Hello students, I hope you remember from the previous lecture we talked about different types of protein microarray platform which includes protein purified as well as peptides or different type of antibodies printed. But more interestingly I showed you some examples where even cDNA or unpurified PCR products could also be printed on the chip and protein could be expressed by using cell-free expression system. In today's lecture we are going to focus more on protein microarrays based on cell-free expression based system. The cell-free synthesis based protein microarrays provide high throughput, versatile and large-scale platform for analysis of proteins in a very very functional manner. These microarrays are used for various applications. For example, antibody profiling, biomarker discovery, enzyme substrate identification, protein-protein interactions etc. The traditional cell-based methods which were used for making the protein microarrays involve protein expression in at all of the system such as E. coli. The protein purification is very laborious process. It involves various steps such as the protein purification, protein integrity, its stability and functionality. So, if one has to generate high throughput, large number of proteins which is required for printing high density arrays to perform the protein microarrays studies it is going to be very tedious because one need to purify large number of proteins in the scale of thousands and then maintaining the functionality and keeping them properly forwarded which is very very tedious process. Therefore, these limitations of traditional protein purification and protein microarrays generated by these purified proteins have been the major motivation for the cell-free expression-based protein microarrays. The cell-free expression-based system overcome various limitations of protein purification and they perform in situ transcription and translation. During the last decade, various methods have emerged as a strong platform for protein microarrays generated by applying the cell-free expression-based systems. Today, I am going to talk more about the cell-free expression-based protein microarrays provided an overview and the basic principle involved in performing different type of cell-free expression-based protein microarrays. However, before I start about using the cell-free expression systems for protein microarray, let us first talk about what is cell-free protein synthesis? The cell-free systems make use of template DNA obtained from either plasmids or PCR products. This is required for direct in vitro synthesis of proteins in the presence of a crude cell lysate. The cell lysate contains all the necessary machinery which is required for transcription and translation by providing essential amino acids, nucleotides and other energy-generating factors which are added exogenously in the cell-free lysate. The cell-free expression systems have been extracted from cells of different organisms such as wheat germ extracts, rabbit reticulocyte lysate and astrocea coli. These are commonly used systems but there are other systems as well which includes cell lysates from Xenopus oocyte, hybridomas, insects and mammalian cells. Approaches demonstrating the efficacy of cell-free expression systems to synthesize protein in vitro have been extensively demonstrated in literature. So now we will talk about protein microarrays based on cell-free expression systems. To eliminate the obstacles posed by the traditional cell-based method, cell-free expression systems are increasingly adopted to generate microarrays. There are several microarray generation technologies which have been developed over the past few years. Let us discuss some of these technologies one by one today. Let us first talk about what are the requirements of cell-free expression system. The cell-free expression system should meet certain requirements and these criterias are that they should be able to utilize wide variety of DNA templates. This brings out a versatile platform. The system should be simple, quick and cost effective. When we are talking about protein microarrays, the applications are essentially for clinical studies or various biological applications where one need to look at very precious samples in a very very small volume. Thus an expensive technology becomes a hurdle for the wide spread use of the potential of this technology for clinical applications or other high throughput biological applications. The microarrays should be produced on demand so that one could avoid the degradation of proteins due to the storage issues. Once you have made these purified printed arrays, the array should be stored in minus 80 degrees and properly stored because otherwise the protein integrity and protein functionality will be compromised. So, cell-free expression system can be used if there is a need to perform an assay that can eliminate many of these limitations. It can allow the simultaneous production of thousands of protein that is the common requirement for any type of microarray platform whether it is DNA microarrays, traditionally purified microarrays or the cell-free expression-based protein microarrays. The detection and analysis of bound proteins should be simple. It means the assay method and detection technology should be available and very simple. Most of these assays are similar in principle like western blots or realized assays. So, these are quite simple. Detection assays are also simple so that the readout could be used by using the common instruments available in the labs. Let us now focus on few of the cell-free expression-based protein microarray system. It goes back the first development of technology which was PISA or Protein Institute Array. Let us first talk about this. So, PISA technology also known as descent array technology provides rapid single step method to generate protein arrays from the DNA template by using cell-free transcription and translation system which allows the immobilization of synthesized protein on solid microarray surface. For performing a PISA array, there are various requirements. The DNA construct can be produced by PCR. The construct should contain T7 promoter sequences which are required for translation initiation such as shiny dialgarno or Kojak sequences, NRC terminal tag sequence required for the immobilization of synthesized proteins and suitable termination sequence. The substrate or the solid surface has to be functionalized and nickel NTA to be added on the surface. So, one need to add histidine tag so that the binding can be specific. The hexahistidine or histidine 6 tag binding sequence and a microtiter plate which is coated with nickel NTA is used for this purpose. The protein expression can be performed by using E. coli based system or reticulocyte lysate RRL. Once the translation has finished the protein which is synthesized by using the cell-free expression system is specifically binds on the surface through this tag sequence. In PISA array method, the surface is coated with a tag-captaining agent. This method utilizes hexahistidine tags which is in the construct and the microarray titer plate which is coated with nickel nitrilo triacetic acid NINTA as shown in the slide. The DNA construct contains T7 promoter sequence for translation initiation, N-terminal sequence and the termination sequence. Once the protein expression is carried out by using cell-free expression system such as E coli S30 or reticulocyte lysate, the protein binds specifically on the surface to the tag sequence and the unbound material can be washed off. As shown in this slide by using cell-free expression system DNA is able to produce protein using transcription and translation processes containing histidine tags which gets adhered to the nickel NTA surface. So overall PISA method utilizes the PCR DNA which encodes N or C-terminal tag sequences and then transcribes and translates the C-DNA of interest into the protein. The protein which is synthesized after the cell-free expression gets specifically captured by tag-captaining agent. Scientists he and Tosig who have developed this method successfully carried out this experiment. The expression and functional immobilization of a fragment of human anti-pagestron antibody in mitrotiter wells and used Luciferase enzyme on nickel NTA coated magnetic beads. Let me not show you this animation where we can discuss the work in principles of protein in situaries protein in situary or PISA. In PISA the protein microarray surface is coated with a suitable tag-captaining agent that can immobilize the protein of interest through specific interaction once it is produced. The protein is expressed from its corresponding DNA by using cell-free lysates such as E. coli S-30 or rabbit reticulocyte lysate. The tag protein is captured specifically onto the array surface through the tag-captaining agent. PISA method has successfully overcame drawbacks of cell-based techniques such as protein insolubility, aggregation, etc. After learning the working principle of PISA let us discuss various advantages and disadvantages of this technology. PISA method overcomes the traditional purification requirements for producing the protein microarrays. So protein purification is not essential it gives rapid single-strip process. Because of esterine tag and nickel NTA interaction the specific protein attachment could be achieved by using PISA method. In this method solvill proteins are formed these are some of the major advantages of using protein in situaries. Let us now discuss the limitations of this technology. It is possible that there is loss of function of these proteins during the immobilization step. The cell-free lysates are very costly so if one needs high volume of cell-free lysate that becomes one of the cost-based limiting factors for this platform. Let us now move on to another cell-free expression based protein microarray system which is MIST or multiple spotting technique. This is another approach which facilitates generation of high-density protein microarrays by using cell-free expression system. In the MIST approach both DNA and the cell-free expression system are printed on the chip surface. Here two rounds of spotting is performed. In the first spotting step the addition of DNA template to the microarray solid support is performed. In second spotting is performed where cell-free expression mixture is transferred directly on top of the first spot which contains DNA. Aim is to print DNA as well as cell-free expression system so that after incubation protein can be directly synthesized on the same feature and one does not need to add or do a separate step of cell-free expression system addition. So the proteins which are immobilized on the activated array surface after translation by means of a tag capturing agent or non-specific ionic interactions. So the multiple spotting technique or MIST the first spotting step as shown in this slide involves addition of DNA template onto the solid microarray support. After the first spotting is performed where cell-free expression mixture is transferred directly on top of the first spot. In this way where two printing steps are involved on top of each DNA template cell-free expression system is also printed. After incubation both transcription and translation processes happen and the proteins are synthesized which could be detected by using detection antibodies. So overall in MIST technique the DNA template is spotted in the first step followed by the cell-free lysate in the second step which is directly added on top of the first spot. The expressed protein is detected by using fluorescently tagged antibody. So the inventors of MIST technology reported that even 35 famtogram of PCR product was sufficient for expression and detection of wild type green fluorescent protein. The high density array containing 13,000 spots per slide could be achieved by using MIST technology. Let us now discuss the working principle of MIST by showing this animation. Multiple spotting technique or MIST in this technique the first spotting step of the multiple spotting is capable of producing high density arrays. It involves addition of template DNA onto the solid array support. The template DNA can even be in the form of unperified PCR product which is one of the major advantage of using this MIST technique. The second spotting step involves addition of cell-free lysate directly on top of the first spot. The transcription and translation can begin only after the second spotting step. The protein expressed from the template DNA binds to the array surface by means of non-specific interactions which is one of the drawbacks of this procedure. A detection antibody is specific to the protein of interest is added which indicates that protein expression levels by using suitable fluorophore. Let us now talk about the merits and demerits of using MIST technology. It involves unperified DNA products that can be used as template source which was not the case of other method which we have discussed so far. Now in this method very high density protein can be generated because the spot chemistry is not very complicated. Limitation of using this technique is there is a loss of signal intensity with prolonged incubation time of the arrays. Since in this case even the cell-free expression system are printed on the top of arrays their stability could be one of the major issues. The non-specific protein binding as well as overall process is more time consuming. So some of these are limitations of MIST technique. Another technique which requires more detailed discussion is NAPA or nucleic acid programmable protein array. But I would like to talk about this technology in the next lecture when I am going to talk to you about the working principle and the workflow involved in doing the NAPA based experiments. But let us continue on another cell-free expression based system which is DAPA. So DNA array to protein array is another technique which makes possible the repeated use of same DNA template slide for printing multiple rounds of protein arrays. In DAPA technique the PCR amplified DNA fragments which encode tag proteins immobilized onto a nickel NTA coated slide and assembled face to face with another nickel NTS slide bearing the protein tag capturing agent is utilized. The repeated use of same DNA template can be performed here and multiple protein arrays can be generated by using DAPA method. In this method the permeable membrane which contains cell-free lysate which is positioned between two slides for these proteins to be diffused. Protein synthesis takes place on this membrane and then the synthesized protein diffused from the membrane and move on to the other slide for capture. Neurosynthesized proteins penetrate the membrane and bind to the surface of captured slide. As you can see the slide in the DAPA the PCR amplified DNA fragments encoding the tag proteins are immobilized onto a nickel NTA coated slide and assembled face to face with another nickel NTA containing protein tag capturing agent. In between these two slides a permeable membrane containing cell-free lysate is placed. The protein synthesis takes place from the immobilized DNA spots. The newly synthesized proteins can penetrate this membrane and bind to the surface of captured slide. In DAPA approach the investigators produced an array of double hexazidine tag GFP and data was found to be comparable with existing protein array technologies. With DAPA it is possible to use same DNA template repeatedly to print multiple protein arrays. It has been shown that one can use this template for printing almost 20 arrays. Let me now show you the working principle of DNA arrays to protein arrays in following animation. DNA array to protein array known as DAPA. In DAPA the slides bearing the DNA template and the protein tag capturing agent are assembled face to face with a lysate containing permeable membrane placed in between. The expressed protein slowly penetrates the membrane and gets immobilized on the slide surface through its capture agent. The DNA template array can be reused several time by using this method. Let us now talk about the merits and demerits of DAPA. DAPA method provides few advantages as compared to the previously described methods. One can get the pure protein because the protein is diffused on the membrane so we are not having any traces or remnants of DNA in the protein array slide. The reusable DNA template which is able to print multiple chips by using this chemistry and now the source template which is DNA that array can be stored at room temperature for long duration. When there is a need for making the protein arrays one can use the membrane with the lysate and then followed by generation of multiple protein arrays. However there are certain limitations of using DAPA method including the broadening of the spots because of the diffusion. It is not ascertained if multimeric protein assembly effectively forms and it is also the time-consuming process. So now let us take one more last technique for the day which is hello tag arrays. The hello link protein array systems are developed by company Pomega which combine few technologies together to create the protein micro arrays. First of all it uses the self-free expression transcription and translation system. It uses hello tag which is mutated hydrolyzed protein that forms a covalent bond with the hello tag ligands. Third it uses polyethylene glycol coated glass slides activated with hello tag ligand for specific capture of the proteins which are expressed by using self-free expression system. So what is hello tag? It is a 33-kilo-dietin engineer derivative of bacterial hydrolyze which is used to tag desired proteins. The proteins which are fused with hello tag are expressed by using V germ extract expression system or rabbit reticocyte lysate and covalently captured on to peg containing sites. These are then activated with hello tag ligands. These hello tag arrays achieve oriented capture of proteins and thereby ensures no loss of function or minimal loss of function. As shown in this slide the polyethylene glycol coated slides can be activated using hello tag ligands. The proteins are fused with hello tag are expressed by using self-free expression system and are covalently captured on polyethylene glycol coated slides. So hello tag method enables the oriented capture of the proteins. In nutshell the hello tag fused protein is expressed and covalently captured on peg coated slide and activation is performed by using hello tag ligand. This provides very strong covalent interaction and minimizes loss of synthesized proteins which usually occurs in other protein microarray platforms. In protein arrays one need to perform lot of washing steps. If the protein or the molecules are bound on the surface with very strong interaction then there will be minimal loss from the surface which can be achieved in this case by using hello tag system. So hello tag arrays the capture chemistry which is based on the binding of hello tag protein with synthetic ligand that enables covalent and oriented capture of proteins on solid surface directly from the self-free expression based system. This method not only overcomes the limitations of protein purification but also overcomes several other limitations which are commonly observed in other protein microarray technologies. Let us discuss the working principle of hello tag arrays in this animation. Hello tag technique in hello tag technique the slide is activated with the hello tag ligand which captures the expressed protein through firm covalent interaction which prevents any material loss and ensures oriented capture of the protein. The hello tag fuse protein is expressed by using lysates such as rabbit reticulocyte lysate RRL or wheat germ expression system and synthesized protein is covalently captured onto the array surface through the hello tag ligand. The specific interaction ensures the oriented capture of protein and prevents any possible functional loss. Let us not talk about some merits and demerits of using hello tag arrays. Hello tag arrays have various advantages such as the strong covalent bonding between the protein and the ligand. No material loss occurs during the washing steps because of the strong interaction. The proteins are captured oriented and there is no non-specific adsorption due to the peck coating. The quantification is easy and one do not need a micro array printer to print the proteins on the chip because the commercial kit of hello tag arrays provide the gasket which can be used for printing the array. However, there are several limitations of using hello tag arrays such as it has not been shown that a system cannot be used for high density array. Only a proof of concept study has been shown with few spots using commercial gasket. So, utility of the arrays for high density applications must be utilized to really show this application for high throughput applications. So, in summary, today we talked about four different type of self-free expression based methods PISA, MIST, DAPA and hello tag arrays. Of course, I have not discussed to you a very important technology which is NAPA, which we will talk in the next class. But I hope you got an understanding that protein micro arrays offer a range of diverse applications because their different type of arrays could be produced starting from antibodies, verified proteins, peptides and self-free expression based systems. The self-free expression system facilitates synthesis of several proteins in single reaction and produce proteins on demand and eliminate the concerns of storage and protein stability. Several self-free systems have been used developed in the past decade. And over the last in the previous lecture and today you at least got some idea that how scientists have started using making use of these self-free expression systems for generating the contents which was otherwise not possible if you are following the standard procedure of protein purification. In the coming lecture, I will talk more about the NAPA based protein micro array and the workflow involved in performing such a micro array based experiment. Thank you.


Staff at Rustin Origin Bank in Rustin, Louisiana are unlikely to ever forget the day in October 2015 when Otha Anders arrived at their branch to make a deposit. Why? Because Anders wasn't making any ordinary deposit, he was making a deposit of pennies, a lot of pennies. In fact, Anders had so many pennies to deposit that transporting them to the bank required a truck while actually bringing them into the premise needed a cart and a handbarrow. The whole operation also required the help of five friends and family members and the coins were stored in 15 large water bottles, each with a capacity of 5 gallons. While aware that his penny stash was out of the ordinary, Anders had actually contacted the bank ahead of time to warn them. Speaking to ABC News, the bank's senior vice president, Ryan Kilpatrick, said, It's shocking for sure, I would say he's done a lot of collecting over the years. Now in his mid-70s, Anders had 45 years prior decided to begin saving the pennies that came his way. As for the very first penny he saved, it was one that he found lying on the ground. Speaking to the News star in 2015, Anders said, I became convinced that spotting a lost or dropped penny was an additional God-given incentive reminding me to always be thankful. There have been days where I failed to pray and, more often than not, a lost or dropped penny would show up to remind me, Anders continued. For years he'd been happy to keep the pennies in his rust and home, but in 2015 he learned that their total value meant they weren't covered by his house insurance, so it was time to take them to the bank. Anders had previously worked for the Jackson School Board as a supervisor looking after students who had been suspended from class. He recalled that the children would save up their pennies and that he would buy them to add to his collection. But I never allowed anyone, not even my wife nor children, to give me pennies without being compensated, he recalled. Anders singled out his old buddy Jack, Domino Kid Brown, as being particularly helpful with his coin-saving efforts. Jack saved nickels, as I save pennies, and every nickel that passed through my hands I would save for him. He did likewise with pennies for me. The hoarder extraordinaire remembered, our exchange became competitive by each trying to outdo the other and consequently our collections. His nickels and my pennies began to multiply. Meanwhile Anders displayed a certain ruthlessness in his penny collecting habits. If I was at someone's house and I found a penny I would pick it up and I would keep it. I'll always tell the person that if it was a quarter I would give it back, but since it's a penny I'm keeping it," he told the news star. In fact, Anders stopped spending pennies altogether, instead saving them all to add to his ever-growing collection. He even tried to engineer his spending so that he would always be due a few pennies in his change. I would never spend a penny. I would break a dollar before giving up a penny, Anders said. This extraordinary penny collection, furthermore, gave Anders both satisfaction and pleasure. Even when in the 1970s the United States government offered a premium of $25 for every $100 worth of pennies handed in, Anders didn't waver. He hung on to his precious pennies. But when the time came to finally let the coins go, just trucking them to the bank was a job in itself. The incredible estimated weight of the pennies was, it's worth noting, around 2800 pounds. To put that figure in perspective, it's more than the weight of the average American bison. Now once the 15 water bottles filled with coins have been hauled to the bank, the next challenge was how to efficiently release them from their plastic homes. And it turned out that the quickest way to do this was, well, to take an axe to the containers, who says subtlety always pays. Then after the pennies were retrieved from the bottles, the task of counting could start. Unsurprisingly, this was done with automatic counting machines. After all, nobody wants to count 2800 pounds of pennies by hand. Plastic buckets then were used to pour the pennies into the counting machines. But even with the use of automatic counters, tailing up all the pennies took five hours on continuous counting. As Anders watched on, the machine gobbled up the pennies he'd saved for 45 years. Incredibly too, bank staff had to change the coin machine bags about every 20 minutes because each could only hold a maximum of $50 worth of pennies. Eventually, all the pennies were counted, so now came the moment of truth. What was the final value of pennies that Anders had spent 45 years of his life collecting? The answer was an impressive $5136.14, not a penny less, not a penny more. In total then, Anders had collected 513,614 pennies in 45 years, or 16,425 days. This means that on an average day, he had collected around 31 pennies. Here was a man who certainly lived by the adage, see a penny pick it up, then all day long you'll have good luck. And his luck came in the shape of a cool five grand. Actually, Anders admitted that if it hadn't been for the home insurance factor, he would have carried on collecting. I wanted to fill five five-gallon water jugs, that was the goal, but I couldn't stop. If I hadn't turned them in yesterday, I was not going to stop, he told ABC News. However, Anders isn't the only one who likes to hoard coins on a grand scale. In 2015, the BBC reported on the amazing way in which a Mr. Gan had paid for a new car in Shenyang, a city in the northeast of China. Yes, Mr. Gan forked out for his purchase with 660,000 coins and 20,000 notes, each one with the value of one yuan, about 16 cents. What's more, his stash of small change weighed in excess of an astonishing 8,800 pounds. Back in the States, meanwhile, Ira Keyes was another person who liked to save his pennies. In 2015, the 81-year-old took his coin collection to the Prosperity Bank in Slateon, Texas. Keyes had an impressive 500 pounds of the coinage, amounting to a cash value of $816. Speaking to NBC station KCBD, the senior citizens that his father had told him, whatever you do, son, save your money. And Keyes had taken his dad's advice, started saving in 1952.  A wild weekend in Vegas? A Rolex watch? Maybe a gold ingot or two? Disappointingly, the truth was far less romantic. Anders had recently had some expensive dental treatment, is there any other kind? And the money was to go towards paying off the bill.


Hey everyone shiver 1,000 here today. We're gonna make some chicken wings in the walk and we're gonna have some noodles We're using the Texas Pete wing sauce All right, I already got my I always borrow my chicken first that way. I know it's good and done in the center That's why you're seeing this I Will have to turn this fan on so sorry about that. I'll try to speak up for you guys so I'm getting my pan ready here I'm gonna pour a little bit of olive oil in there. I like using regular oil, but Monkey likes the olive oil. It's a little more healthy. I'm gonna put half of this in right now Well, probably not even half but There's that It's about oh a third a third of it. See if we got yeah, we're ready So let's go ahead and put our wings in here I listen when monkey really liked these the way I made them. I made them a few nights ago like this She got the chicken it was buy one get one so she when I got to and Enough sauce and I was like, well, okay, I'll make them again and she really really liked them so And like I said, we're gonna have the wide lemme noodles which I'm gonna put in you boil them for about four minutes You boil them for about four minutes Then you take them off and you get them cold. I just usually filled up with water Once I strain them, I'll fill them up with water. I'm gonna let these get get warmed up Once they do I'll be back with you but first Let's go ahead and just put these noodles in here and the scissors are right behind me now these kind of want to Make sure you got a good size pan And I just put a few in at a time because if these things stick together they're impossible to get a part You might end up with a clump of ten or twelve together that has happened to me When that happens, they don't really cook if you get them to where they do cook the other ones Will get really really salty. So this is how I do it. Let's make sure they're Broken up there Well, I'm not broken up. You know what? I mean you can break them if you want, but I'm gonna cook these for four minutes I'll start a timer And these are getting nice and nice and warm now the pan's getting nice and warm So what I'm gonna do if I'm gonna take About two-thirds of that And I'm gonna let these simmer in here for a little while I'm gonna add some lemon pepper Now this is not really a recipe guys.  I got some Seasoning salt. It's just loury seasoning salt Please rest of that that probably was a teaspoon, but that's okay now I'm going to add Some cilantro Which I'll probably just add the rest of that because there was a little bit left. I Used a lot of spices guys Okay, I'm gonna keep stirring these things up. Especially the noodles. I don't want them sticking together And I'm gonna keep flipping these and make sure That they don't stick Sometimes I'll use a spatula which I might do with the noodles a metal one. I know people say Don't use metal in your cast iron. It's cast iron, you know, it's not What's that stuff he's that Non-stick stuff. What was that stuff called? Yeah, it's not Teflon. Okay. This is uh, it's cast iron You're not gonna hurt it You're not going to scrape the seasoning away besides you should regularly season your cast iron I season these probably This thing I do at least once a month at at the minimum once a month So all we're doing here the chicken is really done already. I mean it's done But I'm going to let it simmer so we can get some of that sauce soaked up in there real good because we're going to take these out Then we're going to put our noodles in here And then we're going to uh, we'll kind of stir fry them up really quick And Yeah, that'll be pretty much it. So hang tight guys. I'll be back with you and this was what I was talking about. See there's um The three of them four of them there Gotta be careful with that My bad. Okay guys, so I'm gonna dump these Into here See I had one stick in there. That's my fold That was uh, busy doing some other things. All right Now I'm going to pour some water in here and uh Get this cleaned out then we'll put our noodles in okay This is a breeze to clean up now as you can see I didn't wash it. I just rinsed all that stuff out I'm going to add some of this in here All right, and we're going to add the rest of our Boyan chicken boyan cube Because we're having chicken. It don't matter. Use whatever you want, right? So Love that stuff And I saved some of the water From the chicken I'm going to pour a little bit of that in there To help melt that boyan cube down Give the chicken for the noodles some more flavor. I'm going to put our noodles in there Now we're going to just going to uh Let just sop up some of that juice just a little acted added Measure just a little bit Tablespoon whatever you want add the rest of that Like I said, I don't know how much that was it was probably about a cup This is really good with um fresh garlic, but unfortunately I have no garlic I don't think um But fresh fresh clove garlic It's always the best. I got some of this stuff, but I let's use some of it Just a teaspoon But you know add whatever you like However much you like You know recipes is just a Recipe is just a starting point of something To me, there's no right or wrong way If you like it and it turned out good and let's say your guests like it It's not a fail If you don't burn it too crisp, it's not a fail all right now I'm going to turn heat up a little bit on these I'm just going to Keep stir frying them for a minute I don't bore you with that because I know this is noisy, but I love this thing so I'll be back with you And next time you see it you'll you'll see the chicken on top of the noodles and there it is guys Very simple very easy and very tasty and to prove it We're going to get our taste tester guinea pig out here Monkey I got her out here and she's going to try it. Oh, she tried it the other night But we're just going to have her try it again. Okay, so there you guys go Just some you know hot wings and and use whatever sauce you want whatever just some hot wings in the uh And noodles in the wok real simple real easy real tasty Very good. All right. Well, I'm lucky you're gonna eat. I'm gonna eat. We are having an early supper Yeah, it is uh, it's only four o'clock, but hey, right But so our late supper Maybe we'll try one of them soups out Yeah, that'd be fun Okay guys, thanks for watching. Appreciate it. Shea Berry met the man that hasn't gone for now. I can see she out for now.


As James Swannock here, I'm going to read out an email that I wrote to my daily newsletter email list a couple of days ago. If you're on that email list, then you will have already read this email that I'm about to read out. And if you're not, you can join it by going to alcoholfreelifestyle.com and you can download the free guide there or the free book which outlines my method for you to get power over your drinking. It could mean reducing, it could mean quitting entirely, it could mean quitting for a period of time, and then afterwards choosing moderation if you feel like you can do that. But in any case, just a warning, if you do join my newsletter list, I should say I do send a daily email, so 365 emails in a year. It's a lot. I would encourage you or I would dissuade you from joining that list if you don't want an email from me every day. But if you do want my words of wisdom, you can go to alcoholfreelifestyle.com and subscribe to the newsletter. So here's what I wrote. The subject line was Christian Erickson's cardiac arrest. Here we go. Did you see the news this weekend about Denmark's soccer player Christian Erickson? I was shocked when I woke up Sunday morning here in Bali, Indonesia to learn that Erickson had collapsed on the pitch during Denmark's Euro 2020 opener against Finland. Thankfully he survived and is in a stable condition after he was taken to hospital. As a Tottenham fan, I feel I am almost friends with Erickson because he played many years for the club I support. The news felt shocking to me. It made me realise the fragility of life. Life can be over in the blink of an eye. There were heroes that emerged on Saturday. After Erickson collapsed, the 32-year-old Denmark captain Simon Chah quickly secured his teammate's neck, cleared his airways and administered CPR until medics arrived. Just a little side note here, just interrupting the email. If I didn't pronounce his last name correctly, apologies for any Denmark fans here. Is it Simon Kajae or is it Jair? I'm not sure. It's spelled K-J-A-E-R. If you're listening and you know how it's pronounced, please do let me know. Send me an email at James at alcoholfreelifestyle.com and let me know if I pronounced it correctly. Alright, let's get back to the email that I sent. The captain then consoled Erickson's distraught wife Sabrina Kvist Jensen, wrapping his arms around her as the Intermalan midfielder received treatment. British television personality Pierce Morgan later tweeted, Denmark's captain ensured Erickson didn't swallow his tongue when he was unconscious, gave him CPR, told the squad to form a protective shield around him, consoled Erickson's horrified wife and has now led his team back into the game.  It got me wondering what I'd do in a similar situation. Would I step up or cower away? I think we all want to believe we would step up, right? But why do we need a shocking situation like what happened to step up in the first place? Why can't we just step up now? I've been reading a lot about Stoicism recently. I've been digesting the book Meditations by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius who lived between 121 AD and 180 AD. Aurelius writes about the Stoic precepts he used to cope with his life as a warrior and administrator of an empire. Ascending to the imperial throne in AD 161, Aurelius found his reign beset by natural disasters and war and in the face of an inevitable pain, loss and death, offering at the core of life, Aurelius counsels Stoic detachment from the things that are beyond one's control and a focus on one's own will and perception. The Stoics believe life is supposed to be challenging. Difficulties will always show up. We are quick to complain about a situation, but who said life should be easy? That's what we're here for, to face and overcome challenges. We're meant for this. It's how we learn to persevere. It's how we mature into a mature human being. Who would you be without challenges? If you pour yourself a nightly drink, pass out, then wake up in the morning, only to roll over in bed and go back to sleep.  If you continue not to be present for your children, are you depriving them of their best life? If you continue drinking irresponsibly, how will you grow into the mighty person you naturally are? I say, don't wish for life to be hard, but neither wish for it to be easy when it gets tough. Rather, wish for the strength to deal with it. That is an opportunity for growth. You're being tested. I'm being tested. Are we the ones who accept the tests and tackle them head on? Or are you the one who throws in the towel after the first hit to the chin? The Stoics say life is supposed to be hard. They say it's unfortunate if you don't have to face challenges. If you've never lived through misfortune, you have passed through life without an opponent, which means you can never, ever know what you're capable of. That's why the Stoics were engaged in life. They knew that we grow in challenges, not in ivory towers. You're facing a tough situation right now.   You know you're unhappy with where you're at. You know you're still reading my emails. You can unsubscribe at any time, but you don't. You're still reading pondering. Maybe you've been reading my emails for years. You may have even replied to me one or two times, only to then ghost me when I started emailing you back. I invite you to accept your current drinking challenges as a chance for growth. Maybe getting my help and working with me will be a formative experience you'll be grateful for. It's not if life will throw punches at you, but when and how you respond to it. Will you respond in a positive and growth-oriented way, ready to tackle it, just like Christian Erickson's teammates did on Saturday? Or will you respond like a victim, complaining and throwing in a towel at first indication of difficulty? Do you see this as a chance to learn and get stronger?  I've made my choice. So have my past and current clients. That's why they're moving powerfully forward in health, wealth, love and happiness. Is it finally your turn? Remember this, when it gets tough, remind yourself the tough is what you're here for. It will make you stronger. And I signed at James, helping high achieving men and women regain control of alcohol and their lives since 2015. And then there's a little PS section here. PS, the doors are officially open for the next group of high performers ready to regain power over alcohol and their lives with my help. If you're interested in joining our monthly 90-day experience, reply to this email with the word ready and your cell phone number.  So that was the email and that's a little glimpse of what one of my daily emails sound like. It's not all just about quitting drinking and overcoming alcohol. It's about lots of things to do with life, musings, self-development, pondering the universe, existential existence or existential life. Yeah. 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Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. Happy Friday and happy new release day. We've got 2019, 2020, Panini, Chronicles, Hoops. Four box, pick your team number one from jaspyscasebreaks.com. Big thanks to all of these wonderful people here for getting into the action. Congrats to the winners of spots right here as well via the retail pack breaks. Thanks to the people who bought team straight up. I appreciate that. Everyone, whether you won a spot or bought a spot straight up, everyone has a chance at the Pelicans. So let's do that randomizer first. Let's grab everybody's names. Let's pop their names into a blank list and a new dice roll. Sorry, I did not have that set up. Take out the Pelicans placeholder there. So let's roll it, let's randomize it. Seven times, three and a four. Name on top after seven. We'll get the Pelicans. That's two, three, four, five, six, and seven at the final time. After seven, congrats to Su Min. Wow, where's my bell? Ding ding, there you go. Wow, won the spot and got the Pelicans. That's crazy. I did that right, right? Four and a three, three and a four, seven times. That is crazy. And Kim Su Min also got the Grizzlies, by the way. So that's pretty crazy. Hey, that's how it works sometimes. That's why those little filler breaks, those mini breaks, magic like that can happen. That's the game. There's Robert Runkle. Thank you, sir. Yeah, Robert Runkle knows. He's been on the right side of it. He's been on the wrong side of these things. Okay, so there's the final printout right here. So now let's see how it works out for Kim Su Min. Okay, so, oh, let me just show you this really quick. 12 boxes per case. We're doing four boxes. So third, so one, two, three will be from the same case. Four, five, six will be from a second case. Yeah, there is a checklist for this. I don't have it handy, but cardboardconnection.com and groupbreakchecklist.com, I have a checklist for this. Okay, let's make some thirds here. So there's one, two, three, four right here. So let's just shave two off the top of each stack to make three stacks of four. So we're gonna use that die right there. We'll go one, two, three, four, five, six on the dice roll. Two, one, two. So that's the stack we're gonna do right there. And these we will save for next time. So I'll just mark these with Xs and I'll just grab a random stack of four for next time. They might be mixed up a little bit, but that's okay. Adds a little, another layer of randomness, I think. I'm sure we'll do both of these. All right, so let's rock and roll. Let's see what's inside. We've got Memphis, Portland on right now. Memphis is now up by 10, 93 to 83, with two minutes left in the third. That's crazy. So here's what we got here. There's John Moran right here. Find two autographs per box on average. All right, good luck, everybody. Let's get some box scores up here. I wanna know, what's John Moran doing? What are some of the other players doing here? Let's get some scores up. Jaren Jackson Jr., dust off your Jaren Jackson Jr. rookies. He's got 24 points. John Moran's got 13 with eight assists. Wow, nice. So he's a plus, minus, plus 16. Jaren Jackson Jr., plus 14. Brandon Clark, that's a sleeper right there. He's got 12, 12 points, four rebounds and two assists. 12, four and two, that's nice. On the trailblazer side, Dame has 16 points. Eugen McCollum has 19 points. Gary Tran Jr., with 13 points. That's not bad. And Nurkic and Collins are back, so they're getting their groove back as well. The only other game that's happening right now, Suns are up 97 to 86 in the fourth quarter, nine minutes up in the fourth quarter on the Wizards. Devin Booker's got 20 points. We've got Deandre Aydin's been playing some good basketball. 17 points for him. Miles Bridges, 12 points. Cameron Johnson, 10 points. Dario Sarge, 13 points. A lot of guys in double digits. And Hachimura, 16 points. Eight rebounds, assists and a steal for him. So he's one of the rookies to watch out for. Bradley Beale opted out, so I think a lot of the offense that's gonna go through Hachimura is my assumption. So those are the rookies that we're keeping our eyes on, folks. Because a lot of rookies during the restart and especially in the playoffs can really improve their stock. So a lot of sleepers to buy, I think.  But there are a lot of guys under that elite tier that could really get a jump in value. You know, yeah, Tyler Hero, Kendrick Nunn, guys like that. Yeah, MTG's been big on Brandon Clark. There you go, all right. So obviously, I think all cards ship in this, ladies and gentlemen. No, no veteran common ship, sorry, check that. But obviously, rookies like Cameron Johnson will ship. All right, so that's considered a veteran common, the Chronicles version right here. But guess what? All of these are gonna be considered inserts. Look at that Zion, Phoenix Zion right there. So Panini Black Box, Golden State Warriors, Eric Pascal, and Phoenix, Zion Williamson. That looks really sharp. So that goes to Sumin. Nice. RJ Barrett's obviously all of these are gonna ship Hachimura, Jackson Hayes. Pretty nice. I mean, basically you're not gonna get Nikola Visovic, sorry. That's an insert, so that will ship. These non-rookie Yanis is still selling pretty well on the secondary market too. Mario Shaiak is our first autograph. Apprentice Auto for the 76ers. That's gonna be for Jeremy 33 on the board. I don't know much about this player here, but there you go. Kobe White, Ignis Bradikis, another nice looking Luminance, Zion. There's Dame, Deandre Hunter. I love the Luminance design. I think these are really strong. Anthony Davis, Lakers look good yesterday. There's Jaumarant right there, nice. Ooh, that's a great photography. Great bit of photography, Luminance, Jaumarant, Grizzlies, Sumin with that one too. LeBron James with a great defensive play, scoring play, and then a defensive play on the very next possession. Stopping Kauai Leonard. I would love to see a seven game series between the Lakers and the Clippers. I think that'd be great. And we got a cornerstone. We were just talking about it. Brandon Clark, nice. Quad Relican Autograph, three out of 25. That will go to Sumin. And these cornerstones cards are really sharp too. I mean, this is gonna ship Kendrick Nunn. He's another guy that could raise his stock for the heat pretty quickly. There's Brandon Clark again. All these rookies, of course, will ship. There's just a lot going on in these Chronicles cards, folks. There's Darius, Spazly, the 149. We're going just a little bit slowly here on the first box or so, just so we can get a good look at all this. Look at that. Hometown Hero Zion Williamson. Obviously all Zions are gonna sell well, but I think certain sets within Chronicles will obviously sell better than others. I'm not sure how the Hometown ones will do, but there you go. Another one for Sumin. Seiko Dimboya, Cam Johnson, RJ Barrett. Kind of a smorgasbord here. Kind of a buffet of different designs and products inside Chronicles. Kube, you'll take the Clippers win a seven game series with a full team. I don't know. Can you bet against Playoff LeBron, though? Playoff Rondo will be back too. Can you bet against Playoff Rondo? Joe, I emailed support a couple of days ago. Why wouldn't all cards just ship in this? I really want the Dame Lillards. I'll send you a Dame Lillard, John Samuelson. You see one, you let me know. I'll pull it out. It was Bruno Fernando, Hometown Heroes autographs. That'll go to Atlanta, EA with the Hawks. John Wall to 49. Brandon Clark to 99. My guess is they'll probably ship everything. Might just be easier. Daniel Gafford, Quad Relic, 25, nice. Kevin with the Bulls. It's kind of hard to move quickly on a break like this because there's so many different designs. I can't really catch a good pattern here. Nicely honest, Crusade card. And a couple of Kauais right here. I don't know the reasons, John Samuelson. I just do the breaks, man. So I'm just the talent. I just go by whatever the description says. Portland back up by two. 11 minutes left in the fourth quarter. Oh, Hosonia, that could have been a highlight play right there. Hosonia broke an ankle and then had a wide open shot and missed it. Yes, we are, John Samuelson. Should have made that shot. Other Zion right here, Prestige Edition, LeBron James and Goga Batadze, Jersey and autograph from that limited design. That's pretty cool, 31 out of 99. Yeah, John, we are doing that virtual break thing from that SportsCardInvestor.com. They're doing that. They're hosting this big virtual, like, national, basically, I think. With the national being canceled, it would have been going on right now, actually. Now that I think about it. So yeah, I mean, I don't think, from what I understand, I don't think anything changes on our end. So we're just gonna be on the stream as normal, just doing a special break. Another Zion for Sumin. And they're just gonna send everyone to our stream. And I think they've got a couple of giveaways that they're doing, so we're kind of cross promoting them. And that's that. So it should be a lot of fun. I've seen a couple of other breakers kind of do it, and it seemed pretty interesting. I don't know what break it's gonna be, that I don't know. I don't know the details on that. Nice, that's a Zion numbered Zion. 94 out of 149. That's pretty cool. Nice, that's in that majestic design right there. That's pretty cool. I mean, numbered car or base Zions do well enough. You start adding serial numbered parallels to it.  I think all of those will add up pretty quickly. Got that nice traded card right there too. And we've got a Nicola Melli autograph. I'm not familiar with this. Flux, Palakins, another one for Sumeen. Will this be like the Tech Raid? I don't remember the Tech Raid, Jeremy 33. Bossman cards, who hit that? Davis, which Davis? Ed Davis? Another Yannis from Blackbox Yannis, 249. And there's Barrett to 149. All right, fourth and final box. We've got more in the store, folks. Check it out, jaspyscasebreaks.com. Yeah, in fact, Jeremy 33. Jeremy 33 was mentioning this product's not about the autographs. In fact, a lot of basketball product has kind of leaned that way in the last six months. I mean, it's been kind of trending that way for the last year or so, but even more so in the last six months, last three months. It's like the autographs aren't, it's not really the, I mean, it's nice, but the autographs aren't really the big chase anymore. But the parallels have been, especially for like Prism, right? Prism silvers, especially have seen a massive boost right there, so. Oh, well, I remember that, Jeremy 33. No, that's, this is a completely different thing. This one's more well-organized and from a more, it just makes more sense. All right, fourth and final box, folks. Good luck, good look so far. Nice Donchich, Hachimura, Lenny Wilkins, 45 out of 49, nice. Old Portland Trailblazer, it's gonna go to John Samuelsson. And what did you say his name was? I forget that, I forget the name. So remember, folks, we still have plenty of teams left in Picker Team 2.  I think there are a couple filler packs, mini breaks attached to it. So let's knock those out and we can dive into another four boxes of this. Some more Kendrick Nuns there. No second-year Luca Donchiches carry a little weight too. Nice black box Kendrick Nunn to 149. There you go, for the Miami Heat, Josh Cruz with the Heat. Bowl Bowl has been, let's see if I've got one of these. Bowl Bowl has been getting a lot of attention these days, which is hashtag good for the hobby. Brandon Clark, Culver, a lot of great stuff here. I did not see a John Morant in this break though, Memphis, sorry. Nicholas Claxton, hometown heroes autograph. But Summon had the Gris, but Summon also had the Pelican. So I think that might have evened up a little bit. Nick Claxton, Joe Parisi with the Nets. There you go, Joe. And the last little bit right here, what do we got? D'Ambois, some Barrett's, Cam Johnson, Brandon Clark's, Jackson Hayes, Kobe White, Hachimur, a lot of great names here. Another Hachimur at the end. So a bunch of Hachimurs, John McCall, going your way as well. I think he's having a pretty good game as we speak on this Friday. Friday the 31st, four box picker team one in the books. That was 2019, 2020, Panini Chronicles basketball. Brand new release, ladies and gentlemen. So go get more on JaspysCaseBreaks.com and I'll do more with you next time. See ya.


What's going on everybody? This is Giovanni from the options trading channel I'm talking really quick here because I have my son here and the Uh television is blaring in the background, but I'm getting a signal here on the cues I'm gonna buy 188 calls that expire in 10 days. I'm going to buy them markets Let's go ahead. Actually, let's do a limit order at one Let's just get in let's just get in here Market I'm just gonna go buy one. That's all I can afford And I got in where did I get in I got in at 9 42 Let's see How this goes guys What's going on everybody? This is Giovanni from the options trading channel today is March 31st 2020 And we're still in this trade The uh 188 calls that expire in 10 days I am quite even on them not necessarily on the day. I'm down on them On the day Let me show you what we got here Down on the day in 37 dollars, but I bought in at 9 42 So down on them a little bit here, but Let's see what happens still in this trade. It's looking like it's finally hitting in our direction um 971 by 990 Let's hope we can get filled at 10 35 It's there. I'm on the bit. I'm on the ask And it sold me out at 10 35 guys sold me out at 10 35 I'm happy with that I almost sold I held on to my guns And I am good guys. Wow. That was that was a tough trade, but I made my 10 percent there um, I'm nowhere near, you know, uh Regaining the 500 that I lost, but I did gain back a little bit. So I stuck to my guns guys this Was a tough tough tough trade But I made it through made my 10 percent I'm super happy super stoked about it as long as I stick with the plan It'll work out. I just wish that I had a second Um call option second contract so I can ride the extra one for more um Didn't work out that way, but hey, I'm gonna build back what I lost and It's okay guys. Thank you everybody so much for watching. I greatly appreciate it And uh, see you here again on the very next trade


music with John Breslin, Island Radio. This is around the Northwest for this Friday afternoon. Now, how does a man from Germany end up in Donegal after a lifetime working in IT, making delicious chocolates? Well, we're going to find out because Axl Pollock, aka the Donegal chocolate man joins us now. Axl. Hi, how are you? Good afternoon. Hi, happy Friday afternoon, John. I'm fine. I saw some sun earlier today. So that's a good time. Yeah, has been spotted, has been for the lesser spotted sun. And now it's a it's an unusual story. A great one, mind you, from Germany, living in Donegal and producing chocolates in Donegal. So explain how did it come about? Right. I should first of all blame my English teacher in school in the late 70s. She did half a year on the Troubles in the North that got me interested in Ireland. So I had to come here, ended up in Donegal last and thought, Oh, this is nice. That was 1980, long, long time ago. Yeah. So then later on, I had a friend, a German friend who was in a school somewhere in Malingar, visited him, break my girlfriend over said, Oh, Ireland, my climate is really nice. Don't pack any Palovas around Easter. Yeah, Ben Balvin was covered in snow. That didn't land so well. Still, she decided to come come with me. Oh, when we both decided our boys would go to school here. So in 96, I think we came over to Dampenai. And the boys went to Balimo National School for a couple of years was great. And then I got the calling to Amsterdam to work there in the internet field again. And that's where I in a way got stuck for for 20 odd years. Until 2019, when I said, 20 years is enough of that. And let's do something new. I came back from my know in Canada, ended up in Holland again, because we have a house in Holland still. And my wife was already in Ireland. She says, When are you coming? When are you coming? I don't know. I can't make any any plans because no ferries, no planes, we have a pandemic going, whatever. So I joined later, went to value Malou, like for the three month cooking course. And last week, they did a bit of chocolate tempering, which was here interesting, but not really my thing took another year or so until I fell into it and too much YouTube and too much Netflixing as it Oh, this is how you make a working hinge out of chocolate, like for little jewel case. And also, they're pretty, I want to make them too. And I tried at home, ordered the stuff, the the molds and the colored cacao butter and like 10 kilo bags of chocolate and just started playing. And the family found it great. After two weeks, it said enough. And I had to find another outlet for for the chocolate. Okay, that's when I when I thought, try country markets and then plenty, which we set up together in the 90s. So at that stage, your family had had enough chocolate and said, No, no, no, no, we can't handle anymore. So you decided then where you're going to package them and sell them. Exactly. That's sort of the shot of it up to 2019. And when you went to Cork for the short course, had you had any cooking experience? Had you worked in any restaurants or hotels or anything like that or any training? Not at all. Well, I cooked, of course, at home. We always did sort of home cooking was fun. My son went to Bali Maloo once and he's he's a chef in Amsterdam. And I was looking through their their curriculum said, Oh, that will be fun. Oh, God, it's for him. It's not for me. And I always wanted to go just to wait a couple of years until the end of that experience. And yay. So it was at the end of it that when we're doing a bit of chocolate that you really sort of sat up and took notice. Yeah, so the the high pressure restaurant chef is not for me. I'm a bit too old for that. And no, and it took a couple of years actually to for me to my for a brain to settle that chocolate me alone in my kitchen sort of attisinal small batch chocolate. That is nice. I've had enough managers and stuff under me for too long. And now it's just me and the kitchen. I'm sitting in a carry keel community center the old school community center. I was looking where could I go for some semi professional kitchen can't do that at home with it with the dog, right? And I'm very happy that I found them. I'm renting out the kitchen there on the daily weekly basis by now more or less. And it's just perfect to people in the kitchen. It's full. It's just me there. And a great location down in Kerry keel. Yeah. So what sort of chocolates? Bonbons? Is that correct? Yes. Yes, that's correct. It's a little bit weird because as a German bonbons are any sort of hard candies. But apparently in pâtisserie, the chocolate bonbon is the thing that has the hard chocolate shell and looks pretty. So it's very shiny and nice designs and it's filled with anything could be whiskey ganache could be fruity things could be just chocolate ganache. Yeah. And so I make them make them in the molds did some some lime this morning, spray painted the mold, put the chocolate in, let it run out again, and you have the shell, the hard shell. Then I fill that with the ganache and then run over later and close them and unmold them. And then I can sell them at the market tomorrow. Is it I mean, you make it sound very simple, but I'm sure there's a there's a lot more to it than that. It took your way to get to this point. It's it's fine. Of course, there's lots of trial and error. And sometimes the the chocolates didn't come out well or would leave the wonderful design in the mold and out came the naked chocolate. Oh, damn. So it takes it takes a while to get get everything right. You have to temper the chocolate the temperature can't vary too much. Then it has to bond with the designer thing. But it's not that difficult if you get the technique right. And then it's just painting the little designs into the molds if you don't spray paint. And that can take a lot of time but it's it's great. And do you have to be a little bit artistic to carry it off correctly? Or is that easy enough to learn? Or are the designs very important? I think designs are important because these kinds of chocolate sell by the prettiness, right? And I design something some I stole off the internet as you can. Some of them are easy to make some of them is just with the, I don't know, the little little sponge and then with the tooth brush that's flattering and I'm called Pollock King like Jackson Pollock, like the big yeah, you know, just better the color but all over the kitchen and hit some some chocolate molds as well. My wife threw me out of the kitchen because of the mess. Well, it's all to good effect. And is it is it all is it almost like baking that you're just never quite sure how they're going to come out or how they're going to either going to be reduced when when you open up the casing or whatever? Yes, I've basically it's about the designs of the ganaches are all fine. And then the cases but the design is a thing you paint in if you paint you paint in reverse outer layer first and inner layer last. So the background and I've had some designs as oh, this doesn't look as pretty as I thought and I just go through with it anyway and unmold them like day late. That's it. Oh, this is actually pretty. Okay, so I'm doing all sorts of designs. I try to standardize a little bit and get my sort of my gift boxes reliably the same and and and out onto the market. I'm also thinking of doing bespoke designs like your company colors or you know, feelings. I might have a first I can't really say it but you know, again, Freda the the border collies of calendar fame. Yes. Yeah, right. You know them. It's the it's his birthday on Sunday. And I might or may not do a special design for her and for Freda too. Okay, don't tell them yet. Okay, okay. You could say for me. So these kinds of things. It's fun. You don't have to be an artist. You can do it. You can do simple things. But if you have the really, really pretty ones that what really gets me Oh, I want to make that too. And I wonder how I can figure it out. Yeah, because we decide first with our eyes, we have to if we if we like what we see, then, you know, we're attracted to it.  I am and that's a bit of a bummer because I want to get my standard product outs out, right? But then I want to make that design and that is I have seen very nice eye looking designs for the for the truck that I want to try that out. But then I it eats time and sometimes doesn't turn out well.  And then she trouts at me. You're your family and friends must love you because there's there all the all the ones that sort of don't make the cut. They have to go somewhere. They have to go somewhere. Yep. That's true. The neighbors again. And and you you you sell them at the market in Dunfana. Hey, and also there's there's other outlets as well. And there's a couple here and that are Kenny natural way and the media's and then down at the Blue Goat and Remelton and Simple Simons in Donegal Town. And you're experimenting as well with them like a whiskey filling. So they they may they may be sold. We're down instead sleeve league distillery. Yes, absolutely. I delivered the last set there to to the distillery itself and showed them tomorrow all trembling because I didn't know whether they would be up to their expectations. Designs were sort of based on on the color scheme of the labels on the bottles. I thought they tasted quite well, but I was really happy. And I of course was taken by her gym and that actually comes through the chocolate. And so that's a good thing. Brilliant. And since since you've started it and things have rolled on and you know, you've moved to a production house there in Kerry Keele. Have you been surprised by the pace of it? Or are you just happy with the way it's going from stage to stage level level to level? I'm happy with the pace it takes it took a long I mean, as only properly started last year, right? So I took the market because it was my market for all time sake. And what I really like at the market is people look you in the face and you see them eating the tasters and go, Oh, I don't like that. Or I do. So that's that's a good thing. But it's relatively slow. Last year was getting used to the to the process and getting into into Amelia's and blue goat. This year, I started fiddling with Facebook.  Shall we try it? You get a rebate. And if they arrive at chocolate soup in Sydney, yeah, then you don't have to pay for that. I sent you a sent you new stuff. I have a repeat customer node colleague in Las Vegas.  And they are they are I fine in Vegas. Not in summer. But it gets it's desert, right? It's getting quite cold in wintertime. So that's safe. Australia, the Caribbean, that's always a bit of a problem. Yeah, but around Ireland, it's fine. And so I see as I do the the Facebook thing that word is getting around. I mean, we are here, right? So what is getting around? That's exciting. I'm still a little bit hesitant about over committing, like I go through a lot of gift shops and say, Hey, chocolates, do you want them?  So if they sell really, really well, I have to make more and more and more. And I'm just a one man little business. And I might, if it if it comes to that, I might grow a little bit. But I want to keep it small batch, artisan or whatever the labels are. Yeah, that's that's that's fun. I understand. Well, if you're working in it for, you know, whatever it was 30 over 30 years, you don't want to maybe replace one pressure environment with another. So yes, in the meantime, they they look fantastic. And I wish you every success. And people can check you out on Facebook. Are you the Donegal chocolate man on Facebook? I am. And the website is on your Donegal chocolate man.ie, as it should be. Brilliant. Well, listen, thank you. Not at all. Thank you. Thank you for for having a chat with us on the show. And we wish you every success. Thanks a lot. Have a good weekend. Thanks. Thanks. There's never been a better time to go full lethal. Let's hear it from our customers. It's great value for money. It's post on farmers. Anyone that has a big family, they should be shopping in little without it. They'll have a holiday at the end of the year. Go on. Go full lethal today. Enjoy the Cup of Tea Festival, our draw from Friday the 28th of April to Monday the 1st of May. 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If you're watching me just waiting for me to die, don't even bother watching. There's a 0% chance that I die, period of point blank end of discussion. I've never died in WoW and I never plan on dying in WoW. Thank you. 11. What's this rap, Planet Risky? Look, I feel like Planet More Risky is like more interesting, you know? Side of a race today. Uh, it's okay. I mean, I don't really, um... Like, I'm always supportive of the Rista World first, right? Cause I just think it's like a cool, cool event, but... I don't even know the name of the raid that's coming out in retail right now. It's called Dragon Orgy 2 Electric Boogaloo. Oh, okay.  Well, here's the thing. The raids and stuff in WoW are always good. Like, the retail raids are always good. I think hating on retail all the time is like, it's just lame. For me, like, I'm not a huge fan of retail, but I want retail to be good, you know? I played Dragon Flight on launch, and it was really, really fun. It was very good. I just kind of got random... Like, I got bored of it kind of randomly. I didn't get bored of it because I was like, oh, I didn't get, like, mad at the game and quit. I just got bored. It's a short sort of strength. Hold on, how do I loot this? Ah-ha-ha! Wait. The hell? Uh, okay, we're gonna throw a ceiling on the ground. Elite Gun? No, I gotta vendor the gun. I need that gold. I should just do this. I should just go get some bags. Yeah, I should go get some bags. I gotta do dungeons that are just so... Oh, absolutely. Dungeons are gonna be sick. I have 22 silver. I need 25. Cheaper bag and gold shire? Wait, really? Dude, it's crazy, dude. Yeah, the city is just so expensive, man. You gotta go and you've gotta buy bags from small family businesses. Okay, they'll get you better deals. Okay, you're gonna get better support. They're gonna care for the customer more. We're gonna support local businesses. And we're gonna go gold shire. Bad news, I got COVID. Good news, they're gonna watch you all day. True. Small brown pouch. I mean, this is probably worth, right? What happened to Rath Classic? He'll just go bored of it, man. I think this is a big deal with Rath, especially. I quit Rath whenever it came out originally. Like, I quit Rath shortly after it came out. Like, I didn't even hit max level until I came back at the end of the expansion to 80. Rath is just not as good of an expansion as people remember it being, man. I've said that for years, and I think people finally, like, kind of are coming around and starting to understand that. Too many things are made. Like, it's retail light. S-Fan's pinched nerve says getting your skills up can be a real pain in the neck, right? S-FanTV. God bless you, friend.  My size is off. God bless America. That's right, brother. Divine Devil, thank you for the 200 bits, man. Oh, dude, the mage got saved, dude. He had aggro from two of those guys at level nine. Dude, this guy got saved. He leveled and got full healed. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. What does that mean? I really shouldn't be spending so much time on this quest, but like, I don't know. I just don't really care about leveling you. I don't care about leveling fast as long as I don't get bored. I'm going to call it.  I'm not going to do that, dude. Yeah, I do want to do Darkshore, but I want to do these quests here and get down to Westfall first. Like, I want to hit level 12 and then I'll go. Judge Crusader seal, right? Just this, no, the mobs die. The mobs die too fast for that. So the synergy is Judge Crusader increases holy damage taken, right? If my Judge Crusader, my judgment is now on cooldown and my auto attack gets seven damage bonus added to it, right? So I have to wait 10 seconds for judgment to come off cooldown. And then I judge. I did 35 damage on my righteousness judgment. So I did seven damage. I did six on one, but seven damage per auto and I lose a righteousness judgment. So you get four more attacks, two more damage, because I think I was hitting for five earlier. Actually, no, that's three. Okay, so it's 12 more damage. But here's the thing. I lose a judgment. I lost a judgment. So if I lose a judgment, that was 27 damage, 28 damage, right? It was 28 damage, so seven damage less, seven damage less for the first 10 seconds. But then I'm getting three more damage a hit four times. So three times four is 12, plus seven is 19 damage. So what you're looking at is that first judgment is if it's higher than 19 damage, then it's not worth it. That's why I don't judge Crusader. Look at this, look at this guild chat. You forget S-Fan was a wow Andy. S-Fan was only a wow streamer when vanilla dropped, low key he turned variety later. Wait, so people know I'm variety now. S-Fan made classic, steel twisting OP. Streamers are why we're here today guys. Can't thank them for a moment. True, 100% chat. Streamers are why you're here today. Okay, is it a bad idea for me to be fighting mobs three levels higher than me?  One Gore-Test liver, one hand floats and I'm gone. Love the stash, thank you. Look, here's the thing you guys gotta realize about the stash, okay?  This is not something I do for fun. This is what it all comes down to, okay? It's complete and total character immersion, all right? You have the long hair, the mustache, chisel jawline, eight pack abs. Nobody can compete. You wanna play at the highest level, what do you gotta do? You gotta become one with your character, okay? Complete and total, there's no excuses, okay? If you're not complete and totally character immersed, you don't have a chance, okay? You think I got all these weapons for free? No, I get attacked. I thought I heard combat and it freaked me out. Dude, I have to get this guy. Dude, I need one Gore-Test liver, I've killed a hundred of these. I get one Gore-Test liver, I'm gone. Oh my gosh, still no Gore-Test liver. Yes, finally. Oh good, I didn't miss the death yet, chat. If you're watching me, just waiting for me to die, okay?  There's a zero percent chance that I die. Period, point blank, end of discussion. I've never died in WoW and I never plan on dying in WoW. Thank you. Well, he's not gonna die, I guess I'm gonna leave. That's who that knows me. Oh Frick, little 60 Paladin, my brother in holy light.  How am I your brother? I think I'm a pure reliant streamer too much. I'm gonna try not to die, I've never died in WoW. What level do you guys think I should do at Dead Minds? Oh, I should do it a little 20. You can only do it once. So I need to get the Varagans' Quests, Varagans, Varagans, eh, Varagans' Fist Quest. These guys are so annoying that we're lost here. I thought you were done, I pretty much was. I always said I would come back because I had some cool content I wanted to do, right? Even if I don't have a whole lot that I feel like I wanna accomplish. Then again, imagine getting like, whenever hardcore official comes out, imagine getting like Scarebird, Hooddying. Getting it, then dying, oh my God. 37, 37 Warlock died.  Yeah, I think I should just farm up a bunch of leather and then switch out of it. Dude, you know what I've noticed? My lack of gear is starting to become a factor. Maybe I should go blacksmithing to be able to craft weapons. But I feel like that's not really worth because I can just get them some quests. Oh behold, the people's paladin. He has finally returned to bless the rains down in Africa. Hey, dude, I wanna play Wilderness Time, is it worth?  I really do. I mean, there's times where I'm tired of streaming it or whatever and I wanna stream something else and then I come back one of those like a high period but I really do love this game and I care so much about classic being good and having like just, it's like preserved, you know? I really do love vanilla WoW, the classic WoW in general. That's what burning crusading is all about. All hail the king has returned. Your majesty, we await the new one life crusade tabard. Please make haste. Yes. Look, I might make a guild eventually, okay? I might make one eventually. First, Frank, man. I got distracted reading my whispers. No. Actually, I have never died in WoW. No. Guy messaged me that a greeper's coming. I stop paying attention because I'm thinking about, okay, like how am I, like what do I need to do to stop that? Your last words were thank you. Some guys' last words were as fan down rips. Okay. I have to go pretty soon, but we'll start. We'll start again, okay? As fan, as fan to HDMI. As fan to HDMI. Okay. Ah, it's time. Good luck for your first game of WoW in five modes. Thank you. I have not played. Okay, here we go, chap. We're going again. Did you die? No, I've never died in WoW. I've never died in WoW or in real life. Wait, how are you going to make golds that you can't ERP for in hardcore? Wait, is ERP against the rules? We're going to go ahead and call it here, okay? I got to get going. I got to go to physical therapy or massage therapy. Anyway, YouTube, Instagram, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, Twitter, everything is S-Van TV. Arts in the chat, S-Van, thank you guys so much for watching. We're going to keep this going probably tomorrow. I don't know what the schedule's going to be exactly. I'm going to figure it out tonight and then I will post. Anyways guys, once the chat, that's been all. We'll see you guys later, okay? Bye everybody.


Welcome to SPM Buzz, my good name is Miskitinji and this is Buzz with stars and right now I am hanging out with a star He has just released his album just the other day and it's called Radha, make sure to catch it I am hanging out with the one and only super producer, performer Kaguya Mungai What up Miskitinji? How are you? I'm good thank you, how are you? I'm amazing, I feel like it's my birthday today I mean you just said it's Kaguya Mungai's day, Radha day It's Radha day, it's Radha day I'm giving birth to a project that means so much to me today It's my birthday also Oh ya It's my second birthday That's okay, congratulations Kaguya, 15 tracks, 6 samples I really want to know, what was the inspo behind the samples because it's not something we see very much often Ya, I mean I don't think that there's very much sampling that goes on in Kenya Which I don't know the reason for But for me I wanted to be able to just celebrate the music that inspired me The music that continues to inspire other people There's a lot of songs in there like the mushrooms, the song called Nyambura Beautiful, beautiful song There's Isas, Mosmos, there's Gidi Gidi Magi Magi So there's a lot of music in there that inspired me growing up as a young boy listening to these jams On my radio and just jamming out That made me feel like wow I can do that one day So to be able to take these songs that my heroes made because they are my heroes That they made and then make music with that and make it my own version It's like a dream come true Do you feel your way of making music is because you started music And you have a different understanding from just having a talent Ya, I mean maybe it has to do with my education But I think that if you love something and you really want it then you go after it And so that for me has always been the way that I look at things Whether I'm going, like the way I love music Naifuatakama like every day The way I love my girlfriend, Lumpatiliya I taste her just like that So it's the same energy that is consistent like that How long did it take you know to just compile all these tracks? So this is kind of some, I think the oldest track here is from 2020 Ya, ya, so that's a one zero with Mayonde and Fennam Which has, I mean since 2020 and today it still sounds like it's a brand new song It doesn't feel like an old song, you know So that for me just also feels like the music grows and it becomes better with time Do you have our favourites? Ah, they are all my babies They are all my babies, they are all my babies It depends, some days when I'm in like a lovey-dovey mood And I want to tune my kabeb Then I can play for her songs like Bestie and East African Girls Because she likes those ones a lot But there are also some songs that are like now about mental health That are in there, a song called Lonely Which actually came to me in a dream at night I dreamt about the song and then it somehow figured out How to make it and like produce it and wrote it So there's a lot of different ones, I don't have a favourite I can't say a favourite But today my favourite is Rada And Rada represents the album What's the inspo behind the album That we just watched, the video of Rada that we just watched Again, I think number one it was just a fun video to do It was shot by Omoke Omoke who shoots a lot of amazing videos We've worked with him before on my song with Viri Safi Safi with Viri, he's the one who shot that video as well And we kind of just like sat down And were throwing around different ideas And we wanted to show just like a lot of them The way that we're trying to really elevate In terms of like concepts It doesn't have to be so literal It can be interesting I want people to watch it and feel That was so interesting to watch I want to watch it again Alright, so lately we've had a conversation online That Kenyans have a tendency Of supporting music that is not quality Do you feel you have the same sentiments And if not, do you actually feel Kenyans support quality music? You know, I've been hearing that debate And my opinion is that Maybe we don't have the kind of support That Nigeria has or that South Africa has But I can tell you now for free Today in 2023 There has never been more support For Kenyan music from Kenyans It's something that's growing Every day that somebody watching at home Who's going to watch this That will be like, wow, I want to do that The more that we do what we do The more others want to do it as well And we're encouraging guys to do it Get up, if you feel like you can do this You can be an artist, you can be a host Like yourself, right? Go up out there and chase it Because that's how our industry grows Let's talk about your baby Because you just launched that relationship Just the other day on social media But from the look of things from that video That you guys posted It looks like you guys have been together for a while Let me ask, what factors did you guys consider Deciding to come public What there are challenges that you thought you guys Were going to face but you're ready for that What factors did you consider? I think the important thing With those kind of relationships Is understanding that your partner Is your partner, you know You're not just dating for the sake of dating And I think we have a really good partnership Where we are each other's supporters I'm her biggest fan She's my biggest fan And we really support each other in that way And I want to see her win I want to support her as she wins I want to be a good partner to her And be able to grow our relationship In a very healthy way And so the reason why we kept it quiet Was because we wanted to kind of Form our relationship fast And get to know each other on a real, real level And then now share it with the world What are those three factors Or rather just qualities that you appreciate in Sharon? Oh wow I can't Three is too many It's too little Just three Too little Too little I know that's so many Honestly she's a really, really, really smart person Yeah she's I don't know if people understand how smart Sharon came one years Aside from her amazing heart And obviously she's stunning, gorgeous She's such a supportive friend And I think that's a thing I appreciate about her the most Is that we are friends That's my friend I call my friend when I'm stressed We talk about it She calls me when she's stressed And that's how we built the relationship I mean I saw the podcast that you guys did Was posted yesterday on her channel And you said that People used to mistake you as a girl When you were growing up Is there something that you really wanted to change Back then growing up? No I wouldn't say there was anything particular I wanted to change I was just so glad I never looked back I was like thank God for puberti Thank God for puberti I'm glad, I mean I got my mom's looks I look like my mom so that's why Alright as we wind up please tell your fans Where they should get your music Where they can stream it Guys I want to thank you all For watching this And for you as well For coming through today Rada is out now everywhere YouTube Spotify Apple Music Boom Play Mdundo Audio Max Zote Ziko Rada this is not an album For Kagu Mungai This is an album for Kenya And it celebrates Kenya And if you are somebody who celebrates Kenya You're going to love this album Thank you so much And congratulations once again Thank you so much Happy Rada Day Alright guys that was A song write up Of former Kagu Mungai right here At his press album launch Make sure you catch this song Especially Rada Because the visuals are out And let us know in the comment section How you found this interview My good name is Miskithinji Until next time Keep it at SpmBuzz