Greetings and welcome to the Introduction to Astronomy. In this video we are going to talk about one of the ways of measuring the distances to the stars, and that is through using the method of parallax. So it will be a beginning, a way to start looking at distances, but we are going to find we're going to need other methods, other than just the parallax, to be able to determine distances to other objects in astronomy. So let's go ahead and get started here, and first of all we want to look at some of the ways that we can measure distances in astronomy. And there are some other methods before we get into parallax to look at as well. And one of the big problems is that the distances to these objects are very difficult quantities to determine. When you look out at the night sky, it is not obvious that things are at different distances to you. You can see all of these stars and they look like they are attached to a great celestial sphere. But even the planets when you see them just look like they are all at the same distances just at varying brightnesses. So trying to determine those distances is something that can cause difficulty and has over the centuries. So one of the ways that we can use it, and one of the few direct methods to get distances, is by using radar. Radar measurements will allow you to measure distances within the solar system, and only to very close objects, not even everything within the solar system. But it works by the fact that radar waves, like any electromagnetic radiation, travel at the speed of light. So we know how fast they travel. That means we know that they will be traveling 300,000 kilometers per second. And if we want to know the distance then, we can use that. Use the equation that says distance equals velocity times time. And if we want to find the distance, if we know the velocity, which we do 300,000 kilometers per second right there. And if we measure the time, it takes a signal to say travel from the Earth to Mars. And then return, we can then determine the distance. We know how long it took that radar wave to go from the Earth to Mars. That's the time. And then we can use the velocity, which is known to determine the distance to Mars. Now as I said, this will help within the inner part of the solar system. The distances involved are much too far to use this for any kind of star, or even further in the outer solar system. One key point I wanted to mention here is right here. When we measure this, we're measuring the distance to get there and to get back. And that means we want to divide the time that it took by 2 to actually find the distance to Mars. Because that radar wave had to travel to Mars and back, it traveled twice the distance between Earth and Mars. So that's one way to be able to determine distances. But what we really want to look at here is parallax. Now parallax is a way of being able to look at these, and it is defined as the change in the apparent position of a distant object due to a change in the position of the observer. So what that means is that when you look at something from two different points of view, here from view point A you look at a nearby object, and that nearby object in this case appears to be in front of the blue square. If you move a little bit to view point B, now you look at that same object, nothing else has moved, and now it appears to be in front of the red square. So what you would see from A would be this position, what you would see here is this orientation, and therefore the object, the nearby object has moved, apparently moved. Now the closer the object is, the larger the shift will be. So an object very close to us will undergo a large shift, and a very distant object will appear to undergo a very small shift. If we measure the baseline, which is the distance between these two, if we measure that distance between these two different viewpoints, and we measure this angle, the shift that the object appears to undergo between those two viewpoints, we can then determine the distance to the object itself. So it is a direct method, it is something we can use here on Earth for triangulation, looking at things locally from two different positions, we can measure that, and use that to determine the distance to an object. Now in terms of a little bit of the history of this, as we take a look, the parallax does have a history, this has been known for a long time, the ancient Greeks knew of parallax, they knew this occurred, and they knew that if the Earth was moving, if the Earth was moving around the Sun, that looking at nearby stars here from one position versus the position six months later, that they would appear to shift their position, just as we saw on the previous slide. So they could not detect it, they looked for parallax, they looked for a shifting of the stars, and could not find it, therefore using the scientific method and saying, well, the Earth must be motionless. Well actually it was one of two things, either the Earth was motionless, and that would explain why no parallax occurred, or the distances were just so tremendous that this parallax angle was so tiny that we could not possibly measure it, and that was the case, the Greeks simply did not comprehend the true distances that were involved in space. Now it was not until the 1830s, and in fact 1838, when astronomers measured the first parallax of a star, and that was the star 61 Cygni, and it had a parallax of three tenths of an arc second. Now if we recall an arc second, we divided one arc minute, was equal to 60 arc seconds, and one degree was equal to 60 arc minutes. So essentially one degree equals 3,600 arc seconds. So we were trying to measure a tiny fraction of a degree on the sky, and to get an example of that, the full moon is one half of a degree. So the full moon is just one half of a degree, or 1,800 arc seconds. So we're trying to measure a tiny fraction of the size of the full moon. Certainly not something that you could notice with the naked eye, way too small, and it took telescopes into the 1830s before we were actually able to determine this. Alpha Centauri, the nearest star, does have the largest parallax of a little over an arc second. So let's go ahead and take a look at what we've been able to measure here, and what we find is that we have looked and we have to define a different term here, which is the parsec, and the parsec is another measure of distance. We use the light year as well, but it is the distance at which a star would have a parallax of one arc second. Now, that means that anything with a parallax of one arc second would be at a distance of one parsec, or about 3.26 light years. So what that means is the angles that we use. Another way to measure distances. So sometimes you'll hear parsecs used, sometimes you'll hear light years. It's about three light years per parsec if you're trying to convert them quickly. There are no stars within, except for the sun, within one parsec of the earth within 3.26 light years, which means there are no stars that have a parallax of greater than one arc second. Now, that seems to conflict with what I told you on the previous page with Alpha Centauri, having a parallax of one and a half arc seconds. That was actually, it is how astronomers measure the angle. The angle is measured by, is actually half of that full parallax angle. So if you're looking from one location and another location at this nearby star, this for Alpha Centauri, this would be 1.5 arc seconds. But astronomers actually only measure half of that parallax angle, which would be a little less than one arc second. So it can be a little bit of a confusion there in terms of the definitions. But when we define the parsec there, that gives us the name comes from parallax and arc second. And it is the distance at which a star will have that parallax of one arc second. However, there are dozens of stars that we can find within 15 light years of the Earth, and here they are shown as well. There are a whole bunch of these, and if you take a look at many of these names, then we see that they're not very familiar probably. We do notice a few things like Alpha Centauri here is one you may have heard of, but many of the others are just catalog names. They are not among the brightest stars in the sky, and in fact the nearest stars to us are all very small red dwarf stars for the most part and are not really visible to the naked eye. But as you get further and further away those angles get smaller and smaller and it gets harder to be able to measure the distances. So what can we do to improve on this? Well one thing we can do to improve is to make measurements from space. So as we go out we've actually put satellites up in orbit, and Hipparchos in 1989 was able to measure distances for 300 light years or 100 parsecs.  More recently Gaia in 2013 put up is working on measuring distances to 10,000 parsecs or 30,000 light years. That is still just a fraction of our galaxy, our galaxy being 100,000 light years across, we're getting stars out to about a third of our galaxy. So it still is not helping us a lot, it does help us a lot but it's not getting everything that we want and it's not going to help us with determining distances to other galaxies or anything else. But it is important because parallax is really the only direct measurement of distances that we have. It is the only way to directly determine distances to the stars and it will be our base for using other methods that we will look at later to determine distances not only to other stars but to the distant galaxies. And we need this one to be as accurate as possible. So being able to get accurate maps for seven and a half million stars is really a big jump from what could have been done just decades before. And you can actually go to the website I mentioned here for Gaia. It will, Gaia Sky you can download and it will actually do, you can actually make three dimensional maps of the galaxy. Again, something that was very hard to do before we had a good number of distances accurately determined. So let's finish up here with our summary. And what we find is, first of all, the radar measurements work within our solar system and that's about it. So radar works but it's not a very good one for determining distances further away because we cannot send radar signals to the nearest stars and expect to get any kind of return signal. Parallax is used a lot more and that is defined as the apparent shift of an object when measured from two different viewpoints. So a star would be an example of that. We can measure a star from two different viewpoints and the biggest baseline we can get would be the Earth six months apart when the Earth is on one side of the sun as compared to when it is on the other side of the sun. So that can be used to measure the distances to nearby stars and now going out to millions of stars. And more recently, as I've said, space observatories have allowed us to measure distances to many millions of stars beginning to give us a real good three dimensional view of our galaxy. So that concludes this lecture on determining distances in astronomy using parallax. We'll be back again next time for another topic in astronomy. So until then, have a great day everyone and I will see you in class.


Hey guys, how you doing? This is Rich from Rich TV Live and richpixdaily.com and I have some breaking news for you today. That's right, from Trip Therapeutics, only here on Rich TV Live. And if you guys wanna learn the news, all you gotta do is go and subscribe to Rich TV Live on YouTube and go to richpixdaily.com where you too can join the trading community absolutely free or for a VIP membership, you get access to so much education and rewards and picks like Trip Therapeutics where we believe have enormous upside potential. Now let's talk about the news that is breaking right now. Trip Therapeutics submits IND application for phase two A clinical trial in eating disorders. That's right, Trip Therapeutics, TRYP in Canada as you see in the sign, TRYPF in America on the OTCQB exchange. A pharmaceutical company focused on developing psilocybin based compounds for disease with unmet medical needs announced today that it has submitted an investigational new drug IND application to the US Food and Drug Administration FDA to evaluate its clinical candidate, Trip TRP-8802 in a phase two A study for the treatment of patients with eating disorders. The trial is being conducted with Jennifer Miller, MD from the University of Florida and will evaluate the company's oral formulation of synthetic psilocybin Trip-8802 in combination with psychotherapy. Told you guys, I love psychedelics. This is just the beginning for psychedelics. They do not even have FDA approval and I believe that the upside is tremendous. The IND application represents a critical step in the drug development process for determining the effectiveness of TRYP-8802 for overeating disorders. TRYP expects to initiate phase two A study in Q4 of this year, which is pretty much right now subject to a favorable review of the IND by the FDA. We are walking in to Q4 as we speak. The submission of this IND represents hundreds of hours of collaborative preparation, design and coordination between TRYP and the team at the University of Florida as we pursue a leading edge treatment of psilocybin with psychotherapy, comment to Dr. Miller. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with the team at TRYP and our shared commitment to exploring new treatments for our patients who have so few existing therapies available to them because this is still the early days for psychedelics. The phase two clinical trial is expected to enroll 10 patients and various overeating disorders, including binge eating disorder, hypothalomatic obesity and Prater-Willi syndrome. The administration of psilocybin is reported in the literature to increase neuroplasticity leading to newly formed neural networks which may improve eating behavior. Patients will meet with psychotherapists who have been trained by fluence for two sessions prior to the administration of TRYP 8802, which will take place in two drug dosing sessions. Integration sessions with the psychotherapists will be conducted after the administration of the drug. This IND submission marks the most important milestone the company has achieved to date and will be critical in identifying patients' responses to TRYP 8802. The results from this study will also provide critical information to support our proprietary drug candidate TRYP 8803 that will be used in phase two B trials and beyond, commented Greg McKee, chairman and executive officer of TRYP. This is the first of several IND filings we expect to make in the coming months in support of our work to address various chronic pain and eating disorder indications. And we are eager to begin enrolling our first patients in multiple phase two A trials later this year. About TRYP therapeutics, and I think guys, I'm gonna show you guys the chart that we're right at the bottom here. TRYP therapeutics is a pharmaceutical company focused on developing psilocybin-based compounds for the treatment of diseases with unmet medical needs through accelerated regulatory pathways. TRYP psilocybin for neuro-psychiatric disorders, PFN, programs is focused on the development and synthetic psilocybin as a new class of drug for the treatment of chronic pain and other indications. The company has announced upcoming phase two A clinical trials with the University of Michigan and the University of Florida to evaluate its drug products for fibromyalgia and overeating disorders respectively. TRYP is also developing a proprietary psilocybin-based product, TRYP 8803 that uses a novel formulation and route administration to improve the patient experience. Big news, breaking news for TRYP therapeutics who has now submitted IND application for phase two A clinical trial in eating disorders. Now I wanna show you guys what I see here with this company. Early stage psychedelics company, this is a company that is a medicinal company. It is, I believe, going to be groundbreaking technology for potentially for eating disorders and other pain. And you can see here the market cap, I love the market cap, only a 24 million market cap. That's a baby market cap and only 66 million shares. So a very tight share structure. So I'm very impressed with the share structure. The website right here I'm gonna show you guys is triptherapeutics.com. You can see, you can subscribe right here. I'm gonna subscribe for their updates, just hit subscribe. And then you get put on their mailing list, just like that, which I've done. Oh, look, it says right here. You've already subscribed to trip therapeutics. So I'm already in there. So no need for me to subscribe again. I am already a subscriber, okay? This is their website. I'm not gonna go through the website right now, but you can see pretty cool website has everything you need on it right here. You can see their Twitter page, their LinkedIn page, their US symbol, their Canadian symbol, home, leadership, pipeline, investor information, news and contact. All of that is there. Triptherapeutics is leading the next wave of psychedelic drug development beyond mental health. And I'm telling you guys, this is a new era for psilocybin and companies like Trip are leading the charge. So tight share structure, big breaking news, working on FDA approval. And let's take a look at the stock in the share price. So you can see that they've been as high as $1.20 and that to me is kind of a sign of what's to come. Okay, so they're kind of showing their hand. If the company is successful, maybe we see them go back to $1.20. Well, the low low is 35 cents and we're currently sitting at 36. So we're the lowest pretty much it's ever been, okay? Despite the fact that it is a growing company and it's got big breaking news. So as a trader, you need to be aware that it's closer to the bottom than it is to the top. I don't think the downside pressure or I don't believe that there should be as much downward pressure from these prices onward but you never know. Always remember that Rich TV Live is strictly for information education purposes. Past performance is not an indication of future results. So just like this has come down, doesn't mean that it will continue to go down but it also doesn't mean that it can't go up. So we've seen it go as high as $1.20 before. It's currently at 35. Where do you think it goes in the future? Love to know what you guys think. That's why we do these videos. We bring you the news. We break down the deals. We break down the share structures so we can as a community come to a consensus and make good investing decisions. Let me know, what do you guys think about trip therapeutics? Do you like it? Do you like the psychedelic sector? Do you believe in it long-term? We know that these companies are still pre-revenue. So there's still some time before they really get robust as far as revenue but that's really the opportunity of an investor to try to get in for the win when the company's undervalued, underappreciated and underexposed based on this news, based on the chart analysis, based on the share structure and everything I've been researching on trip therapeutics. You can see right here, a company that is a new era for psilocybin. We are revolutionizing what psilocybin-based treatments can do with life-changing therapies for chronic pain and other indications. Fibromyalgia, phantom limb pain, complex regional pain syndrome, CRPS, binge eating disorder and hypothermatic obesity. Some of the areas of focus for trip therapeutics. Let me know what you guys think. Comment on the video. If you like these videos, please smash the like button. Comment down below. Share the video everywhere and subscribe. If you're alive, TRYPF in America, TRYP trip therapeutics in Canada. This is their Twitter page where you can follow them on Twitter. You can see I'm currently following. Can hit this bell for notifications. So every time they have any news, I get access to it right away. And let's see if we can follow them also on LinkedIn. This is their LinkedIn page. I believe I am following them already on LinkedIn. You can see I am already following on LinkedIn. That's the LinkedIn page. So we went through the news and let's just touch base on it real quickly again. TRYP Therapeutics submits IND application for phase two, a clinical trial in eating disorders. Zero bar rich, we wish to be live. And richpakesdaily.com. Bring in the news and we bring it to you first. Let me know what you guys think. It's your bar rich and I'm out. You're not winning. You're not watching. Bring in the winners and we bring them to you first. Thanks guys. We'll talk to you soon.


Now, if y'all know me, then y'all know I am super basic. My YouTube setup is basic. Added in the videos, it's basic. The way that I dress, T-shirt and some basketball shorts and some crocs, it's basic. And I could go on and on and on about just how simple of a person I am. In my basicness, it transfers to my drinks as well. I don't need all the fancy, pretty stuff. Just give me the chaser, the alcohol, and the red cup and I'll be good to go. But Shaker and Spoon, they said nah, we about to change it up a little bit. And what Shaker and Spoon is, it's a subscription box to where they say, hey, you are not just gonna be some basic bartender with us. No, we're gonna help you fancy it up and pretty it up a little bit. They not only send out instructions for you to make different drinks using whatever your favorite type of liquor is, they also include every single ingredient that you need in order to get your drink popping. So it's time for us to get the mixing, baby. Shaker and Spoon box that we chose is called a naeho, let's go. And what a naeho means is age tequila or rum. Each box comes with multiple recipes, so let's just choose one at random. Any mini, mini, mo, the beat goes on. We're called for two ounces of tequila, one half ounce of this spice moho syrup, which I just spilled on my phone. And it says three dashes, not drops, but three dashes of old fashioned bitters blend. So let me try to get this, one, two, three. I think that was more of a drop than a dash. And then one to two spritzes of spiced lemon oil. And again, all of this stuff was already included in the box. All you gotta do is show up and bring your favorite liquor. Now it says for me to fill the glass with ice. Use a bar spoon to stir until the mixing glass feels ice cold. Test. It's getting there. All right, we're good. You know what? I actually forgot that we had one of these. So our mixing glass is now ice cold. So now it says to take this and strain it into a rocks glass over a fresh large ice cube. We didn't have the fresh large one, but we decided we wanted to innovate and just add three ice cubes. And the last step says for the aromatic finishing touch spray the spiced lemon oil over the top of the drink. There we go. And we're gonna call this the Raven relaxer because after a stressful game from the Ravens, they'll make you need one of these. Oh, oh, that's strong. Like I added a little extra tequila, but it's good. But you can go to shakeandspoon.com and choose your favorite box so you can mix it up probably a little better than I did. Use cold TKIC for a discount. You know drinking alcohol is only for people that are 21 years of aging up and make sure you drink responsibly. See my boy, he like automated. So y'all gonna have a drink with questions from subscribers now? What? Let me know. Anyway, first question came from my guy Elijah. He said, A, engraving hope everything is well with you and your family and hope y'all are having a wonderful summer. I remember one of the first questions I sent to you was about John Harbaugh in the coaching carousel which leads me to my question I heard in one of your question videos that a sub had the Ravens finishing 10 and seven. I had us with two more wins, but how do you think Raven season will fair out? I say 17 games like 12 and five. Yeah, probably about 12 and five. I think that's a record that the Ravens could have. You know how Ravens get down. They're some games where you absolutely think they for sure gonna win and they lose them. It's other games where you think, oh man, they about to lose and they win them. They do a lot of winning though. As long as the Marjaxon is healthy, he's a quarterback. I expect him to continue to do a lot of winning with him under center, but actually under center too because actually having a lot of plays under center because that would be nice. That would open up the flavor. But anyway, let's get to the what if game section of this question. Because we're gonna do some what if. We're gonna play what if when it comes to the Ravens. Well, let's see what he had to say. He said, if the Ravens finished 10 and seven or 12 and five, but don't make the AFC championship game. Does hardball deserve to get fired? Will he get fired? No. Will he deserve to get fired? So much will just depend on so much. We can't just say, all right, if Ravens don't make AFC championship game, hardballs out of here, no matter what. Because so much depends on, well, why didn't he make the AFC championship game? How did the team lose whatever game eliminated them from making it to the AFC championship game? Was it the offense? Was it the defense? Were they just consistently unprepared in the playoffs? What was it? What was the issue? So much depends on so much. So it's very hard to say. But then this next ball, he said, if the Ravens fired John hardball, even though you know that they won't, but he just talking about what if. I actually never say never because you never know. But again, we're hoping that the Ravens have a lot of success this season. We obviously hope that they win the Super Bowl. So we don't want nobody to get fired. Cause anyway, we still playing the what if game. He said, if the Ravens fired John hardball, should the first phone call be to Sean Payton. Ooh, yikes. In a good way, yikes. If that were to happen to John hardball. Because with Sean Payton, it's like, see my mic wasn't even ready for this question. You just know me. I just know if, if we got a Sean Payton, I know this guy, he would get everything out of Lamar Jackson. If we got somebody like Sean Payton, I would not have a lot of the worries and concerns that I currently have right now when it comes to the use of one Lamar Jackson. Because I know he would just extract everything out of Lamar Jackson skill wise. Passing, running, everything. And just the concepts, the offense, getting a bunch of different guys involved. We watched this guy. We saw what he did with Drew Brees. It's like, okay, somebody could be like, oh, oh yeah, that's Drew Brees. Okay, cool. Look what we have one Teddy Bridgewater got in there. Look what he did with Taysome Hill. Even though some of that is like, Taysome, Taysome Hill, yikes. But Jamie Swinster, give me Jamie Swinster for 500. So you see what he's done with all these different players and then you think about all the different receipt that they got these guys involved in different ways. They actually, they get their receivers involved in different ways. So many of them. We saw Marcus Colston. We saw Ted Ginn. We saw, oh, it's in Marquez Callaway. We see Trey Kwan Smith. The guy that I'm thinking of, I cannot remember his name right now off the top of my head and it's driving me crazy. He's from a little ways back though. But anyway, oh my God, yeah. So if, if hardball were to get fired, I would not mind if they gave that guy Sean Payton a call. He said, I believe if hardball doesn't make a Super Bowl run this year, it should be his last.  Well, they certainly have had some teams. They certainly have had some rosters. And I think with hardball this year, so much is just about smart decision-making and holding guys accountable. And this is nothing. No, we said this early this off season. That's what I'm looking at with John Hardball this year. Holding guys accountable, holding himself accountable too.  I don't feel like thinking about those two-point conversion plays in a lot of them that really shouldn't have been, that didn't need to be. And just really him being willing to step in, even though that's not really him a lot of times, but him being willing to step in. Hey, offensive coordinator slipping, step in. Defensive coordinator slipping, step in. They don't really have any problems on special teams, but step in, step in and step up. And real quick, special shout out to all the Team Keep It Clean patrons, the two newest patrons being Ed Elle and Chris Oz. I appreciate everybody who's a patron. Thank you, because again, that's something that y'all ain't gotta do, but the fact that y'all do it, appreciate it a lot. If you wanna become a Team Keep It Clean patron, you can go to Patreon.com slash Engraven Vids. And if you don't want to, the love ain't going nowhere, still. Love y'all, still. You know that already. But this next question, it came from a patron, my guy, named that y'all are very familiar with, question from subscribers, M.G. Say it was good Engraven. So yesterday I was looking at some articles and ran into a Bleacher Report article about predicting the biggest bust on the 2022 season. They listed Devon Duvenay for the Ravens, although the writer made one point that I kind of agree with, which was Ravens might have regrets. I for one disagree with the rest of the argument he made. I'll link the article to you below. Let me know your thoughts. You and the fam stay safe, healthy, and peace. Appreciate it. So, oh, the biggest bust for the 2022 season. Wow, I hadn't heard about this one, but they chose Devon Duvenay. Part of Kay's reasoning was about how Duvenay doesn't have big stats to show from a receiving perspective over his first two years in the league. Well, yeah, you're playing in offense that's not receiver-friendly. It's a run-first offense, run-heavy offense. You're not very receiver-friendly. But anyway, it says with Brown, Hollywood Brown, and Sammy Watkins now gone, Devon Duvenay is poised to step into the wide receiver two role across from Rashad Bateman. I don't know about that, but we'll see. While Duvenay has proven himself to be an elite return man, evidenced by his pro bow nod in 2021, he only has 53 career receptions for 473 yards and a pair of touchdowns since entering the league in 2020. Ooh, Kay also talked about how Baltimore would benefit from having a proven veteran on their roster and that they're likely to regret trusting Duvenay to be their second wide receiver option. Oh, yikes. Ooh, a proven veteran, huh? What do you say? Anyway, although Duvenay is confident he can thrive with an expanded workload, the Baltimore passing offense will be set back by the lack of battle-tested wideouts on the roster. The Ravens are likely to regret not drafting a replacement for Brown and trusting Duvenay to make a seamless transition to wide receiver two as they look to return to the playoffs following a disappointing 2021 season. Wow, lot to unpack there. Ooh, lack of battle-tested wideouts. Well, this will be their battle right here. Proving that they can do this thing, proving that they can get the job done, especially if the Ravens don't make a move at that position. So they will be, they may not be battle-tested now, but they will be battle-tested moving forward. I'm thinking, as of right now, the player that I feel like would have the biggest chance to be Ravens the wide receiver two is Tyler Wallace. I think it's Tyler Wallace. If you say it's healthy, Tyler Wallace. And it's, oh man, with the Ravens it's just, oh, it's just so many just unknowns right now. In training camp, of course, gonna start getting some stuff sorted out and whatnot, but we're gonna see how it all shakes out. But Devin Duvenay being a bust, one of the bigger busts for the Ravens in the 2022 season. I can't really see him being a bust because in my opinion, a bust is somebody who has super high expectations for them. Devin Duvenay doesn't have that. He doesn't have these super high expectations. Nobody expecting Devin Duvenay. Oh man, he's gonna get like 13, 1200, 1300 yards and eight, nine, 10 touchdowns and whatnot. And just, I don't think anybody's expecting that. If he got that, that'd be nice. But there's not this high level of expectation there. So if he ended up having a disappointing 2022 season, which we hope he doesn't, but if he did end up having a disappointing 2022 season, it would not be considered a bust. Bigger than Roman. Next question came from my guy, Rodeo. He said, good morning my guy, straight to it. I'm not sure if the Roman slander been highlighted more than right now, but by a wide receivers who signed elsewhere continues to grow louder and louder. I completely understand that this truly isn't a wide receivers dream scheme and it's more like a wide receiver retirement home. With that said, I still feel it's not 100% Roman's fault. Baltimore can't get his guys at wide receiver. That's true. We've been on that. It's much deeper and bigger than Greg Roman. This has been an issue for a long time. Anyway, let's continue. He said, number one, since the Baltimore Ravens came into the existence, it's been known for two things, defense and running the ball. After that, the next best thing was probably kickers and tight ends. The Ravens never, and I mean, never valued wide receiver and always got the crumbles out of the jar just to get by. This was way before Roman. You clearly see not much has changed in the Ravens values and principles as they swear by stock piling draft picks, heavily pursuing on defense and running the ball and of course a good kicker and tight end. We all know money talks and the stuff we flush walks. The Ravens double dip and even take triple trips for guys on the defensive side of the ball. They even retain most after their contract expires. If the Ravens truly pursue the wide receiver and not shown interest, I'm sure things would be different. And of course, when I say pursue, I mean with that bag, not the change purse. You get what you pay for. So being cheap in this area has resulted in cheap play. It's the reason the top five wide receivers are making 90 plus million dollars. While Roman is indeed the lead horseman in the fiasco during the fall of the Ravens today, could it be at all possible of other reasons? Yes, Lamar is generational, beloved, a superstar, future Hall of Famer special, different, et cetera. Could some guys love from afar and just not want to ball with him? His best friend was here and left to go elsewhere. Business is business and will always come first. No matter other guys' feelings toward Lamar, they can love from afar. We can't assume every wide receiver like or love Lamar and will want to play with him, even though it would kind of be hard to understand why they wouldn't. For that part, especially with the Hollywood part, Hollywood knows it's a run for its offense. He knows that better than anybody. He's coming up in contract time. He's already just been frustrated with the offense, already complained publicly about the offense from years ago and that continued and he won it out. He won it out. He said to himself, it ain't got nothing to do with Lamar, it's an offense. He said Lamar could run any type of offense he gets put into. Hollywood did not have to say that. He ain't had to say that he was not axed at, but he said that on multiple occasions. That's not Lamar, he said it's the offense. So, and the results, you see the results for themselves. They showed themselves over the years. Look at any of Greg Roman's offenses and just look. We're gonna see it.  And you have an opportunity to go to a past first offense with somebody that you already have rapport with? Oh, yeah, no brainer. Anyway, he said all in all, yes, Roman is the headline of the show called We Can't Be Supreme in Your Scheme. Roman is indeed at the top of the depth chart and we may not see change until he is gone, but even after he leaves, can we guarantee change? No, we can't because even before he got there, it was the same thing. He said, it may be likely guys would be more willing to come with a different OC, but with the Ravens pay. Prices will only continue to go up on superstar talent. Are some guys continuing to monitor Lamar's progression? Even in a past heavy Ravens attack, if the Beals and Josh Allen under chiefs in the homes can offer the same money, would a wide receiver choose Lamar? Gotta ask all these questions. Hmm, that's a good question. And it would just depend. It would depend on what type of opportunity that wide, first it would depend on the money, obviously, first and foremost, that's the biggest thing. But then it would depend on the opportunity that wide receiver would get. If that wide receiver would significantly get real opportunity in Buffalo, or real opportunity in KC, or real opportunity with the Ravens. Next question came from Sterling.  I love it. He said, what's up in Graven, quick question. I know you've been talking about Baltimore trading for a veteran wide receiver. What do you think about us drafting a low, oh, excuse me, I read it wrong. What do you think about us trading a low draft pick? Like a fifth or sixth round pick for Robbie Anderson. Here's a couple of reasons why I think he fits. First off, Lamar was seen hanging with Robbie Anderson when he didn't come to OTAs. Well, they both from South Florida. They both from Browell County, so it was bound to happen. But anyway, he said, secondly, I believe Robbie is from Florida too. Shoulda read it. Secondly, I believe Robbie is from Florida too. Lastly, he is the perfect Hollywood replacement for what he does. A speedy wide receiver that can take the top off of defenses. I think he'd be a great number two to Rashad Bateman. Also, Baker just got traded to the Panthers and Robbie tweeted a couple of months ago that he didn't want to bake on a team. So to eliminate the drama, just bring him to Baltimore for the low. Thanks and Graven, keep up the great work. Appreciate it. I love how Robbie Anderson, we know he ain't no fan of Baker may feel it. And that's okay. I love how he covered it up though. Cause he was like, hey, I was just, I was just backing my quarterback. I was just backing Sam Donald. And that was my quarterback at the time. So I was just backing him. Me personally, I didn't believe him. I just felt like he just, he wasn't feeling back at all. Cause he never said like, hey, we got Sam Donald already. We straight. He's just like, no. But anyway, Robbie Anderson, yeah, for, for, especially for what you said, like a fifth or sixth round pick. Oh yeah, no problem at all. No problem at all. He obviously cool with Lamar. So they will have that, that off the field chemistry. And when you got off field chemistry, that can turn to on the field chemistry as well. We'll give us a deep threat. You have a little drop issues here and there, but he got the speed and he would be playing on his first winning team. So that can really change your complete mindset. Next question came from my boy, Justin C. He said, what's up? How you on the fam do? And we are doing really good. Do you think Patrick Queen will break out this season when him having all the starters back on defense plus the new pieces the Ravens got? I see Patrick Queen having a huge breakout yet with this team. Hope you and the fam having a good day. Stay safe. Appreciate it, JC. I couldn't see that. Everything just depends on him being comfortable, knowing his assignment, knowing what he has to do and then tackling. He improves on those two things, especially tackling alone, then the sky is the limit. It really is. And I don't just say that just to say that. I don't just say that because I'm a Raven fan. I'm saying that because with Patrick Queen, you see, you continue to see so many glimpses here and there like, oh, wow. Oh, nice. But then you see the hiccups too. And the hiccups are usually, usually the hiccups of Patrick Queen is just missed tackles or just confusion. But he's in his third year. So we're gonna see this year. We're really gonna see, because this is crunch time. Next question came from my guy, Logan. He said, what are your thoughts on Orlando Brown Jr. and the chief's issues that they've been having? He wants top pay and they don't think he's worth it. Thank you for keeping it real. Appreciate it, Logan. I don't even think it's that they don't think he's worth it. They offered him a contract, but it wasn't that top dollar contract. And when you are a really good player and the market has already let you know what top money is, you want to achieve that top money and you don't wanna settle. So I commend Orlando Brown Jr. for not settling. Right now, apparently he's holding out of training camp and whatnot. It doesn't want to play for them or not even necessarily holding out because he doesn't have a contract. They franchise tagging him. I don't think he signed his franchise tag yet, but he's holding out. So we're gonna see what happens with it. But no, you're worth. No, you're worth. And I respect players that just know they're worth and they do not want to settle for less. Next question came from my guy, BB. He said, I'm ready to hear something positive about Lamar. Like he has 41 wins and 17 losses. I thought it was like 37 and 12, wasn't it? Anyway, you tell you name is MVP, youngest player to win the Heisman, et cetera. Best offensive player the Ravens have ever had. As a Ravens fan for 26 years, Ravens need to sign him and show Lamar how important he is to this franchise and to this community. Hey, what do you see? And for Ravens to sign him, it takes two. Lamar would have to want to sign as well. And one of the only things that I think could possibly be holding Lamar back from signing is whatever the Ravens are offering. Or he could really be thinking, not even necessarily even deeper than that, but just another thing he could be thinking of another route. He could be thinking about what they're gonna do for him. Long term. Because he can sign. He can sign right now for a whole lot of money. But he could be thinking even beyond just the money. He could be thinking about legacy. How are these Baltimore Ravens gonna set me up for success? How are these Baltimore Ravens gonna help me out so I can really be the best Lamar Jackson I can be? What kind of weapons are they gonna provide for me? Are they really gonna go all in? Are they really going to really try to win? Are they gonna really try to take this thing to the next level? Hey, I'm working on me. I'm trying to be the best that I can possibly be. But how's the coaching staff gonna be? Who's the personnel gonna be? What kind of plays we gonna be running? How's our scheme gonna be? He could be thinking about all of that too. Next questions came from my boy, Slurred Nowinski. He said, yo, what's good, bro? Hope all is well with you and yours. Quick question, could Lamar Jackson be a prisoner of his own success? You said Allen was questioned and they got digs. He skyrocketed. Kyler was questioned, they got de-hopping. Moore and he skyrocketed. Lamar won MVP with a hurt rookie, Seth Roberts. LOL, no knock to Seth and Snead and a hurt Hollywood. But yeah, you get what I'm saying. You think his ability to do a lot more with less is hurting him. Look at Kyler, he has had everything and he has done nothing honestly. But when you look at Lamar, he's doing it all. That is, that's a great question. And yeah, I think that that right there, they look at that like, all right, so we could upgrade a little areas here and they're like offensive line and they have a lot of Ravens fans thinking that too. Oh, we upgrade the offensive line. That's all we need to do. We straight. We saw what Lamar did with back in 2019 with that. It's all he did in 2020 with that. So all we need is offensive line. He'll be straight. He could do the same thing. We got a great season. He was like that. We got Mark Andrews. One of the best tight ends in the league. That should be enough. But yeah, so yeah, I do. And I think with, yeah, man, you just look around the league, man. And you see what's going on. Man, that's a sad story. Anyway, he said, I also understand that Lamar I hate this real, but it's not even about Lamar. Have you ever thought it's because of the overall team being overachievers? I know it sounds crazy, but we can go down a list of almost every player on the roster, especially the strongest parts. One is a quarterback that can play quarterback, but he ends up being the top five QB in the league. One undrafted running back, then another running back that they took too high. Best backfielder in the NFL. I don't know about the best. They're a really good one. I don't know about the best. But anyway, he's at a third round placeholder at tight end. Now he's a top three, if not the top tight end in the league. Speaking about Mark Andrews. A left tackle that was considered an injury prone bus. You know, I have never been a big fan, but he's not what they say he is. He just needs to be healthy. Now, who's that about? Left tackle that was considered an injury prone bus. That's not Ronnie Stanley. I don't know what you're talking about. Cause it's not Orlando Brown Jr. Oh, maybe I guess you're talking about Orlando. I mean, Ronnie Stanley, because he said he just needs to stay healthy. So, okay, I think, okay, I get what you're saying. So he's saying that Ronnie Stanley was considered a bus and when the Ravens picked him, it's considered injury prone. Well, that ended up being true by the injury prone part. Then anyway, he said an outside linebacker that had zero sex his last year in college, but then his stats are right behind the player that won defensive rookie of the year with multiple sex.  One, a cornerback that doesn't tackle at all, gambles too much, high risk, low reward. Surprisingly, one of our better tacklers, he took out Derek Henry on his back pockets. Also, it's been a high reward, low risk with gambling. So he talking about Marcus Peters. And then he said Lamar does play a part because everybody is mad that they were wrong about him, but they were wrong about his whole team. And I think it just kills them. And they directed all to the QB, formerly known as eight, but soon to be one. Oh, I really do hope he changes his number to one. That will make us so happy. We would love that. And he said, also, I have a hot take. Uh-oh, let's see. The Ravens were going to the year with the worst wide receiving room, but come week 10, they will be considered top five. Yeah, you gotta take, yeah, you gotta take, you gotta take all right. Yeah, this, yeah. Yeah, that'd be nice. And I hope you're right. But let's see what you're talking about. Because when it comes down to it, every season he proves everybody wrong and they move the goalposts. Well, they're starting to run out of space. So at this point, they're going to say he has too much help and try to down him because, well, that's what they do. Bateman and them got that dog in them and it's going to show. All right, hey, I hope you're right. I know they got hot. I know they obviously got that for show, but now I got to show up on the field. That skill got to show up on the field. So we going to see. We going to see. And he said, last but not least, I really feel like we have a new Lamar on our team, very skilled, high potential, very unorthodox and no, I'm not talking about a Snoop. Daniel Fahley, he's raw, but man, once he gets his legs up under, it's a wrap. Do you think that he will be a starter come mid season? I hope not. Now, reason I say that is because that would mean that our offensive line is healthy and everybody's doing a great job. That's the only reason why I would hope not. Now, if Daniel Fahley is better than somebody who's a starter, then, hey, yes, I would love him to be out there, but I would love if the guys that we got right now are doing a great job and they all keep their jobs. He said, and like the sports analysts will be once Lamar Jackson changes his number to one in a few months. I'm out. Appreciate it.


But most of all, what I want you to get out of this video is just the truth of how there's almost no solution for these birds, except for people like Rose. So just consider... I can't, like it's just the bird world that makes me so sad. Okay guys, so I know it's dark, it didn't take us that long to get here, but we were in there talking and chatting, because I'm excited. I haven't seen them in a while talking with all the birds and stuff. I wanna show you guys the toys. Before I bring it out, ooh, it's dark, hold on. Ooh, there's a little light. It's a big box of toys, another box of toys. I'm gonna get George to come carry the toys now. LP! Come get the toys, I'm excited to show them. Yes, so we have also donations from Planet Pleasures as well. They gave me a box to bring to you guys, and I'm really excited for you guys to see it. Then you have a feathered fun box. Yeah, I brought you a feathered fun box. It's so cute. Isn't that cute? So let me tell you about the box. This is Picasso, he's my bird that flew away, and so we did this, and it's like an abstract, because Picasso was an abstract, you know, artist. The reason we're able to bring you these toys is because we have the feathered fun box. So I wanted you to have the box to see what the box is, but I wanted to bring you all the toys. What box is your bringer? I don't know. Open it, let's see what it looks like. So this comes monthly when you order the box. So because, and so this is Dulia. Dulia was my first crocodile, and since it's Thanksgiving, I wanted to thank my first bird, you know. Oh, that's so cute. Oh my gosh, this stuff is great. Isn't it? This is great, Frankie loves this. Yes, I have all that. So what came in the box, this is for the large birds. Oh my gosh. Try to really mix it up this year with kind of like a foraging, a wind toy, this, but the box has a theme. So you see it's like the fall yellow Dulia. Right, right. Check this out. So because you have a bird, every time you get something for the owner, like, you know, for the companion of the bird. Oh, how adorable. Isn't that adorable? That is so cute, so cute. Isn't that cute? It's adorable. Hello. So there's a little block. Something for the owner, sometimes we have notebooks and like, you also have these, these are, this is a sticker. A magnet for your fridge. And there's also a pin. My fridge has now like what, four magnets, five magnets. Five, this is the fifth box and the pin. Oh, that's so cute. And your book is on the fridge. Isn't that cute? That is so cute. And the artist that actually does all this work, she's amazing. She's the one that also designed the box. The box? Which is amazing. It's beautiful, right? So a lot of birds like to keep the box and play in it. These are for you from Planet Pleasures. For Sparky. I think the birds are already excited. Sparky loves. Yeah. You could open it and pull it all out and like, there's just a lot of like really good toys. Planet Pleasures has great toys. And their big toys are really nice. That's why I like them. Isn't that cute? That is so cute. Yeah. I want you to see all of it. That is great. Oh. See Sparky loves Planet Pleasures. So this is all, yeah. Oh, I gotta tell you, all of us left with that one. She loves it. She loves it. Yeah. I had no idea it looked like that. So I want to thank Planet Pleasures for bringing those over here. Thank you. The carrots first. Thank you. If you guys wanted discount on Planet Pleasures, check out my link in the description. And also, I will put the code right here. So check that out. And now on to the box that we brought. I'm so excited. Open the box. So these are like, you know, toys that actually can last a lot longer. Sparky toys. Sparky toys. Oh, wow. That's something that we could think of. Like wood toys, more of these kinds of toys, and also really, really tiny toys. Oh, we have our food here too. Yeah. Look at this. This is one of my favorite toys. Oh, is that adorable? Isn't that adorable? We had it in one of all these we've had in our boxes. That is so cute. Isn't that adorable? Look at that. It's adorable. Toby loves these. That's the yucca. Yeah. Yeah. The yucca is amazing. I put little ones like this for your smaller birds. You said you had a bird that's scared of toys. Yeah. Sammy. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Sammy would like these. There's like baby steps. Yes. Look at this toy. Isn't that the cutest? That is so cute. So cute. Yeah. A swing. Isn't that cute? Oh, that's really cute. Very cool. Isn't that really cute? That's really cute. This is one of the toys that birds like they love. They eat this in seconds. Yeah. They go through this thing so quick, but it's like it's still it. Like it's a good toy for them. There's lots of little toys in here too that like, oh yeah. Like we brought you the shoes. Oh, the shoes are so cute. I love the shoes. We brought you like these little kind of toys. This toy, the birds that like are scared of like, you know. Just everything we've ever had we tried to like get together. Lots of little shoes. You can find the birds who love the shoes. Oh, and the tea. Oh, okay. This is my bird Jersey. And she, for her box, we did a bird Jersey's birthday theme. And this is an AVM tea. No caffeine. You can have it and your bird could share it. But the craziest thing Rose is like, it is so good. Like I thought, okay, we're going to put something together, but George is obsessed. Like I'll be like, do you want tea? He'll be like, no. And then he'll see me making this and he'll go, oh, I want it. You're making that tea. Oh, it sounds so good. It's got chamomile. It gives red raspberry leaves. That's really good. Sparky and I can drink this. Yeah. The sparky smell of the green tea. And if you put lemon in it, Jersey is a plucker. So I thought we'd go with chamomile, you know, like the calming vibe. And so it just turned out so good. So it's good for an evening because there's no caffeine or anything like that. Yeah. Frankie, you're going to be music. Frankie didn't play with toys at first when he came to us. Yeah. He had no idea what a toy was.  Yeah. As he learned to play, he went wild with it. He's like, I love this, you know. So he's been going through toys at a rapid pace. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Ten years. What kind of situation did Sammy come from? Sammy was very sad. I don't know if I really want to hear, but maybe people should hear. Sammy's people were getting divorced. Yeah. And she started plucking. They tried to sell her on Craigslist and they didn't get any takers. So the man was a plumber and he went to work and he told his co-worker that they were going to wrap Sammy in a towel and drown her because no one would take her. And so one of his co-workers said, you know, I'll take her. He always wanted a cockatoo. He did, but he took Sammy and he brought her to us. Sammy had a near-death experience. I think I'm going to cry. Come here, baby.  The balance is great. Head down too low into a bowl so we have to make sure that the food is up high for her. But look at you. You're here now. And you have a nice home. I snuck a kiss. I snuck a kiss. I kissed a bird and I liked it. Right. Right. And when Sammy was surrendered, they filled out Sammy's favorite food. Yeah, they filled out her favorite foods and it was Chardonnay and French vanilla ice cream. And they even mentioned a specific brand of wine. But I can't remember what it was. It's been five, five, six years. Sammy went nuts the first time she saw Rose's glass of wine. She did. I mean, she started twitching and slapping and screaming. She was having withdrawals. Poor Sammy. We didn't know how you get her off the wagon.  Well, cold turkey was the answer. Because we weren't about to get her wine. So it's not only a rescue, but this is also a rehab. Yeah, we've had to do a few rehabs. Yeah. No, but it is. It is in so many ways. Like these birds are abused. They're fed the wrong thing. There's so much to it. Even birds here are treated pretty darn well. Often people make mistakes that they don't realize are bad for the bird. There's a bit of rehab in many instances. I will say that probably most of the birds we've gotten have been just fine. They didn't need, you know, they weren't abused. They weren't neglected. They were just situations that made people, various reasons. There's always a reason. Some good, some less than good. The reasons that I find that people have though, it's like, usually it's like, oh, we can't take care of them anymore. Well, yeah, there's that. I'm not giving him everything he needs. Well, if you had a kid, would you be able to say that? No. So why are you able to say this? Like, it's like, this is a kid. This is your family. We see. He's been with you for 20 years. The mentality is, it's just a bird. We hear this all the time. It's just a bird. It's like they have no intelligence. They have no feelings. They are just like a stuffed animal to some of these people. And I'll tell you, there have been people when we talk about how they want a bird. We've suggested they get a stuffed animal. Well, we just weren't going to give one of ours. So, you know, we say you should really consider, you know, if you really have to have a bird, there were some toy birds that were electronic and they talked. They made that chirp? Yeah. So we recommended that. You twist the thing. And then the other thing we would recommend is maybe you should just stick with like a hamster or, you know, a cat or a dog. Just something that, you know, you're not going to, it's not going to depend on you so much. Because these guys are totally dependent on us to do the right thing. And quite a few people don't do the homework to find out what the right thing is. So it's pretty sad. Birds like yellow a lot because in the wild, a lot of the fruits that they eat, yellow is a sign of ripeness. Interesting, right? I was finding here that beside which piece of fruit they want. Yeah. That was not good. And the next one is the one they want. Frankie was a wild bird. So Frankie wasn't used to any kind of interaction and really couldn't be interacted with. And Frankie gets out by the way. Frankie walks all around and hangs out. But Rose has had Frankie for two years and had never been able to touch Frankie and recently has been able to give Frankie head scratches. Can you imagine? People have birds for three weeks and give up. But with birds, developments can continue to happen. So it's unbelievable.  And the thing is the more birds you have the harder it gets to give them the devoted attention. If she only had Frankie, hands down Frankie would have been loving in her arms already. This is just something to keep in mind. It's just like, how amazing that. And what a beautiful feeling was that, Rose? Oh, it made me cry. I couldn't believe that he was trusting me enough to let me touch his arm. Unbelievable. It was a little scary too. Okay guys, I want to talk to you guys a little bit seriously right now. Although we're here at Parrots First, obviously, for those of you don't know, this is where we got Merlin. You probably remember Rose and they have moved to Nevada. They did that because California is extremely expensive and obviously their birds are their priority. So they wanted to keep the rescue running and they are a very legitimate nonprofit, which you guys can totally check out. So they came here because their birds are the priority. What you guys don't know is that all the birds that you see here are rescues. But aside from that, they have a whole nother location here in Nevada with a lot of macaws that have come from deplorable conditions. It's really expensive to feed and take care of birds. If you guys see the way Rose feeds them, they have fresh food, they have fresh vegetables, which she makes them and same with the birds at the other location. And these birds need a lot of enrichment, which is why we brought the toys and we brought what we could and we're going to continue to do this. So those of you who are buying the Feathered Fun Boxes and supporting us in this way, this is our way of giving back. But I also want you guys to know that this is somebody who is really putting all her effort into the birds. If you guys are looking for a way to give back to birds that you know are in need, then I want you to really consider donating to Parrots First. And then one day I think I'll be able to come back and show you guys the other birds, but it just too dark today. And it's been like a long trip. But Rose is going to tell you about how many birds come from deplorable conditions. They're not used to getting toys. They're not used to getting food. Birds that come and they have only ever eaten sunflower seeds. Birds that have never seen the daylight. Birds that were locked in cages forever and covered. At this other location, they're providing them literally a cage-free life and it's kind of unbelievable. So I just want her to give you a little insight on what it's like to be a rescue. And then I'm going to fill you guys in in so many ways you can help even without donating, okay? Well we've had macaws that we had to literally cut out of the cages. They had been locked in for so long they had little feeder doors, so whoever was taking care of them could feed them and change water hopefully. But they were locked in there and nobody even knew where the keys were anymore. One of the macaws that we took in last year had been locked in a closet for several years because he screamed and he pipped his feathers so they didn't like to look at him. That's the kind of birds that we've taken in. Birds that were breeders that never had any human contact really, no socialization were used so that their babies could be sold. When they retire them and they're no longer producing they had no options. They either have them euthanized or they can find a rescue that will take them. And it's hard to find a vet that will euthanize a bird unless it's got a health problem. So we've stepped in with quite a few of these ex-breeders providing them a cage-free environment, all fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, and just to be birds. To pick their mate instead of being stuck in a cage with a bird that they wanted them to breed. I can't even talk. We had a bird that we took in, Lele, that lived outside under the eaves of a house and she got a fungal infection in her lungs because she lived so in such a moist damp environment.  She was very energetic and she used to sit on my shoulder and run back and forth and go, pretty bird, pretty bird, pretty bird.  And it was one of those things we thought would never really happen and he took this bird home and just loved it and loved it and sadly about a year after he adopted her she was running on her shoulder back and forth feeling pretty bird, pretty bird and she just kind of dropped over and passed away. But that was when we found out that she had a fungal infection in her lungs. The owners did in the crops. It's like you were saying some of the conditions we've had the birds in would just break your heart. We've had birds that lived in garages and like I said this one was just outside all the time in the rain. Why would you even put it in a closet and close it up? Why would you even go through that process? Find somebody else to take care of it? A reasonable person would do that but people are embarrassed that it's my bird. They paid money for it and then there's also the mentality of it's just a bird. I mean I can't tell you many times we've heard people say but it's just a bird. It's not a big deal, it's just a bird. One of the macaws that we have in our car now well actually he just passed away but when we took him in the people didn't they kept him in the garage, a green wing macaw. They didn't even know that he was blind. He was totally blind. There were two of them in two separate cages and the mate was next to him and the green wing was totally blind. They paid so little attention they didn't even know. That's the second bird we had that was blind that the people that surrendered him to us had no clue the bird was blind. The first one was a cockatoo and I think we had that bird in the house for two or three hours and Rose said this bird has trouble seeing. The macaw that was blind had cataracts and they never noticed it but those are the kind of birds that are that we've set up this facility to care for ones that can't go into homes and some of them have things that they've been under such abuse all their lives they're not going to live too much longer but at least they can live free. I've heard of many situations where there's hoarders and they have a hundred birds and I know you guys take in a lot of those birds what do you do to take in those birds and find homes and tell me about your fosters and how you find fosters. Foster homes are very important to us we don't have a facility for anything other than the macaws and we need people to take the birds into their home and treat them like their own family so that the birds can start trusting again and care for them. It's difficult to find foster homes for a couple of reasons people don't have the time and if they do have the time often they will foster birds and then they adopt them and then we've lost a foster home because now they've got three birds and they can't take any more and that happens more than you would believe you know they fall in love with the foster bird and they just can't let it go. We do always need foster homes we need people that are ready to take any kind of bird that comes into our program and care for it until we can find a home for it. One thing people tend to not really understand is that it's not always a quick thing finding a bird at home either we've had birds that take six months a year we've had birds that we've had for many years and we're still looking for a home for them so if you are looking interested in fostering you have to remember that it too is kind of a long-term commitment we've had people say well I can take them for a few weeks well that doesn't really help us it's not like we have someone three weeks down the line it's not good for the bird either it is something you have to be more or less committed to doing because you could have that bird for a year. Average time to foster a bird before we find it the right home usually we say is about six months but it can go quicker and it can be a lot longer. I find like in my personal situation finding birds at home is really hard because when you know so much about the bird's personality you know a lot about the only type of person that would fit the bird's personality what do you think is hard about finding a bird the right home? Matching up the personalities is definitely a big concern we look at things like how much time will you have to spend with the bird how much space do you have do you have enough buffer between you and your neighbors to adopt a cockatoo we all the time have people that live in a small apartment who want to adopt a cockatoo or a macaw and it's not realistic well my neighbors don't mind well the neighbors might move and somebody else moves in and they will mind and we also check to see when we ask people quite frankly can they afford to take care of a bird do you know how much it costs to pick up can you afford to buy toys and the proper food it's very easy to find a home for a bird it's very hard to find the right home a lot of rescues won't take cockatoos anymore and you guys do tell me, I say you actually are really good with the cockatoos do you think that's a crisis what do you think is going to happen for the cockatoos of the world it's going to be very sad because some of the larger rescues have decided not to no longer take in cockatoos and their reason is it's too hard to find them a home and it's true it is hard to find them a home but there are so many cockatoos we probably get calls for cockatoos more than any other bird to place so you see like they have this and they have a whole other facility roses like literally moved out of California to afford to do this the other place that they have is a facility with a lot of macaws that obviously require a lot of help this isn't exactly something that I was 100% aware of like until I came here today exactly like how dire the situation is I just want to let you guys know if you ever wanted to support me I know a lot of you guys are like open a rescue obviously I don't have even though my birds are rescue birds I don't have that non-profit I don't have that capability I live so if you ever want to support our work with birds and rescues I really want you to take this opportunity right now to sponsor a bird at Parrots First Rose has the birds that need sponsoring you can sponsor them monthly or yearly up on her website at Parrots First and if she tells me that any of you guys have sponsored a bird I will also put you on my website and make sure that it is known that you guys have done that because I think that's the most amazing thing and also for those of you who cannot sponsor a bird or commit monthly we're going to set up a GoFundMe because I think it's really important to be able to help those other birds that are in the other facility there's a lot of macaws there that need help that have come from terrible conditions so remember guys $5, $1 you know instead of your coffee today we'll go a long way for a bird that hasn't ever had toys or really good food so that is one thing but there's another great thing that you can do without sponsoring a bird and without donating there's a major way that you can help these guys here at Parrots First help these birds and all the other birds and Frank is now going to tell you about that and how so far he's been helped so much with this we are part of the Amazon Charity Program smile.amazon.com and if you go there you can pick a charity there are quite a few there but we're hoping you will select Parrots First and a portion of every sale every purchase you make through Amazon that is you know actually sold by Amazon we get a small portion of that and I can't tell you how quickly it adds up I mean we have a few people who have been doing it for a couple of years now every time they disperse a check every few months we get a check and it's totally painless for you if they don't add anything on to the price of your products but we get a part of their profit not only do we get the small portion of any purchases you make but if you should want to just buy you know donate a toy or something we also have a wish list on there and that's right there on our charity page as well so all you have to do is go to smile.amazon.com and go to the link it says you know find a charity it's not hard to find it all just in the search bar type in parrots first and we'll come up and just click they're my charity and every time you make a purchase they will put a little something aside for us and it is really it has been a huge help and everybody who does it has told me it's such a painless way for them to help us because they can't necessarily afford to write a check but they still shop at Amazon they feel real good about doing it that way I hope this is something you would consider this is a way anybody can help I can't tell you how many times we've been broke we've had an unexpected vet bill that wiped us out and by golly the check will come in the mail and it would be enough for us to buy food and toys for the next couple of months so it's always kind of a surprise when it comes and it's always just a pleasant surprise I hope that you guys can create a lot more pleasant surprises for them let me know in the comments if you ever want me to do another video I can come back here show you the rest of the birds if that's something that you guys are interested in I just love making sure that you guys understand like just being transparent with you and letting you know what we've been able to do because of you guys buying the feathered fun box and you guys supporting me has been able this is just a small step but this is what your feathered fun box has been able to do today in the future it will do a lot more and on that note I want to thank Planet Pleasures for donating this other box of toys and those of you guys not familiar with Planet Pleasures absolutely like a no brainer for your birds your birds will love these toys they get to forage, chew just really destroy all sorts of different designs but most of all what I want you to get out of this video is just the truth of how there is almost no solution for these birds except for people like Rose so just consider the bird world makes me so sad I never wanted to just take a rescue and say hey this is who to donate to I always wanted to be somebody that I've been and seen the birds and their conditions and exactly what's going on and be able to bring you guys inside so you guys can see not a place that I'm just like oh donate to here like let me just like share a bunch of donations and charities and such this is my way of showing you who I believe in well thank you so much you know we never tried to be the biggest rescue in the world but we have tried to be the best at what we do we've intentionally stayed as small and taken in birds that we knew we could help there have been times when we couldn't take in birds and we still found solutions for them when it was possible this is not a job for us this is a labor of love we've been doing this because when we first got our little girl Sparky here we were given every bit of incorrect information there was to be given and we had to learn everything the hard way along with rehoming birds and doing a little bit of rehabilitation from time to time our main area focus has been to try to educate people on what these guys need and really what they need isn't that difficult or anything it's just a little bit of common sense they're not stupid animals they're not bird brains they're sensitive intelligent creatures and they need to have stuff to do and decent food to eat they can really bring joy into your life and it's been very very wonderful for us to help the birds we can but we also see a lot of sad stuff too I hope you out there never have to see some of the things we've seen just love your birds that you have and know that there are people like Rose who have dedicated their life to helping these guys she's the voice that they don't have and I'm just here to help I do the computer stuff you know and I help clean just want to make sure that everyone understands that Parrots first is still in operation in Los Angeles still strictly California operation we still need foster homes for the Los Angeles area and we have birds that are in foster homes now so I just wanted to make that clear that we are still we did not turn our back on the birds in Los Angeles I'm going to add our here because this is where we can afford to keep them one thing we were never able to do in Los Angeles because the price of real estate was have a house and a facility it was always kind of a combination and you know it's wonderful to be able to live in a place where we can have a separate place for these birds they can never live like they would in the wild but it's a lot closer you know it's a lot closer they don't get locked up at night to pick a buddy or a mate fly around the room no one yells at them for screaming they can scream their little hearts out when they're allowed to scream they tend not to do it so much they don't really need anything anymore they can scream because they want something they want something that's not good you need to understand what they want if that's the case or let them be who they're supposed to be I've also gathered foster homes for Rose and I'm taking care of a lot of the things for her we've already brought cages to our home sometimes people's birds die and they feel better donating cages so we take those in in case we can you know then help the birds that are fostered through Parrots first have a cage and such so you guys understand why I support Parrots first so much is because I've seen everything here firsthand and been a part of it and I have an eye into so many birds that need help in Los Angeles so just so you guys know what is being done all the time without you guys knowing it's just incredible what these guys do thank you so much we really appreciate anything and everything you could do not only for us but any other rescue that you may feel strongly about we're all in this together there are quite a few wonderful rescues even if your preference is a dog or a cat go and work with that rescue volunteer donate to whatever you can we're not alone in this it's a huge problem throughout the country again thank you so much so very much so also just to think outside of the box guys if you guys have businesses or run businesses that donate consider making it an animal rescue that you guys donate to I'd love for it to be Parrots first but if not just always remember the animals especially the birds the birds do not have a lot of voices so they have their own voice that's for sure alright that's it guys I love you so much if you believe in the message of this video please share it spread it with people let's help them reach a massive amount of donations let's be the savior for these birds in this facility I love you guys so much bye by the way don't forget if you guys are looking for an amazing bird food brand for your bird that is healthy organic and not full of food colorings and sugar and peanut smash check out Marlene's signature blend I did this along with Topps Parrot food we just launched in the UK Northern Parrots now sells our food you guys have been asking for it you've got it also Things for Wings in Canada sells our bird food right now I'm proud to announce and they will ship it to you I encourage you guys to check out my Feathered Fun Box it's a passion project it's a subscription box that comes with parrot toys for your bird and also special merch kind of like my dream box honestly I put so much into it I love that there's something like this for birds out in the world that's why I created it www.featheredfunbox.com I love you guys so so much thank you for listening


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