Ladies and gentlemen of the NBA 2k community this fight is okay Let me tell you right you've been waiting for this video. Alright, so over the last two days I've been talking to Mike Wang specifically primarily, but I also talked a lot to Scott O'Gallagher and occasionally to Ronnie 2k Ronnie 2k was he was uh Okay, we'll get into that later. Of course I wrote down all the things of note so I don't forget them when it comes time to make this video It's gonna be a long video I'm gonna be talking about literally everything a lot of the stuff that wasn't even mentioned in the trailer I haven't seen in any video talking about rep rewards my guys.  How is that gonna work? I got you Listen, I'm going into detail ladies and gentlemen So let's get right into it first order of business now Mike Wang hit us all with a crossover Because he told us his name was pronounced Wang. It's pronounced Wang. I know it's crazy. So We're going back to calling him Mike Wang for the video for the rest of our lives All right, so the first thing of order was actually Brian Mazeek. Let me give me some discord tech. It's like agent, bro What now man? I was like, what's you talking about Brian?  Basically, it's I Know that's not a giant at spider. I know that's not a spider That's a spider what in this house.  Let me give you an example to describe what it is Let's say that me and Chris move play game on the park NBA 2k remembers that game on the park if I win the game I get 1-0 on my record It's almost like a system to kind of inspire rivalries with one another If I beat you on the my court five times and you beat me four times It keeps count of all of that stuff and it does it across all the game was apparently my team pro and park all of that So if you're playing with your friend and you're always losing and you start to talk some smack They're gonna pull up the database and it's gonna say 2k compete and it's gonna show you getting dropped off a lot of times I thought it was interesting. You know, I've been asking for leaderboards a lot. And so this might be a Version of it. I'm not entirely sure. So that was the light stuff out the way. Let's get into today Heavy stuff. So one of the first things I asked Mike Wang about was the rep rewards and I asked a few times because of course I wanted to get all the answers. There's a couple rep rewards. I'm gonna talk about and they're pretty interesting The first one is probably the one I'm most excited about but isn't the one you're probably gonna be most excited about and it's a megaphone So me and Mike Wang were talking about proximity chat and I know on his stream He said at return but and this confused me a little bit because Mike Wang is a senior dev for a pretty big organization And I just thought you know what proximity chat was and some of you guys don't even know what it is Proximity chat is not talking to the other team proximity chat is talking to everybody around you always in the neighborhood So if I'm near my my core and we're at the door for whatever reason I could talk to the guy right there Unless for whatever reason I decided to mute him that is not in the game But and he didn't know what the exact overall was if you're 96 or he said 96 or 97 overall You get what he described as a megaphone So you can activate your megaphone and basically yell some shit that the entire park will be able to hear if you're grinding this year You have so many trolling opportunities But I'm just saying you could do whatever you want with that megaphone just know everybody's gonna be able to hear you They don't have to be in your party. You don't have to be it's a megaphone. You guys know me I have like two megaphone in my house. I love the idea. I'm telling you guys Mike Wang He watches all my videos. He saw the megaphone and thought that would be a good park rep Let's add that to the game. Okay, this next park rep reward is gonna get you gas because you're really is is it 2k is doing that of all companies. I know alright, so let's get into it So I want you guys to think that when I'm talking to devs like it's easy for me to be critical online But then when I see him in person I just like coward and then I never say what's on my mind No, I was telling him like listen the biggest thing people were having a problem with was the microtransactions I know it's not a decision that you have to make but it's a decision as an organization that you guys have to live with and So we got to talking about microtransactions for a little bit and then he told me about this rep reward now Are you ready? Okay. Okay He called it. I believe bounce back rep reward. He said once you get to around like 94 or 95 overall He wasn't sure exactly which one you get what's called like a bounce back Not only do you get a million VC which at first I was like a whole million But you get an opportunity to create another player and fast forward that player to what he said a 90 or 91 overall So do you remember the days were like you had to create a new player and then get a new $50 and then grind him over again Not only does it fast forward the initial grind so you won't have to spend that extra money But on top that you get a whole million VC He also told me that this year unlike last year. It's a lot easier not not that it was a lot easier to grind But this is how he described it. He said the first week of the games launch the try-hards that are going for first rep We'll likely be able to get to around 92 overall if you guys remember last year the after one week There was a person that reached 90 overall So he's saying the grind isn't as hard as it was last year Of course, there's mascots. There's scooters There's skateboards and if you paid attention to the trailer you know that you could even do tricks and stuff with them So you might be wondering agent. How much does all of this cost and while we're talking on microchance actions He's like like yo, listen We tried to make an effort this year to reduce it too because we understand we understand the criticism I was like you do all right keep going Mike. Why keep going and he was like Yeah, so when it comes to things like animations or whether you're buying shoes or whether you're buying Facial hair whatever the thing is that they didn't they tried I don't know how much because I couldn't actually see it myself But they said that they lowered the VC amounts So you weren't spending a ton on things like if you're trying to get all the animations for your playmaker You're not breaking the bank now I get it the game is still pay to win at the end of the day But never in my wildest imagination without a controversy that exceeded the moon that I foresee Mba 2k actually taking some steps back because you remember last year when there was that whole controversy and Jared Smith Put out a tweet and they finally did something about it.  So you probably caught on by now I know a few people have talked about it But the rep is different between each game mode So if you're a pro am guy my career guys aren't gonna be able to grind on their game mode and then show up But a 99 overall on your game mode So in this also applies to the wreck because I know some people are gonna ask Wreck Reputation or when you progress on the wreck is very separate from when you progress on the park or on the program or on my career And I like it better that way I don't like that you could just grind my career like you did last year and then you show up as a 99 on all the game modes Even though you're 99 for my career and I get my career was the easiest way to do it So a lot of people did but there were some players like poor boys in who reached 99 overall Exclusively playing on park and I feel like people like him deserve to be what's the word? I'm looking for they deserve their spotlight because that's very challenging to do and takes a whole lot of patience Mike Wang also mentioned on the note of micro transactions that you're making a lot more VC on events So like if you play a game of park you're making more VC than you didn't pee So across the board they wanted to make it more rewarding to actually play the game and another way They wanted to do that and you saw a glimpse of it in the trailer was that spinning wheel So every day you can spin that wheel and so it gives you some sort of challenge or objective And then if you complete the challenge or objective you get like a couple thousand VC or something like that now You might think oh, that's pretty cool. Hold up Mike Wang said that if you grind and reach that overall Ladies and gentlemen one of your rep rewards is on that wheel You have an opportunity every time you spin it to win a hundred thousand VC So you can just wake up on a regular day spin the wheel and because you reach a certain overall Have a chance and potentially win a hundred thousand VC see what I'm saying I feel like not only in keep mine. We haven't actually seen any of this So we only know how much we've been told but if this is true They've actually and I know it's still paid a win, but I'll give them credit for taking some steps back Let's just put it in perspective NBA 2k is a game last year that broke all of the selling records of their franchise They've made more money than ever not just off game sales, but off micro transactions And so you're asking the company that just had a career high in Revenue in profit to make a decision to scale back on that even though we've been criticizing them It hasn't resulted in any loss of revenue. It's messed up their brand a little bit But they haven't lost any money because of it So to go on a board room and say guys we're getting you to reduce that even though We're making a ton of money. It's hard for people that don't understand video games that only ever care about profit So I told my quang like people are gonna love that news man People will love that news in the trailer. They also mentioned a game called the crew and at first I was like 2k 11 Not 2k 11 really Brian Mazik explained this to me and he also explained it in his article So I'll leave a link if you want to dive deep into that But the basic premise is I grabbed me and two other friends. There's three of us We use our created players and we go into you can private matchmaking play against friends and other users online So I just you heard me right ladies and gentlemen You could private match make 3v3 with park sliders Yup, or you can play AI and so he described in his article and he told me in person that you know how they Scan our faces into the game there can be an event where like out you're playing Allen Iverson at the crew So if you get you and two of your buddies You can go against Allen Iverson and his squad or Brandon Roy in his squad or Chris move and his squad So from what I understand you can make a decision to play against users or to play against AI And I just thought to myself. Oh, that means this private park, bro I wanted it, but I was like there's no way they're gonna do it and I know they didn't really do it in the way That I wanted I was thinking like give us the whole park to like so I can invite a hundred friends over and we Could just have like a lit time. I'm using the PC. All right, so if we can not go to sleep while I'm using the PC All right, so do you understand in the vlog? I dropped earlier why I was excited because like you you saw and you even heard in that video Mike Ryan was saying you saw a glimpse of stuff because once you dive into it You're like, oh my how could you hear all this and not be excited? I'm still a little bit skeptical I never want to get carried away when news like this comes out But it's so hard when we just played 2k 18 for a year and you know that game was asked and then now we're hearing like Not only oh, let me just move on. Let me get I said this before let's move on because things do get better now Just in terms of the sliders and the gameplay for a little bit It is hard to shoot I was missing like and I was playing with and I was playing on Superstar sliders for most of the day It is difficult to shoot you can have to get your jump wrong point ladies and gentlemen And you know the devs have been talking about a skills gap Mike Wang talked about in my last video off cam Scott O Gallagher was talking about it for a little bit and apparently It's a point of focus you will be exposed if you're a bad player this year if you think like 2k 18 You're just gonna be able to green everything because you got kind of close You're severely mistaken ladies and gentlemen and I love it I and I know Mike Wang was telling me it's very difficult in NBA 2k because the ceiling can be so high or so low Where do you go to find that balance? But and I I told him I'm telling y'all bro I don't just talk on videos. I told Mike Wang I said Mike Wang you will receive pressure from the bum-ass players Do not fall for the pressure Mike Wang. They're gonna tell you that the game is too hard that the game is broken They're gonna tell you that why can't I make a shot this game is they will they will try and pressure you to make The game easy so that noobs like them can feel good, but they're not good.  So I'm just mentioning it again Interceptions are OD I honestly feel like they need to be toned down a little bit Yanis is like spider-man just picking everything off There's a lot of bump seals which I think some people I talked to didn't like it at the event But I was like I like bump steals if you're driving into me and running into me you deserve to turn over the ball Don't dribble into other people. That's a rule of basketball The stamina thing was weird for me because all the players I played with didn't have speed boosting ability a lot of the time I was playing with my Raptors I heard some people say that all it took was one or two momentum dribbles and their whole stamina was depleted But for me, I wasn't really having stamina issues But maybe that's because I'm not always holding the turbo when I dribble or maybe it's because I'm not a dribble head I'm not sure.  All right, so maybe stop. All right But two, maybe you should be a little bit worried because if the dribble heads are saying all of it is being depleted after one or two Momentum dribbles then you might be in some trouble. Although it doesn't concern me I felt like you might want to know some information like that. I asked Mike Wang about the jump shot crater I asked him when we're gonna get it and he said it's probably around the same spot You got it last year. So I just upgraded all my players to 85 last year I have to I'm a youtuber and so if you upgrade your players to 85 You're basically gonna be starting with the jump shot crater Now, this is the very interesting part on the trailer you guys seen like Six or seven different designs on the playground, right? And you might have been wondering, huh? How are they gonna cycle through those? I got the answer for you And so some of those designs that you saw for the playground in the trailer were just park events But there was four designs you saw in the trailer that was the day and night cycle of NBA 2k So let's get into it So every hour you play NBA 2k in real life is six hours in the virtual world So in the neighborhood you playing for an hour equals six hours on NBA 2k Which means if you play four hours in real life, that means it'll reach a total of 24 hours on NBA 2k So you can hop on and it'll be night But after playing for an hour it'll be a different environment and then a different one after another hour and a different one after another And that doesn't include all the park events where everything just looks different So I was asking Mike Wang at the event. I was like, yo, who's your level design team? Why do they put gray everywhere some of the colors need to pop they need to be vibrant He told me it's not called level design team It's called an art team and the art team works on the designs and they heard the criticism We had of NBA 2k 18 that we were just looking at the same park all year and because it wasn't any content It got dry or super great We know and so this year every hour you play it looks different And that doesn't even include if you hop into house rules or you hop into ante up or whatever the park event of the day is That my friends is really cool I'm curious how it's gonna work like if I'm in the middle of the game and it reaches the hour Does it just like does it immediately change? Does it fade? I have no clue, but I'm very excited to find out So on the note of adding new content to the game I asked Mike Wang I was like, yo, what happened with 2k 18 Why did you guys just drop the game and then never try and support it with any reasonable amount of content? And so Mike Wang was telling me like yo this year We're gonna try and put an effort to do that and I even brought up like in the past They added entire new parks to like Rivet City for the my park championships He's like, yeah, this year we're gonna do a better job of that So the store in day one as the days go on they're gonna actively add stuff to the store, etc And I hope that also means you're gonna add different types of game modes He also told me and I forgot so I don't want to misquote him something about like spinning a wheel And then whatever it lands on that's what we're doing. I don't I don't remember alright I should have remembered alright. I should have wrote it down. Okay. I forgot So anyway, they heard the criticisms of the new content and I hope they do enough to keep it lit I don't want them to just add like a shirt to the store every couple weeks and be like, all right Are we done? No, no, no, you're not done. All right We have to add actual content that makes the game fun and brings us back every single day Right to make us play the game more and more so we talked about the megaphone earlier But proximity chat as explained is not in the game I cannot walk up to you anywhere in the playground and talk to you and I told Mike Wang like yo There's a lot of games doing it successfully for 2k 20 you guys have to I'm telling you it would change everything And so you can now in 2k 19 talk to the other team like you could in 17 16 and 15 I even told Mike Wang when I was at the event that the audio quality in the game is Garbage and he was confused to hear that I guess he's never heard anybody given that criticism before but I was like you didn't know Yeah, like if I'm talking with my $200 mic in game It sounds bad, but when I go to party it sounds fine So sometimes I just opt to go to party because I'm recording videos and I don't want the audio to scrape the listeners ears So maybe they'll do something about that. I have no idea Honestly, they didn't even know that the audio in the game was bad for the game chat But you can now talk to the other team on top of your team Honestly, I think it'd be cool to talk to the other team on prime as well It'd be cool just mute them if you don't want it But it'd be a good feature for those that want to talk smack the way they do on the part The next thing was shot contests now shot contests look different this year Now a lot of people without basketball IQ are gonna be really angry at this and it's fine You still have to develop your basketball IQ. Don't worry about it Just because you're near somebody doesn't mean you contested the shot this year You have to contest shots manually and if you do not put your hand up. Don't be surprised it dropped in your face I remember NBA 2k dev put out that tweet a few days ago, but I experienced it in game as well You're gonna have to actively contest shots ladies and gentlemen If you're showing up late to contest don't get angry that it's heavily contested if already left the players hands and two If you're not putting your own hands up to contest it and you're just running by him Don't don't think that just because you're in close proximity that it's supposed to be a smothered shot That being said contested shots are harder to hit especially on superstar shooting is already harder So when you add contested shots to it, you're basically taking the worst shot You could possibly take in the game when I was at the event There was like two or three hundred Instagram models and all of them were just taking up space like I'm Focused on the bag I went there to create content to get some information to come out with videos cuz 2k 19 is around the corner Tell me why people in the in the facility. There was like 500 people there We're more excited about Travis Scott performing than all the news about 2k 2k 19 playground Tell me why I was like yo get these guys out of here There was one girl who spilled her drink on me because she was trying to rush through traffic I What are y'all doing Ronnie was the only person communicating with these Instagram models, bro I didn't see not one youtuber talking to them. Look look look look at this. Somebody come look at this Look at this Somebody come in look at this every time they tried to talk to me. I swerved. Oh, what do you do? Are you a youtuber? Okay? What's your YouTube? I'm not interested. All right. Listen I'm here cuz I care about 2k if listen if I'm trying to meet Instagram models Clubs in the city all they were doing was taking up space. Oh my god Every person on every content creator I talked to about this was like what were they doing there? Like like they were just space They were just taking up more of it in an already hot room without air conditioning But whatever that has none to do with 2k 19.  All right buying boosts back You probably saw it in the trailer pay attention next time when you watch trailers, all right If you look in the corner, there's a little kiosk of an individual where you can buy boost I'm a little pissed off that made its way back into the game And I'm actually mad I didn't ask Mike Wang about that because I would love to see the thinking behind that But it's back. I talked to Mike Wang I said yo the dribble heads want a list of speed boosting bills and Mike Wang was like hmm hmm He thought about it for a second He said if someone's gonna drop it it's Zach But he says it's unlikely that Zach is gonna drop that list this year And I don't know why that was and I probably should have intrigued I should have poked around to see Why it was wait, why can't we see the list this year? So you're just gonna have to Guess Chris move also said in that stream at Ronnie 2k in case you forgot that in in the version of the game We saw we couldn't actually see the attributes, right? But in the version of the game that everyone's gonna play They made an update so that we could see the attributes when we're upgrading our players So we know is it a 77 open shot 3 or a 73 We have to know these details because it makes a very big difference Especially when you're trying to get into tier 2 or tier 3 dribbling. There was a screenshot that dropped on Twitter I actually didn't see this in game. I believe it was Gento who tweeted it out And basically the VC prices are the exact same So they did not go up and this is the first year where I could say 2k All right, I mean you still pay to win but all right I'm used to it getting worse every year, but this is the first year where it hasn't gotten worse It's actually gotten better in a lot of circumstances. I like that last but not least ladies and gentlemen Mike Wang says he loves my channel. All right, he said he's my number one fan I know some of you guys might think agent bro, but I don't think he is cuz I watch all your videos No, you'd be mistaken. Sorry. He not only is he on notification squad But he told me like sometimes he memorizes every word. I'm making a video. That's true. That's a true fact Yeah, so there's all these kind of mini games Which I think are gonna be pretty irrelevant, but I can't be sure like dodge ball, etc Honestly, there was somebody who put out a tweet and I thought it was hilarious He's like your agent they added dodge ball into the game because they're trying to get into the whole battle royale mix Which by the way 2k if we could add a dodge ball battle royale in a basketball game, that would be hilarious So if you guys can work on that I'm sure it can't be that hard to do because from what I understand dodge ball is like team one and team two right now But it just in case you guys haven't thought about it Battle Royale plays us in different parts of the playground and then just have us chucking the ball at people I'm telling you is gonna sell. There's all kinds of game modes like slam ball Like you hit a trampoline and go for a crazy dunk, etc Listen all that stuff and Mike Wang even talked about they like overhauled the trivia So you get like actual meaningful You get it you get a meaningful reward for actually using it like 50 VC in 2k 18 for answering the question right I'm not walking into the 2k the store for 50 VC. What am I gonna do at 50 VC buy like one one hundredth of a shoe So anyway, that's that's all I heard ladies and gentlemen about the NBA 2k 19 video game That we're all so excited to play a lot of this stuff has me incredibly excited and the funny part is is I don't even know all of the Information I assume that they want to tell us enough so that we're excited But they also want to leave stuff in the game so that we have things to get it excited about Once we actually grind and figure things out and I like that now And don't spoil all the secrets enough to get people gas You know purchase the product and then once they get in the product progression system if it's better this year People gonna play more consistently and you're hearing lower VC costs. You're telling me. Oh, I'm make more players this year I'm they've been making an effort to get people to play the game more at the end of the day And I think one of the biggest barriers they had was micro transactions things like servers, etc And it just feels very Refreshing to know that they've actually made an effort in areas that I didn't think they would to help improve the game That on top of the obvious fact that snatchbacks and blow-bys aren't nearly as overpowered as they were in previous years So off rip. That's a huge improvement for me. There's less clipping in the game Brick wall screens aren't incredibly abusive like in 17 I feel like they fixed a lot of issues and with any game comes more issues So I'm sure some glitch is gonna come out. I reminded Mike Wang I said, please do not let an animation glitch come out It will ruin the entire meta of the game and he said that yo They're on that because it happened the last two or three years and people have found new and new ways to do the animation glitch It will ruin the game. Please do not let it happen. And so I hope they stick to their guns I hope they keep the skills gap, bro They're talking what I want to hear right now and I kind of just want to fast forward the next week So the game launches, but anyway, the prelude drops in four hours and I have to prepare So if you guys enjoyed the video drop a like if you guys are new to the channel and you want to watch more 2k content I'm that's all I'm doing. I'm not leaving my house for the next three months subscribe to the channel Watch one of these two videos if you haven't watched them already number catch you guys in the next one. I'm out. Peace


Pennsylvania just over a year ago. Well my father is, well he's a professional artist and so he does like a lot of illustration and so I just grew up being exposed to him doing all of the art and so I always had all of the materials around and so I just started exploring and finding like my own voice through art and so then I went to nursing school in Boston and here I am experiment with different mediums and see where I can go with it. I love about sculpture actually is it's sort of it speaks for itself in a way that like you can't really get especially with oils you can get some really great qualities out of oils but you have to be so diligent with it that's something that I didn't like fall in love with and so sculpture really allows it to come and speak for itself which I really love so I don't know we'll see. My brother he came down for the summer and I roped him into learning sculpture with me one night it was like when it was like typhooning we were going to come to the studio but it's closed because of the storm so I was like alright well just come to the sculpture with me so we sat down at the dining room table and he started sculpting. It was all night. Yeah I think it was like 10 hours. Yeah it was over 10 hours of sculpting it's great. No I hadn't even touched clay before I threw a couple pods and then like maybe a week after that I tried sculpting classes in college. I'm campaigning for him to switch his major. I don't know about that but maybe it depends it depends.


Many Christians ignore this open door. Though demons can't re-enter born-again spirit-filled believers as they can with unbelievers, this doesn't mean we can compromise without consequence. An open door is a point of spiritual vulnerability or anything that makes you more likely to fall for deception. This is key because deception is the root of all spiritual attack, but there is an open door very few consider, states of being. An example of a state of being is anger. Be angry and sin not, and either give place to the devil. The word place here isn't describing a literal physical space, but rather an opportunity. In other words, in a state of anger, one is more likely to think and behave in an ungodly way. Other states of being include exhaustion, hunger, confusion, sorrow, and so forth. Though these aren't necessarily sinful unto themselves, being in these states makes one more vulnerable to compromise. Be vigilant. For more on spiritual warfare, get Holy Spirit the Bondage Breaker at bondagebreaker.com


What is up Marvel squad and welcome back to our channel we have to make this intro quick if you read by the title We are going to be doing a PDA prank on our bunch of friends Yes, we are with Grayson Zeus if you guys don't know them go there are you to a couple channel Ali and Grant they actually just started YouTube channel So go subscribe and we're with Conor Bobby So all of them are in the living room right now. We're in the our bedroom on down the hallway from them So we have to make this quick Because we have a ring light in here So I think that we're filming tiktoks, but in the reality, we're gonna go out there And we're just gonna be like all like lovey-dovey. We're not gonna do it right away But I'm gonna why don't you like this one? I want you to sit on the couch and just be on your phone And I'll just Yeah, I don't want to like rush into it But we got to set the camera without them knowing and then after that we will just gradually get into being PDA in front of all them So we're because we did this prank before but it was only on two people and it's gonna be weird being in front of the whole group It's like crazy. I'm nervous I feel like they're gonna leave the room.  We'll also be announcing the iPhone 11 giveaway winner next week So if you want to be entered all you have to do is make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel Make sure you're following both me and Bill on Instagram and just make sure you're showing love and you will be entered in the iPhone 11 Good way is all you have to do if you guys don't win this month Don't worry. We've been doing another giveaway next month And you guys will be able to enter in the next giveaway. Yes Now's the time we're giving our notification channel guys and this shadow goes to Cameron Simpson, thank you so much for supporting us.  Make sure to be subscribed to our channel if you are not already This is gonna be insane. We're going right now.  Yeah We grant where are we going? Sorry, I can't hear you your girlfriend kissing your neck She gets like I know what she is You guys could sit back on the couch Okay, well, that's like more than not the time There's a running That's me on the day Dang you hit Mariah so hard with this thing wrong. Oh, dude, I Oh, there it is. Oh, it was a legit partner. Yeah, I just do you guys What happened? Maybe there's not any The problem's coming to cool you guys now Yeah, seriously. Hey, has anybody ever made a tic-tac of a tic-tac? Mariah, are you guys comfortable now? Yeah, I guess it happens. It's like Stop looking at us Here's grand and here's his girlfriend.  That's what I would say I mean, I said we do Mariah Oh, Bill, what are you even doing over here? What am I I've been sitting here for the past time if you want to film or if you want to edit in our Bro, I just I feel uncomfortable What you're like right on one corner What?  What are you going? Why do you get like in it?  Uh, excuse me. Uh, yeah, sure. I'll move. Huh. I'll move. I can't get through I can Get a room. No, we're trying to sit over here You guys are still doing that What like what are you guys doing her up?  I was trying to We can't mind our business. We're trying to sell the cow. No all over the couch and stuff. I don't know. Just go lock yourself in your room. Like there's a We're all friends Okay, you guys going really All of you it was a pda prank you guys do it guys there was literally a pda prank We were we were literally trying to like I didn't even think that we were gonna clear the room Honestly, and I'm sorry. I just had to make the prank a little juicier. I did roast you about not having a girl Yes I just love that he's editing out of all places in the closet Connor, I know you've never come out of the closet. Oh my gosh. Everyone. Thank you for being our subjects in our prank video today You guys are oh geez. You don't like it. Well, you don't have to like it because it's our video. So what? You just wait wait for what? Oh? That's them how they feel. That's them how they feel. All right. All right. Come here.  I think this was a success. It was very uncomfortable You were kissing up on me Mariah. She was going crazy.  But anyways, thank you guys so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this video Make sure to give this video a big thumbs up. I know you don't know who Zeus and uh, grace are They're new to the channel. But guys, subscribe to our channel. It's way better anyway Shout out to themselves.  Like, you know, anyone else would think And thank you guys so much for watching and we'll see you guys in the next video, but until then Peace Oh, where'd he go? Probably saw him walk in here. Oh, here he is


Shot clock at seven, Mince for three. No, Frolling is there, gets the offense a rebound. Alexander for three, got it. That is the best shot to take. The three-point shot off an offense a rebound. Skip pass to the corner. Alexander for three, his second three. And that's what we talked about. If they can get a ball reversal, they get cleaner looks.  A three-point lead for Georgetown at the six-minute mark. Balak, kicks it out. Alexander for the tie. His third three of the half. And Tyshawn Alexander's got nine. They gave Akinjo some space to operate. Nice pull and kick. Tyshawn Alexander knocks down another three. His fourth of the half. I'd say he's hot. He pulls up for three, got it. That's just too easy. Alexander off the push. Gets his own miss. Loose ball on the floor, Zimurowski. Alexander for three, hits it. Another big shot by Alexander, 26. Get the scramble and the extra pass to Alexander who doesn't hesitate for a huge shot.


I remind members that if the amendment in the name of Donald Cameron is agreed to, the amendment in the name of Sarah Boyack will fall. The first question is that amendment 6984.1 in the name of Donald Cameron, which seeks to amend motion 6984 in the name of Angus Robertson on EU retained law be agreed. Members should cast their votes now. The vote is closed. I call Alexander Stewart for a point of order. My connection was not available. I would have voted yes. I call James Dornan for a point of order. I couldn't get connected and I would have voted no. Sorry, Mr Dornan, could I ask you to repeat that please? Tens of trouble. I couldn't get connected but I would have voted no. I would have voted no. The result of the vote on amendment 6984.1 in the name of Donald Cameron is yes, 29, no 83, there were no abstentions, the amendment is therefore not agreed. The next question is that amendment 6984.2 in the name of Sarah Boyack, which seeks to amend motion 6984 in the name of Angus Robertson on EU retained law be agreed. The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we will move to a vote and members should cast their votes now. The vote is closed. Point of order, Craig Hoy. I call Craig Hoy for a point of order. I would have voted no. Thank you, we'll ensure that's recorded. The result of the vote on amendment 6984.2 in the name of Sarah Boyack is yes, 83, no 29, there were no abstentions, the amendment is therefore agreed. The next question is that amendment 6984.3 in the name of Willie Rennie, which seeks to amend motion 6984 in the name of Angus Robertson on EU retained law be agreed. Are we all agreed? The next question is that amendment 6984.3 in the name of Willie Rennie is yes, 22, no, 92, there were no abstentions, the amendment is therefore not agreed. The final question is that motion 6984 in the name of Angus Robertson as amended on EU retained law be agreed. The final question is that motion 6984 in the name of Angus Robertson as amended on EU retained law be agreed. Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we'll move to vote and members should cast their votes now. The vote is closed. Point of order, Jim Fairlie. Presiding Officer, unfortunately my app wouldn't open and I would have voted yes. Thank you, we'll ensure that's recorded. The result of the vote on motion 6984 in the name of Angus Robertson as amended is yes, 84, no, 29, there were no abstentions, the motion as amended is therefore agreed. That concludes decision time. We'll now move on to members' business.


Everybody for us here ripping 2022 It is 22 right that was calm. Yes, 22 fanatics. Remember Billy a silver box break. This is number 11 Random hit style. There's three hits in this silver box right here Bring them up. We'll show everything. I'll get you guys a good look at it And then we'll do a random at the end to see who's getting what Sean will type in the hits as we go Let's see what we got Here we go got the cords ready to go Okay, silver time. All I see is bubble wrap guys. I guess we got it done Stuff everywhere right here on this. All right Jersey looks like that would be cool I guess Just start here Start with this got a helmet get a football helmet Oh Got a football helmet. I don't really want to show too much of it bag Inside the helmet, which is inside another bag. Oh my god. Wow, dude. This is cool This is really cool. So we've got a lunar speed alternate. It's got that black matte finishes a giant's helmet It is a Lawrence Taylor with multiple inscriptions Hall of Fame 99 86 MVP three-time defensive player of the year and Super Bowl 21 and 25 champs That is sick Lawrence Taylor signed a helmet man. That is really nice Lunar speed with the matte black Again, it looks like there's three separate inscriptions your Hall of Fame Or no for inscriptions. I guess 86 MVP three times offensive player of the year and then Super Bowl champs That's awesome, man LT Blue the blue and the blue and black on everything is pretty sick. There you go. Very nice helmet to start us off See what else we got here. I'm not quite sure what we got going on Why not all right, here we go big flat big flat cardboard box really oh Dodge on the board Guys on the second to third two. Oh boy Mookie Zach fly I think Mookie. All right. We got a print. Oh Heck yeah, that's so cool That's awesome dude.  I'm guessing it's a what is it 24 by? say 16 by 20 16 by 20 sick Romo That put away nicely Angelic visage is that we just said In his element it is beautiful. It's pretty cool. Oh Let's ride Let's ride Broncos country Let's ride It's a Russell Wilson sign Jersey Dangerous Broncos country, let's ride see if they can turn it around They overcome the poor coaching Alright, let's do this random. All right. Good luck everybody three names three hits We'll do the random now roll the dice randomize both same amount of times put them side by side a Two and two four times Broncos country. Let's hide is that what they're saying now? Four times in the names first in the hits. Good luck everybody one Two three and four HP up top down Oren HP then John then Oren I guess it's only three so I can call that all and then four times in the hits. Good luck one two three and four The rush Jersey down to the Romo Prince will move it over. I'll get it big and bold so you guys can see And then as always we'll post the results to the site as well There you go HP had the rust Jersey John a with the LT helmet and Oren with the Romo get the results posted we're moving on


when this is Melissa Armo with Stock Swoosh and I'm here today to do a trade tracking review and also discuss profit and risk which is very important as a professional trader. If you would like more information you can email me at Melissa at thestockswoosh.com and I urge you to follow me at any one of these social media sites the best one probably is YouTube. You can also call me if you have questions about the class or anything that I do at 9 to 9 3200 gap. So how much money would you have made taking the trades in the live trading room in the last 20 trades risking approximately a thousand dollars per trade? Let's go over the last month. So May, Teen, Cisco was $900 profit. Footlucker was a good one. $2,450 bucks. Then it was off for the Moral Day Holiday. Chorus was good. Wanted to go a little bit more but still was happy. $700 profit. June 1st did two trades.  Lost $900. Restoration Hardware profit $1,260 bucks. June 5th no trades. June 6th HDS was was a really good gap. So I ended up doing two in this. Made over $4,000 $4,200. That was a solid, good, really good day. June 7th DLTH $1,000 bucks. June 8th Urban was $930. June 9th was hard. Did two trades in pay. Lost in the first one. Lost $1,000 bucks and made $1,400. Ended up profitable for the day $400. June 12th was a Monday. No trades. June 13th cake. Small. Made $400 bucks. June 14th HRB. $800 profit. June 15th KR was really good. $2,080. June 16th was a Friday and this news came out about Whole Foods and Amazon and all of the grocers. Guess what? The gap down. It was a news. News related and sector gap. So target was a short. If you had done the trade I called in the room, you could have made $1,200 in target. Spy was long on June 19th. Just a tiny trade for $180 bucks. June 20th was no trades. June 21st lost in Adobe. Lost 1560. June 27th lost or 22nd lost in Oracle. $935. And finally to close out the week. Very, very happy. Had an amazing gap. June 23rd BBBY. Made $3,550. So very, very happy about this and it was a great gap. So the win ratio for the last 20 days in the room. Risking $1,000 approximately for a trade was what? 80%. So that's 16 winners and 4 losers. So you could have made $19,155 in the last 20 trading days in the room. If you had risked approximately $1,000 per trade. So do you see here how you can put together a month? And how do you do that? That's how you move forward to put together a year. And if you, if you continue and that's the idea of having consistency to be a career trader is you do the same thing over and over and over and over again, which is exactly what I do. I have a process. I get up in the morning. I rate my gaps in the pre-market and I know what I like before the open. I have a strategy. I have a rating system. I have a process and I figure it out beforehand. So that's what helps with the consistency and also the trade set up at a regular basis. You could be on page to make over $249,000 a year, which is enough money for most people to live. So whether you live in Manhattan where I live or anywhere in the world, this is, you know, this is real money people. And that if your goal, I don't know what your goal is.  They want to trade for career. They want to be professional traders. They want to make a lot of money. They have the drive, the desire, the ambition to do it. So, you know, there's lots of people out there. Some people don't take it seriously. Some people do. I would say the people that take it seriously are the ones that have the highest odds of success. And if you find someone like me that can mentor you and call the trades in the live room like I do and do the ratings, I mean, I'm spoon feeding these trades, people every morning by calling the entries, the stops, the exits, the gap ratings, everything. And you learn my system too in the class. You do have to take the class before you join the live trading room, but I'm the best possible chance for people to be successful if you want to do this for a living. It's just that you do have to follow a structure and you have to be disciplined. I don't think it's that hard because, you know, I know from personal experience that it is about finding one good thing. It's about booking the money as well. If you had done all of these exact same trades risking $500 a trade, let's just say you can't afford a thousand. Guess what? You still would have had the same win ratio, 80%, 16 winners, 4 losers, and you still could have made it in the last 20 days risking $500 a trade, over nine grand, 9,577 bucks.  And what if you can only risk 250 a trade divided by half that's still over 4,500 a month, you know? And a lot of people are not even making that in their regular jobs. There's a lot of people in the United States of America that would love to make over 50 grand a year. I mean, the household medium income I think in the US currently for 2016 was like 40 some thousand. So even if you are in pace to make 4,500 approximately a month with a $250 risk, you'd be on pace to make more than median income in the US households. So in 20 days risking approximately $500, you could be on pace to make $124,000 plus a year. This is enough for many people to earn a living. It's six figures a year and and and it's risking $500 a trade. So what's the difference between trading with a small account versus a big account? The only difference between trading with a small account versus a big account is that you can risk more money if you have a larger account. Obviously, consequently when the trade works your profits will be larger with a bigger account. However, that does not mean that you should necessarily wait to trade or wait to even learn how to trade until you have a big account. A lot of people email me they want to wait until they have all this money. That's not necessarily. You know the truth, you know you can start out small and and learn and build it up. I just don't see what's wrong with that. I mean everyone has very very high goals that I talked to and I think that's great. But what's problematic is the amount of time that you want to achieve them if you don't have the financials to start out out of the gate in a big way. If you've got a lot of knowledge and you know what to do, you will achieve your goals faster than if you don't know what to do even if you have money. So I want people to keep that in mind. If you could make $200 a day that's still a thousand bucks a week and if you have a small account that's still $4,000 a month. That's better than not trading at all.  I can't tell you how many people that I know that do dumb trades I talked to are not knowing what to do at all and me not making any money is sitting in the sidelines which is a lot of people also that I talked to and they're losing time in their life where they could be learning and earning money trading with my gap system. So you know I don't know what it is about 2017 but I have had people that have emailed me in 2017 that have been following me since 2012 and 2013 and they haven't done the class and now they want to do it. If for the last four or five years they could have been trading and making money with me I mean you know again I'm moving forward that's the kind of person that I am.  So you take what you have right now and you make it work for you so you can move forward and you take the steps and you have a plan of action and you do it and that's how you achieve your goals in life. We'd all love to run out and make a million dollars in the next week or year. I mean who wouldn't want to do that but why is that necessary? If that's your goal in five years or ten years you're never gonna get there if you're sitting in the sidelines and waiting. So how much do you need? You can open up a proprietary day trading account. If you don't know what that is you can just Google it with a minimum of 2500 bucks. Your buying power will vary but typically it will be 10 to 1. You can also open a retail trading account. Again if you don't know what that is just Google it. I broke her and you will need a minimum of 25,000 to actively day trade your buying power will be four to one inch a day and if you want to do less day trades they actually cap you. You can't be active five days a week but they will cap you on a five-day period of certain minimum amounts of trades. Talk to your broker about that. As a professional responsible trading educator though I believe that people really should learn how to trade before taking any risk at all. I mean I just you know one of the reasons I require the training room as a prerequisite that you have to do the golden gap class is because I want people to be profitable and make money. So in in my mind you have to be in a stable position that you are ready to do it and committed. I think that you need to learn how to trade before you can trade it off because the likelihood of you losing if you don't know what to do is high. Just like the likelihood of you making money is higher if you know what to do and you know a quality system and and have access to a mentor like me. Now I'm gonna talk about a topic here that I rarely talk about. I'm gonna call it reality versus craziness. Can you make a thousand dollars a day risking a thousand dollars? The answer is yes. That's absolutely realistic and not insane. Not only am I doing it but I've taught people to do it and you know again been doing it for years. Is that likely if you have a good system and an 80% win ratio once again? High win ratio? Yes. Okay. Can you make thousand dollars in 30 days or approximately a month let's say with a thousand dollars cash? That's all you would have in your account let's say with a six to one buying power leverage. So that would be six thousand grand. So say you would actually be turning a thousand dollars over in 30 days to eight grand. Is that realistic or is that crazy? It is not realistic. It is absolutely crazy and not only that it is irresponsible. It is not likely and what I call it responsible and crazy. You can make money in the market. Yes. You do not have to start from scratch making millions. You have to start out on the right foot. This means learn what to do correctly. Follow a responsible mentor. A responsible mentor and there's a difference people. Follow a good trader. Learn a high win ratio system. Learn a system you can even learn and do it for yourself. We don't have to rely on the mentor. Okay. Risk the amount of money you can afford to risk with a realistic expectation of the profits in a realistic time period. That is critical. Please be responsible with believing people that say they can make you crazy amounts of money like eight thousand dollars with only a thousand dollars in the account in a month's time. There are so many places out there that actually are irresponsible and give the trading industry a bad reputation and I'm calling them out right now because you can make money in the market but you have to be responsible and you have to think realistically and you have to stop believing in the craziness. You know if you want to believe in the craziness go for it. The chances of you losing are high and the chances of chances of you are being profitable or making it are zero quite frankly. You have to get into the realm of reality. I you know that's that's what I'm that's what I'm trying to say but you know if reality is if reality is making a hundred twenty four thousand dollars a year risking five hundred dollars a trade why why is that a bad reality? If your reality is risking a thousand dollars a trade and making two hundred forty grand forty nine thousand dollars a year two fifty a year or whatever you know on average this is where we're starting for 2017. What's what's wrong with that? Okay actually it's great. So to risk five hundred dollars a trade you need a minimum of fifty thousand buying power that means five thousand dollars in a prop account with a ten to one risk or twenty five thousand in a retail account to risk a thousand dollars trade I'm telling you how much money you need if you want to do it. You need a minimum of a hundred thousand buying power that means ten grand a prop account or twenty five thousand in a retail account. If you need more information email me. If you can open a prop account with twenty five hundred dollars you can grow it over time to five or ten thousand and there's nothing wrong with that. You will take smaller risk you will learn how to do it you will get good at reading charts and the entries and the exits and then you will grow the account okay. You have to do what you're willing to do. I want to review here what the one of the best things people say about my system is that they're in the live trading room with me after the class and then I call the trades. I call the entries I call the exits I'm really really good at calling trades you just have to follow what I'm doing and do it. DLTH was a couple weeks ago you could have shorted this here put the stop got the drop got out you could assure this here got a second drop got a third drop got a fourth drop so I'm extremely good at number one seeing the gap which would be DLTH for the stock pick the stock to watch in the day right into the open seeing the direction predicting it and then also getting the entry immediately so my entries are just super fine whether you get out at the first one the second one the third one the fourth one I mean it doesn't even matter you're up so one of the best things people say about my system is that they're able to be in the trading room with me and take my trades so I teach a class it's called the golden gap course it's a full two-day course on how to strategically find pick and play stocks that are professional bearish gaps classes online it is four thousand nine hundred ninety nine dollars it's 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time from July 15th and July 16th it's Saturday and Sunday that's the next course if you would like to do it you can email me at Melissa at the stockswish.com if you are interested you will learn how to make money in the stock market trading gaps if you decide to come with me yes the class does cost almost five grand is it worth it the answer is yes you won't make back the money from the class by trading with me depending on your risk in a fast period of time or it could be a little bit longer if you have a small account but that's not even the point people the point people is that you will learn how to read charts you will learn how to read trends you will learn how to take directional bias and gaps right you will learn how to read institutional money you will acquire new skills through learning my system you will be able to be in the trading room with me and you will be able to get my calls like today's BBBY which you could have made thirty five hundred dollars in which almost cover the cost of the class in one trade so you know I think that it's about having the conviction believing that you could do it and you know being committed and a lot of people I talk to are not so the question is are you committed to trading are you committed to making the money do you believe you can do it do you have conviction yes or no if you do you are the right candidate for someone to come and learn from me and again you can reach out to me at Melissa at the stockswish.com if you would like more information have a great great day everyone


Watch me, don't watch the cameras, okay? That's what you mean. I'm Samo Lofusuapia crying from Ghana. I was born in Accra. Accra is very busy, a lot of traffic. So Siena happened to be a perfect environment. A small city, easy to integrate. I was born and raised in Italy. My name is Marco Giammario Sarai. I'm an Italian. I don't understand anything. All your courses were in English? Were in English, exactly. And that made it easier for me to complete school on time. I used to live right at the centre in a university residence, which takes basically 15 minutes from my residence to the university. I'm the guy who loves much of nightlife. Yeah, so sometimes when I have to study, I equally like to study at night. So I was always late for early morning lessons. I happened to be in a position of an organiser of Ghanaian students some time back. I remember there was one time we went to an outskirts of Siena. If I remember correctly, it happens to be Gaioli. So we went, we saw the room and at that particular place, buses were not moving often. So we delayed a little bit and we missed the last bus. We worked for about an hour before we met the next bus. I lived a major part of my life in a smaller town where culture is equally important to the people, just like Siena. And so we have annual festivals, which is called the Ujra, where we carry the cane. We go through the city where there is a lot of drumming, dancing, where we offer prayers to the gods of the land, which is very traditional for us. Why is the value for Siena? Exactly. There is a lot in common with these two traditions, with each contrader having their own processions in the city. Is it your favorite? I think I would choose Nikio because I just don't know the name sounds good to me. My masters focused with Europe, especially Europe after the World War II and how they came together through the economic integration, political integration. There is much we can learn from Europe because Europe happens to be one of the greatest integration stories. I think the process of improvement needs more hands. So I am thinking of pursuing a PhD to improve more, to get to the heights where I am better placed to contribute very much back to Ghana. If you live in your comfort zone, you hardly move on. I always aspired to meet challenges and I wanted to experience something different from my background, my environment has helped me to improve very much, especially in most aspects of self-teaching, reflecting my days back in Ghana. Siena feels home to me now. I felt, well, I am entitled to be myself. This is after all my home.


Hey there, I'm Drew and you are listening to or watching The Anxious Truth. The Anxious Truth is the podcast that covers all things anxiety, anxiety disorders, and anxiety recovery. So if you're struggling with things like panic attacks, agoraphobia, OCD, or health anxiety, this is the place for you. You know, anxious people often get really wrapped up in what's going on in their own bodies, and they spend a lot of time interacting with doctors, being checked, examined, and tested to try to be 100% sure that they're really okay and that they're safe. So one of the common confusing issues and common questions that comes up as part of anxiety recovery is, Drew, are you telling me that I'm never supposed to call a doctor ever again? I'm never allowed to be checked out? Well, I understand the confusion and that's really a good question that deserves to be answered. So let's do that today. Hello everybody, welcome back to The Anxious Truth. This is episode 240 of the podcast, 240. We are recording in early January of 2023. So this is, in fact, the first podcast of 2023. If you're listening in the present, happy new year. If you're listening in the future, hello, future, how are the flying cars? Anyway, I am Drew Lincellata, creator and host of The Anxious Truth, and I'm happy that you are here. We are going to get into a very common question today, which is, does a recovered person never am I never supposed to get checked out when I feel something? And the answer to that is, of course, you're allowed to get checked out. But before we get into the details, I just want to remind you that The Anxious Truth is more than just this podcast episode. There's 239 podcast episodes before this, all free. There's a ton of free social media content. And there are three books that I've written on anxiety and anxiety recovery that are helping tens of thousands of people around the world. I'm super proud of that. There's a monthly webinar I do on distress tolerance with my friend, anxiety specialist Joanna Hardis, Cleveland, Ohio. All of those resources can be found on my website at TheAnxiousTruth.com. Go check it out, scroll through the site, see what's out there, avail yourself of all the resources. There's good stuff there, so take advantage of all of it. Most of it is free. The books cost some money. The webinar costs some money, but it's all good stuff. And if you are enjoying my work and I'm helping you in some way, all the ways to support this work, both financially and otherwise, are on my website at TheAnxiousTruth.com slash support. So go check that out if you're so inclined. Financial support always appreciated, never required. However way you support this work, whether it's just listening, being part of the community, liking your video here and there. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. So let's get into today's topic. So for people who have anxiety that is laser focused on their health, and that takes two forms. Either immediate health threat in the face of high anxiety or panic. Your panic symptoms must be dangerous. Or longer term health threat, people that have more health focused OCD or health anxiety, where they are concerned about developing some sort of disease or problem that may be a problem down the road. Regardless, for people who are fixated on their health, who are in the habit of accessing medical care and medical services far more frequently and repetitively than the average person, this can become a problem because it becomes very restrictive and impactful on lifestyle. So they wind up in this really crazy push pull thing where their fear tells them to continually go to the doctor. Whether it's urgent and you wind up in an ambulance or an emergency room, or what you might call it urgent care or A&E in the UK, you know you say A&E. Or you're just constantly calling your general practitioner and you're constantly bringing new symptoms and you're constantly bringing new worries. You know my ear hurt yesterday. Does that mean that I have brain cancer? I need to be tested. I want an MRI. So the way you access medical care may be different depending on your particular type of health anxiety focus, whether it's more in the moment or longer term, but it becomes repetitive. It becomes compulsive. It becomes a cycle that you're struggling to stop. It becomes really impactful in a negative way on your lifestyle. It may be impactful in a negative way in your relationships with your friends and your families, your romantic partners. So then it becomes a problem because the push pull is my fear is telling me that I'm supposed to do this to keep myself safe. Your health anxiety, your fear will argue that no, no, no, this is completely justified because it's health. It's the most important thing in the world. I can't take a risk. But on the flip side, the cycle that you get caught in starts to ruin your life to a certain degree. So you want to defend your actions, but you have a hard time defending them. So the recovery process is really the process of moving from that very extreme relationship with medical care and medical services where it is repetitive. It's frantic. It's urgent. It's compulsive. It's cyclical. You can't break the cycle to a more normal accessing and a more normal and mainstream. And we say normal. We're just going to use numbers. The majority of people access medical services and medical care a certain way, right? We all live under the same health uncertainties every single day. Every human being has uncertainty about their health every single day. That is true. And if you haven't listened to podcast episodes number 149 and 104, you should go back and listen to those because they talk about this. But all of us live with some measure of health uncertainty and risk every single day of our lives every day, just that we take that risk and interact with their medical systems and medical care in a different way than you do. So when we are in the recovery process and you're trying to break the cycle of that extreme repetitive cyclical compulsive urgent frantic accessing of medical care, you're just, you're not trying to eliminate ever interacting with the medical system ever. You're just trying to get back into the way sort of people without these problems access medical care, right? So we all accept a certain amount of risk. We're just going to have to live with it. We cannot bring it down to zero. There's no amount of medical care in the world that can bring our risk to zero. We understand that and we have to live with that risk. You are learning to get there. Whereas now you're attempting to go to zero percent risk and that's where episode 149 of the podcast goes into this in much more detail. So it's not that you're never allowed to access medical care again. So when people say, am I, is it wrong? Am I doing recovery wrong if I call the doctor? No, you're not doing recovery wrong if you call the doctor. If you are legitimately ill, if you are legitimately injured, you have a new thing that's popped up that is causing some sort of impairment. You don't feel well. Yeah, it's you're allowed to call the doctor. That's okay. Nobody's ever going to tell you that you should never call the doctor. That would be ridiculous, irresponsible advice. I am not telling you to never get checked out. That would that would not be cool. Who would tell you that? Certainly not me. I mean, I can only speak for me, but I'm not telling you that what we are working on is how am I calling to get checked out? Why am I calling to get checked out? How often am I calling to get checked out? And when I do get checked out, how willing am I to be okay with the results of that checking? Or do we cope back and do it again and again and again? That's where things go off the rails. So if you have a new symptom, people ask this all the time, well, a new symptom popped up. Okay, well, how do you make your decisions on what you do? So if you're really driven by your anxiety symptoms and you think that they are immediately dangerous to you, people ask, well, how am I supposed to deal with that? A new symptom? Okay, well, you can. This is what you can do. You can say, all right, well, you are allowed. You can call a doctor. You can go to the ER. You can go to the A&E. You're allowed to make that choice. That will that's impactful. So there is some consequence for doing that, but you're allowed to make that choice. So you have to look at your pattern. How often have I done this before? Okay, this is a thing I've never felt before, but I also see a ton of other people talk about this particular symptom. So am I, is it really impairing me right now? Or am I worried that it might impair me in an hour? So can I wait 10 minutes before I call for help? That's one way to approach this, right? Can I wait 10 minutes? If I'm still standing in 10 minutes, you know, then then I'm less likely that I probably need to be rescued medically right now. And if things change in that 10 minute time, then I can reach out for help. So that would be one way to say, yes, you're still allowed to access medical care, but you want to start to modify the way you do it. How does somebody else do it? And if my pattern is that I immediately go to that as my first thing right away, and I look back and say, you know, I was really afraid. And that's why I called an ambulance. I was really afraid. And that's why I sat down and Google the symptom. I didn't Google the symptom because I was passed out. I wouldn't have been able to Google the symptom. I was Googling the symptom because I was afraid that I was going to pass out. So I Googled or I called an ambulance. See the difference? So you can look at your patterns and try to make your decisions based on those patterns as best you can. Like I keep doing this and it keeps turning out to be nothing. Or you can say, yeah, but I can't take that chance. I better do it again. And you have a right to do that. But it puts you in a know when situation where it's really hard to say, well, I want to recover from this. This is really negatively impacting my life, my relationships, my job, my everything. But I also want to recover at the same time that I will continue to be able to argue that I must do these things. You can't have both. So it's important to recognize that.  I'm really fixated that I'm developing this disease or that there's some disease they haven't noticed before. Or it's something that's hard to diagnose.  And you're doing that sort of access. Again, you can start to change that and move it a little bit more toward the center, if you will. You're on an extreme end of the spectrum now. So how would my friends in my family do this? Like, what would you guys do? Well, you know, is there a problem right now? No, but I'm really, well, I can't stop thinking about, okay, well, there's your clue. I can't stop thinking about, do you want to call the doctor again based on what you're thinking or do you want to call the doctor based on what's going on in reality? And in that case, your plan can be, can I wait three days in this discomfort, in this fear, in this uncertainty, in this feeling of recklessness and irresponsibility? I'm going to let it go. I'm going to roll the dice for three days. Can I do that? Maybe. And that would be a way to move toward a more mainstream accessing of medical care and medical services, right? So again, you are allowed to call the doctor. Just how are you doing it? Are you doing it the way you've always done it? That has put you in a bit of a bad place to the point where you're listening to this podcast, or do you want to change the way you do that and make it a little bit more in line with what a non-anxious person would do? So I have to address the elephant in the room here, which would be, is it possible that you are taking on additional risk when you do it that way? So if you decide, I can't stop thinking about stomach cancer, I better call the doctor today and you decide, okay, you know what, I got to change this. So I'm going to wait a week. Is there some possibility, which might be 0.0001% that you do actually have stomach cancer and you will have lost a week in diagnosis? Yeah, yeah, that's a possibility. If you are certain that your dizziness, your anxious dizziness or disequilibrium is something really wrong, even though you've been told 15 times by four different doctors that nothing is wrong and it is an anxiety symptom, is there a risk if you say, I'm not going to go to the ER this time, I'm not going to go to the A&E this time, I'm not going to call the doctor this time? Are you increasing your risk? Yeah, truly you are, that's true. You are increasing it by such a tiny amount that a non-anxious person would be okay with that role of the dice. To me, that feels like an inconsequential role of the dice. I'll take those odds. For you, it seems like that is unacceptable. So please remember that you will feel that way. You will feel that this is a completely irresponsible decision. Well, wait a minute, if I don't, so you're telling me, I'm allowed to call the doctor. Yep, you're allowed to call the doctor, but you're telling me that I might have to wait while that might be one way to do that. But if I wait, then I might be missing something, correct. I don't have any more for you on that, right? So if I'm dizzy and I don't call, I don't go to the ER, what if they missed something that can happen? Like what if I'm wrong this time? That is possible. But again, a non-anxious person would say, I can take that risk because the risk is really so small, you just think it's huge. So again, I keep telling you, go back to episode 149. Please go back and listen to that because what I might consider a .0001% chance of disaster because I feel dizzy on an anxious day, you think is a 60% chance of disaster. So that's what you're trying to, that's what you have to move through that. That podcast episode talks more about that. But the answer here, the short answer, I want to wrap it up in a couple of minutes here. I don't want to go too long today is that, yes, you are in fact allowed to call the doctor. People will often say very specific things like, well, I had this new thing popped up for the last two weeks. I have this pain in my stomach and whatever. I'm having a hard time eating or whatever. Yeah, by all means, call the doctor. That's okay. You're allowed to do that. They worry that like they're breaking their recovery, they're breaking rules, they're going back to square one. No, you're not. It's okay. If something new pops up, go ahead and get it checked out. If you want to do that, you are allowed to do that. You have every right to do that. And that is not breaking any rules. Just look at the way you used to do it and then say, well, I'm going to go checked out, but I'm going to do it in a little bit of a different way than I used to do it. I'm going to do it in a less frantic, less urgent, less compulsive kind of way. And when I get an answer, I'm going to, here's one way you could do this. I'm going to make my appointment tomorrow. I cannot make an appointment until tomorrow anyway, cause it's 10 o'clock at night and there's nothing I can do. So I'm going to be uncomfortable tonight until I make the appointment. Then that appointment is going to be some weight, two days a day, two weeks, whatever it is. I'm going to be uncomfortable while I wait, expect that to happen. That's okay. I can, I do not have to frantically try to eliminate my discomfort while I wait for my appointment, except the discomfort. That's your practice. I'm going to go and my plan when I go to the doctor is I'm going to ask this, this and this. I'm going to ask if I should see a specialist. I'm going to ask about this concern, this concern and this concern. I'm going to put it all on the table. And when the conversation is over, I'm going to decide to accept it or not accept it. If I don't accept it, what will I do next? I will call another doctor that day. What is my plan for second, third, fourth and fifth opinions? Do not wing this based on your fear in the moment, because that is what's got you into the cycle that you're trying to break now. So you can still access medical care responsibly. You can do that. But have a little bit of a plan and draw your parameters. I'm going to be okay. I trust this doctor. He's okay. She's okay. They're okay. So whatever they say today, I'm going to go with that for two weeks. And even though I might get really scared in those two weeks, I'm going to go with it and see what happens. If anything actually changes on a material level, I can always adjust. But I'm not going to change my plan just because I'm afraid. That's, that's how you do it differently. It means that you are choosing to be afraid and not do anything about it, but that's recovery in general. If you listen to the podcast, you know that that's kind of, we always do. So that is how you can make a different plan. If you're in a, if you're concerned is more of a day to day moment to moment basis. Well, your waiting time period is first of all, you're going to see your patterns anyway. Like every time I have a panic attack, I immediately run to be saved. And I never need to be saved. Do I want to do it again? Do I want to do that again? Or can I wait 10 minutes before I do that? Can I, can I do 10 minutes before I do that? That's one way you could change that. And then if I do wind up going to the emergency room or calling an ambulance or calling a doctor, sitting on down and googling my symptoms again while I'm in a panic, what will I learn from this? And when it's over, what parameters will I change for the next time? So it's always about adjusting, adjusting, adjusting, adjusting, adjusting, adjusting. Like I can't say that word enough, six times in a row pretty much says it. Like a little adjustment and then another one and another one and another one. And every time you make an adjustment in the way you do this, you're going to be uncomfortable and afraid, but you're allowed to be uncomfortable and afraid. You can do that. So can I call a doctor? Am I allowed to call a doctor?  Call a doctor when you want to call a doctor. It's okay. Like ask other people, ask your friends and family what they do. What would you do in this situation? And when they're, when you get told, well, I, you know, what's wrong? Well, I keep thinking, keep thinking. I wouldn't call the doctor just because I was thinking, okay, that's not the answer you want. But that might be the answer you get and you can use that to inform your actions. So it's about changing the way you access medical care. It's about changing the way you interface with the medical system. It's about moving it away from that frantic, urgent, fear driven, I think stuff and more toward, yeah, I'm really, this is a problem. I'm actually having a problem. My shoulder is on fire. I know it needs to be looked at. I'm going to go in like, okay, fair enough. So that is the answer. Hopefully I understand it doesn't give you 100% correctness at all times. As you go through this, you're, you don't know sometimes. I really feel like I want to call a doctor here. Okay, sometimes you will call the doctor or whoever you've been calling and you may be living this already where the doctor won't take your call or won't call you back. That happens. And then that can be part of the adjustment. Like nobody else is treating this like an emergency only me. So I'm going to have to change right now for the next 10 minutes or the next two days, whatever it is, like everybody else does not see this as an emergency. I'm the only one. So I'll have to take that cue. That's another good thing that you can try to do. But if you need a doctor, go see a doctor. That's okay. Nobody's telling you not to do that. Do it. Just try to do it the way other people do it as opposed to the way that you've been doing it, which is probably not working for you. And that's why you're listening to me today. So I know, again, I didn't give you an exact black and white answer. There's no algorithm here. There's no flow chart.  You can use some of the guiding principles I've given you today. And sometimes you're not going to get it right. You might make a choice that you discovered. Boy, I could have done that different. Okay. What can I learn from that? I will do it different next time. Fair enough. You're allowed to learn from mistakes. Our experiences, we bring them with us and we learn from them. We don't try to, we can't make the perfect decision in life every time. We can't even about health. And that's reality. But in the end, and I will leave you with this before we wrap it up today, even decisions that we make about health, when we get paralyzed, because we must always make the perfect decision, zero risk, total guaranteed decisions about our health, we are protecting one part of our lives with such ferocity that we are burning down the entire rest of our lives. Think about that. Like I will, I will leave that thought in your head.  And in that case, what are you protecting? Think about that. Anyway, that is episode two four zero of the anxious truth wrapping up in the books. You know, it's over because there's the music that is as always at the end of every podcast episode and the beginning of most for the past few years. That's after glow by my friend Ben Drake. He wrote that song a few years ago, inspired at least in part by this podcast. And he's letting me use it ever since. I appreciate that. You can find more about Ben and his music at bendrakemusic.com. You know it. And if you are listening to this podcast on Apple podcast or Spotify or some platform that lets you rate or review the podcast, leave a five star rating if it's helpful and maybe take a few minutes and write a review because it helps more people find the podcast, which means more people get help. If you're watching on YouTube, subscribe to my channel, hit the notification bell so you know when new things get uploaded. Leave a comment. I promise I will get back to your comment, even though it takes me a little longer on YouTube, but I appreciate you all over there. And that's it. Hopefully this has helped you in some way shape or form. There's my computer telling me it's time for an appointment that's coming up. So I will wrap it up. Thanks for listening. I appreciate it. I do not know what I'll be back with next week, but I will be here and remember as always, this is the way.


Hello, Thomas? Give me your liver. Yo! Whoa! Now, Thomas was wilded, man. What is up, you guys? Realistic Gaming here. And today, we're going to watch some Thomas videos, but these are TikToks. So, you know they're going to be a little wilder and out of pocket. So, let's begin. Right when we got here, some two guys playing ball. Dang, bro. You got to chill with that layup. Oh, no, it went to the darkness. Why is it so dark? Oh, what? Yo, Thomas just came out from the darkness. Alright, what is this? Oh, this is freaky, man.  What? My eyes, what am I seeing in my poor eyes? That was cursed. I wasn't expecting that. Yo, little baby's a whole train. Nice. Oh, the last pizza slice. Heck to the know? Exactly. You already got to fight for the last slice of pizza. The Thomas train. What? Oh, God, what the heck? I was about to say that looks horrible until we see the last result. Teacher, what's in your bag? The quiet kid. Oh, God. Really, bro? That's just out of pocket, man. Uh-oh. Yeah, bro, you're dead. Ain't no way you are running, Thomas. How old are the four kids that you made it? Thomas, what? Oh, my God. That is wild. That is the Thomas tank engine. Look at me, Thomas. Oh, no, Tommy. Oh! He actually turned. Man, get to my train. Oh, God. He's literally getting hit by Thomas, bro. Look at that. What the heck was that? Which hill or blue hill? Either way, you're fucked. Guys, I got a new phone today. It is the Thomas tank engine phone. Can help. Dude, you're going to break your phone, man. There we go.  Yo, that is dark. Nice, man. Should we move the train to go this way? Or should we let it go that way? Which way should the train go? Yeah, what would you pick which way? Bro, he pointed it towards us. That kid is a man into society. I failed to lose my Thomas there. Morning time, Thomas.  I know. Oh, my God, I can't believe it. Good morning, Thomas. Okay. Look at what this Thomas said, friends. Oh, what great steam-filled adventures and life lessons do we have in store today? Why did Thomas look at that, bro? They have, like, the same face. It's a man tied to the tracks. Judging by his prison jumpsuit, he must be the mother of Blue Skate. It's all over the news.   I'm not judge jury executioner. I'm going to switch tracks and let them live. Oh, right. Nice, Thomas. Thank you so much. See how that changed his entire personality, kids? Forgiveness is key to... Oh, no. The lesson of today was... How did four pregnant women end up on the rail track to begin with? Oh, God. Is this murder mystery and roblox? Please shoot him. Shoot that one, bro. Oh, God. I feel like that's how really some kids play murder mystery. Okay, what the heck is this? This is a Thomas fish. The Thomas Sardine? What is that, bro? What in the world am I witnessing right now? Oh, God. I feel like my little hand is sticking out. Okay, it's like a slow motion close-up.  Oh, it's just the bones now. What? I bet you the Fat Controller is the one behind all this. He must have ate the meat off the fish.  What even is this, man? Oh, God. Oh, what? Okay, why does it have legs to be good with? Is it like a Superman pose? Right, I've never seen this in my life before. Oh, God. Now there's two of them. There you go. All right, what are they doing, bro? Okay, that one is just freaky. Why does it have human legs on? Why? Oh, no. Okay, it seems like there's a series of these two going on. Okay, now they're holding hands together. This is like a happy ever-ending. Oh, they crashed. Oh, God, what? What? Yo, what is going on, man? Okay, I need to cut it out right now. Stop. Hey, Tom is about to get hit in there, bro. They're like the name name, bro. Oh, what is this? Okay, that is kind of freaky.  It's like a Thomas inception. Thomas first. Okay, you can stop looking at me, bro. Okay, they flipped it out. It didn't look kind of freaky. I know you're going to lie. Oh, what? It looks kind of like he's cross-eyed it. All right, Thomas, you can chill out now, bro. Stop it. Get some help. Okay, that's just normal, Thomas. What happened to the feather? Okay, now that's crazy-eyed Thomas, bro. It looks like he has some beers and he's just out there, you know? Okay, that one looks pretty normal to me. That is normal looking, Thomas. Oh, what? Okay, it's hands coming out of the eyes, holding a Thomas faceplate. That is kind of freakishly weird. All right, and that's one way to end the video. All right, you guys, well, those were some random Thomas TikToks that were just out of the place. Thank y'all for watching, and I'll see you guys in the next one.