Oh, yeah, hold on. Let me lift up these windows cuz it's loud out here Chow when it rain it pours we are towards the end of October October Towards the end of September Yeah, I'm trying to stay upbeat and as positive as possible, but My patience is done I know I thought I would be in a better mood Especially now that we're back in the house. So let me give y'all an update We got back in the house last week our AC was officially fixed last Wednesday We were literally in Hotel since the first week of September. Yeah, like no joke. I think we checked in the first hotel like September 5th and It's like September 27th, so we got back home Like the 16th or 15th or something like that. I can't remember exactly like even later than that What am I talking about? It's just the 27th, so we've been back home for a week. I see it's working fine Having the time to get back on schedule get things in order Because my best friend is coming down here two more weeks It just just trying to get back on schedule in general because let me tell you it was I have so having to get up Like I said, we were all on different schedules ensuring that JB gets off to school While simultaneously doing his homework and working we ended up staying in four different hotels and eight Hotel rooms. Yeah, there was no exaggeration It was very tiring and it was a lot of lot going on. So it's great to be back home They get things situated fall is here Our allergies start to flare up last week Manifested in some type of cold. You can tell my voice is still kind of scratchy I feel okay, but it's up and down I'm tired y'all I need I think I need some days off. So thankfully I have some PTO coming up in two more weeks Whoo woke up this morning Fridays and Thursdays is when I really start to wrap up things for the next weekend my co-worker and Team member is out next week. So I'm covering for her that I'm out the following week So I'm trying to get everything ready right just trying to catch up Got up early when I mean early this morning got up at 4 30 boom start working. Yeah, I I'm a beast in the morning I start to wind down around one or two.  Basically, there's something wrong with one of our physical connections. So someone's coming out in the morning I'm like cool first thing in the morning. I'm like, okay, cool. I got my phone. I can do stuff from my phone, right? Got my phone. I'm okay. I give the phone to JB. So he can you know, so he can watch something while I'm I'm getting ready He's eating breakfast watching my cell phone, you know, to keep him occupied preoccupied Our TV is sorry y'all my throat All of our TV connection is through our internet so we don't have TV for today That's fine got my phone, right? I All of a sudden I hear some quiet and JB is like I can't get it to work. I'm like, what's going on? Get a message from Verizon. You're all out of data totally forgot that while we were in and out of these hotel rooms, I was In between trying to reconnect to the hotel Wi-Fi. I was using my cell phone data. So Have to pay out of pocket for that We're gonna go ahead and buy a new oven. Yeah My oven doesn't work the stove three of the eyes work Top of the stove the fourth one it works, but it overheats So our system had our oven has some type of temperature thing going on. I'm okay with that But it's just still like another thing we have to purchase. You know what I mean? I'm just so over it y'all I just want to catch a break. I'm ready for my best friend to come down so we can have some fun I took off. I should have taken off the entire week, but I just took off a couple of days Oh You hold it You're gonna be cleaning up that room Yeah, why are you cleaning it because it's gonna be tears around is it really because what I'm trying to get for me You need my money 20 bucks 20 bucks I do Turn up at home my bunny on with this streak. Let me take something. Mr. Lifo.  I got that in there too girl But I don't really I don't really like that as much as I like it with the cranberry. Oh, yes So y'all I'm about to cook hold on Jamie my husband I do something to the poor child. No, I am cooking orange chicken With fried rice now typically with a good fried rice. You want the rice to be like a day old But I'm cooking the rice now. I'm making a lot of veggies to go with it I typically don't I typically don't keep heart liquor in the fridge in the house here And honestly when my best friend come I'm not gonna do heart liquor.  Let me let y'all know if the agenda is gonna be We're still got two more weeks, but let me know. Yeah, let me let y'all know what the agenda is going to be Hold on. Let me turn this thing down something's on high. It's gonna be from five days. I am so excited So the first night we're standing. I'm gonna be making Cooking fried fish girl. We're gonna do a fish fry. And so I'm gonna have wine. I may Do vodka, but when she was here before whenever we get together we get trashed What else to say? We turn all the way up. You hear me? We do But we paste ourselves especially now that we a little bit older y'all She's been my best friend for about 20 years. Yeah, and so anyway I'm gonna be cooking. We're gonna be staying in the first night. Just chill night. She's flying and relax chill night Catch up relax the next day. It's gonna be that Thursday.  I'm spitting so Friday. We're gonna go out to our spot. We're in Frick and Scottsdale That day will probably I don't know. I'll probably take her I'll take her up to up here to amp them outlets and we'll just walk around You know, just do outdoor stuff. My my best friend is very low Why does things so loud? Hey y'all, how y'all doing? We are out Saturday morning. I don't think JB is feeling too well I don't know what it is. He's very quiet. I think he's tired So we have a lot to do this morning Yeah, hold on girl No, I just think he's tired. That's all so this morning We're gonna stop by the Dollar Tree. We have Less than two weeks before my best friend is here in town So one of the things I like to do is to have a little bit of toiletries for the guests that are coming in Even though I know most people pack them something, you know Since she's gonna be there for a couple of days, you know get her a couple of things that she may want to add to her body anyway And after that, we're gonna go shopping grocery shopping and then I'll take the baby to an indoor playground So he's not I know he's we were at plant on going to Anthem Park He woke up this morning with welps all over his body Many he's having some type of allergic reaction in the allergy season is bad. So I did give him some Benadryl I've been bad about him taking his singular. So I'm sorry. I'm not looking at the camera So I need to make sure that baby we can make sure you take your singular, okay? So okay, so yeah, he woke up with Just welps on his body. So that's just an allergic reaction his allergies and he was playing outside in that dirt and water late yesterday And yeah, and all I did was wipe off the stuff So I should have given him a full-blown bath to make sure that all the pollen or whatever is off his body So We're just gonna do a couple of errands run out so he could play and then we were more than likely Just be home by one or two o'clock I'm back on the intermittent fasting. I had sorry y'all. Why did you tell me I was beeping? Yeah, I was on intermittent Fasting got off on it when we were you know in the hotel for the past two and a half weeks girl So I'm gonna jump back on it and get back on it for with me. Basically. I just skip breakfast So I'm gonna give me some coffee here in here. That's sugar.  I think I'm going to do turkey Yeah, I'm gonna do ground turkey So I'll make that for dinner and then we'll have that for lunch tomorrow and we'll go to church for the first time in a Wow, yeah, it's been so crazy go to church now y'all the internet came back up yesterday I fixed it. I was able to fix it on flux every plug now. We got something wrong with the water heater though Well, our water is cold, you know, it's lukewarm. It's not getting hot. That's the problem You gotta have hot water So we have them coming out. It's the same company though and we have a service with them So they're gonna look at it for free and all that. Thank God. So It is what it is. I'm still blessed Okay, you have to keep a mind of Thanksgiving because when things go on it's real easy to get negative and To just dwell on the negative stuff and can't be that way. Okay, let me go ahead and get up here and get some coffee y'all No, don't push the button Look at that In more ways than one It's right there and it says try me That's what you get and we can't cuz of allergy so Yay now, let's go this way y'all take care bye child the pioneer woman read read What is in a read Roman and lad when I tell you this woman married into money? She did good, honey. I tried to look at some tea on her couldn't find much now I know her daughter gotta do you why not too long ago? But hey, that's that's you can't control your kids. You can only pray for them to send them out into into the world.  So it's time to get back on it Yeah, I'm only having the one meal if I get hungry later on I'll probably have like a few crackers or something That's less than a hundred calories Once your grocery store need to get hardly any fruit, but I do have some fruit at home Paycheck was looking real nice. Y'all our raises went through this pay period, which is good Anyway Yeah, I'm talking about like a hundred Fifty dollars more. God is good, you know so We're way in I would took you I was thinking about texting my friend wanted to see if she was home, but I'm tired. We're gonna go home Plus, I don't like to do that. She's an she's an extrovert. So she wouldn't mind us just dropping by But I think she lives with her boyfriend now. So I don't want to do that Good morning y'all Child I'm telling you I need to sage my house like see if my glasses match my uniform my mommy I told y'all our water heater now is having problems and I thought my husband was exaggerating when he said the water's not getting warm, baby It's cold It is like And it's slowly but surely the heat has depleted I took a shower and I took a shower yesterday I could only be in there for a few minutes. It was so cold So we have someone coming out tomorrow, I looked at it yesterday the furnace the water heater excuse me and The life is out. I tried to light it myself I started smelling a little bit of gas, but just normal when you put it on pilot, but I don't want to play with that Yeah, you don't want to play with that. So So hopefully they'll be able I could probably ask one of my neighbors to do so that's the thing about I'm gonna try to whisper Yeah, I know how I'm domesticated, right?   So my husband is like everybody else Meaning he won't even like I don't know if it's because how he was raised cuz he's he was privileged Yeah, they had helpers.  This is old money. He came for himself. So Um They're used to having people do stuff for them. So instead of trying to figure it out. Hey, it's a go We gotta have someone come over Whereas I'm like, um, look at these child. I'm not even gonna argue with that. What y'all understand He's probably tired even dealing with the house issues in general So hopefully it's just a quick fix, you know, ain't nothing we gotta wait, you know And at least we still have water, but I can't wash my hair cuz I mean I can but it's gonna be cold this morning I am up working on my family recipe book Still getting over the allergies One of the things I'm gonna be doing this morning Or today It's gonna take all day when I go on a church I am so tired when I told you first of all, I didn't even want to go out yesterday I went out with the baby because I told him we will we will go out But I am I'm exhausted. So I need to take today and rest Plus, we're still given getting over this allergy or whatever my husband went to the doctor Friday and turned out what he had Turned him to a sinus infection. So we're Thankfully JB is okay What's the point I'm gonna be making bone broth today And if you know anything about bone broth first of all bone broth is great for everyone Especially if you have any type of autoimmune issues Even those you unfortunately if you have have cancer if you're going through chemo Understand a lot of the times when your your appetite is horrible when you're going through chemo therapy Or even if you're on certain type of medication, it could you know mess with your Your Appetite bone broth bone broth is amazing, especially if you have, you know with leaky good, you know all of that So I've made it before the last time I made it. I was so upset I don't know what I was thinking. I accidentally taunt the the crop pot out and it was out for hours And my best friend was like, oh just bring it to a boil and I don't want to play around with anything Let's meet though. So I I dumped it. Are you guys here are my ingredients for my bone broth now? Everyone makes bone broth totally different. I roasted the bones for about 30 minutes My now mind you my oven isn't all that great. So Yeah, anyway, I haven't here two carrots. First of all, nothing is peeled He's just throwing everything in there raw any spear organic. Okay, two carrots 36 the salary salary including the leaves a bunch of parsley some time some people like rosemary I'm not a big fan of rosemary What else half of a head of garlic with everything on half of an onion skews JB And then I'm going to be adding Bottle water bottle water to this You don't want to use tap water and then I'm going to pour in a cap full of apple cider vinegar The apple cider vinegar is going to help to break down the bones even more This is going to be on low for a good 24 hours and then I will store it in mason jars I forgot to get freezer bags more than likely my husband and I would drink this over the next three days Yeah, we both could kill. Yeah, if that's all we drink right that that's gonna be my liquid that in water This is what I'm cooking today. This is I don't know what you want to call this. It's a Brazilian inspired recipe This is chicken Chicken thighs my only skill is chicken thighs. We have in here garlic ginger Sorry, I've had a drink Garlic ginger jalapeno and I have some rice over here that I've done up Now what's gonna go in here or some diced up tomatoes some lunch roll and Then coconut milk and it's not so yummy and then I'm gonna spoon that over the rice and I'm gonna fight some plantains And that's it. I use like a Jamaican jerk type of spice on this and yeah, I think this be really good I'm gonna put some turmeric on here. Hold on y'all. Let me get my turmeric When if I ever apply on a time a chance to cook with turmeric, I do you only need a little bit That's that's a little bit for me. That's a little bit Let me back her up some now. You can see it's about my laptop's up working. Hold on y'all I know I'm gonna don't even get headed. I think I might be dehydrated Let me move this over something I think I may be dehydrated. I'm drunk mostly bone broth. Yes, I forgot to drink a lot of water. I typically I Drink like half a gallon of water a day, which is not enough, but I was drinking bone broth too. Um Yeah, our water is fixed we have hot water now $165 for them to reignite the water heater. I'm telling you what I Told you my husband is not domesticated like me I'm like cuz I asked myself. Did you try to reheat it? I didn't really get a response I tried to reignite it excuse me and I was just afraid to do it after a couple of times Now I could have easily asked one of my neighbors what I don't want to do since my husband even though he's not Domestic, he's not necessarily traditional He wouldn't dare ask for him so I Girl bonnet Chronicles JB sleep on the couch. Yeah, why is our water heater back out again? girl And you know what having hot water indoor hot water is something that we in the West are used to we're spoiled a lot of countries They don't have hot water.  So I call my husband He was he wasn't yelling not yelling at me But upset that we just spent this money for them to look at the water heater. By the way, he's the same company They helped us with the AC girl So long story short, we're just gonna go ahead and get a new water heater now What a water heater don't cost a lot of money. I'm just curious to how much it's gonna cost to install You can get a water heater for like eight hundred dollars.  I don't know what I'm telling y'all is that this is affecting my ability to record hair related videos This would be it for this vlog. I think this vlog is getting long. Yeah, I think this vlog is getting long All right y'all next time you see me. I won't be flashing all like this But my best friend should be about coming in I'll show y'all how I'm preparing her room for before she come in That's what we're gonna start off on. All right y'all take care. Bye You


Fellow Zambians, first of all I would like to say a very, very big congratulations to all of us who have made it into this new year 2023. It is always necessary before you focus on what you're going to do in the year that you take stock of what has happened in the last year. As Zambia Mass Prosper, we understand that a lot of things have been happening on the political scene and some of our citizens have said consistently that we have kept very quiet. Frankly speaking, our silence was not because we didn't have things to say, but it was because we had more important things to concentrate on and that is very important for this party. We have now finished our manifesto. Our manifesto will be launched this year and we shall begin our mobilization and regalia distribution. That was more important to us because I've always said as far as politics is concerned, if you don't have a plan, you don't have a vision, you don't have a strategy, you are going nowhere. Many political parties have been talking, but really what have they been talking about? It's been criticisms and criticisms and nothing else. We believe in Zambia Mass Prosper that when you criticize, you must have a solution. That is why we kept quiet and we insisted on finishing our manifesto quietly, but now we shall be making noise and making noise quietly too. Before we launch our manifesto, as president of Zambia Mass Prosper, I want to clear a few things. A lot of people have misunderstood some of the decisions that I have personally taken and I want to take this opportunity to clear the record. I was in PF and as a member of the PF, then I helped the late president, my coach, Lufias Assad, in all his campaigns and made sure that PF ascended to power. No one can doubt that, nobody can even challenge that. Some of these so-called leaders in PF today don't even know where the party came from, how we built the party and what the party stood for. I did not want to leave the patriotic front. I want that very clear. I pleaded with the leadership of the PF that I did not want to leave the patriotic front because it is a party that I helped to build. A party that I helped to win elections for the late president, my coach, Lufias Assad and indeed for Edgar Chagolungu in 2015 and in 2016, after ensuring that his candidature was validated in 2014 at the convention at the Malungushi Rock of Authority. History doesn't lie and you can't change the facts. What I did for PF, nobody can doubt. Unless you just want to be vindictive. But the way in which the patriotic front began to run its affairs and the way in which the patriotic front began to undermine itself and leave what we began to do as a pro-poor party meant that I could not stay in the patriotic front. Secondly, there was this issue of the third term which for me was a purely selfish agenda by some leaders within the patriotic front. A third term which I was not going to allow to go ahead because it stood against the principle that is pronounced deeply in our Republican constitution. A president who has been elected twice and has been sworn in twice into office cannot run for a third term. That's the only reason why I spoke very strongly against my elder brother Edgar Chagolungu. It was nothing personal. It was the principle. Because of that, some forces within the patriotic front went and told lies to Edgar Chagolungu and then he believed them and started thinking that I was against his leadership. They cooked up stories, cooked up cases, trumped up charges were levied against me and rushed through the Central Committee and then they purported to expel me. An expulsion which I did not want to challenge because I knew it was going to be a waste of time. And because I stood on principle, I didn't want to seem as if I was begging to be a member. But this is the truth. I realized then that there was a clique within the patriotic front that was working against Edgar Chagolungu without him knowing that it was working against him. This clique began to mastermind a takeover which Edgar Chagolungu didn't know until quite late in the day and I felt sorry for my big brother because he couldn't see it. I wanted to say this. I did not want to leave the PF. I was forced out of PF. I was forced out of PF because people had an agenda against both Lungu and myself but Lungu couldn't see it. As head of state I expected better from the Edgar Lungu, especially that he knew that I was one of the architects to his candidature and indeed his presidency. But be that as it may, that's water under the bridge. So if anybody is going to tell me that I should go back to the patriotic front, I want to make this very clear. I am now the president of a political party. I cannot go back to the patriotic front. They didn't want me and there are still some players within the patriotic front who don't want me there because they understand what I'm capable of doing and they don't appreciate it but they want to give this nation mediocrity in the form of leadership. I will not accept that. Having said that, it does not mean that the patriotic front and Zambia Masprospa cannot work together. I want to make that clear. My appeal to members of the patriotic front is that they must look reality in the eye and face reality as it stands currently with the greatest respect to all the players who are filed nominations or who are filed nominations on the ticket of the patriotic front leading up to their convention. I say none of them, none of them have got the muscle, the strategic analysis and indeed the acumen to defeat the current president. I said this before and I'll say it again. It is this same clique also called leaders who in my view are basically taking advantage of the very unfortunate situation they have seen an opportunity within the patriotic front and they think and feel they should feel that whole even when they know they are not qualified for leadership. I'm saying this with respect and I don't mean to attack anybody but I want to set the record straight. We can work together with the patriotic front but the kind of leadership that they have right now needs to change. I know that some of the leaders in the patriotic front are afraid of some of the things that they have done and I know that with the kind of leadership we have now under the UPND they will be hunted down, they will be prosecuted and three quarters of them will end up in jail. That I can assure you. So let us not waste time. Let us put our heads together. My appeal to all those leaders who are vying for poor positions in the patriotic front is look at what you are going to put this political party that was built from ground up into. You are going to drive this party into the ground. If anyone of you is elected at a convention to lead this party you may want to put in all you can but trust me and I know cases are being built against each one of you as we speak. Some of you have already been convicted and whether you like it or not those cases will get tougher, stronger and you end up in jail. When you be crying foul what do you want the people to do at that time? My suggestion is simple. The UPND has proved in the short time that they have been running this country that they are not good for this country in terms of leadership. They have no clear manifesto, they have no political manifesto, they are just running the country haphazardly on haddock basis. They make things as they go on. I went to the UPND not to join the UPND like some of my brothers did, I never took up a position there. I went to UPND to go and help the UPND get PF out of power because PF had become incorrigible. PF was not listening. PF was not willing to listen to advice and was not willing to change. That's the only reason I went to UPND. I was offered positions in UPND. I refused to take up those positions because one of the conditions I was being given constantly was that I needed to join the UPND and I said I will never join UPND. But in a war situation, if anybody has studied history, you and I know that alliances are made sometimes for convenience. Alliances are made sometimes to teach people a lesson. I said this before and I'll say it again. PF is not willing to listen to advice. He is not willing to listen to advice. He is not willing to listen to advice. You can't blame me as some of you are trying to do. You are trying to make it seem as if Kelvin Fubehwari is the one that got PF out of power. No. PF got itself out of power because PF became greedy. It lost direction. It lost the vision and it became corrupt. It encouraged thuggery. It encouraged caderism and it encouraged of public money. That is why you lost power. But on the other hand, UPNDs did not win elections because people loved UPND. Again, let's be very clear. UPND won elections because people had no option. And it was the only strongest political party at the time. Therefore, people gave power to UPND in the hope that they could correct things. But we are seeing the opposite today. But here is a very clear message. I am saying this from the bottom of my heart. This is my first message to those ambience this year. And I want them to understand, let us understand why the UPND is in power today. They are in power because they took a chance. They are in power because they were supported. And yes, I was one of the people that supported them. But that did not mean that people loved UPND. People voted for UPND because there was no one else to vote for. The goodness, the goodness now is this. There is now a new political party on the scene. And that political party is Zambia Mast Prosper. Zambia Mast Prosper comes with a new manifesto. It comes with a new lease of life. It comes with a very clear mind, a clear vision as to where we can take this nation. We have put our women first. The second wave of employment and attack on the economy is our youths. And then our workers from all sectors of life. We understand from what we have taken as a study in the last few years and the last few months especially coming up to our manifesto. We know what we need to do to change course. The UPND on the other hand, don't know what they want. In fact, the UPND is reliant on what they call direct foreign investment which will not take them anywhere. We in Zambia Mast Prosper believe that we have the resources here. We have the human capital here which we can use to build and prosper this country. And that's the difference. We cannot form an alliance with the UPND because we know what they are capable of doing now. And the goodness is, and listen and listen good. Please, Mwebena Zambia, listen. The goodness is, of course, we should learn more. Not to learn about UPND, not to learn about the future. And that's what's important. We have learnt our lessons. For the PF, you by PF know me and I know you with the other political parties. Let's come together. Let's build. But the leadership in the PF right now must just own up and realise that they need to join forces. They need to join forces with a leader who understands what the PF was meant to be and what Zambia Mast Prosper intends to do. If the fear in getting power is that you need protection, that protection will be given to you. Because we in Zambia Mast Prosper do not agree with the methodology that the UPND is employing right now. There are many ways of solving political problems. And what the UPND is doing right now is not one method we can use. We can use different methods which will bring back the unity of the country, which is going to avoid tension in the country, which is going to avoid bringing back Caderism. The UPND is actually no different from what PF became in the latter days. They pretend like they don't want cadres. They're actually fueling the cadres. They're using the cadres for violence.


is Jella and I'm a researcher at the International Rice Research Institute. I specialize in molecular biology and biotechnology. This means that I work with DNA, RNA or proteins and use laboratory techniques to find out their function and possible applications. I also try to look for ways in which rice can become more nutritious by transforming genes involved in iron and zinc accumulation. In this video, I will talk about how we improve rice by increasing its iron and zinc content. According to the World Health Organization, more than 2 billion people globally suffer from micronutrient deficiencies such as iron and zinc deficiencies and the most vulnerable group are women and children. We all need iron to have healthy red blood cells and we need zinc to have a strong immune system. Usually, we get these nutrients from meat, shellfish, and legumes. But as we all know, not all of us can have access to these food items every day. At ERI, we are figuring out a way to help rice-eating populations get these nutrients from rice. The research I will share with you is a process of improving nutritional content of crops called biofortification. This can be achieved through agronomic practices, conventional breeding, or biotechnology-based approaches like genetic engineering and genome editing. Here, I will highlight iron and zinc biofortification in rice using genetic engineering. So, how do we biofortify rice? We are developing iron and zinc biofortified rice using the genetic engineering approach because conventional breeding efforts are hindered by low genetic variability for the acquired iron concentration in polished or milled rice. We insert genes in rice using a naturally occurring soil microorganism called agrobacterium tumor fashions. The genes we use in developing high iron and zinc rice are for iron storage and iron chelator which can bind both iron and zinc. Various molecular biology techniques are used to evaluate and characterize degenerated transgenic rice such as polymerase chain reaction or PCR, gel electrophoresis, quantitative PCR or QPCR, and southern blot analysis. To quantify iron and zinc levels in rice grains, we submit our samples to our analytical service laboratory or ASL or ICP OES analysis. Apart from evaluating high iron and zinc rice in the laboratory, glass house, and screen house, it is also evaluated in the fine tests to check if it has good agronomic performance and if iron and zinc levels will remain high in field setup because products of genetic engineering are highly regulated. We need to follow strict protocols for its usage, storage, and transport. Our laboratory is accredited by the excellence through stewardship which shows our commitment to achieve global level standards. The Department of Science and Technology Biosafety Committee or DOSDBC oversees the implementation of transgenic experiments by ensuring that the biosafety measures are strictly followed. We also coordinate with the Bureau of Plant Industry or BBI which monitors all activities requiring movement of transgenic materials. In three of our recent confined tests, we found significantly higher levels of iron from 8 to 14 milligrams per kilogram and zinc from 21 to 42 milligrams per kilogram among the top three iron and zinc biofortified rice events. Iron and zinc biofortified rice also showed good agronomic performance. In summary, our research shows that iron and zinc biofortified rice can complement other nutrition interventions to alleviate iron and zinc deficiencies. Currently, regulatory data on molecular characterization and safety assessment are being generated. We also aim to conduct mobilitation trials to check if the iron and zinc levels as well as agronomic performance will remain the same in different environmental conditions. The generated data will be used by regulatory bodies to assess the safety of the new biofortified crop.


In today's video, we find out if the new set, Phantom Nightmare, is better than Maze of Millenia. What's up, guys? We're back with another epic video. In this video, we have the two newest sets, the first two sets of 2024, Phantom Nightmare and Maze of Millenia. So we have a collector set on one side, and we have the new core set on the other side. Both sets have seemed to be pretty decent, like they have some pretty big cards in them. I know Maze of Millenia was a little bit controversial. Phantom Nightmare seems like people are pretty excited about it. It's very new. It just came out at your locals yesterday. So it's no presale. Keep that in mind. We're going to be doing a little battle where we open up 24 packs of each box and see which one wins. This will be on pre-release prices, so they're going to have a big advantage. But Maze of Millenia also has a $100 on fire card still. So it's really awesome about who will win. Before we get into it, we have a giveaway. I'll be getting away these three cards, First Edition, SDJ, Red Eyes, Black Dragon. We have Dark Magician Girl from Rise of Destiny, and we have a Blue Eyes, White Dragon, SDK. All you have to do is like the video, be subscribed to our notifications. Let me know down below which set do you think will win. Will it be pre-release Phantom Nightmare or just simple old regular Maze of Millenia? Oh, and let me know which one you like better as well. All right, I've removed all the packages, all the packs. You could say First Edition, 48 pack opening here. So if you're excited, hit that like button, make sure to subscribe. Also, if you guys want to grab some of the newest set, Phantom Nightmare, make sure you check out Sasiato's link down below. Shout out to Sasiato for always being clutch. He's a great seller. Okay, there's a superhero right up the bat. But go check him out and it's an affiliate link with me. So go check him out and it supports the channel. If you guys do grab any boxes there and very awesome. Also, don't forget the whatnot stream tomorrow. There will be a whatnot stream. It's going to be fun. It's going to be exciting. It's going to be the new Phantom Nightmare set. So if you don't get any from Sasiato and you want me to open some for you or you want to do both, you know, those are two options there. Get $15 free. You can use it on my, on my account or anybody on whatnot. So go check that out. Should be a fun time. A lot of cool stuff coming up on the channel. Don't forget to check out all of the live streams about whatnot. The next one after Phantom Nightmare is a pretty big deal. I haven't officially announced it other than on whatnot live one time. I haven't officially announced it on YouTube, but I'm just going to casually just say, Hey, we have a first edition box opening coming there. So if you guys want to buy L.O.B first dead packs, that's coming up in a few weeks. So make sure you bookmark that stream on whatnot. It's going to be pretty epic. There we go. Marshmallow has returned. A lot of cool stuff coming up in February. So I think February should be a pretty fun month. Phantom Nightmare is definitely helping with that. It's a fun set. A lot of cool stuff coming out. I think we have the legendary battles of legend set coming out soon. I can't wait to roast that set. Fortunately, it seems like Konami is moving away from those kind of sets.  I will still be opening it though, of course, because, you know, that's how we roll. Even though it sucks, I'm going to buy it. Not very much of it though. Let's just say that I won't buy nearly as much of that as I normally do. And don't forget to check out that we're doing a live stream on YouTube as well opening until we get one of the cool cards that a Phantom Nightmare haven't actually decided which one yet. We have Earthbound. There's not like a petite moth collector rare.  But either way, there should be something cool. So far, we have not really pulled anything out of either of these sets. So we're still looking. Oh, I'm supposed to do four from the back. Oh, whatever. You know, let's just go for it. Raid Raptor, Goblin Biker. We have Ashened, but you're Chronicle. We have Dark Element Nightmare Plan. Very cool. There will also be a case opening tomorrow for Phantom Nightmare. So there's a lot of Phantom Nightmare openings. Should be able to get your fill. Should be able to pull a lot of the cool cards. Probably won't pull all the cards because it's so hard to pull all the QCRs. But maybe we will. Who knows? Maybe this is the time where we get super unlucky and pull every single other one besides the one we want. It's happened before. It wouldn't be the first time. We've gotten pretty unlucky in some of those collector rare openings. This is not a collector rare set, but, you know, could work with QCRs the same way. They're a little bit harder to pull than collectors, though. We have Prayers, the Voices, Voice and Semsera De Lotus. We have not pulled a single card that is high rarity yet. Okay. We're still looking. Slow start. That's okay though. It's saving all the suspense for the end. Salamander Fusion. We have Earthbound Release. Alter Geist. Oh, no. Ultimate Flame Swordsman. That's a pretty cool card. I would love to pull that CR. I think that one has a CR. It should.  It's a Flame Swordsman. I know the other Flame Swordsman does because we already pulled it last time when that set came out. We have Fish Lamp. Berserk Archfiend. Tricorn. A Rebel Blend. Also, I'm recording this pretty soon after I posted the video about the psychic processor. Our first high rarity card. It's just an Ultra. You know, in a more core sets, it's not crazy, but one of the Ultras in that sets like 60 in pre-release. So it's not that one, unfortunately, but there is one. That's really big. But I just recently posted the selling stuff for $15,000 cars the other day. If you guys didn't see that, go check it out. But a lot of you guys have already been buying stuff on the website and reaching out to me about buying stuff and helping me out because I am trying to buy a new car because cars are ridiculous.  My current one has been so dumb. It's worth like $5,000 bucks. I've spent over that just to maintain it recently with all these like these things repairs I had to do and all this stuff. So I'm just burning money on this old car. So I'm hoping to get a new one and you guys have been supporting a lot by buying stuff the other day, awakening of the VEDO. So I really appreciate everybody who did that and everybody who just watched that video and supported in any way. So shout out to you guys. It's been very, very clutch, very, very helpful. You guys are the best. So I just wanted to thank you guys because I know this is a couple days after I posted that, but I'm recording it pretty soon after I release it. We have fighting flame swordsman. There's an ultra rare. That's pretty cool. That was fighting flame sword, not fighting flame swordsman. That's a different card. There's two different cards. Very confusing. So do not get confused. There is one that just says swords man, not just swords. So that's just the sword, the equip card. So keep that in mind. Different card. I don't want to because sometimes I'll say something by accident or I'll say something as like a running dialogue on the channel and then somebody will say I'm like being disingenuous or something. I see that every once in a while about like something I say and I'm like, that is not what I mean to be doing there. Okay. Mutamorphosis. There we go. That's pretty cool. What in the world is this? Okay. Tribute one fusion or sinker monster, special summon monster from your deck with the same level as the tributed monsters original level. Okay. Return to the Enduring Enphase. You can only activate one mutamorphosis per turn. So basically get a fusion or a sinker out with a huge level and you can special summon. This will be fun on master duel.  That will just be really fun right out of your deck. That sounds like a fun card to play with. I don't, it might even be good. Like there's a chance that it could be good. Like with certain monsters or like amazing or something, but yeah, that sounds like it'll be fun to mess around with. We have Gazelle. We have Full Armor, Black Ray Lancer, Line Walker, Jet Synchron, Ultimate Flame Swordsman. Very nice stuff. Very good stuff. Very amazing cards. Konami. I feel like Konami so far though. I will say beginning of the year. I mean, I know there's a lot of complaining about amazing millennia and stuff like that, but they put out some sets with some good cards. So you can't really complain too much because there have been a lot of sets that didn't even have that. So there's a set with a good card and then there's a set that seems like it's a pretty much a banger. Everybody's excited about with Phantom Nightmare. So I feel like they've done pretty well. If they can keep this up, it'll be nice. It's all, I mean, Konami, they don't usually deserve a lot of props, but look, Konami did make this game. And if they can continue making good sets, I will not be mad at that. I will not be mad. If I would love to praise Konami every single set. So if they can keep it up, sure, let's keep, let's keep going. Let's make 2024 awesome. Even if we have to make the quarter century year five years long, if it makes us have good sets, I'm down for it. We have Stampede, we have Dark Guardian, walls of the Imperial team. So we have one secret so far. We got one or two ultras, something like that. So far it seems like they've been decent. So I'll take it. I'm not too mad. Now I'm mad. No, I'm just kidding. Rescue. We have a Chimera, the flying mythical beat. That is a collector rare, which is pretty awesome. It's worth like 10 bucks. So it's not very expensive, but it's, oh, we got something as a modifier. It was a spell card, harmonic synchrofusion, which actually last I sold it, it was like nine bucks. So it's actually not bad at all. Can't complain too much about a $9 ultra. One, two, three, four from Phantom Nightmare. Let's see, we do have a $60 ultra in here, which the ultras are not created equal when it comes to core sets versus CR sets because the ultras are one of the higher rarities in a CR set. Oh, Magispector Ortho's new. We actually pulled this in a QCR yesterday. Go check that video out. And in the core sets there, you know, there's QCRs and there's secrets above them. So they're not like super hard to get, but still very cool. Okay. Back to what I was saying. Okay. Full armor. We have the ultra geist emergency exclamation point salamandro. We got something else. Oh, transaction rollback. That's a good one. All right. I will take it. Transaction rollbacks. A very good card. Super solid. I think it's around last I saw it was 30, but it's been a few, a couple of weeks since then. So that really looks, so it could be less than that now. It could be more. Who knows? Oh, I did a crazy back trick that. Okay. I should not have done four to the back or whatever. We're just going to keep going with it. It's probably nothing because we pulled a couple ultras in a row. Burf from that. Wait, wait. Okay. Yeah. I put forth that's what happens. You just get the super. Okay. Make sense. We figured it out. All right. We figured it out. Guys, we're doing this. All right. One, two, three, four. We have the caribou. Aroma, berserk archfiend goblin firefall. We have exceeds golem materialization three eye ghost and aromalith rosemary. The rosemary has been pulled. Still got a lot of packs left. I feel like in this still a lot of packs out. Ruxen special. No, no Ruxen special, please. We're going to do better about that. Not warrior. We have combat wheel. Yep. No Ruxen special to see that guys. Proud of myself. There's not a Ruxen special. I'm patting myself on the back. We are doing it pretty well here. Not doing any Ruxen specials. We have raid raptor ultimate offering, which is pretty creepy. Ghost illusion and materialization. Ashen for eternity. Royal Rhino. Age of stars and frost and a white sardine. The sardines are out. All right. So far we've had transaction rollbacks pretty good pull. The secrets. I feel like we didn't pull two good ones out of this spot. Ruxen's better. There it is. Okay. I said we weren't going to pull and do a Ruxen special. We did one. So do a Ruxen special. It sounds weird. I know no Ruxen specials. Like we don't need to say like a verb in front of it sounds weird. We have white. We have golem. We have materialization raid raptor dark elements aroma lift Rosalina. Still a lot of packs. I feel like we're not going very fast today. That's okay. Don't need to go too fast. We're opening. We have alter guy, especially a new set you knew where set Phantom Nightmare has even released to like the public yet technically.  So that's cool. But okay. One, two, three, four, but not when like Walmart stuff like that. It shouldn't be there yet. Sometimes you can get them like early, but you're not really supposed to go back. We have time. We're not supposed to be able to not that you're like in trouble if you buy from Walmart because they're there early. It's not your problem, but they shouldn't need to be in the store that early. I think I think it's Fridays when they're supposed to release. Okay. We have earthbound imagine if it was like you buy it from Walmart. Someone's just out there waiting like arrest you like what are you doing with that? Why'd you buy that box? Oh, I don't know. I just wanted some Yu-Gi-Oh cards. No, no Yu-Gi-Oh cards. And they just like put you in handcuffs. Like what are you doing? What are you doing? I'm just buying Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Just the release date isn't out yet. That sounds like something like a magic magic get watsie would do. They'd like what you got cards early at Walmart. First of all, I'm going to arrest Walmart. Second of all, I'm coming for you. All right, let's go. We got earthbound release. We have earthbound immortal. We have earthbound prisoner earthbound line walker salamandra. Why do I feel like I have way less maze packs? Maybe it's just because there's a couple less cards. Maybe that's why it just feels like I have less. I mean, I should have one more Phantom Nightmare pack right now. So maybe that's the difference. We have reincarnation, dramatic snake guy, snake guys. We have Ashen and Goblin, a biker. So far this opening has been a little I feel like even the pre-release is not going to be enough for Phantom. I feel like they're going to lose. I just did four. Didn't I? I just did four. I messed it up, which means I think that means we got a super because I did this. Yep. Okay. No, no hydrants, by the way, which were short printed. We found that out the hard way, which did I ever sell my hydrants? I can't even remember. I put them on TCG player, but can't remember if I sold them or not. I feel like some, but no, I think somebody bought all of them. I think is what happened. Somebody bought like all of them for like 375 or whatever because they were a super. That was like four bucks because they were short printed, which, you know, is super weird by Konami. But so that was kind of weird that they did a short print. So not everything's been great this year. Totem pole. So cupular. I did a rucksus special right there. I did a rucksus, but I'm getting old. Sounds like an old person. They're like, I did a tweet the other day, which it's not even a tweet anymore, which is sad times. We have nor summoning beast nor we have a white aura. We have processing of the TGR psychic arsenal. Why do I feel like we have not gotten any ultras out of Phantom nightmare? I'm definitely one pack off. I have five Phantom nightmare now and in only three days of millennia, we have geoglyph earthbound rucksus and special hits again. Another rucksus and special has failed us. I really have no idea who's winning this right now because I feel like the secrets we pulled were not great out of Phantom nightmare. And that's like where the prices can go crazy because of all the all the, you know, pre-release stuff. If we could get the ultra though, turn it around because like that's really all you need. You need that ultra. It's like a $60 card right now, which it's not going to be a $60 card probably when it releases, but you never really know pre-release price. Keep that in mind. Don't freak out like bonfire.  So it's not a good example, but sometimes they'll be like one card that goes up, you know, the rest of them, you don't need to freak out. No, speaking of good cards, wait, this is an ultra too. All the good cards in this set are ultras. How did I just realize this? This is a $88 pre-release ultra right now. This and from methane. I never, I just assumed this was a secret. I just assume when I see the top card, it's a secret. Not an ultra.  All the good cards are the lower end cards. They're not secrets. I guess low the prayers of the voices voice is a secret. According to that, I'm reading it. It says secret. I did not realize that. That's actually insane. Okay. I think that we know who won. Oh, ancient chant. Okay. Not a great card, but I think we know who won this battle now an $88 pre-release is probably going to take it over. I just opened two of these in a row. Whoops. So maybe I should save the last one, maybe get a collector rare bonfire to turn it around. Mara shorts. Wait, do we, oh, we got hydrant short print short print. Let's go hydrant. That's a few bucks. We'll take it. That's wild. An $88 ultra and a $59 ultra, basically $60 for ultra rares. This is going to be a crazy set. So even if you put them in lower rarity, the prices just go crazy because ultras are still pretty hard to pull because there's like 11 or 12 of them now because they keep making them be more, which is makes them harder to pull. If you put it as supers is like, yeah, even with the hydrogen short print, it's only like four bucks. So like the real value is in the commons and supers because you pull them so much. Like they can't really hold much value. If you want it to be really cheap, pretty cool that they're ultras though. I kind of like that. We have a Magspectre win. That was a super ruxus special because there was multiple cards involved. Yeah, we'll do Phantom nightmare because maze millennia needs to come back clearly. We just pulled a huge card. Okay. That's pretty exciting actually for the openings is if they aren't short printed, they might be short printed based on the prices. I wouldn't be shocked, but I've already pulled out of the three boxes we've opened yesterday and today of the new set. We got a new mine. Okay. Another ultra. We've already pulled both in three boxes. So it, you know, at that rate, if they're one every three boxes, you get four. Okay. So just pretty normal ratio, which I guess isn't that much different from a secret in terms of ratio. So being an ultra doesn't actually make it that different, just kind of interesting. Okay. Last pack magic maze millennia. 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Alright guys, welcome back to the channel if you're new, my name is Bobby, guys, let's talk about my last video. Let's talk about the reactions to my last video and most importantly, let's talk about what has happened since I uploaded that very video. Quick reminder, one guy, one person, just truly uploads a video to his YouTube channel. Sure, a strongly opinionated video, admittedly, however, still, one guy uploading a random video to YouTube. What happens next? Three countries go crazy. I end up on Bulgarian news, I end up on Greek news, even on Greek television, and then out of a sudden, I'm on the phone with Bulgarian politicians. Yes, this escalated quickly, you could say. Something like this can only happen on the Balkan. Let's be completely honest here guys. Something like this can never happen anywhere else but on the Balkan. It just shows how much passion our Balkan brothers and sisters do have for their position, for their stance, for their beliefs, no matter if it is the Bulgarians, no matter if it is the Greeks, or the Serbs, or the Northern Macedonian people. We are passionate and we are ready to attack. Thousands and thousands of years of war on the Balkan are not enough. Now out of a sudden, we transmute it and take it to the keyboards. We take it to the comments section of YouTube, where the war continues. All I wanted is to share my perspective on this channel. Hence the channel's name, Bobby's perspective. I didn't want to start the next Balkan war. If anything, I wanted to unite the people. If anything, it was a message of love, a message of truth. As a Christian orthodox, I have nothing else in mind but unification of the people and to spread truth and love. In Christian orthodoxy we say that God is truth. We do quote Jesus Christ who said, I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life. The truth shall set you free. For us Christian orthodox, this is very clear. So now, I was speaking about the research that I have done. The responses from the Greek and from the Bulgarian side were overwhelmingly positive. But even from the North Macedonian side, I got positive feedback. And I heard of people that share the same opinion. People that came to realize the same truth. That we are essentially one and the same people divided by the powers that be. Divided by foreign political interests. Divide and conquer, just as described in the art of war. Of course, I got some hate comments as well. Hello, dear haters. That is nothing new to me. For all the new subscribers on this channel, let me give you a quick recap. Guys, I was a vegan for four years straight.   We have vegan doctors, we have vegan scientists. And of course, we have vegan politicians, even vegan bodybuilders and other vegan sportsmen that spread that propaganda. During veganism, you're not allowed to listen to any outside sources. You're not allowed to listen to any bad, bad meat eater. That is illegal.  And if you dare to leave the cult, you will be ridiculed. You will be debunked. Right? You will be discredited. You will be a loony. This is how it works with cults. Now, what has happened after my last video? Of course, there was a hateful response from a little minority within North Macedonia. But this is not a North Macedonian response. This is not a nationalistic response. This is a human response. It is human nature. If you have a strong bias and out of a sudden a new opinion goes against your bias, we face cognitive dissonance. How can it be that the facts do not go hand in hand with my belief systems? I cannot align those facts with my personal, emotional beliefs. I do feel like this. It does not matter what kind of rational proof you might offer. We were able to observe the same phenomena with Richard Dawkins. Richard Dawkins is one of the most famous atheists. So he does not believe in God. A Christian church father asked Richard what kind of proof he would need in order to understand that there is God. Richard Dawkins, being the critical thinker that he is, said, I would need to see God.  Would you believe it? So Richard answered, yes, probably. However, proceeded to correct himself and say, you know what, actually it could be an alien as well. It could be so far evolved that I couldn't tell the difference. So now why am I telling you the story guys? Very simple, because it does not matter how much proof you offer somebody that is so skeptical just for the sake of being skeptical. If you discard all the evidence just to cling onto your emotional beliefs, there is no proof in the world that can tell you you are wrong. You will always be right. Your bias will always stay true. However, let me clarify, it doesn't even matter if I am right or not. As I said, I did my objective research, so can you. This video is not about it. It's not about if I share the truth. This channel is called My Perspective. It is about the suppression of free speech. I got contacted by so many people that told me they flagged my video. They want to delete my videos. So again, nothing new to me coming out of veganism. Many of my videos have been deleted. Many of my videos have been flagged, have been reported to the authorities. What you are creating is a new dictatorship, a new communism. This is what is being created on the internet, where you cannot live if somebody has a different opinion than yourself. This is truly disgraceful.  He didn't change anything about my perspective. But no, you are so weak, you are so insecure that you have to flag and report my video, as if one person can take anything away from you. If you are so certain, so convinced, you should laugh at this video. You should be able to just click on another video and forget all about it. But as we see, there was a strong emotional response, so strong that people even said that I am not from Northern Macedonia. I must be a Greek spy or a Bulgarian trader from Germany. Okay, let's go, get out of the postboard in Macedonian and wait for me. I am from Macedonia, I am from Macedonia, and I am from Macedonia. Was this enough or still not? You cannot accept another opinion, but this says more about you than it says about me. Now, let me clarify my stance. First and foremost, legally speaking, since the 1940s, yes, Macedonia can be its own country. Nobody tries to take your country away. Okay, realize that, let me repeat it. Nobody can take your country away. I talk to the Bulgarian politicians, everybody agrees. Nobody will take your country away, it is not about it. Neither the Greeks nor the Bulgarians will take your country away. The borders won't move. However, there are three problems within Macedonian politics. The first one being the claim that there is a Macedonian diaspora, Macedonian refugees in Bulgaria that are being suppressed. That couldn't be further from the truth. We all know that those refugees flee the war and returned to Bulgaria. That is that. The second one being that Macedonian is an own language, not a dialect. Again, if we are basing ourselves on Kirolem methodology, we all do have to agree that it is a Bulgarian dialect and not an own language. Simple as that. The last one being the historical falsification. I talked about it already, Tsar Samuel being the Bulgarian, signing documents as the Bulgarian. Let me ask you a question. Who was one of the biggest adversaries of Tsar Samuel? It was Basel II, or Basel II, however you pronounce it. The Greek newspaper said, I have a very thick German accent. So, excuse me. Anyways, Basel II. How did he call himself? He called himself the Bulgarian Slayer because he was fighting Samuel. So, if we don't believe that Samuel was Bulgarian because he didn't know what he was, why did Basel call himself the Bulgarian Slayer? Anyways, guys, all the links are in the description box under this video. You can check out the sources. We have the Encyclopedia Britannica. We have Macedonian sources, even. We do have, of course, Greek and Bulgarian sources, even random sources such as Wikipedia are listed down below. You can check them out objectively, try to stay as objective as possible and come to your own conclusions. As I said, this video is not here to convince you that you are Bulgarian. If you identify as a Macedonian, guess what? That is your right. Since the 40s, we do have that country. But we cannot base the identification of Macedonia on a falsification of facts. If you want to call yourself Macedonian, more power to you do what you will. However, we cannot change Tsar Asen into a Macedonian. We cannot change Alexander the Great and make him North Macedonian Slavic. We cannot change Gotse Delce. We cannot change those facts. Historical accuracy is one of the most important things that we have as people. We are here because of our forefathers. We cannot falsify the history motivated by nothing more than emotion. All right, guys, but this is it for today's video. I hope this clarifies it. I'm sure it won't for many, many people. So if you want to continue the fight, do so in the comment section. However, stay polite, stay as objective as you can. No racist comments, please. Otherwise, I will have to delete them. This is how it goes. We don't want to get deplatformed here for hate speech. This is my perspective. All right, but this is it. If you like the video, leave it a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed already, guys, please do so. And as always, guys, may God bless you all. Much love and peace.