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Pear Kiwi Celery Beet – Morning Health Juice Ingredients

Good morning today. We have some beet some celery mostly because they’ve been in the fridge for a few days and they’re kind of going bad as you can kind of see the elite. So I need to mush them up. So we got our beet, we got some celery, we got our kiwi, and then we have two pairs. I need to go back to the store day and get some, some other fruit. Some apples. Here we go. We got our ginger. No, this is that’s. That’s a, that’s a very big piece of ginger. Probably cut that in half. All right. Let’s check in our book. Excuse me. It’s a little bit of a mess today. All right. So we’ll start with our vegetables. First. We have our beat and then celery. Let’s see what comes for celery.

Celery right here, vitamins K C and a full eight potassium, digestive health anti-inflammation cholesterol, health, blood pressure regulation, and skin health. Let’s go to our beat, which is this one right here, a full Lake, Magna knees, potassium, blood pressure regulation, heart health digested, the health and brain health. All right. So yeah. What if you remember when we had the beat last time? It was supposed, we had it at nighttime, but it was, it worked counter productive. I was kind of awake. So I wonder if where it says BrainHealth under the beat, if that’s kind of like brain stimulation. So that’s going to be interesting to find out as taking it. Like it’s I think it’s like seven 30. No, it it’s probably like eight o’clock in the morning. So it’s early. So that’s, it’s going to be interesting to see how the beat affects us in, in the morning, opposed to at night.

All right. So we got the key. We, again, we got vitamin C K and E full late potassium. Here we go. Anti-Inflammation respiratory health, digestive health immunity, boost, eye health, blood pressure regulation. All right. So then we have our payers pair. There we go. Vitamin C and K potassium, digestive health, weight loss, immunity, boost, kidney stone prevention, and heart health. If you remember, and then obviously our ginger isn’t there. If you kind of remember if you’ve been following along I, part of the reason I did this, cause I was kind of having pains in my kidneys and a lot of attitude because I wasn’t eating anything. I was mostly just drinking coffee from two o’clock in the morning until two o’clock in the afternoon. Cause, or maybe even three and then having an energy drink and then eating some food. And then that would be my day. So my kidneys were talking to me and there were screams there. Well, they weren’t talking, they were more or less screaming to me and telling me, change your diet. So that’s what I did. Hopefully the pear, since it has our kidney kinda protection, hopefully our pear where we’ll help the process of, of rebuilding my kidneys from the destruction that I cost. All right. See you in a minute.

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March 23 Noon Energy Drink Juicing Process – Sweet Potato Lemon Orange Cucumber

Welcome back. All right. We’re start with our Vinci, uh, citrus grinder. So we’ll pit our fancy cup. Sorry about that. We’ll put our fancy cup right there and let’s start with some, some lime juice or some lemon juice. Use me. You can just push this nifty button over there.

And do so nice on that one. And the first one that pretty much got everything.

All right, so that’s two lemons. That’s how much lemon juice we got? Um, yeah, worry about seeds later on or worried about it. Let’s work. Let’s see how much orange juice we

Yeah, that was a nice one right there that got all the juice out.

That thing.

I will say this, this seems a little slower than the other one. It feels like we’ve been doing this forever.

Now. Remember, we’re doing this,this is our energy drink, so we’re trying to give us as much a boost, like a boost of energy before I go run it. Just to see if you know, cause I’m a little tired. Uh, usually I take a, I have an energy drink around this time. I just, I run around for it’s. It’s about two o’clock right now. So I usually go for a run in about two hours, uh, on a normal day. I’d go to the gym or not to the gym. Excuse me. I’d have, uh, some energy drink a monster, and then now keep me going. So I’m trying to come up with a concoction where I no longer go to the, the energy drink and I just go to the natural energy drink of fruit. All right. This is how much juice we got from our citrus, uh, our orange juice and our lemon juice. Now let’s go to the, the actual juice makers. All right. Cause that, that didn’t give us very much of anything. I mean, we’re good. That’s it’s about a couple of swallows. Alright. I gotta move this forward. There we go. All right. Let’s start with the sweet potato

Now let’s go with the cucumber. [inaudible] the watermelon [inaudible]

Oh, I forgot the Apple. I apologize. I got a little Apple juice in there.  all right.

All right. So you remember where we were with the citrus? We were like right here. And so the rest of this is the watermelon cantaloupe manna or honeydew sweet potato and cucumber. All right. I’m going to cut this video and I’ll see you why we experiment and see how it tastes.

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March 23 Morning Ingredients – Melons Strawberries Broccoli

All right. Good morning. So this morning we have a lot of Mellon. We need to get rid of if you can kind of see the watermelons getting a minute, it’s normal, it’s getting old. Like you’re supposed to eat it basically. The day it’s been in there for a few days, same thing with the cantaloupe and honeydew was yesterday. I was like, I got an attitude is, might as well mush up as much as we can. And we’ve got little strawberries a day just to kind of give it some, some more flavor, our carrots to accomplish, give some vegetable and then some broccoli. I’m not exactly sure how much of this. I wouldn’t be able to fit because we know that our three melons are going to give us an insane amount of juice. So we’ll probably do a quarter, quarter, quarter or half, half, half, and then for our energy drink later on today, we’ll just try to kill or finish the rest of the melons and go with some oranges or something like that.

And I want to try something else for our energy drink to see if it works. So yeah, let me go ahead and bring out our trusty book and see what we are. We already know that the watermelon and cantaloupe is not in here. So we’ll go with the broccoli first, vitamin C B N a potassium calcium cancer prevention, cholesterol, health, and eye health. That’s that right there to broccoli. Let’s go with the carrot, vitamin a C and B6 potassium, I health skin health and cancer prevention. So then, you know, it’s good to put a carrot in your system every day. Let’s go to our fruits. We’ll go to the honeydews. Since we know the honeydews in there, vitamin C B N K potassium, full late bone health, blood sugar control, skin protection, immunity boost, digestive health and blood pressure regulation. So that’s our honeydew right there. And let’s end with our strawberries. Since we know we do not have the cantaloupe and we do not have a watermelon strawberries, vitamin C manganese, late heart health, blood sugar control, and cancer prevention. So, and we’ll see what kind of good concoction. This just brings this for the morning time. We know that it’s going to be pretty, pretty watery. Let me go ahead and prepare these, this fruit for us and, and a couple of vegetables, and I’ll see you in the next video.

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March 23 Morning Juicing Process

All right. So here we go. Everything’s cut up. We’ve got ourselves set up. We’re gonna go ahead and mush up the watermelon and we’re just all the melon stuff first, actually. No, don’t know that’s a, not a good idea. We’re going to do watermelon then broccoli, or just mix it up or have some fun. Well, there it goes. I was going to say, they’re not, it’s not going to fit, but there, there it goes. It amazing watermelon juice. I don’t know today. We’re going to really find out if juice water is, is good or not. Right. So what we have left, we have the cantaloupe, the honey strawberries. Let’s we’re going to have to cut the honeydew and this in half cause. Yeah. Right. Well just, I mean, it doesn’t really matter now. Here we are with the juice are my prediction is that these three things right here are going to fill the rest of the cup. So we’ll stuff that in there. Go ahead and drop him in there to put some, some funny do and I would say Mark, I’m getting pretty good guesstimating. How much juice needs to go into this thing? All right. Well, I’ll see you in just a second and we will give it a taste try or whatever. We’ll give it a try. See how either goodness is or how to Melanie. It is. I don’t know. I’m curious. All right. Talk to you later.

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Organic Energy Drink March 22 Midday Juicing Process

All right. Not so exciting. Just have to really kind of cut the oranges. I just want to bring out the seltzer water. You can get it at any of your grocery store. I got black cherry just cause I had it in the fridge. Not any reason. So you can get whatever flavor you desire. Part of the reason we’re doing that is if you look there is wait a minute, nothing in here, nothing, nothing, nothing carbonated water, natural flavor. So that’s it. So we know the natural flavor is probably wrong. It’s probably terrible for you. However, it’s just carbonated water for the most part. So that’s why we’re using it. So it gives us our carbonation in our energy drink. All right. Let’s get started. I’m going to start with the zucchini.

Yeah,

Yeah. Let’s try guayaba at all. Highly disappointing. Maybe we’ll try those in another few days. Cause that, that didn’t do anything. And they’re kind of expensive for it. Not to do anything now let’s do the Kiwi. Now. This is it’s pretty hard. So the other ones were kind of hard to, but it might’ve been right. All right.

I’m pretty disappointed. Not going to lie. However, let’s move it over to our orange juice. Let me take this off real quick and try to pour the rest of the little juice in here. There you go. Ask that guy out. Guayaba right there. I want every last little drop of that. There we go. Well, not every drop. That’s good. Let’s move its cup over to our juicer machine over here. Move that down. And I’m guessing, well, the pictures say to just go like this, I probably could have used a bigger oranges, but where will you stop it like that and push the button.

Okay. Wow.

Did it work?

Yeah, there’s still quite a few little bit juice in here, so it’s not the most efficient thing. Okay, well let’s keep going. I guess we stick it here. Stick that right there. Going through the thing Maybe this is just supposed to put this up here. Okay. Yeah, that was a little better. All right. Let’s round number three. Okay. So I’m guessing that goes in this little hole. No, don’t do that. So you gotta play with this a little bit. Maybe that’s where we’re needed to be. Okay. You see what I’m saying? So I’m guessing this is supposed to pop up, but it’s not the best design. Let’s give another shot. Oh, there it goes.
Are you serious? This is all we’re going to get. Yeah, I, I mean, I did it well that time I got out what I was supposed to get, I guess, Highly disappointing. Put our water in there and I will talk to you guys in a second. Once I clean up and meet you in the other room.

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Organic Energy Drink March 22 Test: Midday Ingredients – Zucchini Guayaba Kiwi Orange

All right. So this is our test run for making an energy drink. I don’t know how well this is going to work. But it’s going to, we’re going to try. So we’re going to use a little bit of, of seltzer water. I, sorry, I don’t have the picture. It’ll be all right. We just got this right here at the Vinci juice maker for like tomato or what are these things called? Oranges and limes and lemons and everything like that. We’re still going to use our Mueller Grindr for our tea. We are and our zucchini. Why is this zucchini here? I’m not really sure. I was wanting to put a vegetable here instead of just having all fruit. I thought for a second there, I had more to put into this machine right here, but I realized all I have is just some oranges. So not quite as exciting as I would’ve liked, but nonetheless, let’s get into it.

All right. Let’s start with our zucchini. This is vitamin a C and K magnesium potassium, digestive health, blood, sugar control, heart health, and I health. I guess that’d be a good reason. We’re about to pump ourselves with a whole bunch of sugar. So, or in theory, so maybe the zucchini will help us deal with that sugar. Right? All right. Let’s get to our orange vitamin C and B folate, potassium, heart health, kidney, stone prevention and anemia. Anemia prevention. All right. Now, now we’ll go to our Kiwi vitamin C K and E full late potassium. Anti-Inflammation respiratory health, digestive health immunity, boost, eye health, blood, and blood regulation, blood pressure regulation. Excuse me. Those are all  I? Yeah, they’re not here. I wouldn’t think they would be. So what we’re going to do is Mark prepared a fruit cut the, the oranges in half basically, and get my setup set up and then we’ll go from there. All right.

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March 26 Fitness

All right. Today, today was easy. It finally, I mean, you can see outside it’s, it’s not gray. It was a little bit this morning, but it cleared up.

Okay.

I don’t really have any complaints as you see. I don’t, I’m not wearing my sweater, so it’s not freezing cold anymore. That poses a different problem now because I’m really, I’m sweating profusely and my hands are slippery. So when I’m holding on to the weights there, it’s kind of slippery. So I’m gonna probably have to buy some gloves just for that problem. But that’s a good problem. I’m going to have as long as I continuously drink, a lot of fluids, keep my body, you know, hydrated. Cause now it’s warmer. I’m going to sweat a whole bunch more. But other than that’s fine, I’m going to have to do laundry a little bit more just cause I’m gonna have to wash your clothes every day or just buy some more, more shoe or more pants and some tank tops, which, you know, that’s either which way let’s see on the treadmill started off 5.6, then about 10 minutes in, I moved up to 5.8 or something. And then for the last about 10 minutes I went up to six and then I was like, Ooh, I can race. I might be able to, I like it. I could see Beading Or three miles in 30 minutes. So when I could see it, like, you know, yesterday day before when I run at 5.6 for the whole time for like 20 minutes, there’s no way I’m going to catch it. Right. That’s just, this is too much. But I saw that I could catch it. Right. So I ran at 5.6 for a little bit and you know, I was doing good, but then I was like, you know what I mean? I was almost catching it, but I was, it was going to be too close to count. So I wanted to like double down and make sure that I beat it. So I went ahead and moved it up to about seven miles per hour, about seven months, your boss said mom’s power and then ran, ran that or the remainder of the 30 minutes like that. And I ended up getting 30 miles in about 29 minutes and 10 seconds, 20 seconds, something like that.

So I beat the 30 minutes, which is, you know, it’s key. That’s good. I, remember when I got the first when I got the treadmill for the first time I was trying to outdo myself and I actually I did it. I was running over three miles in 30 minutes. However I was wearing myself out. So then we dropped it all the way back down to five miles per hour and just run the 30 minutes and then slowly but surely we’ve gradually moved up higher and higher and higher. Now I’m not saying tomorrow or from here on out, we’re going to try to beat minutes, but now we know we can do it at a gradual pace to where I’m not really tired now. Now, you know, if that makes sense before I hadn’t really pushed myself hard to get there, to get there because my body just wasn’t there yet. It wasn’t developed into the point where it’d be easy. Now my, my body’s evolved to the point, my cardio raised to the point maybe the juicing, you know, the extra vitamins I’m putting into my system. Maybe those are helping. I did have A, a mid day drink. My little energy drink, which again, everyone,

The day that I have had one of those when I’m running, I don’t Hawk as many Luigi’s, which is good. I don’t know why, but the energy drinks, you know, my own energy drink. I don’t know if it’s an energy drink, but that’s what we’re going to call it. Right? Cause that’s the intention of it is to supplement an energy drink throughout the day. I can’t complain so far. It’s doing it’s it’s doing the purpose intended for I’m not going to lie, have cheated a little bit with energy drinks.

Just, I think more of, it’s just the addiction factor that, you know, if you have a placebo as long as it, you know, two people take the same pill and one’s a placebo and one’s not. And if, as long as they, they both believe they both can be fixed. So I think the placebo effect is happening to where I’m not a firm believer in my personal energy drink. So I’m still supplementing the energy drink, like buying an energy drink, however slowly but surely my stinginess world, where I come in and I’ll just won’t buy energy drinks anymore. I will is I think it’s more of a discipline. Once I consistently make my midday drink, then I’ll, then I’ll probably cut the energy drinks out, but it’s difficult. I’m not going to lie. It’s very difficult to drink three different times in a day.

That’s juicing three times is it takes a minute because I looked at the time it takes from starting to finish. It’s almost an hour. Right. So yeah, it doesn’t seem like, Oh, well just put together. Excuse me. Well, it’s easy, Erik, why don’t you just cut the vegetables and grind them up and then you’re done. Yeah, that’s true. But then making the videos then cleaning up then doing everything combined time is about an hour. And that’s that’s if I don’t talk very long, the longer, the more I talk the more or the longer it is, it is efficiently springtime. I seen bees out today. So hopefully wherever you are, it’s spring and it’s looking beautiful. I’m excited that I don’t have to wear a sweater Anymore. I might have to get a haircut Because of that. Other than that, stay up, congratulations and talk to y’all later on.

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March 27 Fitness

All right. That was a good day. So today I’ve been working pretty hard. I’ve been kind of tired all day, not from just being tired, but from working had a lot of videos I needed to do so going onto the treadmill and going into my afternoon workout, I wanted to approach it different than normal. I wanted to just cause in the videos I’ve, I’ve recorded hours a day, more than normal, and it’s been difficult. It really has. It’s it’s pushing myself in ways that I haven’t ever done. I’ve never made this many videos in a day when it comes to amount of hours being recorded. So it’s, it’s a large check. So I wanted to downplay that challenge because I still have a lot to do, right. If I can finish the rest, then today will be a groundbreaking day for me, because then it allows my mind to know that I can achieve it.

Right. And tell you, do something you’ll never know if you can do it or not. With that mentality today on having to work extra hard to make videos, because what yesterday I was lazy and I didn’t make any. Now I did a lot of other things yesterday, but I didn’t make any money for this particular project. So I was behind. So today I walked into this afternoon workout with the intention of running longer than I ever had. I did that because if I just break one challenge today, then I’ll feel good. But if I break two challenges, I’ll feel better. And I know that capable of doing much more than what I believe right now. So if you’ve noticed, we started on the treadmill at 10 minutes, then we moved our way up and we were at 30 minutes. Well today just cause I wanted to challenge myself and do something that I’d never done before. So I wanted to prove that anything is possible. I set out with the mission to run an hour an hour, and I’ve never done this before in my life, higher life, maybe plan sports when I was younger, just running around and I was an hour, but it’s running straight on a treadmill for an hour. Today was the first day.

Now going into this mindset, I had to have a little bit different mindset than normal. So was I trying to outdo myself? No, but I just wanted to have a good day pain one hour to prove to myself that I am capable of doing something if I put my mind to it. So the normal times throughout the day, I always tell you about, about what 20 minutes in about 15 minutes in is when I start getting my second wind and it’s not miserable anymore. And then here about 30 minutes, it gets about it’s miserable again. And then after about 31 to 32 minutes, if I’m still on the treadmill, then I get my third wind, I guess. And I keep going well today at 20 minutes, I was like, Oh man, I have a lot to go. I got 40 more minutes. Well then I changed my thinking and I was like, you know what, you’re a third of the way done because when I’m running 30 minutes, once I hit that 15 minute Mark, I’m like, all right, I’m running downhill.

So today, once I stopped looking at what I had in front of me as up the Hill, I started looking behind me and looking at what I’ve already accomplished. So then when I was able to split it up into thirds, I was like, okay, well at 40 minutes, then I’m more than halfway. Then at one 40 minutes hit, I was like, man, I can’t, I got 10 minutes, 10 minutes is nothing. So then when 50 minutes hit, I was like, you know what? I was getting close to running five miles. I was, it was more important to me to now get to the five miles before the hour.

So I no longer was concerned about how tired I was. I was no longer concerned about how long I’d been on the treadmill. My only desire was to get five miles before an hour. So in order to ensure that I would accomplish that mission, I had to raise the speed. So I raised the speed to 5.5. Now I didn’t want to overdo it because this is unchartered territory. But I knew that if I only raised it a half a mile per hour, my body wouldn’t notice such a grand difference does just a small smidget, but will make a world of difference in the 10 minutes that I did it. Right. Okay. It’s almost a half a mile difference. So when it got to an hour, did I make it just, I did total time today because you know, I went backwards for my one little song kind of cool down was 5.3 miles. So was I able to run further on a day that I’m tired now? It’s almost six o’clock. So I’ve been working all day long. Cause you know, I still wrote the bike. I woke up a little late. I was on the bike at four, but I was still on the pipe. No, I think it was three.

I was on that bike. So, so today has been an extremely long day. So the end of the day, it’s not over yet because I still have to do cause I’ve neglected a couple of other things today to work on my project. So I got to do my daily work now. So I’m not done with the day, but what this did was it motivated me to prove to my mind that anything is possible if you just do it. And with that, I’m gonna take a shower.

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March 28 Fitness

Hi today. It’s a gloomy day. I had a, so, you know,

If you paid attention, gloomy days are never good days for me. They’re always just terrible. I hate gloomy days there. It just makes me that’s water in the bag.

Right there. That’s water, sparkling water. There’s just gloomy, man is, is Then maybe something about the sun gives me energy. It gives me new life, gets me excited for the day. But when it’s gray and raining all day, it’s kind of like, man, I have no energy. Let’s just sleep and get the day over with now. Obviously I didn’t sleep all day And it’s my project, my grand project, at least all the recordings are done now. I’m just waiting for the transcriptions and then we’ll print them out. And then we got to start printing her, started editing. So finishing that project was good, but at the same time, it was a project that it really wore me out. So that was part of the reason today. I was just kind of,

Kind of blah, cause

A lot of energy into finishing that project this morning worked out fine, worked out or rode the bike hour. No problem actually would finish the hour, came faster than I thought I was. Wasn’t even paying attention. I was more or less worried about the TV show. It was already been 20 minutes and I didn’t even notice or 20 miles. And I noticed that that’s always a good thing. Now on the treadmill, I was trying to convince myself I was starving all day. So, and then I ordered some pizza cause it was a cheat day, right?

Usually the

Only takes like 30 minutes. Well, today it took an hour and a half. So they’re not just made me a little bit more lethargic and not wanting to do anything just because now I’m was waiting. I was like, cause the whole time I didn’t the reason I didn’t start when I ordered the pizza. Cause I was like, you know, if I start running right now, they’re going to get here while I’m running. So I waited and I waited and waited and waited. And then by then it was, I was a, what do you call it? Sunk costs. I couldn’t run then. So I had to finish waiting, which took an hour and a half. So that was just a motivation killer in the 18th power about not wanting to run. Cause now I was starving. I had to eat. Couldn’t take a nap after eating and had to go straight to the treadmill and run. So I went into the day. I wanted to go and be lazy, right. And just run at five miles per hour. But I reminded myself that no, no, no. As much as you want to be lazy, don’t Write, You know, 5.6 is capable. You’ve been able to do it. There’s no possible there’s no probable reason why you should go backwards. So with that advice in head, I started off at 5.6 without even contemplating the thought of going to five.

All right. How about 11 minutes in? I sped up, I went up to 5.9

And I ran. I ran that and I was like, you know, this is very easy. Then when we got to about 20 minutes, it was about yeah, about 20 minutes. It was, well, it was right when it turned two miles. So it was right under 22 minutes. Cause you know, at the time it wasn’t exactly six minutes per mile or 10 minutes per mile. It’s a little bit over. And at that point, once it hit two miles, I was like, you know what, hell or high water water, I’m going to get three miles in 30 minutes. So I sped it all the way up to seven miles per hour and ran out. It wasn’t really difficult. Now I could feel my chest burning. Right. Which was a good sensation. That means that I’m expanding to my brain or my, my lungs right now when I’m running at six or five and six, it’s not very difficult.

I’m not expanding. My lungs are not taking deep breaths. But when I went up to 76, it’s forcing me to take deeper breasts, which is expanding my lungs, which is a good thing. Now I’m not at the point where I’m going to just start off at seven and go there. Now we’re still starting off at 5.6. But to be able to still run the three miles, it took me 29 minutes and 40 seconds. So it’s not like I’m destroying through miles and can run it backwards, but I’m still beating my goal even after yesterday where I didn’t feel like running it at all, but I forced myself to go above and beyond and run the whole hour, which was great. So to rebound off of a day like that and to just still be motivated and continuously do it is what, what we’re all looking for while we’re doing this. It’s just find the motivation, find that inner, that inner self that just won’t accept failure and just keep doing it. All right. Time, shower, talk to you later.

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March 22 Morning Juicing Process


All right, here we go. Let’s start with the plum to kind of see how much that gives us. Not horrible, not horrible, but not, not as much as I like to see now let’s check out the honeydew. All right. So the honeydew gave a decent amount. Yeah, because you see I’m slowing it down just so you can hear me. So that’s our, basically our two new ingredients are plum and our honeydew. That’s how much they gave us. It looks kinda like maybe a little bit more than a third, almost a half. Now we still have our cucumber and our carrots and our squash. Let’s go ahead and mix up our squash. As you see, there’s a lot of juice in there, so it’s not the most efficient. Now we got our carrot and last but not least our cucumber now, one of the cucumber, a lot of, and where I probably could have picked another plum or, uh, another couple of carrots, but we’re pretty close. That’s about, that’s good. Not for the day where y’all think, but that’s you see what I’m saying with the cucumber? Cucumber gives a lot of water. That’s where the hydration comes in. I’m guessing. All right, well, I’ll see you in just a minute and we’ll do our taste testing.