What is everybody welcome back to the channel you guys in this video I'm going to simply be answering another question from another just awesome freakin subscriber by boy Todd he's been he's been commenting on my videos for quite some time now man. That's what it's all about you guys is asking questions man asking questions the only the only time you're going to get better is when you ask questions to people who have already gotten better.  I learned what not to do. And then I learned from people who are actually successful on what to do and one thing about me man is I'm always asking questions I don't give a damn if it's on social media.   So shout out to every single one of you men who are subscribed, who are commenting on my videos and asking questions detailed questions regarding getting better, right getting better, whether it's social media marketing whether it's Facebook advertising whether it's landing pages, email automation and making money online that's what this channel is all about so if you're new. My name is David I'm out here in San Diego doing all the above. Subscribe if you find value, smash the bell for notifications and again drop me a comment let me know what's on your mind let me know how I can bring value to what you got going on. Alright, so let me share my screen and let me show you what my boy Todd. Simple question right simple question, but but I really think the the the the freakin, just the importance of this is really deeper. And the importance of this is is very overlooked, like I really believe that, and that's why nowadays 2021 and beyond, you're hearing a lot.  So if you're into the space right. You can't help but hear about people's Facebook ad getting getting getting getting banned right their ads getting rejected their account being shut down. For many different reasons right so that's what's kind of going on in the Facebook ad world, a lot of it has to do with the Apple iOS 14 update like Facebook is now is going in is going into a whole another, you know, path and and and wanting to verify domains wanting to wanting to just get more information out of the advertiser to really solidify that account right so so whether you're doing this for your business page your business ads manager your business manager, whether you're doing it for yours or whether you're doing it for another client. This right here, the like ad and or a video ad is where you should be starting like right don't start your your don't go open up a new Facebook ad account and start running conversion ads right away. Like you have to warm up the account and don't try to scale that number up that cost that budget don't go from, you know, five bucks a day to 50 bucks a day.  All all the above that's what what I try to bring daily on this channel, but again from from day in the life of stuff that I'm learning hands on and and and things that I'm in the trenches with and really freaking all in on. So, this right here. He's asking a question like my thoughts right Todd shout out to Todd. Awesome stuff. What's your thoughts on a like ad versus video ad for the first run. Great question Todd like great great question bro.   So when you put your credit card on file. They're going to charge that credit card at at your threshold. And when you pass when when when when your threshold increases, it only increases over time it only increases as as you spend more money as Facebook charges you, and they charge you at that threshold as they do that multiple times. Then the threshold will increase, and then it'll get to a point where where where they won't bill you multiple times in a given month, or in a given week. They will not though you'll get to a point with your ad account as you spend money where they're not doing that multiple times in a given week or month. They're only doing it once a month, like what I'm at right now with my business manager, I'm billed once a month right billed once a month.  But that's where a brand new ad account is because of the threshold, the threshold maybe $2 the threshold maybe $25 in the very beginning so every $2 Facebook is charging you. So if you're running ads at $5 a day you're running a like ad you're running a video ad at $5 a day. You're getting two bills every day right for the first few days it's not like that forever after they bill your card, you know, whether it's $2 and then it increases and then it increases to $25 of a threshold for example. Once they build that a few times, then then you can you can change the threshold, I think the highest you could take it is 900. So, if you're not going to be spending 900 anytime soon in a given month, then your billing date become your billing becomes one date per month, like the end of the month for example and a lot of a lot of accounts it's the end of the month. So the 30th of the month, you're billed one time right that's where you want to be ultimately, but this is where you start man you start by running a like ad.  If you're trying to do everything if you're trying to do anything here online. You have a Facebook business page right you're running Facebook ads or at least you're you're wanting to or trying to you're running maybe Instagram ads, you know you're wanting to you're trying to.    This is just something completely different but learn about this change all. Messaging in your privacy people who with Instagram accounts can now search for you and send you message request. Okay, so okay that's fine whatever so let's get back to what the hell we were saying so you got a business page right you got a business page. Brand new account right brand new account and even if it's not technically brand new based on a date, even if you started that ad account freaking three years ago, but you haven't ran ads from it. That's still a new account man if if Facebook hasn't charged that credit card in a while.  It doesn't have to be a lot like you don't have to spend a ton of money, like a few bucks man but the thing is that Facebook needs to needs to charge that credit card, you know multiple times in the very beginning, and you better for sure for sure for sure I mentioned it on yesterday's video. Always make sure that credit card goes through always make sure that transaction goes through always make sure that that credit card is is is good. When Facebook goes and charges it okay so you don't want to be thrown in the doghouse by Facebook when when that when that transaction can't go through, because when the card declines when they go and charge you for that for that ad spend. When that card declines your threshold drops, and then it goes back super low, and then you got to deal with multiple transactions again. Right so so very beginning man like when when I started this page right started this page a few years ago. But when I started this page, the very first ad I ran was a like ad. So that's a like ad. And that was my first ad so I let that run for for a few weeks and let Facebook charge me a good amount you know 50 bucks 100 bucks 200 bucks whatever.   I'm in good standings with Facebook. All my business information is listed in my business manager my email my address my freaking email is verified everything looks good right. And now Facebook puts me in in a category of good standing accounts right so when you're when you're starting off slow with Facebook.    Go into Facebook click the green button. Go into your ads manager right smash that green button going and set up an engagement page like add whatever industry you're in, you're going to use that one keyword. So if I'm in the health and beauty, my one interest targeting is health and beauty. If I'm in weight loss, my one key target keyword is is weight loss. Same thing if I'm in social media marketing and I'm building an agency. My one keyword could be social media marketing it could be social media, or it could be digital marketing right one keyword one one one one interest keyword. This is for the like ad. You only need one ad set you don't need multiple ad sets you don't need campaign budget optimization. It's one single freaking that but but it's one that's going to put you in good standings with Facebook.  Good with Facebook and Facebook size.  Give me the money show me the money show me the freaking money that's all Mark is freaking talking about right. Show me the money. So as long as that credit cards going through man and that's the first ad the like ad, test it with that or not even test it freaking open up your account open up your the floodgates with that like add and again bring some credibility The reason why I am so for the like ad and I've literally earned an income I earned a freaking. I thank God every day man I have earned a great income starting in 2016 servicing social media clients and the very first ad I would run from them for them is the like Like this right here man taking the likes from 110 to freaking 3700 that alone brings social proof credibility and authority to anyone's business page when every single one of you guys have 100 likes right.  The like add I just truly believe that that when people come here and they see a highlight number, the perception is completely different, the first impression is completely different, you got to understand that people on social media don't know you like I don't know you, you don't know me. Like you feel you know me because of this these videos right like you you you have this sense of of intuition that I'm somewhat of a cool cool guy that I somewhat know what I'm talking about. Right and again a lot of that is because of video because of the fact that you keep seeing my damn face on video that right there psychologically is building the like no and trust factor right that alone is giving me social proof is the fact that I'm putting my face out on video right but when it comes to. Overall social proof when it's not you and your freaking mug on video what else do we have to go for or go by I should say when it comes to social media when it comes to credibility whether it's Instagram LinkedIn Facebook whatever. People tend to look at your your followers people tend to look at the number of followers right the number of likes on your business page the number of connections on LinkedIn people tend to look at the number and judge you on that which is very very weird right. So that alone. That's why that light count needs to be up do you guys under you actually you don't you have no idea you have no idea how many clients social media clients messaging through the direct message Facebook alone. Scheduling a call on on freaking zoom bringing them on as a client taking a credit card right here and there you have no idea how many times I've done that over and over and over and over again and I thank God every single day for it that I have the ability that I have that skill right to be able to just pull money you know from the freaking internet. I'm so thankful for that but where was I going with that do you do you have it okay do you have any idea how how many clients I've gotten. By simply showing them this like number by simply showing them by bringing them to my page and simply showing them the freaking like number do you know do you know how many clients I've closed.  And I think my last YouTube video where I'm actually showing my stripe account or I'm actually showing my my total transactions from customers at that point it was a little over 400 but that's a that's an older video so you can find that in my in my playlist. Under under building my social media agency. So that was an older video that I did like I probably like last year, maybe maybe even 2019. When I was over when I was when I was over 400 now it's like now I'm way past that but over 500 now, but many of them and many of them many of them because they don't know me I'm reaching out to them through the direct message. Like, yes they can come to my page and see a picture of my wife and my kids and family man and all this shit right they can look at that and judge a book by its cover just on photo alone, just on image alone, but the like number. I'm telling you right now that don't hurt that don't hurt that simply helped me the light count alone. So, Todd, run that like ad for sure, and also run a video ad and do it under video views, you're not going engagement you're not going conversions, you're not going traffic, you're going to do a like ad take that like count to a few thousand target worldwide target one keyword, and then you're going to run a video ad under video views. Now, this may pertain to some of you and this strategy may not pertain to some of you, but if you're a local business owner.  Okay, video views, this video ad this needs to be your very first second ad, no matter what right first ad like ad second ad video ad, and here's what you need to do. You need to grab your freaking cell phone and introduce yourself. Hey guys, this is Todd. I'm a local real estate agent here in San Diego, California just wanted to personally introduce myself I know there's a few million people in my city alone, and I don't even know my damn neighbors, but I wanted to kind of tell you my background my experience and why I'm so fired up about real estate and why I love to help people buy and sell real estate in the greater city of San Diego. Let me start off by telling you a little bit about my background and where I'm coming from. I was originally born in. Dude, it sounds boring, or at least it may, but I'm telling you it's not like we are freaking human beings dude we we we we relate to people, we gravitate to people we we we. What's the word I'm looking for we're freaking attracted to people, like we need people like without people people people. There's no people like there's no freaking world there's no planet like we are social beings.     Let's see another one like like this right here this photo of an eagle you know freaking. Let's see these ones are all this right here like dude.   And put your real name put your real face and again man it just goes back to what I'm saying on on camera on my YouTube all the time it's like do the only reason why you guys are here is because you see me on video it's the only reason.     We're we're Todd go my boy Todd. That intro video is what you're going to run first whether you're you're servicing clients nationwide and you got a business where you can service nationwide like me I'm teaching Facebook ads. I'm teaching online marketing I can take on a client from freaking.   Introduce yourself that should be your second ad where you're pulling out the phone introducing yourself your background your experience your passion and why you're so fired up to be helping people let it be known two to three minute video. And you target your audience the reason why I always recommend it to a local business owner is because you have no idea how powerful that is like it's a freaking commercial it's a mini commercial running through people's news feeds on Facebook and Instagram it's like dude it's a freaking commercial and if there's only a few thousand people or maybe a couple hundred thousand people out here in San Diego there's three million people depend on what city of the city I'm targeting. But if I was just a local business owner and I'm servicing this area where there's 200,000 people and this is my freaking backyard this is my freaking stomping grounds this is where I do business right.  It's just an introduction man.  Let me know who you are. Introduce yourself. Let me know who you're what your what your business is and and and when you're targeting a local area and getting thousands of people tens of thousands of people for a few bucks to see that video. That's where it starts the like ad is one thing. Step up your credibility on Facebook have a few thousand likes when a person lands there. The second ad this video ad the whole strategy and the whole objective with that intro video is to get a few thousand people to view it to really build trust with Facebook.  We're in good graces with freaking Facebook gods right we're good. Every transaction is going through and we're warming up the ad account right we're warming up the ad account. But the overall strategy with that video ad is to simply get a few thousand people to view it. Create a custom audience and then retarget that audience with future ads. Right. Hey there goes Todd he was a he had that video last week of him introducing himself. Now he's telling me more about his business in today's video. And maybe we're a week later. Okay three weeks down the line you drop another video. I mean yeah another video and you're retargeting everyone who watched the intro and video number two. And I'm telling you man, whether it's video or image, you're creating custom audiences you're creating a custom audience of those who are watching the video. And or you're creating a custom audience of those who are landing on your web page but not often in. Okay, so those are two custom audiences that you'll always want to retarget. And you'll always want to create are those custom audiences. So the intro video man that's what I call it the video ad that should be an intro video Todd your background your experience and what what your business is all about target that location. I wouldn't worry too much about targeting a specific interest, because if you're targeting just the backyard target the whole damn backyard, maybe put the age. Don't even touch the gender and in the interest targeting leave it blank because you're only targeting a freaking pin.   You can change the age right some some businesses you can't like housing when you're running you know real estate and housing ads on Facebook now you can no longer change the age or the gender. So, so depending on what your business is you can you can change that much, but but a local ad I would just leave blank I wouldn't even put the interest target just just leave it blank, but those two ads Todd those two ads there's no one better than the other. Step one, run the like at step to run an intro video ad to build your audience to warm up the audience to capture a custom audience and use use that audience to retarget with ad number two and on. In the future and ad number two and on is conversions, that's when you go into conversions that's when you go into capturing leads under the objective of conversions. Retargeting everyone and now now you're getting people to opt in you're getting people to opt in and give up their name and email you're getting people to download your free ebook a coupon you're getting people to watch your webinar you're getting people to schedule an appointment whatever the objective maybe it's conversions okay. But Todd, I appreciate your question man I hope I hope all you guys got value from that man again if you're into this type of stuff man. Social media marketing Facebook advertising and making money online subscribe. Subscribe subscribe subscribe share this video on social media. Comment below. Let me know where you guys are coming from and let me know how I can bring value to what you got going online. Right so just like Todd man I want to know your questions what are you guys looking to learn what are you looking to just evolve and and and grow into when it comes to this entire online marketing space I'm fired up I got a lot of things in the making digital courses affiliate marketing, learning just different ways to market online like I'm fired up in 2021 so I hope you guys are too man so if you're into all this stuff man. Make sure you subscribe. Smash the bell for notifications and I'll see you guys on the next video Todd I appreciate you from here to the moon bro. Keep the questions coming. I'll see you in the next one.


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Item number SCP-052 Object Class, Euclid Special Containment Procedures Although it is not possible to remove SCP-052 from the New York subway system, its predictable behavior allows the Foundation to prevent the public from encountering it. The 59th Street A, B, C, D station is to be closed to the public from 11pm to 1am on Saturdays and Sundays, under the pretext of track maintenance. During that time, the station is to be staffed with agents for Mobile Task Force Gamma 6. Agents have been ordered to prevent accidental public access to the station, and to capture anyone seen leaving SCP-052. Anyone who has been on SCP-052 must be transported to Site-21 for debriefing and processing. Members of the public who see SCP-052 may be released after the administration of a Class B amnestic. Description SCP-052 is a Type R-4 New York City subway train. Official records indicate this train was built in 1932 and decommissioned for scrap in 1975. Nevertheless, it continues to appear on the Uptown A-D track at the 59th Street and 8th Avenue station at 11.57pm every Saturday. The train is in perfect condition and labeled as an A train. SCP-052 appears at the designated time, opens its doors to accept and discharge passengers for approximately 5 minutes, then closes its doors and disappears. It does not appear to ever contain passengers, except for those leaving the train during its appearance. The majority of subjects that have boarded SCP-052 have not been recovered. Passengers leaving SCP-052 claim to have boarded on various states, from 1976 up to 2204. The latter claims he thought SCP-052 was a 300th anniversary special train. Subjects retain no knowledge of time on board. Addendum Passengers leaving SCP-052 must be brought to Site-21 and interrogated to determine their origin and possible threat to the current time stream. Generally, passengers from the past may be given Class A amnestics and reintegrated into society. Passengers from the future must be held indefinitely. Site-21 currently holds 26 recovered passengers. Despite our protocols to prevent public access, we are still receiving subjects from the future. Although some are from alternate timelines, it is possible SCP-052 will begin to appear at another time and place, requiring expanded containment. The Foundation has placed several subjects onto the train in an attempt to understand its activities when not visible. Test-052-1, May 31st, 2009, Agent B placed on train, not recovered as of present date. Test-052-2, June 6th, 2009, Agent enters train, not recovered as he apparently returned to 1980 and was killed in a confrontation with B. Test-052-3, see notes on recovered passengers 052-4. After Test-052-3, 05 Command issued orders that no further agents should be risked as passengers on SCP-052. Consideration has been given to using Class D personnel in their place, but the risk of releasing them into the past is too great. Log of recovered passengers and Foundation custody, Passenger 052-1 entered train, July 14th, 2012, Recovered, March 8th, 2008, notes, an accountant on the way home from the theater when she entered the train. 052-1 has expressed surprise and dismay to have traveled back in time for years, but appears to be otherwise unchanged and unharmed. She has been determined to currently exist in this timeline and must be held indefinitely to prevent unwanted temporal effects. Passenger 052-2 entered train, June 12th, 1976, recovered, March 15th, 2008, notes, subject entered train when lost on the way to Studio 54. Although unharmed and not a temporal threat, 052-2 is being held as the examining psychiatrist believes 32 years is too long a period over which to facilitate successful reintegration. Passenger 052-3 entered train, December 6th, 2014, recovered, June 20th, 2009, notes, a tourist from Jacksonville, Florida, subject 052-3 now speaks Albanian instead of English, held due to 05 orders regarding subjects from the future as well as possible reintegration difficulties. Passenger 052-4 entered train, June 13th, 2009, recovered June 27th, 2009, notes, agent from test 052-3, agent returned with his hand surgically removed and a note in his pocket with the message, send no more, subject does not remember his experience on the train, but when subjected to hypnosis, revealed, data expunged, Passenger 052-5, agent entered train at unknown future date in violation of protocol. On July 11th, 2009, body of subject was violently thrown from the train, landing 10 meters away. On examination, subject was found to have been data expunged, whether security should be increased to prevent subject from entering SCP-052 is under consideration. Passenger 052-6 claims to be a level 4 supervisor from the SCP Federation, who entered the train in December 2124. Subject had been administered a Class A prime amnestic prior to boarding, in a successful attempt to avoid the fate of Passenger 052-4 and 052-5, recovered February 6th, 2010. As he will never be released from Foundation custody, 05 Command has approved sharing otherwise classified information about other artifacts in our possession, in hopes of gaining new methods of containment and becoming aware of future security breaches. Agent has been cooperative, and claims that it is good we do not know how to open SCP-699. Subject turned visibly pale and refused to discuss this item further, to be a survivor of the great zombie plague of 2092 caused by an SCP-008 containment breach. But SCP-008 can be killed by data expunged, permission to try this has been denied by 05 that he worked for Dr. Jack Bright. Lesson complete, if you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-051, Japanese obstetrical model right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


We are in LA. We landed, and then we went right to Melrose Trading Post, did some thrifting, and then we went to Erwan. Tommy had never been to Erwan. So pretty.  I went and got two green juices. The most LA thing ever, but it's okay. I need to plug in my phone. You don't pay for all of the LA.  Tommy's an LA hater. And I'm like, I get the LA slang. Once in a while, it is nice.  Okay. Okay, for dinner, I'm just wearing these vintage white Levi's vintage white sweater and my new purse. Do you want to come show them your outfit? Slay. Say good night. Morning, guys. I'm feeling so tired today. First thing to do in LA is go get my hair done. I have two people that I trust to do my hair. One in LA and one in New York. So it's kind of nice, although I don't see the girl in LA very often. She's probably my favorite, but I'm going today to get my extensions out, get my color done, my like roots and my blonde done, and then getting extensions put back in. And I'm actually getting a different method of extensions. I got my extensions redone when I was in Florida and they did a really bad job, honestly. And then my hair turned green in Mexico from the pool. But even if that didn't happen in Mexico, with like the green hair, they just did not do a good job placing my extensions. Like, you can see most of them when my hair is up. And I feel like I have too many extensions in my head. Okay, so this is the web that I'm putting in. Excited. All right, 30 minutes will be held over Zoom or phone call. Thank you for meeting. All right, she's gonna hop on. Just finished that interview. Olivia just ran to get us a side of bowls and my favorite tea.   So I have a very busy day today. Olivia and I are now just getting ready to go to the first showroom. So I wanted to explain to you guys what the showrooms are because I wouldn't know either. So in LA specifically, like these aren't really a New York thing, it's really an LA thing. So when I am here, I do like try to prioritize going to them. So PR agencies have showrooms where they have product. And basically I go to these showrooms and I just pick up like gifting. So instead of receiving PR in the mail that I do every week, I actually go and pick it up myself. So I'm gonna show you guys like the whole thing, but basically it's a big space with like racks and like different corners of different brands.  It's definitely like a very cool experience. I'm very grateful that I get to go to them. It's really great to do because sometimes when I get gifting, I feel like it can be a little bit wasteful because I don't use all the products. So in this case, I really like going and being hands-on, like whether it's trying something on or like really seeing it in person. So I have two showroom visits today. So after the showrooms, I have two ads I need to film for my own personal Instagram. And then hopefully I can take some content, just like organic content for my feed. And I also want to try to get my nails done. I have had these glue on nails that I got at Ulta since Florida, since before Mexico. It's literally insane. Static nails, this is them. Like I actually cannot believe they've lasted this long. I'm like really weird. I like when the granola gets soggy. I kind of get that, this is more like cereal. Tommy is in Indian Wells already. He actually has a mixed doubles event tonight. I'm really sad I'm missing it, but he's already out there. And I thought I would stay here and get some work done. I'm gonna be heading to Indian Wells tomorrow, right? I also wanted to do some headshots while I was here. So I really wanted to go to Booth by Brian, the cool photo booth, but I don't know if I'm gonna have time. Tommy really wants me to get there. So Indian Wells is the tournament that I've been talking about that Tommy's already at. And they actually call it the fifth slam because it's like the biggest, one of the biggest tournaments of the year. It's actually Tommy's favorite tournament. He loves it. He says it's like literally the best. Palm Springs is super cool. The site is like really cool. I think they put a lot of money into the tournament. The courts are really nice. He's been playing really well recently and is feeling confident and good. So I'm really excited for him. He had a really great tournament in Mexico. Unfortunately he lost in the final, but in the match before the finals, he won, it was like this crazy match that like was, probably one of the craziest matches that I've been to, it was an absolute battle. He was cramping so bad, but like pushed through in once. So that was really cool to watch. Anyways, I have to get dressed for the day. I don't know what I'm wearing yet, but I think we have to leave soon. I'll show you guys the outfit when I'm dressed. Say hi to my vlog. Hey. Wearing these vintage Levi's, I think they're Levi's. I don't know. These vintage shorts, Victoria's Secret tank top and then Tacoba's cowboy boots. And then I think I'm gonna wear a leather bomber jacket because it's a little bit cold here in LA. All right. This is the second showroom for today. It is in downtown Los Angeles. So it's a little bit of a drive. And then we're gonna head back to like the West Hollywood area. I'm gonna get my nails done in pink too. Liv just laid out all of this stuff that I got today. I'm gonna shoot in a lot of this Indian Wells. We are going to bed now. Hey guys. I was about to say good morning, but it's fully the afternoon now. Olivia and I just packed, organized, packed a big box up to send back to Connecticut. I have just so many clothes here. Shot an ad and some video for a campaign that I have to post today. And now we are going to pack up the car. I'm really excited to get to Palm Springs and see Tommy. But yeah, it's been a really good quick visit, LA. All right. Olivia and I are on the road. We were actually going to Uber to Palm Springs. Should we go in the electric? I got so excited. Tommy has two cars at the tournament. So I wasn't gonna rent a car and bring it. He has two, but his physio actually has been using one of the cars. So we decided all in all to just keep this Jeep rental that I have and drive it out to the desert. Olivia and I also have a lot of luggage. So we are now on the way to the desert. But first we're gonna go to Erewhon and get some snacks for the road. I really feel like I find a pot of gold every time I see girls selling girls' groceries. Like I literally feel like it's coming up on like a pot of gold. Never had a thin mint of freezer. Oh, the thin mint. I thought you were just in Palm Springs. Olivia and I are gonna do some unpacking. So Tommy's about to get home from practice and we're gonna run to the market and then I'm gonna cook dinner. Also guys, I just ran literally the biggest load of laundry ever. I literally have not done laundry since Mexico washed a few pairs of my underwear. The tennis tournaments are notorious for losing people's clothes. And I wasn't willing to risk that. So I only let them wash my underwear. And I'm out of underwear again. And just all my clothes were so dirty. I literally dumped detergent in there. Like I can smell it from here, the detergent. I probably use way too much, but I can't wait to see Tommy. Hey guys, hey guys, what did you say, hey guys?  Correct. She didn't even miss me a little bit when she was in there. Yes I did. I just, she was so lying. You smell more new lotion? No. How do you not smell that? I can like smell it on my body.  It's so bad, so bad. I hate it.  I like your hat. Yeah, it's hot sauce. Babe, wait, do you see my story on Instagram? Did you get the peanut butter one? It's a peanut butter truck. Can I get a couple boxes of these? How many do you have?  It's a perfect tripod. My camera. My hair is like, it feels so good. I was trying to go as long as I could until my hair grew.


Hello hello, so well that was fantastic. Thank you so much to our wonderful speakers, and we've heard About Morocco we've heard about Hungary Japan In the US and we can open up the floor to a little bit of discussion. I'm gonna use my Privilege's chair to ask a question before anyone else gets the chance Because we're running to time and we have plenty of time to ask questions a Lot of the issues that we seem to have been discussing seems to come down to Misconceptions crew generalizations stereotypes that pertain to communities of people who use drugs Especially in the context of Japan, you know, we heard these notions that are very much built on these sort of We're very sort of outmoded and outdated Understandings very stigmatizing and in Hungary. Also, there's this this populism That very much plays on these stereotypes in order to scapegoat a community whilst in the US We've got this conservatism that and in spite of this You've been describing instances very very positive instances and being able to to change things and change the discourse and Chain challenge the dominant discourse really through through these pragmatic narratives so I really want to Maybe Peter and Emma can talk a little bit about Maybe how we can amplify the voices of these communities to a greater extent how we can Bring the voices of these communities and the lived realities of of our communities To bear upon the people who make these decisions and make the policies okay, well the thing that's come into mind for me is a Lot of the work that we've done from a capacity building point of view in some of these new areas is helping people to identify the the champions within their communities that people will look to and and like if oh if that if that you know Chief of the police department or that doctor or that particular community member or that church leader Is willing to engage with harm reduction that then other people see them as leaders in their community So they then become kind of willing to kind of that community get that community backing and buying So I think that some some of the work that we've Supported people to do and and to help them think outside the box a little about who those people might be in their communities You know, I remember in West Virginia. There's um, there's a story There's a woman who works in a particular community She's she's an elder of the community and she gives out food and stuff and she's And people know her very well in the community and they they identified that she could potentially be a champion for harm reduction Because they thought she would be you know amenable to the message And so that's one one way. I don't know if that helps to answer the question Yeah, so helping people to really think through who those champions could be You know in in my region in the central part of Europe is that the Organizing of drug user communities is very undeveloped or it's not advanced at all Unlike in for example in Eastern Europe where the there's global funds that those countries are eligible for global fund and global fund is You know targeting and addressing Community organizing and in Western Europe. There is a quite advanced drug user movement But in in in central in the central part of Europe You don't find any organizations of people use drugs or very very few community activists so that's that's that's missing and Of course, my organization is not service provider and we are not a community based organization We are an advocacy organization but with our tools we try to amplify their voices and As as you know, we make videos and we train also activists to to to make their own videos and For example, our latest feature long documentary the day in the life was filmed in seven cities of the world and we featured one day of a drug user in each of these cities and and One of the scenes was Budapest and we featured a couple two people use drugs and They are injecting new psychotic substances. So through this video making we can we could show that The the problems of these people and we could give them a voice which they don't have and in also in Hungary There is a racial dimension of drug use like most of the injecting drug users belong to the Roma minority It's a bit similar to to the US situation so that these communities live in poverty and So it's it's it's not only you know the problem of amplifying the voice of drug user communities But these communities in general like they are, you know Like they really don't have a voice in any kind of public discourses They don't have access to very very basic house care So it's I think it's it's not only the question of Of the drug user communities, but it's it's a must much more You should you should start it in a much more basic level, you know Thank you very much Do we have any questions from our audience? We've got some time. Yes, right at the back How do we do this with a microphone? There are some in the aisles I think or So if you could just come down to the to the microphone to ask your question There's one to the left and one to the right Thank you It's on Thanks very much I am from South Africa I work for for an organization called life line My just before I get to the question perhaps there's a weight of advice for Cheperson Please avoid doing that in the future when you chairing meetings, you're not supposed to be the first ones asking questions Because you know what it does with the type of questions that we're asking loaded as it sounded it actually says To the audience. I mean you take you even taking some of the questions that we I was hoping to be asking So what it does is is actually It actually renders me very passive in a meeting and you'll not be surprised in your meetings in the future If you continue this way you start seeing people working out of your meetings rather wait for everybody to start asking questions Right at the end if you still have questions summarize ask questions right at the end But ultimately, you know, so that at least you have participation from everybody Many thanks for your feedback They hungary When you spoke about Government that's anti harm reduction I Just wanted wanted to check here. What is what is the the the attitude of the What is the attitude of the of the of the of the opposition to government have you got opposition parties to the current governing party? Perhaps is it not a fight which you should be actually trying and approaching the involvement of political parties because if you kept on talking about the This current government being populist and we all know government thrive on populism and if you've got Opposition parties opposing the current government They would want to leverage on on on that type of a proposition And perhaps they would also want to use it for their own political advantage selfish political advantage But at the same time there's a greater benefit for you in that regard because you soliciting support whilst they're going to be using it for their Political narrow political gains, but at the same time you'll be achieving what you're hoping to achieve So I'm saying what what what what could be the possibility? I don't know the political system They don't know the government system there, but I'm just thinking I mean from where I come from Africa South Africa in particular So we've got political parties and all of that So I would know that once you approach it in that way It's going to make it much easier for you to ultimately have a much more bigger voice because Government Government government governments they have power because they have access to resources So they'll always silence your voice. You just have to find other ways of doing it Yeah, but but I just want to get what is the attitude in that regard, but secondly the the the report of of the ombudsman You mentioned it now and you said right at the end you said to the ombudsman supports your demands What was the report? I did not get a sense of the contents of the report What were the findings of the ombudsman in support of of your argument in that case because once they Once you are saying right at the end of the presentation you said they support your demands But I did not get a sense of what was the report and the outcome of that type of a of a process if I can get that but The the the people you you went around and there was a petition and people had to sign the petition to ratify the petition I mean it says that in the numbers you mentioned 1700 What is the creator? Affected population. I'm not talking in the ones that are they use as themselves perhaps in a community where you were You know taking this petition around I mean what number we talking of you talking of for an example 20,000 people, but you only ultimately were able to secure 1007 and I'm just making an example. I just want to get a sense, but also the the the issue of Right now when you responded to what he was asking You said there's there seems to be a lack of you know awareness because the the affected population Does not necessarily understand the issues similarly in your instance in comparison to you know other Parts in Europe, but I'm saying you know in your campaigns when when when you campaign perhaps the Are you not looking at basically, you know instead of Trying to have people supporting you ultimately. What are you doing to to capacitate them? What are you doing to create a creator awareness just before you can even try and look for support from them? What are you doing to? to you know to to instill that sense of self in them so that ultimately they're able to To come to the party when it comes to your campaigns to understand You know what what what are the mechanisms that you've employed in place to make sure that the very people that you Attract in your campaigns are Capacitated to a point where they have a full understanding of all of these issues so that ultimately they are able to be in in support of all of these Campaigns you don't start by just mobilizing them when you want to campaign But you start right at the beginning where there's enough, you know awareness and everything I just want to get a sense of that if you are backing on that Should I go to the next speaker I have if we could just yeah If we give Peter a chance to answer some of those multitudinous questions, and then maybe we can move on to somebody else. Yes Go ahead Peter so what was the first question the first question was About Political parties. Yeah, so yeah, I mean I don't want to discuss the Hungarian political situation Long but we have a very weak and fragmented opposition in Hungary Actually, we did make some You know dialogues or partnerships with some of the local politicians because this is you know local policy making So there is like a local council this which was discussing our our we submitted a Recommendation to the local council and the local council discuss that and it was supported by all actually all the opposition parties So we did I think we did a good job in that sense that we convinced all the opposition parties liberal socialist and and the greens But unfortunately, you know the government party has the majority so they voted down our our proposal That I think there is also danger though that you know when when your issue is too much politicized It you know it becomes a very much party political question. So It's it's like a very delicate issue when you when you try to approach the politicians Then I think the second question was about the ombudsman's report So we submitted a complaint to the ombudsman of the civil liberties So we complained about shutting down the needle exchange programs in these two districts of Budapest and we claimed that Shutting down needle exchange programs is a violation of the right to health And it's a violation to the right so to house the environment of people and the ombudsman agreed and he made an investigation So he you know interviewed all the Affected parties and he made an investigation in the local scene and then he made a statement Unfortunately the ombudsman's Positions are not legally binding. So it's more like, you know a kind of guiding document and he Recommended local policymakers to reopen the needle exchange programs But the mayor rejected the the ombudsman report and actually he accused us my my organization to Manipulating the ombudsman. So it was a very dirt dirty debate after that and Yeah, with the local Communities how how we make them interested or committed Yeah, which we what we do it is we try to build up, you know Some coalitions with some local groups like who has their own cases for example, you know home Some some advocacy organizations fighting homeless less or helping homeless less Some groups who are helping, you know the Roma people or this other, you know vulnerable communities and we tried you know to to train them and educate them about about this problem and we try to create called local coalitions and And and then this this is how we try to reach out people and I think We reached out a very significant part of this local population I think we are talking about a few like maybe 30-40,000 people who live in this area. So That So we collected like thousands of signatures the number you saw it was only the offline signature so we also have collected of online signatures and These signatures were you know like supporting our proposal which we submitted to the local council So that was the significance of the of collecting signatures that it is backed by local citizens So, yeah, I hope I could answer your questions Thank you Yes, go ahead. Hi, so my name is Alex MacMaddew And my question is for Emma Roberts. So your work in the rural US sounds really incredible I would love to rack your brain some time, but my primary question is if you have thoughts on how to expand access to OST in rural communities You know, that's one of the things we hear time and time again, right that There's this push, you know For people to be in treatment, but then there isn't the treatment available So, yeah, I mean again, it's something that you know And just as Peter was talking about local coalitions part of the capacity building work and helping people to come together to advocate and build and develop programming has been to Help them advocate not just for harm reduction, but that well the holistic part of harm reduction The syringe is the engaging people but it's everything else that we do around that for people and provide them with all these other services including OST the other thing that we've seen that's been super helpful most recently in the US is in the abstinence of some Of say methadone treatment facilities. We now have medical providers that can provide suboxone So that's been really helpful. So for example in Austin, Indiana Where there is a big shortage of treatment available Will cook the doctor there the local community doctor that is seeing the majority of the patients with HIV has actually got himself Registered to provide suboxone as well and also luckily the government Prior to the new administration past rulings that Doctors can have more patient capacity because originally it was 30 in your first year and something like a hundred in your second And then also they've changed the rules so that nurse practitioners and physician assistants can also provide suboxone So that's increasing the capacity to provide some treatment services, but it's definitely something, you know in rural areas that people really struggle with You know there may be a treatment facility, but geographically because people are so spread out They can't get there or there just isn't that provision. So I think it's yeah I mean, it's a tough one, but it's definitely something that we include in terms of the conversations with communities about their development there So hope that's helpful. Thank you so much Thank you. Yes, go ahead, please. Okay. Good afternoon My question is to anyone of the panelists and is regarding harms reduction and politics and I will take two examples in 1962 the Supreme Court of the United States Stated that addiction was a disease and not a crime Despite that the United States is one of the most repressive countries in terms of drugs The second example before my question is the example of South Africa Many years ago the South African government hired Dr. Peter Driesburg from California who said that AIDS was not related to HIV and Therefore the politics policies in terms of HIV in South Africa were different from other parts of the world I'm taking those two examples to illustrate the differences Between countries in terms of harm harm reduction and politics. Don't you think That an organization like the United Nations should take position to Bring a global perspective in terms of harm reduction. Thank you. Who would like to answer that? So with you Peter Actually, we try to do that like we invited officials from the United Nations eight UN 8 and the UN ODC the United Nations Office on drugs and crime and they came we organized the conference where they presented the joints UN 8 UN ODC if the WHO position on harm reduction and best practices and Our government listened and then they went home and they continued as they did before so they did not In my country, you know The government does not listen to the United States and the United Nations and if you look at the Philippines for example, you know, even if there was like a very strong condemnation from UN agencies of what the president is doing there like killing people The the the president of the Philippines just doesn't care about it So it's like as I said in in my presentation in the European Union The European Union also has a drug strategy and the Hungarian government signed it But when it comes to implementation, they just you know disregard it and that's like kind of limit of this big global multilateral Treaties and and and and papers like they they may be exist But but in the local scene the realities are very very different so I That's my opinion that that it has a very limited Role what what these international organizations can play in this local level? I mean in terms of in terms of this international infrastructure and to what extent it comes to bear on The situations in country it might be interesting to hear about the situation in Japan where you spoke about Ideas of Society Being elevated to such an extent that the individual ceases to so maybe in relation to this question. Do you think? These international agreements would come to bear Yeah Yeah It will be very big that if the UN changes their attitude, but at the same time I'm also Not so I cannot be so optimistic because even maybe UN said maybe just Recommendation where they cannot force the countries to do like that. So maybe because even now is like a broad consensus so some in the under this Convention some country to the criminalization than some country to primitive approach. So if it changes still it's maybe broad consensus stays and But it's it might be much easier for us to you know Promote harm reduction Advocacy so that's the reason we translate a lot of Materials from WHO or UN odc because if we say I'm Social worker or I'm NGO. Why don't you do? Decriminalization people don't hear from us, but if we say it's not from us It's from WHO it from UN then more people can you know take consideration of it So I kind of I want to also take advantage of that Thank you. Does that answer your question? Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yes over here Sorry my apologies. Oh my my sincerest apologies. Sorry. You first and then you my apologies. I didn't see What policies or procedures are being done for women? In general In any of these countries as well. This one wants to know what kind of position or Things are being done on the ground for women in general in any of these countries. Sorry in terms of women who use drugs or Have reduction What's what's being done for them? C'est une question très intéressante donc en général je donne l'exemple du Maroc Depuis qu'on a démarré le premier programme d'échange de ce rang de réduction des risques en 2007 On lutte pour avoir des programmes destinés à la femme vu que la femme est les plus stigmatisées et les plus marginalisées par rapport à ses donc collègues homme De toute façon donc les services existent actuellement Ce sont des services destinés à toute la population des usagers de drogue sans faire la distinction sans prendre en considération les besoins spécifiques liés aux femmes même les structures les structures d'accueil de présence en charge sont faites pour accueillir la totalité de la population il y a même pas les services destinés aux femmes avec les enfants donc déjà ça ça donne vraiment des difficultés par rapport à la présence en charge des femmes qui dans la plus part des cas N'ont pas le temps pour se présenter selon les horaires des dessins de ouverture des centres avec les enfants et On nous semble toujours dans la lutte pour avoir vraiment une politique qui respecte le genre et qui respecte la spécificité de la femme vu que nous dans notre culture dans notre société sont la présence de ces programmes des si politiques et les vraiment difficiles de d'assurer une vraie prévention pour les femmes usagers de drogue et aussi de de réussir la présence en charge des femmes et l'orientation professionnelle From a yeah from a capacity building point of view when we're working with programs and people that are new to harm addiction that's part of the conversation is how you're gonna cater for specific populations that may have greater vulnerabilities women is one of them So, you know, we would talk about them about, you know, how are you gonna cater if women have children? How are you gonna create spaces that you know some of our programs in New York? For example have women only times that pick women can come so helping people to think that through I think is really important You know to understand the additional disproportionate impacts that women face in terms of the stigma around their drug use It's really interesting for me, you know Because what we're seeing at the harm addiction coalition is a lot more newer audiences coming to us So we've been asked to go to Alabama Sorry to Texas. Sorry again. We've been asked to go to Texas Which is a very you know thought as of a very conservative state around this stuff to speak to People who are working with women impacted by NAS neonatal abstinence syndrome Because they want to apply harm reduction in terms of engaging pregnant women So that's really hopeful that you know people pick newer audiences that perhaps weren't thinking about harm addiction in the past I'm now beginning to see that there's opportunities to engage Particularly women and pregnant women in a better way to get them into services. So We're slowly making, you know, those little steps forward in relation to You know impacting issues for women. So that's that's just from my experience that I've seen in my work So and you know just being more intense intentional in our intersectionality around, you know reproductive rights You know and working with people like, you know, national advocates for pregnant women We've done work with them as well to kind of do that intersection with harm reduction and other other public health issues So So in my country the policy itself is kind of say it's Nothing difference between male and female but of course in the society in the reality It's totally, you know, there's a big gap because we have a very very male oriented society and culture So but my colleagues who are working together I mean say I just we have three members including me and two of them are female one is a mother of the Mother who have a daughter who are struggling with, you know, using drugs and the other one is she is herself is Recovering people people who you know use drugs and so they have a very very severe Experiences as the people use drugs with a family member at the same time as a female in the society. So they they have they kind of Always seem like they are very repressed and try to do something So we that kind of the women the gender perspective is very very important for our advocacy activities Thank you. We just had one more question over here, and this will be our last question Thank you Concerno les les agences Oh les instruments onisien et surtout les instruments qui sont en relation avec les droits humains je crois qu'il faut donner beaucoup de l'importance Maintenant dans cette phase de notre plaie doit y est d'ici 2019 à tout ce qui est en relation avec ces instruments unisien de droit humain tout d'abord parce que il on peut jouer Sur ces instruments et surtout sur les rapports de ces instruments par exemple le dernier rapport qu'a été recommandé par le comissariat au droit humain par le conseil international des droits humains sur les impacts de la politique de la drogue sur la santé et qui était en autre faveur à notre plaie doit y mais on l'a pas utilisé suffisamment à l'unigas 2016 donc maintenant il faut qu'on C'est-à-dire qu'on lui l'a dit notre ami il faut un peu de renforcement de capacité de nos acteurs en matière de droits humains en matière de plaidoyer avec les outils de droits humains avec tout ce qui est dans les conventions parce que ces conventions ce sont des contrats entre les pays et il faut qu'on utilise ces contrats donc je crois que dans notre plaidoire et que ce soit plaidoire et locale régionale ou internationale il faut donner beaucoup de l'importance à tous ces instruments et les utiliser merci When we were you know preparing for the United Nations General Assembly special session on drugs which you know was last year in April in New York City one of the key recommendations of civil society was to create a Special you know human rights assessment system inside the UN drug agencies and inside for example the word drug report we recommend it to have a special chapter on assessment of human rights and the impact of Drug policies on the human rights of people who use drugs So that was a key recommendation from civil society and which also tried the European Union to champion this issue to you know to to make it's a part of the UN gas final document that the UN should create a human rights assessment tool Because there is now there is like no monitoring and no evaluation whatsoever in the United Nations level of the human rights Impact of drug policies, so it's like nobody is looking at it. I mean that you mentioned this report, but it's like there is no like systematic Coherence in the inside the United Nations system between the the drug control system and the human rights system so unfortunately our recommendation was rejected by by the Even by the European Union unfortunately, but I think I very much agree with you that it should be a key You know point on on our agenda in the future that we should demand that we need to look at the human rights in the context of drug control Alright, so we're just out of time and we ran to time. Thank you so much for such a Stimulating discussion. I'm sure you'll join me in thanking all of our wonderful speakers. Thank you so much


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It is true that Republicans have this idea that Democrats only want to have immigrants come into this country because they'll vote Democratic But it is such a lack of imagination It's changing it's gonna become a purple state and then a blue state because of demographics because of the population growth of Folks from outside of Texas because of the population growth of folks from outside of Texas Welcome back everyone I'm drone tech and if you're still watching may I request that you hit that like button Subscribe and click that notification bell while you're at it today We're gonna take a look at CNN's most recent attempts to shut down their political and business competition Using the tried and true strategy of lobbing word bombs like white supremacist Toxic and conspiracy theory without a shred of awareness that they're talking about themselves the Tucker Carlson segment That sent their arms flailing happened last week and focused on the Democrats intentions to rid themselves of Political opposition by flooding the country with millions of illegal immigrants now I know that the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become Literally hysterical if you use the term replacement if you suggest the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current Electorate the voters now casting ballots with new people more obedient voters from the third world But they become hysterical because that's that's what's happening. Actually, let's just say it. That's true So this matters on a bunch of different levels, but on the most basic level It's a voting rights question in a democracy One person equals one vote if you change the population you dilute the political power of the people who live there Now before we look at the facts behind what Tucker said there Let's look at the response from his weakest business competition That they would suggest that I'm being racist when he's using white supremacist terminology and he knows that perfectly well And and even the idea that he's putting forth that it has something to do with voting rights It is true that Republicans have this idea of that Democrats only want to have immigrants come into this country because they'll vote Democratic and if he can't even imagine That there are people who just think that we should have immigrants there has to be some other nefarious reason It makes perfect sense if you bring in millions of people into the country with one party wanting open borders and the other Trying to protect those borders as is the government's mandate then these immigrants come already Preferring one party over the other the one that's offering them money and free stuff not to mention the constant fear Mongering and demonization of the opposition party as racist monsters who are out to get anybody with brown skin Gee, I wonder how they're gonna vote powers acts like it's some kind of insane notion that Democrats would want millions of poor people from other countries Flooding in so they can be dependent on government and by extension the Democrat Party It's changing it's gonna become a purple state and then a blue state because of demographics because of the population growth of Folks from outside of Texas. There it is right there. He admits. That's the goal. Well, listen We know it's a you know, it's sort of this feedback loop right with the Republican Party the Trumpsters and Fox News What does it say about the Republican Party conservatives in general that Carlson is pushing these French theories on a Mainstream outlet see what I mean about the lack of self-awareness Don Lemon comes out of the gate talking about a feedback loop in the Republican Party and at Fox News From a Democrat Party state media outlet where everybody agrees and no opposing voices are allowed It's impossible to have opposing voices when you've demonized your opposition as the worst monsters imaginable Ultimately all this flailing and hand-ringing is all to serve one purpose the silencing of effective opposition against the Democrat Party And the removal of their business competition in the Democrat state media It's a very real threat that will eventually trickle down to the average Joe before that happens I'm doing my best to expose it and open people's eyes You can support me in that mission by supporting my sponsors or by using one of the links in the description or pin comment I'm also on lots of other platforms and you can find all those links in the same place as always Thanks for watching and I'll see you all for tomorrow's video


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I'm so nervous, but I'm so excited for the future. 2024 is going to be an amazing year and I can't wait for you guys to be a part of that year with us. Like we have our wedding, we have our house stuff we're getting into possibly babies. Like it's just going to be a really exciting year. I can't wait to see what the new year is like. All right guys, I'm going to stop my rambling. I'm literally rambling, but it's like on my face times. You guys, I'm like chatting when you guys know how I'm feeling, but all right, I think he just got out of the shower. So I'm going to ask him when he gets out. Okay, first of all, first of all, I need you to come here. Why? You look way too good right now. Hold on, you look way too good right now. I feel like I don't fit into this. I feel like my body is too big for this shirt. No babe, you look sexy. Oh my, bro. I like these shorts though. I feel like I never worn these. These are, okay. You are. And wait until you start going in the tanning bag with me and you start getting a tan. Oh my God, chef's kiss. Well, when I start getting a tan, that's when things get dangerous. Yeah, it's going to be really smoking. Cause then I'm going to be, look at these muscles. You're going to be smoking, smoking. We forgot the most important thing. What? What do you think? Is that how? You don't have any lights on? That's what I'm saying, bro. I'm like, how are we going to sell all this stuff? And not turn the lights on. Turn the lights on. Phil literally has a thing where he is able to put on all the Christmas lights. I feel this. Let's see. Woo! Whoa! And it also turns out another one in our room. Woo-hoo! You're going to keep breakfast. Now that we have the right atmosphere, how many days until Christmas are we at? Like eight? It's December 18th, but when we post it's going to be December 20th. So that's, wait a minute. That's only five days. Alexa, how many days until Christmas? Yeah, five days. It'll be. Christmas will start in seven days. So it'll be five days when we post it. Yo. By the time y'all are watching this, it's literally five days until Christmas. I'm so pissed right now. I have been so emotional lately. I'm so pissed. Wait, why are you being emotional? Well, get my period. And I'm really sad because like, I really like the Christmas stuff a lot, but I don't want to take it down. Dude, I don't want to take it down either. I feel like we've only had enough for like two weeks. I know. I actually hit low key. Like this is for real, for real. I actually, I'm like super sad that I missed like the Chicago Christmas parties. Like my parents, little fact, I'm sure we've told them in the future they've seen like my parents always have Christmas. And this year was the first year my parents did not host any Christmas. Like the tradition's cut off. Yeah. And for 22 years, I've never missed one Christmas party. And they entered the tradition. My aunt took over one side of my family. My dad's side of my family. My cousin took over.  Yeah, but there's no, dude, imagine my whole childhood. Gone. Done. Not gone, but it's done. Well, we can make our own new family holidays. You talk about a new family. This girl has been mourning. Okay, so this girl, did you mention anything? Well, I wanted to talk to you about it because I'm sure you're gonna mention it. I don't know what's with this girl, but she, the past two days. No, this started yesterday. It started yesterday. The past like 24 hours, her brain flipped and now she wants to have kids. Okay, would you, how do you go from- I wanted to talk to you about this. What do you think of possibly trying to start? Like we don't have to try, but we can like stop what we do to protect it. You're being furrowed from. It's not even because you're filming, right? No. You're being furrowed. I'm just saying, it makes something happen. So I do want to enjoy married life, but I'm saying on the honeymoon, we can just cut off whatever protection that is in the works. Dude, our honeymoon is in two months. I know. That's crazy. So how do you feel about starting a family? Like where's your head at?  It's not that I don't want to.  Is this like an interview bill? No, I just, no, be like, act like you're talking to me. Don't worry about the camera. I just want to know like, where's your head at? Like are you ready for a baby? Like I think I'm just in my fields. I'm getting my period. I don't know. So it's not that I don't want to have a baby. Cause I do. I feel like it's super cute. And especially cause one trail. Yeah, that's right. That's what I was explaining on like one tree hill. Like the baby. You have to understand, here's the thing. When you have kids, yes, you, your life can stay the same. Like you can still do the same things. But like we are not going to be kids anymore. Think about this. Think about this. The moment you have a baby, we go from being kids to actually being adults because we have our own kid. Like, I feel like- No, I know. And I'm not ready to give up. I know it's my son's selfish, but I'm not ready to give up that like freedom of like just us two. I know a lot of women will post on like TikTok and stuff of them, like being sad because they're so used to just the two of you then you're adding another person in. Like- Dude, this is another human being that's going to be living, breathing, eating, learning. But how do you have a little mini us? It would be cute. It'd be adorable. I'm not supposed to it, but I just think it's crazy thinking like once you have a baby, like yes, you could stay young forever. You could be a kid forever. But the thing is like, I feel like buying a house, getting married. I feel like that stuff is like, you're still growing. I feel like once you have a baby, that's like the moment you switch from a young mindset to an actual like adult mindset. Cause I feel like buying a house- All right, you're going way too much into marriage. You asked, bro. I know, but I'm just wondering where your head's at. Like, are you ready to have a baby? I mean, I'm not opposed, but I'm also not like saying I want- I don't know, now that I'm talking about it, I'm getting nervous again and I'm like backing out. But like I'm ready to like start a family and have purpose like to wake up and be able to use our golf cart more and to go and like explore the world. You know what? That's nice. In the middle of our golf cart. It would make us want to do that more, right? Yeah, like do stuff together. Like go to the park, go to like aquariums. Teach you how to play Fortnite. Yeah. Yeah. So just like have like a mini us. Like I just feel like everyone always says it's so different when it's your kid. You said I'm going on a tangent. This girl's been going on. This is literally what she's been doing for the past 24 hours. I'm getting anxious thinking about it. So you're not opposed. No. You'd be right. Why would I be opposed to having a baby with you? You would be- Obviously I'm going to be with you for the rest of our lives. Maybe you would talk to us. Like if something happens- I'm not saying yes or no. I'm saying I'm not opposed. I know we're planning to have like the next step in two hours after the wedding. We're planning to get a house. But even if I did end up getting pregnant, we still can move. It's not like we're going to be stuck in this house. It's not like that Chicago- Dude, she has this all planned out. It's not like Chicago. We're going from Chicago to Florida. Like and this house is going to end up being an Airbnb. So like, yeah. So a lot of this furniture and stuff that's in here is going to stay in here. Oh, I guess it's time. Ooh. Not really. Not right now. Not right now. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. She's still scared of having kids or getting pregnant and going to your wedding. But I'm like, you're not even going to show really at two months. You know, I'm not getting pregnant now. I know I'm just saying if you did. No, because I'd be probably sick. I have stomach problems.  You're cute, right? No, you're going to look cute. I mean like function. Yeah, I know. So right now, it might straighten you out. I'm not saying you function bad. I'm just saying there's some, she gets spurts of like negative energy sometimes. No, I don't. I guess it's called anxiety. That's what I'm talking about. Dippy doo doo. I never said it was a bad thing. Now I'm getting nervous. It's so weird, you guys. I have not been nervous of like childbirth. I might sound really weird, but I haven't been nervous of childbirth. Like at all. I'm actually not scared. Like I actually wouldn't even mind if I got a C-section. Okay, calm your thinking. I was just thinking about it. Like obviously childbirth's like the scariest part, but like I feel like it's such a beautiful thing. It is. You know? Why are you going so deep right now? Okay, imagine Scar Scar with our baby. Imagine him cuddling. He is our baby. I know, but imagine him. He's six months old. I know, but imagine him cuddling with our baby. And Snappy and Thotho. They'd be such good uncles. Come here. Why does he look like that? I look like what? Like a menace? Yeah, he looks like he's like, doing something wrong. Oh, show them what's called actually how long he is. He's about six months old. Look at him. This is his face. This is his features. Wow. Beautiful old man. All right, show how long he is. Sprawl him out. I was doing this earlier. Sprawl him out. Show them what's called our baby guy. You gotta give him the wine. You know wine? You gotta give him the wine. Hold on. Okay, there you go. All right, now show how big he is. Show how big he is. Bam. Oh, I gotta take a picture of this. Oh my God. Oh my God. Do it again, do it again. Do it again. Bam. Oh my God.  I'd be good with a baby. Really? Yeah, I'd be. Babe. Okay. Are you ready for baby number one? I wouldn't actually do that. So when is your time frame? What would be the perfect time frame for you? Like 2024 and 2024 beginning of 2025? Like. 2023. Oh, really? No, be for real, be for real, be for real. 2024, what's your ideal? I don't know where your head's at. This is like a little documentary. So we can look back at this when we do the correct thing. It's one of those things where it's like, I don't know specifically, but I feel like as we go along through life, whether it's like six months or a year or two years. Yeah. Kind of maybe develop those thoughts. It's like proposing. Like I didn't really develop the thought of proposing. Not that I didn't want to marry you, just I didn't develop the thought of doing it until like we were five years. I am dark. Yeah, you are. Can you stop tanning? Look at that. I need to catch up. Can you just slow down? So I feel like it's going to be one of those things where maybe like this year. Okay, but what's your time frame? I talk about it. What's your goal? Like what's your goals? Like it's like, okay, we want to get married and then move into our house by summer of next year. Like we have goals. Well, I would like to move into a house next year. And I feel like after. We're in a house. We're in a house. Well no, in our next house. Yeah. And I feel like after maybe thinking about that. Cause then I'm not going to be thinking about going into another house. Yes I will. After the next house? Oh no. That's what I'm talking about. I thought you were saying No, no, no, no. Cause we're going to move. I feel like right now I'm thinking about moving and like getting married, honeymoon, moving. And then I feel like I'm not going to be thinking about anything else. Cause I've been thinking about moving for like over a year. I just had baby fever and that's okay. I know. I can tell. But I will say I do think that that's a good time frame. I think that's a good goal. I feel like it's good. We're documenting this. This is like the end of 2023. This is our vision. We're calculating what our new year's resolution and what we want to accomplish in 2024. Right? Yeah. And maybe give me pregnant December. Oh my God. Why do you have to say it like that? Maybe you could give me pregnant in December. Or it'd be really cute to have like a Dude this has been going on. Not that's a bad thing. This has been going on for the past 24 hours. No, I'm just thinking of different things. Like we also have to play okay. When do we? Cause it might not be easy to get me pregnant right away. We also want to think like, okay what month do we want our baby to be in? Okay, okay, okay. Calm down, buddy. Calm down. I'm just excited. You'll be okay. Everything's gonna be okay. I know, I'm just excited. I know, I know. So am I. Buttering you up so you can get a... No. So you guys, that I guess is where Bill's head's at. My head is, I am honestly on the same page because I think I'm just, I'm getting my period. I'm emotional. I have my fields are up in the sky. Y'all send help. Send help. So baby 2024 is happening. Oh my God, bro. Yes, we are both ready. Okay, well you guys, I feel like that was a success. I feel like I've buttered you up. What do you mean success? You haven't changed any of my thoughts. This is just how I've been thinking. Just can't wait to have your baby. I know. Mariah's been like this for 24 hours. I have. And I'll probably change, watch my peers in the way and be like, I don't want a baby. Maybe you're pregnant right now. Stop, no I'm not. Maybe you should take a test. No. Hold on. No, I'm not pregnant guys. Don't ask why, but we have, okay, it's from the last video. There's a test right here. I'm not taking that right now. Mariah's gonna take this right now because. I'm saving it for when I actually need it. Okay, do you feel nauseous? Yes, but that's my period. Are you moody? Yes, but I'm getting my period in three days. Have you been taking prenatal vitamins? I'm taking prenatal guys for my acne. Have you been experiencing weird body aches and changing of emotions? Babe, I'm getting my period. That's what you usually think. Are you late on your period? No, I have been in three days. So why is it this strong three days before you get it? Because that's what I get weak before period symptoms. No, I'm not pregnant. Well, we have a pregnancy test right here, an extra one. So if y'all think we should take one, I highly doubt Mariah's pregnant. I'm just joking around. But like, we have one. You're something else. Now you're getting in my head. I'm not saying that guys, there's no way. I know, I know, I know.  I'm already anxious as it is. Y'all. Why are you putting that in my head? Y'all, thank you so much for watching this video. You see where our heads are at. We kind of just been going back and forth with the whole thought of like babies and growing up and stuff.  But I feel like having a baby is like when you stop becoming a kid and you become an adult. Not true. But you can still have a kid mindset as an adult. I feel like that is the literal matured step is you have a kid. Like that literally like you can buy anything you want when you're 12, 13, 14, 23, 24. But when you have a kid. It doesn't mean you have to have a kid to be an adult. It just changes everything. It does change everything. I feel like that's the reason why I'm saying that because it's actually going to make us go into an adult mindset where we literally have to take care of a human being. Yeah. All right you guys, I gotta end this video here because I'm getting like excited, anxious. I'm getting all the feelings and I'm trying to think, we have a wedding coming up guys in two freaking months. Can you believe that? Two months. We're gonna be husband and wife. Make sure to be subscribed to our channel with post notifications on. That is so important so you get notified for all of our videos and on top of that our wedding content that's gonna be coming up in literally A month. Two months. But I will say, February, the week of our wedding and a couple weeks after, we might not be as active. We're still gonna be posting but it's not gonna be as active because we're getting ready for all of our wedding content to come out and we have to like make sure everything's editing. So I wanna like do our wedding and then post normal content. Like I want everything to be in order. I want it to all be about that. I don't wanna be. So stay tuned, it's gonna be lit. Five days to Christmas. I hope y'all are getting ready. Merry Christmas. I'm sad that we gotta take down our decorations soon but the big man is about to deliver y'all presents in five days. Where's my present? Right here baby. Right here. This is your present. No! All right you guys, we'll see you in the next video. But until then, peace. Love you guys.


Let me make this clear I am still following a carnivore diet The only reason that happened in the first place was because I deviated from a natural eating pattern There are three big things. I forgot to mention yesterday One this is the same if not more of an issue on the standard American diet Keep in mind guys the amount of iron in red meat is not an issue all of the foods We're eating on a daily basis the cereals the bread mostly grains processed foods are Fortified with iron your body has been stuffed with iron since you were a baby since you were in the womb and Our bodies aren't getting enough vitamin a retinol enough copper enough zinc to regulate this iron It's not really an issue specific to the carnivore diet Although there are some things that can manifest themselves most Americans are overloaded with copper because of a lack of meat in their diet Whereas carnivores are overloaded with zinc because of a lack of plant foods or liver Just animal foods that are copper dominant I'm sure you guys have heard of vegans getting nauseous from taking iron pill supplements And this is because they are literally poisoning their livers with iron a vegan diet doesn't have enough zinc or retinol To regulate iron and they're looking at the wrong solution as vegans typically do the second thing I forgot to mention is that this issue is Kind of specific to men women release iron in their periods in their menstruation According to Google men have a 24-fold increased rate of iron overload disease compared to woman So speculatively your chance as a woman isn't even 5% of the chance that a man has these issues The third is zinc to copper ratio. I mentioned it yesterday without explaining it There is supposed to be about 8 to 15 milligrams of zinc for every 1 milligram of copper in your diet These are antagonistic one reduces the other I might have mentioned this in my nutrients energy video without going in-depth as if you follow a natural animal foods based diet It shouldn't be an issue first thing you need to do is get your ferritin levels checked And if you're concerned about your zinc to copper ratio, you can get a hair mineral analysis The problem with these blood tests is that they aren't indicative of tissue levels Ferritin does not measure the amount of iron in your liver. You have to get a scan of the liver I was talking about my ferritin numbers in the video yesterday That was more to mark inflammation in the liver as opposed to specific iron status Hair mineral analysis is not measuring the tissue levels of zinc and copper But it's really the most accurate thing, you know, you can't take a living biopsy of a person These are unfortunately our two best options, but still not a hundred percent reliable It's why you have to listen to your body and see how you respond to certain foods A lot of you guys were commenting saying that my ferritin was too low at 18 You know recommending it should be 50 to 400 which is the standard blood recommendation range But these conventional standards aren't aware of liver iron storage And that certain people need to get their ferritin very low to deload iron If you look at the new up-to-date hematology information that many doctors aren't aware of The main goal for iron overload patients is to get the ferritin below 50 You go on any forum any doctor discussion They're giving phlebotomies until the person's ferritin is below 50 I know some of you guys are aware of Morley Robbins and his root cause protocol I heard about him originally from the person that pointed out my iron overload Morley Robbins talks about things like babies being born with large amounts of copper and iron in their liver Because human breast milk doesn't contain iron and copper So nature intends the baby to use these nutrients in early stages of life But the standard American diet is overloaded with copper Resulting in zinc deficiency and the baby cannot produce ceruloplasmin to regulate iron This ties back to nutrition being a very complex topic You know foods contain natural forms of vitamins minerals elements and fatty acids in the correct ratios And if we aren't aware of that style of eating which has been skewed by nose-to-tail Cornivores by pseudo-intellectuals that are trying to get you to eat a certain way to buy their products to fit their agenda And I swear you a John is raw Tards are the most arrogant people You morons are literally still trying to give me advice and you're all still wrong. I read the book It doesn't make the diet correct. You guys are as bad as vegans at this point. You really are You're just making up stuff Some of you guys brought up PKD Which is a carnivore protocol by paleo medicina, but their recommendations aren't correct I've had about half a dozen people come to me from PKD with severe health issues a portion of you brought up Antinutrients suggesting that things like phytic acid and oxalates might actually be helpful in inhibiting the absorption of iron unfortunately This actually makes the situation worse because antinutrients don't really inhibit iron They inhibit other minerals like copper and zinc which you need to use to mobilize iron The only thing that has been shown to inhibit iron absorption is calcium and that's only in the digestive tract So dairy really the only plausible option for most people and if anything Foods like coffee high Antinutrient oxalates make things harder to figure out from a mineral balance perspective One ironic thing is that the carnivore diet will actually reverse the iron issues that a standard American dieter is suffering from So for a few years there were replenished their zinc deficiency Mobilized iron out of the liver, but once that zinc to copper ratio goes out of balance again In this case because of high zinc the liver will become overloaded with iron again And even if your liver is full of iron there is genetic variance Just like there's people who you know drink beer alcohol every single day and lift to a hundred and some people die of liver failure at 40 years old You know you could have very bad liver issues from a fraction of the amount of iron that someone else is okay with Everyone has a different tolerance and I happen to reach my individual tolerance One other thing to be aware of is that there hasn't really been anyone that's mentioned this the only person that has Points A and B connected to my understanding is morally Robbins I reached out to him trying to get him on my podcast. We'll see what happens But guys be prepared for all the other carnivores writing on my coattails and talking about this But at the end of the day keep in mind I was the person who brought this issue to realization and They either didn't know about this or they were sweeping it under the rug So, you know who knows what they're gonna say to justify it now. I'm really curious you know when when this type of stuff comes to light everyone jumps on the bandwagon starts talking about it and They shouldn't be talking about it in the first place because I've been doing experiments related to this for the past two years These people are gonna watch my video do some Google searches and come up with their own hypothetical scenario You guys haven't been following the carnivore diet for seven years. You guys haven't experienced this issue first-hand You should really refrain from talking about this. I'm talking about every other carnivore dieter There are very few people to be qualified to talk about this topic. Even some hematologists aren't I didn't mean to scare you guys with this And this is just part of me being objective and sharing my understanding of nutrition You know the takeaways from this should be a stands an American diet a vegan diet The average person in America is likely suffering from this not just a carnivore dieter It is weird though in a sense that the carnivore diet can manifest itself in the opposite scenario As we said stands an American diet zinc deficiency carnivore diet copper deficiency So guys definitely check out, you know my book the ancestral indigenous diet as well as my carnivore video course if you want to learn how to follow a diet that will alleviate potential issues and you can also check out Morley Robbins He has all of that work related to zinc-to-copper ratio Seriloplasmin this makes EMF sensitivity much worse So normally when you're in a high EMF environment You know a person might get a headache a stomach ache for a period of time and most people can recover But when you have iron overload in your liver when your body is full of imbalanced metals It makes it much worse. It stresses your body's antioxidant pathways So if you're one of those people that are very sensitive to EMF that can't sleep well This might be down your alley. All right guys, so I've rewatched this recording and I read through the comments again on that other video I don't think I was very clear about what to do to actually solve this and you guys are inquiring about fasting Fasting does not solve this whatsoever If anything fasting will make this worse your body needs certain nutrients and it needs to restore its proper balance You need to stimulate bile and the only way to remove iron from your body is to give blood There's a reason hemochromatosis is a disease that can cause liver failure Your body has no mechanism to remove iron once it's overloaded The only way is to remove it from the bloodstream or there's certain heavy metal chelators That you can take intravenously either way. You're injecting yourself with the needle I hate to break it to you the way I actually fix this and the way I've been fixing this is I've used various copper supplements I've been implementing liver when I can tolerate the larger amount of vitamin A and Mainly reducing my iron intake even though the amount of iron from red meat isn't actually considerable in the big picture of Hemochromatosis of iron overload. It's still helpful I've noticed that I do react if I eat too much red meat Particularly later in the day if you guys need an actual protocol to do this You can reach out to me via email if you haven't encountered this yet And you don't want to as I said check out my book check out my carnivore video course on Frank dash to final calm to develop an Understanding of nutrient synergy. Thanks for joining me guys. Enjoy the rest of your day