Hello everybody, my name is Ross McGill at Teacher Talk it. Thank you for joining me. Thank you for watching this video Later on wherever you are tuning in I'm really excited to be joined by a couple of guests who I'll introduce to you shortly Just to ensure that you're in the right place You're either watching this on my YouTube channel or on my LinkedIn page And you can if you're logged in you can add comments and connect with my my guests I'm Excited because I'm joined by history teacher and author Kate Jones Kate is currently a teacher in Abu Dhabi alongside John Smedley a former teacher and founder of teach active which is an online resource providing Teachers with lesson plans and resources with which to deliver primary math and English curriculum through physical activity Part of our discussion today is to talk about the challenges that all teachers were faced throughout the pandemic Work with pupils and some of the things that you can do to support our young people in particular I'm going to be picking Kate's brains on some strategies teachers can use in the classroom and Throughout the presentation will also pick on John to explain what teach active is and some of the resources that can help Your pupils in your school so without further ado, I'm just going to bring both guests in and throw it to them just to Give me your lift pitch Introduction and just say hello to everyone. So let's bring in both Kate and John and good afternoon to you both hi Kate Hi, John So Kate and could you just give it everyone a kind of quick hello, what do you do what you're you know things that you're working on You're teaching kind of background Yes, well, I'm originally from North Wales as you both know And I've been teaching in Abu Dhabi in the Middle East for five years I'm about to come back to the UK which is very exciting Teacher head of department and as you mentioned, I've offered a few books focusing on retrieval practice and formative assessment formal teaching and learning and inspired by you else, of course You flatter me. Yeah, thank you. So we'll come back to you and we'll talk about some of the amazing work that you've been doing because you're definitely Producing lots of materials to help, you know, as I know the resources when you share them online It really makes an impact for teachers elsewhere John. Good afternoon, John. Good afternoon. Yeah, great to be with you both Was the stock tour of your career in teaching and your role that teach active Okay, yeah, so I was a teacher for 18 years. I taught primary and secondary, but certainly mainly primary school and We're based in Chester at the moment. So not far from North Wales but as a Chester teacher, yeah 18 years as a advisory teacher for peers part of that deputy head and then I left six years ago in order to set up to each active So now I have the benefit of working with you know, literally thousands of schools across the country and internationally as well So, thank you both. So I'll start with the most important question. How how is COVID Panned out for your your your school K in the Middle East Could you give us a synopsis of the last 18 months? Yeah, we've had a different experience to the UK because we went online before the UK So it's always interesting following what's happening and seeing what's happening here and comparing but My school in one sense. We were really quite well prepared because all of our students had a Google Chromebook And we were quite confident. So from a technical perspective, we were quite prepared, but it just really it wasn't nice and it lasted this so long and We also had a lot of in-and-out in Abu Dhabi Which did you have a lockdown as well and yeah, so we had the initial Lockdown and actually that was announced March 2020 and then it was a key stage three were at home for About a year actually and then they had a hybrid model, which was really tough where we had Students could be at home or they could be in school So you were teaching half zoom half with a class in front of you and now we are back in school Unless obviously anyone has COVID symptoms or they're exempt but the majority of classes are still in school But we've had to adapt we have split lunch times now So key stage three has a separate lunch time to key stage four five so that there's more room for social distancing We have one-way systems around the school to promote social distancing. We still Have to wear masks. You have to show your app to enter the school That says in you've got your green app that you've had a recent nest and you'll have this next week When you when you're in the UAE you have to show that so there's lots and lots of things in place And we have a deck the equivalent of off-stead, right? But they will pop in to see us not necessarily for an inspection, but we have a deck in the building and they're just checking that Everything is correct and accurate Addicted inspectors when we were online as well. I had an addict inspector in my zoom lesson. That was different Yeah, it's just it's been really really tough and whilst we're not back to where we were There's a more sense of normality clubs have started again things that we haven't done and it's really interesting I'm because I'm leaving I haven't actually sat Well, a year group haven't sat a set of exams since I've been here. So I've been here two years I Haven't got an official exam set results. So that's just been a strange time. Yeah. Yeah now I'm so naive here, but Dubai doesn't necessarily have seasons like we have in the UK. Does it? It's just literally hot hot and hotter all the time, isn't it? Scotchio. Yeah, it is it's hot It's not as hot here in the UK obviously it's you know summer and COVID is particularly and winter COVID Very different landscape guests for us and John We'll talk about teach active the specifics in terms of resources and what you provide but as an online resource You know well established before the pandemic How has the pandemic? Influence your resources and people using your materials Yeah, I think that obviously with with us having so many Schools at the stop. We just thought we needed to look after our schools and just think of how we can You know as Kate said everyone went to suddenly online and we thought well, how can we support that? So the way we made isolation packs for all of our schools We made lesson plans that they could use on things like Microsoft teams and Google classrooms and still trying to do the active maths and Active English, but over things like zoom and teams We also went through all of our three and a half thousand lesson plans and identified which ones were COVID friendly For when obviously some children were still in school Perhaps your vulnerable children and children of key workers and then as children returned we did the same so it was Children were working in bubbles perhaps Not wanting to use lots of equipment and things So we'd identified all of the activities which teachers could pick up and continue to use safely in that way as well And of course we developed our homework further as well And that was great to see because it just went crazy in terms of how many parents every week were Logging on and doing active maths with that with their children. So that was a You know a great thing to see And like everyone else we started doing webinars to support the teachers And I discovered what zoom was which is now my new best friend, of course Well, I'm pleased that the profession has you know in terms of technical approaches Well, we're not there yet But a lot of people more much more equipped to use technology, you know, I'm an old Olds in the tooth I suppose I've been doing webinars for about ten years And it's great to see so many different platforms now when I first started doing it There wasn't much out there Okay, I want to just shift to mental health and back to the classroom Some of the things what are the things that you've been doing in school or online to promote children's mental health? Yeah, that's always been really important and when I mentioned the adic inspector popped in it was during past oral time And we made sure well, we actually had a problem because we had the students all around the world We had our spring break our Easter holiday and then it was lockdown So actually students were in different countries on different time zones So we couldn't have live lessons But what we did ensure was a school that the form tutors were checking in And trying to have live conversations as a class But we tried to do that every day where possible And then now since we've come back to school again, we've had this focus and conversation about well-being But the school that I work at We've changed our approach because it was almost like it was only the responsibility of a form tutor Where there's actually when you think about it Students might only spend 20 minutes a day with their form tutor. So as a subject teacher, what can we do? To support our students well-being But the fact that we talk about mental health so much that's a big difference from when I arrived here five years ago I think the country's made a lot of progress in How open We're encouraged to be about mental health Is that in society in general or within the school itself? Yeah, I think I think in in the society Also, we have a like a Education curriculum and we factor that into Intuit conversations about well-being Hey, I'm putting on the spot because I know you've got a gazillion ideas in there Could you give me a practical strategy that you could use as a teacher in the classroom just to promote mental health discussion or a You know classroom resource that teachers can use what what's your top tip? Well, I suppose I've got two top tips because I like to promote lots of screen breaks We still have our google chrome books but I just Make sure that their screens are closed their laptops are closed and we actively have that screen break time because We don't know how much screen time students are having outside of school And parents probably aren't aware of exactly how much screen time students are having in school So here in the UAE where we are Most schools have one-to-one devices That's something that I ensure Regularly with my students is that they still get to practice writing and they still have a screen break Something I did do with my tutor group was I printed off some mindfulness coloring sheets And it wasn't for everyone But some of the students said oh that's so relaxing So I just printed off some more and said take these home and you can do them at home You're also very good at taking social media breaks aren't you you're very good at them Yes, and I tell my students to do that as well. So We've got to look after ourselves. Yeah, of course. Okay, great. Um john I don't want to get too academic But could you give everyone watching the definition of what active learning is please? Yeah, of course And I think we had this recently on a webinar as well in terms of you know, some people call active learning Maybe even physically active learning or there's movement integration seems to be the new term as well now But just in simple terms, it just means getting it's non sedentary behavior getting children Bumps off seats and And moving and that might be simply in the classroom because that's the only space that sometimes that we've got And we're limited on to that But also it can mean taking learning down to the hall or to the other areas that you've got in the school And maybe even you know, especially if then you're you're in the UAE where it's hot and hot and hotter Taking learning outside as well Um, and that's simply active, but it doesn't have to be really vigorous It doesn't have to be really running around fast. Of course, sometimes it can be like that But yeah, the way I say is just simple movement within those lessons And john, I guess one more without getting too academic But you know, we're big fans of research give us um A couple of signposts to research on in terms of the benefits of you know, mindfulness active learning has particularly on pupil outcomes Yeah, I so is I mean Again, one of the things that you all know is we're doing some work with Loughborough University and professor lovin schar at the moment And again all the systematic reviews that show the benefits of of active learning So I would certainly pinpoint people to Professor lovin schar's work And in terms of the the benefits of active learning in terms of a project that she was involved in called class pal pal meaning physically active learning and that was just shown that yeah the benefits in terms of academic success But also attitudes love of learning And and wider benefits things like self-esteem and confidence etc as well I'm sorry to interrupt john You know, I suppose, you know 10 years ago when I started to look at teacher well-being There's very little research out there at you know pupil mental health the discourse has significantly moved on We look at the research on The break and lunch times in our schools has reduced also What your immediate thoughts on how schools can Kind of switch back to what maybe where we were before in terms of Raising the profile of well-being physically in classes and in kind of break times lunch times promoting that opportunity to Cognitively offloader suppose rather than being full on in lesson time Interesting again. I think that's something that maybe if there's one positive that's come out of of all the Covid is that actually it's maybe Made schools more even more aware of this to think actually gosh, you know, we really need to take Have a look at children's mental and Emotional well-being because you know over covid we know it that was one of the hardest things that was hit children's emotional mental Well-being also lack of physical activity And also the gaps in in learning as well And like Kate said, there's you know children on average in the UK spent now five hours plus in front of devices 70 percent of the school day is sedentary So I just think the schools. Well, how can we change that? How can we turn that round? And let's go for some simple wins, you know and rather than asking the teachers to do more more more I simply say well, let's make your lessons more active. So do what you're already doing but introduce some movements And yes, children will love it. Yes, it will help teach aspects of English and maths but in terms of your well-being and your children's confidence and self-esteem and The determination resilience social skills all of those things that we know Uh physical activity really benefits Now you've you've I'm going to come to UK shortly in terms of gaps in learning and What the dialogue's been like at least in Dubai not Dubai the Emirates in terms of You know lost learning pupil outcomes before I do John. You've kind of triggered a really interesting Uh thought to me there. I'm going to show a little bit of research Um From the research is from the UK council for child internet safety and the last time something was published by the government was in 2017 so before I show you the answer Could could you both have a guess at how many hours? A three to four year old spends online a day Per let me double check per week So age three to four three to four years old 2017 um per week I'll go for 25 hours 25 hours Well, I don't really know Higher or lower okay Higher because it's probably crazy, isn't it? It's probably too much. Let me uh, let me show you uh this uh little Screen, I hope you can see this. Let's just double check. Can you both see that? Yeah, there we go So um, if you look here, let me just put this a little bit uh bigger Okay, yeah So this little slide here it has um Again, it's not been uh, there's no government guidance since I'm sure there want to be one or two other publishers But um, if you look at the top there three to four eight hours a week And that was 2016 before the pandemic before everyone was connected devices etc etc Um, it's quite frightening, isn't it? That is I thought it would be higher because it probably is now because But yeah, it's worrying but then I think about my own screen time which is out of control so Yeah, well actually one more point I suppose Really interesting when we think about How students use devices, you know, my son's 10 that blue line there. He is online He's playing games or watching video clips. That's pretty pretty much what he's doing But you're 16 year olds when it gets to exam time They're you know doing all these other things first before they do this green line Which is for homework. So they're listening to music watching videos chatting to the mates Etc very interesting stuff Um, so I'll just take that off And I'm just pleased to see Vicki joining us leaving a comment. She says really appreciate this conversation And focus on student well-being. So thank you for joining us Vicki and the question Kate lost learning people outcomes What's the discussion being uh over for teachers in general in the in the Emirates? Well, that's a really interesting one about there is a debate whether there's been the lost learning or not And that's obviously language that we're trying to avoid here. Um, we don't want to be Saying that and adding more anxiety to students and making them feel Like the year 13 who will sit an exam if they sit an exam Which is looking likely but they didn't sit their GCSEs and they've had a really turbulent few years here So we're not having that emphasis on lost learning if anything We're just slowly and gradually getting back to normal with the clubs starting up and PE lessons actually were We're not allowed to take place for a long time, which they are now. So we're taking this slow approach And in terms of the lost learning well my school approach we've we've always been focused what we've been focusing on cognitive Sciences, I've been here and when we went online it was a case of let's do what we always do but let's it's Doing the same but in a different context So retrieval practice We were doing that before Covid we were doing it during online learning. So when we've carried out retrieval practice Which can identify gaps in knowledge? Then that is low stakes the students are used to that It's just part of their their culture of the classroom. So that is just a classroom norm. So I would say that we We're avoiding that that idea of lost learning but obviously Mindful that we have all been impacted By what's happened Interesting and I guess Put you on the spot again, k because I know you've got fantastic retrieval practice resources What are your kind of go-to strategies because you know a lot of people out there will perceive you as a As a bit of an expert in the field, you know and retrieval and I know you're very adamant that you are wider than this Just this definition But for context of this, you know that that low stakes cuisine to support people mental health What are your go-to strategies? Well, it's changed because my go-to strategies were often ones where students could Have a brain dump like a cops and robbers and then get ideas from others But then I've used technology more and I love quizzes and I always just say about Retrieval practice as does tom shawnton about varying the diet just having a bank of templates that I rotate So I'll have quizzes where I've got multiple choice questions and then I might have mentimeter Which is free recall But I feel like I'm name dropping here But I did write an article with dylan william and mob at b york where he said In terms of lost learning In terms of the pandemic we said don't do retrieval practice straight away because Retrieval strength will be low. It's not that it's not there in their long-term memory But it will just be slower and more inaccessible So actually revisit content have a bit of a refresher Not only will it boost the retrieval strength But it could boost their confidence because if we do a retrieval task and they can't remember much It's really demoralizing and that again is not what we want No, it's not and I've seen that article. So maybe um, uh, Kate can you give us the title the article on the website so people can read that please? Sorry my face like it's all right. Well, we'll put it in the chat box later And I'll embed it into the video. I've really put you on the spot. No, it's fine It's it's why we shouldn't do testing when students go back to school and it's great on the website ASCD No, I did see that and I guess my favorite thing at the moment, particularly for any type of idea in terms of what works It is In what context is that my follow-up sentence to explain why so retrieval practice? Yes, but in what context Matters for everyone particularly in the current climate John teach active If I put a slide up on the screen, can you just do a little um whistle stop tour, please and tell Everyone what it is how it can help people and uh, tell us a little you're in jubilee Later this week, so tell everyone people watching in the middle east what how teach active can help Okay, so yeah teach active It's it's an online resource that provides teachers and schools teaching assistants with Or lesson plans and resources on how to teach the english in the maths curriculum through physical activity So just as we mentioned before through getting children open about It's not a scheme of work. So it's not structured in it has to be taught this particular way So whether schools are already using Schemes and planning for english and maths. This will easily sit alongside and compliment it But it just gives, you know, we know that when we introduce new ideas into schools Um, it's hard because teachers are so busy. So this is the answer in terms of you know, As it as I said, you know over 3 000 lesson plans all mapped to the curriculum all the resources done for you Um, and that's why teachers like it. It saves them hours of planning time and in terms of why teachers love it um, you know, all of the things that we've been speaking about we're getting the children active we're we're Reducing that sedentary behavior But it certainly children love it attitude smiles on faces real love of learning Getting children to really enjoy maths in english um, but also it can support academic attainment as well and um, as ross knows, you know, we've won multiple awards uh here in the uk we've got many schools the thousand schools within the uk Who absolutely love this and talk to us about the difference that it's made with with their children and in their school Um, and yes, we're delighted to be coming as you mentioned to to the guest show in dubai We're one of 20 Ed tech businesses that have been selected um to come and Present at the guest show. So we're doing presentations each day as well as having our standard Uh, can you give john a quick tip for dubai, you know, adjusting to time zone What you should see and do in between all these busy breaks that he's well, he's not going to have many breaks But if he does the expo is currently on right now Um, that's expo 2020. They've got delayed. It's incredible. You won't be able to see it all But definitely go visit dubai expo. It's only here for a limited time. So you've come at a good time Okay, john, what have we got on the screen here in terms of the resources that you've got on your platform Yeah, an example of just a lesson plan. So on the left hand side there, you can see that it's got the name of the game it's got the year group that's got um The objective that we're going to be covering and then all of the resources So this is a game where children simply go to one question And the answer will tell them which card to go to to next and then which one to go to to next to next to next Until they've visited all 20 Similarly here Teacher students would have some of them would have a analog clock So we'd have a digital clock and as we're moving around the room and then on the command We could go and find our partner and as you're flicking through as you can see the same format all the time in terms of The nice clear instructions. We're trying to keep it nice and clear In bullet points or the resources there that teachers need so they can simply take the idea Get the resources and within two minutes. They've got a lesson plan at their children again to really enjoy John gives a ballpark figure. How many pupils are now benefiting from your resources? Well, well from our state of software, we think about 300 000 a week are taking part in our in active lessons and Maths or English No, Kate. You can't say the five minute lesson plan, but how do you plan lessons and How do you you know, um I know you've already talked about one or two strategies you use to talk about mental health But um that teacher burden of planning lessons the workload issue John's got a great resource there and there are many others out there But what's your method for reducing that that burden but also promoting mental health Well, just before I answer that, um, I was just thinking how great that would be in the UAE because of the climate here We don't do things like go outside and walk to the shop as often as you would in the uk and you're probably There's there are opportunities to be active here, but I've bought a treadmill in my living room because Yeah, I know How many miles are we doing a day at the moment? Not enough but And when I was back in Wales, I was just I was a lot more active outside. So I just think here we are The the structure the infrastructure as well and the layout and the climate We need to find these opportunities to be more active So I do think that this would be absolutely fantastic And then in terms of planning lessons, this is also linked in with what you you said john actually um, my mantra is mainly with retrieval practice, but it can apply to other Areas it's a low effort and high impact approach Which is and I know obviously ross you've written so much about workload and and teacher well-being And I think very carefully about the amount of effort I will invest as a teacher And what the impact would be on student learning because when I first started teaching It had a very high impact on me in terms of my workload in a negative sense and a low impact on student learning It would be a task that would take me Hours to create cut and laminate and gluing and the students would solve it in like 30 seconds So I've totally just flipped that on its head now and Then the time I save on that then I either use that for something else for professional development or just for More my own personal time So that low effort high impact. I think that applies to you I've got a couple of people watching live. So just for kind of T Kind of just general how to use the software if you want to pose a question to kate or john You need to have logged in to linked on our youtube just to do that but i'm going to start to wrap Things up now because um, we know that mental health is an important topic We need to try and do more to support our young people all around the world and in every single school where we can Um, kate before we kind of wrap things up. We can't go without plugging one of your many books. So what Um, give us give us a kind of little Lift pitch in terms of what readers can find in this new book Okay, so this is building on the work of dylan william and shavon lehi and it was edited by dylan william I'm The dream team editors and it's five formative assessment strategies right from sharing learning intentions and to Activate in students as learning resources for one another which again john you should read this but Links in with lots of the stuff that you're doing And activating students as their own learners as well So it's a it's part of the inactrix series which tom shawnton purposely wants to be punchy concise But it really hard Yeah It's a it's a nice small at all kind of pamphly type book But there's a good good body material hundred pages Loads of ideas. I know that your books are already super popular. Um, when was it published a couple of weeks ago about a month ago Yeah about a month ago. I've got another one out at the end of this month another one So, uh, I think you must be pushing six seven books now. Okay. How many?  So I guess um Our final question from me is what what insights have you got from working with lots and lots of teachers sharing resources online? particularly through the last two years Well, if it hadn't been for the online community, I think I'd have felt so disconnected Out here and I think that's it. I just I really do feel connected and That's a supportive environment It's also really rewarding like like you social media has actually helped with my career progression As well as in in the classroom So it's it's been pretty transformative being online and has made It's made it less dawn to return back to the uk as well I don't know You're going back to London. I was going to ask john for a couple of tips in terms of uh, you know Chester and all that but you're both from kind of the north wales part of the world, aren't you? Yeah, I love that um So, um, uh, we've got tips for for john k Could you give a another tip for john when he goes to db apart from all the kind of expo and things like that What what things should he go and see? um If he has got a bit of a retard because I know he's going to be super busy, but anything else he should go and see Yeah, actually people often don't realize how close Abu Dhabi and Dubai are it's Sure, it's an hour drive and People often think that sometimes they say isn't that a different country? No It honestly it's just a drive straight down the road on the eight lane highway and Abu Dhabi is incredible I'm biased because I live here, but there's the shakeside grandmask. There's lots of cultural things. So Dubai is fantastic But there's seven emirates to try and visit another. Yeah, there are You've got a nice comment here from richard kate about formative assessment for the academic year. It's a focus Um great articles. I would definitely plug this for on kate's behalf richard Uh, kate got some great ideas lots of books check out. Um a retreat will practice You've got loads of books. I've got more on my desk. There's the the kind of brilliant color by the way Um, okay, let's wrap things up. Uh, let's just kind of finish with Why we're here. So bringing kate and john together to talk about people mental health strategies and resources for teachers that can Can use um Thank you both for joining me. Um, thanks for sharing your ideas. Let's wrap things up with a bit of fun Can you give me one interesting fact about yourself? One book that you're reading And we'll leave it there. So john over to you Oh one interesting fact about myself. That's putting me on the pressure, isn't it? How about as an interesting fun fact that I was on the price is right and uh, You know for anyone And I did with I got through to the final I won a coffee machine. I won a Uh, a little fridge and I won Something else. I can't remember and but I got to the grand final and I didn't win the speed boat and the kitchen And the holiday to fall with spending money because they're really throw prizes at you in that show, don't you? So that was uh, yeah, that was the uh, That was the one about me. I don't know what you're reading john I'm reading a book called the five a.m. Club, uh, robin charmer So about getting up at five a.m. In the morning And uh, winning by getting a couple of hours when everyone else is in bed I talked to a colleague laura barrett at university of buckinham. We were sharing some Doctoral research tips and she gets up super early two or three hours in the morning and she's cracking on with her research That's a great strategy. Are you getting up at five still john? well, I did this morning, but not my Not on purpose just with everything going through my head on what I need to do before I can Finish just mine off to go to dubai Well, john, I wish you all the best and have a safe trip and I'll see you when you get back k um one interesting fact Do you know what linked to that theme? I'm a huge fan of the chase I've met I can't remember his name, but I have met Yeah, and in the retrieval practice, too I actually got the chase in there and like When I present the teachers I talk about the bradley walsh effect They went to teachers design a multiple choice question. They often put a comedy Answer in and I say that's great for the chase because it's entertainment But not not perhaps in the classroom because it dilutes the challenge of retrieval But any time I get the opportunity to mention the chase like now Now there you go. What an interesting fact and what book are you reading? So you'll be reading lots of different sources for your books, but Can what are you reading for fun? Well, you know that I love audible because you're on audible Listen to your book and I'm currently listening to barack obama the promised land It's incredible But I thought david died out's book was long because that was about 10 hours But obama is is 28 hours. So I've still got a long way to go Through an audible book 36 hours understand the rain. It's 30 minute lectures on my dog walk each day All right, so I'll finish off. Um I've danced with sister sledge at g a y in top and there you go many many years ago That's an interesting fact about me. Uh books. I'm reading. Um Will the leopard change its spots a book about off-steads? And two books that are really giving me a bit of a headache from a doctoral research social media for academics And social research methods being a dt teacher now working in the field of social science I feel like an inky tea all over again. Um, I'm going to leave it there folks. Thank you kate. Thank you john Thank you And um by for now everyone I'll put this Recording somewhere where you can get all the resources and all the links And all the details for teach active the free trial where you can sign up and the links to kate's books Um, hope to see you again. Uh, keep well keep safe and thanks for watching. Bye for now


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Det finns många normlängd som är helt klurliga när det gäller realiteten av biologi eller society. Så håll på med det. Och också om jag berättar mig själv i några videor och du säger att du har talat om det tidigare. Jag talar om det igen, för jag vill få mer människor med länkning. Så att säga. Så basically, jag tänkte att läbla den här videon. The questing night's vow, or something equally epic. Now of course a low thummas guy. An ironic guy will only see it and be like, you know, this sounds silly. But that's also because we live in an age where honour isn't really as important as it used to be. So if I say that you should take a holy vow to quit a bad behaviour. You know, yeah, you can take it as a joke or you can take it as seriously as you want it. And for me I've always gone with a mindset that, you know, my word is my most prized metaphysical, at least possession I have. You know, if I give my word to someone else or equally important to myself that I need to be true to my word. So if I say, you know, this month I have set out a challenge for myself that I will not eat sugar. Then I know that I can't break that promise. I can't break a promise to myself. I can't break a promise to anyone else either. Now for every time you reinforce your word. For every time you gain a victory over yourself it will be easier to maintain your word. So if I say to myself, yeah, I will absolutely 100% do this. I've done it many times before. Then it's easier in the future and also for others as well. If you are known as a good man who are always true to your word. Yeah, then it will be easier for others to trust you. So you build up a good reputation. And you also build up a good reputation internally. And this is not my wisdom here I'm sharing. I'm sharing someone else who said the first set of abs is the hardest to get. Absolutely true. Before I got my first set of visible abs I didn't know I could do it. But every single cut after that when I try to get into good shape. It's been easier because I know I can do it. I know I can overcome myself. And that's also if you look on some guys who perhaps are struggling to quit porn. Or who are struggling to quit nicotine. Maybe snuset in Sweden or cigarettes etc. They either they do it on the first attempt. Or they you know fail and keep on failing. And for every time you fail and this is a bit blackpilling for most people here. I'm sorry but it is the truth and I want to tell you why it gets harder. Yes, it's because you break trust with yourself.  The easier it will be to you know break that promise the next time.  So it is super important that the first time you give yourself a promise. The first time you say you know I will quit porn for example. That must be the only time. Because for every time you fail the risk the chances for you to fail again are increased. Not the most whitepilling thing to say. But it is important in understanding your mentality. Your subconscious or even conscious thought when it comes to breaking addictions. So if you have tried to beat nicotine addiction or porn addiction for the tenth time. Yeah, it will be harder than it was your second time.  Just reinforcing that behavior that you will fail. You will crack and as any athlete will tell you. Half of the thing that is being done is in your mind. Can you do it? Can you not do it? The guys who believe in themselves they can always do it. They can always perform more. I've always gone with the mindset that you know I am a questing knight out for glory and enlightenment. And I take a vow to myself that I will go in 100%. If someone else says you know why is this important. I say it's important for me. Because I have taken this upon myself. Now of course since we live in a somewhat honor less society. It is easy to just point to material reasons. You know I have this urge now. I am hungry now so therefore I have to eat. I need to follow my inner nature at all costs all the time. But if you are hurt to a more ancient shall we say. Or a bit more chivalry oriented mentality. Yeah then you will be able to put other things first.  And for a guy, a modern man who laughs when I talk about chivalry and being a questing knight. He laughs and say you know this sounds very silly. For him of course if he doesn't believe in the concept of honor. The concept of higher virtue. Yes of course he will continue to watch porn. Of course he will continue to eat a lot of bad food. Because why not? When you just look at it in a world bereft of honor. Why would you uphold your own honor? So you see you need to first and foremost adapt a questing knight mindset. Then you can start you know getting rid of bad addictions. Or you can just rely on share will power that works too. But it is easier if you have some sort of positive vision for how you view yourself basically. So in conclusion. View yourself as something more epic, something more heroic.  View yourself as a repentant questing knight who has his honor as the most important thing in his world. And everything is worse than not living up to your word of honor. Adapting that mindset and taking everything a bit more seriously. Even if you have a whole world and your social setting might only be concerned with pleasure for the moment. Fine that's it. It's ultimately about your goals. If you really want something don't let crab in a bucket mentality get in your way. If you want to have a really heroic physique, if you want to get rid of your addictions. View it as a heroic quest instead of just going to the gym and eating well. You need to view it in a more epic sense. So anyway I hope that will aid you a bit. I think it wasn't really all too motivating perhaps. Especially for the guys who have tried to quit for a long time. But think of it always that the sooner you do it the easier it gets.  The sooner you do it the sooner you will have healed your soul and body. And the sooner you can go back to feeling good. I think oh maybe I should do it one last time. Just don't. It will only delay the final goal. So that being said. If you watched this far give the video a thumbs up. Go on to my page leggiggloria.com Order my book and some new fine garments as well of course. If they strike your fancy. They are supposed to fit an athletic physique. That is what is up. Anyway thank you for watching XXO. Boom!


in California. The sun is always shining right. People are smiling, making plans, hiding behind their shades, and you're doing the same. No rain, no flowers, nothing's growing way. Your heart is fire, but baby, I bet you're cold. Without me, even when it's 90 degrees. Without me, I bet that you can get any sleep in the bed lying. So, it's been a while since, um, so I'm like looking at a car because I've rubbed my eye, made a couple of my eyes. Cool story. It's been a while since we've had a conversation, and basically I've been through a lot because I got married last week, and that was my stressful thing ever because even though we had a small like COVID appropriate wedding, it was still pretty crazy. I had so much to do. I don't know why it was like mentally straining, so I took a break from YouTube, Patreon, stuff. I did my comic, I got that like pre-order. Yesterday, I actually sent them off to be printed, which is really cool. And yeah, I'm really looking forward to having them in my hands, so that's pretty much the update. I'm sorry I've been quiet. It's just that I needed to take a break, but now I'm feeling like really inspired, especially with the wedding stuff being over. It's like I can finally focus back on YouTube and things like that. Even though maybe the wedding, well, it's like strangely took up lots of time, even though we had like a small thing with just family, um, in Gibraltar where I live. Everybody is vaccinated. I say everybody, like 99% of the people are vaccinated and we don't have any cases currently, or we have like five cases. So there's like totally different rules right now, so it was kind of nice to have a party and just be like kind of normal for a little bit. Um, we also got a kitten, Mochi, who's attacking my camera, my rings right now. Um, here's my wedding ring, my engagement ring and my wedding ring in case you're interested. I will show you clips of the wedding now if it wants to focus. If you want to focus, it's two. There you go. That was my wedding ring. So at the moment, I'm kind of inspired again to draw. I feel like it's been a few weeks since I've done like properly some drawing, which is really weird to me because usually I've been, you know, you know me guys. I've been drawing like every day for a while and so with all this wedding stuff, it's been like I haven't been drawing at all. So I was feeling super rusty. Um, I did some anyway and I'm thinking what I'm going to do to get out of that rust is just have fun with it. I got the pastels out and I was like experimenting and just having fun again. My, a lot of the alcohol markers that I got, which I really like have run out because obviously I made two whole comics of them, so of course they're going to run out. They weren't last forever. Um, so I'm going to buy more or some refills online when I have the chance. I'm pretty sure there's a shipment coming for art from Artex. They said they're going to send me some, some alcohol markers from them. So I'm looking forward to getting those because it will be like, yeah. Um, I think it'll be, I think they'll be nice. I think they have like the brush, brush pens now. So lots of life updates and from now I really want to post a lot more on YouTube and stuff. Since about a week, I've been quite sick. I got a COVID test. It wasn't COVID. Luckily, my God, can you imagine? And yeah, I've just been ill. So I'm just like just now kind of getting over it. I still feel quite ill. I still feel like super drained and I think it's just like the wedding escalated, escalated it a lot. Um, but yeah, that's the update. And sorry that I've been quiet. I have missed you guys. Um, I've missed doing YouTube and content and Twitch as well, which I was steadily getting on with, but I think because I had so much stuff, it was just too much to keep up with. But yeah, everyone hates that.  Um, if YouTube was like my job, obviously I wouldn't act like this, but it is just a hobby for me at the moment. So that's why I need to take breaks. Um, that's it. But yeah, getting back to it, a little bit of a art blocky kind of moment because since not drawing for a couple of weeks, I feel like I've lost the groove. Um, so I've just been doing like loads of random doodliest stuff. Um, some hands because I felt like I was really rusty with drawing hands. And then today I've just been like limiting my color palette and just drawing not this one, but like these two, just drawing with like really limited supplies. So I just picked up a few and went over to my day job desk and stayed away from my other supplies to just not be tempted. And yeah, I'm just having fun with the supplies that I have and trying to mess around.  Um, yeah, I'm just messing about basically. And I think that's really helping me loosen up. I really like these. I'm trying to get some like design ideas for Patreon stuff because I'm giving everyone on Patreon a mega bundle this month, um, to make up for taking a break for a couple of months. So it's going to be loads of prints and different stuff. So I'm trying to think what like to send.  And I thought that'd be quite cute. So I'm toying with that idea, but it really helped to just limit what I was using and explore that way. So I'm really glad that I'm doing this. Yeah.  Um, but I really like this one. I really like this one. And then I did like an ocean wave.  I will do a different one. I think because, um, maybe these colors don't really work for ocean escape or like the approach wasn't so good. Um, I don't hate it. I just don't think it works. Also, I broke my rule and I like took this Molotow pen into it, which doesn't make sense because now it looks like a totally different color scheme. And my point was to have the three together. So yeah. Um, I'm going to do a third one. But yeah, I think these would be really cute. I'm going to go get them printed in town at my local printers. And I was thinking, yeah, just three little, like really small prints and you can put them side by side. But yeah, I'll send those out to my patrons. If you're interested in getting some, link down below. But yeah, I think this would be a good idea. I'm going to redo this one. And we'll see, we'll see how it works out. So I've done this one and I like it. I'm going to go in with some like pencil to make it more like these ones. So it's really expressive. And yeah, I like, I like this one now. Um, don't like this one. This one gets a no. But yeah, the other two cool. And then the same like similar color palette because we'll add a bit of pink here, like this bright pink as well. So they go together, but using the same color palette on each of them. So they all look nice lined up. Yeah. Taking some pictures of the books that I want to sell. So this is going to be up on my Etsy. And I'm trying to make like cool pictures, kind of inspired by, um, books in La La, if you know her, she's a really cool Instagram slash YouTube booktuber person. And yeah, I really like the way that she does like flatly images. So sort of inspired by her. And then I'm going to put these images up on Etsy and try and sell some of these books. I'm selling the goosebumps one. Oh, sorry. The goosebumps one. The, um, are you, what's this called again? Scary stories telling the dark. I was like, are you afraid of the dark? That's not there. And then all of the, I'm going to sell the PSI. I'm going to sell all the boys I loved before in a bundle. Um, this one is like, these are two are really good still, but this one like is flaking a bit. So I'm going to have to like go over that again. I think, I'm not sure what happened there. I think maybe just too much acrylic paint. But yeah, I'm going to go over that again and then re gloss it so that it can be sold. And uh, yeah, they're still readable as well. So I think they're really cool. Um, I hope that people like them. I'm going to be selling the it one as well, which I'm not sure anyone will buy because it's just creepy, but has the open book function, which is I think kind of cool. So I'm doing like a flash sale of 10% off everything or not everything, just the comics, not the books for just like a week, I think. So if you guys were holding on to not buying it or whatever, maybe that will give you the incentive. It's only a little bit off, but maybe yeah. So hopefully that'll be all good. Okay, I updated my Etsy with some of the books. Um, I'm only going to do these three, um, well, five, because this one is the, to all the boys I love before trilogy in one. So I'm just going to do those listings for now and see how it goes. Um, they're going to be with free shipping. And I really hope that they find loving homes if that makes sense. So I think I'm going to end the vlog here, but thanks very much for watching. And I'm hoping to post a video on Saturday as well. So I'll see you then if you fancy it. Bye. I, I went to the bathroom for two seconds. This is all soil because somebody decided to attack the succulent pond. I regret things. I regret things guys, but it's so cute. So she's worth it. I have to tidy this up now. Great fun for a, what is it? Wednesday. Wednesday morning. Good times. Pesto's not impressed. And Mochi thinks this is a game. It's not a game. It's not a game. She's like, ooh, time for this. I'm trying to sweep and hold the camera. It's not really working out for me. So I'm going to have to put this down. Mochi, please. That's so sort of out.


Y penderfyn allan â ymddiad Cymru a'r senedol yn ystod i'r ddluniau i'r ysgrifennu Y Bwrw Yrdeun i'r ddeliad i'r hyn o'r Chwyr i'r ddisgl random.  Yn y rherwydd, IEU wedi'u cymdeithio'r ffafodol a'r ddweudio'n gweithio'r ffaith, yna ymdweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. Ieithio gyd, Merianna. Yn gwybod yw'r drafodaeth. Dyw bod, ydych yn gweld cymdeithas yma yng nôl i chi. Yn gweddodd anodd ar hyn o'r ffagorach, yn gweithio gyrdd yma, yn ymgyrch o'r cymdeithas yma, a'r Gweithio Cyngor yng nghymru. Yn gweithio'r cymdeithas, mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gwybod. ymlaen ogymell. Senoddr Shechow has moved from the APC to the NNPP, and the space of a few months he has moved from the NNPP to the PDP and we rolled out the drums, or your party rolled out the drums for him. What does this really say about the character of these personality? I know, fe was ymarfer. You know politics, first of all, is about numbers, about interests. And for the person of Bershikarau, is someone that can unleash the will. When you want to win an election. So, for him, someone like him who started as a teacher became a political politician. ac ddiwych i'r ddodd gwneud i gael eraill o'r sefydlu Iwonre i gael eich ddodd os Cwancharso i Gwanae o'r ddodd. A oedd oedd yn y credu i Gwanae o Gwanae o gwneud i Gwanae o Gwanae i'ch gael eu titul i'n cael ei cherdyn. Ac nid yn gallu fy ffordd eich lefeyedd, ddyn nhw'n edrych chi ti'n tyfn i'r ymddreid. a ond ond ym Baigwch yn ide'n dechreu o'r parysu verysty fêl. Felly, i chi'n ei fffrwng a chywb hynny'n gweithio'r cyffredin a ddod dim ym wastidau mae hynny'n gweithio o'r gweithio, a yna mae hynny'n gweithio fel gyda'r cyffredin. Mae hynny'n gweithio ar gyfer dda iawn i'r cyffredin ac i'r cyffredin yn gweithio ar gyfer ddiddor. dywed wedi ei ddech chi ychydig. Dysgwyl photographer yn'r会io poloedd o'r dda, oeddiw pwysig yn llwydd, oeddiw pwysig yn llwydd. Mae'r cyllid yn oeddiw bwysig yn llwydd a yw amser i ni'n cyllid yma, a rydyn ni'n bwysig i chi dipyn ei ddefnyddio Llywodraeth. Rydyn ni wedi'u gweld y ffordd rwy'n gweld eu ddech chi'n rywbeth ar y blaid. Rydyn ni'n gweld i'n gweld i chi'n gweld i'n gweld i'n gweld, y cyfnod y bydd y cyfnod ar hyn o'r blaen fwyaf. Er oedd y gallwn y bydd iawn o'n mynd i ddiddorol y maen nhw'n ei fath o'r hyn ymlaen. Yn nhw'n ddiddorol, yw'n ddiddorol. Felly mae'n mynd i ddiddorol i ddim yn ymlaen. Yn nhw'n ddiddorol, yw'r ffrwng yma'r ffifio'r amser. Mae'n ddiddorol i ddiddorol y hwn yn ei ddiddorol i ddawn. Felly mae'r ddiddorol yn y ddiddorol. Felly, yw hyn wedyn yn ymddangos gwerthu arall arlu eu bodai hyn. The agreement with him was okay. I get the ticket my supporters have the same in the party. But when it got to the crunch time the party decided to give only him the ticket. You know why? Because they know he has political weight to bring his supporters thinking he is selfish. That tells you that part of the main character of a man is to say he is not selfish. is to say that, look, I'm ready to give in to others rather than for me myself. So that tells you that this is a man that will not just leave NMPP to PDP that is an umbrella that can cover everyone. It tells you that this is a man that wants all, you know, everybody to be around him and everyone to be partaker of the good governance that PDP can bring on both. Interesting. I'd like to take you on some of the things that you've mentioned. Now, you talked about the fact that he once said a place where his members or his followers could be head and, of course, people who could stand by, you know, or keep their word. Let's talk about keeping your word. The reason why we're having the wike artiku drama or what you would rather call the southern caucus, you know, drama within the PDP is about keeping your word. And then let's talk about the PDP. The reason why also the chief body judge is asking that Senesha Yocha, are you stepped down to keep his word and be fair to the people? It's about the same issue that you raised, keeping your word. Why would the PDP be a place that one would expect that they'd keep their word? Especially if the southern caucus is, of course, at Luggeheads with the National Working Committee and, of course, the leadership of the party for not keeping their word. What's supposed to say that Shekhar will also not up and leave a few days later because of, you know, what you said again, keeping your word as a party? Well, when it comes to the southern caucus position, don't forget, PDP, there's an artist that was a precedent of what had happened before. The time of a module early and then that of a bull out there. We saw what happened. You see, the PDP is not an ruling party. It's an election time and nobody, no politician should ask for such a thing that no, let's change leadership. We have elections to run a couple of months. And I believe and I know that the PDP will show that there's a change in the leadership structure of the party. So that is not something you have to even debate about. It will come to play. I believe that the chairman will keep his word and look, I'm going to look. He could insist that, look, I will stay because I have four years to run. But immediately, by God's grace, by President Attico, by President Attico becomes a president, what will happen? Who will definitely step down and the process will be done. So a mini convention, a special convention will be conveyed in which there will be a change of party. So that for me is not something that anyone should worry about. But for me, Shekharau will keep his word. You know why? He's not coming in because he wants something for himself. To have a liquid ticket that will give him something or probably power play in the scheme of things. It's very difficult to believe this because I mean sincerely politics is about interest and numbers. I don't understand when you say he's not coming in for anything or personal.  That's why he moved from the NMPP to the PDP. You may not know what he wants, but I do not know if that sits right with everybody else. That he does not want anything. If he didn't want anything, he'd stay in the NMPP. Okay, let me tell you this. He doesn't want anything but good governance and the plan that Attico Avaka has. We are seeing the plans of Attico Avaka and seeing what PDP can bring of God. We are seeing that as a platform in which Nigerians can be rescued from what PDP APC has thrown us into to rescue the country from the dummy that APCs have done to the psyche of Nigerians, to the economy of Nigerians, to the character of Nigerians, to everything we can think of. APCs have done the pits, they've sent Nigerians to it and we need someone to bring us out. Who better to do that? Vice-president Attico Avaka and Attico Avaka, who can do it under the umbrella of PDP. So, for me, Shakaral is coming because he has sent the plans of Attico. If not, he will have gone somewhere else. He will have stayed with Attico. He has done everything. Let me stay with Attico and then get my ticket. Get my centurion. I want to proceed and he turned back to the National Assembly. But he didn't do that. He decided to come to PDP and he has sent a program of PDP on what we can do. The umbrella is so big that it can contain everyone and Nigerians to bring us into a place of prosperity. Could he also be that the senator had seen that there might not be a future with him or he might not even win that particular ticket under the NMPP? I'm just saying, could it be because like you just rightly said, the PDP is a big umbrella and there are better chances, in your words, compared to what he might have in the NMPP. Let me tell you what. You know, for someone who was a schoolteacher, demote by Pancoste, he was a schoolteacher and he contested against him, against the sitting government and he won with a million post votes. That tells you a lot. He came for the second time he won the ticket. He won the seats. He went to Senate in one of six. That tells you he's very good. He's not someone that you can just stray away by raising of a wave of a hand. That's someone you should cross to ensure that you have an ego into Kano and don't forget that PDP in Kano has not been having it too good when Pancoste lost. So, we need the numbers. We need the numbers and Chakaraw have the numbers and beyond the numbers, we know that Chakaraw by his very good of someone that won good governance, someone that won the people to decide. We have seen it in PDP again. We have seen by the character and the personality of Artiku that, look, I know there's a future for my people here. I know there's a future for Nigeria in if I join the PDP so I can contribute my quota to developing and growth of the nation. Well, Shraibu is a former member of the Presidential Convention Committee with the People's Democratic Party. I want to say thank you so much for speaking with us. We appreciate your thought. Thank you very much. All right. We'll take a quick break. Thank you for staying with us. When we return, we'll be discussing the Labour Party and its plan for 2023 elections in Lagos.


Hey, welcome to Selenina. Hey everybody and welcome to my desk happy Easter Sunday. Did a little bit of engineering, slowly getting out of my sales tax reporting party and back to doing hardware, which is what I'm paid to do. So this week I worked a little bit on this camera cowbell and I'm working on this ESP32C6 feather. So let's go to the overhead and I'll show off this cowbell. So I think I designed it on a previous desk of Lady Aida. I definitely remember doing a great search about this micro SD card slot. It's much slimmer than the ones we tend to use. It's a little bit more expensive. It's like a Molex part, but it works great and it's nice and slim. So it fits in between the holes for the cowbell and this is meant to go on top of Raspberry Pi Pico or Pico W, so you pop it on top. And let me see if the camera stuff down here, hold on a minute, hi little cameras. So what's nice is that this connector, which I think we also did on a great search, can fit a wide variety of cameras. They're called DVP cameras for digital video parallel or something, I don't know. But you've got ones with big wide angle lenses and ones with auto-focus lenses, like the ones in the Memento. So a couple of different options. I tend to like the OV5640 cameras, they're kind of the highest resolution. So you can just fit these in, this pops open and then this part fits in. Even though this is a very slim connector, it does fit the camera, wait, hold on. It's really hard to do stuff under a camera lens. Let me get this fitted, maybe push it down and then there you go.  Only thing is it uses a lot of pins. So this uses pretty much every GPIO down here because we need power down, reset, H sync, V sync, pixel clock, and then eight GPIO and then I think that's it. But it's a lot. And then, you know, the SD requires chip select and SPI and you need I squared C to control the camera. So you use it like a lot of pins, a lot of pins, but it does work. And we have basically have circuit Python and there's Arduino support for the ESP32 or via the ESP32 camera library, but we also do support it with the RP2040, which, you know, like it's kind of nice to have multiple chip supported. So this is the breadboarded version. This is how like actually tested these modules initially. So you can see it's running circuit Python eight and you can see here it's got a little demo where it's grabbing the bitmap, raw bitmap image and then displaying it on a TFT. But this is, you know, we do document this, but this is like a total pain to wire up. You need like so many, like I said, you need like 15 wires. So this is basically the same code, but, you know, now I've got the camera bell on top with a little bit of 5640, an SD card, and then you've got a little TFT screen and I just use an iSpy cable to connect it up to a Raspberry Pi. There's me, hi. Much easier to wire up. You know, I wish it could have fit a display on here too, but it really just was too small. One thing I did realize as I was doing this, it wasn't working at first, is to save one pin, I have an external crystal. So we don't use a PWM to generate the clock that is required for the camera. And even though the clock is in general 24 megahertz, actually 24 megahertz, that's kind of the data sheets, it's typical 24 megahertz, it's actually a little bit too fast. So for now I'm actually, you can kind of barely see I have a little jumper wire where I do generate the PWM from the A0 pin. But then for the final version, I'm gonna use a 16 megahertz crystal oscillator. But that's fine. And then this demo also takes photos. So, you know, I can snap a photo, I think. You see on the computer. Oh, maybe this isn't the, oh, you know what, this isn't the demo that takes photos. There must be a different demo. Sorry, I loaded the wrong code on here.  No, it says shut or fail, but it's not detecting. I don't know, mystery. Anyways, but it does have the echo image and then I did get the camera to take photos and save them to the SD card. I also have a demo, trying to do it really fast, but I don't know if it's gonna work, to be honest, where I have it as a web server. So give me a second. Carefully remove the pika. One thing I don't like about very narrow boards is that removing them is easy to bend the pins. Okay, now we put this pika. So the only thing with the pico W is the pico W uses a lot more RAM because it has the SSL stack, you know, the Wi-Fi stack it has to do. So, ironically, you can't run the demo that echoes the image onto the TFT with the pico W. Oh, yeah, it's funny. I think I had the wrong webcam. Okay, so let's go to the computer. Let me see, let me connect to Adafruit because it's on Wi-Fi and I'm not Ethernet, it's a good different network. Let me see if that'll work. Okay, and then what happened to my, sorry, what happened to my connection? One moment. Okay, weird. Okay, so this is, sorry, this is the TFT version. Let me close that. Okay, found it. Okay, sorry about that. So let's go to this URL and let's see if this works. Okay, so now this is the webcam demo which is streaming the JPEG from the camera to a web server running with async.io. So this demo, I totally ganked it from Jepler and it was running on the S3. It does run on the pico W.  But it does work. Is this the demo? Hold on. No, sorry, this is the wrong code, one second. So many circuit pythons. Okay, yeah. So this one rates a server using the HEP server library and to host it. And then when you connect, it basically sends, it streams a JPEG image of the size requested, which I'm just doing 240 by 240 again to keep it small. And like it does kind of work all the once in a while. It kind of gets, things you have to like reset it, but it does work. Anyways, so there's the two demos I tested and I got working with the camera.  But what this could be good for is, you know, you have a camera and a pico W and it like, sends us something and sends it to Adafruit.io or it sends you an email with the image. I do like that these cameras both have raw bitmap that you can do like simple machine learning stuff on it, like recognizing like numbers and shapes and maybe like cat or dog or you get JPEG images. And then, you know, you get small, there's only 11K of disk space for a 240 by 240 image. And then you can set up, you can see, it's not a bad quality image either. Okay, anyways, so it's the camera. And then, well, let's just go straight to the C6. Okay, so the next thing is, you can go back to the overhead. I've got this ESP32 C6. So the C6 is an interesting beast because I thought it was like the C3 and it is a little bit like the C3. But instead of, I think it doesn't have Bluetooth or energy, instead it has 802.15.4, so it can do ZigBee. Which means it's good for matter, which is like a new standard for home automation and IoT stuff. Also, apparently very, very low power I can get down to like, I think like 10 microamperes and deep sleep. Only downside is there's not a ton of GPIO on this module. I like using the modules. I know like you can get the raw chips and sometimes there's more GPIO available. It has a PSRAM and I think like two of these pins I had to share with like SPI or iSquare. So there's like two pins that were like, they were analog pins, but they're also, I think like these two pins like D6 and D7 are shared with A4 and A5. They're gonna get the STEMI QT port, NeoPixel, Root button, Reset button. It doesn't have native USB. It has the like C3-esque USB that is like, it's a, you don't need a USB serial converter but it doesn't do anything more than USB serial and JTAG decoding. Mattery, USB-C, a little BME 280 on here because I figure if it's gonna be doing matter sensing like a home automation, it could be a nice demo to be like, oh, like plug it in and it's like an instant temperature humidity, barometric pressure sensor that can send you know, that environmental data to like your home kit or what's it called, home assistant configuration. So I'm just starting to bring this up right now. I have to do like the board definition and the variant but again, luckily because there's no native USB, it's like not that hard. Also, there's not a lot of pins. So just setting up the USB, sorry, setting up the I squared C pins, the SPI pins. So the first thing I did is just get the GPIO blinking. Oh, it's also a risk five chip, not 10 silica, apparently. So, you know, I think it's interesting. I'm, you know, we're seeing companies kind of move from ARM and 10 silica, maybe using risk five as risk five is adding more capabilities, peripherals. And for like a low power chip, you know, maybe they don't need that, you know, they don't, they don't basically, you know, at the low cost of an expressive chip, they don't want to pay the 25 cents, whatever licensing fee per chip, 10 cents, 25 cents. It adds up when you're selling 10s and millions of chips. So I also give some freedom like in the long term, you know, as if they build on their risk five success, they'll do more with risk five. So hopefully by next week, I'll have this up and running. I just started like an hour ago, making the board definition.  So I think that's it. That's kind of what I'm working on. The camera stuff's done. So I ordered the PCBs and then the C6, I, you know, I'm very close, I think to getting it going and maybe I'll show demo, maybe my next week I'll show the low power stuff and maybe I'll show, I'd love to do a matter demo. We have Apple devices in this household. And so it'd be cool to see if we could get it to work with the, with matter with like a home pod or home kid type thing. I don't know. I'll figure it out. Anyways, okay, great. I guess we'll go to the great search then. The great search brought to you by Digikey and Adafruit. Thanks, Digikey. Every single week, lady, I use a power of engineer to help you as you find the things you want on digikey.com, lady. What are you looking for this week? Okay. I saw this request by Jeff Kaiser, who's a friend of the fruit. It says, I bought a 1% metal film registered from Aliexpress when the first resistor was off by 2%. And they're really, really skinny leads. Anyone know a better 1% register kit? Glad you asked. But first let me show on the overhead what he means by skinny leads because I've actually bumped into this issue and it drives me crazy. So this is, you know, what is often sold when you buy inexpensive resistor kits. And these are often called like 116th or 1 eighth watt resistor. And the LED, sorry, the LED, the leads are 0.34 millimeters or 0.3 millimeters. Yeah, 0.34 millimeters. Whereas your standard, like what you would normally get, like when most people buy quarter watt through whole resistors, are 0.5 millimeters. And the reason this actually matters is when you use these with a breadboard, you know, these resistors stick nicely and like, you know, I can't beam the feeling through the video. But like it feels like it's gripped. Like it's in there, it's not gonna fall out. It's stuck in there.  Like this one, let me see if I can, yeah, hold on. Let me show if I can see if I can demo that live.  Hold on, let me find it. Okay, so it's in here and it just fell out. It's not thick enough to get gripped by, even though this is a pretty good quality breadboard, these are the ones with like the extra prong and the prongs are like notched to like have a good grip on them. But yeah, it's like, unless you have a super tight breadboard, these skinny leads aren't going to fall out. So, luckily Digikey actually stocks resistor kits. I think we covered SMT resistor kits a while ago but let's show what they've got for two whole resistor kits. So over at the computer, under kits, you can just type in like, you know, resistor kit if you're not going to remember. And they actually have quite a few resistor kits. So let's look at just the active ones. And then, like I said, they have surface mount and through hole. Let's also look also at the, well, we'll do marketplace, but let's do normally stocking. Just in case they were some that were discontinued. So to be honest, basically, if you're going to get, you know, like Sparkman has a resistor kit that's a quarter watt, but this is a 5% set. You know, to be honest, like a lot of people who want resistor kits want a surface mount resistor kit, not a through hole, because honestly, not a lot of people do through hole prototyping anymore. That said, there is like a Yagio through hole resistor kit here. So let's filter by through hole only. Another thing is most people don't need a 1% kit. They want a 5% kit because a 5% kit is again is going to be good enough for them. But if you do want a 1% kit, let's search for 1% tolerance. I don't know what this one, this one is multiple, I don't know. Okay, 21 options. So the most popular pack of kits. So like, you know, this is, this looks like it's probably okay too. But the Yagio kits are kind of like the ones that they have the most in stock for. But one thing to watch out for is you don't get like every value. So each order that you get has like one decade's worth. So this is the 100K to one mega ohm and this is the 10 to 100 ohm and this is the one to 10K. So basically you like pick which decade you want. Now the thing is is that just like, I don't want to get all of them because it's going to be like 20 feedbacks. But the thing is like you probably don't need all of them. I'll say that for most times you need 1% resistors is when you're doing like op amp filters or like other analog electronics that you have to like set a 10K to 100K ohm like set a divider like precisely and chances are if you're doing that kind of precision dividers you don't need anything under 1K because you just like don't really do like op amp feedback resistors or like other analog resistors that are under like about a 1K or so. So if I was going to get the 1% versus 5% kit I would get 1% and 100K to one meg and the 10K to 100K. And then if you really want get the one to 10K but I wouldn't get anything under 1K I'd get a 5% kit to be honest because you don't like need the precision at like 470 ohms. And you definitely don't need it for like 10 ohms to 100 ohms. Like nobody's doing 1% you know, 68 ohm resistors. It's very, very rare. So I think if you're going to like just pick 1, 1, 1 I would go with the 10 to 100K because it's like this is kind of where like the most of your values are going to be when you're doing op amp circuits. So this is my pick for the great search. It's RS4X kit ND. All right. That's a great search. That's like, you know and that is our show for the week.  You might have heard of baby singing. Hey, pay attention to me over here. That's okay. So we're gonna do some baby stuff. All right. We'll see everybody throughout the week. Thanks so much. Have a great weekend.


This is Will Spencer with the renaissance of men here with the new 21 report and Arthur Kwan Lee Thank you for having me. How you doing Arthur? I'm doing fabulous. How was your first 21 convention experience? It's amazing the Gathering of men who want to improve themselves and take back to culture is really inspiring What was the subject of your talk? I came to talk about how Men on the right side of the aisle, I don't mean politically whether you want to preserve tradition Whether you have religious orientation or whether you want to improve brotherhood and communion associated with it You need to take back the arts and I don't mean specifically visual arts. I know that's my modality. It could be Acting writing what have you but the idea that we need to start influencing the youth and beyond With the culture, you know, the data is all there, but with the culture is I think where the real battle is won What are some of the ways that we should influence influence them culturally? the production of excellence is Should be the foundation and then once that excellence is there we need to obliquely Be public about our views and I think the biggest challenge or a Critical challenge we need to dismantle is the notion of social camouflage We need to be able to be public about what we privately feel in our hearts and Emiliate that dissonance. That's the only way we can really You know Acknowledge one another properly and grow from there Save more about social camouflage and how that shows up at what and what's being camouflaged? So Jordan Pearson talks about this how You know a zebra has camouflage against the herd, right? It's not necessarily that he has camouflage You know, it's it's black stripes on a white horse, right? So he pops out actually he doesn't blend in the great with the grass but if you see a stack of zebras together then you can't identify one and he brought up this study that the Scientist put one red dot on one of the zebras and the first thing that happened was the lions attacked it and And I look at that as a metaphor the lions in this case Strangely enough are is a radical left and the person who is not being invisible Tanner talks about this That is the person who is standing for what's right But if we all stand up for what's right and they won't be able to castigate a single one of us, so We need to consolidate, you know, we need to be willing to risk being Cancelled so that that's that's how you become uncancelable. You need to first take that risk towards You know Standing the line between picking up the sword, right? Before we move on I have a really important question sure Is it black stripes on a white horse or white stripes in a black horse? That is the question See we're getting a metaphysical So I just had to ask that Well, so what are some of the values that we need to surface as men? Because it's not about it sounds like you're saying it's not about an individual standing up and and taking off his social camouflage But many individual men standing up and taking off their social camouflage and standing together That's a zebra metaphor. So what are some of the values that you think we need to represent when we remove our social camouflage? well In this case we're talking about men doing so right and the brotherhood associated with it So so that question implies two things first is the support system, you know It's a really important that men can really openly support one another As we go forward we live in an anti-masculine age so Frankly it needs to Seem like it's okay. I know that sounds crazy But we're at a time where to be a man today to be defector of the dominant narrative So we they need to feel that okay. I'm not the only one that already goes far I think that that already covers a lot, but with that said We need to be able to properly identify with the definition What is masculinity if you can articulate something you understand it and masculinity is a big part of it is being able to recognize Objective standards boundaries and expectations something about drawing the line That's why William Blake all of these You know religiously inspired artists every time they depict God as his wise old man. He's always drawing lines Literally and it's kind of synonymous with that idea So I think men need to be able to first of all understand that we're the ones who set those boundaries up. We're the ones who Make it clear. What's wrong and right order, right? so We need to be able to first Collectively understand that is the role of man and then and if we can Support each other in that journey then whatever form that takes format again. I'm doing it in the arts You're doing it as a leader in renaissance of men. There's different ways to do so, but it's the same Nucleus, right? It's it's Saying hey with you know, we have to recognize this is a boundary you do not cross this right and I think that's a big part of masculinity and today that's Recognized as conservatism in many ways You know, I'm not even a hard line conservative guy. I'm an anarchist myself, but I vote right But today, uh, it's it's about preserving tradition and recognizing the patterns associated with it What are the most important ways to bring boundaries back into the lives of individual men? So we're talking about drawing to collective boundaries as a society Politically where some of the ways that we as men can begin that process of setting boundaries on the on the micro scale, let's say Yeah, I think that the micro versus macro difference comes from personal versus public right and Get under the squat rack You know, it boils down to this is I Would I would almost bet Before you ask a man, what are your political dispositions? What are you religiously any of these big large matter questions? If they're exercising regularly if they're eating relatively healthy if they go to church You know, if they have good brotherhood, they're gonna automatically have the values that are synonymous with what is a proper way to live So that's that's what I mean by culture culture dictates a lot of this It tells you what the norm is so if they can kind of live based on what they see and experience and take in food for the soul Take in and digest that and live that out then they're gonna naturally have, you know These higher ideals that we're all aiming towards so I think if we can exercise squats and steaks and the Bible Something of that sort. I don't want to be so minimalist in that way, but but there's something in there where You know, all of our ancestors all these wise men have been basically telling us hey the pattern here and A lot of us are just saying no, you know, I'm good and I think that a big a Big way we can wake up especially young men is We need to try to tell them this information not in this wagging finger way Like but more that it's so much more fun if you can actualize these principles and That's what all the speakers. That's what you and I are doing, right? We're trying to do it with with these different Forms of expression, but it's that same spirit, which is guys, you know, I'm not telling you to do this because I'm jealous of your youth or some Peter Pan thing I'm telling you to do so because this is how you become stronger and you can have more sovereignty over your domain You can extend it actually, right? Yeah, so you talk about boundaries How does that apply to your work because on a casual observer level it would seem that your work is quite chaotic visually It's visually chaotic, but where are the how do the boundaries show up in your in your paintings? Very good question So there's a important Universality when it comes to art making and this applies again any any art doesn't matter if it's painting or something You can replace anything. I say with a different thing combi acting whatever you need to learn the rules or break the rules So you need to understand the boundaries and then once you can draw that line Then you can comfortably go a little bit beyond and take what you need to come back in, right? so my whole thing is You know, one of the fundamentals get the tool belt spoon proportion color theory value Perspective get all this tool set then use that to create your own voice. So You can't as an artist just live in the chaos, right? You need to be able to have Actually sufficient ego in many ways to and and the weaponry to go to that unknown and to bring it back to base reality and Being an artist in the masculine traditional like religious side just that whole sentiment It's strange because you're living in chaos because the openness associated with being an artist But you're trying to in that chaos bring back order in a way, you know That the problem with artists on the left is they just live in that chaos And they just package it and then they just try to find vain ways of expressing it for themselves This is how I live in this chaos rather than going, you know going to that other side It's like a bodhisattva or an evangelist or something. You're you're getting that experience Using your artistic means to repackage it for the public But there's a discipline and order associated with it And I think the the the main line I'm talking about to understand these boundaries as an artist is Discipline you need discipline and you need to learn the fundamentals and then you you know again My art my style is is very chaotic. There is multiple layers of gestural mark making and color theory And I am stacking as much as I can influence from so many different sources. But with that said it's all nested with Foundations things I've learned from my masters things. I've trained an apprentice for so I'm using that technical foundation and and Kind of dancing with that order and chaos if that makes sense. That's kind of the the language that I'm exploring Yeah, I Think for a lot of men art can feel very out of reach they go to galleries and they have They have paintings on the white walls and everything is very quiet and it's very It's very shh, you know And you go to the the the famous art museums and everything feels very stiff and curated and very high-minded Or they deal with snobs in the art world or you know Or men who men and women, you know, regardless some sort of Dictatorial stance and it's like it has the effect of taking art out of the reach of the average of the average man Someone who could benefit from it greatly So how can we begin to bring art back into the reach of the average of the average man? Number one, that's what you said is one of the great shames in our culture today the fact that men feel like art is this You know Difficult thing to experience our should be for everyone and a big problem with this industry today is like you said it Bleeds a pretentiousness in elitism You know, you're not a part of the cool kids club. You can't come experience this art. You don't get it No, we get it. It's actually the other way around. So what we need to do is Number one the material we need to go back towards art that is symbolically oriented and trying to communicate with the unconscious Symbolically That's transcendental art right there That's how you sort of nest that language and if you can do it with a higher skill set boom people are going to be influenced So that's the content driven aspect of it in number two the gatekeepers and the pillars cannot be all on the side of the radical left and The percentages speak for themselves. There's too many people that are in the industry that basically Want young artists Who want to preserve tradition who want to yield their brush towards the logos and they say no Well, this has to support BLM or how does this support the LGBTQ movement? And it's just the woke is and this is so dialed up That we need to start participating in the cultural front and people I don't want to just say on the right but anybody who acknowledges You know and preserves and protects Freedom of speech the right to bear arms in the family Whatever, however you define beyond that. That's fine.  They're gonna blend in Which by accepting that they are already poisoning their artistic spirit. So we need to start having new channels That will support these ideals and then with that in mind the artists themselves Need to produce work. That is at that caliber. So we need both the situational and at the individual level address properly. Otherwise They're gonna own the arts Continue to do so When did you first realize that the art world that you had been trained into was actually a front in a larger war? Say a cultural war, maybe even a transcendent war. What did you when did that really crystallize for you our university? Oh, wow. Yeah, I remember when I went to art school. I Was brought up under a Christian household with specific philosophies that Really, you know led my life as my compass I built up this set of values in the hierarchy and when I go to art school that teaching me post-modern doctrine That is all about saying this is all shit right and I couldn't help but realize At a gut level When are we gonna paint? Like this is all theory. This is all art theory taking these classes about, you know systemic racism and Intersectionality you like you had like lecture-based classes about these things before you got into the studio Five to one five classes were were theory humanities all this interpretive. Yeah.  I would say yes, sure Because I just said I just didn't know anything and I was surrounded exactly but I've come to see that the subject matter in the art that I'm attracted to itself It's all about using your art to point towards a transcendent morality. That's what it's all about. So my whole thing was you know what? This is all crap and I start to look into the history of art schools themselves You know, we all know the juxtaposition about universities today. Some people say It's all a waste of time It's all you just sending your children to be radically brainwashed by the left and some people say well No, it's still necessary. There's value in it. I think if you're studying a system Mechanical engineering law Medicine you need to know the ins and now I get that that requires a tremendous amount of education. I get that but if it's art Painting dancing and all that it's argumentative. It depends where you go and I'll tell you for me I don't know what I did in art school. I didn't become a stronger artist. I did not They just wanted to use me and Art to the radical left is an arm of the state. It's not a religious song and I believe that You know just to study the institutional roots of it is created by the Frankfurt School John Murphy wrote art and the social world and All these art theorists they use his writings as a substrate for the right for all the new books that they're publishing Art education used to be a tillier base, right? You go in there. It's like any other trade school. You study like a you want to be a car mechanic You know, I'm plumbing you learn the trade and then you market it and the reputation goes wrong Art universities are specifically designed to deteriorate our social cohesion specifically so because if you can Make beauty degenerate if we lose our sense of beauty We lose our humanity Did you find that the men here were receptive to your message and the things that you were crying out for it? Wow, you're like it's about time. Wow, and and like, you know, I get it. This is The matters here is huge Fabulous beautiful but We need a place for the artists and and enlightenment is not complete until all of them come in need the doctors right we need a religious men we need the warriors and We need the artists we need all of us to come in and we need to all say that essentially the sentimental same thing Which is return to the father go within Santa for your valleys How do we make more men into artists at any level? Obviously not necessarily needing to be at your level, but just how to become artists in our day-to-day lives the first thing is So much so many men who are centered for what's right is Percentage-wise, I mean, there's a lot of people on the right side of our conservatives, right? And we need to first have conservatives understand that every investment should not be in the lens of your capitalist pursuit Be a capitalist. I get it. We have I mean I'm not I'm not being woke at all, but my point is that It makes you have this psychological frame of looking at every investment based on the ROI you get How many more digits do I have in my back account? Well, if you want to participate in the cultural front, you have to do what the left does which they are so effectively Dominating us on which is you participate in the culture because that's how you have your hands on the steering wheel of actual influence That's the first thing Participate in the cultural front for its own sake. That's the first thing and that's gonna take in many different forms And then depending on how they want to participate whether they would they want to be Host a show like yourself where they want to pick up a brush or whatever the medium is I always say that every man has an artistic medium. It's just about medium specificity It may not be a painting for an exit. It could be woodworking like my cousin does Um welding Small things, you know, it gets off work and he makes these little sculptures little garden sculptures and he's he's in bliss so you need to kind of find your artistic medium because When people tell me I don't have an artistic bone. I always say that is not true That is not true. You just haven't found your medium. Maybe it's not drawing for you Maybe it's picking up a guitar that your neighbor has been saying I'll teach for you for free for a while You know, maybe you follow up on that. I don't know what it is, but I truly believe everyone has an artistic outlet or Has a love of art itself and you can support, you know by becoming a patron or you have a neighbor who's a You know, he looks at you as a mentor and he needs 20 bucks a month for some art materials and he's young guy Who knows but participate in the cultural front because there's so much novelty there and Half the battle will be won there That's that's the only reason why the left is so effective because they own the culture. So if we start seeing that territory They don't like that at all, right and I've experienced that personally You said something interesting you said He's in bliss say more about that talking about your artist friend. Yeah, you know, it's funny because I Often say a man need to find a discipline that they love more than sex and that will make women naturally fall into the right place When I'm painting If my girl is like horny or something and I'm and I'm and I'm loving this moment. I tell her sweetie. I'm painting not right now right, so I Don't know if this is a good example or not. Let's say you see somebody Who took a psychedelic and they're in the corner, but they're like they're in bliss and there's nothing around them That's going on but it's in here, right? That's the same thing. There's pleasures of the body Sexual intercourse good food nice cigars that we had right there's all these there's all these different forms of physical pleasure, but the greatest pleasure and all the all these You know these books on masculinity and right of passages have been talking about this Is the ascitation of a skill a discipline? That is the greatest pleasure You know you walk you walk out of your jiu-jitsu class and your feet are dragging because you had such an intense class But you feel good because you did some work, right same feeling The pride associated with it and I don't mean pride is us against them I'm here and you're there and I'm this one-up in shifting. I mean pride of a skill You're proud of the fact that You're developing and you're improving and you're conscientious about your improvement to and damn you're getting deadly Like I think the most the pleasure at most highest pleasures I've ever had Is all my artistic means came together and I can reflect upon and say you know They're good, you know, that's the greatest pleasure and we need to understand mastery of a skill is a way greater pleasure Then the pleasures of the body and we should participate in both, but we should acknowledge the hierarchy for what it is Yeah, what do you say to men and women who look at the monastery and say oh, it's just a bunch of Macho jerks, you know meat heads You're talking about something very different You look at 20 convention. Yeah, yeah, you know, I'm I'll tell you right now I'm at the 21 convention as a classically trained fine artist who's exhibited internationally. So Yeah, I mean you can't stick those labels on me You know, I mean I want artists of the year like like I went through all those right of passages So, I mean and I've met so many men here speakers and attendees you know from all these different vantage points backgrounds, you know careers, whatever it is and The fact that they're doing this wholesale view and writing us all off. It's with one identity I mean, it's kind of reflect the reflection of themselves, honestly And haters are gonna hate because I don't think they understand the first thing about it if you talk to any of these men here, we all want to stand up for what's right and The Manisphere is evolving and it's evolving into a deeply religious one and I don't know if they will the whole manister will like that but I Would say it'll be better off that way Agree, right? Yeah Where can people go to find out more about you and what you do?  The only place there is is Genesis Council as well So if you like my work look up Arthur Kwon Lee and all platforms or my website If you want to join the artist collective Genesis Council, it's good. Thank you I'll bless you. Yeah, I'll bless you This is Will Spencer with the Renaissance of Men here with the new 21 report and Arthur Kwon Lee. Thanks so much