The addition of Y in uniform, I'm the host Calvin Griffin, and for those of you who may not have seen the program in the past, we do talk about military and veterans issues and try to enlighten you to what's happening and also get some responses from some of the issues of the day. Today, I have a special guest, Mr. Scott Bryan, who is a former, there's no such thing as a former Marine. No such thing as a former Marine. Okay. What's a Marine always a Marine? Okay. What would you like to be addressed, sir? Scotty. Scotty? Okay. Scotty, welcome to the program. Thank you for having me. Good. I just got to make a comment on the hat, are you part of the rodeo or anything like that? No, no. I'm just a little old redneck. I used to be one myself. I ran it to a lot of problems. Anyhow, one thing I want to talk about, a little bit about your background before we start off. What's your military experience? I was in the Marine Corps for four years, 1977 to 81, stationed right here at Coney Oy. Okay. All right. And where are you originally from? Actually, moving on from here, but I did a lot of traveling in the mainland and I just came back in 2010. I know that also you're part of a lot of different organizations. We had members of the Fleet Reserve, which I know that you're a member of also, but also know that you're heavily involved in a lot of things involving the veterans in the military community. And could you tell us what are some of the things that's going on there that we may not be aware of because even with all the different organizations over here and efforts to help veterans in the military, a lot of, there's a lot of disconnect and sometimes you have an organization that's doing great things that other people may not be aware of. But with your experience and what you see out there, what's happening in that we could share with our audience? Well, I'm also part of the Marine Corps League and I just had the fortunate being elected as the commandant for the Marine Corps League of the Haughty Attachment 363. As you said, I'm with the Fleet Reserve Association for the Haughty Haughty Loop Branch 46. One of the biggest disconnects I see is just getting information out to the veterans. Social media is a good thing, but I also think it kind of hinders because it puts people in a different spotlight where I think it's more individual. People aren't passing the information out like they should. It used to be had a big membership in some of these organizations and I think that organizations, that membership has dwindled due to social media. Why is that?  There's something about what was happening with the wounded warriors and maybe misappropriation of funds at some level or another. And I think that's one of the things that does, that sticks in a lot of people's mind. Really, what is going on with these organizations? Are they staying true to mission or what's going on? But how is that working? I think that you lose, when people do social media, they just get so wrapped up in themselves. Looking at that phone, looking at that computer and doing things, you're not involved one on one face to face or in a group face to face with people talking about issues. And I think with the wounded warriors project, I think, you know, I don't know a whole bunch about it other than what I've heard as you said. But I think anytime you get upside down where most of your money's going to support an organization, I think that really does start to tick people off. I think they lose focus when you're putting more money into the organization than into what it should be going into. You mentioned the, excuse me, the Nguyen Lien membership, not only with, I guess, with your organization, but also with some of the other major known organizations. Again, is there some sort of disconnect between, I know we have with all the veterans we have out there, people that served in Iraq and Afghanistan and numerous other places around, that they're not really actively involved in these different organizations? Can you give me a, you have a guess onto why that may be happening? Social media, I think that, you know, a lot of people, it's hard when you're meeting an organization with a whole bunch of people, meetings take a little bit longer. Social media, you know, Facebook, Twitter, you know, just talk it on the phone. You can hit people, lickety-split, and get to them, and people have that attention span, I guess, I hate to say it, not when they don't last as long as they used to be. You know, you're getting involved in a meeting sometimes, you've got to be involved in a meeting and be part of it. And a lot of people like that, instant gratification of sitting on a tweet or a text and getting that back and not having to deal with it, so I think that has caused to it. And the younger generation, they're into that social media, they're not into sitting in a meeting that might last two hours. An hour you might get them, but two hours, an hour and a half, forget it. And I think with the, you mentioned the beans and, you know, of course, social media with, yeah, the instantaneous communications and everything else. But there's something to be said for, you know, face-to-face communications and that camaraderie that, you know, that you get when you're in a room with another group of people who can empathize with some of the situations you may be going through anyhow. But I know that with some of the back, you know, a little back when, when Vietnam, whether some of the veterans weren't really welcomed with open arms into a lot of the organizations, is that still the case nowadays or is that, say, there's a different dynamic? I think finally, my father's a Vietnam veteran, and what you said's correct, they weren't welcomed with open arms. So I've seen it first time with my father and other veterans from Vietnam. But I do think that tide has changed. And I think the reason why it's changed is because of, you know, going into, you know, Afghanistan and Iraq, those wars made us think about what we did to the Vietnam veterans. And I think we're now finally starting to recognize, which by all rights there do, that recognition for serving in Vietnam. So I think it's starting to come full circle where they're starting to get that recognition and, you know, hope to keep doing it because they do deserve it. Yeah, one of the important things with the, with the military in general or even with the veterans is the support system that they have in place. And this is with friends and family. All right, what's in place right now as far as with the different organizations for spouses, because nowadays you have, of course, females serving in the military, so they may be going off and their husbands at home. What's in place right now that helps to support or gives them the opportunity to get involved or to be appreciated more by the community because they're behind the scenes or in the shadows, so to speak. I will honestly tell you from my experience of growing up as a military brat, my father being a Marine Corps, there wasn't that support. I think it's gotten a heck of a lot better than what it used to be. There are, you know, maybe it's the MWR, if I'm not mistaken, they are doing a lot better recognizing the spouse, whether it's male or female, the husband or the wife, they are doing a better job recognizing that and getting them involved with different functions where before you really didn't have that, it was, you know, the the wife, you know, getting together and taking care of each other. And I think out of that, we now got something that is a lot better and each with the Marine Corps, you got different, at the battalion level, they got different organizations that, you know, the wife or the husbands can get together and do things to recognize and help out and make it easier for that transition when they're going overseas or coming back. All right. Again, with the different organizations you went, what are some of the things that the general public may not be aware of that is being done by, you know, not only the groups because I know there's a lot of people out there, we have a lot of, I mentioned before, a lot of unsung heroes who are veterans who don't, they're not in front of the camera all the time, they don't see spotlight, they're out there giving back to the community because one of the things that we mentioned before is the fact that in the, with most people in the military, they do have that spirit of giving back wanting to, you know, to be there, you know, because they've seen a lot of cases of what happens in far other countries where the lack of social support or whatever, you know, and here in our country, we, you know, it's paying it forward a lot of times, you know. So do you see that? I mean, as far as there's more involvement or people could. I think it's both ways. I think there is a lot more involvement for someone to get involved, but I also think we can't forget the guys that didn't get that help. I think the biggest thing that the civilian population needs to understand is PTSD can affect anybody on any different level. It doesn't mean you have to be a combat veteran. It could have been anything that causes that. So I just, you know, I think when you have a person who has served in the military, retired from the military, my hat's off to them because they did something that a lot of people don't do, there's only a certain percentage that go into military. So a guy who does a four-year hitch and gets out, I'll shake his hand. A guy who does 20 years or longer, I'll double shake his hand because that's, it's a whole different ball game. And I think that they deserve a little bit more because it's built in them to give back, like you said. They have that organizational skill that sometimes you won't get in the civilian world, taking care of men, doing certain things that a lot of people will never understand, that camaraderie and that brotherhood. Yeah, because as you mentioned, like the PTSD issue that, of course, that's been a big thing we've been talking about, they're addressing the issues of suicides, you know, the pressure that, of course, a lot of our troops have been under. You know, it's not all doom and gloom, but there are things that need to be addressed and talked about. And on the previous program, as I mentioned, someone questioned why the military personnel don't be, aren't more active as far as addressing a lot of issues that concern them and even some of the issues concerning our government policies or whatever. And again, what we try to point out here is that there's a protocol that is called for. And the military personnel, they do have the opportunity when they do take off the uniform to still get involved with what's happening out there. But the support system, again, where, you know, if the civilian populace is aware of what's going on, I think we have an obligation or say they have an obligation in a way to go ahead and when the certain things cannot be addressed within the military confinement, you know, the system, then I think it's up to the population or the citizens who are benefiting from their servicemen service, you know, to address these issues for them, you know, call your congressman, keep abreast of what's happening as far as with the benefits, things of that nature. You know, if there's not programs in place, like say to help alleviate some of the stress, then what we need to do is, you know, it does help when you do get that civilian support. Yeah, well, like what you just said, there's a lot, you know, think the guy who does one, two, three tours overseas or not even in a combat zone but has to take off for deployment for whatever reason it might be.  The military man is working seven days a week, 24-7. He's not, you know, he's not taking off that day, he might get that 96, that 72 but he still in the uniform, we're in the military, you know, we're in the uniform. But I think a lot of it, yeah, as time goes by, you know, we're all gung ho at the beginning of anything that we do, but as time goes by, it starts to slow down and we forget about it. And it's like what you said, you've got to reach out to your politician, you know, pick up that phone call. And it's tough when a lot of the population, there's so many places out there that there is no military population, so they have no clue other than what they might see on TV, whatever news program they're watching. And I think that's part of it too, but it is getting the politicians, because I honestly think civilians can do a lot, but I think the politicians are the ones that got to step up to the plate, because they're ultimately the ones that are, you know, making these issues, they're behind these issues, voting on what might happen and not happen.  Exactly. And like I say, it's really, you know, that's a whole different subject matter there, which I think is a whole, that's a whole new ball, and that's a whole new kind of worms right there.  Getting back, like I say, because in the past couple of programs I had representatives from the fleet to come on, it's not that it's the only organization on Island, you know, but I'm more familiar with it than be, you know, for the sake of full disclosure. I remember I go there a lot anyhow, you know. Thank you. At least I get to do anyhow, you know. So a lot of people, I've been going there for a while, you know, and I know there's an effort at foot to go ahead and try to buy the land from the government, you know, to continue the operations there. How is it coming with that? Because I know that there was some sort of initiative by the politicians to go ahead and grant certain monies. What how was the standing on that now and what's the future? Well, actually we we went forward with the grant and we were approved for the grant, but there are things that just because you were approved doesn't mean you're going to get the grant. So we are as a as a person on the committee, I'm actually the committee chairman, we are in the process of working with one of the state representatives to put all the paperwork together to get that grant. So, you know, the committee has been doing a fantastic job with fundraisers coming up with ideas to make money to save the place. Yeah. So, you know, we are moving forward and we'll you know, we'll save the place, but that doesn't mean don't give donations. Please, we need we need that help. But, you know, we are working forward, but like I said, we did put the grant in. We've been approved. It's just a matter of taking the next step to get that money. Okay. Speaking of taking a break, what we're going to do that right now let's say we can identify ourselves and all that, but we'll come back and continue our conversation. And you're here with the uniform and a wife. Alrighty.  She's sad. All the better to see you with my dear. What are you doing? Okay. Research says reading from birth accelerates the baby's brain development. And you're doing that now. Oh, yeah. This is the starting line. Push. This is over. You're dead. Read aloud 15 minutes. Every child, every parent, every day. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. But I have a story and I don't know where to start. I feel alone in the crowd. I can't sleep. I feel overwhelmed. I don't even know who I am anymore. I still have nightmares. I can't live like this anymore. I'm really not so good. But are you ready to listen? Yeah, okay. And you're back with Uniform. I keep forgetting to name my own program. But anyhow, we're back. I forget my own name, too. That's why I carry an ID card, you know? But anyhow, we're talking with Scottie. And again, you were mentioned like, what was happening with the fleet reserve. I know that it's not only like, say with the fleet, but there's other organizations out there that are struggling, you know, because of the lack of support. You mentioned the dwindling membership and things of that nature anyhow. But again, to go back to the fleet right now, there is situation because it may be negative. I think that's a word. Anyhow, what's going on with some of the other organizations anyhow with some of the lack of support. But again, what are you guys doing? You mentioned about the grant that was tentatively, you know, approved. But now it has to go to the governor. What is the process that you have to go through now to secure the funds? Well, the first thing we have to do is, like I said, we approve of the grant. We're going to meet with representatives, Ken and I, Butcher's last name, so I won't say it. And get with him and put together the questionnaire that he has for us, answer the questions. And then it gets submitted and goes from there, goes on to the governor for the budget to be signed. And if we're in that budget, we get the money. I know there's somebody sitting there and I want to ask this question. The fact is, okay, if the grant was granted, okay, but you still have to jump through hoops to go ahead and actually get the money or? Yeah, it's more or less, I guess from in the previous past, they've had, you know, where people, you know, they want to make sure that you're going to be, what are you doing on your end to make sure that the doors are going to stay open. Because the grant is there to help us. But we still got to raise more money, you know, to save the place. It's part of it. So, you know, we, as a committee, we've looked at other avenues, you know, to get the rest of the money so that we save it. Because this face that nobody wants to give you money, you are going to close the door months later. And that was a waste of taxpayering dollars. Right. But one thing with the location over there. There's some ads catering to the military active and, you know, the veterans, of course, it's mainly Navy retirees that go in there. But of course, all ranks retirees welcome. What, there are a lot of things that people may not be aware of. Not only does it, you know, take care of certain needs of the veterans, but it also plays a part in the community.  So I know that with that and also the Boy Scouts and some other people where the location is of import to a lot of people out there in the community and all which also gives them access to learn more about the veterans by, you know, close proximity. So. Yeah. We've got a lot of organizations that do meet at the FRA and our halls, the Marine Corps League being one of them and a lot of biker clubs that are veterans, a lot of veteran biker clubs that actually do runs that actually do raise a lot of money that go to support organizations and fundraising to support other organizations and other various causes. We did one for the Coast Guard for Jacobs Quest a couple years back to raise money for one of our members that their child was facing a difficult time. Right. Help get the van for this person.  The Navy's right there, Pearl Harbor, Hickam's right there. But as you said, we also welcome, you know, the Army and Air Force can become members as a lounge member. Right. And we do help them out as well. I mean, we do various that organization do fund raisers through our organizations that help them raise money for what they need to do. So that's one of the things we do too. It's not just, yeah, for RA, we do help out other organizations do things too. Yeah. I'd be remiss if I didn't ask this question. The thing is when you put out a public call for support, you know, financial support and everything else, I guess you guys have something in place of very far as transparency where actually you mentioned that before you get the grant, you have to show that why, you know, the doors are going to stay open, which you're going to do it and all that. For those, somebody who really wanted to make a substantial donation, even the smaller one anyhow. Is there something in place again that would alleviate any reservations they may have as far as donating to the cause? Actually, we're, you know, we are transparent. Anybody's welcome to come down and talk to anybody on the committee, myself, Glenn, the branch president, John Eipert, other committee members, Dan Del Monte, Sandy Gaston. And, you know, we can always give them any information they want to know how much we've raised so far and what we are doing. We don't put it out there, you know, because it would just be too much time consuming, but we're always transparent with, you know, where monies have come in and where monies are going to keep the, you know, to keep the branch going. So what's the new one that arises with you in general? Because I know, again, you attend the meetings for the Oahu Veterans Council, which represents the... Everybody? Supposedly everybody over here. Yeah, okay. Yeah. But that's another story. That's another story. That's another story. But anyhow, what's out there like, say, that hasn't hit the spotlight yet, that's me, you may be aware of this being planned, either collectively with the organizations or individual groups or individuals.  Well, I think that me personally, there's, you know, social media, as we discussed has taken off. So a lot of people are getting on social media. There's a lot of pages out there that people belong to for organizations. But I would like to see people get hands-on come to a meeting. And that's what we've been trying to do, OVC doing the same thing, the Marine Corps League. We're doing the same thing, trying to bring people in to do that hands-on. And I think when you do something like that, you can get more people involved. Unfortunately, like I said, it has to be that quick spurt where you're not taking their whole day or something. Yeah. Well, with the fleet, do they have a webpage or something like that? Yes, we have. And we are in the process of changing that. So I don't know what it is off the top of my head. Yeah. But there is a webpage that you can go to. Fleet Reserve Association of Pearl Harbor, Honolulu Branch 46. I know. You can look it up on E-mail and it'll take you there to it on the Internet. And then we do have a Facebook page. Yeah. And we post, you know, everything that we got going on that. Yeah. I usually do posting myself. Yeah. The FRA puts out what we call the news bites of a lot of things that are happening on the legislative side nationally called the FRA news bites. And we post that on there as well. And it's actually pretty good because you can see what's coming down the pike. All right. You know, and what they're fighting for just recently with the new retirement. You know, the FRA was involved in that, trying to change, not change it, keep it the way it is. And we, we know that change. Yeah. So. Let's get back to Marine Corps League. What are they doing? Okay. Of course, you, as they say, there's no such thing as a former Marine. No such thing as a former Marine. What's the meaning of always a Marine? Okay. I do it in the wrong branch. But. Oh, no, no. Yeah. But what else are they doing? I mean, this is open to all ranks.  He's the guy that was there with you. So, you know, it's open to the active duty, reservist, veterans, and of course, Navy Corman, FMF. And, and we're, we're involved with, you know, we have a scholarship fund that we try to work with the young Marines. Great organization over there at Coney Oy. John D. Giovanni, a retired Marine is, you know, running that organization over there. With the young Marines and, you know, we're involved with them. They're involved with us. Over at Coney Oy, we're, there's a wounded warrior, the Windward friends, you know, wounded warrior. That guy over there, CHAPS, is doing a great job and we're getting involved with that. We're also, I'm a 3-3 Marine, so I'm involved with the, the Lieutenant Colonel over there in charge of the battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Easton, working with him to, you know, the battalion, you know, because a lot of things have changed now where they got to do their own fundraising. That's one thing that's changed in the military. That tax dollar's not there like it used to be. A lot of organizations, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, they have to go out and do their own fundraising to do events that they want to participate in. Speaking of which, with the cutbacks and everything else, I know that it seems like whenever there's a major problem as far as with the budget in Washington, there's something that affects the veterans or retirees. You know, is there anything that's being put in place? I know of a couple efforts that's trying to grounds gain some traction anyhow where if there is a situation where there are cutbacks and you have a veteran for a retiree that needs assistance, are you aware of any programs right now where like say, you know, as far as referencing them to a source that could help augment any losses they may have financially as far as with the cutbacks or even now one thing we're looking at is the treatment program, okay? We've got some pretty good treatment up in the VA but still and all, you know, there may be something in place that the veteran may be going through that's not covered in the VA that may be an alternative, you know, type of medical treatment thing anyhow. Well, I do know that, believe it or not, the FRA is a big, we're a big lobbyist, we're up there fighting to keep what we do have and to hold on what we have still in place. But you're right, everything's cut, it's always the veteran that gets cut but I would suggest to anybody out there is, you know, come on down to the FRA. You know, my name's Scotty Brian, come see me.  But there are organizations out there and if I can't help you, I'll find the person who can. Okay. We're getting down to the wire, you know, but one thing we need to encourage, you know, is to connect the dots.  But, you know, Scotty, thanks for joining us. Like I said, we'll come down and check things out and, you know, keep on top of it but know you're doing a great job anyhow. But right now I want to say thank you to the viewers and keep in touch. Stay tuned. God bless and until that time.


Good mornin' you two!   Let's go do this! Attack! Attack! Attack! The Calgary's coming for you! I almost didn't wake up this morning. I was laying in that bed.  Should I wait? Should I go back to bed? There's very few times where I regret waking up early to go accomplish a task or a goal for that day that I set from the day before. It's like you have your goals, you have your tasks, your missions every single day and if you get to bed on time and at a good time like last night was not watching a documentary on the Eagles on Netflix like the previous night or two nights ago. So woke up early and got her done and I'm on the road. It's like that's half the battle.  Yes, there is a train to the top of Pike's Peak. I made it. I just kind of bonked, ran out of words. I did have a good last mile, 12 to 13. Find me a Wendy's. Fusion Wendy's was amazing. Needed that.  So that was Pike's Peak named after Zebulon Pike and I believe he is quoted as saying that no one would ever climb that mountain or travel over that mountain. Now granted he was traveling in, you know, covered wagons. This is back in the 1800s, but sure enough people climb that mountain every single day and it was an honor to traverse up to the heights. So that's the mountain that I'm racing up in 18 days. So almost back home, did some work on the way back, had a couple of meetings and here we are off to date night. Just yes, yes, true love is back in the blog. She'll be here in a second. I know you miss her, so Sam, where's true love? God bless them. She's back. We're on date night. No, I love date night. And then do a little South Philly Tuesday. Oh, get in my belly. It sounds so good. It's what's sounding good right now and price is right. Yeah. So nice. I don't know if you all remember when I went to Philadelphia, where I was born and raised. Just kidding. Where's Philadelphia? Born and raised. Basically, I went to Geno's and I went to Pat's. Pat's. Pat's. Pat's is better. If you're in Philadelphia and you want a Philly cheesesteak, go to Pat's. Not Geno's. It was better. The bread was better. Wow. The meat was cut differently. It was the same meat probably, but it was cut like slice better, so it made it so much better. And was Pat's way better than this? Or were they similar? Yeah, Pat's was probably better than this, but I would say this is pretty decent to Geno's. Yeah. Oh, wow. I mean, I don't know. You don't even have to go to Philly. And go to Philly. Anyway, it was delicious. It was very delicious. Oh, and the cheese fries they gave you. You know, not a little baby cheese, but cheese. Big thing of cheese. Big thing of cheese. Beautiful. Right. I'm always like nervous about rationing the cheese because it's so good. Can I ever know? Buy a red box and you can find it. Yeah, see. I don't know if you need to pack it.


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I didn't like that. Okay. Ready? And your market set go. This is Dan and Stephanie Burke. Welcome to Divine Intimacy Radio. Oh, my goodness. Did you do the sign of the cross? Are you in the spirit, Dan Burke? We have to pray for Vicki. I don't know. She's gonna be tough. Okay. Ready? One more time. In the spirit. Come Holy Spirit. Okay. Welcome to Divine Intimacy Radio. Your radio haven of rest. Your hermitage of the heart? Wait. Why am I getting this wrong? I don't know. What is wrong with you? Dan, Stephanie Burke. How does it normally go? Welcome to Divine Intimacy Radio. Yeah. Your radio haven. This is your radio haven. No. This is Dan and Stephanie Burke. Welcome to Divine Intimacy Radio. Your radio haven. Okay. I think so. I don't know. Down at a million times. I don't know what's going on in my brain today on your market. I'm so glad to not be doing live radio, although we're live streaming this. We are. So I am in need of a limited audience. Everybody is hearing every mistake. No pressure here. Gosh. Welcome to Divine Intimacy Radio. Your radio haven of rest. Your hermitage of the heart? Your monastery of the mind where we lift our hearts and minds to heaven. To explore the wisdom of the saints, the teaching of the church. All that lights our path on the narrow way to heaven. And today, I'm excited to have a friend on who's written more than one great book, Vicki Burbach. Why don't you go ahead and just introduce Vicki? Okay. I'd love to. And by the way, this is Dan and Stephanie Burke on Divine Intimacy Radio. Did I miss that? Right. It's just, you know, what am I going to say? So for those who are just tuning in and have never heard us before, that's who we are. And we love that you're here. Yeah. Welcome. And so we want to welcome our guest today. We are welcoming Vicki Burbach. She is a passionate convert to the faith, passionate, unlike my husband, who is very passionate as well. Convert to the faith. I think converts are like the best Catholics often. I don't know about that. She loves to delve into the beauty and truth found in the Catholic spiritual traditions. Years ago, she began to notice a stark contrast between what she was reading and what she was witnessing all around her in a world in which virtually every convenience can be found at the tips of our fingers. How could joy be scarcer than ever to understand this paradox? She immersed herself in these words of Christ, unless a grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies. It remains alone. But if it dies and if it dies, it bears much fruit, John 12, 24. Her study led her to a new appreciation for the art of sacrifice, the narrow path trodden by saint after saint towards holiness, happiness, and eternal reward. Her latest book, The Lost Art of Sacrifice, published by Sophia, is her attempt to share what she has learned, not from the perspective of a theologian, but from that of a wife and a mother struggling daily with a temptation towards self-gratification. Oh my goodness, is this book needed? It is needed. Welcome, Becky. It's great to have you on with us. Thank you. It's nice to be here. Nice to see you again. Yeah, it's good to see you again. I think the last time I saw you was at EWTN, and I may have seen you on EWTN. I know you've been on with, I think you've been on with Johnette Williams. Thank you, now Williams.  You did a great job in your, I think it was your first book, How to Read Your Way to Heaven. That was your first book, right? Yeah. Yeah. So we're excited to have you have another book published on this important topic. You say you're not a theologian, and of course you're not a theologian is a technical term in the church, but I have to say that you're very careful to stay deeply immersed in the tradition of the church, and I imagine you didn't get much by way of theological corrections when you wrote this. A lot of, I have Scott Hahn to thank for sending me on a path of correct reading quite a long time ago. So I've really been blessed to have some beautiful things to fall back on. Awesome. Now for those listening, I know you're going to want to buy the book and just so I don't forget to tell you, you can find it at EWTN's religious catalog, and the great thing about when you order a book from there, a couple of things happen is they actually send you the book, which is really cool, and you help the ministry of EWTN. Right. So buy the lost part of sacrifice. All right, Stephanie Burke, I know you have some good questions for Vicki, so we should probably jump in. Yeah, I can't wait to delve into this. This is such an important topic. So first of all, Vicki, can you define to us what is sacrifice? Because I think this is something that's basically lost in the current culture. There is no idea about sacrifice. It's more about me and getting what I want and all of these things. So what does sacrifice mean? Can you explain that to us? Well, I started with the definition of sacrifice. It comes from the Latin, sacchere, which means sacred. And sacchere means to do or perform. So throughout all of history, the idea of sacrifice was related. It had a religious connotation. So it was always related to worship of some kind. Now obviously, in the ancient world, sacrifice was a lot different than it is today. But it was always related to a means of worshiping God or giving thanks, some kind of developing a relationship with God. So in probably the last thousand years, that word has taken on the meaning that we often see today, which is the idea of sacrifice to get ahead, sacrifice for myself, sacrificing physically or monetarily just to make my life in this world a better thing. But in the context of my book, I tried to get back to the idea that was grounded in all of the beautiful things that I've read over many years is we were made for sacrifice. We were made for union with God, and that's ultimately what the idea of sacrifice, why we are called to that. Christ gave us his sacrifice on the cross, and we are called to emulate him. There's so many paradoxes in Christianity, but that's one of the greatest ones. The idea of denying ourselves allows us to find a greater joy than we can ever imagine. So that's the path that I went down in my book. So to back up a little bit as well, you and I started talking about this years ago, or you brought it up. I can't remember. We were in a conversation, I think it was when you were running the book club over at spiritualdirection.com. And what triggered, I don't remember what exactly triggered your interest or why now, I guess. I know you've been working on this for a few years, but what is it about this topic or this idea that really is compelling to you that wanted you to do all the work that is involved in writing a book, the painstaking work? All right. Well, it's interesting. The idea of sacrifice is what brought me into the church. I grew up a child of divorce, and I know that's common these days, but I remember when I was young, my favorite show was Little House on the Prairie, and I watched that show and thought, I didn't know if there was a God. But if there was a God, I thought this is what he had in mind when it came to the idea of family, just the idea of just the giving of self, the sacrifice that Jesus was the center of their lives. And, you know, I mean, it sounds really simple, but it just really sat with me, and sometime in college, someone handed me, I think it was a national review, it was a secular magazine, and I think William F. Buckley Jr. had written an article on one of Pope John Paul II's encyclicals on marriage and family. And when I read that, it just, it was everything to me. I thought, this is true. This is the truth. And it was all about the cross. You know, it was, it was the church's teaching on marriage and family just went, that's what it all boiled down to. And that sent me off on a path of reading and, you know, I read my way into the church. And so I've always been, I've always been inspired to write stories of sacrifice. You know, I just think we don't see it in the world today. I mean, we do in the wrong sense. But when you look around, you know, when I came into the church, I was reading just amazing things, just the, just the very intimate level of sacrifice and suffering and what we were called to. And then I'd go into a church and it was really a kumbaya, everybody hold hands, you know, kind of Christianity. It wasn't at all what I was reading.  And I read through the, before we had children. So this was early on when I was in the church. And I read my way through this curriculum. And this was, you know, in the Chicago area. And everything in the curriculum was about Jesus loves me. That was it. It wasn't, you know, how did Jesus demonstrate his love for us? How can we emulate his love for us? How can we love him in return? It was just Jesus loves me as I am. You know, it's kind of the I'm okay, you're okay philosophy. And I, you know, I said to my husband, why would I have ever become Catholic if this is all it was, if this was it? And that's what I had it, you know, I mean, honestly, that's what I had learned growing up in the Protestant church, you know, and there's just so much more depth in our faith. So, so anyway, that that just has always sat there. And I know you and I had a conversation and you asked me if I were going to write about anything I'd want to write about, what would it be? And I said, it would be sacrifice, you know, we live in a world where you have dual heating and air in your car, you know, we don't have to give up anything ever. Everything is immediate.  It is not about life in the here and now. And we just really need to get back to that understanding. Yeah, that's really remarkable. When you talk about everything's about the here and now, you know, that that just permeates everything in our culture. It's, you know, how can I do it all? How can I be a mother and have it all? How can I be married and have it all? You know, you're not expected to give away anything. And when we consider that our model, our model, par excellence is Christ. He's our ideal.  His sacrifice is perfect selflessness, right, for our salvation to the point of pouring himself out on the cross. That's who we're to be. And what's remarkable, the paradox of it is, as you do that, as you pour yourself out for your loved ones, you start with your husband, your children, you know, those that are entrusted to you, that it becomes life giving and people don't understand that. We're miserable when we're constantly saying, what about me? What about my needs? You know, who's going to give me what I want? And when we're so busy giving ourselves away and that's generating love and grace, then it becomes really life giving. So what are the lies? You know, in this book, you talk about the lies that inhibit the art of sacrifice. What are some of those lies? I think the greatest one is modernism. You know, just the idea that we are living in a world that's, that as we've already been discussing, it's about the material world. You know, we've lost sight of the spiritual world altogether. So I think that is probably the greatest one because all the other lies stem from that. You know, we have another is the prosperity gospel. We've been taught that, you know, I mean, anybody's heard Joel Olstein, right? There's so many pastors out there and it's actually sadly infiltrating the Catholic church, the idea that God wants us to be healthy and wealthy, and he doesn't want us to suffer. And that's another lie, you know, the lies about suffering, that it's meaningless, that we need to get rid of it altogether.  And that also stems from the modernist heresy, just the idea that we can create utopia on earth.  I we're about ready to head to a break when we, when we come back from the break, let's pick up on that lie of socialism, which I think is an important thing to explore and we'll be right back. So it's 1235. What do you want me to go to, Jordan? 1213? Okay. All right. So we'll head back into socialism. Okay. Let's see if I can get the intro or the re-intro, right? Ready? All right, let's go. This is Dan Stephanie Burke. Welcome back to Divine Intimacy Radio. We're with Vicki Burbach, who's written a wonderful book, The Lost Art of Sacrifice, The Spiritual Guide for Denying Yourself in Bracing the Cross and Finding Joy. And we're talking about the lies that inhibit our understanding of the beauty, the truth and the goodness of sacrifice. And before the break, Vicki began to speak about socialism, which I think Dennis Prager has said is the most popular religion of our time, which I completely agree with. And it's unfortunately permeated much of the Catholic Church and many have been infected by it. But tell us a bit about socialism and how it, what are the problems there related to the lost art of sacrifice? Well, I think the first place we need to start is how deceptive it is for Catholics, because they use language with which we are very familiar. The idea of the common good, doing things for the common good and human rights and care for the poor and the vulnerable, they take all that and they twist it. And one of the things that inspired me, I almost didn't include a chapter on socialism because I, you know, this was a book about spirituality and I didn't want to get it into the political, but really it is a huge spiritual issue for us, because we need to understand that, you know, I read a book, I'll start here, I read a book several years ago called Nothing to Envy. It was about six people who defected from North Korea and in the book Barbara Demek, the author, profiled very, had very detailed profiles of the lives of these six people, you know, and they, their families were tortured, they were starved, people went through unbelievable sacrifice and suffering. And what really caught me was in the beginning of the book, because I have such this, this love for what the Church teaches on sacrifice.  They have control of the billboards, television, movies, etc. And everything that you saw, they said promoted sacrifice, promoted laying down your life for the good of your neighbor, promoted, you know, doing everything for the common good, being willing to work harder, being willing to have less, being willing to, you know, sacrifice. And I was so disturbed by that. I mean, honestly, I was almost in tears as I read the horrors that these people went through. And then to see, you know, how, how could, I couldn't understand, how could something so beautiful be so twisted? And it looked so aligned to what we, what we read, you know, what, what our faith teaches us. And then as soon as I finished that book, just by Divine Providence, the next book I picked up was, was Fulton Sheen's Life of Christ. And within the first three pages, he answered that question because he said the east has taken the cross without Christ. And so that's how you get internment camps, and, and death, and cruelty. And the, the west has taken Christ without the cross. So that's where we get this kumbaya idea of Christianity that doesn't need suffering. So we really need to get back to an understanding of what, you know, love is what inspires sacrifice. And we need to really understand it because that is the foundation that we need that will help us to really understand the dangers that are inherent in socialism.  And if we try to sacrificing without love, without a higher purpose, and understanding it's, it's united to that suffering of Christ for the salvation of souls is just so remarkable, such a complex set of ideas there to deal with. Yeah. One thing that's interesting as a convert, I think you'll notice this and I'm curious, I'm sure you do. So when I came up as a young man in Christian, in the Protestant world, I noticed, of course, the dramatic decline of the older Protestant denominations, all of them took on this line of softening Christianity, softening the message, you know, oh, and, you know, the greatest value of culture also became the greatest value in Protestant churches, which is tolerance and making people feel welcome and all of that. And tolerance is good and making people feel welcome and all is all good. But it's twisted, right? It's not the tolerance, it's not the acceptance of the New Testament, which breaks down all barriers between Jew and Gentiles, slave and free and all of that. But it's this sort of shmarmy, as Stephanie said, it's a faith without or Jesus without the cross or you said it, Jesus without the cross. And it just, it attracts no one and the church is empty and they think, well, let's do it more and then the church is empty more. And now, frankly, we're doing that all over in Catholicism and, you know, no surprise, churches are empty. The Germans seem to be the best at this. And their churches are beautiful and completely empty. But now what do they want to do? Blast same-sex unions, give communion to anyone. There's no substance to the faith anymore. Right. I mean, what's the point of being Catholic if everything's okay? What's the point of being, you know, Protestant Catholic, whatever, if there is no cross for the sake of Christ, if there is no sacrifice, that means more, right? Denying myself for the good of salvation of souls. Well, and I think it's worth saying that this modernist heresy has really brought a lack of understanding to what we have in the church. You know, we have this spigot of grace that we receive through the sacraments and through prayer. And those, you know, those have been really undermined in such a huge way in past decades. So, and I think a piece of that is we don't, we're not even taught why they matter. You know, we don't understand as a culture that there is more than the physical world. You know, there's this great spiritual world and we have this unbelievable amount of grace that is, you know, I don't want to say it's tangible, but you know, when we think about ourselves as part of the body of Christ with Christ as the head, you know, I was used to understand that as, oh, we're part of a family, you know, when I first understood the term. And if I go to mass often in many churches, that's the idea I get. But there's actually this thread that connects all of us so that my sin infects the entire body of Christ, but also my gifts, my gifts of love, my sacrifices also build up the entire body of Christ. So if we can understand that there's this supernatural amount of grace and an unbelievable connection between all of us, you know, when I give up my morning coffee, there is a substantial amount of grace that God, you know, God can use that gift for, you know, the salvation of souls for many wonderful, wonderful things. And if we don't understand that connection, then we tend to think none of it matters. You know, so we lose the understanding and the appreciation for the sacraments for our prayers for, you know, I was talking to somebody recently about the holy souls and purgatory. We just received a letter from our parish not too long ago saying that I think, you know what, out of 365 days in a year, over 250 of them, there were no masses offered yet. They were not reserved at all. So people aren't offering masses that they're doing that rarely anymore. So, you know, I think we really need to get back to understanding the danger of that. And that feeds us into the idea of socialism and other things if we don't get that straight. Wow, that is just so important. I love that you brought up the connection between all of us that nothing is isolated.  It's just remarkable. And it just shows us the importance, especially in this society where we've lost a sense of everything. Dan, did you have a, well, let me, let me ask this. How do we, what's this idea about the art of sacrifice? What's this idea that you brought up of the art of sacrifice and how do you cultivate it in your day to day? Well, in, you know, in, in my book, I separated into three sections. So the first section is kind of defining what is sacrifice? What is it? How do we unite ourselves to Christ, which is our greatest calling, right? And then how can we join him in offering our sacrifices to his sacrifice on the cross? And through that section and through the second section where we kind of discuss the lies, I go through all of the lies of the culture that, you know, of the devil basically that inhibit our, our desire for sacrifice to kind of, you know, just hold us, it keeps us at bay.  Where am I in my ability to sacrifice? We all do make sacrifices, but then I need to gauge, am I, you know, is it easier for me to sacrifice at work? Is it easier for me to sacrifice, you know, for my family and my relationships? And kind of just understand where we are and why, you know, are my sacrifices easy because they're based in love? Do I enjoy certain sacrifices because they'll get me ahead? You know, what's my motivation? What's that interior motivation I have? And, you know, I need to kind of gauge all those. So you just piece by piece, you kind of cultivate the art by, by walking through taking baby steps and to, and to get to where we want to go. And then the, the third section of my book, I lay out the art of sacrifice, you know, this is where we get into, now we're going to put our money where our mouth is.  So then we talk about the dispositions that are necessary for a life of sacrifice, you know, this, you know, the first one is to have a horror for sin. How much have we lost that in the world today?  And that's her, that's her analogy for how we treat sin in our culture. And I think it's, it's a beautiful picture, you know, we, it's repulsive, but she gets her point across. That's how we, we kind of sit in our sin. So that's the first step is understanding that, that, you know, sin is, we've got to get away from that, that connection that, that almost a love of sin, you know, we have it in our culture, a love of just pursuing pleasures, just allowing our passions to run wild. And then another would be, you know, to, to have a desire for a love of Christ, what are you going to put in place of that sin, this desire? Now, we may not be there right this minute that we have this great love of Christ. But, but we need to pursue that. And the first step is to ask him, you know, ask the Holy Spirit to give us that desire, you know, and then we have to have a, we have to have, we have to make a decision that we're willing to undergo mortification and penance. You know, we have to have that mindset that says, you know, I am going to deny myself. And I am going, you know, and these are, this is an important piece of my life. And then, you know, and then on top of that, we have to have a life that allows for that interior, that interior discernment and that interior, we have, we must have time for an interior life that allows us to, you know, progress in all those areas. Amen. Amen. Very good. Vicki, this is, it's been great spending time with you. And unfortunately, we're running out of time. But I strongly recommend the Lost Art of Sacrifice. Sophia Institute Press, by the way, is just killing it right now with the quality of books that they're offering to the Catholic world, faithful and deeply rooted in tradition. Vicki's book is just another fantastic book. The Lost Art of Sacrifice is a spiritual guide for denying yourself, embracing the cross and finding joy. Thanks for being with us, Vicki. And thanks for all the hard work you put into this book. Thank you. So until next time, may the God of Peace make you perfect in holiness. May he preserve you whole and entire, spirit, soul, and body, irreproachable at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Thanks again, Vicki.


Now, there is this issue that has come over this plane. No, this plane is TWA. Let me note also make mistake. You know, I want to say it properly so that... Because... No, but you are saying this. There is this plane. There is this now, this issue at TWTZT7 dash www and T7 dash WSS There is now this issue that has come up. There is now this issue. Which plane is it? Is it T7WW or T7WSS? Which one is it? Now, where is... What is the background? The background for us to be debating this is that some people said the plane was released, the plane and the God and the money was released. That was the narrative which was said the day before yesterday. It started in the night, the plane has gone. They even came up with some videos and showing people getting on the plane and they said the plane has gone. That is what they said. That some of us refused. We said no. The plane is still there. Thank God, Dave took generous there and they found the plane. Now, those people who said no, the plane has gone. They have found a weakness. They have found a weakness in the discrepancy of the plane. Is it TWTZT7? What? I have to be very careful. Is it T7WT7? T7WSS. Now, they are saying the plane which is there, it is not the plane that the Egyptians came with. That plane is already gone. The plane that the journalists were shown, it's another plane because the number is different from the number that DEC announced. It is different. DEC announced the T7WSS. But the plane which is there is T7W... DASHWW is it? Yes, DASHWW. That is the plane which is there. The plane is left.  How many times have we misspelled names? How many times have we made typographic eras? How many times? I mean, surely you can't tell that this was just a typographical error. Isn't it just common sense that somebody, instead of typing T7DASHWW, they typed T7WSS. Isn't it just common sense? Do I even need DEC to start explaining what, what, what? Of course, they have to make a statement because this is in the public interest. DEC has to make a statement but it is obvious, it is obvious it is obvious that this was a typographical error. It is obvious, it is obvious that the plane which was whatever is there, what is important is that the plane is there. The plane is there. That is what is important. What name it has and blah blah and blah blah at the end of the day. The plane is there. And you want to justify your life by making an issue with this name. You want to be petty. And this is our problem as a country.  Little little things and we spend the whole day weeks talking about petty things. We spend the whole day talking about petty things. We talk petty, petty, petty, petty things, petty things. And I'm telling you it cost us as a country. We have lost money. We have lost money out of being petty. We have lost money out of being petty. We are behind. We are not where we are supposed to be because of being petty. In many instances we have been petty in this country. And it has cost us money. And it has cost us progress. And here we are being petty. We are being petty. What are you looking for? Is it the plane that you are looking for or is the name of the plane that you are looking for? What are you looking for? What are you looking for? Is it the plane which brought the Egyptian or the name that you are looking for? What is important? Ask yourselves what is important. What is important? Is it the fact that the plane is still there or the plane or the name of the plane? What is important? The Egyptians, because the impression that was given is that even the Egyptians are good. The Egyptians, the owners of the plane and I'm actually made to understand the billionaire. I've actually gotten information. I'll give you more information later. But actually the billionaire, the owner of the plane is actually around as well. He is in detention. He is there. So, honestly, you think this government, this whatever, they would send the plane away. The owner is here and they replace it with another one. Does that make sense to you Zambians? Those of you who are arguing on that trajectory, does that make sense to you? Where would the Vardeki look for, get another plane? The same Bombardier or whatever. Where would they get it? To come and pack it there? For what interest? What sense is it making? What sense is it making? What sense is it making? What sense? Whoever typed that made a mistake. Whoever typed the deck statement, they made a mistake. But is that mistake grave?   Does it change the all, you know, God's haste? Does it change everything? It doesn't. It doesn't. But you are being petty.   So now you are trying to find something that you can hold on. You can hold on to. I am going to fight you. The same way that you enjoy me fighting for you. When you are accused of lies, I come here and fight. Whenever UPND bring up this, I come back and I say no, this is not what it is. I continue updating people on the issue. It's the same way that I'm going to continue giving updates on the people. So that ordinary Zambians can get the information. Ordinary Zambians can get the information, can get the correct information. The plan which the Egyptians came on, it is still there. The Egyptians are here. That is what is important. So you ordinary Zambians, ignore these people who are talking about no tea, whatever tea, ignore them. They are trying to cover up their lies. They lied that the plan is gone. Now they want to cheat you. They want to create doubts in your mind that is it the same plan? Or they have replaced it? The fact is the plan is there. So whoever is telling you, tell them to say the plan which they came on, it is there. Whether the name is whatever, whatever, whether the name is Simba, whether the name is whatever, it doesn't matter. You can even call that plan Hakkahinde if you want. Call it Hakkahinde. Call it whatever names you want. As long as it is the same plan, it doesn't matter.  And they pointed at me. Then I said no, no, no, I am not James Simba. What matters? Is it me the identification or the name? The identification. This is the person. You can have different names, but you are the person. If the DNA, everything proves that you are the one. You are the one. So why are you trying to make an issue? No, no. Dec made a mistake. Whoever was writing in Dec, but can I say this person had a killer motive or whatever. No. Come on, it's just a mistake. It's just a mistake. Should this person be crucified? No. No. Let us not be petty here. Let us not be petty. Let us not be petty. Let us not be petty. And but I want to tell about Dec. Be very careful. Much as this is a mistake that really is not grave, much as this is a mistake that is not grave, you have to be very careful in the way that you are handling all this. You have to be very, very careful. You must look at the issue of human rights. You must look at the technicality of this case because believe you me, at the rate you are going so far the information that I am getting and I am doing you favor first of all to award on to some of the information that I am getting. I am getting information from Kasanda from the Egyptians as well as from those who have gone out of this country. I am getting information and from the information that I am getting this case will blow in your faces. This case will blow in your faces. People will walk people will walk never. People will walk because of the way you are conducting yourselves. Already the way you are conducting this investigation I don't want to go into details of it because I don't want to jeopardize that investigation. But already what I am getting it is making, it is pointing that in at the end of the day this case will be soiled and when the case is soiled this is a high profile case it has a serious political ramification even some of us who are talking will be dragged into it will be dragged into it you will mess us up you will mess that kind of each of them up the way you are proceeding you will mess how kind of each of them up on this matter the way you are proceeding I am telling you you are going to mess it up and you will mess president how kind of each of them up but you will be dragged into it but you will mess president be very careful be very careful be very very careful I know what I am talking about I know what I am talking about because you need that Cassander and I am not saying this no Cassander nothing nothing but if you are going to arrest people those people that you have mentioned in this case if you are going to arrest them make sure that they are linked to this godess make sure that they are linked you can't arrest somebody in this scam you are god at your procedure of crime and all we are talking about god we are talking about god here god which happened where put so if you are going to arrest someone and you are going to charge that person that person must be linked to the god you can't come up and arrest somebody and then link him up we are not part of this we are not part of this we are not part of this we are not part of this if you are going to arrest people arrest them and charge them to relating to this case that is the only way Zambians will get it but if you are going to arrest people and then at the end of the day you will start charging them other cases which we are not related to this if you are going to arrest them if you are going to arrest them politically you will not have the same kind of relationship with them but you will not have the same kind of relationship with them in this case you have to be convincing because if you are going to arrest them at the end of the day We will fail to talk once you mess it up. Eron ga inen shah shupanok shupan. Demi san babo fe. Fi yabu fi, fi yabu fi inde fikan. Ababan to the people that you are arresting. Link them to God. Link them to God. Let people understand how did the God move. E? Who counterfeited this God? Because it is not God. It is not God. I have gotten information here and there. But who mixed it up? Let that person come to say yes. It is me who mixed it up. Prove to people to say yes. This is the God. It was mixed up. Where was it mixed up? It was mixed up in this laboratory. E? And then from there it moved like that. E fom chayama investigations. Not in tam payaku salula salula salula salula. Fi yabu fi pa. The case of this, It is very dangerous. It is very dangerous, I am telling politically. This case. Every power shows by a amity who don't replace it, do not replace it, I should not participate that way. Whenever PF lose to the DAW for them to get out of power. ఇర pressed గరనిలె పయస్లె ಬహకినాట్రంికోది . నాణటనక Metallన్చవిఋడ²లంల్ప్ swinging నలిని� Quick This ダー coconut knees is nothing నిగస్వికనికొకలూ నికినివ 커�ский first They were just petty. They were just malicious. They played politics to make sure that your P.F. failed. They were no big issues in the bill 10. That made the U.P.N.D. to boycott it. But they played politics. They became petty. Zambians lost money because we spent so much money on the bill 10. And the P.F. lost politically. They lost politically. And the U.P.N.D. is in power today. Apalambaba U.P.N.D. You have got a number of cases that are around. A number of cases, particularly the high cost of living. Zambians are not happy with the high cost of living. They are not happy. And they are really doubting. They have started doubting this U.P.N.D. government. And now this big scandal has come. It has blown in their faces. And they are looking. Who is involved? Who is connected? And those, those are, you should have open that for P.F.U. But it never P.F. anyway. Those, those who are in opposition. I know not just the P.F., it's not they said the P.F. anyway. Then they said those who are in opposition. Those who are in opposition, they are accepting me. Those who are in opposition, they are being petty. They are being petty. They want to use this to take out some serious stake out of your political fortune. They want to take out serious political stake. Now, if we, if you mess up this case per day, Zambians will terribly lose confidence in you. The only thing that Zambians will accept is a proper story. How did all these goddesses start and end? They were watching the movies. They explained, this is what happened. This is the lab, blah, blah, blah. This is who was involved. This is whatever, whatever. That is what is expected of Zambians. And that is what I'm also looking for. I am talking here not to cover up lies. I am talking here to make sure that that story is properly told. That is why I'm talking here. But already, what I'm getting, you are trying to, you know, make a shortcut. If a person was not there, you can't arrest him and charge him of being part of this. You can't. You can't arrest somebody in this, in this whatever, whatever. How did you buy these pots? Does that make sense? If somebody is a crook, is part of this, arrest him and charge him as such, as such, it is true Daniel Lung, you are saying, there is even Switzerland, yes, even the Switzerland case. How is it going? Where are you? I am a Kesiara Miritirira and some of us were just being, you know, patriotic. We are just being truthful. If I wanted, I would have also taken the same route that these others are taking. But that is not how I operate. I will hold President Akainde Ichidema accountable on things that are correct, the truth. I will not be malicious against Akainde Ichidema. I will not be malicious against this government. I don't operate like that. But the same way, the same way, I will not be malicious against the Edgachagualungu and his family and the PF. I will never be. So, if today an issue comes up, Ia kuri va Edgagalungu, believe you me. If I don't believe it, I will stand to defend my Edgagalungu. And I know that confuses a lot of Zambians who can't really, you know, process things that, you know, I mean, we cannot agree on this, but we can agree on this. I can condemn you on this, but I may press you on that. A lot of people will not understand that. But that is Shuru fatayali. That is Shuru fatayali. On this one, it is, the ball is in your court, but to make sure that you do the right thing. Already this is a simple mistake. You can see how people are trying to capitalize on it. But that is being paid. From my point of view, I am saying that plane, what is important Zambians is that that plane, which brought Amma Egyptians, it is there. It is there. The God and whatever, whatever, which, the fake God, which was, it is there. The money, it is there. What is remaining is a deck to help us to tell the story. What happened? And that case to go in court. If you mess up a lot of people, we will walk and you'll be scrounging your heads, you will not be able to explain yourself.  Anyway, now I just wanted to say that the mistake is in typing. The mistake is in typing, not that the plane is not there, the place, the plane is there. Thank you very much.


Hello, what's poppin? We are on twitch. We are not live But you can leave a like comment subscribe turn your post notification bells. Let's continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK Right behind me man. This is Spotify playlist. So you know what's happening man. We react in the music and right now we got young smokes love Last time I listened to a young smokes videos that uh, which one was it? I don't know man. That was Cuz like it gave me a feel like I'm just singing an R&B drill type R&B It's friendship over working unless you're real My bad job. I meant to play this before I meant to turn on my ad block I'm normally one of the best editors on the platform, but it happened so quick. I couldn't even edit it out This claimer this for me to YouTube even though it's Yeah Hold on now, let's read that A deep a deep tender strong feeling of affection toward a person Send me bricks I need five He sent me ten night. I love I pulled up outside and it's a MG ride Hey salute 50 cent man. He influenced the whole generation and this is the real 50 cent vibe She going down like the sun. I got dogs in jail and I know they all right I still send them dough out. I love never came with a drink just to have a good night I brought my gun to the club And that's just you gotta watch love them and somebody to tell you they love you and them and then beat you up and then say Because I love you or or or somebody to take your life because I love you too much Be loyal to me And love me A new shape This is a side note anybody in the uk getting grills. Let's just keep it simple Invisible set not this. This is not invisible set this outline.  Don't be fancy.  I like the hook I love I love the hook the flow the cadence the delivery everything but it's the It's the delivery on the verses for me. That's throwing me off And that's deep right there the hook is the song goodness I'm not gonna lie man. I like this song. I like the hook a lot. I just don't like the verse too much So with that being said waiting the scale of one to ten. I'm giving this a five If the verse ain't it then it's gotta be mid right one being stop rapping ten being the best thing I ever heard five being average five You know what I'm saying But I still play it in the car But if he remixed this and put a brand new verse And added somebody else like we're a second verse and kept the hook the same This has potential It was just the delivery of that verse It wasn't a bad verse though.


Good morning, I just literally rolled out of bed and I thought that I would share with you guys my current morning routine for my skincare. I get lots of questions on what I do for skincare for mornings and night. I do change it up a lot based on what current skincare products I'm using, but I thought that I would share with you my current morning skincare because it's done wonders for my skin, adding in hydration, helping with fine lines and wrinkles. So I thought that we would start our what I eat in a day off with a little bit of a morning skincare routine. So the first thing that I do is just take one of my makeup wipes and wipe off any residual skincare from the night before. I do have a nighttime routine as well, which I'll share with you guys tonight and just any dirt that's gotten on my face overnight. The next thing I do is my vitamin C serum. Right now I'm using the Tarte Truth Or Dare. I usually pump about two or three pumps in my hand and then add that to my slightly damp skin from that makeup wipe. It just helps it absorb a little bit better. The eye cream that I'm using in the mornings right now is from Elemis and this is their peptide eye recovery cream. This eye cream is amazing. I can't believe the difference in my under eyes. I do get a lot of fine lines and wrinkles under my eyes. I can't believe the difference in just a couple of weeks this eye cream has made. I really, really like this. Highly recommend. Of course I'll link everything down below for you guys that I'm using in my routine. I always like to go in with an oil because I do have a fairly dry skin especially in the winter and this is what is known as a fig renewal oil. What I like about this is it's a really dry oil. So you can apply it to the skin under makeup because it's not super greasy but it adds in just a ton of hydration. In a while the oil sinks into my skin. I've been using the It Cosmetics confidence in a neck cream. As I'm getting older I'm getting that whole like turkey gobble gobble look under my neck. So I've been using night cream to kind of help counteract that and firm it up a little bit. And lastly I've been using this Elemis Superfood Glow Priming Moisturizer because it just adds such a pretty glow to my skin and it also is a primer for under my makeup so I don't have to go in with that extra step. And I love this moisturizer on no makeup days because it really truly adds this really pretty glow to your skin. Can you see that glow? It's just so pretty. So if you're not someone that wears makeup but you like that whole glowy look or you want a little bit of a glowiness under your makeup the Elemis is pretty great for that. So again I'll make sure everything's linked down below for you. I'm losing sight because I am falling I'm so deep down, deep down, in the snow I'm down, I can't hide. Officially ready for today, quick easy hair, quick easy makeup but I wanted to cop on and officially welcome you to today's what I eat in a day. I'm going to show you my morning skincare routine, my nighttime skincare routine, all of the delicious food that I'm eating throughout the day today. I'm not sure what we're doing for dinner yet but of course I'll share that with you as well. The dogs, I think I'm getting my imperfect foods order today. We just have a super fun day so if you're excited give this video a huge thumbs up. Subscribe if you're not as I would love to have you here. I do upload five days a week and every Wednesday is what I eat in a day so subscribe, click the bell so you never miss a single video. Check out the description box down below for nutrition coaching where I offer personalized to you macros and calories and one-on-one coaching if you'd like to chat with me directly. Links, discounts to my favorite things, everything I share with you in today's video and lastly my Facebook group so definitely join us over there. We would love to have you. So I'm going to finish sipping on my tea with collagen and then we'll make some breakfast. So here is my pretty simple breakfast for this morning. These are those zucchini fritters that I made in meal prep. They are absolutely delicious. They totally give me the feel of a pancake but they're healthy. They're with rolled oats, zucchini and eggs. If you haven't seen Monday's meal prep I'll link it down below for you guys.  I really wanted cheese. I don't know why but cheese just sounded really good and because I didn't have coffee this morning I'm going to have one of my verb energy bars. Look at this flavor, caramel macchiato. It is the newest flavor from verb. Oh my gosh is it incredibly delicious. It is so, so good. It totally feels like a Starbucks caramel macchiato. It is that delicious. These bars have 65 milligrams of caffeine which is the same as the shot of espresso. So it's going to give me that little bit of a boost again since I didn't have coffee this morning. I love these as pre-workout, post-workout or just when I need a little bit of a boost. They taste amazing. They have great ingredients. They're 90 calories and only three points. So such a great bang for your points, your calories and you get that little bit of caffeine. So I'm going to have one of those. So this is my breakfast for this morning. Soad smells so good here is the size of the verb bar for reference. It literally smells like coffee and caramel. Really truly is absolutely delicious. This is the bag that they come in. You get 12 bars and right now verb has a huge sale going on where you can get a bag of 12 bars or choice of flavor and then verb is awesome. They throw in like four or five extra bars for you. So you get to pick the flavor, 12 bars, only $10, which is amazing. They are so good. Great ingredients. Again, a great pick me up. This is definitely going to help get me going this morning. Do you want to come take a nap? Do you want to come take a nap? Mama gets you all cozy, buddy. He wedges himself in the corner of our couch because when he was a puppy, he slept in the corner right there with Troy every night for about four months. But you a little messy. Do you want to take a little nap? So I just got up for the day, mom. Did you just come in from that side all day? Oh, we got the whole clan here now. I'm doing laundry, putting away laundry, washing laundry. And for my morning snack, I'm keeping it simple. I'm actually not very hungry. My breakfast was very, very filling. So I'm just going to have one of my Gatorade Zero with protein. I really like these. They give me the electrolytes. They give me 10 grams of protein. I think it tastes really good. I know that it's kind of hit and miss. Some people love it. Some people don't. But this is just a simple morning snack for me to get in some protein. And I can also keep being super productive, getting all of my laundry done, folded, and put away. It's lunchtime. So what I'm going to have for lunch is my meatballs that I did in my meal prep, my teriyaki meatballs. These are incredible. Both Troy and I absolutely love them. So I'm going to have one serving of meatballs. And then I think I'm going to have some of my favorite cottage cheese, the good culture. Just because I feel like I need that extra bit of protein from, since I didn't have a snack other than the Gatorade, I'm going to do some cottage cheese. And then I'm going to have a serving of the Siete grain-free tortilla chips. These are absolutely delicious. They have no grains in them. They have really clean ingredients, cassava flour, avocado oil, coconut flour, chia seeds, and salt. That's it. So they're not deep fried. They're okay for me to have because they have those flour alternatives. The serving is 15 chips. I think I'm going to only have about a half of a serving because I have the meatballs and the cottage cheese, but let's put together a lunch. I am pretty hungry. All right, so here's my lunch. This actually looks really good. So I have two of the meatballs, which is one serving, half a serving of the Siete chips. I think I'm going to dip them in the cottage cheese that actually sounds really good. So very protein packs. We're light on the carbs. We just simply have some of the grain-free tortilla chips, the teriyaki meatballs, 10 out of 10, highly recommend making. So I will go ahead and put points and calories here on the screen. Imperfect Foods is here. I can't even remember what I ordered, but I always get excited when this is delivered to my doorstep. I do order from Imperfect Foods every other week, so twice a month. Imperfect Foods helps eliminate food waste by selling food that would be discarded, whether it's excess surplus, or if the fruits and vegetables aren't perfectly shaped and they would be discarded. We can buy them at a much more affordable price. It comes packaged really nicely. You get to pick what you want in your order. There is no minimum order, and I will link Imperfect Foods down below for you guys with $20 off of your first order. And again, remember, no minimum order, so you can order your $20 and go. It's a company I'm passionate about. It's a project I'm passionate about. So let's look at what I picked up for the next two weeks. We are almost out of rice, and this was such a great deal. This is the Imperfect Foods California Jasmine Rice. This is a two pound bag. And then I always order these for Troy. He loves these in his lunch. These are the yogurt-covered pretzels with sprinkles. They are actually really, really good. And he loves these as kind of a sweet treat in his lunch. You'll see that there's a barrier here, and everything below that is what needs to be kept cold, and it's actually in one of these nice insulated bags with a big ice pack at the bottom. So first up is this cheese. Now this is the Grand Crew Switzerland-inspired cheese. So it just has a bunch of white, melty type of cheeses. I thought this would be really good on pasta, salad. This is my all-time favorite nonfat Greek yogurt. It is so good. It is grass-fed, grass-finished. It is so affordable. Less than $3 a container through Imperfect Foods. And it's just the perfect consistency. Make two-ingredient dough. I love to add this to my smoothies to bulk up the protein. It's just really good. And then I've been ordering my shredded cheese through Imperfect Foods because it's cheaper than the grocery store. I think it's $2.99 a bag. So I did grab the Mexican Four Cheese Blend. And another thing I love to get through them is their Coleman Natural Bacon. I can actually have this bacon because it's not cured with sugar. So it's a no-sugar bacon. It's great for low carb, great for whole 30. I believe it's $5.99 a package, which is not bad at all. And it just is such a high-quality bacon. I always pick it up when I order from Imperfect Foods. Now, I've never tried their Pasteurized Chicken Brass. And I thought that I would give it a try. I actually ordered two packages worth. There's that big ice pack at the bottom. Everything is so cold. It's hard to pick it up. It's that cold. I also grabbed a block of sharp cheddar cheese. It's our favorite cheese. And again, the price can't be beat. I've purchased these Better Bean products before, and they're really good. This is the Uncanny Refried Black Beans and Dip. I like to put this on tacos, have it as a side dish. It's great to dip tortilla chips in or veggies in. It's nice, clean ingredients. And I thought since I was placing an order, I would pick up another one because I really liked it the first time. I've also been on a huge fish kick. I don't know what's gotten into me, but fish has been my go-to. And I love the Imperfect Foods Mahi-Mahi. It is wild-caught. It is not farm-raised. Super affordable, two huge filets for less than $9. I also picked up one zucchini for Troy. He was asking for sliced zucchini in his lunch. You can see all my little potatoes. I did go ahead and order a pound of organic yellow potatoes. And last but not least, my favorite snacking cheese. I love this. This is the Fontina Snacking Cheeses. They're these white packages of cheese. They're so good. I don't know what it is about the flavor of them, but I truly, truly love them. They're my go-to cheese snack. So that is everything in my Imperfect Foods order. I didn't grab a lot of produce this time because I do wanna make a trip to Trader Joe's. But such a great value, such a great cause, such a great way to prevent food waste. So of course I will link Imperfect Foods down below for you. So here is my afternoon snack. I went ahead and chopped up that big apple. I have two tablespoons. Measure that out on my food scale of peanut butter. This is just the creamy peanut butter salted from Trader Joe's. I've been craving apples and peanut butter. I don't know what it is, but this is going to be very satisfying. Two full tablespoons of peanut butter and an apple. Such a perfect protein-packed, healthy, fat, carbohydrate afternoon snack.  See, I turned 10 on January 22nd, everyone. It was just my birthday. He still acts like he did 10 years ago. He's pretty great. You pretty great? Yeah, you're pretty great. For tonight's dinner, we're going to do a sheet pan recipe.  Super excited. We're going to make this very, very simple. So first I have some avocado oil. I have two steaks. These are from my butcher box. So these are grass-fed beef strip loin steaks. You guys know, if you follow me for a while, that we love the butcher box. It is the only place we buy red meat from because it is such good quality. It is so inexpensive. I'll link it down below with, I think $30 off your first box. Well worth it. And I think they're even doing ground beef for life right now. So definitely check them out. We get a box every other month from them. And then I am going to do some carrots. I think some roasted carrot sounds good. Potatoes. And then I'm using this citrusy garlic seasoning from Trader Joe's and some salt and pepper. So super, super simple dinner. Here is our sheet pan dinner. We've got steak, carrots, potatoes. This looks beautiful. I'm very excited for this. I'm popping this into a 425 degree oven until everything is roasted through. Everything should cook pretty close to the same time. The sheet pan is out of the oven. This smells and looks so delicious. I just tested the potatoes. They're done. We have carrots. We have steak. We have Palmer playing with the ball in the background. Let me go ahead and plate this up and I'll be back to share points and calories. And here is my dinner for tonight. So I have some steak, potatoes, roasted carrots. This looks so good. I'm just finishing up my water for the day alongside dinner. I will go ahead and put points and calories here on the screen for you. So I just got out of the shower and I'm ready to do my nighttime skincare routine. First, I wanted to share with you guys. I love these Sephora pads. These are fantastic. And this Shiseido cotton rounds. Highly recommend both of these for applying skincare. They're amazing. You can buy them both off of Sephora. I'll link them as well for you guys. But the first thing I do when I get out of the shower is tone my face. Right now I'm using this Balance Me Toner. This is a BHA exfoliating concentrate. I use that on the larger pad. And I like this because it helps fill in all the fine lines and wrinkles. And it also helps just tone my skin after my shower. And then I always go in with an essence. So right now I'm using the Real Complexion Hyaluronic Skin Essence. And the reason I do this is because the essence adds back in moisture, which is going to help all of your skincare sink in even better.  It can sit on my skin overnight. And so the essence really helps that just soak into my skin a lot better. While I kind of wait for the essence to settle in, I'm using that same Elemis eye cream that I use this morning. I love this. I've been using it twice a day now for a few weeks. And I've noticed just a drastic, drastic difference. I can't believe how drastic of a difference I've noticed. The curtain retinol that I'm using is from Sunday Riley. This is the A plus high dose retinoid serum. I use this for two days and then I take a break for a day and then I use it for two more days. This is phenomenal. It is such a good retinol. It is expensive, but it works. So if you are trying to go through the anti-aging process with your skin and you've wanted to start on a good retinol routine, I highly, highly recommend the Sunday Riley. It's very, very good, very potent. Little bit goes a long way. And again, I use it for two days, take a day break, use it for two more days, take a day break. And that way I'm giving my skin a chance to breathe in between treatments. And this is the night cream that I've been using. I'm really liking this. I got this in a subscription box. This is the Comfort Zone 3 Renite Nourishing Cream. I feel like this sits really nice on top of my retinol. And again, a very little bit goes a long way. And it adds just a ton of hydration to my skin. I'll wake up in the morning and my skin is still kind of tacky from the retinol and the night cream. So I really, really like this combination. I actually just self-tanned.  And that's pretty much my nighttime routine. I do change up the products that I use. I'll go through the moisturizers. Sometimes I even incorporate a facial oil. I really like this one here from Earth Harbor. You can see I've used a lot of this. If I feel like my skin is really dry, after the retinol, I'll put on some face serum and then my face cream. So I hope you enjoyed kind of seeing what my nighttime skincare routine is. So here is my dessert for tonight. This is a new fine, new yogurt fine for me. This is the Ratio Protein Yogurt. 25 grams of protein. They come in vanilla and strawberry or that's at least what I can find locally. But it has four times the dairy of traditional yogurts. Only three grams of sugar. Here are the macros. And I've already had the strawberry one and it is so good. So if you struggle to get in your protein, this is a great way. I may top it with a little bit of sugar-free cool whip, but that's going to be my dessert. Well, that's a wrap on today's What I Eat in a Day on WW. I hope you enjoyed coming along with me today. We had a chill day, a relaxed day, but a super productive day and some really, really good food. I'll make sure everything I shared with you in today's video is linked down in the description box along with nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my favorite things and my Facebook group. Of course, we would love to have you come on over and join us there as well. Happy Wednesday, friends. I hope you have a fantastic rest of your week and I'll see you in Friday's weigh-in. Bye.