Here with the Meccano and you're showing some new Meccano robots. Yes, these are made by Spin Master. Spin Master is a Canadian company that acquired Meccano about three years ago. And what we wanted to do was take that maker tradition that's been a part of Meccano for more than 100 years and bring Spin Master's innovation and knowledge of robotics to the brand to bring it to life in a new way. So what you see here are the micronoids. They'll be out in September of 2016. And these guys are the robot best friend that every kid has always wanted. This is the Meccano G16. He's the Meccano G16. And next to him is... That's the big guy. What is this? That's the big guy. He's four feet tall and his name is the Meccano G16 KS. He's kid-sized. Kid-sized? Yes. So these are robots that make engineering a real-world experience for kids and they make it fun. They have to build them? They build them so they learn about mechanical engineering in the build, but then they also program them and he can be programmed through the Meccan brain with voice recognition technology or using the app. So it's a wonderful way for kids to learn about building and about programming and bring those STEM subjects to life for them. It's beautiful. How much can the arms do? Can they bring you like a beer and stuff? No, they can't. They can't do that. Okay, but they can move around. They can move. They can sing.  Are they going to be prices for them? Yeah, so these ones will be, this may change a little bit when they come out in September of 2016, but this will be about $39.99 US. Just $39.99. Yeah. And it has a long battery life? I'm not sure. Yeah. And then they can move and all that stuff? Yeah, move around. Yeah. And then this one will be $139.99 approximately. And this one will be about $3.99. $3.99. And that may all change. Every family can afford one and get one in 2016. Every kid can finally have the robot best friend that they've always wanted. This looks awesome. Great. I think so too. That's pretty cool. And a lot more happening in the future with Meccano. Absolutely. This is just the beginning. Can you talk just a little bit about the market for Meccano? How big is Meccano? And you say 100-year history? Well, Meccano has been around for about 100 years. So in Europe, it was known as Meccano. In North America, people know it as a rector set. So we see this as a huge opportunity because it's marrying that maker movement that's so popular right now and building things with robotics. And it's so important for kids to understand and learn about technology and programming from a young age. So we think it's really great to get them into STEM subjects from this age. And it might already have sensors, but in the future, there could be more and more stuff happening with kind of a... I can't say, but this is just the beginning.


How was Charlie Charles Bronson? He's lovely guy, he's just... Were you at his wedding? Yeah, I'd done his wedding at my pub, both of his weddings at my pub. I've been to see him a few times. We had a little if-you-wear meeting when we first met. We didn't really get on. But I'm afraid the crime now with Charles Bronson, I'm afraid, is they are now genuinely entitled to say, we can't let him out, he's mad, right? Because anyone that'd done 27 years in solitary confinement would be Cuckoo, whoever... The Pope, me, you, Mother Teresa. Anybody? Right. And so, they're within their rights now to say, of all the naughty things he'd done in prison, using him as a deterrent, this is what we're gonna do to if you mess about in prison, you're never, ever, ever coming home. You're never coming home, he's mad. And all these people that are going free, Charlie Bronson, would you like him living next door to you? Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, he might be great. Saturday, odd, for no reason at all, and their crime is this, he wasn't mad when he went in. So that's their crime. They're not wrong in saying he can't come out now. And all these people are going, well, he ain't murdering anyone. He ain't, but he's... As up to 10, sure. He's, he's mad, you know what I mean? You know, he's done some nutty old things. I love him, I love him. But he can, he can see his own plight that he's made there. As he potentially, if he did get out, would kill someone? I don't know if he'd sit out or be thinking of killing someone, but he's so strong and, and, and, eggshell ready to snap. Yeah, he could, you know what I mean? I don't want to be the one that goes, don't give me a problem. But, yeah, their crime is this, they are right in saying he shouldn't come home. And I know he ain't killed no one, but they're wrong and he weren't mad when he went in. I actually made him not, yes. Break him, mentally. Yeah, of course.


Two pointers, right? So let's talk about barefoot training and barefoot running. And I want to make sure there's a huge distinction between the two, right? Because the demand on your foot is way different, way different. We're talking about running, you're talking about ground and pound, constant ground reactive forces for every step you take. When we're talking about barefoot training, we're talking about some static areas, we're talking about proprioception, it's less demand with certain activities. Now, with that being said for either or, you should never, never, I mean, they say never use never, but for this time never, just completely dive into it. Everything has to transition to it. So I'm big on research, everything I practice is based on research based evidence. And one of my favorite articles took 10 experienced runners of 20 years and said, you know, listen, we're going to just transition your minimalist shoes and see how you do. Okay, all 10 got injured. Every single one, nine of them, eight of them had stress fractures in their metatarsals. One had a stress fracture in the calcaneus and one had a planar fascial rupture. And the point of the study was showing that even these experienced runners can't take on the load of a quick transition, right? With barefoot training, it should be a simple step. And it's hard to be the doctor giving this advice because you have to be your own judge because the line between benefit and injury can sometimes be a very thin line. So yes, barefoot training can help with proprioception. I mean, your barefoot doesn't get better than that. It can build intrinsic muscles, things you don't use when you're in footwear all day. It can do all that. But that line, when you overdo it and hurt yourself is very thin and sometimes it's undefinable. So it's hard for me to make that recommendation. If someone comes to me and says, Dr. Moe, can I barefoot train? I say, sure, everything within reason. But I don't know what's going to be too much for you to handle. It's hard to make that assessment. And that's when the trainer makes that assessment with them. That's when you be your own judge and make that assessment with them and things of that nature. Now, barefoot running is a completely different realm. I mean, that's very demanding. And most of the articles will vote against it. There's not many pros into going to that transition right away. The one article that said the vibrums, you would see some benefit from it even then had to be longer than a 10-week transition period. So even for people who are pro minimalist, pro-vibrant and all that, and that's fine, just know that this is a long whole approach. This isn't something you should jump into ever. When minimalism got introduced to our neighborhood, all I saw was stress fractures. I just thought I was the stress fracture king and people were bringing their friends. But then I realized, no, people were ditching their shoes and went on this craze. So everything within reason is my point here. Yeah. I really like that aspect, how we're approaching it. And one of the things that we see so often like fads, right? You see, oh, barefoot's great. Let's only run barefoot or carbs are kind of maybe bad when you eat really sugary ones. So let's never eat carbs again. We don't always progress properly and we pendulum swing so far. And so what's running in my mind is how can we transition in a way that maybe isn't just you know, more load or more intensity, but we're transitioning in the way that we're going from a very soft maybe matted surface to a soft turf to a rubber to a hardwood. Maybe we're transitioning from very cushiony shoes to Chuck Taylor's or something more barefoot like. Is that a way to possibly transition an athlete? And so how do you kind of think about that and see it going forward? To be honest, I couldn't have said it better myself. That's that those are tactics only an experienced person would know when you talk about transitioning from soft to hard or hard or and so forth. That's that's that takes experience. And I want to say sorry, but trial and error to realize, oh my God, maybe we shouldn't just do it on hard platform right away. Maybe we should actually do it on padded platform and so forth and so forth. Now, we talked about this and I have no shame saying that medically speaking makes sense. But obviously, I'm not equipped with the training or the modalities or the physical aspect of that. My job is to make that recommendation to give you the signs of when you're overdoing it might be. And that's when I seek help. I have I have absolutely not enough pride to tell a trainer or a physical therapist or a coach. I'm going to let you make that transition for them, because let's be honest here, the textbooks in Padayatri school don't really teach you about that. They just teach you about the causes, the effects and what we can do to prevent things. We necessarily don't go through the matters of what exercises or routines to go through to transition from one to another. But what we do know is transitioning right away from a sneaker to a hard service barefoot is detrimental to the patient hands down. And again, the fine line between benefit and injury is yet to be discovered and is individually dependent, right?  Everybody's intrinsic muscles are different. Everybody's soft tissue padding, you know, between the intrinsics, the bones and the skin is different. And everybody's demands are different. So it's tough to say what's the most ideal or give a generic way to transition for everybody. It really is an individual approach, but absolutely transitioning from a sneaker to cushion to a little rougher and then progressing is by far the most ideal way to get that done with hands down. I can't imagine anybody arguing that point. Yeah. And my, I like that approach, if you know, I don't know, I don't know either. I have no idea what the best way to do it is, but we know that, you know, it sounds right, but let's be logical in our progression, regardless. And then let's really keep an eye out for signs and symptoms of overtrading or excessive use that might lead to, you know, bigger issues down the road. And we're talking about bigger issues down the road, right? Unfortunately, people do get hurt. And we do have sprain. Most people do have injuries. And going back to that, going back to that proprioceptive aspect, can you dive a little more detail into specifically how that works between our brain, our body, and what recommendations you might have for an individual who's trying to improve their proprioception? Yeah. So proprioception is key. For me, I never send a script. And I'll use this word never without saying gradual, progressive to proprioceptive training. So let's say you get an ankle sprain, right? So my standard ankle sprain protocol for, let's say, you know, they come in different grades, the grade one is usually the most standard. People get it all the time. It's nothing. But if mistreated, it can be something. You come to me with a grade one sprain. I'm either putting you in a protective brace or a boot for seven to 10 days. And then we're doing what's called functional rehabilitation. So we're going to begin with passive range of motion. It's going to be a, you know, movement here and there. And then we're going to graduate to active range of motion. Now you're really asking your ankle to get back into business. And then the last but not least, when everything's strong enough and ready to go, we're going to do proprioceptive training because to me, that's the most demanding. So you described it before, proprioception is your, the way your body sees itself in space.  And you realize, you know what, I can't really do this. These are the physical demands that really dictate things. And you explained it perfectly, honestly, from the proprioceptive aspect. So your body's all connected. It's all neural transmissions and symptoms and they just link together.  That ankle was, has its own memory or own sensation and was designed to function a certain way. When you injure it, whether it be a tear, a sprain, or a rupture, it loses some of that potency, right? It loses some of that memory it once had. And what we're trying to do with proprioception is regain it and maybe even advance it a little bit. That's why proprioception should be a modality used pre-injury even because it's been proven through research that proprioceptive training drastically decreases the re-injury of a patient. So when we talk about prevention is the best medicine. I would say it again, preventive is the prevention is better than the cure. Propioception training should be part of every athlete's modality. You're talking about increasing muscle mass, you're talking about being quicker, balance, balance, balance. It's really going to affect the way you move. It's going to be affecting the way you play and so forth and so forth. So yeah, I can't dwell on that topic enough. I really can. So one of the things that kind of comes up when we talk about proprioception and how our body is talking to our limbs neuro-mechanically, that neuro-transmission, there's an awesome study showing people doing a depth jump. So jumping off of a box. So now they're open chain because they're in the air. And as they're about to hit the ground, the ones who are well trained actually had co-contractions and their muscles around the ankle joint to stiffen it. So for people who aren't seen my hand, visualization, see what happened is the guy jumps off the box. The ankle has to become stiff. So the body sends neurological impulses to those muscles and says, Hey, I want to have opposing muscles contract really hard. So we take out some of the slack and then Achilles tendon that might be there. It stiffens the structure because it's bracing for impact. But at the same time, it allows for a performance benefit because you hit the ground quicker. The Achilles can act to transmit force. So you have more free elastic energy to jump higher. So we're talking about proprioception and neuro-mechanical coupling. All of those things play a role too. It's how our body is preparing to move, how we're about to strike the ground and how all of those timing, we talk about how complex the foot is. It's not just the fascial system. It's not just one muscle. It is the whole foot acting in harmony to hit the ground, propoles, I guess, propole. Well, I can say that, propel yourself upward and transmit the forces that are going on in your movement. Now, in regards to how the foot is functioning in athletics, people harp on over and over again. We want to have a stiff foot that's able to be elastic and spring-loaded kind of like if we were to be a pogo stick so we can store elastic energy. So if we're like Russell Westbrook coming down the line, we take one aggressive step, our foot's active and contracted, and we're able to propel ourselves upward to finish at the rim. How does that kind of understanding and those aspects of the foot fit into determining not just the foot type and what exercises for proprioception we should do, but maybe that rehab process itself and how you see it kind of going forward. And maybe I know you're not a physical therapist, but your knowledge of the foot is, you know, top of the line. How you see that going forward and whether or not someone should be doing some type of specific exercises or movement patterns to help re-educate that system outside of what people might assume proprioceptive being, you know, balancing on a ball or, you know, different balanced exercise, but something more dynamic. Yeah, even with the dynamic thing. So repetition, right? When you talk about Russell Westbrook and that step he takes and then just explodes, that's something they repeat constantly. Don't think that sometimes it's innate and they just know these things are Antonio Brown. If you look at these athletes, they're applying medicine to their training daily. There's a method to the madness and that's what I'm trying to explain to people. Yes, some people are born with God gifted ability, but some people had God gives ability and do nothing with it because they weren't given the prior to proper guidance or the proper training and so forth and so forth. And the reality is when you're talking about in a dynamic proprioceptive sense, you have to train your body and your mind to do certain actions. So that step and that jolt is a repetitive measure. You know, we're talking about muscle memory here. So you're going to begin and go, and then you're not even going to run all the way. You're going to come back and start it again. You want to make sure that first step is on point and then go and then bring it back and then keep going until you get it right. So what they'll do when an athlete gets injured, they'll look and they'll say was it faulty mechanics? Was it something we couldn't prevent? Because sometimes you can't prevent these things, but if it's faulty mechanics, they'll try to fix it. And we see this in baseball all the time, right? Where people are evaluating his swing and the whole knot. You think the swing is just upper body or it's just hips. It comes all the way from the bottom of the base of the foot, right?  You have the back leg stable. Everything is taken into careful consideration. Now, unfortunately, we're not all blessed with the individual attention that we all need. But if you maintain consciousness in what's going on with yourself or have someone evaluate you like a professional or a coach or physical therapist or whatever it may be, they could kind of help guide you into the right pathway. I hope that kind of makes sense to your question. If I'm general public, I'm an athlete. Are there any things I can do at home to better understand my foot so I can identify whether or not I need to see someone like yourself, see a physical therapist, or are there any warning signs that should we are telling me, hey, my footwear, is it best for me? It's tough to say, right? Because we never seek treatment unless we need it, right? I don't go to the doctor unless I'm sick. I don't go to the ear doctor unless my ear hurts or I go deaf. And I don't see a foot doctor unless my foot's in pain, right? And chances are if your foot's in pain, sometimes it may be late enough. What we're trying to do is get to a point where you never have to see me for anything serious, right? So my recommendation is always just to get an evaluation. I mean, if you're insured, obviously, but it doesn't hurt you. It doesn't cost much of your time to go and do so. And I have people that come through my practice regularly and they'll come once a year and they'll say, hey, how's it going? And runners do this religiously. I mean, runners will have no issues and still see me because they know the impact of an injury does to their training. I mean, a runner runs for sport. If they get a stress fracture, that's six weeks. We're talking about muscle atrophy. We're talking about loss of endurance. We're talking about a detrimental effect to them. So they come and they just want to see me. They want to make sure their sneaker is okay. They'll come with like three, four pairs. They want to make sure if they need orthotics, they'll get customs, regardless of the cost. They take their job very seriously.  Pick up running. It's easy. It's so cheap. It's not cheap. I mean, they buy the best sneakers, the best gear and the whole nine yards, and it's definitely not easy. I'll tell you that much.  I mean, I see it every day, but the best way to really assess is to get an evaluation. And believe it or not, many people besides podiatrist, just like you mentioned before, are more than equipped to let's say, hey, I think you should see one, you know, from coaches to trainers to physical therapists and so forth. That's the best way. But as far as like home remedy to see your foot type and whatnot, it's tough to say because you may think your, your foot type is normal and you may see me and I say, no, that's a high arch. You have a really high arch. So you want to get an expert opinion or expertise on it. That's the best way. I'd be steering the general public wrong if I said anything differently. No, that's a great way of putting it, right? Let's take care of bodies. Let's be proactive and let's find a way to, you know, not jump to conclusions, but also not ignore it as well. And, you know, intentionally, I put this question last because it's a little irony to it. The forgotten big toe, right? No one wants to talk about it. No one mentions it. It's a single joint. It's way down there and we don't think much of it. Obviously, it plays a huge role in how we function. If you give me some insights into the big toe itself, how it affects our body, how it affects our movement pattern, I'd love to hear some of that. So the big toe is super crucial and the loss of big toe, I mean, we talk about ankle range of motion and the importance of dorsiflexion. You could kind of say the same thing about the big toe and I've done enough big toe surgery where I can tell you and vouch for how important and vital it is to the foot. So the big toe, the main two functions in my eyes, now there's many functions, but the two main functions for it is one, it's a big shock absorber. So you hit the ground, the heel hits first and the last thing to kind of fall off is your foot. So when energy transfers, it transfers from the heel and it's going to go all the way to the front and there's certain parts of gait or your cycle or your running where about 80% of your body's weight is on your big toe joint alone. Now, if you don't have the proper range of motion in that big toe, it's either going to flatten out and get arthritis or it's going to send it to the next joint to absorb it. And that's why sometimes the lack of first toe mobility the too much first ray mobility will lead to second metatarsal fractures, stress fractures, which is the most common fracture. The big toe is a crucial joint in the foot complex and should not be neglected. It's actually very important for an array of sports for progression of running and just day to day walking. And the thing, the bad part about the big toe is once you hit to a certain point, it becomes progressive. And that's the unfortunate sequence. I just had someone come the other day who is already developing arthritic changes in the big toe. And we're going to develop orthotics, we're going to get them stiff shoe gear in the front so they're not bending as much. But the reality is I prepared them to let them know chances are this is going to progress. And eventually it tends to get to a point where you do need surgery, whether we clean it up, whether we put an implant or what we do is call the fusion and you lose that joint permanently. So I would definitely take caution in the big toe. You want at least 65 degrees of motion in the big toe. And that's something you could look on YouTube and see what's normal. It's something you should do in the morning before you even hit the ground. Not to sound like weird, but this is normal activity that I do before I hit the ground. I'm moving my ankle, I'm moving my toes, just getting the body ready for the day to begin. I mean, when you're sleeping, you're not stretching out anything. It's kind of lax. The ligaments are lax, the capsules are lax. And when you first hit the ground, sometimes you're not ready for that. And that's the one of the biggest things that I actually see is plantar fasciitis. Oh, doc, when I wake up and I hit the ground in the morning, I'm just going crazy. And the reality is is your body's not ready. The tendon, the ligament has been completely dormant this whole time. And now all of a sudden you're asking for, hey, let's start our 5,000 step day today. Okay. So just be conscious. Little things like that go a long way. You'll be surprised. And are there any mobilities, big toe mobilizations you can do, stretches for someone who might have a deficiency in big toe range of motion? Sure. Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. Physical therapist. I'm going to give all the credit to them and the rehabilitation teams. They're the pioneers in this.  They have like rollers and platforms and they're isolating the big toe alone and they're getting your foot to kind of go over the big toe. So it's recreating that motion without demanding the big toe joint itself. So two things you can do, you could ask the big toe to move up itself, or we could kind of cheat and ask the toe to move the foot to move over the big toe, stimulating dorsiflexion. So there's an array of folks MPJ mobility exercises. And I have sent them to PT's in the past and seen success. So, you know, I'd be wrong to take any credit for their doing. There's definitely, but to answer your question, mobilities and exercises to increase that range of motion. Yeah, that's, it's so important because again, like your demonstration of that, you can stretch the toe in isolation, or we can put in a position of how it's functioning when it's a closed chain, meaning your foot's on the ground and how it's actually interacting with the other joints. And maybe there's a progression that the PT's might take. I don't want to speak for the PT's where we're first moving in isolation, but they're moving in a more specific manner. And I mean, that's been like, it's a great theme to kind of talk about this in this kind of conversation because we've been talking about the specificity of proper progression and identification. And that is in regards to if I'm loading the foot, let's be specific, but also progressive in the right way. Now specific is contextual to where you're at now. Right. You might say, oh, but being barefoot on a basketball court is the most specific for me. Well, technically, yes, if you play hoops, but maybe you're not ready for, you know, ladder drills barefoot yet on a hardwood surface. So let's be progressive and specific and let's let them counterbalance each other. So we actually progress and develop function and the way we want it to properly function. Yeah, I couldn't be, honestly, I couldn't agree with you more. And that's why when I mentioned the ankle rehab, I always specifically write passive range of motion. This is the easiest form of motion we could demand of our body and then graduate to active range of motion. Now we're really demanding different things from our joints and then do proprioceptive training. It's sort of this ladder of progression, right? Because you don't want to do too much too early.  I'm just going to do it. I'm going to go for it. And all of a sudden you're out of commission for the next three months. It's the same aspect in the foot. I know it gets neglected. You know, people stretch their chest before they do a chest workout, but no one ever thinks I'm going to stretch my ankle and foot before I hit the gym and run. But reality, it just takes one bad problem in your foot and ankle to realize, man, I really wish I never had to go through this. And I hear that all the time. You know, so you want to stretch your Achilles, be religious about it. You want to move your ankle. You want to move your toes. And you want to get a proper evaluation because again, the key is longevity. And if you I'm telling you the American sports medicine saying 50% of all injuries are in the foot and ankle severe or moderate or, you know, slight, take it take it seriously. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I couldn't agree more. Take it seriously. Should be a serious quote people actually reflect on because we look at a lot of our body and we give it, you know, maybe certain areas a lot of serious thought, you know, if you're a gym goer, you're going to say, oh, or athlete, you know, I know my, my quads are important to jump high. So we're going to take that really seriously. And then sometimes, oh, we'll do three ankle mobs and that's an afterthought. I know like, let's really seriously look at how our body is functioning and have intent behind taking care and being proactive and preventative about how the body works in conjunction with each other and all those pieces. And that way we can, you know, not have to ideally go see you under a knife. You know, like, that's, that's what we want. Yeah. It's not, it's not pleasant when you, you know, it's not pleasant when you have to tell a patient you see, you know, I just had a senior from high school who believe or not just had a Jones fracture.  It's over.  And it's, it's not pleasurable for me to do that. So my idea is prevention is the best. Let's, let's make sure you don't get to that point. Sometimes we can't avoid it. Sometimes it's just inevitable, but there are certain things that we can do. And if so, we should do. And that's why I think evaluation is crucial really.  Don't think these athletes who made the NBA or the league, they didn't take it seriously from the things they put into their body, whether it be food from the trainers they saw and the, the exercises they do, everything has a method to their madness. And if you want to look at these players who've had the longest careers, they put a lot of money into their bodies, right? We know LeBron James spends a million change on his body every year. I forget, I can't, I'm starting to blank out on the Pittsburgh Steelers player who quoted to saying, I take 15% of my paycheck and put it towards my body. James Harrison. James Harrison. Yes, yes. And it's, it's, it's not like by mistake because you get to a point where you understand, yeah, this is what's needed for me to make it to the next level and differentiate me from the average Joe, because we've all been to the park and see people who were phenoms and go, oh, you know, they should be doing something with it. We'll put them in a professional setting and you're like, oh man, maybe they're not that good after all. So take this serious. If you're serious, you've got to go full throttle all the way from head to toe, no pun intended. No, that's a great message to have. I know we're wrapping it up here a little bit, Doc. And I want to ask you one last question of where can people find out more about yourself? How can we hear more from you? We're in the street. There's a website coming out. I think I heard something like that. I'm not sure.  We're going to hear more about you. Where are you located?  And give me your Instagram handle as well. Sure, sure. So my practice is located in Grand Central New York. My Instagram handle is simple NYC foot doc. My email is attached to the Instagram handle. Believe it or not, I religiously take time every day to answer any emails or inquiries just because it doesn't hurt me to reply. I'm not that demanding where I don't have time to reply to 10, 12 people a day. I'm open to all different types of questions or any inquiries about anything really. I genuinely enjoy my job. So I love the discussions. I'm a bit of a nerd when it comes to this. And then as far as the blog, we're working on a blog put together to talk about things we just talked about today. And what I want to say informal, but formal manner, right? You know, we're sitting here just kind of shooting at me and you, but the substance we talked about is legitimate. And that's, that's the beauty of your conversation and this platform you're doing. And the blog is going to be in the similar demeanor. It's going to be worded simplistically. It's going to be straight to the point. It's going to be about a minute to two read. So be on the lookout for that. And any suggestions on what you guys want to read about? I'll write about, it's that simple. And everything is fact based and research evidence. That's just the way it goes through things. I mean, if it's not research based then I won't write about it. So what's the name of the blog too? Is it up yet? What will be the domain name? How do I search to find it? So it's not up at the moment, but when it is, all the details will be on the Instagram page. So I just put out a little skit of what people wanted to hear. I got a bunch of different suggestions from sports injuries to Liz Franks. Believe it or not, everything that was suggested I'm starting to realize was on this show. So I just lost a lot of my material talking to you today. But yeah, it's going to go up. I'm working on it. It's a work in progress. I'm hoping within the next week or two to launch my first one and then make it like a weekly ordeal. And then whatever people want to hear, I'm more than glad to put it out there. Yeah, go check them out guys. It's awesome to get this wide variety of information on the foot, detailed in ways that you might not have thought about. At NYC foot doc is his hand on Instagram, great page. It's only growing more and more every day. I'm excited for the content to come out. Dr. Mo, thank you. Really appreciate it, man. It's been awesome. Thank you for taking the time. It's my pleasure. Honestly, I really appreciate you guys. And I hope we work together again in the future. Oh, I'm excited to get you back on soon. All right guys, thank you for listening. Really appreciate it. That's what I'm going to do with you. Say goodbye. Take care all.


I figured I'd show you guys how I do my mirror makeup live.  Well, guess what? I'm gonna prove it to you. So this is what my face looks like naturally. I've done my eyebrows similar. Before, I used to have pretty thicker, straight eyebrows that I grew out. It's funny, in high school, I had them like this. Then I drew them out because I wanted to do a more co-eye look. And then we're back to the brow. But I wanted to show you guys today how I do my mirror makeup, what products I use. You're gonna see it, you know, this is a live stream so there's no cuts or edits or softening filters, nothing. None of that. So, let's do it. So yeah, get one good look at my face. This is what it looks like. I'm gonna start off with the eyes. I already have my base on just because I just put a little bit. There's really nothing special that I do, but I'll show you what I, oh, I didn't bring the foundation. The foundation that I use is, see, this is why I usually do YouTube videos because I can remember after I edit. Oh, is it sideways, sideways? Mine is, how can I fix this? It's supposed to rotate. No, if I do it up and down, it won't work. I thought that it would rotate with me, you know what I mean? What should I do? Do you guys want me to do it this way? I think it'll look better this way, but you want me to do it the other way, let me know. I just figured I'd do it this way because when I save it to my channel, it's going to save as like a proper video instead of like a small little video and you can get a better look after it's saved. So that's kind of why I did it. Yeah, everybody just turn your phone sideways. Turn your phone sideways. Okay, it's fine, cool. So the foundation that I use is the same one that Marilyn uses. It's the Anita of Denmark Foundation. I just recently found it again. I used to use it way back in the day and I lost it and then I found it again in my makeup archives and so I brought it back and I'm starting to use it again. As you can see, it gets a little bit of a gloomy look already. I don't even have highlighter on yet. And the concealer that I use is the Tarte Double Duty Beauty. So I just did a little for now. I sometimes double up on a concealer at times. But we're gonna start off with the X. So you guys saw this in my tutorial, my quick tutorial and a lot of people needed more time to figure out what this palette was. So it's the Color Pop So Fly. Honestly, it doesn't really need to be this color palette. It just needs to be color similar to this. Do you need this one, that one, this one and that one? Very basic colors. It really doesn't matter as long as it is a couple shades of different warm browns. But before I do that, I use this. And this is the Urban Decay Prince White Liner. It does not need to be this version. I know a lot of people expect me to sound like this. My voice is a lot deeper. I don't really talk like, how does she do it? I don't really know. I've never tried, I never even attempted her voice. I'm not even gonna do it, that's so cringe. But now I have a really easy grasp of voice in real life. Yeah. So you can use any white liner. It really doesn't matter. And all I do is just, I follow my brow, my brow, wow. I haven't done this tutorial in so long. I follow my eye bone, my orbital bone. And I just put it on. And this is just gonna really make the eyelid come out more. So when Marilyn was younger, she had a little bit more of a hooded eyelid. She had eyelids very similar to mine now. Ashley got older, they got way more deep set. So if you already have her deep set eyes and she's older, then be a little lighter-handed on this technique. But if you don't, then be a little heavier-handed. Either way, it's going to help you out to get that look. I wish I could read the comments at the same time. If I see one pop up that catches my eye, I'll read it. But I don't wanna take 30 years showing you this tutorial. Okay, so once you do that, once you do that, you're gonna grab a shimmery white shadow, which you can see I've absolutely destroyed this. And you're gonna put it on your lid. So I'm doing this live, guys, I'm doing this live.  I still get comments to this day. The occasional comment, like, I've done so many different things to prove it, but I caved and I'm gonna do a live stream on here. I did a live stream on TikTok already. The biopic, one's a biopic and a half, so I'm grabbing this color here and I'm gonna go into the bone. The biopic, listen, Hollywood is shut down right now, so nothing's happening. Nothing's happening, Hollywood is shut down because of the WGA and sag strike. So nothing's in motion. So it's just sitting in my archived right now. You know, Youngly would have never thought that I would ever do an eye makeup look that would exaggerate my more downturn eyes. Naturally, they are a little bit downturned and I've always hated that quality about them. And that's why I used to do a look that I used to have with the really thick cat eye that would point straight to God, like just as high as possible. It was simply because I didn't like my eye shape and now I'm exaggerating my eye shape. What world is this? No, me and Marilyn are not related at all. I don't even think that's possible because I'm Hispanic and my entire lineage is Hispanic. She's Irish, I can't imagine that ever crossing. But then again, I've never checked, so I'm only guessing. But anyway, I'm taking that light brown and I'm putting it, I'm literally pressing it kind of aggressively because I'm really trying to trace the bone that's there. So look for your bone and then make sure you wing it out. Do this would be at the same time. See how it turns out. No, I don't own anything of Marilyn's now. No, that's what we're doing. And then I like to kind of exaggerate that line. Kind of, it's like borderline and cut crease. Sometimes I do a little less, sometimes I do a little more. It really depends on how I'm feeling. So then I'll go in with the warm brown. Again, you don't have to follow this palette but this is the SoFly palette by Colourpop. I just really like the colors. It looks really good against my skin. But I'm pretty sure you have somewhat similar colors in your existing palettes. So no need to run out and get it. If it was like a special blue, I'd understand, but okay. So I'm taking it and I'm just kind of going right over that to deepen the eye socket, which is a pretty classic staple for Marilyn.  I actually used to use more makeup with my old look than I do with this look. But the techniques for this makeup are much more transformative than my older. Well, actually, no, my old look was also very transformative because I don't look like my old self either, actually, now that I'm thinking about it. But even though it's very minimal amount of makeup, it's very transformative techniques and that's what's so cool about this makeup look. And Marilyn actually never looks like Marilyn herself. Naturally. In fact, one of the cool things I discovered when I was writing the biopic is that when she didn't have her makeup and everything set, people didn't recognize her, especially in New York specifically for some reason. In LA, some people still recognize her, but in New York, she could have walked in and no one would notice her. And the only time that people would notice her, she would do the face acting technique, which I've done TikToks on, which is fascinating because that lets you know how transformative her own makeup look was for her face. And it's one of, like, honestly, one of the most flattering makeup looks of all time, in my opinion. I think it works for so many different faces. It's amazing. Okay, so here's what we've done so far. So you see it kind of looks like a cut crease a bit. Now, disclaimer, this is not the Marilyn makeup look. I just want to let you guys know that. The Marilyn makeup look is a little, it's the same techniques, but I slightly altered to change my facial features a lot. When I do this makeup look, it's not as transformative. I still look like myself and I don't look 100% mistakable, like when I do a full transformation. So if you want the makeup look, I do have it on my channel as a real, short YouTube short. But this is like my everyday look that is still somewhat me. What really, oh, I grabbed the wrong one. That's okay, I'll use this instead. It's still me. And that's what I love about it. But the eyes are definitely still very heavily Marilyn. Okay, so that's what we've got. So that was three different eye color shadows. Then I'm taking a brown pencil. This is where we start differentiating from Marilyn's techniques and my techniques. So if you want to do it more close to Marilyn, she would actually use a mixture of brown and black. I found this brown that does have a black vibe to it. Personally, I would recommend using an eyeshadow mixed with brown and black, because the eyeshadow is very similar to the formula texture of old eyeliners from her time. Eyeliners nowadays are very, very pigmented, which comes across as modernized when you have the look together. So when I do my Marilyn cosplay, I do use eyeshadow to have that more authentic of the time texture to the eye makeup. But for my everyday, I do use this one. This is the Revlon Vinyl Liner Sofias in the color Mighty Mocha. And I think it's a really, really good dupe. Just more simple. Cuts the time in half. I try not to make my makeup routines take too long. I can do this makeup look in probably, I say like 15 minutes. Yeah, I'm going to post this after, so don't worry. I am going to upload it. That's why I made a live stream on here because I do want to save the video. Oh, there's like a hair there. Okay, so here is, you guys are going to watch this live. This is the part that I can never sit there and show you in a short video. And that is how I use the liner to exaggerate my eye shape.  So I do have that advantage, but even with this technique you can fake droopy eyes no matter what. So listen closely. So what you're going to do is first line ridiculously close to your lashes, like normal. Don't do a thick liner. I think that's a mistake that every person does when they do Marilyn makeup is that they either modernize the makeup look with really modern black liquid liner or and they put like way too thick of a end here. You want that to be as thin as possible because that's not where she would exaggerate her liner. And this is a technique that Marilyn's makeup artist did for her eyes because she also exaggerated her eye shape. So she had eyes that were downturned and she would exaggerate the downturnness with this technique I'm about to show you. So first you just want to line it like normal, very thin. It's almost like it's not even there. And this is where I take the opportunity to follow my eye shape down like this. This is the magic. And that is by thickening this part of your eye. There's two ways you can do it. You could do it down where your pupil is and exaggerate this part of your eye. I like to exaggerate this part of my eye because it makes it more dramatic. Try both and see which one looks best for your eye shape. So this is how I do it. I'm sorry, there's no music. I didn't want it to copyright it. So you see what I did? See what I did there? So it's just, this is thicker and then it leads right back to the thin liner that I applied here. And that's gonna make it more downturn. Um, oh yeah, I have tattoos everywhere. Fun fact, I haven't been on YouTube so long that I've gotten so many tattoos since then. I have one here. I've got one, this one goes all the way across. Then I got one all down my hip. I got one on my arm. I got one behind my ear, behind my leg. Yeah. I put them in spaces where I hide them so you can't really see them too often. I don't like to look like that. Like I don't want to put a look at me because I know I have a lot of tattoos but I do have massive tattoos on my body. Okay, so I'm gonna do the same thing to the other eye. Remember, again, follow your lash line as close as possible. You really don't want to add any thickness to this part of your eye. Line it like normal. Hi. And then you're going to thicken the front half of your eye or if it looks better for your eye shape you could thicken where your pupil, like literally where your black pupil is. You can thicken that part. I have a friend named Tina. She's a wonderful, beautiful person who also uses Maryland's techniques for her looks. Tina and Mel's fine artery, I think that's what her, I always forget her handle on TikTok but if you just type in Tina and Marilyn Rocha Papa and she does the center of her eye where her pupil is it looks wonderful on her. I think for me the effect works best when I do it a little bit before that. But if you go and look through Marilyn's makeup looks she would do the same technique. She did have naturally down to her eyes but she really played on it and exaggerated it. Well, not her, it's her makeup artist. She really didn't know how to do her own makeup that well. So whenever it was just a day where she didn't have the makeup artist do her makeup she didn't wear makeup at all. Okay, so you see like it's just more exaggerated now. It's fine, honestly, you know, I'm so flattered that people do say that they think I use all of these filters and stuff because that means I'm doing a good job.  So I'm really happy that people see it that way and I'm more than happy to show that I'm not lying. A lot of people don't know that it's so funny. A lot of people don't know that me and Jay Bonzi are the same person. Me and Jay Bonzi are the same person, fun fact. That was my makeup channel a few years ago and I do look different because I was significantly younger. I was significantly thinner. I'm a little bit filled out now. Okay. And obviously my hair color is different so now more than ever, we definitely look completely different people. Ooh, I got a sneeze. Okay. I'm sorry it's sideways. So I filmed it sideways. So that way when it gets uploaded onto YouTube, it's just a regular YouTube video. Hopefully it won't be upside down. I hope I flipped it on the right side. We're about to find out. Bear with me, but I didn't want it to like upload a near little sliver of video. So, yeah. So what I'm doing next is I'm taking the white liner again and I'm gonna grab right here underneath my eyes and then blend that out. This is a technique that her makeup artist used. It just kind of exaggerates the outer corner of her eyes. Yeah, it does make a difference, right? And then this is the magical part that everyone thinks is the actual real shadow. It's not a real shadow.  This is also a technique that Marilyn's makeup artist used. So right now, the closest part about my makeup routine that's everyday that's similar is the eye look. The eye look is pretty much to the T how she did her makeup look. Everything else, I don't really transform my face. I don't do my nose contour any differently than I used to. I don't really do my lips all too differently except I don't hide my cupid's nose much anymore. But the eye makeup is relatively exactly the way she did it. And I think that's what makes it so similar. I think it does help you have a similar bone structure and it's funny because, story game, while I, oh, I forgot my, no, I forgot my curler. No. Okay, I'm gonna run as fast as I can. I knew I forgot something.  I'm gonna grab my eye curler, be right back. Yeah, give me like literally 30 seconds, 30 seconds. Geez, you know when they say you forget what you're gonna say when you leave through a door space?  Oh yeah, when I was younger, a few years ago, I've always felt this weird familiarity with her face.  But I don't know, and I tried many times. I couldn't figure it out. I could turn into everyone else, but I couldn't turn into her and I couldn't figure out why. And I'd done like some makeup looks and they were okay or mid, like whatever. And I couldn't quite capture it. And it wasn't until I gained about 10 pounds, 10 to 15 pounds, that I was able to pull the look off. And I was like, I needed my face to fill out more. You look at my old videos, my face was much more defined, my cheekbones and such. And I was obviously much skinnier. Marilyn is relatively, we have the same arm size now. Back then I did it. And I think that my weight gain made me pull off the look.  And I think that's why I can do it now. Yeah, I did a long time ago, Marilyn, like when I did have blonde hair, I had blonde short hair and it worked then, but like even then I felt like I was too thin for it. And I feel like now it works. And I don't have to try so hard to do it. Anyways, I'm using the mascara. This is the Mad Lash. It's so cute. It's like a vintage bottle. And I stopped using false lashes because my lashes were just absolutely destroyed. It was horrible.  So I took it upon myself to stop wearing false lashes because, I always do that, because I wanted to still have lashes so I took my makeup off. So I started using an eyelash serum and I focused the eyelash serum towards the end of my eyes because what Marilyn used to do is put falsies at the ends, which you can do now if you haven't grown your eyelashes out quite yet. And I could still do it and I think I won't really damage my lashes as much, but at this point it's just such a hassle to stress about falsies that I grew my lashes out in a way that I could just use mascara and it would be enough. But the falsies still do help bring the look together even more. Just don't do a full strip. Just do the very, very, very ends because she didn't do a full strip. It was so cool. I think it was Kiss. Kiss lashes sent me a Marilyn Monroe eyelash collection. None of them honestly look like Marilyn Monroe's lashes at all, but they're really beautiful lashes. And it came with a nail set too. It was so awesome. I'm gonna throw them on at some point and try them out because it's a really cute collection. But anyways, when I do the mascara, yeah, everything is sideways. I'm so sorry. Everyone turn your phone. I do the mascara. I really focus in on pushing the lashes in one direction instead of up. I go out. So I go like out this way, out that way. Because I really want it to feel heavier towards the ends. Sorry, I have a lot of dogs. It's like the 101 Dalmatians in here. But instead of Dalmatian, they're murals. So they do have spots, but they're all different dogs. I always make the ends as thick as I possibly can with this mascara. This is the Mad Lash. Honestly, any mascara works. I use three different mascaras whatever's closest to me in my makeup drawer at the time. I really don't care about what mascara I use as long as it does its job and most mascaras do. But yeah, I kinda clump it up a little bit towards the ends here. And I go like on top of the lashes. I think that should work for now.  I just want to slightly, no I need the dark brown. I'm color matching the eyeliner. I don't wanna go in with eyeliner because if I mess up I can't just wipe it cleanly easily. So I'm exaggerating this part of my eye a little more. Again, you can see, okay, that's what we're doing. That's what we want. We just want to exaggerate that side, that part of your eye. This is the most important part. There we go. So that's my eye makeup look. So, I'm gonna exaggerate the shadow too, the fake shadow. I'm doing it in real life and I forget that the camera reads it differently so I have to be a little bit more aggressive with the camera. And what's the next step? Oh, my brow bone. I'm gonna take the, I'm gonna start highlighting now. I'm taking this white here. I just use my fingers. I face paint at this point. I've been a makeup artist for God knows how long but I still face paint. Actually, okay, this is only sometimes. Only sometimes I do this. It really just depends on if I'm doing it for camera or not. If it's for camera, I'll actually add the white here. So you can really see that highlight. But it's for real life.  And then I highlight it. This eye makeup look, I've seen a lot of you guys do it and send me pictures on Instagram and you guys always look so good. I swear I have yet to meet somebody who looks bad with this makeup look. I think it's so universal. I think everybody should give it a shot. Okay, and then I'm gonna grab a little bit of that lighter brown real quick and just kind of blend the, what I just did there. So the eyes are coming together. I don't have any spray tan on, no. No, I'm still recovering from my really horrible tan that I got. It was horrible, horrible, horrible. We are vertical. Next step. Now, for my eyebrows, I just leave them because I plucked them this way.  So if your brow is straight, make a triangle and then take concealer and shave it until it starts lifting. It's like magic. I hope that made sense, but that's what I used to do before I committed to the brow shape because I realized it took me so long to realize that lifted brows look so much better on my face and it didn't in the past when I was thinner because I tried it when I first was trying to figure out what my official makeup look was gonna be. I did have an arch brow initially naturally because in high school I did and I just, it didn't work for the makeup look I had before, but I think with this makeup look, it's the perfect brow. So I think, you know, you have to really work and see what brow works for you, whether it's thinner, thicker, arched or not arched. It depends on what your eye makeup is gonna be too. So it's a, it's a formula, that's for sure. Oh, there it is. So it really doesn't matter what blush you use, I'm gonna be honest with you, I'm just gonna grab this one. I use all sorts of blushes, depends on what I have the closest to me. The colors don't really matter as long as it's the general idea of it. It's the application really. And I've been putting this here. I personally always put my blush here, but the difference between my makeup look now and then is I used to put it on my nose and I don't do that anymore. But I'm grabbing it and I'm putting it there, which is also where Marilyn would put hers. I'm 28, I'm 28.   Like with this makeup look, a lot of blush looks really good. I kinda like get a little nasty with it. It doesn't look clownish at all when you have this makeup look. It might look clownish with some makeup looks, but not this one.  I do want a little bit of a sun-kiss color. Just a little bit, not too much. And then I'm gonna take, again, now you can see why this is really getting empty. I'm hitting pan on this because it's the best highlighter ever. I'll go and put it on my inner corner. The lips is what really does it.  Okay, I'm going back in with, actually grabbing the palette again. Maybe you should get this palette because that's what I use for everything. I'm grabbing the lighter color and I'm contouring my nose. This is how I've always contoured my nose for Disney princess looks that I did because I did, my look previously was very inspired by Ariel, a little mermaid. And then I got old and I'm like, this is not really an age-appropriate makeup look anymore. So we went for something else, but what did stay was my nose contouring. But ironically, this is exactly how Marilyn also contoured her nose, so it works. I would exaggerate this a little bit for older Marilyn if I wanted to, but this is my everyday look. It's not my cosplay makeup look. Like I said, that one's more exaggerated and placements might vary. Yeah, I just used my fingers, honestly. If you guys have followed all my YouTube videos, you know, my fingers are always the tool of choice because I have a lot of control over it. And sometimes brushes can surprise you and you end up with too much. Do costly videos on the J-Buzz channel anymore? That channel is weirdly blacklisted on YouTube. I think because the content on it has been, my channel has been so copyrighted. Like copyrighted, I'm gonna highlight now my nose. It's been so copyrighted that I feel like YouTube doesn't push it because it's copyrighted content. Just because of the character IPs and sometimes the music I use straight from the movies and they just don't push my videos out there anymore, which is sucky, but it is what it is. I still dress up and do YouTube, or TikTok videos in different characters and stuff.  I always do a little extra towards the end and I just highlight this part here and then I'll draw for my chin just a little bit anywhere beyond that spot on my face. It's kind of hard, I'm looking at myself here not looking into the mirror, that's kind of silly. Don't worry, everybody who came in late, I'm gonna save this livestream so you can play it back. Okay, so we're getting there. The lips really does it. The lips does it in such a way that it's like suddenly the world has changed. It's a whole different person. My lip color products, they vary. I have like a mocha color that I use, a orangey color that I use, a red color. I did grab the red because I couldn't find the other one. I think it's one of my purses somewhere. I'm the most disorganized person I know. But I'm gonna do the red for now. It really doesn't matter the color, it just matters the technique again. So, when I did the lips, how do I describe this? It really depends, everybody has different lips so it's like my advice might not work for you. But essentially you want the lip shape to be bigger on these sides instead of on top. Modern ways of overlining, you would focus on overlining this part, but you would actually overline this part in the 1950s way. Marilyn was not the only person that did this. Lucille Ball was also popular for doing this, Audrey Hepburn as well. So this lip lining technique has been done by almost practically every female in Hollywood of the 50s. So, I'll show you, I'll just show you. It looks so funny the first time you draw it. So yeah, you're just gonna, you should cut it off here, like can you do that?  This one is, I think this is no longer available. It's a Rudolph, Rudolph collection by Colourpop. It really does not matter what color you use. In fact, I don't even recommend this lip liner because it's not the color I naturally go for. And it's not the color that's even related to Marilyn, but it doesn't matter. I'm gonna grab, I'm gonna go grab a, I forgot to grab the color I put on top. So I'll be back for that, give me like 10 seconds. I'll show you that one, because that one I do use a lot, hold on. I love this color. This is the gloss that I throw on on literally anything I do. And it's the Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb and Fuchsia Flex. But before I do that, since I'm doing a red lip today, I'm gonna grab the Flower Nose color in 07. Though this is not my favorite lip combo, in my opinion. I have more favorites than this one, but we're gonna go for this today. Knowing her favorite color are important to me. What? No, it might my favorite color. This is not my favorite color to go for. I like to go more for like a neutral color. Like a brown-y red would be nice. I don't normally go for a real red lipstick.  And it adds glitter that's not super obvious. And it's just beautiful. I gotta do this before it gets in my teeth. So that's pretty much my makeup look. What I like to do is, if I'm doing like my Vixen look, I do something that old Hollywood stars used to always do. And that's to create a mole somewhere just where Marilyn got hers from. I think Jean Harlow also did it. I'm not quite sure if hers was real. I like mine near my eye.  And I think it like makes people look at your eyes more when you have something on your face close to your eye. Little psychology trick, you know what I mean.  But I want everybody to look at my eyes, so. So yeah, that's my makeup look. Of course, on top of that, you would add like your facial muscles to kind of pull off the Vixen look that I do in my videos. It's funny because a lot of people think my personality is similar to how I portray myself in my videos. All like sassy and whatnot, but I'm absolutely adored in real life. Yeah, we call it acting.  We don't want nobody to know that, you know what I mean? So yeah, that's the makeup look. This is what I look like when I do my TikTok videos. My hair, obviously when I curl it and do the vintage look, it kind of helps a lot in the vintage execution, you know, but. So yeah, my face is real. I look just like this in my TikToks. Obviously when I do my TikToks, I also record with a little bit of a zoom so you guys get a closer look at my face. Farther away, it might look slightly, slightly, ever so different, but yeah. So that's how it looks.  This is like the infallible, and I'll just powder right here, but not my forehead because I like it shining a little bit. I like it to gleam a little bit. So yeah, this is the final look. Now you guys know I'm gonna save this so that way you can play it back. I mentioned every product I use. Again, I'll just give you a little reminder. The ColourPop So Fly Palette, I use this one, this one, that one, and that one. This is for your eyelid. This is for the first lay down of the brow bone. This is for the deep in it. This is for, if you want, actually you can use this color as a liner if you want it to be more true than 1950s. But for liner, I use the Revlon Sofiers Vinyl Eyeliner in the color Mighty Mocha. The blush does not matter. Use any blush that looks good for your skin. Mascara does not matter, but I use the Mad Lash. Lip liner colors don't matter. It's a technique, but I use the Flower Nose 07. Any red pencil will work. Literally any red pencil. This is what I use for concealer. I think it's a wonderful concealer, so I'd recommend it. The Tarte Shape Tape. Oh, this is what you first put on your eyelid. Just a white pencil will do. This is the Urban Decay Prince color. And that's pretty much it. Oh, oh, and this, this is this little gloss. You see this beauty right here? This little masterpiece, this is important. I think no matter what color I do, whether I do the orange lip or I do a beige lip or a red lip, I always throw this on top. I think it just makes the lip color just magical. And that's the Fenty Beauty Puchsia Flex. I think that's every product I've mentioned. If not, you can go back and watch it through again. But that's what I do for my makeup look. My face is real. Obviously, if I purposely act like that, it's weird when you're talking at the same time. I feel like that also helps, too. So now you guys can see it. Maybe what I'll do is I'll end this livestream so I can save it so that way the people don't sit here and watch like a three-hour video when they watch it back. But I can actually come back and do a proper Q&A, literally come back immediately and do a proper Q&A where it's not sideways and you guys can comfortably comment and stuff like that. That way we can kind of chat. Because I don't think I've ever done a livestream on here. So I could do one today. But yeah, I'm gonna end this one so that way you guys have evidence. If anyone comments, if anyone comments, that my face is not real, show them this link, this link right here. Send it to them. That's the comment reply, that's what I'm gonna be doing. Because I just showed my routine. No cuts or edits, no filters. YouTube lives don't allow filters. I can't even zoom on this thing. I honestly would have loved to zoom more. It's kind of a shame I wasn't allowed to do that because I really wanted you to see like up close, you know, but could do that. So that's a look. I hope you liked it. I'm so sorry I couldn't read so many of your comments or sideways, so I couldn't do that. But I will come back and I'll read some comments and get to know you guys on this platform. So thanks for watching. I'll be right back.


Overstaying in the UK has caused my suffering for the last 10 years. It's a life story that I need to share with you, especially when it comes to overstaying with the visas. Overstaying in Europe on what you call visa overstaying caused a lot of my suffering for the last 10 years. This is a life story that I need to share with you, especially for people who do not actually know what is all about with the records regarding travel in one world or the other. Yes, we shall get in two parts and this is what we call part A. Yes, it was one day when I got a very big opportunity.  That was in 2010. I got a time, a chance to travel to the UK that was in Birmingham and we are going to do what we call an apprehentorship and that was actually supposed to be for two months. Remember, we did all what ever we had to do for two months. We are in a group, we are in a group of 15 people and we went with someone, we went with a Samto representative that is a group of 18. Yes, we did all what ever it was and you know as you are trying to do something, something again comes in and as like here we looked at the country, we looked at the beauty of the country and I was like what first came in my mind I was like I need not go back to my country. I need not go back to Uganda, I need not go back to my country. I need to stay here at whatever course. Actually, as we are trying to finish up that was what was in my mind. You just can't believe as like I had to plan very fast and doing this but I am also planning. So we are left with only two days to go. Those two days we are left and we had to exit according to the rules we had to all exit at once. So I planned well in those two days and I was like okay I'll try to disappear. This group will go, I'll stay okay. So I packed all my bags and what I did, I got another bag. I packed in different things right. Then I packed Alexwa bag, I left it and I'm like okay I go out to the shop and I didn't come back. I disappeared because I had my own plans. I didn't know about what they called overstaying the visa that you can't have the charge, you can't have the burn. First things already that time we are not in my mind. I was thinking of staying in the UK. I was staying for the whole life of my life in the UK and starting up a life in the UK.  So two days prior to the departure I disappeared. I disappeared. They looked for me. I disappeared. But remember the condition was that you have to exit so meaning that even if I disappeared the other group would still have to exit the UK. That was what was interesting part that saved me a little bit. So they looked for me. They looked for me anywhere I was in hiding because I wanted to stay inside the country. They went off. But remember the three people that were in charge of us definitely they had to make sure that when they returned back to the country or how own country is that they had to go back with all the team and they had to give a report. To the university where we went they also had to give a report to the police that we've all exited. But unless they told them that one person was missing and they gave in all my details. So I thought so much of us like I stayed in Birmingham for around some five days. I had a friend in Birmingham by the way. It's called Moram. Moram is told to me you know what things are not easy so you need to move. We shall go to our country that is in Newcastle. I said really that was so great of him. He took me to Newcastle. We moved from Birmingham and went to Newcastle. Remember this was two months. I knew a little bit of all the plans, the metro stations. I knew all the materials I knew where I would go. A little bit of small towns or small places I would get to hide in Birmingham. We became aware because we became given time to move out and I was already aware of the map and where to go. That's something that I tried to use all the strategies. So I moved on and I hid. We went up to Newcastle. I hid in Newcastle for three months. So meaning that the visa that was supposed to be two months it is now overstayed more 90 days. I was given a gross period of only 30 days to exit the country. I did not. I was still in the country. I was hiding because I wanted to stay in the country. But all little I did I know in my mind that I was what you call overstaying and there were charges, there were consequences and there were penalties for overstaying. Why am I trying to bring this? I've heard of what you call the UAE visa restrictions absconding blacklist and ban. I didn't know that your travel history can talk a lot or can say a lot when you need a visa to go to another country.  They will have those details. You will never have to escape. That's why you find sometimes you are being denied the visa. To cut the story short I overstayed. So I said in Newcastle it was really very good. I said Newcastle for 3 months. I enjoyed, I enjoyed. The first 2 months it was really good. The first month was a little bit hiding being in the house. The second month I tried to move around trying to go into the community a little bit like that. So the third month I didn't know that this is where the trouble was coming from. Watch out for part 2. By the way don't forget to subscribe and like and don't forget to comment.