it so bad. And she said, try this hoe hoeber oxygenated skin cream, it's called pure 03 P oh three.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:45:56] Oh, I've heard of this is amazing.   Susan Bratton: [00:45:57] It's really it makes your skin really nice and plump and it's all natural and organic. So I really like this activated oxygen. Oil. It's basically ozone.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:46:10] One thing.   Susan Bratton: [00:46:11] And they shoot it with ozone. And you can use it if you get like fungal infections on your nails, your toes or your nails.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:46:19] Can I say that that's also great for like acne scars, like the healing, like a rash or anything like that. Mosquito bites like that is amazing. Amazing. I love that   Susan Bratton: [00:46:30] Stuff. And it's so simple. It's just how horrible oil and ozone, you know, it's great. It's like castor oil. These are our grandmother's recipes and remedies that we're coming back to that I think are very powerful. Now, of course, I also do things like topical estrogen. I have a compounded estrogen topical that I do, and I do this maybe once a week. It's estriol, progesterone and organic shea butter. It doesn't absorb very well. You're not going to get any you're not going to get your estrogen boost that way. I do bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. And I have a little a little clicker that puts a little bit of shea butter with essed biased. When you do estrogen replacement, you need to take two kinds of estrogen estriol and estradiol, because the third kind of estrogen is estrogen. And that's the one that gives you breast cancer. So you have a ratio of estrogens throughout the three estrogens. You want to increase the pie of the two good ones, which decreases the pie of the bad one. So it's a biased that I use intravenously. So it goes right into my system because it's just like I would be eating it, but I'm putting it where I want to thicken the vaginal tissue. Ok. I also take progesterone sublingual at night and I put testosterone cream around my labia on my clitoris, and that's how I get my testosterone. And so I take testosterone, progesterone and biassed as bioidentical hormones for hormone replacement. But I also do a topical estrogen on my face and forearms and hands because the tissue gets thin. Yes. My neck and décolletage.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:48:19] So I just want to make sure that everybody knows, like you want to be seeking out a professional. Don't go out there and buy weird estrogen testosterones from China that you don't know where you're sourcing them from. Like this is very, very important. Guys, she is working with someone she didn't like, just Google this and she's like, oh, I heard this on a podcast. Let me figure it out. Like just I just wanted to put that disclaimer out there. Ok. Tell us the next the next stuff.   Susan Bratton: [00:48:44] Well, the other thing that I do for the age spots it's topical is hydroquinone, Treant annoying and Kojak acid. And this is my from my derm and this is what I put on the little age spots that appear because, you know, they do you do get sun. You just do. And what's come out. So this is what I use on my face to kind of mitigate those. It would be similar to what you would do if you use like O'Bagy. It's kind of like better than O'Bagy because it's scrypt not off the shelf, but it's very similar. It's like, you know, it'd be like skin cuticles or O'Bagy or something like that. But it's a prescription strength. And that's the that's the little combo that I use for my derm for the age spots. And then the last thing I want to tell you about is bone structure. As we age and everything droops. A part of the reason that it droops is that we're losing bone mass in our face. We lose the bone density, and that's what actually causes our face to collapse. I chew something called tears of Cheetos. This is this is a resin. It's called Mastec. It's it's a resin. I get this on Amazon. It's a resin that comes from a pomegranate tree on the island of Chios in Greece. It's a natural product and it's like gum, but it's tougher and natural. And every day I chew for as long as I can to my jaws get worn out. I chew this, you know, kind of like tough thing to give my jaws a workout, to keep my system strong so that I don't have bone density loss.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:50:24] So I love to ask everyone, like you are thriving in so many categories, but I also love to you know, you said Covid really got you. And like we're human and we can do all that we want to do. And we can be like the water expert, the sleep expert, the sex expert. But we may we have our days. So I want the audience to know like. Ok, you're human, too. Like you're also sometimes excelling in one category, sometimes you need a little bit of extra care. So where would you say that you are excelling in the beauty circle and where would you say you could use a little bit more attention?   Susan Bratton: [00:50:57] For me, it's about building back my stamina and regrowing all of the muscle tissue that I lost, the sarcopenia that happened from laying in bed. So one of the things that I'm worried about is getting started again now that my energy is such that I keep getting all these little little infections because my immune system is so compromised, you know, so I've been I'll get up and then I'll get hurt and I'll get up again, and then I'll get hurt and I'll get up again and I'll get hurt. So I'm trying to go to the source and got it do autophagy and fix my immune system. But I'm also needing to rebuild muscle without hurting myself. And one of the things I'm planning to do this summer is a series of M Sculp. Yes. Yes, because I think that if I can use a machine, it uses electromagnetic vibration to contract your muscles like 12000 times in a you know, in a treatment I'm going to do this summer is do a lot of ocean swimming and dive the waves and things like that. That's what I'm in and making love. Not that I'm going to you making up for lost time, but definitely my weak spot right now is the musculature and my strength, my flexibility, my balance, because Covid also does a lot of brain trauma. So I've lost a lot. I've lost flexibility and muscle lying in bed, and I've lost stamina from being ill and I've lost my balance from the Covid brain injury that I got. So I'm really working on that. The stamina, the flexibility that   Elizabeth Molina: [00:52:39] The bowel movements. Yes, all   Susan Bratton: [00:52:41] That's the next   Elizabeth Molina: [00:52:42] Thing. Ok, so where is it? So now we know where you're lacking. Where are you thriving?   Susan Bratton: [00:52:46] I'm thriving in all of the things that I've learned my whole life are coming together in ways that I can really say, things that help people understand quickly how to have the intimate connection that they want and to understand that it's not their fault. They haven't been doing anything wrong, that you just didn't know. And now, you know, and it's going to be easier.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:53:07] I love that we're coming to the end. And I like to ask all my guests, what is one piece of advice, something that you wish you would have told your younger self like today, Susan, today, right here, right now, sitting with me. What would you have told the younger version of yourself?   Susan Bratton: [00:53:21] Every time insecurity creeps into your mind about your looks, about your body, about all of that physicality, you're never going to look better than you do right now. You're you're always going to it's just going to get worse and worse. And if you spend your whole life holding yourself up to some thing of imperfection that you can't get trying to push yourself to become, that you're making yourself miserable. And what people what people think about you is how you make them feel about themselves, not how you look. And the less that you worry about those little things that come into your mind and the more you realize that it's just your estrogen making you feel that. Let lack of confidence and that judgment. It's just your mind trying to keep you safe. But sometimes our minds aren't programmed quite right and they're hard on us. And the more that you can let go of worry about those imperfections and the more that you can put your energy into heart connection and joy, the better life you will have.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:54:32] That's such great advice. And not just for yourself or your younger self, but for anyone listening in right now. There's so many people who need to hear this message. So I am so happy that you're sharing that with us. And we have come to the segment where most of my guests are so humble, they don't love to over brag about themselves or boast about their accomplishments. So I made a section called Breaktime where you get to brag about yourself. Tell us what you're doing. It doesn't have to necessarily be business related. It could be like you learn to paint with your toes or something like, I don't know, you know, like something random, something fun that you're proud of that you want to share with us. So the floor is yours, like brag away.   Susan Bratton: [00:55:18] I learned how to scuba dive just a few years ago, and I've done over 30 dives already. And I find being in the ocean a deep connection to Gaia, to Earth, to all living things. And I think that you can learn new skills at any age. And mine was scuba diving.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:55:37] Oh, I love that, I love that brag about yours. I'm excited to try it one day. I definitely on my bucket list. Yeah. Have you seen any sharks or dolphins? Like did you get to. Did you scuba dive in like the ocean in that way or no?   Susan Bratton: [00:55:51] I have seen sharks. I haven't seen any dolphins. I haven't been where there are dolphins, but I have seen sharks and manta rays and all kinds of amazing animals that so beautiful under there.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:56:03] Thank you so much for coming on. I really do appreciate it. I know that my listeners have gotten so much information. We went from sex to skin to the beauty inside out to scuba diving to you, flashing us with. We can tell that you're definitely putting in work because your skin looks amazing and it definitely shows. So if you guys didn't get to watch the anatomy pictures in the beginning or Susan flashing us or all of the amazing products that she's using. Definitely. Check out the YouTube video, check out the TV and follow her. If I were myself, I put everything in the show notes and we are excited to order this product that you talked about in the beginning. And I'm excited to get some of it and see what happens. Flo. Yes. Awesome. Thank you so much. And again, thank you for being a guest on here. Where can our audience connect with you? Where can they find you? Yeah.   Susan Bratton: [00:56:55] Susan Bratten Soussan be a teto and you can find me on Instagram. You can find me on my website. You'll find me. I'm out there.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:57:05] Well, thank you so much. And definitely check out all of her freebies. I am excited. Definitely. We have to do alive and we have to like keep on connecting because I've made you my mentor. So, yeah, the audience is going to get a lot of you. Bye, guys. I just want to say, if you did not learn enough in this episode and if you want more, definitely sent us a message, sends a DM, we're going to do a live. So stay tuned for that. But definitely put something of the comic guys. I mean, this was such a bomb conversation. And I want to see the other stuff. But I do want to be respectful of all of our listeners because we have all ages. And I'm just trying to make it work for everyone, really. I have been left wanting more. Having a thousand more questions. It's so interesting. And, you know, she has been so, so nice to have so many free guides on her website. I will have everything linked in the show notes. And again, you know what I'm going to ask you know what I'm going to say? I'm going to say sharing is caring. If you have a friend, a girlfriend, a partner, anyone who you think would benefit from the female anatomy and learning more about the female body.   Elizabeth Molina: [00:58:17] Also, even aging, you know, the way that Dr. Susan talks about in the things that she's going through or has gone through, please share this with that and do not be greedy. This is totally free and have them subscribe because we're going to have to really interesting more conversations to come. Also, if you would like to know about a certain topic, if you want to know more about something specific, if you have any questions, if you know a guest, that would be great for the show. Send me a message. 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It's time to go back in time! This is part 1 of a 3-part series on "generations." This week we are sitting down with three members of our community who are part of Gen X. We explore what made Gen Xers who they are, reminisce about life in the 80s, and learn what makes the MTV generation so special. Generation X is the generational classification for anyone born between 1965 and 1980. This week, representing Gen X, we talk to Diane Boyd, John Davidson, and Brian Mayfield. They have all been part of our Christ Fellowship community for several years, and some since the beginning. They serve in all different capacities. Diane is one of the elders of Christ Fellowship. John helps out with Kids Church, and Brian was one of the original four leaders who helped to start our youth ministry, The Bridge. Each of them share their experiences growing up in the 1980's from how Mtv defined their generation, how the economic shift in the United States in the 80s changed their families and impacted how they grew up and became self-reliant, their experience in college and how societial pressure influenced their lives, how cable television changed the culture in America, and what their experiences with the church changed over the past 40 years. We cover lots of topics in this one as well as take some time in the Lightning Round to reminisce about life and pop culture in the 1980's. This is Generation X's story. Jump to a Segment: 00:00:00 Opening 00:00:33 This Week on CF Stories... 00:01:38 Going back in time with Generation X 00:05:56 Defining a generation 00:06:50 Generational labels 00:24:23 What makes Gen Xers so unique? 00:30:34 Oreo vs Hydrox, and how TV influenced Gen Xers 00:34:23 Education and expectations for Gen X 00:40:09 What was your "church experience" growing up in the 80s vs now as an adult? 00:49:39 Lightning Round: I love the 80s 00:52:45 What should other generations know about my generation? 00:59:18 How can we pray for you? 01:00:59 Producer's Note: Send us your story ideas! 01:02:15 Outro / Thanks for listening We need your help! We are currently planning and putting together Season 02 of CF Stories. If you know someone from the Christ Fellowship community who is doing something interesting, has an experience to share, or has a story that needs to be heart, send us a message on Twitter (https://twitter.com/cfofelizabeth) or Instagram (https://instagram.com/cfofelizabeth) to let us know. Maybe you'll hear their story in a coming season. ========== Hosted by: Elliott Johson | Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/john_elli/) Guests: Diane Boyd, John Davidson, and Brian Mayfield Produced by: William Hartz | Twitter (https://twitter.com/williamhartz) Instagram (https://instagram.com/williamhartz) Audio Engineer: William Hartz Music by: Giancarlo Cordon | Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/gc_music) ========== Christ Fellowship of Elizabeth is a Christian community whose mission is to love God, make disciples, and change the world. We hope you enjoyed this week's message. Make sure you subscribe in Apple Podcast, Google Play, Spotify, or your favorite podcatcher so you never miss an episode. Follow us online: Website: https://cfofelizabeth.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/cfofelizabeth Twitter: https://twitter.com/cfofelizabeth Facebook: https://facebook.com/cfofelizabeth YouTube: https://youtube.com/ChristFellowshipofElizabeth Subscribe to our other podcasts at: https://cfofelizabeth.com/podcasts You can join us in person every Sunday. We gather for worship at 10:30am at The Liberty Center at 1121 Elizabeth Ave, Elizabeth, NJ. You can also join us virtually on our livestream by visiting https://cfofellizabeth.com/live or visiting our YouTube page. To give your tithe or gift online, you can visit: https://tithe.ly/give_new/www/#/tithe or text "Give" to 856-317-6679. To contact the church by phone, call 908-289-6322. If this is your first time with us or you just want to learn more about our church, please visit: https://www.cfofelizabeth.com/im-new ========== ©2021 Christ Fellowship of Elizabeth Love God. Make Disciples. Change the World. Special Guests: Brian Mayfield, Diane Boyd, and John Davidson.

Het leven van Douglas Gremmen staat in het teken van sport. Gremmen kwam in contact met HYROX en was gelijk enthousiast. ‘‘HYROX is een combinatie van functionele fitness en meetbaarheid.''Gremmen zit inmiddels in het management van de competitie die de wereld van fitness wil veranderen. ‘‘Sport is altijd mijn leven geweest. Ik was 18 of 19 en kwam op een tweesprong. Ik voelde me eigenlijk niet thuis bij de studie die ik deed. Precies op dat moment kwam ik in contact met mensen die mijn aandacht richting de sportmarketing brachten.'' Gremmen verhuisde uiteindelijk zelfs richting China, waar hij het hele verhaal van de olympisch spelen in Beijing meemaakte.Per toeval kwam de geboren Amerikaan in contact met Hyrox. Het van origine Duitse Hyrox is in 2017 opgericht door mensen die uit de marathon en triatlon wereld kwamen. ‘‘De acht onderdelen van het concept lijken niet veel, totdat je ze combineert tot de daadwerkelijke training. Lopen, lunges, roeien en meer. Je bent wel even bezig, maar je kan het dan ook op je eigen tempo doen.''Het bedrijf heeft grote plannen en ziet voor zichzelf een toekomst in Amerika. ‘‘De eerste buitenlandse stappen van het bedrijf werden gezet in Zwitserland en Oostenrijk. Vervolgens is het vizier al snel richting Amerika gegaan, maar toen kwam corona. Het is natuurlijk zwaar, maar het gaf ook tijd om plannen verder te ontwikkelen. We proberen het concept zo flexibel mogelijk te maken. Het grote voordeel van het concept is de meetbaarheid. Wat meetbaar is, is verbeterbaar.''Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome back to the circus where clown niggas have been clowning all week and The Ladies have a little “bussin' back” of their own to do! This weeks topics include: The broke bitch mountain that is Kelsey Nicole proves why our elders were correct in saying “everybody ain't yo friend!, The Fresh Prince Reunion proves why Janet Hubert is still the greatest, Kevin Hart shows his ass in the Clubhouse, Dave Chappelle signed a bad deal and wants the world to feel bad for him... and somehow Sommore is still funnier than the both of those niggas put together! Buckle up, grab you some Hydrox's and come chill in The Den with us! (Outro: Gee Slab feat. Petty - Embarrassing Us)

What is going on, everybody? How are we doing? This is the it and the D show episode 351. We are still in quarantine, even though we’re slowly getting back into business, cheers to all the bars and restaurants that got to open up today. A guest this week of the illustrious one, mr. Fred Brown. He was on about a month ago, actually. What about a month and a half ago? Right? When everything started breaking kind of educating us on COVID and what a better time to bring them back then, uh, cause all the madness going on right now with the doubts and misinformation and all this other stuff.     Oh. And let’s not forget all the bars and restaurants reopening and everybody believing it’s bar crawl day. Yeah. Let’s not forget. Yeah. Hockey glass will save us all here to clear up all the madness and Dave, you know what you may fire when ready. All right. Yeah. And Fred, since the last time, uh, we’ve decided we’re not playing the intro, uh, during these video sessions. So we’re not going to make you suffer through that again. Okay. It was very inspiring. Welcome. And thank you for hanging out with us. This is the it, and the D show we are hanging out, uh, in our respective houses for the time being, this is episode three 51. This is Bob, the sales guy that is Dave, the geek, Randy. I do the Twitters is doing the Twitter, find it online it and the d.com and do us a favor, give us a like on the socials and subscribe to us everywhere. Fine podcasts are sold. And uh, yeah. So this is usually where we talk about the events and we have not put any back on the calendar just yet. Uh, but now that things are starting to open up, we will be looking at doing so. Um, I know our buddy Neil was at, uh, where we were supposed to be having our first event that got canceled Del Ray cozy lounge. Uh, so we’ll be reaching out to them and seeing how things are going and maybe go back there. Uh, and then we’ll work on the Anarbor events as well. But yeah, so it’s a, they’re they’re, they’re coming soon and, uh, and, and, and look, and look and listen to, I listened to Bob with his, uh, with his new microphone. Sounded all good and stuff. Yeah. I’m not all that. It doesn’t sound like I’m in the toilet. If you’re not watching the show. I think I got an idea for our next event that we should all wear, like those kitty life preservers and like all handout, like, uh, so, so we have this, see the distance like around our waists. Oh, you mean like the hip waders? Yes. Yeah, exactly. Like this, just like you slide them over your head, like life preservers. And I was like, what’s that going to hit? Not like a hospital, a we’ll we’ll do the whole thing. We’ll where the, uh, the face shields with the windshield wiper, the big Brown thing around our waist life preservers. I think we, uh, we need the giant burger King hats, the giant burger King crowns from Germany. We need to find our way to get our hands on those, but Hey, a Fred’s already getting a patient where we are. If you didn’t hear the pre-roll, we’re very, very lucky to have mr. Fred Brown back with us. Uh, I would consider how do we introduce you politely without a, uh, I guess you are all things, um, I guess why don’t you go ahead and introduce yourself before I stick my foot in my mouth any further? Oh, well, I, I work a little bit in epidemiology and infectious disease. I’ve done. Gosh, I, I started doing the work back in 1985. We, uh, I was on the team that discovered the first and then developed the first AIDS test, uh, for HIV, uh, detecting HIV. And unfortunately at the time we, uh, had a test, but we didn’t have any cure as a little bit similar to what we have with Qubit right now. But, uh, you know, HIV is at that point was really a deadly, you know, much more deadly than, than, than it is. And so most people after we developed the test didn’t want one. And so what we did is we actually developed it for the blood serum and we can’t, we tested all the blood. So people wouldn’t be getting diseased from the blood. And then I went, uh, and started, uh, a little company called Alkermes. And we did quite a bit of work in delivering, uh, new drugs across the blood brain barrier, which was a challenge. And then I basically helped develop a 27 major drugs and 13 diagnostic products and seven or eight vaccines in my career. So you have kids in a, you know, in, uh, who, uh, who, uh, were born in the 1990s ’em up, they probably were, were vaccinated and they have had vaccines. Then they would probably vaccinated with some of the work that I did. And most people who have been to an emergency room, public took, had drugs that I take. And most people who have cancer have taken some of the drugs that I developed as well. So that’s some of the back on it. I speak on behalf of all of us. We’re very lucky to have you with us and thank you for your time. Yeah, it’s a pleasure. I mean, he’s, he’s got a lot more credit than most of our, you know, our, our common guest in eighties, D-list celebrities. I mean, that’s so I don’t know, Dave, I got a hundred questions. Dave, you have a hundred questions, Randy, you have a hundred questions, I guess we all flip a coin, Dave, I guess start off you a fired a few off an email. Why don’t you, uh, I guess fire off one we’ll we’ll play round Robin. Well, yeah, so, I mean, I guess let’s, let’s start with obviously the, the big one. So, you know, Michigan’s bars and restaurants are reopening today, um, or reopened today, uh, you know, a lot of them, uh, I know quite a few places that, uh, that, that were opened at midnight, uh, to get that two hour Russian. Uh, so I mean, from your perspective, you know, what should people be paying attention to? And, and, and by people, I mean, both patrons and staff, you know, owners, you know, that kind of thing, like what, what should we be keeping in mind as these rules are relaxing? Because I mean, I, no joke, my Facebook feed was just littered with people, checking in at bars today and, and everything else. And, and so I, yeah, I’m, I’m curious as to what your thoughts are there. So they’re basically four, four things you want to think about. We can go into the tail if you like as well. The first thing is your own personal health. So you, are you feeling good? And as you know, we started off with about four major, uh, diagnostics for the disease. The first one was, if you had a fever 88 of the time, you had a fever that was indicative of, of COVID. Unfortunately that’s a very, uh, you know, it’s a sensitive test, but it’s not very specific. You can have pretty broad yeah. Were for a lot of different reasons. I mean, we had a, you know, shortness of breath was a big one and a dry cough. Wasn’t another big one. And there’s also some cognitive issues that we felt were issue issues. Now we’ve actually got about 12 different ways of diagnosing and I’ve got a list of them. I can, I can show you if you’re interested. I’ll just show it to you quickly. Uh, I have it here. Mmm. This isn’t the right deck, but we can get there one second and right here. Yeah. You got a dialog box up. You’re not doing anything until you kill that off. Oh, sorry. [inaudible], we’ll save this. Thank you. That’s the benefit of being in the room with three it guys. Beautiful. Let’s see. Here, there, we are open that up and see where we are. So the major, major, uh, diagnostic factors, uh, now we’ve got loss of smell and taste. That was a new one. We weren’t expecting that at all. That’s a very rare for a coronavirus, uh, of any kind to kind of create a loss of smell. The dry cough continued at 68%. We were just thought it was 66%, but it was 68%. Fatigue is a big one. If you’re really feeling very tired out. Uh, and, uh, despite getting a lot of sleep, that was a big one. It turns out there was some student production, the shortness of breath continued at about 20%. And then there was a whole mass of smaller things that we found out that it was a little bit broader indication levels than we thought. So the first question you want to ask yourself before, before you go is what sputum protection production slam. Bob. You want to go by an expectorant, let’s just say that you want, you want to be feeling good when you go out. And if you have any of those things, dumps that, then see it, you know, cause again, we’ll get a test and check it out and make sure you’re doing good. Uh, so that’s the first big question. That’s the next big question you have to ask is what your own personal level of, of risk is. And, um, you know, for guys like me, I I’m older. And so I actually have a higher level of risk and I like to admit, I can show you that quickly as well. Here are the different factors and you can see it really, it really hype so quick. Um, uh, with, uh, with these, I have a feeling we’re not going to like this chart, Bob [inaudible]. So let me see, there was a slideshow slide. So if you’re, if you’re basically under 40, um, you’re, you know, you’re, you’re in pretty good shape. Um, unless you’re saying smoking have had, and I’ve had a major disease like cancer or haven’t, haven’t had bad ass, um, then, then I think it’s, it’s relatively safe, uh, to be out and about much more. So say than when, when you get into, you know, my, my area, which I’m, you know, on the 4% side, uh, of a mortality rate. And by the time you get to my mom’s age, I gotta really be careful. Cause she’s, you know, she’s talking about, uh, uh, know one, one in five chance of dying. If she, if she comes up with it, if you’ve got a slide up, go ahead and share it. Oh, I’m sorry. I’m I’m making all sorts of mistakes tonight. I apologize. No problem. Here we are. I will hear that up. How does that look? There you go. Yeah. So, you know, basically you can see if you’re, if you’re under 40, um, the chances of, of being killed by, by, by COBIT, aren’t, aren’t zero, but they’re a lot better than if you’re say in your sixties, seventies or eighties, by the time you’re 60, you gotta really think pretty closely about whether you want to get into a high, high risk situation. Especially if you’ve got these underlying conditions like cardiovascular disease, which a lot of us have and diabetes, you can get a sense of, you know, with no underlying condition. And you know, when you’re younger, you know, you’re talking about a 0.7 0.5% mortality rate kind of thing. Uh, once you get, you know, over, over, over 50, you’re talking about two to 3%. Um, uh, and by the time we get to my mom’s age, as I said, you know, you’re talking about a one in five chance of dying. It turns out once you get over over 60, the males die a lot faster than females. And unfortunately, as we, as we, as we know, if the city does play a role, there is no genetic role that we’ve found so far, but it’s the socioeconomic conditions that are causing, especially black people to be dying at about three times the rate of the rest of us and getting the disease about two times the rate as the rest of us. So, so do these factors stack. So if you’re 80 plus and have CLPD, are you yeah, 28%. That’s right. And they don’t stack exactly. You’ve got to multiply two by the 0.7 underlying condition number, uh, through, but you know, say that you’re a 60 year old man with diabetes. You gotta, you got a 4.1, 3% chance. So you start with a 0.7 and start to add on the factors for the, of the additional factors. So yeah, it’s, uh, it gets so, you know, so that’s the second big thing. First week thing is already feeling good before you go out. Second big thing is what is my personal risk factor? Um, cause if you get it, no, I think driving a car, you gotta want a one and 700 chance of, of, of, of crashing and dying here. You’re talking about something that’s worse if you catch it. So you got, so that’s, uh, uh, that’s the next big factor personally, and you want to kind of assess your, your, your, your, your level and the, and there’s there, there are a little, you can use the mobile phone. Uh, I created a little app that says, you know, here’s my situation. I’ve got diabetes and I’ve got, you know, heart disease. I’ve got hypertension and I’m 70, you know, what are my chances? And it’ll, it’ll give you a number, stay home. That’s what it’ll say. Just be really, really, I make sure it’s worth it. Do you have, do you have one of those giant hamster bubbles? That would be great. Hey, Fred, I really walk it into this. When, when Dave told me you’re going to be on, I got all excited because literally my, my head’s been spinning from information slash slash misinformation, and I’m going to run some scenarios of everything that I’ve been hearing. And I want you to tell me what’s real. Cause it’s driving me nuts. So, you know, hold on, hold on. Just say you’ve got two more, right? I have two more. Sorry. We’ll just quickly. I’ll go through. I’m sorry. The third thing is what is the general level of COVID in your environment? And now we’ve got all sorts of little weather forecasts and COBIT announcements that says here’s what it looks like. It looks like. So in Michigan, our worst environments are Kent County, McComb County, Oakland County, and Wayne County. Those have the highest incidences of Kobe generally in the environment. If you’re up in the UPP, not bad, if you’re down below, say Gaylord, you’ve got to start getting a little bit more nervous. And as you get more toward, uh, grand Rapids or Detroit, you gotta be more careful than you would in the more rural environments. And then the last factor is the activity itself. And, uh, I’ve got a funny survey. I’ll I’ll, I’ll share with you guys. The epidemiologists all got together, the research epidemiologists, the United States, and we did a survey among ourselves saying, you know, what, what, what, what, what are, what, what were we willing to do? And you’ll find it sort of amusing. I think that the I’ll show it, share it with you later with just so it’s the, it’s how you feeling yourself. What’s your personal risk factor? What’s the general level of COVID in your environment and how dangerous is the activity that I’m planning to do? How is it relative to the other stuff? So if you go out for a walk in the park, uh, with low, low levels population, probably not too bad, if you’re planning to see in a closed up bar, we know for a lengthy period of time and you have a high risk, you want to think that through pretty carefully, right? All right. Now, Bob go, yay. No, so everything, I mean, I try to read as much as I can from as many different sources I can. And you know, basically my, my, the week over the last couple of weeks has gone like this, like who says this this week. And then who says that this week CDC says this this week, then they say something else. Then there’s health experts on this news channel that says, you can do this, but you can’t do that. And then on the other channel, they say, you can do that, but you can’t do this. And then, you know, everyone on social media is I call it the Corena virus, the Karen of virus, shaming of activities. They don’t apply. They don’t deem appropriate. Right. Um, and so basically I’m caught in this, like, and then Fowchee says this, and then the president says that, and then the press, the president secretary says this, like, literally I’m caught in the middle of what the hell? Like, what do I do? I just sit. I just I’ll just keep sitting in my chair. Like, I don’t know what to do anymore. Like who do I guess, who do you listen to her? What’s what’s right. And what’s wrong these days. So I usually go back to the scientific literature myself, you know? So I’ll take a look and see what’s been quoted and what the evidence is. So we ha we, and, and the, and the challenge has been lately that some of the scientific literature that normally you can’t really trust, uh, has, you know, 60 different coauthors. Everyone is partnering with each other. They don’t really know each other that well anymore. And the pure review tends to happen after the publication. Now, before you guys all get together and say, wait a minute, but now you sort of have to make that assessment for yourself every time. And these stuff get this good stuff gets published fast. And then of course, it’s, it’s a prominent group and you want to get it out there. And wow. You know, so it’s, it’s a, it’s a, it’s sort of a wild West, right? I believe in the it world, that’s what we call testing and production. See, I was going to say, every engineer puts in their own change control. That’s how I was going to, you know, [inaudible] whichever way. But like, so, I mean, that was the whole point of science. I always thought was science always evolve. Science always changes. There’s always people with different theories, but like, you know, like you all were trying to look for the Bible, the gospel what’s the truth. And it seems to change depending on the wind. Um, and that’s why, you know, like we, we all want to be safe. We want to all keep our families safe. But like at the same token, we’re like, wait a minute. Like, you know what I mean? Like, Oh, I know, I know. So there, there’s a couple of things that are, are also influencing it. For example, there’s, there are a couple of big programs that we have recently that everyone was talking about, uh, the Madrona vaccine, you know, and it’s hurt you. The way you create these clinical trials is you can do it in a couple different ways. One is to have a large enough sample size where you can actually do, uh, an open up the dataset, look at it, and that affect the power of the ultimate answer. And so what Madrona did in order to help, I think their, you know, their, their stock price, obviously they’re a publicly held company. They decided to, you know, open up parts of their datasets early, be able to announce that, and then, you know, force us to wait for the rest of the data later. So, uh, what happened was everyone looked at it and said, wait a minute, we’re only, you know, you guys tested 45 patients. You only opened up the data set on eight. And so it’s very hard nor normally we’d see the whole dataset. Everything would have been peer reviewed. We would have, you know, and instead it was sort of controlled by a business group, you know, business communications person out of scientist. And it was controlled their business publication, not, you know, science or Lancet or, uh, you know, uh, necessarily a journal that you did that you’d expect. Right? So that’s another additional complicating piece because people are competing for, um, trying to say their drug is good enough that we’re going to do something special with it. And especially in the vaccine space, they’re trying to bet that the vaccine will work before they’ve proven it. There’s gonna be enough data that says that’s suggestive, that we’re going to put in two, three, $4 billion into a manufacturing plant, uh, before we even know for sure that the thing is safe and efficacious. So gonna be some big bets laid down, and we have to know that early enough to make those bets work. So we don’t have to wait for the vaccine if it’s successful. I mean, is there some big factors out there? So, I mean, is, is science suffering from the same issue that like media and journalism in general are where it’s more about first than, right. Well, in, in, in this case, there’s enough, there’s enough shots on goal that if you’re first and wrong, uh, it’ll be pretty clear, pretty fast. And, and the guy coming in behind that, on the net with the next shot, I go, we’ll still have a good chance in some instances where there’s too big of a gap, uh, then, uh, sometimes, you know, first, first makes right. It gets you, it gives us the most market here, typically in pharmaceuticals. You know, there’s a big race. Usually the first person to market gets 40 to 60% market share and, and retains that market share even when the next sets of, of, of, of, of solutions come on stream. So it, you know, 46%, it’s a big, and then the next, you know, number two gets 30% market share and number three gets maybe 10 or 15% and then number four or five. So you, you know, you’re done, you’re fighting over scraps. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that’s, that’s a usual market situation in pharmaceuticals. And so there is a lot of pressure to be fast, but in this case, there’s 10 vaccines that are supposed to be ready to at least be looked at in phase three clinical testing by, you know, November, December, January of this year. So Bob, just to like, I guess a good specific example of what you were just talking about. So, you know, early on it was, uh, okay, even if you’re asymptomatic, you can absolutely pass this on to people. Um, it’s, you know, that’s a big deal. So even if you’re asymptomatic still be careful today, the who comes out and says, well, as it turns out, asymptomatic carriers, you know, isn’t, you, you’re probably, that’s probably not a distribution mechanism. That’s interesting that who did that, who come out today? I, I wasn’t aware of that. Um, because I literally just came out a bit ago. I’ll have to take a look at that. I look at the data, uh, because we know one of the challenges of the drug is that a lot of the scientists think that there is a lot of asymptomatic transmission, uh, not because, um, well, and then the two reasons for that. Uh, so I, I just, I I’m surprised by that conclusion, uh, act Josh, I’ll show you another slide if you want to take a look. Okay. Um, and that slide is about diagnostics themselves, and it’s sort of interesting how imprecise we are right now, still, unfortunately. So if you look at the different tests that are available, yeah. It’s an important for people to realize this. Um, so did I share it? Can you see it? Yep. Got it. All right. So, well, that’s the fatality rates again, here’s diagnosing COVID. So it turns out that if you think you got exposed from COVID. So my daughter was, uh, she was protesting in Chicago this week, uh, much to my unhappiness for a whole number of reasons out there. Um, and, uh, and she wants now to get tested to make sure she didn’t get a COBIT. And I said, well, that’s great, but you’re going to have to wait about five and a half days. Um, in order to really know what she get to give your best chance of knowing whether you’ve got COVID or not. So it turns out that if you think you might’ve gotten exposed, like you got on a plane and you want to go visit your elderly grandmother, and you’re concerned that on the plane, you might’ve been exposed, even though you’ve been good at home, uh, you know, uh, for, for two weeks, uh, then believe it or not, you probably shouldn’t see your grandmother for 14 days, uh, uh, because of the asymptomatic issues that we’ve dealt with it. Well, it’s, I mean, that’s what, uh, that’s the law or the rule that Hawaii passed. Um, they got, they got tired of everyone flying there because the flights were so cheap. And so they mandated a 14 day quarantine, um, and actually had a, they started and ran a fund where, you know, if, if you weren’t, if you really planning on being there for a week, they would basically pay to, you know, change your ticket and send you back home. Same thing with UK. If you go to the United Kingdom out of it, unless you get an air corridor, this isn’t an air corridor exemption. You’re going to have to wait for 14 days to enter the country. Um, and if you’re from coming in, so here on this, on this chart shows two different kinds of basic tests. The first test is in the solid line, the solid lines are the molecular and editing testing that actually tests whether you’ve got an active virus. And basically if you test three days after you’ve been exposed and you have a fuller nasal pharyngeal swab, and you go to Harvard and you get tested, they’re only saying it 40% of the time, they can detect it after that’s, after three days, if you wait for four days, there’s a 70% chance that you can detect it. And if you wait for five and a half days, that’s sort of the [inaudible] detection period of time at that point, uh, you, um, uh, we have about an 80, 84% chance of detecting it. And that’s about as good as it gets. You are in the hospital, you know, on an operating table and something inserted into your lungs to get what they call a Brocky, uh, bronchitis, uh, uh, alveolar Luvata or sputum directly from your lungs. And then you get a 92% chance, but there’s a big difference between what they publish, which is the, the, the analytical capability of a test, or just like 99.9, 5%. And the actual clinical experience that you have, because that once you take that swab, the first question is, did you get, get the right part of the nose, a little part of the, uh, to be at the right part of the lung? Did you tickle the STEM of the brain properly? Yeah. Make sure he got all, you got it all mixed up with the right in the right reagents and you gotta send it off and then you got to do the test, but that’s just to be done just right. And by the time we go through all that, it’s about 80 or 85%, you know, true positive breaks. Dave, didn’t you say your favorite was the stool sample one. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Hey, you know, that, that stool sample is turning out to be somewhat helpful. If you want to look at community spread, it’s about 55% accurate, uh, you know, uh, sensitive, um, uh, and specific overall. Um, and, and what’s interesting is if you have every day you’re taking, so the effluent charges of a building or of a particular area, you can tell whether or not there there’s, there’s antibody building up in a particular population, and then you can go back and you can test that particular population with the more specific tests, more sensitive tests, uh, and actually, you know, find the people and the reasons it’s so important is that this, um, that is, is that we do think at least, uh, I have to look at that who article that’s an interesting new, uh, new, well, so here’s, let me, let me read you the quote. So it’s a, from dr. Maria van Krakow, um, who said, uh, head of who’s emerging disease and zoonosis unit, uh, from the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmit onward to a second individual and then follows up with it’s very rare. Now she had, does immediately follow that. And of course they don’t really highlight this quote as much, um, where she says absolutely more research and data are needed to truly answer the question of whether or not asymptomatic carriers can spread it. Um, yeah, so that that’s important. She didn’t say presymptomatic, if she had, has she said presymptomatic and asymptomatic, then I would have questioned it because it turns out with your, your, your, the biggest amount of virus you’ve got that it’s shedding happens about two and a half days after being, after being, um, uh, after being exposed. So if he had said, and we think of asymptomatic rate about 25%, it ranges between 20 and 50%, depending on who you’re talking about. So eventually, you know, 80% of the time you’ll come down with symptoms, uh, 80 say 75, 80% of the time will come down with some symptoms that you are at least we’re right here. Well, I was gonna say, even if they’re, you know, that that first chart you threw up there, I mean, a lot of those symptoms are, Hey, I’ve got a, or, Hey, I’ve got the flu or it’s allergy season in Michigan. So as, as we get as become more, as we’ve become more aware, more educated, he, he could be right that, you know, the asymptomatic rate of transmission is going to be lower because we’re going to recognize that Quebec, I could have colon COVID and isolate appropriately. So can you, she may be right about that. I’d like to look at the dataset that she was looking at, because most of my colleagues are saying, we still think there’s some asymptomatic spread to, uh, to this. And so if you can imagine a stool sample, the, the, the issue we’ve got, I just, I just want to, God bless you. And it just bless you for having an actual scientific answer for Bob’s dumb ass comment. I just, I, I respect you so much for this are critical. Well, it turns out they’re more important than we thought they would be, uh, because this particular virus has a very, what they call low key value. And K value is about a lot of clustering that occurs that in order to transmit the disease, cause it’s an R value. Everyone talks about it says one person gets it two and a half people Morgan. And so on. It turns out that isn’t exactly the way that virus, this particular virus works. This particular virus really works a lot more with super spreading, so super spreading by location, who we’re spending by activity super spreading by individual. So it turns out that, um, you know, one guy in Italy actually gave the disease in two days to 761 people. And he was, he was a super spreader. It turns out there’s some, I think I had an X like that. Yeah. We don’t know enough about literacy to figure this out. So what’s nice about the stool sample is if you get starting to get community spread, you can try to isolate, um, more with, uh, and try to find that that super spreading location activity or person, uh, faster than we can normally. Cause unfortunately we don’t have very good contact rates and a lot of countries have really invested a lot contact tracing. We don’t have have that as well established yet. We’re going to get there, but it’ll take some time, but no, we’re not quite as good as say Taiwan where they’re really good. So, I mean, I guess that leads to it. So our waste treatment plants, like kind of on the front lines of this, and I know, and is, is this maybe one of the issues with, I’m just thinking like, you know, you’ve seen like lower, like the lower earlier numbers or lower numbers in rural areas where you may have a lot of homes on septic systems. Um, so you’re not getting, you know, community data you’re, you know, it’s still one offs. Like, so I mean, yeah, I mean our, our waste and water treatment plants kind of on the frontline to this now it’s a waste of, uh, yes, but even more so maintenance, uh, operations. So you can imagine, you know, collection areas of, uh, around buildings and that actually are isolated back all the way to a building. You can get to that point and in some situations, but yes, your answer is, yeah, they’re, they’re becoming more important than, than I originally thought they were going to be sort of interesting. Uh, we have a couple of comments from our, uh, Facebook who are watching the video live. Um, if you have tested positive for antibodies, what is, what does that mean? How are you immune or not? How long are you moving if you are? Yes, that is a great, that is a very valuable answer question. Um, so this that’s the second test it’s up here. I’ll just show you, you should absolutely continue to stay at home for as long as possible. So here’s, here’s that here’s the same, here’s that same slide again. And the dotted line, the dotted line tests, um, are the antibody tests and this one shows two of them. Uh, it shows the, uh, the IgG, which is the important one that, that actually is a longterm antibody that converse some immunity we think. And then the IgM that signals the body, Hey, there’s something going on here. So antibodies are, as you know, they, they, they, they arise because you’ve got a foreign object that attacking your body. And what’s interesting is if you’re one year old and if something attacks you and then, you know, 90 years later, you’re, you’re sort of, you know, wheeling and yourself around the retirement home and they test, they can find that antibody back when you’re one year old. So that, that has a permanent sort of tattoo in your system that, that, that, that go away now that the effectiveness of that antibody won’t be as strong when your ideas is when it just a couple of weeks after you’ve been infected. But, uh, but it’ll still be there. So you can still detect whether you’ve ever been infected by the disease. As you can see this, this line goes up to about 70%. So right now our best antibody detection systems detect about 70% of the time, a false, uh, we’ll we’ll, we’ll, we’ll, we’ll be accurate 70% time, but it also means that 30% of the time you may think that you’ve got antibodies and you really don’t. So you want to make sure, uh, my recommendation is, is take this test a few times before you go out and try to be Superman. Uh, I would say three times right now, uh, and there are different tests for the antibody Roche’s is the most accurate, or if those is also highly accurate, Abbott’s a little bit less accurate, but faster. So depending on how, you know, how fast you want to go and so on, uh, and, and the accuracy level and the kind of test is being done. But basically there are a couple of things you can do once you’ve had a positive, uh, antibody response. The first is you just want to find out whether you have any immune response. Now we’re looking at that pretty carefully, uh, because we’re ruling for plastic proteins that will actually, or they call neutralize, uh, these, uh, the, the virus. And those are rare to find. We think we found a couple that complex was a virus and make it, make it an ex sort of, uh, inhibit its path to the cells and then reduces infection rate. We haven’t found that many that actually, no, come on and just kill a thing. Uh, we’re looking at something called DARPA, which is sort of interesting. It comes from a malaria, but we haven’t found that much. I I’m working with some of the guys who were at Rockefeller and some of the guys who are at Stanford, and we’re, we’re a little bit disappointed in the number of we take. And so if you, if you’ve been infected and you want to contribute, um, let me know when I can sit, certainly set you up, uh, to, to donate your blood and they’ll take a big bag of it and then decide, tell you what kind of antibodies it’s again, it’s Mike, you can absolutely drain him. We’re, we’re totally good with that. He will, uh, on his behalf, we will, we will donate him to science. That’s absolutely fine. [inaudible] are, these are, these are done at very at, are they called P three labs? So they’re, you know, super infection disease. And then as far as infectious disease goes, you know, P three before that’s, you know, you’re, you’re talking about outer space type of, of sterility, uh, environments, you know, uh, I, you know, it looks like, it looks like the neck, uh, you know, the, the, the alien Malians are attacking. When you go to those labs, they, what they do is they take, they take the blood and they actually take live virus and they check and they check out whether or not the virus was being affected by any of the antibodies they found in the book. And then what they do is if they find some good, if you find that your blood is good, they’ll give these what they call plasma therapy options. Convalescent therapy is another word for it. And they’ll inject injected. The healthcare workers will inject with people who are very ill and these antibodies will help them give them a boost, temporary boost. Do you want to do it more often? You have to what they call monoclonal antibodies. They actually take the antibody that it’s working instead of giving you a, was all the antibodies. They’ll, they’ll highlight one or two. And that’s what we’re looking for. One or two that really are strong and actually synthesize it in, in, in cell culture and create monoclone. And then they’ll, you know, they’ll actually inoculate it with an oxygen. And so it produces these antibodies all the time. And, um, and, and, uh, that’s, that’s a, uh, they call it, it’s a cell line. That’s an Nicola, an immortal cell line. And this immortal cell lines produce just nothing but produce to anybody or at least take them out. And we’re able to very precisely target the people with the antibody. So that’s the next level of therapy we’re not there yet. We right now, we’re still working with cocktails and spun down plasma, but we’ll get there and it’ll, it should be helpful. So there’s our, yeah, there was a story that came out today also, or yesterday there was a scientist in Norway basically came out and said there were convinced, wrote a report that, uh, that it was lab made in China. Um, I know we had, uh, origin story. We didn’t really, you know, we were all over the board again. Um, what is, uh, I guess what’s your take on that? See, now it’s funny. It was on Forbes and I went to go click on it and it said, the pages look no longer active. I wonder if I know, right. That’s why I can’t figure anything out. What’s what’s right. What’s wrong. I swear to God, that’s what it said. That’s what happened. I drastic Laura flora couldn’t that there were a couple of big announcements that Hydrox made plugin wasn’t working. And then they found out the scientist had used a lab that really wasn’t didn’t do the work with the chiropractor I should have. And now that now it’s back being tested again, so that that’s going to happen a bunch of all, but basically most scientists, so nothing is impossible, right? It could have been done in the, uh, in, in, in a lab. Uh, and there are some Nobel laureates that are absolutely convinced that they’ve found, you know, pieces of HIV basis of this space, of that, uh, virus that they think is highly suspicious. Um, that would indicate that maybe they were looking for an HIV vaccine. Cause a lot of us are working on HIV vaccines, right? Wouldn’t it be great to have a vaccine for that stupid thing finally. Um, and, but then we still roll out 10 years out. So they’re, you know, people are working with, with different kinds of vectors and then putting in HIV, uh, HIV, uh, proteins into the vector to see if that’ll work, they create a vaccine. So that’s most plausible explanation of how it could possibly be that they were working with a virus like this that could be released. It’s highly, highly unlikely. What’s much more probable is that, um, that we had a, a shift in a drift. So what happens with these, uh, what’s happened to these DNA sequences that are in the viruses. They is, they, uh, as they, as they shifted drift, that means basically that they can, they can, uh, go into a bat. And we think what happened was it went into a bat. It started in a bat. It was then got to go ahead and do a pinion community. Hanging community shifted the DNA slightly. Uh, it was a normal grown virus into that. And the thing we community chipped with DNA slightly. And then we had some drift occurring in the, in the, in the DNA sequences would cause this funny virus to occur. That’s a far more, it turns out biologically it’s a far, far more likely scenario than, than, than a P for lab, which, which, which, which this wasn’t a mistake in the releasing something. Now it’s a brand new before lab. They were still training their people. There were some, you know, there were some safety reports that said, these guys aren’t doing exactly the right thing, but even then we tend to use, uh, you know, deactivated viruses and just as highly, highly unlikely. And then the people who run that lab, you know, I I’ve met with them a few times. They’re very, they’re, they’re some of the best, best immunologists and invest just at best people in the world and in the space. Right. So I’ll just, I’m just scanning that article, Fred. And I was like, uh, it was dismissed by experts. So it’s like, well, I’m not the person that wrote it was the expert. Cause it was proven. And now it’s, they’re proving. It’s not proven. So again, that’s where I get. I’m sitting here at home, just shaking my head because I’m reading this then it’s then it’s, it’s like watching the, a, the Pluto’s a planet episode of Rick and Morty that’s yet to come guys, one Nobel prize in the HIV field who believe we’re absolutely convinced that it was, uh, it was, uh, one of the guys in France. You don’t want that States who are convinced. And they’re very, they’re very, very prominent people in the field, you know, Nobel prize winners who are convinced that this was a something that happened by the chains, but it’s just, if you talk to most epidemiologists, most to be analogous, most neurologists who are, you know, serious about the field, it’s like, no one really believes it. And if it is, it’s such a small chance that it’s it’s to be at a disbelief. So I give it a small percent chance. There’s always a chance, but probably highly, highly, highly unlikely. All right. So I promised Frank, I would get this one in. And I, I told him I would even quote him. He said, Hey, are the memes that are floating around that say the mask you’re wearing does virtually nothing to protect you, but it protects the other guy accurate. So if I’m wearing a mask, but others aren’t, I’m protecting these dipshits and they’re infecting me. We know that that’s an excellent summary of the three different kinds of masks that you should be aware of. The first mask is the mask that we all have access to. And that’s a mask that is, is, is basically, uh, it’s basically layers of, uh, ripped up t-shirt that’s been folded. Yeah. Yeah. And it turns out this is material’s important. So, so the material that you use is important. If you use like one ply of sill, it’s only about 20% effective, but if you use like five Plaza, so it gets about 80% effect. If you use it one or two plies of cotton, a flannel, it’ll be, you know, 60, 70%. If you use three or four plots, it’ll get about knitting, knitted, crochet with holes in it like Alyssa Milano. That’s not going to work. No, you do the hand, the hand to God do to hand to God. I went to Lowe’s the other day. And literally everybody in the store was wearing a mask, which I was really happy to see. Um, however, the guy that was running back and forth with carts, uh, that was one of the story. Employees just basically had like a big like cable knit with big, giant holes in it. Wool scarf wrapped around his head. And I was like, Oh, Oh, that’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works, but Hey, good for trying good. So this, this is a typical man. I just, I just happened to have one here. And, and what you want to do is you want to put it over your ears and you want to, you want to talk it in. You want to pull it down this way underneath and make sure see how it, how it’s going to be in and out like that. And the reason it’s doing it is because you want to make a nice don’t, don’t do it like that. It could break the metal, but it’s like this. And that’s, that’s a pretty tight seal. You have a little bit coming out this way, but the idea is that you’re stopping your breath and the person who is wearing the mask on the other side is stopping their breath. And collectively you can reduce the amount of transition by up to six fold. Well, and then for, for people like me, that wear glasses, then you put your glasses on over that. And that’s what keeps it from fogging up. That’s right. No, that’s a, that’s a big issue. There, there, there are a couple of things you don’t want to do with the math, right? The first thing you don’t want to do with a mask is touch it particularly cause it’s blocking stuff. So you’d want it when you take it on long, you want to use your, you want to use it up here. I will just show you this, this, and I see a lot of people doing it. Cause it’s is not, is useless. I’ll just tell you all this stuff comes right through your nose and through your mucus membrane. So this is not very effective. I think the a, the best analogy I’ve seen is that’s the equivalent of wearing your pants, buckled around your thighs like that. Yeah. And when you take it off, you just come behind and I take it off and then you fold it down and you throw it out right away. I don’t, don’t put it down. And you were like, I’ve just done, but it doesn’t, you know, just throw it out. And you’re all set the same thing with gloves. I don’t know if I got any gloves, but you know how to put on an off gloves, right? I mean, what you do is you put them on very carefully when you take them off, um, you, you, you, you grab it from down. Uh, ah, I do have a glove hold everything. I’ll show you. So the walls can be useful if you don’t want to wash your hands all the time. So don’t, don’t lick your fingers and you’re pulling apart the fruit bags, right? If the grocery store do not be that guy in the produce aisle, Bob, no, you avoid it, but do not touch your face, right. Or cut the mask in the middle, like that lady at the gas station. Yeah. I see. I see people with like their, their mouth exposed and they’re no, no, they’re not from Victoria’s secret. They are not crotchless panties. It’s a mask you’re supposed to be taking this seriously. Yeah. And you know what? You’re having trouble with. The mask. Women are having trouble with the vests. They’re getting like, they’re getting, so I got my gloves on, right? The way, the way. So the way you pull them on, you put them on, hold on, all of your fingers, take them off. You just grab the bottom. Right. And you try to avoid touching anything else. And you just pull them up over your fingers. Right. Then you put that one in this hand, right over your fingers, right? Everything is, everything is one bundle and you throw it out. You’re done. But taking out and off this protective gear is really important. The doctors, you know, practice it. Sometimes we watch each other, make sure they haven’t touched and exposed themselves inadvertently. So that’s one type of mask. That’s the, that’s the first type of mask. The second type of mask is a surgical mask. The surgical mask is much more comfortable and it’s better. It’s about 75% effective and reducing, you know, uh, your, uh, your breath. Um, and it’s, uh, it’s more breathable. It works not by the density of this, of the, of the material. It works actually by electrostatic, uh, uh, uh, attraction. So it actually takes the molecules and, and, and pulls them into the fabric. Uh, and it also is in fact, more effective because it blocks liquid cause it’s made for blood. You know, if you’re a surgeon, if a surgeon gets splattered, uh, it blocks the liquid, uh, contamination, which is, which is also can be very helpful if you’re around a real sick person, the last kind of mass actually PR uh, and this is answering your question. This actually protects both you and the person across from you. It’s the [inaudible] baths. And the reason that it’s, that it’s, um, protects both of you is because it actually completely filters out. It’s got a filtration system and most, as long as there’s no available on it, but the ones with valves on it are much more comfortable for the user to wear, but that just push it, all the stuff that you’re exhaling right out into the environment. And that’s extremely dangerous, right. So, I mean, at the end of the day, like the cloth mask and that kind of stuff, that you’re, that you typically see everybody walking around in. Cause that’s what we have access to. And that’s what we can get our hands on it. That’s, I mean, his question is accurate. You’re you’re, you’re not wearing it for yourself. You’re wearing it for other people. That’s right. And so everyone’s wearing it, then everyone’s being fair and you know, you’re, you’re cool. If you’re, if you’re the only guy not wearing the mask, then you’re the guy being protected everywhere else. It’s not protected. Well, I mean, and it’s, and it’s turned into, I mean, there were, there were stories coming out of a, there, I know there was one that came out of Brooklyn. There were, then there were a couple others where somebody walked into a store with a mask and they were with, or without a mask and they were just drummed out of the store. Like, you know, people, you know, just basically just yelled at and ashamed of them until they left the store. Yeah. You know, in the, in the hospital, um, you know what, you don’t want to be that guy. Right? You don’t want to be the guy who was known as a super spreader because you forgot your mask or you’re not, you didn’t wear a wet mass is properly sealed. Uh, so initially, you know, the big, you know, we would, a lot of times you think, well, you know, I’ll be the tough guy and I’ll let the mask go. And I won’t have to, you know, I won’t, I won’t be the guy who uses too much. Right. He, cause I want to save it from the teams who are older or weak or not, but it doesn’t work that way. You gotta, you know, if everyone does it, you’re, you’re pretty safe. And if, if you’re exposed, unfortunately with someone who out, without a mask, you’re going to get exposed. It’s amazing how, uh, it’s amazing how society changes. Um, I forwarded David a video of a comedian, uh, Sebastian Maniscalco. And he’s talking about going to a neighbor’s house. Yeah. Back in 2014. Yeah. Yeah. And they answered those like four years ago and how they answered the door in a surgical mask. And he goes, usually if you got one of those meds done, you pull it down and say, I’m painting downstairs. And he goes, this guy nothing. And he goes complete freak of nature. And he goes, now you look at four years later and it’s like, you’re the freak of you don’t have one on, you know, it’s just amazing how fast society changes. Yeah. And you know, it’s all about your own personal risk, you know, the, the younger people, um, uh, you know, they’re not, they’re not as high risk as we are. And so a lot of them are, are not wearing masks and it doesn’t really, it’s not, they’re not really a big risk, but hopefully they’ll, if they’re kind to us, they care about us a little bit. They’ll, they’ll ask God for our basket. Well, and I guess that’s a, that’s a good followup to that. I mean, you know, let’s, I don’t, we’ve already, we went into everything last week, but I mean, so let’s, let’s about just the simple nature of all the protests that have been going on over the past couple of weeks. And, you know, we’ve, we’ve seen, uh, you know, there’s been an awful lot of video and an awful lot of footage. Um, somewhere you’ve seen a lot of people wearing mass. A lot of people are not wearing masks. You had, um, you know, a lot of people were, you know, blasting governor Whitmer, uh, because she was at a, you know, she went to a March, um, wasn’t standing six feet apart from each other, you know, did have a mask on, but wasn’t social distancing, all that kind of stuff. Um, so I mean, I guess what’s your, like, so like what should we be expecting from what we’ve seen over the last couple of weeks? And like, what, what should we be looking out for in the next couple of weeks and, and that sort of thing. Yeah. So it usually takes about two weeks of incubation and then you’ll find out whether there’s been a seat seeding effect with, with more infection, but usually it takes about two to three months to start the seed. And then the way the exponential growth works that we talked about last time you get enough of a base and all of a sudden it just starts to take off. Um, and, uh, and so, you know, it’ll take two or three weeks and we have a slight hump then watch out because we could be getting, uh, you know, into a spiral that is going to cause a rapid growth rate. And hopefully we’ll have enough testing out there that it’ll, you know, alert us to the fact that, Hey, we got a lot of communities spread and, uh, it turned out that we, uh, got into some super spreading situations with, uh, with, with the protest on the protest side. You know, I, sir, I certainly understand that if people want to go out and have their say, my recommendation would be, if you’re in category like me, uh, and you wrote anyone like go out, um, a couple of things, sort of drive yourself there, don’t tell you to take public transportation. Right. That right there now it’s, uh, actually, uh, is, is part of the issue. If you’re in an enclosed car for a long time, finally get to the event that’s sitting in, you know, uh, sitting in with lots of other people who are breathing, uh, in a bus. That’s not, that’s not a good thing. So I wouldn’t take a bus, you know, who would do the event, even though there are a lot of people doing that, uh, at my age, I also, uh, would definitely wear a mask, definitely wear gloves. I would probably carry a sign. Wouldn’t take part in the chanting, uh, because, uh, there’s a lot when, when you’re chanting talking, you know, in order to get exposed, you have to know about, about a thousand to 3000 particles of, of, of, of the virus getting inside of you. Um, normal breathing is about 58, 50, 50, uh, particles, uh, for expert ex exploration. So after about five or six minutes, you know, you can be exposed talking to somebody. And if you’re shouting, uh, then you’re talking about, you know, maybe five to 10,000, especially if you’re using a lot of ages and stages and bees and you know, all the, all the things that everybody had, a microphone hates, all the plosives. Yeah. Whatever, whatever you’re saying, Oh boy, those kinds of words. Uh, and then certainly the, the, the big issue is if they start using, you know, tear gas that about to be my followup. Yep. Yeah. Then you really gotta be careful cause it can aggravate your lungs to begin with. You gotta take off your mask. You got a lot of people coughing and you got a lot. And when you cough, you’re talking about expirations of 50 miles an hour, that’ll go with, you know, 20, 30 feet. So, you know, uh, it’s a, it’s a, you know, it’s a big difference between shouting which goes 10 feet, uh, versus versus coughing, which goes a lot further. Uh, and, and the other thing I’d say is, uh, you sure don’t want to be arrested and put into Patty wagon with 30 other guys and then put, put into jail, avoid that at all. I feel like that’s good life advice, Fred. I feel like I forgot his name. My wife loves that show. The guy who runs the tigers. Oh, a Joe Maldonado, Joe exotic. Yeah. Yeah. Well exotic. Yeah. I mean, it’s it, you know, if you’re in prison, it’s, it’s a dangerous situation in there cause it’s just, you’re sitting there in a germ box. So those are most of my thoughts about, about protesting, you know, take a sign, don’t get into shouting, take, take, take your six feet. If you can, if you get started being crowded down, you can’t, and you can’t avoid getting crowded down. I’d probably avoid that situation. I probably wouldn’t, you know, I’d probably say, okay, you know, I’ve had my say, I’m on, I’m off where I, I I’d move around into a different area where I had more space. I could still, you know, do you might say, say my thing and do my, do my thing. Uh, bring hand sanitizers. Cause you’re going to want to shake hands. You’re going to want to touch your face. You’re going to be hot. Uh, bring, bring, uh, if you’re going to wear a mask to make sure you, uh, use, uh, use, uh, a good SPF, uh, on your, on your skin, because you don’t want to get skin cancer, but also you don’t also don’t want to get what they call a mask. You don’t look like you’ve gone 10 line. Yeah. The mask rings. You don’t want that. And if you’re having, if you’re having trouble with your math, you know, you’re getting a lot of people are getting what they call Mac Mackney, you know, we got a little bit acne coming up from there. Uh, uh, if you’re a woman don’t use, uh, oily, oily cosmetics, if you can avoid it. And if you’re man or women, uh, try to use, uh, try to avoid synthetic fabrics, a lot of these fancy synthetic fabrics, aren’t, aren’t nearly as breathable. And then they cause a lot of, uh, irritation to your skin. More, more so than you’d think. And unfortunately, I think we’re going to be with a mass situation for over a year really well. So, and I guess so there’s, I guess there’s a good question. We touched on this a little bit last time, but it was still pretty early in the game and the weather hadn’t changed as much has anything further come out. I mean, cause you know, so it was nice and cool yesterday and today we’re going to be climbing up into the nineties for the next three days. Has there been any more data that you’re aware of? That’s come out about how, you know, Hey, the flu goes away when it gets warm. So I mean, you know, has there been anything more discovered about that in relation to the weather or with this in relation to the weather? So they are doing really fancy studies now to look at all sorts of modeling, uh, around the weather. And um, so, uh, originally we thought over 77 degrees Fahrenheit was going to be a better period of time than under 77. We thought 77 was a special number. That was the, who was the original number with the temperature humidity makes a big difference. Cause the virus doesn’t travel as far and human weather as it does. You know, if you cough cause the is have, yeah, it makes sense trapped in the moisture of the air. So it actually reduces the amount of distance almost to a foot instead of 16. Yeah. But I’m, I’m not a fan of humidity, but I guess it serves a purpose when you actually do the, the numbers. Um, it turns out that the biggest factor is how many susceptible people you’ve got out there. You’ve got a lot of people who are susceptible and this is a novel layer. So most of us are still susceptible. Then that’s going to overwhelm almost any other factor in the models that we’re creating. Gotcha. Once you start to get, you know, close to her immunity and you start to get a weather impact, then you’re starting to get there. Then you’d have some opportunity. But right now we think it’s about 0.05 are. So it was just a little bit, the amount of transmission that’s our best guess. Right. So like, you know, the, I guess, you know, the, the parties you saw, like in the Ozarks, you know, in that kind of stuff where you had hundreds, I mean, yeah, granted it was nice and hot outside, but you had hundreds of people gathering around the pools and that kind of stuff and just going crazy. Yeah. Granted, most of them were young, but still, probably not the best idea. No, no, that, that, that’s a real superstar of it. He goes, the problem is then you go and visit grandma. Right, right. Or the neighborhood let’s go. And then, then you, then you go to the nursing home and then you, then you have a big belt. Yeah. Those are super spreader events. Uh, and we’ll, we’ll probably, usually you can see what’s interesting is our, our testing technology is pretty sensitive now and you can see that the effect of our, of those little events. So I, uh, we, we had our, uh, you know, when people were getting Nancy and they, they, they went and they demonstrated it at the, uh, uh, at the blood chasers. Let’s, we’re going to open up now, but believe it or not, a day later, we actually could see, uh, you know, it took about two or three days for that, that, that, that to sort of push back down again. Uh, so those, those events do, do make a slight difference. Uh, now there were lots of other people out there. So that was, it was, it was the first nice day of the spring. So there were a lot of people that do out and about, I just remember it cause of that day that, uh, there are some events that can really make a difference. For example, they shut down Korea. Now Korea has a different philosophy about, about the three different philosophies that government can have basically about what they want to do with coronavirus. Right? The first is they want to, um, they, they want to contain the virus. And so Korea, Taiwan, China, those guys are actually trying to contain virus, which means if you get, if you get exposed, you know, you’re supposed to quarantine immediately supposed to announce all the contacts you’ve had. They’ve got electronic medical, they got electronic records in Israel looking actually you go find where you’ve been, who you’ve been with and announced to everybody, you know, this person is ill. So be careful. Well, um, and then there’s suppression, which we’re doing in most of the States. And there’s some who just like Sweden, who were saying, you know, we’re just going to let it go, let it rip, see what happens. Uh, so those are the three different processes when Korea who was trying to actually contain the virus, had that one guy. Remember that one guy who found out two days later after they opened up, you went to three big nightclubs. They shut down the whole country for a few days. So, so the cause they’re trying to avoid those super spreader events. Uh, so that, that’s a, that’s a sort of a different philosophy, but that’s what happens in those safe hunters yet. I was going to say, so kind of, so like, you know, the like New Zealand, you know, kind of did the same thing and they just made the big announcement today. Hey, life is back to normal as of today. No more social distancing rules, no more, any of that stuff, I guess like what, what did they do that was so different from us other than they’re way, way smaller, but we can’t get there so easily. They’re way down there. I mean, that didn’t really help Manhattan. We got bridges, New Zealand. So yes. So what New Zealand did is they made a couple mistakes early on, but they very quickly decided we’re going to go with containment. We’re going to not allow anyone on the Island or off the Island period. And they’re still not letting anyone off or off the Island. You have to come in from Australia being in Australia and even come on in New Zealand. So,

What would you do to get your grandkids to go to church? What was Youth Ministry like for YOU? How can parents help their kids thrive in Youth Ministry? Do you make attendance a mandatory experience? Or is youth ministry difficult to attend for your kids? We talk with our special guest Matthew Windsor – the Area Director for Southern Delaware YoungLife – about the state of youth ministry today.Matt is also the student ministries director at Eagle's Nest Church in Milton, DE. He is married to Erin Windsor and they have three children, Noah, Ellianna, and Thompson. Matt and his family came to our community by way of the Eastern Shore of Maryland where their families still reside.SHOW NOTES:2:00 - Are Youth Groups DEAD!?3:00 - Mark recalls how Young Life led him to Christ3:55 - Denise remembers her son's experience with Young Life5:13 - It can be difficult to invite kids to a Church function - Mark shares a story that puts it in perspective6:20 - Today's Youth Ministry is different by design7:55 - Andrew and Denise reminisce about the good old days of Youth Group - and Hydrox!9:20 - How does someone get involved with Youth Ministry Leadership?11:08 - "Parents these days... uughh... what are we gonna do with parents these days?"13:15 - Denise shares Bill Sammon's story about heading out on a Youth Group Trip that changed his life14:45 - Matthew Windsor recounts his first time going to a youth group meeting15:30 - Takeaways Feedback, or Show Ideas? Send an email to podcast@887thebridge.comDownload The Bridge Mobile App to get the latest podcast episodes as soon as they are published!Please share The Bridge Podcast with a friend if you enjoyed this episode. Podcast Sponsored by Boardwalk Plaza Hotel and Victoria's Restaurant