Hello friends, how are we all doing? Today I feel very nervous for this video. I feel like there's a lot of pressure riding on this video but today we're going to do a video that a lot of my patrons have asked me to do and I'm gonna be predicting the books I think are gonna be nominated for the Goodreads Mystery Thriller Awards this year and I feel sick to my stomach. I've been like avoiding filming this for about an hour. I never do that. I feel sick to my stomach. So much pressure! Take a deep breath, calm down. I'm gonna be trying to predict the top 20 that I think are gonna be nominated and then maybe narrow that down to the top 10. The things I want to say, I am not going to get this 100% right. It's impossible. Every year for every category there's like a few books that get nominated that have maybe like a thousand ratings that end up coming 20th in the voting but they're still nominated. The Goodreads isn't always the top 20 most popular books in a genre. Sometimes there are but there's always one or two that sneak in that like no one could have predicted, no one knew were gonna be there. So I think there's gonna be some of those okay. That's number one. Number two, I do want to point you towards Ashley's little library who does a very similar video. I know she's just posted her one for this year which I haven't watched because I didn't want my mind to be coloured. I've been planning on doing this since like the start of the year. Some of my patrons, Julia, shout out Julia, has asked me to do this. Ashley's a bit different in that Ashley has like a methodology. Like she works it out mathematically. I'm going off on vibes. I have got no planning going into this. I have not thought, I've tried actually my very hardest not to think at all about this going into this. I want to go on this journey with you. So we'll start off going through the ones that I can just think of at the top of my brain that I think are definitely going to be in there and then we'll go look at things like Goodreads lists that have come out this year of like top mystery thrillers, Book of the Month or books have been part of Book of the Month because they always end up being on there. Like some of them always end up being on there. So that's going to be our methodology. Just vibes. Just vibes. So here is my nomination prediction sheet. The way we're going to format this is I'm going to put the ones that I think are definitely going to be nominated in the green and then as we start finding out more then I'll put some ones that I think may be nominated in the gold and then we'll try and narrow it down to top 20 and then a top 10 is the way we're going to do this together. Are we ready? I feel, God, this is the most pressure I've ever felt for a video. No, I just don't think this is like great for me. I don't want to do it. I want to go home. Like I can't take the pressure of it. Don't you think any job interview- Because I just feel like there's going to be one book at least that is like an obvious choice that I forget exists. But shall we just get into it? Okay, so let me think of some that I think are definitely going to be on there. First one that I want to say that I think is definitely going to be on there is The Only One Left by Riley Saker. I think this is absolutely without a shadow of doubt going to be there. Riley Saker is almost always nominated and I feel like this could even be a good shot to win. Like try to think of what's going to win this year. I feel like this has had some of the best reception of a book that has come out this year from Mystery Thrill. I mean, let's look it up because I think it will have a pretty high rating still even though it's been out for a little while. 4.18, 94,000 ratings. I think Riley is up there with a shout. I don't know if Riley's ever won the good- I don't think he has. No, I don't think he has ever won the Goodreads Mystery Thriller and I think I think he's in with a shout. I think he's in with a shout for winning. I'm very excited. This is like one of the books I want to read the most but I'm now trying to save all the books that I think are going to be nominated for Goodreads Mystery Thrill for that video. I feel like my whole life now every year leads up to this video. I'm so excited for it. I think it's like the most fun video to do but oh my god. I'm really trying to predict what is gonna, you know, be on there. Oh my god this was like too much pressure. Okay, controversial choice. One that I definitely want to put in there. Let's bring her in. There she is. Listen to what I have to say because I'm right. This one I'm only saying it's a controversial choice because the first and second There's They Murder Club books were not nominated for the Goodreads Mystery Thriller. So there's always a chance it just won't be included again. It's always a chance it won't be included again but I believe it will. Okay, The Bullet Miss was nominated last year and it came third. Mimi, I'm first. Mimi, I'm first was number one in the voting. I could not believe it. The Bullet Miss was third rightfully so. It's what I voted for and I think the last episode is absolutely gonna be nominated. I hope it is because I'm not reading it until the video and if it's not nominated then we've got a problem. I mean again let's look at this on Goodreads. I think it's already got something like 20,000 ratings even though it's only been out for like a couple weeks. Maybe almost a month now and it's going to have a ridiculously high rating. It's going to be like 4.5 or something. 4.6. That's pretty impressive for 22,000 ratings. Now of course there's always the caveat that with series they get higher and higher rated as the series goes on because it's only people who have liked the other ones reading it. However, what if the last episode I wins? So many people, all the reviews I've been seeing of this are people sobbing. I know what it's going to be about. Lots of people saying it's their favorite in the series so far. I'm not ready but I'm definitely hoping that the last episode to die is going to be on there. What else do I think? Let me go. Okay I think this is definitely going to be on there. This has been one of the ones I've heard. The most people talking about this yet and that is none of this is true by Lisa Jewel. I feel like Lisa Jewel tends to always be nominated but this has been a big release this year I think in terms of a mystery thriller that people are enjoying. It's got that podcast element that everyone seems to be speaking really highly of. I think it's been really highly rated. Again let's go have a look. 4.23 with a hundred. Oh that's got more ratings and a higher average rating than the Riley Sager. Interesting. Okay I think this is definitely going to be nominated. It's got really high ratings and everyone loves the podcast. It's the crowd favorite. Everybody loves a good jazz player. And I think this is the most successful release I've seen from Lisa Jewel for a while in terms of public opinion. So I think this is going to be there. I got a few more that I think are definitely going to be there. This one or The Dangerous Things by Stacey Winningham. I think Stacey Winningham's debut came I want to say fourth last year and so I think she's definitely going to be nominated again and this is Stacey Winningham just seems to appeal to like the baseline thriller reader. Like the person who reads like 10 books a year and reads through this and like doesn't read a ton of books. I think she appeals to that kind of readership. 4.11 with a hundred and eighteen thousand. So this is the most rated that we've seen so far. The highest readership granted it did come out in January. So like it's had a lot of time to build that readership but I mean that plays to its advantage. So I don't know if I think this will win. I don't think it will but I think it will be top five in terms of averaging. I read this. I gave it a four star. I thought it was like a pretty good basic thriller. Now the next one I think is controversial. Okay. This one is a little bit of a risk but we're going to go do some research because I've had this thought and I think this is going to be I think this has to be nominated and I think it has to be top 10. I think it'll be like ninth maybe in the voting. I think it will make top 10 and that is Zero Days by Ruth Ware. Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave? I think this is gonna make top 10 and here's why. Okay if you're even thinking Megan I haven't heard a ton of people reading this and those who have been reading it I don't think have been loving it. I agree. I agree. I agree. But I ask you when was the last time a Ruth Ware book didn't make top 10? Crickets. Crickets. I need to go look this up okay because I feel like Ruth Ware has such a name recognizability now that she is always going to make top 10 pretty much. Unless like her books start falling off a cliff I feel like a basic through again this isn't being basic thriller readers fit me in but like your average thriller reader who doesn't read a lot is going to read Miss Ruth Ware. They're going to read Miss Ruth Ware you know. So I think Zero Days is going to be nominated. Let's go do some research on this because I don't think this is going to have a very high rating average rating. I haven't heard the best things. I don't think it will have a ton of readers yet. It hasn't come out okay 40,000 it's got 3.68 now that is dangerously veering on I think a book has to have above a 3.5 to be nominated on Goodreads that's like the requirement. So it is starting at lowly rated but I still think it's going to make top 10. Let's go look at Miss Ruth Ware and see the last time a book did not make top 10. Let's go let's sort them by year let's go back in time which is called publication year okay. The icke I know I know that made top 10 I don't need to look that up one by one did that make top 10 yeah okay that was eighth that came eight see I think she's always going to make top 10. I think we're going to have to go back to like the death of Mrs West away or maybe even further back to find one that didn't make the top 10. 10 of the key will definitely be top 10 third that came third yeah that is one of her best agreed death of Mrs West away now this could not have made top 10 but then we still got we've still gone back to 2018 okay it was nominated that came seventh you see what I mean I don't think Ruth the lion game okay this one maybe okay that one doesn't appear to have been nominated that's interesting but I think the woman in cabin 10 will have been so the woman come 10 came came third are we sure the lion game wasn't nominated let's just double check yeah okay the lion game wasn't nominated so that's how far we have to go back we have to go back to 2017 we have to go back six years for a Ruth where booked who have not been nominated and I just I just think she will be and I think it'll make top 10 because people you gotta remember people voting this who have not read a single book in this category and so names like Riley Sager Lisa dual Ruth where I think are always gonna get a baseline number of votes from people who haven't read a single book in a category but vote for them because they liked the turn the key or they liked lock every door do you know what I mean so I think she's gonna make top 10 that's a controversial one okay and I've got one more that I think I can think of off the top of my head that I think will definitely be there's an earlier release this year but that is real wrongs and this is guide for murders I just feel like this has to be there I see not so many good reads list I've seen so many people talking about it in the UK it's been a really big release like it's one of those books that gets into the supermarkets in the UK and you have to be doing something right to get into the supermarket in the UK it would be a very popular book let's look this one up 40 okay that has less ratings than I thought it would have considering it came out in March but I still I still think this will make top 10 I still think this will make top 10 4.06 not a bad average rating I think this will be nominated so those are the six that I can think of straight up off the top of my head okay I would be very surprised if any of these six didn't make the top 10 I'm saying that now I know that's a bit of an iffy statement but I'd be very surprised if any of those didn't make top 10 I am like 90% sure they will all make top 10 it won't be a flop I'm confident no the truth is I wonder how right I'll be but I really think they will I think they're the biggest biggest books and in terms of what could win I think these three have the best I mean the last ever to die I don't know I don't know if there's a chance of winning but I do I think it will be up there came third but the miss came third and I think the last ever tonight is a more popular book in terms of like reception and rating that I've seen than the miss okay let's go look what should we look at next let's quickly go check I want to go check the awards from last year and see if there's any other authors who are nominated last year that have got a new book coming out that I haven't included so Nita prose she has got the sequel to the maid coming out which won but but it comes out late November so I think it will I'm not including it because I think it will miss unless they push the Goodreads Awards back which like please don't I've got it planted by content calendar for a specific day I think it will be in next year's awards which is an interesting choice Lucy Freddy doesn't have a book Richard Osmo have included Stacey Willingham have included Simone St James doesn't have one okay Jillian McAllister interesting so just another missing person oh I'm very excited for it but I feel like this had so much hype leading up to it it was like a fairly like it was a bit of a rogue when you go hit it with other books I feel like a lot of these were pretty established authors but this was one that kind of came out of nowhere and was popular I don't think just another missing person is having the same reach or the same reaction that that had it's got a lower average rating with much less ratings and he got 15,000 ratings I think okay I don't know this one's tricky I'm gonna go ahead and put that as our first one that I am I'm unsure of it I'm unsure I don't know it could be nominated I'm not convinced it will be and I I think if it is I don't think it will make top 10 because I don't think it's had the same reaction that um wrong place runtime had I don't think Deanna Ray Bourne has had one come out the it girl and that oh sure do you want to have just give it a go Alice Tini has had another one come out she's had another one come out oh I really don't want it to be nominated okay how many ratings has it got it's got a 3.69 with only 13,000 ratings and it came out in August that's not huge in comparison to the other average rate I mean like how many ratings did zero days have it had like 40,000 right like it's much lower read I don't know I only read the top 10 I think this will be okay I think this would make the top 20 maybe we'll end up making it so that I think I put what I think is going to be the top 10 at the top and what I think is going to be the bottom 10 at the bottom and we'll have to get rid of some at the end maybe that will be how we do this but I fucking hope that this does not make the top 10 I don't want to read it I don't want to read it I like there's nothing I want less in this world than to read good you know I've hated like every Alice Tini that I've read ever so and then we've got another interesting one the housemaid I when this made the when it was in the first train I made I was certain this was going to make top 10 because it had so many ratings right a sequel has come out to this I mean this had like five this had so many ratings and was such a high rating but like even then I mean obviously this is has a lot now but a year ago it had so many ratings and such a high rating and it didn't make the top 10 and I just wonder if the readership for this are the readership who vote I don't know so the sequel I mean let's go look at it fucking out like it has 252,000 ratings and a 4.29 average rating but I'm still tentative to put it in my top 10 I don't trust her I think it will be nominated again but I'm still tentative to put it in my top 10 because it didn't make the top 10 last time like inexplicably when it should have done okay do you know what I'm gonna do something controversial I'm gonna put this in the top 10 for now like it has to surely the readers of it will have to be like oh we're outraged it didn't make the top 10 last time and make it get there this time surely like it was such a shock to me it's got 200 that's like the highest rent that we have come across but for some it was the same last time and it didn't make the top 10 but I'm gonna put it in there this time and we shall see how that goes okay I don't think we need to look much lower because any I mean Sarah Peckinen has had a book come out I just don't know I mean again Lisa Jewell the front of your mains was not highly voted for but I think none of this is true we'll make it okay interesting let's go look let's actually look at my reading tracker I want to go through this is where I put all age advice okay all right immediately this is where I put um all of my books that I'm excited for that come out this year and the way that they're colour coded if you're wondering about the colour coding uh yellow is that I own it green is that I've read it and oranges that a publisher sent it to me so really I should read it quicker than I am anyways okay doki age advice is one that I think has been really popular let's look at I mean that came out in January so it's had a long time to build up a readership oh oh oh interesting this was a book of the month pick which works in its favour but it's only got 23 000 ratings and there's 3.62 average rating so not super high okay okay do you know what I'm gonna put this in the top 20 for now but I don't know if I think it will I don't it won't make the top 10 I don't think and I I reserve to I reserve the right to remove this one okay what else have I got on here that is a mystery thriller I don't think Janice Hallett will be nominated because it's not out in the US still I think or if it is it's only just come out oh the drift by CJ Tudor I think that if it's nominated I think that might be nominated under horror oh I've just had a thought of a book okay wait wait wait wait wait wait wait we have to discuss this one oh this is one that I've been thinking about lots in relation to this okay I think that's because I'm gonna forget Holly by Stephen King this one's tricky under genre I mean these genres here are just um to my understanding still are just generated by what people shelve it as okay so people tend to shelf Stephen King as more horror however the Holly Gibney series Mr. Mercedes won the mystery thriller award finest keepers came second end of watch won the mystery thriller award the outsider won the mystery thriller award so everything bar I think if it bleeds was nominated under horror but I think that's like short stories and Holly's only in one of them everything else in this series has been nominated for the mystery thriller award and three of them have won it I'm a bit scared of Stephen King infiltrating this award much rather it says horror but I think this should probably be in the mystery thriller category it's like a detective she runs a detective agency don't read this synopsis too badly if you don't want to if you only spoiled for the mr. Mercedes trilogy it's a detective story I think this should be nominated under mystery thriller I'm gonna put it in there and I'm gonna put it in the top 10 wait a minute I'm figuring this out I'm like Scooby and shaggy I'm solving a mystery I will be so surprised if this is under horror because I really I don't think it should be everything else in Holly's story as a character has been under them oh wait I put it on the wrong side no sorry I was kidding myself can imagine Stephen King nominated and doesn't make the top 10 um I think I think it will and I think it might top 10 oh that's a bit scary though isn't it that's a bit scary because then it will probably win and listen I think I'll probably I'll I will be happy if I have to read this because I enjoyed to some extent the other Stephen Kings that I read when I read all the winners but um I just don't really like when Stephen King wins it's a bit boring in it you know it's a bit boring it's not very exciting Stephen King to win so we'll see we'll see if that's under horror but I think it should be under mystery thriller even though it's the same as horror as its first genre this this series from Stephen King is mystery thriller oh what lies in the words probably will be nominated 3.98 was 75 000 I oh okay interesting interesting interesting came out in January this was another book of the month pick oh I think this will make top 10 how many how many have I put in the top 10 already how many spots have we got left one two three four five six seven eight nine shit okay I am kind of building my ideal top 10 because I am putting books in there that I'm most excited to read I'm feeling pretty right about this the ones that I think could make not make top 10 these three I think are the ones I mean I know that's crazy to say about how my secret but the housemaid didn't make top 10 these three I think are the ones that are least likely to make top 10 but everything else here I think will unless they put Holly in horror oh gosh okay right we're filling up oh I've just had a thought I've just had a thought I just had a thought I don't even have this in my ring checker but I think this I think this will have come out yeah so this came out last year but it's been successful this year so what about the sequel when does this come out okay it comes out in time to be nominated interesting oh everyone on this train is a suspect this one's tricky this one's tricky because it doesn't have long to my understanding the Goodreads Awards when was it last year it had to come out by November 15th 2022 so it only has a month to like build up a readership and maybe get nominated but things I mean like Brandon Sanderson brought our book that came out on the last day that got nominated last year I think this will be nominated I don't think it will make it top 20 because it doesn't have long to build up a readership but I think this will be nominated to reflect the success that the first book has had this year I know by the way that you guys have all told me to read this I do want to read this series okay I know it's my kind of thing let's put her in top 20 but I don't think it will make top 10 you've only got one spot left in the top 10 that's like dangerous you in danger girl let's look I mentioned earlier let's just like do a cursory check at the set is it Sarah Pecanen or was it Greer Hendricks that's come out with a book I think it's Sarah Pecanen is it this one gone tonight yes 10,000 ratings 3.87 I feel like they're always nominated but I don't if it is nominated it won't make top 10 should I put it in there for now let's put it in there for now I think this like it's a but I mean they're famous as the duo I don't know let's put it in there for now and I can always take it out again okay I feel like we're looking all right so far I feel like I'm pretty spot on I mean I think I'm a genius I think I'm gonna get this all right oh how can I forget the writing retreat oh shit the writing retreat could be nominated oh no it can't it can't right now it can't it's got a 3.44 average rating I'm not going to include it then that is so rude guys that's a five star if I've ever seen one 3.44 okay right so now unless it's rating was to go up dramatically by November which I don't think it will having been out since February I think it's probably found it's kind of averaging it won't be nominated I think that's the wrong choice that's a five star oh the golden spoon could be nominated I feel like this is the kind of book they like to throw in 3.5 oh I'm not going to put it on there it's skirting it's skirting the low rating I'm not going to put it on there then with 20,000 ratings I don't think that will get on there okay death of a bookseller I feel like there's more of a UK release than a US one and usually yet they don't get nominated yeah no that's not getting nominated oh the chateau I just read I feel like that's going to have a low rating again though 3.53 with 6,000 ratings yeah that's not going although again this is the kind of book they like to throw on that will come like 20th in the voting but I'm not going to put it on there yet maybe if I'm running out of room for ones that I think will make it oh SA Cosby has come out with one is that in that category all the sinners bleed shelved as a mystery 4.32 with 22,000 ratings I think SA Cosby is usually nominated I think this will be there is it again I don't think it's not right now it's not going to take my top 20 spot right now my top 10 my last top 10 spot right now okay so we've got nine in the top we've got six at the bottom so I'm looking for four more here and one more here looking for five more books guys I may end up moving one of these up to here but I mean there's none none of these inspire me with top 10 this right now oh the last word by Taylor Adams 3.78 oh oh okay I think this will be nominated it's been a one that a lot of people have been talking about this year do I think it will be top 10 I feel like whatever makes top 10 is going to be I what book am I going to put oh yeah that will make top 10 now like with this far down the list I haven't thought of it do you know what I mean I think it will be nominated am I going to put in top 10 no I'm not not right now but out of the ones I've got in the bottom 20 I think this or all sinners bleed all the sinners bleed are the ones that have the best chance of being in the top 10 because I feel like this is one that a lot of people have been speaking about but it doesn't have a very high rating I do feel like the selection based on just vibes I feel like it's looking quite good so far oh sherry lapina miss sherry lapina oh sherry lapina probably has to be nominated right 38 000 ratings I mean let's look at some of her previous books let's do what we did with Ruth Ware not happy family did that make top 10 it would have been nominated but I mean it wasn't very well liked no okay didn't make top 10 but that wasn't well liked the end of her no okay um it could just not be nominated but it's sherry lapina you know what I mean I'm going to put it there for now that one's a tricky one that might not be nominated that might not be nominated but I just in my brain I'm like it's sherry lapina you know what I mean oh what about I've never read from her but has Megan Miranda had a book that came out this year because maybe that would be nominated oh interesting interesting interesting 40 000 ratings which I feel like is the kind of medium we're seeing for a lot of ones I think would generally like definitely be nominated I think it'd be nominated but it's got 3.57 that's scurrying dangerously close to me to feel comfortable putting on the list I'm gonna put it on there but I don't think it's gonna make top 10 ah we have like I'm not putting anything in the top 10 I'm refusing to fill that last top 10 spot I can't do it my heart is saying no god guys this is getting tense we may have to start taking some off of here if I think there's other ones more likely to be nominated one two three four five six seven eight nine they've each only got one more spot left okie dokie oh shoot murder in the family that could be my last top 10 spot baby this has been so highly hyped I thought it would have more than 8 000 I mean I know it's only just come out in the US like a couple weeks ago but I feel like this has been so highly hyped oh okay I'm not putting down the list yet I'm not putting down the list okay midnight is the darkest hour by Ashley Wynne staring that's literally come out like yesterday like two days ago uh so we won't have many ratings yet I think I got three points I don't think that'll be um the last housewife I really thought was gonna be nominated and it wasn't nominated okay let's look at some of these lists so if you guys remember I did a whole vlog based off of this list this came out in June and it's the hit books of 2023 so far so let's look at what was in the mystery category so we've got that we've got that we've got that I have some questions for you 69 000 ratings 3.66 interesting this has been this at the start of the year this came out in February this was super hyped especially in the UK it was like really perched as like the mystery thriller of the year but I have heard a lot of mixed things but it's got 69 thousand ratings which will work in its favor I mean that's a lot that's a lot that's a lot that's a lot that's a lot what am I gonna do uh it has to be nominated I'm not gonna put top 10 because it's really it's rated low but it's a popularity contest at the end of the day people vote for like one book if it's the only book they've read this could be the only books that people have read so that fills up our last our bottom 10 you just need one that I'm gonna put in the top 10 apparently I still think something like murder in the family though could be like a surprise entry do you know what I mean anything else Kate Morton homecoming 43 000 ratings 4 I mean that's highly rated but I haven't heard anyone speak about that is it I mean I think that's more likely to be under historical no if like Kate Morton is more of a historical author I'm not including that anything else here Harlan Coben 50 000 oh this is getting difficult and the bandit queens I've had a lot of people speak about 21 000 Harlan Coben Harlan Coben Harlan Coben no I'm not all right everything's just stress me out at the moment see I don't know if Harlan Coben has like the you know same pulling power as he they I don't know who Carlin Coben is if I'm honest he once did you know like in the early 2000s or like but I mean his 2023 his 2020 release where did that come on the list oh I think I might okay oh I hate it maybe I have to put this is my last top 10 okay we're gonna put it in and then we'll have to start moving things around if there's one that I think will make it because there's some here gone tonight by Sarah Peckner and I think could be gone as that is our top 20 just just just starting off okay but things could move out of here and things could move up I'm not sure about that making of this Harlan Coben okay I'm not gonna add either of these oh 44 000 I haven't I haven't heard people talk about that oh god god god god maybe that will be nominated maybe okay hang on let me look at some other lists and we've got this one discover the biggest mystery and thriller trends of 2020 I mean this came out in February but it will have books that are coming out this year so these ones will be ones that have come out this year I mean these have only got hundreds of ratings the whispers that's from the author of The Push there's too many thriller thriller mysteries are you sure let me explain with them Laura I actually give up do you know what we need to look at we need to look at Book of the Month we need to look at Book of the Month I've decided we need to look at Book of the Month okay October when I'm dead I haven't heard anyone speak about that oh the stranger upstairs I have heard a lot of people talking about that I've heard a lot of people reading it I mean that has only just come out no okay we're not putting it on there it's got a low rating and it's only just come out a couple weeks ago yes it has got a lot of ratings only having just come out like a week or two ago but it's got a low rating and the rating usually slips over times I think that I don't think it will be there I'm really this is this is tense um happiness falls by Angie King it says literary fiction but I know that um the other book by Angie King was nominated no I'm not gonna put it on there okay we've got none of this is true okay that would definitely be nominated then July oh Dark Corners by Megan Golding I should have thought about that Dark Corners how many ratings has that got okay not a lot the maids diary have any of my friends read this okay the ones I'm most considering putting on there at the moment are the maids diary the whispers I don't think I'm considering Dark Corners I don't think I'm considering Dark Corners moving on god this is tense the she started it I haven't heard anyone talk about that but it probably will be nominated the last word okay the last word was a book of the month pick okay I think the last word is going to be nominated then okay I'm standing by the last word April Megan Miranda one okay that makes me think that I should keep Megan Miranda The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth I don't know how time you're talking about this book of the month you know I mean oh for god's sake for god's sake 86,000 ratings last just got to go on there then you're right just need a bit of space that's okay yeah I could feel I could feel that that was gonna have to be an addition as soon as I read it that's why I pulled that face I could feel right what are we doing what we're doing we're getting rid of Sarah Peckerman we're getting rid of Sarah Peckerman right let's bring her in let's get rid of you you're gone you're gone and let's put that bad boy in okay right okay but we still got a few that I'm debating putting in ah okay any other ones that need to be added February the writing a treat okay too lowly rated age of vice in January what lies in the words we've got that okay and then we've got this list that they just published today bloody hell the center even 51 of this year's cosiest mysteries now I think most of these like if we scroll down there'll be like a lot of like cosy cosies that I don't think can be nominated but are there any the golden spoon again mastering the art I've seen this around everywhere but it's only got 4400 ratings but again like I said they always throw in a few that have got really low rating like low numbers of ratings you know okay I don't think any okay right right right we're gonna make a decision here the ones that I haven't put in yet that I am debating putting in are the maids diary and the whispers is there anything that I think should be taken out for them maybe the sherry maybe the sherry or maybe the genia mcallister oh my god I feel sick okay I don't know if that feels right to me but okay like I feel like the push came second the year it was nominated I feel like that I feel like they're gonna nominate the next okay all right I've made my decision I feel like I'm an exacter judge on judges houses like I've made my decision you're going home sweetie I've always wanted to use that I'm so glad I can use that video and you're going home sweetie going home sweetie okay the maids diary is going in and just another missing person is coming out and the whispers is coming in okie dokie I mean the anaswini in my in my dreams would go as well but I feel like anaswini always tends to be nominated I'm just like it's gonna come like 18th in the voting is what I'm telling myself okie dokie I think that's it I think that's my prediction for the Goodreads Mystery Surrender Awards 2023 and I think that is my prediction for the top 10 I don't know how I feel about it okay I think that is my prediction no in terms of what I'd like ideally I'd like the housemaid's secret not to be on next and I'd have to read two books everything else it was a series like holly I haven't read if it bleeds but I reckon I could read holly without having read that nothing else in there is a series I mean obviously there's my covers but I've read that I'd love the last word to go up there because I really want to read the last word maybe that what I don't think that will happen I think if anything's gonna go up there it's like the housemate the soulmate the housemate the soulmate but I think that's my final answer I'm so excited to watch Ashley's and see how different our predictions are but I think that is my final answer for top 10 and then the other 10 that are going to be nominated for the Goodreads Mystery Surrender this is feels like a momentous moment and I feel like this has been a bit of a fever dream of a video it's going to be long as hell I'm sorry this was so much fun and I'm very intrigued to see how close my prediction ends up being to this um so let me know what you think of my predictions are there any books that I really should have included and have missed out and have been so stupid I'm sure there's one at least that should be in the top 10 that I haven't even put in there but I think for the most part I'm pretty solid with my prediction of this there's a few that could be taken out like everyone on this train is a suspect I don't think we'll get and I think they'll be nominated in homage to everyone in this family has killed everyone in my family has killed someone but I I think I'll have got at least at least 10 I think at least 10 of these will be nominated and I think I may have got 15 I think there'll be some here that aren't nominated but I think I will have got 15 let me know what you think I've done this video was so much fun to do and I'm so excited to read the nominees for the Goodreads Mystery Surrender I mean I just like my whole purpose is leading up to that video now I just want to do it I'm so excited I love watching Goodreads Awards content it's like my favorite I don't know why it's like my favorite content to watch and my favorite content to make so I love you guys let me know how you think I've done it got into the video comment a mystery thriller emoji a shocked face a stabby stab you know what I mean any mystery thriller esk emoji comment that down below if you got to the end this has been so tense thank you guys for watching and I'll see you very soon in another video bye


What's up? How are you guys? It's been a while since our last health and nutrition Q&A, so I am a little excited to answer your questions. If you guys missed it, maybe once a month we post on the community page, and then you guys can just leave whatever inquiries you would like, but let's get started. Pavel Dan, have you tried supplementing torenes? Should help with liver damage and mineral balance? I tried that maybe a few years ago. Didn't notice much of a difference. Usually if you're deficient in something, taking it initially will make you feel better, but you know, torenes is one of so many amino acids. It's it's hard to argue that if you isolated any other one, you would feel the same initially and then as you continue taking it, there's no real benefit because you just fixed an initial deficiency. Ibra magic, I wish you could make an in-depth video about losing fat like on every aspect, mentally, physically, also any self-improvement. Maybe we could do that next week, something like three or four steps to lose fat. VT, hello Frank, you mentioned the reason carbs are needed and their quality. My question is, should we be concerned about triglycerides and diglycerides for reference? A moderate amount of potatoes and sourdough bread baguette croissant? Occasionally fruits and some Frank-approved veggies, thanks. I'm not sure if you're talking about like triglycerides as in your blood work or having a higher fat content in the meal.  So you do have to be careful, depending on your current health status. Barry McCoy. Almost got me on that one, Barry. Almost got me on that one. Are you friends with Mike Hock as well or Anita? Will you ever make your own drinkable powder mixture for on the go? You know, I thought about an electrolyte mix, but I'm just not a fan of synthetic derived electrolytes unless it's in small amounts. We do have Flexstrose, which is a glucose supplement, and in the past I was considering doing different flavors for Flexstrose. So we could still probably do that. But the pre-workout never happened either, because all pre-workouts are high in nitrates, which are bad for your kidneys. So from a moral perspective, I didn't really want to do it, but that's what all these other companies are doing destroying people's kidneys. Maya Papaya. Do you still do individual consultations? How much sugar should I add to my kefir when it comes flat? Have you looked into slaughterhouses in Jefferson, Lewis County? There's a lot of farms in slaughterhouses and farms from, all right. So that's a few questions. The water kefir, if you just add like a tablespoon to one bottle, it should fizz up and then you close it and then the next day it should be carbonated again. I've been looking for meat processing plants for a few years now. One deal fell through two years ago because I didn't have the capital. It could have probably got the guy to sell or finance, but I wasn't ready maybe at that specific time, but a few months later and ever since then I'm really, really needed. Relocating right now with our Amish farmers in Pennsylvania. Now we kind of have to stay in the PA, New York area, but Stephanie Rogers. I have a friend who's a recovering bulimic. She does low carb, but recently gained a lot of weight. 170 pounds 5-8. Do you have any idea of what diet to remove weight and keep nutrients in? Thank you so much for your videos. I've been a longtime follower for years. You should definitely watch my recent day of eatings and kind of the steak and potato protocol that I've been doing because this diet that I'm following as well as the other lifestyle factors like wearing EMF protective clothing, grounding, resistance training, that's how you become as healthy as possible. It's basically like a cookie cutter template for what you should be doing. You know, it's a natural diet that most groups of people have followed, a balanced amount of meat and grains and small amounts of fruit and veggies here and there. Corey Jane, after following the candida cure protocol of water key for masticum, organically meat, white potato, peeled apple for two to three weeks. What would the next food source is UD Mocha Incorporating? Sourdough bread, oats, udon noodles. Those carbohydrates are actually okay to incorporate from the get-go. It's just you have to be careful of not deviating from the acceptable carbohydrates. So basically anything that I've been eating for the most part is usually okay, and I feel better on sourdough bread than I do on potatoes because you know potatoes are kind of high in potassium. You can retain a little bit of water depending on your liver and kidney function. Isaac, are you able to sell dehydrated water key for grains or ship out the key for grains containing sugar and water for international customers? I tried ordering your key for grains several times overseas, but they would always arrive dead and want to grow. I've tried making key for using local grains, but I haven't noticed benefits from using their grains to make key for. If it arrives within two weeks, you know, or a week, the grains are definitely still alive. I don't know if I can dehydrate them, but I couldn't, I mean, we do feed them right before we ship them out. So as long as they arrive within a week or two, then the issue would be maybe they're getting overheated on the planter whenever they're shipping over. The guitar guy guy, any advice I'm recovering from a dislocated shoulder torn labrum? Had an injury from wrestling and want to heal as quick as possible without surgery? So most people are not wearing EMF protective clothing, which is important for overall cell and tissue health, especially recovery. And you just have to make sure you're doing the right corrective exercises without aggravating the injury or making it worse. And of course getting as much sleep as you can, which the EMF protection will help with. Brun, rice, potato, sourdough bread, tortillas, noodles. Can you put these in order from best to worst in terms of healthiest starch source? So sourdough bread is fermented, so compare it to anything made with just white flour that is not fermented. You know, sourdough has the lower anti-nutrient content and it is easier on digestion. Rice, potatoes, we went over the arsenic and rice concern, so rice shouldn't really even be on this list. Potatoes are always good because they're a good source of minerals and they're balanced. And the noodles, as long as they're like specifically the type of udon noodles that I eat, they're usually okay. But for me, I usually feel the best on sourdough out of all those carbs. Dean, I'm wondering if glyphosate is a concern for you with wheat and what other problems are there with wheat? We did a video, Gluten is not the problem. I forgot what I titled it, but just search Frank Tafano Gluten. I think it was why gluten is good. And we explained that the real problem with wheat is glyphosate, not the gluten content. Yes, I'm hacking. It's high quality chicken and pork, even worth consuming when you take into account the omega-6 content of the meat. Also, as their chance we can get the old vegan critique video, that one was hilarious. I don't know if that got taken down or something, but chicken, I'm not as much of a fan of because it's hard to get really high quality. I do eat a lot of iberico pork, which has a great omega-3 to omega-6 ratio, so that is not a concern. For the price point and what most people have access to, grass-fed or organic beef is the safe bet. Tarantor, any tips, supplements for growing long hair? Been binging your old videos on hair to gather any tips. My hair grows pretty fast. My nails grow pretty fast. I have the balanced diet with the probiotics. I do have the collagen broth and beef stock every day. As long as you have enough animal nutrition and you're sleeping well and the diet is healthy on your liver, you should be good. So just the same answer that I'm saying for a lot of these questions. You kind of have to follow my current dietary protocol regimen. Why ZETC? Frank, what do you think about these vegans claiming their bodybuilding and building muscle on that kind of diet?  They're all taking large amounts of synthetic testosterone.  That's a big secret of, like, deal-leading stuff, but I think there's a question later where we'll go more in depth on that. Ryan D. Lyne has a long one. Yeah, I've been looking into a lot of alkaline and plant-based stuff lately and I think what I've surmised for a minute is that people are getting healing benefits because they're starving. Parasites are able to heal the gut by getting rid of anything that inflames it. It could be other things as well. I'm sure it is, but I'm just wondering if you think it's possible to have these same healing effects by still including high-quality animal products in your diet. I almost wonder if you would be at your healing goals by now. If you would have done a juice fast or an alkaline diet, a source one probably doesn't have to do it forever. I don't know. I'm still trying to figure it out. I also think it helps kill fungus, which cancer most likely is, and it could still be that plant-based for the first year or two supplying the nutrition that their body needed. They were not getting enough. We did a video on Dr. Sebi and the alkaline nonsense if you want a full explanation on that, but these people do not have parasites. They are not starving them. The only reason they might hypothetically feel better is because maybe they've removed the toxins and the junk food that they've always been eating and the high amount of flavonoids and anti-nutrients, carotines and oxalates can kind of cause an immune reaction in people, which they translate to actually feeling good and invigorated compared to how they usually feel. Sonnet Blue, what are the reasons for multiple waking up during sleep and what to do about it? Could be Wi-Fi EMF if you're not sleeping in a Faraday cage. If you're waking up to use the bathroom, that's a bladder issue. Those are the only two things that you should be waking up for. Jacob M, can you make a video on how to make organic sauerkraut juice for probiotics? It's just the sauerkraut recipe and then you take the juice and you can drink it. Maybe if you add a little bit of water to it, that can help. The only thing is just be careful about the amount of salt you add to it to make sure that the juice is not too salty. Usually to have sauerkraut juice to drink, you'd be making a very large amount of sauerkraut. Sunflower, what should I consume if trying to get pregnant and during pregnancy, especially to prevent horrible morning sickness issues? I think we've done videos on pregnant women and breast milk and what they should be eating, but you want to have a balanced amount of nutrients.  Definitely search my recent supplement videos and my supplement protocols and look at my hair mineral analysis video because you probably need almost everything in your diet, especially if you're already pregnant, because typically you need to prepare for two or three years to be healthy, healthy peak to have a child. Voda, once it feels your liver, what will your diet look like and what are you detoxing from your liver exactly? I thought you took care of that by donating blood. Are you going to continue this diet forever? What's going to change when you heal fully? That's hard to say because it's still years and years away potentially. Even when my liver is fully healed, then it's going to be another few years of being on this diet and having a healthy liver and letting all the cells turn over and have healthy overall cellular health. We did a video recently on our health update where we explained how long does it take to heal. That's a very good video to answer your question. GFDDGH, you said grounding doesn't work in some places because of high EMF, but I noticed even in places of high EMF when I test using a multimeter, grounding still lowers my voltage. That's very subjective depending on the area. If it is high enough EMF in the area, your voltage will increase. You've got to be somewhat careful. Bruno again, do you think mac and cheese is still good to eat? Also, what's the best healthy cereal in your opinion? Any sort of really high dairy, high egg food when you take in that much vitamin A, it's hard to get a corresponding amount of vitamin D. Most people need to catch up more on the contrasting fat-soluble vitamins. GFDDGH, another question. Opinion on fermented vegetables like sauerkraut and pickles. I don't think they really have a considerable enough probiotic content to make a big difference from that perspective, but they do taste good and they are part of feeding a healthy gut microbiome. As you said, 3 ounces per meal of protein is ideal for detoxing the liver to reduce the stress of protein digestion. I really want to stick with your diet to detox my liver to try to fix issues I'm having. However, I'm 6'1", 165 pounds, very low body fat, and I swim around 3 to 4 miles per day and doing core strengthening exercises every day. Should I still stick with that 3 ounces per meal or should I increase meat consumption because of my high weight physical activity? I'm the same weight as you and I'm about half a foot shorter and I'm okay with this amount of protein. I would say as long as it's not really more than a pound of protein per day, you should be good to go and sometimes drinking water kefir and taking the vitamins can really help alleviate the demand for protein. So your diet might be missing some other stuff if you're finding that you have to eat a lot more meat every meal. Christian F, would love some more grape water kefir. What if you use grape juice so your guys don't have to squeeze all those grapes? I remember that. I bought a few cases of grapes and then we were putting the grapes individually in the juicer. It was a nightmare. Maybe I'll go to Whole Foods and I'll get some grape juice. The reason we were doing that is because it's hard to find raw juices but the purpose of putting the juice in the kefir is just to give it some flavor. So I'll go get some juices from Whole Foods maybe, but they are expensive. Anna, thoughts on recent trend using ozempic or other medications like it for weight loss? We could go into the NCBI studies and look at the mechanisms of each individual drug but the point is you should not be taking them and there's long-term solutions that will make you much healthier. You don't want to sacrifice your organ function or brain function, whatever these drugs you're doing, even your nervous system. You don't want to damage yourself short term to have some temporary weight loss because then down the line you're going to have some severe health issues from those pharmaceutical drugs. Andrew Cleese, what in your opinion is the optimal amount of protein per pound of body weight for bodybuilding? It's to appetite so it really depends on how much lean body mass you have but I mean this is outside of performance enhancing drugs and outside of steroids but even like the most muscular natural bodybuilder I don't think you would ever really want to exceed a pound and a half to two pounds of red meat per day. The body cannot use that much protein, can't even digest it. Emmy Buenoit, Buenoit, what do you think a baby's first food should be? Breast milk two, three, four years, that's always been my answer. We did a video a little while ago, I think it's top five foods for children and meat aka beef steak is always a safe choice, the safest overall choice. Man we got so many questions. Rashad Westbrook, what do you think of Utka or Tootka for enhancing the digestive system? Are they better than Oxpile? I think Tootka like kind of temporarily shuts down your liver. I'm not a fan of it, I don't think it's good for long-term liver recovery. Heather, does having ferritin under 30 by donating every now and then really help liver function? It does but like my ferritin stopped going high as my liver got better. So initially my liver was accumulating iron, you know my ferritin would go above 30 every few months but now for the most part it stays below 30. So you should donate and fix your diet until the point that the ferritin is not getting elevated. Svaro B, have you considered selling the organic bean dip you make on frankies and inchwoods? Yeah we have a lot of products that I like to do for food prep and stuff, maybe that will start happening towards the end of this year on frankies free-range foods. Elijah, I have poor gut health and I'm going to start incorporating your water key for flavors into my diet. After the key for is delivered usually it takes a few days to arrive, would then last seven days inside my fridge and still be beneficial from a probiotic standpoint. Yeah so after you get our water key for just put it in the fridge to let the gases calm down and then you can open it up and you'll know how you feel. It should be carbonated and should be fizzy and make you feel good. In the fridge it'll last a week or two. Nibbis, what's your thoughts on fixing your eyesight with eyesight exercises and also your take on mewing? These things possible at all and possible past age 25. I mean I had LASIK eye surgery and double draw surgery so you know there's only so much you can do after developmental stages. I would say that the eyesight stuff I haven't really looked into it much. There's not that much concrete evidence like obviously if you start doing eye training exercises you can improve your vision slightly but to what degree and the mewing stuff will fix your tongue posture but actual physical appearance wise it's not going to make much of a difference unless it's done you know when the child's younger and developing their face. Hagfenhan, can you please make an in-depth video about Botox? I and few of my friends are considering getting it thank you. I haven't looked too much into it you know if you're on a healthy diet and you're aging okay I can't imagine that using a very small amount of filler in certain parts is going to be that bad but I think there's all different types of new fillers now that they have so maybe that deserves its own dedicated video. Neo, is it okay to consume organic coconut aminos every day? My coconut aminos contains a higher quality New Zealand Cecil yeah I mean there's nothing wrong with it you could always just try not having it for a few days and see if you notice a difference. Jasmine can you use plastic bottled mineral water for water keepers yeah but you you know you have the concerns about the plastic so it's not ideal you better off going to a local well you don't know if that plastic was heated during transport yeah having water in a plastic vessel temporarily or if it's not heated or there's no sunlight going through it is okay but chances are that did happen at some point in the transportation of the water. Danny should I take both magnesium spray and capsules? You can but just keep in mind if you're not sleeping well or you have insomnia then you want to remove all supplements and figure out what's causing it. A good guy if you follow your protocol how long should it take to heal something like psoriasis eczema etc. depends on how much sun you're getting and how poor your health is it could be a few weeks it could be a few months but something like that type of skin disorder should not take more than several months to clear up. Psymonster would you join the secret club if you had the opportunity what if it was before all the shit that happened that that's the big thing you know after I see how these people treated me personally despite how they treat the world as a whole it's hard to say yes it's hard to say yes you know you know if someone basically makes you miserable and ruins kind of everything in your life and then you see that they also make everyone else unhappy and miserable anyone with a moral perspective would not join the secret club that's why they have these tests when you join them when you're like an initiate they're kind of gauging how much you're willing to put up with and how much care you actually have for other people and to my understanding you have to be like a psychopath or sociopath or not a good person there there's a quote I like you know when you're making a decision about something it's very easy to know what the right and what the wrong thing to do is it's plain as day simple as that but people always have biases and personal interests and things usually revolving around money or some type of reward for themselves that cloud their judgment slide for larry have you heard of the 12 sell salts and do you take them yeah that sounds like a gimmick someone came up with to talk about minerals we have several different videos on minerals more than that if you want to watch them and and learn what you should actually be doing for mineral supplementation a postpartum nutrition lifestyle and how to reverse issues that a lot of women get postpartum thyroid issues brain fog it's my diet you know the protocol that I've been doing for the past several years all of these different elements of lifestyle that I talk about if you're not following my current diet that's the very first step then there's maybe some subjective things here in there like taking glandulars doing mastic on probiotic there's specific things that might be more important for your circumstances but overall if people follow my protocol usually things clear out google do you know if vitamin e can be absorbed through the skin with a vitamin e oil or goitrogens and sauerkraut a concern thank you vitamin e to my understanding is kind of oxidized and I haven't noticed any benefits taking wheat germ oil so I'm fairly convinced it should not be supplemented and sauerkraut anti-nutrient it's not really a concern Marisum Dean Marisum Dean is laser hair removal safe for the body so I actually had this done on my face some years ago because I couldn't grow a beard so I was like sick of shaving I figured it would only be a little bit and then the hair would go away I don't I don't think it's really that safe because it does cause a lot of cell and tissue damage and the laser can be really really potent so I mean look if you're a girl and you have a light amount of body hair in certain places yeah it's okay to do laser hair removal but I would not do it on your face or a more sensitive part of your body gebra gh how would you prevent waking up early in the morning from high cortisol due to excess carbs what we said earlier about the sleeping stuff I would do some radiation protection some emf stuff sleeping in a faraday cage and see if it's actually the high cortisol waking you up fruggy gib brisky is beef tala good for your skin or over hyped what skincare products would you recommend if I can't get access to your products and what's your opinion on using a retinoid so I'm not really a big believer in topical skincare stuff unless it has a mineral or like a certain vitamins in it that might be okay it's more about your diet what you're eating making sure you're hydrated making sure you're getting plenty of high quality protein and amino acids and more importantly getting some sun a lot of vitamin d exposure on your skin retinoids are caustic so they like actually burn your skin would never use them or recommend them brun can you please make the sourdough bread recipe video yeah we did I think these questions were from about a month ago so that was when around we did post the sourdough recipe video shabibi eight what can I do about chronic constipation only going once a week and very painful has been going on for two years what my food looks like in a typical week is salmon avocado lots of olive oil white rice a lot of middle eastern dishes spinach zucchini okra all with tomato base and rice and red meat some sourdough pasta and some dairy mostly cottage cheese and chocolate milk I also eat organic fruits and veggies thyroid function blood work is normal sounds like you don't have enough fiber and whole grains in the diet and you might not be hydrated so what I would do is reduce the fat intake and have some beans in here and there but I mean if you just watch my recent day of eating and and can kind of do something a little stricter for a few days you'll probably feel a lot better also definitely make sure you're hydrating if you are constipated randall oland how much well a liver can someone eat in a day or week without overloading his with iron can be eaten with every meal just for dinner also do you think the acutane treatments you took may have also affected your liver maybe you have too much vitamin a store near liver it's hard to to justify organ meats in some cases because they're really concentrated in nutrients and not necessarily balanced and also stuff like shellfish or things like that are also really polluted you know and the livers of certain animals can accumulate toxins and be polluted so mega what is a good source of protein to eat while working out we do have the grass-fed whey protein on frankie serrange foods personally i just like having steak and like animal sources of protein before after the workout i just prefer to have a normal meal victoria allry hey your antibiotic is dangerous for health because my dermatologist advised me to take some for my acne and i'm hesitating water kefir is a probiotic that will fix your gut balance overall the reason your doctor suggesting an antibiotic is because when you bomb out the gut bacteria and you just remove everything it usually clears up your skin because the cause of acne is usually fungal overgrowth candida but it's not a long-term solution because the candida is just going to come back so either way you're going to need a probiotic and there's also antimicrobials and different things you can take that are a little bit safer than antibiotics but you could just look up stories most people who take antibiotics they have to go back multiple times for different you know rounds of the same stuff and usually they get stronger and stronger and eventually their gut bacteria is even worse off than it started anna what can you do to prevent high levels of insulin after eating refined carbs and sugar in a healthy gut microbiome our carbs converted into b vitamins does an unhealthy gut microbiome increase insulin levels from eating carbs and sugar i mean you know i'm eating oats with honey for breakfast i'm eating you know sourdough bread with stew for lunch i'm eating a lot of udon noodles for dinner i'm eating a lot of carbohydrates and as long as you have a healthy gut with adequate probiotics and you're taking enough b vitamins you're going to be fine with eating carbs but i mean if you're having like super high sugar and fat meals that's a different story that can be a little more difficult john surgey can you tell me all the protocols that will prevent you from gaining fat from excess carbs reducing the wi-fi emf wearing radiation protective clothing making sure all the food is high quality and organic making sure you're not deficient in any minerals or b vitamins and also resistance training sunflower what should someone consume if they don't have a gallbladder probably the same diet as mine should be fine you'll just have to be more mindful if you go out to cheat or have higher fat foods on occasion gf ddgh how to test know if the glass bottle of mineral water you're buying is good and low in halogens you can contact the company and they perform testing on the water or you're going to have to test it yourself or find a different brand of water that does do testing priscan my budget as a student is quite small what are the foods that should prioritize we did a video on this recently like like foods to buy on a budget which was basically just like ground meat and potatoes if you want to check out that video jasper 45 do you make the water keeper grains yes they multiply themselves when we make the water keeper cameron james incorporate raw organic coconut aminos with my meal of lean and starch alongside mastic my stool is much better if i only do mastic i'm in the same meal without coconut aminos the stool is worse are the amino acids are small amount of probiotics helping probably that the coconut aminos makes the food more palatable and you eat more of it so maybe you want to reduce the amount of mastic um jason jones someone that has an unhealthy gut does your water keeper help one be less susceptible to diarrhea from consuming foods like garlic onion cauliflower over time once one is stuck to minimally inflammatory protocol of lean starch and meat with water keeper will they be able to tolerate other foods due to rebalancing the gut with kefir yeah i mean you're gonna have diarrhea if you haven't balanced things back out yet or if you overdo something so if you're following like a really strict dietary protocol and you're still having diarrhea then you need to incorporate more probiotics or the probiotics aren't made correctly for we need your brezky again can you explain the reason why i don't sleep well when i go to the gym apart from the high radiation yeah honestly even if you're at the gym and you go home and go to sleep if you have a faraday cage the there might be some like radiation and emf turnover from the gym so maybe just try working out earlier in the day that guitar guy guy why don't you use baby oil to accelerate your tan when you tan outside i mean first of all doesn't baby oil have like processed synthetic oils in it and it's not something you want to put on your skin every day and you don't really need to accelerate the tan if the uv index is high christian f thoughts on magnesium toroid wouldn't it be magnesium torene i don't know i mean i usually glycinate it's a more popular supplement the different key lations for the most part aren't usually a concern as long as it's bound to an amino acid gf ddgh is it better to have multiple sources of probiotics for example you have water kefir pickle cheese and sauerkraut there's a big difference in potency between an active culture like water kefir and something like lacto fermented like sauerkraut so the water kefir is substantially more important sarath s what are your opinions on orthorexia that's where people don't eat right i mean if you're on a high quality diet and you're eating all organic foods and exercising and resistance training you're going to look better than you will starving yourself or on any diet the problem is you know people have this idea ingrained in their head that eating calories is going to make you gain weight so it's kind of hard to overcome a lot of the you know the modern conventional wisdom for most people no matter what you tell them sonnet blue thoughts on raw grain fed milk i mean i'm not the biggest fan of dairy in general for people with certain health issues hopefully we uh we get the farms soon and we can try some hypoallergenic dairy but whether the milk is grain fed or grass fed if it's organic grain it should be okay augustos Joaquin Rodriguez how can one achieve optimal eye health so my current diet is to detox my liver so you know if your liver isn't detox and you're not overall healthy you know from a cellular perspective that's the priority for optimal eye health you obviously don't want to be staring at a computer screen all day i would say going outside at least once a day going for a hike walking in the woods looking at things like far away is very important for eye health holistic john dietary suggestions for jock itch i would get some iodine from organ supplements and uh maybe use that to see if it helps go away could be a fungal thing so you'd want probiotics warki for for sure that guitar guy guy are the elite and globalist the same thing is this that question that i was going to talk more about the elite stuff on maybe there's a lot of distractions and like things they come up with to distract from who the elite really are um globalist is one of those distractions jessica lingard i am wanting to get braces soon should i see an orthotropics dentist to examine my facial structure prior to seeing an orthodontist i mean you want to get multiple consultations and figure out okay i do need braces but do i also need double jaw surgery you know do i need any other stuff that might improve my facial appearance uh gf ddgh another question can you eat the vitamin d supplement on organ supplements yeah it's transdermal as well as oral thomas smith frank yo how goes it my name is thomas i subscribe to your channel after i watch one of your videos on fruitarians horrifying stuff i was wondering personally if you do stuff like diet planning with people you know not like just weight loss diet i'm 63 175 i'm trying to get to 200 i have a 4 bfp sometimes i get up to 185 but then i drop back down to 175 just hoping you give some advice on foods that will make some fat stick and muscle also without the sun weight loss i think i have videos in the past on how to gain weight and how to lose weight that you can check out how to gain muscle how to lose weight just search frank defano and those things jackson griffin why is the arsenic and rice not bad for you even the lundberg brand has it it is bad for you we did maybe this was asked before we did the video on arsenic and rice brandon ever consider sdo optimization for youtube and tiktok i have tools to do this for you for free because i believe in everything you do for our community of people trying to get help i mean i'm shadow bin and censored by the people that control these media platforms so doing seo or throwing more money at advertising doesn't really help too much wisp is it okay to use refined coconut oil for cooking i mean that's what i use as long as it's organic it's not too bad just in towers your thoughts on the mic mentor training philosophy sound similar to what you used to preach i mean he does low volume stuff doesn't he like once a week i do that every day so kind of different philosophies if you ask me perry john zero zero estrogen and hormones and dairy versus soy if you're eating a high quality organic product dairy whatever it shouldn't matter but i think soy in general in most cases should kind of be avoided um regardless of what it is steve and jacob's how much sugar should one put in second ferment kiefer are we talking like three to five tablespoons for a proper i mean depends on the volume of water but usually for the second ferment you're adding like a quarter of the amount of sugar that you did in the first ferment momo 45 frank how to cure diabetes type 4a i get pains everywhere when i eat things like boiled potatoes i also have stage three lymphoma that's not good i would jump on my protocol as soon as possible make sure to have plenty of properly made water kefir and reduce the emf substantially with the wi-fi shielding stuff q anon what foods decrease cortisol and increase serotonin number one for that would be a probiotic like water kefir gf ddgh how to get caviar for cheap can't order off frank i mean you guys asked the weirdest question sometimes how to get cheap caviar yeah bro how do i get cheap gold tell me how i mean if you go to some local fish monger maybe you can get some fish eggs or roe for cheap but it's not going to be legitimate caviar this one person asked like 19 different questions in a paragraph all right male i'll answer one question for you what do you think about rape eat diet i think it's very disingenuous that they did not release his cause of death but you know i mean me personally as like a dietary guru hey if i drop dead of something i want people to know what i died from so they can figure out whether my advice was good or not so it's a little sketchy it's a little unfortunate you know i mean i think either way you know if they say you know he died of xyz maybe they can improve on his protocol but it's whatever nor berthelsen uric acid buildup and i bags i mean when your organs aren't functioning like you're going to have all sorts of negative things that can happen and you know not sleep that well and have i bags top gangster do the elite really eat raw meat well most of the stuff they have access to that we don't is really high-grade pharmaceutical hormones and stuff so you know all these negatives and they poison the food supply they poison the water supply they do all of these things that disrupt our hormonal systems and our organ function and they might even eat the same food in some cases but they literally take very expensive laboratory pharmaceutical great hormones every single day to counteract that run what's the healthiest way to cook potatoes probably just boiled and salted water i n t j what can you do if you urinate frequently throughout the night have tried most remedies well if you're not following my diet i would definitely do some key how do you say kegel kegling exercises of uh increasing the strength of the public floor muscles justin blaha you don't have any t-shirts or hoodies yeah that's long overdue right we should get some frankie syringe meat merchandise erget mar is organic tapioca going to make my balls fall off i was doing um uh dextrose derived from tapioca and tapioca starch in smoothies for a little while and i was getting really bad headaches and uh actually liver pain so um i think if you put a small amount in food as a thickener it's okay but i would not consume it frequently fresgie meshesia natural remedy for heavy sweating if you do change your diet to something like mine that might change your overall metabolism where you won't sweat as much i mean that's all i really have to say on that but this this video guys is so so long so um obviously i did not edit in the questions to put on the screen because that would have taken me like half of a day uh but uh thank you guys for joining me but you guys can go to frank dash upon dot com if you would like to check out all of my businesses and support me we have the meat and many high quality animal products on frankie syringe meat we have the water key for in a lot of things that i've mentioned throughout this video on frankie's free range foods hey if you want to make sourdough bread we have sourdough starter and you can also check out organ supplements wi-fi shielding frankie's naturals and you'll notice on those websites and my 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Jack, the announcement from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce that came out earlier this week about ending exports of gallium and germanium, where do you want to start? The issue here is one of understanding. They didn't stop exporting the materials. What the Chinese said was they were going to restrict the exports, not prohibit them, restrict, which means it's tit for tat with the United States. We have restricted the export of machinery to make the latest and greatest chips to China and we have prohibited our companies from buying Chinese chips for use in their products without permission from our state or commerce department. The Chinese are saying, okay, so that's the rules of the game. Now we're playing. So we're going to pick two materials you don't have access to. So that's the metals of metalloid, germanium and the metal gallium. Now the interesting thing is here, the journalists have got this all wrong. With two to a man, woman and whatever, they all call these things these metals rare earths. They couldn't be more wrong. And it's frightening to think that they don't understand what rare earths are considering how important rare earths are to us. All right, germanium is quite frankly a member of the silicon family. Gallium is related to aluminum. Neither one of these can be called rare earths. And if I were teaching a course in chemistry, I would fail anybody who did something like that. All right, here's the point. The United States Department of Defense actually has stockpiled germanium that should tell you something. It's really critical. It's what I call a critical critical mineral. Okay, but not gallium. Now both of those, as I recall from my investment youth, were produced in the United States and we were self-sufficient. We have sources of these materials. They come actually as byproducts of common materials like germanium is a byproduct of zinc and silver and can be obtained from coal. Gallium is a byproduct of aluminum. Now, both of those were once produced in abundance in the United States. I've talked about the germanium and gallium because we produce so much of the metals of which they're a byproduct that we find our gallium needs and our germanium needs out of those materials. Okay, we stopped because the Chinese got into the processing of these materials in a big way. And pretty soon it became obvious that it was much cheaper to buy them from China than here. Now, keep in mind that when the Chinese were setting up to produce both of these metals, they had no use for them. They were strictly a service operation. 25 years ago, I doubt that the Chinese had ever produced a computer chip. 25 years ago, I can't imagine that they were making semiconductors using gallium. There is one other use they might have had. Gallium is used in making atomic bombs. So, perhaps they were doing it for that. But we simply stopped doing it because what the heck? Didn't have to. You could buy it from China or us. So, now all of a sudden, the Chinese who are very aware of critical materials and have been organizing themselves to be self-sufficient and secure in their supplies of all of these materials in underlie our modern technological society. I'm sure once we started with the arguments about computer chips that the Chinese could be using to spy on us and all that, and we started saying that publicly and embarrassing the Chinese and insulting them. No, they may be doing these things. I'm not saying that they're innocent. I'm just saying that somehow or other, our government doesn't seem to understand that cultures outside of the American East Coast may be different from those on the American East Coast. For example, you keep telling the second largest economy in the world, and perhaps the proudest people in the world of their multi-thousand-year-old heritage, that you're liars, you're cheats, you're trying to screw us, blah, blah, blah. Pretty soon they get annoyed. So, our Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Mrs. Yellen, is in Beijing Beijing today. And all the reporters, the same ones who think Germanium and gallium are rare earths, they're saying, well, she's going to straighten things out with the Chinese. And you know what I think?  Now, you want to discuss economics with us while you're insulting us. You'll call us Mariahs. You call our great leader. He's a dictator, blah, blah, blah. Okay. This problem with Germanium and Gallium is not going to go away anytime soon until our diplomats get diplomatic and our so-called experts in Washington figure out that we should have never gotten out of the Germanium and gallium business in the United States. We can go back to it. I was asked frequently in the last two days, well, would it take decades? I'll make you a bet we could be back into producing gallium and Germanium and the United States in a useful form for electronics in six months, seven months. I mean, this is not excuse expression, rocket science. We developed these technologies. Guess what? This old man, the first thing I ever did in life was ultrapurification of metals for electronics. I knew how to process gallium and germanium 60 years ago and there's been a lot of work since. It could be done. Okay. We have to stop going, oh my god, the sky is falling and just start doing what we should have been doing all this time. That's my comment here.


Hey everyone, welcome to today's day trading recap for Monday, June 14th. Great way to start out a week. Nice Monday plus $2,832.50 today. So let's go to these trades. I'll show you what we did. Just one mighty 90 and that was an apple for $276. Had a small pairs trade in the Russell versus Dow for a little over 90 bucks. And then the runners were the real winners. All actually every trade I made today was a winner. Seven runners, one pairs trade and the one mighty 90. But the runners, obviously the big P&L Boeing plus 315, Facebook 770, Peton 108, Roblox 380, Roku 495, Tesla 115 and beyond 283. So a bunch of kind of singles and doubles adding up to a really nice profit today. So let's go over these and show you what we did. Starting with Apple. Apple was our one mighty 90 that we took this morning. And we scrunched this in here. So had this big push up into it into some pivot levels. Got short right here and just caught this little down move right there for 276. On to the runners Boeing for 315 in Boeing. We actually caught this to the upside even though Boeing's been down most of the day. So I had this nice volume spike pulled back here, got long and caught this move up, held on to a little piece of it when it just started bleeding, bleeding, bleeding, ended up cutting out of the last piece and booked 315 total on the Boeing trade. Facebook was my biggest winner for plus 770. And let's see, Facebook, yeah, just big push up, pulled back to a key level here, got long, caught this move, stayed in it for, held one piece for a while and finally just cut out because it was just chopping. It did end up making another push later in the day, but still booked 770 on that one. Peton, small winner for plus 108. Let's see, Peton, oh yeah, Peton, the second volume bar wasn't quite as high as the first, but on this pullback got in, bounced up, got out of half. And then when it just started kind of chopping around, looking like it was getting weak, just cut out of the last piece. And so Net, Net booked a small profit 108. Roblox plus 380. So and Roblox had a nice, nice volume spike here. So on this bounce, I believe it was right here, got short and caught, got some of this down move here for plus 380. Roku plus 495. Roku, let's see, oh yeah, just right out of the gate here. Had this big volume spike pullback, got long right here, caught this. I think I was, I think I was out of most of the trade here. I may have held some for this second push. I can't remember exactly, but anyway, that's where we entered right here and caught most of that. For 495, Tesla, small winner for 115. And Tesla had this really huge surge out of the gate, pulled back, got long, pushed up, got out of half for a nice profit and then it just kind of chopped around, looked like it was getting weaker, so cut out of the last piece and just kept that, kept a small profit of 115. And lastly, the last trade of the day, Beyond the Meat. So let's take a look at Beyond. Sitting here watching this had this big massive volume spike here. So on this little pullback, got long and just caught this move right there, held one last piece and when it started to kind of bleed lower, just cut out of it and ended up booking 283. So overall plus 2,832.50 on the day. We'll be streaming every day this week. Look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Talk to you then.


But there's no substitute to going and meeting the person you're doing business with, providing them the assurance and demonstrating the fact that you could deliver on time, on target, on quality to meet everybody's expectations. Welcome to the Smarter Building Materials Marketing Podcast, helping you find better ways to grow leads, sales, and outperform your competition. All right, everybody. Welcome to Smarter Building Materials Marketing, where we believe your online presence should be your best salesperson. I am Zach Williams, alongside my co-host, Beth Popnikov. It's got a great show lined up for you today. We're going to be talking about sustainability, how that applies to building products, how you can actually leverage that to grow sales and grow your business. We have a phenomenal guest lined up for you today as well. We are really excited to welcome Ted Durgasoff. He is the CEO of New Life Forest Restoration. They really live and breathe sustainable forestry, and we are very excited to dive in with all of our sustainability questions today. So, Ted, thank you so much for your time. Welcome to the show. Thanks, Beth. Thanks, Zach. Before we get started, why don't you take a couple minutes and talk to us about who you are, what you do, and introduce our listeners to New Life Forest Restoration? Well, my name is Ted Durgasoff. I'm two years with New Life Forest Products. I'm a career lumber guy, and over the years, I've developed expertise in extracting higher value out of all types of different logs and different species. And this opportunity is particularly exciting, because it primarily has to do with restoring the nation's forest, ponderosa pine forest in northern Arizona, to the state they once were.  Is that correct? Yeah. The New Life Forest Products were a vertically integrated company. We work with the U.S. Forest Service, and we restore the forest on a prescription basis. They give us a parcel of forest that needs us to go in and clean out the undergrowth and remove the small trees or the space, the forest accordingly. And then from there, we've got sawmills, and we're building another sawmill in Belmont, Arizona, just outside of Flagstaff. That takes the thinnings and the small logs that we do extract, and we convert those into lumber products. And then ponderosa pine being typically a non-construction product. We've got an engineered wood plant, which takes the ponderosa pine boards and makes higher-end products, including siding and trim and fascia products. Excellent. So, are you primarily selling in Arizona specifically? Are you selling nationwide? Our products go nationwide. We try to focus on working with stocking distributors and those that will get our product out into the retail lumber yards. Okay. Great. So, one reason why we're really excited to chat with you, Ted, is just to hear a little about the sustainability component of how you all are marketing your business, because a lot of what we hear is that oftentimes sustainability can come at the expense of profit and or growth. And it feels like, at least when I'm looking at your website and hearing you talk, that is at the core of your mission is to help forest specifically in Arizona, as well as just breed a bigger culture around sustainability. So, I'd love to hear from you about how are you leveraging your position on sustainability, making that at the core of your business to ultimately grow and expand, whether that's revenue or sales, whatever it might be. How are you all doing that is really the big question. How are you doing it? What does that look like? Can you walk us through that? Well, the nature of our business, the essence of our business is forest restoration. And over the years, over the last 10 or so years, we've developed an expertise on how to go in and do the work in the forest. And then we've also gained an expertise on how to convert those types of restoration grade logs into lumber products. And also, we've brought in the expertise on how to convert those to the high-end products, primarily engineered products, finger-jointed edge glued painted products that compete on any level with those like products in the marketplace. Now, we strongly feel that our product line, which comes from the restoration efforts, has a compelling story to tell. And we're confident that the consumers, the end users of our products will embrace the fact that they're products. Consumers all have a choice and we're confident that they'll choose a product that's made out of the efforts in making our forests better and less susceptible to the fires that we've seen over the last several years. But you guys really take it even a step further because you're not just helping to restore forests and you're not just using sustainable forestry practices.  Is that right? Well, all of our products right from the forest through to the milling process, all of the byproducts have homes. In the forest, we're able to chip products and those chips, they go for playground material for landscaping and whatnot. And the next level down of residual products, the pine needles and whatnot, they get ground and those form a fuel for power generation. I'd love to go back for just a minute and talk more about the story that you're selling to the consumer because that's really where sustainability can get traction is that's something that we know consumers today really demand more and more is one they care a lot about where their products are coming from. But also they care about partnering and purchasing from sources that have a story to tell. Can you tell me about what that process looks like from an internal perspective, how you've crafted the story? What are the points that you're hitting with the story and maybe even some feedback or traction you feel like you've seen because of that story positioning? Well, the message or the story is compelling. We feel in its own right being able to take the thinnings from the National Forest and convert them into lumber products and to appearance grade products, sightings, trim boards, fascia products, tongue and groove paneling. Those are all specialty products because they require a higher level of attention to detail. And certainly consumers have a choice, but we know with our team, with our technical team that we are making products that compete on every level with respect to quality and finish and availability. And presenting to the consumer that they always have a choice, we've had very, very good success on feedback from the consumers saying that given all the options out there that they really want to embrace the product that comes from making our forests more healthy. What kind of input or feedback are you hearing from the marketplace, Ted?  Or is there a level of convincing that you have to do to say, hey, and I don't know about your pricing here, but if your product costs more, are you having to convince them this is why you need to pay more for our product because there's a level of sustainability? Or is our way to point in society where that story is selling itself? Well, first and foremost, we have to be competitive in the marketplace. And we're price competitive with certainly with our competitors. And we compete every day for shelf space and for on the product offerings. The very interesting thing about our engineered product span where we finger joint edge blue and surface and paint is that consider a 3D printing with little pieces of wood, where we're able to turn over our orders considerably quicker than most other manufacturers. And when you're working with stocking distributors, it's all about turns. And if you're able to bring in an order, turn around and get it out the door into the hands of our distributors who then in turn take it to the retail lumberyards, that efficiency, that the link from manufacturing to the end user shortens in time considerably. And that's really significant as well because that's the business of distribution is get it in, get it out, and get it out to the consumers. So we've not only do we have a compelling story on the sustainability, on making our forest healthier, we're doing it in a way that we can meet the needs of our customers, which are largely the distributors, and make us their preferred choice, their preferred supplier. Is there you're saying so much that's important? And you guys have a compelling story and you've got a really compelling go to market strategy that's appealing to your stocking dealers. Are there any specific sales or marketing tactics that you feel have worked really well over the last year or two years? Well, we've just started our engineered wood products facility here, six weeks, two months ago. So we're just in the infancy and it's our team's history. We've done this with other species and products in different parts of North America before. And it's something we have a lot of experience with. But there's no substitute to going and meeting the person you're doing business with, providing them the assurance and demonstrating the fact that you could deliver on time, on target, on quality to meet everybody's expectations. If I can pivot for a second, Ted, I'd love to hear your perspective on what's happened in the lumber industry in the last 12, 18 months. Whoever thought that like lumber prices would make like the front page of news. And so I'd love to hear your take on, hey, we saw this massive huge spike in pricing. We've seen a little bit of a decrease of the last couple of months. How do you see things trending moving forward? Are we back at a steady state or are we going to see another price escalation? Well, all the information that we have available, the massive run up in prices in the subsequent fall was unique. It's not something that I think anybody's planning on or I don't think it's anything that too many people are expecting again. In the long term, the housing market will continue to be strong. Housing starts will continue to be strong. We're not meeting or fulfilling the household formation requirements in North America. So we think demand will be strong. We don't see an escalation in prices that we've seen before or the subsequent drop. Both are not healthy in the long run for the industry as a whole. The high prices invite competition from other materials other than wood. While we compete daily with our friends who are also in the lumber industry, it's important that those are our competitors and that we're not inviting competition from other building materials. True. That was one thing we spoke about when pricing was so high was that it was introducing traditionally more expensive alternatives to lumber in the built environment or in the home. One other thing I like to just enclose and get your perspective on is if a manufacturer is listening to you and they're going, wow, look at the success of this organization. Look how they've leveraged and used their positioning around sustainability to grow sales and grow the organization. I mean, you guys are opening up a new mill here. I actually was checking out Google and saw that as well. What advice would you give them? What would you tell them if they're saying, hey, we know we've got a sustainability story. How should they leverage it and where do you see the greater spectrum of the marketplace responding to it best? Yeah, I think in general, there's always opportunities for these types of sustainability products and manufacturing processes that people figure out. It's really going from tip to tail. In our case, we go right from the forest, right to the end product. If it's a new entrant with just a really good idea, I'd suggest they surround themselves with good people with a lot of knowledge and a lot of experience. There's a lot of moving parts and the lumber manufacturing industry in general is a very complicated business and something that takes a while to figure out. But if the new entrants have the passion and the idea and the products in mind, lots of effort and they'll be successful. That's great. Ted, thank you so much for coming on our show. If someone wants to connect with you or reach out, what's the best way for them to do that? Well, our main office phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. From there, the call will be directed to whoever could best help. Excellent. Ted, thanks so much again for coming on the show and for our listeners. If you enjoyed this content, make sure you go to venvio.com slash podcast to subscribe to get more. Until next time, I'm Zach Williams alongside Beth Poppeglav. Thanks, everybody.