Hi, everyone. Did you all have a nice five-minute break? You made it, you did it. You've almost made it. You have to listen to a couple more people talk and then we get to go to a fun party at the Museo de las Américas. Okay, so I want to start off, is everyone settled? I'm ready? Okay, great. I want to start off by saying thank you to Amelia. She's actually not even here right now because she's already setting up at the Museo with her entire family. They have been so kind in Denver. And if you look at the program, the special thanks, that's all her family. They have been on the ground helping with whatever they can. They are bartending. They are taking over tables to the Museo. So if you see them, please tell them thank you. They have been nothing but kind and just helping us and volunteering.  Yeah, give it up for them. Thank you to the programming and the selection committee. Yeah, give it up for them. I joined the LTC almost a year ago this month. However, they have been working on this for many years and they've stuck through a pandemic and to make it to this weekend. So I'm really appreciative of all of you and so thankful for showing up to the meetings, whether they were during your work day or late at night. And it wouldn't have happened without each and every one of you. And even I emailed selection committee members last week saying, hey, if someone comes down with COVID, can I put you on stage? And a lot of them eagerly said, yes, whatever you need. And so I am eternally grateful for you all. No one had to go on stage surprisingly except for Richard and Daniel. So props to them also. And I wanna say thank you to the entire Suteatro team. Yeah, they have been helping us out here. And at night time, they have their own show, Chicano, Sing the Blues, and they also have to run their own theater company. Arnold, who's up there, has been doing our tech all week. Thank you, Arnold. And he was joined by William today, so thank you, William, as well. And yeah, everyone you see who's been helping out, set up food, cleaning the theater is part of the team here. And so please tell them thank you when you see them hopefully later tonight. I wanna say one more thank you to Tony and Mika, who have been so lovely. They literally, they can do it all. They can do it all. And they have kept Amelia and myself alive. They just show up and they're like, we have food for you, we know you haven't eaten. And they sneak us away. Yeah, no, it's really, really beautiful. And I've had the best week here. And I'm sad to be leaving, but I'm so grateful to have started this partnership and to be continuing it. Okay, so now I'm gonna ask you all some questions because we started with questions and now you've had time to reflect, hopefully. And so first one is, who is going to forward a script from one of our readings or in your flash drive to a colleague? Oh yeah, oh yeah. Okay, who is going to convince the Latinx artistic directors who are not here to produce one of these shows in their future seasons? Oh yeah, oh yeah. Already Abigail says already done. I'm eager to hear about that. Okay, who has a better understanding of what a comment is after these three days? Oh my gosh, amazing, you guys, I love it. Who wants to join this hearing committee? Okay, that's amazing. Great, email me, jacklanathowlround.com. We'll get you started. Okay, now I have a very important question. Who is interested in producing a play they saw this weekend in one of their future seasons? Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Keep your hand up, keep your hand up if you put it up. Okay, I see Amy. Amy from Actors Theater of Louisville. Can you tell us what play you're interested in producing? Okay, Amy's interested in producing La Egoista by Erlina Ortiz at Actors Theater of Louisville. Andrew Egoista at Cleveland Playhouse, okay. Tony, La Carpa de las Frontera, directed by Samuel Valdez at Su Teatro. Okay, who else had their hand up? Yes, Egoista and Exhaustion. Okay, anybody else? Y'all are gonna have to fight for these. Happily, he says. You can do a co-pro. Patrice, the invocation of Selina, yeah, yeah, yeah. I support that as a fellow Tejana. Okay, well these artists are gonna be expecting emails from Yona that you've said it out loud and it's recorded, so I will hold you to it. I hope you all enjoyed this weekend. I hope you have fun tonight. I'm gonna talk a little bit later about what food we will be having and the vendors and all of that for closing ceremonies, not for closing ceremonies for our after-party. But right now, I want to introduce Evelina Fernandez, who has a sorpresita for us. I know, get excited. And to be introducing the Diane Rodriguez Yatrista Award. And Jose Luis and I go way, way back. And so, I hope I don't cry and Jose Luis will probably cry, he cries all the time. But for those of you who did not know Diane, the Diane Rodriguez Yatrista Award, the Diane, is the Latinx Theater Commons first award dedicated to an individual working in the theater field who's committed to increasing Latinx representation across all disciplines. With this award, the LTC aims to continue the legacy of Diane Rodriguez, 1951 to 2020. An award.  Multi-hyphenate theater artist, guitar-lessly advocated for other artists and open doors for future leaders in the field. In a 2018 interview with the National Endowment for the Arts, Diane reflected, I think that humor is the biggest weapon to change people's minds. Therefore, announcing this award at the 2022 LTC Comedy Carnaval honors Diane's own work in comedy through Latin's anonymous culture clash and her own plays. The inaugural award recipient was selected by a group of seven nominators, including Amelia Acosta-Pao, Jacqueline Flores, Anne Garcia Romero, Lisa Portes, Jose Luis Valenzuela, Abigail Vega, and Karen Zacarias. In subsequent years, the LTC will seek applicants who are nominated by peers and colleagues throughout the field. An award recipient will be selected by an appointed committee. I talked to JD, Diane's husband about this award, and he also said he would like to be involved later on. With this approach, we aim to amplify Diane's spirit of generosity and her commitment to empowering fellow artists throughout her remarkable career. Diane Rodriguez served on LTC's advisory committee for six years. The Diane Rodriguez Teatrisa award recipient will receive $5,000 of a $5,000 unrestricted grant. Yeah, so I wanted to, just so you can know a little bit more about Diane's essence, I wanted to share something that I wrote about Diane at a beautiful memorial that we had for her at the Center Theater Group in Los Angeles, so bear it with me, and no voy a cheered, I swear. I knew you, sister, and you knew me. My red lips and hoops, sister. I wear black, but you like color, sister. My Chicano theater sister. My aspirational sister. My inspirational sister. My ambitious sister. My let me through the door, sister. My, I'll find another way in, and I'll take you with me, sister. My trailblazing sister. You made your beautiful mark, sister. A mark that crossed borders and genres. A beautiful scar. We run our fingers over and remember the battles, the struggles, the hope, and the laughter. My interior designer sister. You made a beautiful home, sister. My stylish sister. My playwright sister. My costume designer sister. My comedian sister. My director sister. My, they won't let me direct here.  My mentor sister. My childless, but mother-to-hundreds sister. My elegant sister. My beautiful indigenous sister. My verbal pochas, sister. My eye, sister. My cholas forever yi-ge, sister. We didn't say goodbye, sister. You came to see La Virgen and call down my name. I would have chatted longer. I would have held you tighter. I would have thanked you for all the love, sister. My por vida, sister. My si se puede, sister. Si se pudo, sister. Soar through the heavens, sister. Soar through the heavens, sister. I'll catch you on the other side. Representing the inaugural Diane Rodriguez-Yatrisna Award to Patricia Garza. Feel like I'm at the Oscars. Patricia's not here to accept the award. Well, we have a video that's gonna play now. Or should I read her bio first? Okay. So here's a little bit about Patricia, who's amazing. She's amazing. One of Diane's mentees for many, many years. Patricia is the producer and director of Los Angeles programs at Los Angeles Performance Practice, LAPP, supporting the production and presentation of contemporary performance. Before joining LAPP, they served as the director of programs and engagement at the network of Ensemble Theater's NET, overseeing programmatic activities and marketing communications have now shifted into the role of NETT and program director, continuing to manage NET's Cornerstone grant program. A former member of the artistic staff at Center Theater Group for over a decade. Patricia builds roles spanning artistic education and community partnership and management. Patricia had the honor of working alongside CTG Associate Artistic Director, Diane Rodriguez for six years. Together they engaged world renowned international and local companies on multi-year projects focused on collective and ensemble creation. Patricia frequently speaks at public events, facilitates group conversations, and has served as a grant panelist for the NEA Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. They gotta give us more money. And the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture among others. Patricia's passion is working with other theater professionals nationally on issues surrounding anti-racism towards collective liberation with a focus on the LGBTQIA plus community through art equity. Patricia has an MFA, MBA in Theater Management from Cal State Long Beach and a BA in English with a minor in Theater Studies from UC Berkeley. They reside in Tongva, each land known as the East Los, and known as East Los Angeles, with their wife and two adorable dogs. Here's one for you. I'm taking a brief break from COVID to be with you on video because I couldn't be there with you tonight. I just wanna thank the committee for this amazing award that Diane so fabulous. And being the first recipient is just so special to me. I was on the phone with Karen, she was texting me about the award and I instantly kind of started tearing up, which if you know me is pretty rare. Some of it might be the day quill that I have been checking for the last couple of days, but mostly what a deep honor, what a deep honor to have any association, any alignment. I worked alongside Diane for six years. We shared an office among many other years doing projects together. And her laughter, her creativity, her advocacy for our community just radiated the hallway, radiated our room. I always can look forward to her smiles and she would always say, make sure you're having fun, make sure this is still fun. So I'll offer that to you all today. She also would always say, we have to make opportunities for one another. So if the front door isn't open, we're gonna knock on every side door, we're gonna prop open windows for one another, we're gonna bring each other along. So I always have taken that to heart and I really try to manifest that in my own leadership. Recently I was having dinner with Diane's husband, JD. And he asked me a really provocative question. He had a really sincere lead and said, what lessons has Diane left you with? And I sat there for a while and I said, so it really boiled down to believing in yourself and having that confidence that we belong here, we have so much to contribute with this field. And she really saw that in the room and she took a big chance. She saw a really, you know, bumbling young professional and invited me into her fold and mentored me along the way. And I am the producer, the arts administrator, the creative I am because of her. So believing in yourself, everybody deserves to have fun and to do this job with joy. And that's what Diane was leaving me with. So I pledge to you all to do the best for our community and my dog is agreed with me in the background here. And thank you so much for this deep, deep honor. I wish I could be there and give you all lots of hugs. But hopefully when I feel better, we can see one another again. Thank you so much. Have a great rest of the time there. Diane touched so many people. She was a mentor to so many people. So we wanna give an opportunity to anybody who would like to come up and give some besitos to Diane. If anybody wants to come up, don't judge yourself. Just come up here, come on.  I didn't know Diane very well, but I did get to meet her at the 2016 TCG conference. I was a eager theater college student and I had just read her play, Sweetheart Field and I found her on the TCG app that tells you who's coming and I messaged her and I was like, hi, I'm doing a research paper on Latinx Theater and I just read your play. Can I interview you? And she messaged me back and she said, yes, of course, here's my number, how did you find my play? And so I arrived at TCG and got to interview her for my research paper and she knew I was there alone and so she took me to take notes at a board meeting for TCG and then one day she took me to breakfast with the Latinx Theater Commons before they accepted an award at the TCG conference and so if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't have felt welcomed at that conference and I would have never found out about the LTC and so I'm very grateful for the impact she's made in my life and I wish I would be able to tell her that in person. My experience with Diane goes back to 1975 and I was lucky. I got to see Teatro Capesino, excuse me, doing La Caipera de Los Arquiches and they were coming into town to perform by the guys who actually started this theater but we were fortunate, I don't know if this is fortunate, they needed a place to stay and we opened up, we were all a bunch of guys, a bunch of students living in the house together and we agreed to give them our bedrooms and sleep on the floors. So Teatro Capesino spent two weeks with us and in that time we were fortunate to be mentored by JD as well but Diane in particular and we went through the projects and performed out in the street along with Teatro Capesino and our roots went all the way back there very much like José Luis and Evelina, we were fortunate to be able to catch up periodically in that arc we all share as a generation so I see Diane as not only an inspiration to the work that we did but the inspiration of a generation. Diane, I met Diane in 92 Alita. We were second cast of Latin synonymous and it was of course an amazing life changing experience for her, she was our director and of course the writer and we continued to work together years and years after that. One of the most profound and just amazing things that happened with us was that she was telling me about her friend Andres Gutierrez who was a member of course original member of Teatro Capesino and she was talking about how she's gotta go visit his mom Tilly and his sister Helen and I said Tilly and Helen. I'm like on Oklahoma Street and she goes and I said I live on Oklahoma Street, that's my house. So Andres was my sister's best friend in high school and Diane's dearest friend of course during the Capesino days and we just immediately found that connection and together through that connection and speaking to Andres and speaking to family and we just kind of became family and I just love the fact that we were connected professionally and connected through history and memories and every year I lived in New York for many years and she'd come and call me and say hey let's go see theater, let's go see this. JD's coming or Debra's coming or Louise is coming. And she always made time for me and I'm grateful to her and forever and ever. Miss you love you Diane. Well I'm not used to speaking in front of people and I got encouraged by our friend Elena say don't judge yourself so I'm here to give testimony which is similar to Jacqueline's but back in the mid-80s when she, Resolvado were at the Mark Taper Forum and I was a graduate student at UC Irvine I didn't know anything and she was very kind and welcoming and really embraced me as a graduate student at the time and really opened by doors in terms of a researcher saying you can't just be sitting out there being a scholar you have to get in here in the theater and you have to really see what's going on in the theater as a scholar but also have empathy and understanding of the artistic process. So before I start crying too, I'm very grateful to Diane. I probably have known, you know probably knew Diane the least well. I met Diane in Boston at the first Latinx Theater Commons convening in 2013. She was just bigger than life all the time. This amazing smile, this amazing laugh always dressed in the nines and gorgeous, stunning, beautiful hoops and stunning red lipstick. And she was also at one time president of the board at TCG and I had a very uncomfortable conversation with a white colleague who I had mentioned that I wanted to be on the TCG board and he had been on the TCG board and he said, well that's never gonna happen.    And so I was like, well, how do I go about this? And I thought, well, if I have a recommendation from a former president of TCG and they still say no then that's not an organization I would really care about. And so I called Diane and she of course wrote a glowing recommendation and I serve on that board today because of her and her desire to pass on and lift us up and elevate us. So continue to do that and I love you. First of all, acknowledge Diane was like, mentioned mother a lot, he said mother a hundred and took a really, like special interest in specifically Latina producers and was like kind of mean and hard on us sometimes. Like a good way, I mean. But I'm gonna tell a funny story because I don't want to get too sad. So I've known Diane since I was 22. When I was in my mid-20s, I was really lucky and fortunate and probably just, it was probably a mistake, honestly, on a form. And I got to go with a bunch of people and be in the US delegation to the Santiago Amil Festival in Santiago, Chile. And no folks there and she always took us under her arm and was like, let's go to dinner, let's go here. Let me make sure that you're seeing with me so that people will then come talk to you. So this, she was on this panel and it was with all these US artistic directors and associate artistic directors and there was this one white managing director who still has his job and he was just, turn off the live stream for a day.  And she would, you know, take him in and she would turn his words to, did you really mean to say, blah, blah, blah, blah? Oh yeah, yeah. And so then later in the trip, we, as a group, as the US delegation, we went to Pablo Neruda's house and they like, you know, we went on a tour bus and we like, you know, it was so beautiful and this, I mean, they took us to this restaurant and we had this meal and this artistic director says to somebody in the group, can you translate for them? This food here is too greasy. I want some french fries. And Diane was like, no. She was like, I, she just, she just had her eyes and she goes, and they translated it and somehow they got french fries for this man who was still employed in the American theater and literally every time I saw Diane after that, she would look at me and she goes, would you like some french fries? I was very young when I met Diane for the first time. I was, I came into audition for her for Latin's Anonymous for the second performance ever and she was very proud to be directing her own work, the work of all of them. And I came into audition and I was supposed to do a french accent and instead I couldn't remember what a french accent sounded like and I was doing it in my head and I was doing it in my head and I was doing it in my head and instead I came up with like some crazy combination of like some Russian orthodox, Jewish, Irish person and instead of being really bothered, I think it was my audaciousness that brought me back into the room with her because she was such a powerhouse that when she saw someone else with a strong will she was willing to pick that person up and after that performance one night we were all drinking, shocking and I said, Diane, if I come to LA will you help me? And she said, yeah, me, I sure will. And she gave me these big, beautiful, huge silver earrings as a parting gift. Two years later I called her up and I said, Diane, I'm coming, I'm moving to LA and she said, great, I'll be here. And she got me an internship at the Mark Taper Forum at the Latino Theater Initiative because change is really slow, right? Because then a lot of change was happening and then the pushback came and now things are beginning to change again, I hope. And that was Diane, she was good to her word. If she told you she was gonna do something, she did it. And even years and years later I hadn't thought about it, I went on with my crazy life and I bump into her once in a while and we'd say hello but years and years later I sent her a message and I thought, Diane's too busy. She's just too busy, she's not gonna get back to me. Four hours later I got a message back to her, back from her because again, that's who Diane was. She was good to her word, she was a good song. Gracias, bye. I got to meet so many of the people that are in the room that are born here today who I've come to respect and love. But I've always felt a little for my own, because of my own shit, but always a little on the outside of the fabulous people that are part of the LTC. But Diane had a way of making you feel like you were family from the get go. And I remember at that conference in 2013 in Boston, 2013 is that when it was right in Boston? And we had these little breakout sections and somebody needed to take notes and I certainly wasn't gonna volunteer. I felt like I was just happy to be there. And she immediately goes, Rich, why don't you take notes? And so I'm taking notes and through that whole thing, I felt like she was pushing me to be more than I was and she was helping me find my voice in that moment. And I'll never forget that moment because in so many ways it was a reminder that I have a place at the table and that she always reminded me of that, including the way she greeted me every time after that that I saw her. And I'm like, how does this lady even know who I am and why did she care? But that's who she was. She saw something in everybody and she brought you along and I'll forever be grateful to her for that and for that reminder that we all have a voice and we all have something too. Hi, yeah. So on that same note, I didn't know Diane very well. I met her once actually, only once. But she made a huge impact on me so I wanted to share that little anecdote. I went to the LTC Encuentro in LA and I was new to California. I had just moved to California and had gotten a job at Fresno State where I'm still teaching. And so I was there feeling very vulnerable because I didn't know anybody and we were put in a working group together. And so she asked me who I was. So she asked me for my name and I said, I'm Gina, I'm Fresno. And I saw her taking me in, memorizing my name and her eyes were just so deep and she was like making a note of who I was and what I was doing. And I just, I felt seen and it was very powerful because that was my very first time around all of you. And you feel a little vulnerable and you don't kind of lost but she just saw me and memorized my name. And then throughout the whole event when I kept running into her, she would say, hi Gina, right? Like she knew who I was.  So I wanted to share that. Thank you. Thank you that I am. We miss you. I knew that I am and I don't cry. I'm very, very low. I went to her wedding. I went to her wedding. You know, she was with El Teatro de Esperanza before she was with El Teatro Campesino. And I went to, I mean, this is a very long time ago. I don't even remember. I actually was with diapers with my parents took me to their wedding. No, I'm just kidding. You know, and we had an amazing relationship. She was amazing. She was powerful. We had the Latino Theater Company beginning. That's where Latin is anonymous. Meaning we moved to, I moved at the same time to Los Angeles. She was coming from El Teatro Campesino. We were coming from El Teatro de Esperanza. So when my wife wrote that beautiful poem for her, that they asked me to sing for her, which was a very strange ad, but with the song that they wanted me to sing. So I'll sing a little bit of it. So. No, that's not the reason you're here. I don't even know how to play the guitar, but I think it's a laugh. But it's a song that. I was gonna say, I was gonna say that J.D. is, he requested that Jose Luis sing this song, which is kind of weird because we're like, okay, that's a weird song for, but if you think about it, it really is Diane's essence. So this is the song he's singing. So I haven't sang since then. And I used to sing, I used to sing when I was young with Yolanda, my beautiful Yolanda. Please help me because I'm not sure that my voice is even gonna get there. I knew that I was out there, but the day that I show myself, that I cry, if you leave, I'll always condemn you. You know, it is so great. She was such a leader for women, for Chicanos. You know what was so great about the Chicano movement? That we were, before anything, we were Chicanos. And I'm a Mexican from Mexico. I'm one of those who actually infiltrated the Chicano movement. Been thinking about great leaders in the community, Diane. She was a Chicana before she was an Idina. I was saying she was for Chicano Theater all the time, which was so amazing. Thank you, Tony.  He's trying to say that it was, and remember, you remember, Yolanda, you guys came to San Jose early on. It may be like 73, 74, but remember, which I, you know, these were Chicanos from Denver coming to California. 76, 76. And they were coming to California, and these people say all these Mexican songs. And I used to sing when I was young. And I love their singing. Debbie, where is Debbie, and Tony? So we will sing all these Mexican songs. Yolanda spoke Spanish, but Debbie and Tony didn't. And I'll say, Deborah didn't speak any Spanish. Tony, it makes the story more interesting. And I was, wow, the Chicanos are amazing. Anyway, but you know, so I met Tony. Tony, then, and we've been friends since then. We came to, and I was asking him when we came here for the Chicanos 76 festival. We were staying at his house, and you know, he created this amazing center. It's not easy. If you understand what it means, where we come from, for him to say last night, we are going to own this building. That's awesome, you guys. That's what we do for the community, for the audience, for the playwright. And it really, it really has meaning. All the work that Tony has done for the last 50 years is the 50th anniversary. Most of you were not born yet. Your parents were. Just think about that. So the leadership that Tony Garcia, and you know, he is a Chicanos from Denver. I'm a Mexican from Mexico. So in the friendship that we have created, we compete about who is our best friend, okay? Because I thought I was somebody's best friend. But then he told me he was his best friend and I go, hey, what's going on? But this, so, but you know, as you know, and you may be not know this, but to be part of the Chicano movement and be part of the Chicano leadership, if you're not a Chicano, it's tough. And you have to become a Chicano. Because Chicano is not anymore your Mexican-American, it's a state of mind. It's how we see the world and how we change the world. And that's what's driven Tony for 50 years. And so we thank you so much for allowing us to be at your house and being as warm and as strong and as wonderful you are. And you know, and to continue trying to say, this is what I had this discussion of people, I teach Chicano history at the university.  What we saw last night, those are real Chicanos. They, you know, that's why they can't sing the blues. I can't sing the blues, because I'm a Mexican. Yeah, I can't sing the blues. So all these, I wanna thank you. And you know, part of this has been asked from the committee to come over here to give you an award. Mica, you're being called to the stage. Six theater comments would like to present an award to Sute Ato for 50 years of service to the Chicano community. I thought we were talking about Diane. I don't even know how that switched, but said, well, he's picked the key and then changed the key and then told me to stop. That was very fun. That was, really reminds you of old times who y'all just sang in different keys at the same time. But I'd like to, you all know Mica and who is really the one who is running the theater. I'm here to say something, just say a little thank you. Here, the La Reina and Jesse Ogass here from our company members here. So this is the next 50 years of Sute Ato. I just wanna say thank you guys all for coming out this week. It's been tremendous. Had our students here, we've had our actors here in this piece to just recognize that the work that happens on a national level, the work that we've done, the Teatro Chicano community that we've always, that I've been lucky enough to always have in my life to know for my whole life and to know that any city we went in, any place that there was another theater, we could go there and we had familia and there was nothing else there. We were there to help them, we were there to support that we had familia and we were always gonna be supported in the same way. So I'm so thankful that you guys came to our home this year and we've really had a great time. Thank you so much. Good job. Good job. I'm in a roller coaster, I don't know about y'all. Should we all take a deep breath? Okay, I'm almost gonna let you go, but before I let you go, I have to tell you that the LTC is doing next so that I can see you there. Our next event is the 2023 Director and Designer Collaboratorio, which will be in Portland, Oregon. And one of our co-champions, Daniel Jaquez, is going to tell us a little bit about what the collaboratorio is. Yeah, sure. Okay, thank you for sticking out. So next year we'll be doing this collaboratorio that's labeled right now Director Designer Collaboratorio and I'm gonna try to propose a change for it to be designer director. I'm a director, but the purpose is to explore new ways of seeing the collaboration process to deconstruct the way it's been done all the time, at least to explore it, to see how we do this. Let's change the name. Can we do that? Yeah. So we're gonna get together in Portland for a long weekend, there's gonna be about 35 people, directors and designers of all generations, of all experiences, and we're gonna have workshops, classes, sea shows, explore venues, and explore texts. We don't know if we're gonna bring new plays in or plays that are already proven to work so the designers and the directors can actually sing their teeth without having to figure out what the... It's a different shop, it's different shops that we develop and one of the pillars for the LTC is craft. So hopefully we can get together, get a great program and community together and great selection. So be prepared to start volunteering for next year in June if your schedule's open in June. We don't have a month yet. Oh, we don't have a month. That's probably because we don't have a space. We've been reaching out to several companies, Roy Araus, right? Roy Araus started this with an idea, like he wanted to be in somebody else's room to see their designer, director collaboration to see how that grew and Tara Houston, she jumped in the idea and took co-leadership on this and it's been great. I was the last coach to join in so I'm very excited and I'm trying to follow their lead, but once you get these creative people in the room, there's so many ways these collaborations can go and in trying to find out what we actually want to do, what the system has told us to do and who is the lead artist, for example, who can bring a piece to the table. So there's a lot of things that we're gonna explore. The interesting thing is that we're gonna have several groups working on different projects and then we'll collaborate and learn from them. We have several meeting orders. So. Yeah, we're still building committees. So once again, my email is Jacqueline at Howlroom.com. So now we're gonna head to the Museo de las Américas for a fiesta. Las Casuelas and El Cubana, so food trucks. We also have drinks of all sorts and then we will be having yummy cupcakes from Lala's bakery. So y'all can head over there in a few minutes. It's being set up as we speak. There's gonna be a DJ. We're there until 9.30 so have fun and then at 9.30 take the fun elsewhere. But thank y'all so much for coming out this weekend. It's been a blast. I hope you've enjoyed yourself. I hope you've had fun. I hope you've learned. And I hope you've met some new people and if you haven't yet, please introduce yourself to someone new and we'll see you next year in Portland.


Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. For today's video, I am in the mood to surf the internet and go shopping. It is makeup sale season. So we're going to talk about a couple sales that I'm really excited about. There's also going to be giveaway. So if you want to learn more about that, then just keep watching. Hi guys, if you're new here, my name is Morgan. I am a product knowledge enthusiast. I just love knowing anything and everything about all the new makeup on the market, which is why this time of year is really exciting for me. I love testing out all of the products and then telling you what is worth it and what you should spend your money on for the sales. So like I said, it is sale season. I'm going to cover only two sales today.  And then of course, I'm going to start hunting for what I want for the Sephora VIP sale. So we are first going to start off with the Muse Beauty Pro sale. So their sale is going to start April 1st. So it might have already started and you get $20 off at checkout. Every $100 that you spend.  I support them fully. I believe they are a small company of very kind people and they actually reached out like this video is not sponsored or anything, but they reached out and said that they wanted to do a giveaway with me. So the winner of the giveaway is going to get a v-series brush set and I'll show you that in a few moments. But first I want to show you what I'm planning on picking up for the sale at Muse Beauty Pro. Maybe surf the site a little bit. Bridal season is starting very soon. So I need to stock up on a few things and I go to Muse Beauty Pro a lot for that. So anyways, let's get to the website, shall we? Okay, so I'm on the Muse Beauty Pro website. The sale is not currently going on at the moment that I'm filming this. I'm just preparing, but if you see here's something that you might want to consider actually getting $20 off on immediately because this is originally $150. So you can get this for $130. I know it's not the best deal, but it's still $30 off, or excuse me, it's still $20 off. I did do a full video on the Grande Pro Volume 1. It's a beautiful palette. I compared it to the one that came out a couple of years ago as well. Definitely a staple for makeup artists, particularly Bridal. I just feel like this is the perfect Bridal Palettes and I picked this up full price from Muse Beauty Pro. I wish I had waited at least for this sale, but I didn't get the chance to, but had I waited this would be in my basket right now, but it was like two weeks too quick. Also, something that I've been considering getting, I actually might add it to my card, sorry. I'm on Jose's laptop, so none of my stuff is logged in or anything. They have an empty Pro Palette from Vizzy Art. This looks perfect for my makeup kit just because it's the same size as my other Vizzy Art Palettes. I'm sorry if you can hear Jose's dragon breathing right now. His laptop just breathes so loud, but anyways, I would like this in my kit because it already fits my Grande Palette and I can put other Vizzy Art shadows. It's a magnetic palette, so I'm going to add this to my card because this would fit perfectly for all of my singles and I'm thinking of building a blush palette soon. So I'm going to add that. Something also worth looking into are the Ket Fix Powder Foundations, so they were kind enough to actually send me the entire set of all 12 shades, but I've been really into powder foundations lately and I've been testing this one. It's really good. Oh, something I always recommend. If you are a Powder Foundation fan, the Esum X57 is my all-time favorite kabuki brush. I used it in a TikTok that I talked about and then I used it in an Instagram story where I was trying out powder foundations. Every powder foundation that I wear, I apply it with this $75. It really hurts. It's very expensive, so this is a good time to pick it up because Esum has the best brushes. Since we're here, let's talk about the giveaway a little bit. Like I said, Esum was kind enough to just do a little giveaway with me, so they offered to give away a set of their Esum Pro V series, so it's a vegan brush set. They are man-made fibers because I know some of you guys don't like natural hair brushes. Now, I would show you mine, but the majority of mine are actually in my makeup kit right now. I prefer synthetic fibers to keep in my kit just because they're a bit more robust. They go through more washings, so I love this particularly. The eyeshadow brushes in here are really, really nice. This brush right here is really fantastic as a bronzer brush and overall, it's just a really good brush set that's going to last you your lifetime. The brushes are so well made from Esum. I've been a huge fan for years and even if you don't win this in the giveaway, it's a beautiful set. I highly recommend it. You can get it on a very good deal with an additional $20. I almost said 20% with an additional $20 off your purchase. If you're looking for some good long-lasting makeup brushes, Esum does have natural hair, but they also have synthetic, so that's something that I would recommend. But if you want to enter the giveaway, very, very simple. All you have to do is comment down below something that you want to pick up for any sales going on, whether it be the Sephora or the Muse Beaty Pro and also type in a way for me to contact you, whether that be through email or Instagram. I always prefer Instagram. Make sure you're following me so I can find you on Instagram as well. Morgan, turn your makeup. So just be following me on Instagram if you're using Instagram. Like this video. Comment something that you're excited to pick up during this sales season and you can win this. But anyways, let's keep going. So there are some stuff that I do want to pick up. So one thing that I love that Muse Beaty carries is Embraer lease. I use the Hydromat Emotion in my kit. I use the eye cream in my kit and my cream concentrate has completely run out. So I'm just going to get the biggest size. It's amazing for more dry skin. I would say I use it on probably like 80 to 90% of my clients and it's great for sensitive skin. It really is a professional product and not a lot of people use it in their everyday routines, but I highly recommend it. And again, the oily one is really great. I don't talk about these in my personal videos because I don't personally use them. There's so many beautiful, like name brand moisturizers that I like to use on camera. But this is just one that I know is not going to irritate anybody's skin, which is why I prefer it. So little makeup artists tip there. It's a whole different world, but the products that I use in my makeup kit versus my personal, it's really, really funny. This one is really today for the Muse Me Approach sale is going to be for my makeup kit that I've been wanting. There was a makeup brush that I've been wanting from Esum for my kit. Let me find it so I can show you. These are really good. Esum has the best, like pinky puff sets. I don't use them too often. I have a set that I keep in my makeup kit in case I feel like there's somebody's makeup that I really don't want to disrupt. They have the best. Also in my makeup kit, I use the lip liners and eyeliners. And actually, you know what? I should get another set of eyeliners, just a fresh set for the year. And oh my, see the Esum pencils are the best. I'm going to get some fresh brow pencils and some fresh eyeliners. You don't want those to get bad, you know? I'm putting them in people's eyes, so I needed some fresh ones. I think I'm good with the lip liners because I just got them last year. And I use some other brands as well. This is one I wanted. No, it wasn't. Just kidding. Also, the makeup bag that I actually use my main makeup bag is this pro makeup kit bag from Esum. I should do a whole video on what I keep in it, but highly recommend this. I have all of my main products that I mostly use in this set, and I just open it up on the desk that I'm working on or wherever my makeup kits set up. It's amazing if you're a makeup artist or if you travel a lot. Highly recommend it to make up very, very safe. Where's the brush that I was looking for though? I need it. I want to get one of these. I needed that. So right now, as you can see, I'm mostly stocking up for my kit. Esum just has the best stuff for makeup artistry. The X51. This is the one I wanted for my kit. I love this. It's natural hair, but I don't care. I love it. Now, some other things that you might want to consider. I just love the Esum brand stuff as far as sanitation, brushes, and travel bags. But I always recommend buying visi art from used beauty protest because I like supporting the company. 90% of the time, I order my visi art from here. I've been thinking about getting the mix set, but I think I'm going to hold off. I own pretty much all of the visi art stuff, so there's no reason for me to purchase right now. How many, how much am I at? I should be at like two, three hundred because I'm crazy. Okay, two seventy two. I got to spend 30 more dollars. I'll get some eyelashes. I really like the lashes in a box, so I think I'm going to get a box of them. Ooh, the number 23s. They have a box set of the 23s. I really like those. These are just really great everyday lashes. So, okay, we're good on those. Restock my makeup kit. Let's get into the good stuff now. Let's go to sephora.com. Like I said, I'm on Jose's laptop right now, so I'm not going to be logged in or anything. Let me give you a little explanation, though. A lot of the good stuff I'm actually going to be skipping out on because I may or may not have sponsorship with sephora coming up, so I've already picked out the items for that.  So, let's go to new makeup. This has to be on sephora's end, and this laptop's getting really angry at me. That's okay. We're just going to go brand by brand anyways, because if I went down the new ride, I wouldn't have anything fun. So, let's start off with ABH. Let's see if there's anything that I want from ABH. I'm going to organize it by new. I don't think there's anything... Oh, you know what? I've been eyeing this. People seem to love it, and I didn't pick it up, and I definitely am having FOMO. So, I'm just going to casually just add that to my list, but I don't think there's going to be anything else that I would want from ABH. Maybe it's just kind of boring nowadays with the lack of releases, just for the type of content that I do. What about Armani Beauty? So, I'm not sure... Wait, hold on. Let's organize by new, not best selling. So, okay. Just so you know, I did order the luminous silk glow setting powder, because I was eyeing that hard, but what I'm thinking about are these fluid, sheer glow enhancers. As attracted as I am, I probably won't use them. I don't use this type of product. Like, I kind of want this peach blush. I want the pink one, but it's sold out. Okay, I guess I'm adding that to my cart. This does not mean I'm actually going to purchase it. This is just going to be on hold until I make my final decision. I don't think I want anything from Artist Couture. Artist Couture was doing so good for the longest, and I swear, recently, their stuff has just become boring. Like, how did it go from this to this? I'm not into it. I'm going to keep it moving. See, does Benefit have anything new? Nothing that I need, at least. Nothing that I want. Bite Beauty. I haven't been keeping up with them. What do we have that's new? I heard good things about the mascara, and I'm interested in this liquid liner, but I don't need eyeliners right now, but I love Bite Beauty. I like keeping up with them and the products that they have. Let's see what else we have. Bobby Brown. Bobby Brown does not get enough love from me included.   I still use it anyways, but I do think that the face space is just too thick for my skin. Ah, sorry, Bobby. I don't see anything that I need right now. Let me show you something from Charlotte that I've been wanting. So, they have all of her eyebrow pox now, which I've already bought, but I did not pick up. Why is that happening? The Sweet Blossom lipstick from Charlotte Tilbury, and I've been eyeing it, so I think now's the time. I've been thinking heavy about it. It's actually kind of embarrassing how much I've been thinking about it when it's the last thing that I need. I've still always had, I don't know if I can find it, the Pillow Talk Eyeliner from Charlotte Tilbury in my head, not walk of no shame. I actually think I have this. It's like a deep burgundy. There was like the lights changing. I hope that doesn't matter because I'm moving in the little corner right here. I guess I can't find it. It was like the Pillow Talk color. Oh, here it is. This is what I want. I really like her eyeliners. We're just adding for fun. It doesn't mean anything. And if I choose to get all of this, it's none of your business. I spend money, so you don't have to. It is so hot in this room. It's Jose's laptop. He fights with me on this. Okay. So, I will admit I did order some Dinesse and Mayer things already. I want to try the Vision Cream Color this thing, but she actually does have samples online that you can get. You have to pay like $10 for them, but I think that's a much better bet than just buying the whole thing and not even knowing what color I am. Also, I've been wanting this, so casually just going to add that. And her makeup isn't super expensive compared to other brands at Sephora, but I've been a fan of her for so long. I've been a fan of her makeup line for so long, even if it was stuff that I haven't purchased. I don't own a lot, but I know a lot about her makeup brand, I feel like, just from watching her tutorials. So, I really like when she uses the Beauty Oil, so I wanted to pick that up, and then I wanted the Highlight Palette. So, I'm going to put those in my cart for now because I've been thinking about them very heavily. Now, Dior, okay, I did buy some stuff yesterday. I sound like a shopaholic, I promise you I am.  Okay, so I think we're good. I'm a big Dior makeup fan, if you didn't know. So, I stocked up the other day. So, I'm like letting you guys know what it's going to be in my future all. It was supposed to be a secret, but no other brands. I want to do a full face of Estee Lauder. So, I'm not going to shop at Estee Lauder right now, but I think one day during the sale, I might just pick up stuff for a video. I'm at the point now where I can now purchase multiple items for one video, like a full face of a full brand, because I used to obviously financially be very hard on me. And thanks to you guys for watching my videos. I can actually really create content that I want to create with a bigger budget. So, I think Estee Lauder is one of the first full face brand videos that I want to do, but we'll come to that another day. Let's take a look at Fenty Beauty. I think I picked up what I wanted. This is what I wanted. But this body sauce, I told you guys I wanted it. I just see myself in the summer and in Florida evening out my skin tone with it. And it's semi new, so I want to tell you if it's good or not. I don't know if I'll actually end up with it, but I want it. Oh no. Gucci. I just did a full face of Gucci on my channel. It uploaded today, so I filmed it yesterday. I really like these eyeliners. At first I wasn't so into them, but now I want it in chocolate. I have it in black and it's very very black, but now I want it in like a not so black, because it it stays in the waterline forever. It's so long wearing. I don't need it though. I'm not going to, but I want to. Okay, I feel like I own everything. No, no, no. You know what I need? I ordered the eyebrow pencil in auburn and I do not have auburn hair. So let me get the right color. I don't know if I made the mistake at checkout when I was ordering it. I'm going to get light brown. I prefer a lighter color in my eyebrows. Or if, anyway, it's back to what I was saying. I don't know if I made the mistake of ordering the wrong color or they sent me the wrong color, but I didn't try it for like three weeks, so I couldn't return it anyways. So I've been using an auburn pencil and it does, it does not look very good. Okay, I believe, oh, this came in stock today. I already ordered it. Review purposes. I couldn't wait for the sale you guys, but in case you didn't know, the brown obsessions palettes are back, or not back, they're available now at Huda. Why she has so many perfumes? I did not realize that, but anyways, they look so boring to me, like I'm not interested in them, but I am because it's Huda. It's like a brand thing. I think I ordered the foundation because I was curious about it. I heard too many people talking about it. So I was like, FOMO, do I need to re-up on my home? I don't think I do. These are Jose's midnight plans. Makes me so angry. I feel they need to talk louder because Jose's laptop is breathing harder. I have not checked in on eight cosmetics in a while. What's up with you? Nothing. These are like the same products that have been out. Okay. J-Lo Beauty did not interest me at all. I just ran out of my Kiehl's moisturizer. It was so good, but I want to try a new moisturizer. I don't know. Okay, Co-Sauce. Co-Sauce has some new, oh, not high to low. These new brow products, are these available? Yes, they are. Oh, I'm so excited. These look so cool. Co-Sauce is a brand that is too cool for me. But these, I love the packaging of these. Warm medium. I don't want a warm medium brown. Do they have a cool brown? Soft brown, black, rich dark brown. I don't like these tinted things to be, oh, there we are. Medium brown. Too dark on me. I prefer them to be lighter. These were not here yesterday when I was looking, so I'm excited about that. Give me neutral brown. Thank you. I swear, everybody says that in browns, they never have like a neutral brown. So then why do brands keep making them? Like, I'll occasionally use a warm brown on a client, but not really. I mostly prefer cooler browns. Anyways, oh, I'm so excited. I checked on that. I almost didn't. Just so you know, they restocked on their website, these. Not on Sephora's website, but the KVD website, if you wanted that. I looked out. I reviewed that before it became like trending. So otherwise, I wouldn't have serious foam up because it sold out everywhere locally where I live. I was so close the other day to ordering the Dude Chill La Mer Powder Foundation, but it doesn't match up with the names of their liquid foundation. So that's why I didn't save me $125, but I still wanted maybe one day. What do I want? Where was I just at? Okay, Laura Mercier. I wanted a couple blushes. Some of their blush colors look really pretty. I wanted Passion Fruit because I like pink. I also want Bellini though. Oh, no, I'm not ready. $386. Why have I not been paying attention? Yeah. So I've been wanting that Laura Mercier. I don't know. Are they doing well? Kids, are they selling things? I feel like they get, everybody gets PR from them, but then never talks about it. So I want PR from them. I love Laura Mercier, even though I also don't use our products like that. Ooh, okay. The Lawless Bio Glitter looks beautiful. It's only $14. That's cheap for Sephora. I've been eyeing that for a while. So I wanted to get that in my basket. Lawless. Do I need anything from these brands? I was looking at List Beauty. Love yourself. And all the goods are sold out. Even the blushes, I think. So me and List Beauty are not happening. Unfortunately, I tried. A lot of people were loving their stuff. Makeup Forever. Do you guys remember when Makeup Forever was pop-a-lopping? Now what is this? Primers? They still have good stuff, though. Don't sleep on them, even though they might be boring. The stuff works. Or Chica's Beauty. I haven't liked their stuff recently. Okay. So the number one thing on my list for the sale was the Melt Cosmetics cream blushes. I already ordered them coming soon. These are pretty. I don't need them, though. I don't know. I just smell as a brand doesn't impress me. They're too spotty. Okay. I know what I want from Milk. They reformulated their skin tint. Where am I? I might need them. I want to try the new reformulation because I didn't love the first version of it, but I used it a lot just because it was so convenient, you know? Those chalk things have to be a gimmick. They have to. There's no way that it works. Am I interested in anything from that new married brand? So many cream, natural makeup brands are coming out. It's quite the trend. I'm not into that, though. I like cream products, but no. I like to set it with powder, though, afterwards. So I'm a fake. Nars. Let's see. Nars. Oh, I've been wanting to get this. Do they come out with new shades? I don't know why. Oh, yeah, they did. I've been wanting to. I used this years ago and it's been my favorite tinted moisturizer, but I just have so many face products that I can never get myself to buy it. Even now, I'm like, no, no, no. But it's the best tinted moisturizer if you're looking for anything. I own everything from Natasha Denona. Get me off of this page. So good, though. So, so good. I love new sticks as well. I'm trying not to add more because I know my card's like $400 and it's just not what I need. Oh, you know what? Are these available? Please be available. No. Coming soon. Well, when these come out, I'm getting them, well, like one or two shades. I haven't decided which one yet, but I'm really excited about that. They look like they're going to be good, just like the Wayne Goss. Am I even in frame right now? Oh, I am. Okay, but I do want to get those. Oh, no philosophy. I'm not interested in you right now. Rare beauty. I feel like I own everything from here. You know what? It's not as fun to shop with me when you like own everything. I want to try. I'm not going to get it because I have so many foundations right now, but I want to try this self-refreshing foundation from Shiseido. But I ordered like three foundations recently. So let me not. Has the Too Faced Teddy Bear palette come out yet? I want that. Are we back? Yay! I've been wanting this. Okay, I want to get that. The other stuff in the collection is a big fat no from me, but that wasn't available the other day. So I'm excited about that. Touch and Soul. They're getting rid of Touch and Soul, it looks like. That's sad. I loved a lot of products from Touch and Soul. Tower 28 still has the same stuff. Those new cream blushes though are beautiful. I was lucky enough, blessed enough to have them sent to me. Urban Decay is making a comeback and I'm so excited for them. I want, but I'm not going to. I just ordered too many foundations. I gotta chill. Okay, I'm trying to make it through this list. I don't think there's anything else that I need. Yes, there is. Oh, Voluspa. I love Voluspa candles. They're so expensive for no reason, but they do have reasons. They smell delightful, amazing. The Goji and Taroko. I don't even think I'm saying that right. Best candle ever. I think that's the one. That's the best one. They have a lot. I have too many Voluspa candles from the holiday, so I'm not going to, but normally I would, but restraint. Okay, last brand. I'm going to look at is Westman Atelier because where was it? I don't like cream highlight sticks, but I want this because I saw Alicia using it and now I want it. So we're just going to add it. Okay. I haven't been paying attention to the price. I know we stopped at like 380. Oh, okay. Went up to 535. Can I see my items, please? Because your computer does not like Sephora. Excuse me. Why is your computer like this? ABH. Do I still want that? Yes. I still want this. Still want this. Still want this. Still want this. Still want this. And I'll, I'll move this to loves. I don't know how I did. I'm going to have to edit this, but we'll stop that there. Hypothetically, if I bought all of that, I would have spent a lot of money, but I'm going to take these next few days to really think about my purchases, edit them down. And until then, that is all I have for today's video.  And I'm starting to ponder through my Sephora event, wishlist, my future haul, and all of the products I'm going to be trying out. So I'm going to end the video here. Let me know if there's anything that you do want me to review. And I might add it into my car. I don't know if I get enough requests. You don't need to tell me toys. Let me just say that. And make sure if you haven't entered the giveaway that you do, you will love the V-Series brushes from Issam. They're awesome. And thank you so much to Muse Beauty Pro for even offering it to do with the giveaway. So even though this for sale hasn't started, the Muse Beauty Pro sale has. So if you're not rouge, and there's something that like Visiart, for example, that Muse has, that Sephora also has, this way you can get your 20% off if you spend $100. So that's all I have for today's video. I hope you guys enjoyed it. If you aren't subscribed to my channel already, I would love it if you would consider taking the time to do so. And I will see you all in the next one. And by the way, before I forget, just so you know, the affiliate link for Muse Beauty Pro, it's affiliated. I do make a small commission. So I mean, if you are against affiliates, then don't use that link. But if you want to support me, make sure you shop through the Muse Beauty Pro link and I'll get a small commission, but it's like really small anyways. Anyways, anyways, anyways, bye.


Hi everyone, so this is how I use Google Gemini to create YouTube chapter titles and timestamps so that I can put it into my video for better search engine optimization of my YouTube videos and just a better user experience. So first of all, here is the prompt and by the way, I will of course put this in the notes below this video. Now what I'm probably going to do actually is I'll put it as pinned comment below this video because I probably will modify it over time, make upgrades, etc. But you can see it below in the pinned comment. So let me kind of explain to you what's going on here. So I'm giving Google Gemini these instructions, except for this one, I'll explain this. So I say before giving me the output, first follow these instructions. So I wanted to like do some stuff in the background before it gives me the answer so that it doesn't just like output something and then realize it did something wrong. So I say summarize the key points of this video. I find that this works better because it has looked through the transcript and gotten the most interesting ideas for the video. So this is where of course you put whatever YouTube video you want to create YouTube chapters for. This is one of my videos. And then step two, create at least 10 chapter titles based on the summary. So again, I'm having it kind of do this work in the background before doing the output. If it's a shorter video, if it's like a three minute video, then instead of 10 chapters, I might ask for like, I don't know, five or something like that. But a lot of my videos are like 15, 20 minutes long. So I think 10 chapters is good. So I'm just going to take this out. Then review and then I asked Gemini to review the transcript again. Now I'm not entirely sure whether it actually does this, but I find that this seems to work fine. So I keep it in there. Then review the, I'm sure as AI gets more advanced, this will become even more actually done by the AI. But anyway, review the transcript again, I'll put the exact timestamps where each chapter begins in the video. So again, you'll see that it's pretty accurate. It's not 100%, but it's much faster than me going through the video myself and saying, oh, well, I start here talking about this and that. So at least it gives a good starting point. Please look up the text formatting for, oh, please look up how YouTube chapter titles are usually formatted in their text. So I ask it to do a bit of online research or look into its own database. And finally, please output your response in a way I can simply copy paste into the YouTube description field. Only give the format of timestamp chapter title and not any bullet points underneath each title. I find that if I don't do this, it'll give, you know, timestamp chapter title and then a couple of bullet points about what that chapter is about. So it wasn't helpful for copy pasting. And then after it gives it to me, after the response, I then give you, give this second instruction. Now, take the above output and make it more similar. So even if it does give bullet points underneath each title, you can give a second prompt and it'll like clean things up. So anyway, let's give it a try. I'll show you what it does here. Google Gemini. And I'm doing, I'm doing it for this video where it's, I think it's this one is 20 about 20 minutes long. And I find that it's about the same result, whether it's Gemini, I can actually can't tell the difference between these two for this particular task. But if you play around with, with advance and you see any difference, please do comment below. But I'm just using Gemini because that's probably more accessible to more people here. So I'm pasting in the first prompt. OK, go. And then what it does is it will, of course, use the YouTube extension. And I should very, very much clarify, this only works for public YouTube videos at this time. I tried it on unlisted videos, several of them, and it didn't work. And certainly not private videos. So make your video public first before you try this out if you want this. OK, so this is a good example, even though I told it not to put bullet points underneath each chapter title, it went ahead and did that anyway, which is why I do find that the second instruction is helpful. So and I did go into my I did go into my video and like looked at whether these timestamps are accurate. And I would say they're 80% accurate. They're pretty good. I mean, I could get more exact on it. But, you know, if you want to save time, this is honestly good enough. And the user, the viewer probably won't complain. So then I put in the second one and watch what it does. It will now give something I can just copy, paste. I'm going to edit this video and show you. OK, so I'm going to put the chapter titles in here that it gives me. Here we go. Intro. OK, you always have to put zero, colon, zero, zero, intro because there you go. OK, wow, that's a lot of them. That's more than 10 for sure. And then once I do that, and it doesn't have to be, you know, the bullet points don't matter, of course, once I've done this, now if I go to my video and this may take this may take a while. So oh, yeah, there it is. It's already there. It's already. Well, anyway, I think I have to read. Oh, no, it's already there. So I scroll, I move my mouse underneath the video and you could see the chapter titles are all there. So pretty cool. All right, well, play around with this. Of course, I hope that we are learning together on how to do this stuff. So please do try these things out and try out the prompt. If you come up with an even better one, I'd be grateful if you could comment below and I might pin your comment. So anyway, enjoy and looking forward to seeing if it works well for you as well.


Yes, we live in a so-called obesogenic environment, cheap junk food everywhere, thanks in part to subsidies going to the food-industrial complex, which manufactures obesogenic foods that foster addiction. The root causes may make obesity difficult to escape, but look, a lot of people do. If it was just the external environment, why isn't everyone obese? Some individuals seem to be more susceptible than others. This suggests a genetic component supported by studies of twins and adopted kids, but the genes we've identified only account for maybe 6 to 11% of the variation in body mass index between individuals. So maybe variation in our other genome may be playing a role. All the different microbes that inhabit our body. We have 100 times more bacterial genes inside us than human genes. And this study found is that people tend to fall into one of two groups. Those who have lots of different types of bacteria in their gut, so-called high-gut bacterial richness, and those with relatively few types, and those with low bacterial richness had more overall body fat. Insulin resistance caused the type 2 diabetes, high triglycerides, and higher levels of inflammatory markers, like C-reactive protein, compared to high bacterial richness individuals. And not only did folks with lower bacterial richness start out heavier, but the obese individuals with lower bacterial richness also gained more weight over time. The question then becomes, can a dietary intervention have any impact? They try to calorie-restricted diet, which by definition is very sustainable, but what we can do is increase our fruit and vegetable intake, which is associated with high bacterial richness. One of a number of studies that have associated increased microbial richness with diets higher in fruits, vegetables, and fiber. Now just giving fiber-type supplements didn't seem to boost richness, but the compositional complexity of a whole food, like whole grains, could potentially support a wider scope of bacterial types, thereby leading to an increase in diversity. But human studies to investigate the effects of whole grains have been neglected until now. Folks were given whole grain barley, brown rice, or both for a month, and they did cause an increase in bacterial community diversity. Therefore, it may take a broad range of substrates to increase bacterial diversity, and this can be achieved by eating whole plant foods. And the alterations of gut bacteria in the study coincided with a drop in systemic inflammation in the body. So we used to think that the way fiber and whole grains helped us is by gelling in our small intestines right off the stomach, slowing the rate at which sugars are absorbed, blunting the spike in blood sugars one might get from refined carbs, but now we know the fiber is broken down in our column by our friendly florals, which release all sorts of beneficial substances into our bloodstream that can have anti-inflammatory effects as well. So maybe what's happening in our large intestine helps explain the protective effects of whole grain foods against type 2 diabetes. And interestingly, the combination of both barley and brown rice worked better than either alone, suggesting a synergistic effect. This may help explain the discrepancy, the health effects of whole grains obtained in population-based versus interventional states. You know, observational states strongly suggest that those who consume three servings of whole grains a day tend to have a lower body mass index, less belly fat, less tendancy to gain weight. But recent clinical trials, we randomized people to like eat white bread rolls versus whole wheat rolls, failed to provide evidence of a beneficial effect on body weight. Of course, whole grains are so superior nutritionally that, you know, they should still continue to be encouraged, but maybe the interventional trials failed to show weight benefits because they focused on a limited selection of whole grains. While, you know, in the population-based states, subjects are more likely to consume a diverse set of whole grains, which might have synergistic activities.